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Nov. 9, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 9, 2012, Friday, Hour #3
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Hey, guess what?
Obama's approval rating is back below 50%.
Shazam!
Just like that, his approval rating is below 50%.
It's 49% approval, 45% disapproval.
Disapproval went up 1%.
What is that?
It's Friday.
What is that?
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
Hi, folks.
How are you?
Great to have you here.
How many of you are surprised I am here?
How many of you people thought that I would take a vacation starting Wednesday?
Well, yes, I know Monday's Veterans Day.
What about it?
What's that got to do with me taking a vacation?
See, here I am trying to make a point.
Anyway, I'm here, my friends.
We're in it for the long haul here at the EIB network.
It's Open Line Friday.
Whatever you want to talk about on Friday is fair game.
It's not the rule.
Monday through Thursday, talk about whatever you wish on Friday.
Thursday through Monday, this be what I care about.
And again, the number is 800-282-2882.
Email address, L. Rushbow at EIBnet.com.
Under pressure, under pressure from senators, the State Department is allowing some lawmakers to look at cables and other documents related to the Benghazi mess, but only today and tomorrow.
And what's interesting about that is that there aren't very many of them in town today or tomorrow.
Nobody's there.
Most senators are not in Washington.
Congress is gearing up for a full week of Benghazi-related hearings next week, including a November 13th hearing behind closed doors, Senate for Foreign Relations Committee led by John Kerry, who, by the way, old horseface is probably going to be the next Secretary of State because Hillary is getting Hillary saying she's out of there within days of the next Obama immaculation.
And John Kerry, the haughty junkie, by the way, he served in Vietnam, for those of you that don't know, he's assuming that he's going to be the guy.
And there's another name being floated for this.
It's Chuck Hagel, a Republican, former senator from Nebraska, Chuck Hagel.
And again, I made a proposal today, and I don't want it to get dwarfed by the Obama appearance today, but before the election, Obama talked about having a new cabinet position, Secretary of Business.
And I'm, let me put it this way.
I will not be surprised if Obama offers Romney a position in his administration.
And what better, if he's serious about Secretary of Business, what better position than to put Romney in it?
Now, everybody on the other side of the glass is laughing uncontrollably and uproariously.
You can't see this?
You can't look at the tsunami and look at all these disasters.
Look at Haiti.
What do we do?
Obama calls Bush and Clinton says, I need you guys to go down there.
They got an airplane to go down there together and they talk about how wonderful the bipartisanship is.
One of the arguments is that we're divided as a country.
But what better way, folks, to totally dispirit and depress the Republican Party than to nominate Romney to some position and have him take it?
Secretary of Business, I'm just telling you, I wouldn't be surprised if it happens.
It's the way things are happening in Washington these days.
It's all for the optics.
It's not that Obama wants Romney's advice on anything.
The last thing he's going to do, he hates Romney.
He also didn't like the Clintons, but he's got them right by his side when he needs them.
Truth be known, he resents the hell.
Mitt Romney is everything about this country Obama despises.
Everything.
He's too normal.
He's too rich.
He violates the Obama way you get things.
It's sort of like Clarence Thomas is despised by the Reverend Dax and Al Sharpton.
And you know why?
Because Clarence Thomas has become the most powerful in his position.
He is the most eminently qualified for what he does.
And he got there without going through the traditional prescriptions said to be necessary for African Americans by the Civil Rights Coalition.
He didn't need them.
He got there on his own.
That can't be allowed to be seen.
He can't have Clarence Thomas be a role model.
He can't have Condoleezza Rice be a role model for African Americans.
That won't work.
The Democrat Party is the role model, the Democrat Party, and government and victimization and grievance politics.
That's how you get anywhere if you're a minority.
Now, you watch.
I'll be criticized for that because this is the kind of talk, see, Limbaugh, you start talking this way and then you start alienating African Americans and minorities and they're never going to vote Republican and it's all because of you.
Right?
Okay, well, I'm just telling you the truth.
Just like I'm telling you the truth about why Hispanics vote for the Democrat Party.
And I'm just going to, I'm going to tell you again: if you think any of you Republicans, any of you Republicans whose job is to win elections, you consultants, candidates, if you think that the Democrat Party gets the majority of the Hispanic vote because of immigration policy, you are being fooled.
You are buying a lie.
That is not why 75% of the Hispanics who vote for the Democrat Party do so.
It is everything to do with the social safety net.
It's everything to do with progressive taxation.
It's everything to do with class envy.
It's everything to do with raising taxes on the rich and getting even with those people.
It's why Obama keeps talking about here.
Let's go to some soundbites.
This is from Obama's, what was this today?
He spoke about the economy and the deficit, and he had the wallpaper of America standing behind him.
He put together a bunch of people, 11 or 12 people, that in the camera view, represented virtually every type person you can have in this country.
That was the optics.
And we've got four soundbites.
Here's the first.
I've invited leaders of both parties to the White House next week so we can start to build consensus around the challenges that we can only solve together.
And I also intend to bring in business and labor and civic leaders from all across the country here to Washington to get their ideas and input as well.
Our top priority has to be jobs and growth.
All right.
I mean, how can we oppose that?
That's absolutely wonderful.
That's so cool.
That's, I mean, that's that's the president's on the case.
Thank God, really, really, thank, thank God for Obama.
Oh, man, we're here.
We, here we, both parties build a consensus.
Um, business and labor and civic leaders and get their ideas and input, top priority, jobs and growth.
All right, that's what we need.
Except we've done all this before.
I'd like to go back and find the number of Obama appearances where he has said exactly this in just the first year of his first term.
We've had job summits.
We've had, honestly, New York Times columnists participating in two-hour jobs workshops at the White House.
We've had environmental summits.
We've had members of Congress, both parties, come up talk about health care.
Where'd that get us?
What happened there?
It says the same stuff, the same claptrap.
It's nothing but the same rhetoric.
And he doesn't mean a word.
Well, he might mean that he's going to bring these people together, but it doesn't matter what any of them say.
He's going to do it his way, which is fine.
The problem here is this is all a bunch of fake rigmarole.
None of this is going to matter.
All those people being brought up there is nothing but a photo op.
Am I not being bipartisan with that?
So I'm hurting the Republican Party.
Yeah, I'm hurting the Republican Party with it.
See, yeah, I'm getting in the way of outreach.
Okay, all right.
Let's listen to the next soundbite.
I'm open to compromise.
I'm open to new ideas.
Wow.
But I refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced.
Yeah.
See?
I'm not going to ask students and seniors and middle-class families to pay down the entire deficit while people like me making over $250,000 aren't asked to pay a dime more in taxes.
I'm not going to do that.
Well, there you go.
What's wrong with that?
That's exactly what's called for.
I can support the president on that.
I can reach out.
I can join the president in this.
Is that how we're supposed to react?
Okay.
He's been there and done this before, too.
He said the exact words.
Before, I don't know how many economic meetings.
I'm open to compromise.
I'm open to new ideas.
I'll listen to anybody.
But I'm not going to accept any reproach that isn't balanced.
Well, what does that mean?
I'm not going to accept any approach that isn't, meaning I'm not doing it anybody else's way.
I'm not going to ask students and seniors and middle-class families to pay down the entire debt.
Well, nobody is.
See, the dirty little secret is, is that while he's telling everybody that only people over a quarter of a million are going to have their taxes raised or have their cost of living go up, it's going to be everybody.
Okay, here's the so far, all we've heard is BS.
That's all this is.
Here's the next one.
I was encouraged to hear Speaker Boehner agree that tax revenue has to be part of this equation.
Stop tape.
Stop tape.
Move it back.
Rick Hewitt.
Translation.
I was encouraged.
In fact, I'm happy to hear Speaker Boehner Cave.
Here it is.
I was encouraged to hear Speaker Boehner agree that tax revenue has to be part of this equation.
So I look forward to hearing his ideas when I see him next week.
Let's extend the middle-class tax cuts right now.
Let's do that right now.
That one step, that one step would give millions of families, 98% of Americans and 97% of small businesses, the certainty that they need going into the new year.
All we need is action from the House.
And I've got the pen, ready to sign the bill right away.
You know, he doesn't even sound into this.
He's so bored.
He's done.
This is over and over.
This is simple repetition.
I don't even, folks, I don't even want to waste my time parsing this stuff.
Really, what I ought to do here is go through.
I've got five pages of companies announcing layoffs because he was re-elected.
I mean, that's the real news.
Five pages.
Five pages of companies, large and small, announcing layoffs, large and small, because he was re-elected.
And I don't care whatever tax cut thing he's talking about here, middle-class tax cut.
There's no tax cut for small businesses who use the personal Form 1040 to file.
If they are sub-S's, sub-S Corps, and they use their personal income tax form to file the business tax, there's no tax cut for them.
I don't care what he does.
Their taxes are going up.
They know it.
Every business in this country is facing increased taxes, if not just income, Obamacare taxes.
We have a genuine tax of Mageddon hitting in January.
That's what all this fiscal cliff stuff is talking about.
But Abbott Labs, 700 layoffs.
Covidian, 595 layoffs.
Kinetic Concepts, 427 layoffs.
St. Jude Medical, 300 layoffs.
Medtronic, 1,000 jobs.
Boston Scientific, 1,200 to 1,400 jobs.
Welch Allen, a company that manufactures medical diagnostic equipment, Central New York, 275 employees.
That's 10% of their workforce.
Dana Holding Corporation, global auto parts company in Ohio, warned their employees of potential layoffs.
If Obama was re-elected, we're looking at, I don't know, what is it?
Their workforce is 25,500 worldwide.
I think they're looking at 10%.
That's just one page.
Let's see.
Westinghouse, Research in Motion, RIM, Boeing, U.S. Cellular, Commerce Bank, Iberia, ING, Bristol Myers, Abbott Labs, CVPH Medical Center, Caterpillar, Lightyear, Hawker Beechcraft, Hawker Beechcraft, Bristol Myers.
All of these companies.
Groupon layoff 80 people.
Groupon, a high-tech outfit.
Five pages of this.
Now, he can sit there all day long and talk about all of these middle-class tax cuts that he's talking about, but nobody out there believes it.
Let's see.
He's happy to hear Boehner Cave.
Oh, here's his assessment of the election.
On Tuesday, they said loud and clear that they won't tolerate dysfunction.
They won't tolerate politicians who view compromise as a dirty word.
Not when so many Americans are still out of work.
Not when so many families and small business owners are still struggling to pay the bills.
What the American people are looking for is cooperation.
They're looking for consensus.
So, what he means there is the American people are looking for the Republicans just get out of the way and let him do what he wants to do.
That's what the election meant.
Okay, get an email.
Rush, I really think you need to knock it off.
You've been criticizing Obama for four years and it didn't work.
I feel so confident.
He is so full of ideas on compromising and changing things to turn us around.
It was great to hear from him in three days after the election talking about job creation and helping people get together to help businesses create jobs.
I really feel so much better.
And then there was a caller to C-SPAN, and they called Fred Barnes.
He was a guest on C-SPAN.
The caller said was Dorothy from Baltimore.
She claimed to be a conservative, and she said, Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingram and Fox News, they need to calm down because they're putting you, Mr. Barnes, in a box so that you can't talk to the Latinos and the blacks.
If the Limbaughs would just stop and just say some positive things, let's hear some ideas.
I'm a conservative, but it's hard for me to vote for the Republicans if you've got these people talking.
They're alienating the Republican Party.
They're doing it.
They're becoming the voice.
So they're turning people off because it's like a hate group out there for the Republicans.
Okay, but back to the back to the first email.
That lady's not a conservative, by the way, just said so.
But, you know, Rush, I like the president getting together with business people.
I think this needs to happen.
He's been excluding business people.
I think it's good that he's getting together and help creating jobs.
That's what we all need.
Why can't you be helpful?
Here's the problem, folks.
When you get right down to it, business people know how to create jobs.
They already know how to create jobs.
There is nothing Barack Obama can teach them about that.
This is the fundamental problem.
We have people who think that just because there are powerful people in government, that they've got all the answers to everything.
Santa Claus, all the answers.
Barack Obama has never created a job in his life.
He doesn't know what's involved.
Why would businesses want to go up and learn anything from Obama?
He's got nothing he can teach them.
He doesn't know what they go through.
He doesn't know what their lives are like.
He has a preconceived notion of business people, and it basically is that they all have a lot of money, and a lot of the money they have, they came by screwing people, by making too much profit, by charging people for things that they should have given away, by charging too much for other things, by taking advantage of.
That's Obama's view of business.
The oil business pollutes.
The oil business is destroying the climate.
Somebody got to go in and rein them in and maybe even shut them down.
But we live in an era where the vast majority, well, it's not a vast, but we're outnumbered here.
We live in an era where a majority of Americans believe that the government has all the answers to every problem that's out there.
It's how they've been raised.
It's how they've been taught.
It's what they genuinely believe.
But I'm telling you, there isn't a business owner in this country who has anything he can learn from Barack Obama because Obama doesn't know what he's talking about.
Okay, back to the phones because it is Open Line Friday and we try to squeeze in as many as we can.
This is Salvador in Wittcha, Texas.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Raj.
It's a pleasure and an incredible honor to be able to talk to you.
Great to have you on the program, Salvador.
Thank you.
I'm sorry if I'm a little nervous.
Oh, you don't sound nervous at all.
Well, thank you very much.
I was born in Mexico, and I came to this country 21 years ago.
I've been listening to you for 15 years.
Thank you very much.
Well, thank you because you have inspired and you have really pushes forward me and my entire family.
Wait a minute.
I'm confused because you, you should be voting Democrat because of me.
I mean, if everything I'm hearing this week is, I'm the reason people like you are not voting Republican.
Well, unfortunately, that was the main reason for my call, that unfortunately, the majority of the American, the Mexican people that come over to the United States, they're already marginalized in their own country.
They don't have very much education, and they believe that the government is the only source of wealth.
There you have it.
There you have it.
This is exactly, this is, I'm so glad you called.
We've got an academic study and report by one of our scholars here, Heather McDonald at the Manhattan Institute.
She's researched it.
She says that.
She says that 75% of the Hispanic vote for the Democrat Party is nothing to do with immigration policy.
It's all about their view that government is the source of good economics, wealth, things, stuff, what have you.
And you're just confirming it.
Yeah, it is a tragedy because all their potential or their gifts are just totally shut down.
They cannot produce.
If I would have listened to the Democrat Party when I came into this country, I would not be where I am today.
You know, think I'd be able to grow because they treat you as a lower class.
They make you believe that they can provide things for you.
But at the end, you give your dignity to them.
What they do is treat you as though you don't have the ability to do good things for yourself.
They treat you as though you're incompetent and incapable of getting through life without them.
Absolutely.
That's totally.
And every conservative that I've talked to, they treat me as a person.
They don't see me as a Mexican.
They don't see the color of the skin.
They're interested in my character, and I'm interested in their character.
I don't see them as white, green, blue, whatever it is.
That's exactly right.
Well, you're the wrong kind of immigrant.
You're the wrong kind of immigrant.
You're not the kind of immigrant the Democrats are looking for.
And in different ways, I've been told that.
You know, then certainly I'm not Hispanic enough.
You know, I'm not holding to my culture.
Yeah, I know.
And there are African Americans who are told that they're not authentically black either, if they're not voting for Democrats.
If they get grades that are too good, then they're traitors.
Yeah.
And it saddened me so much because I've seen this movie before.
You know, that's the way they just have to look at how Mexico is today.
There's so many resources there.
There's a lot of people that could produce things, but the mentality is not there, and the government will not allow it to happen.
Well, it's the nature of tyranny everywhere.
I mean, tyranny, by definition, has to strip people of their dignity.
It has to.
It has to strip people of their individuality and of their liberty.
That's exactly what tyranny does.
And it does it under the guise of compassion.
Does it under the guise of helping and protecting people against these evil forces out there who hate them, discriminate against them because they're bigots and racists and so forth?
Salvador, I'm glad you called.
I could not be happier.
I really thank you because that's exactly right, folks.
He's nailed it.
And that's why, that's why the Democrats want amnesty, and that's why Hispanics vote for the Democrat Party.
They arrive here believing that government's the source of wealth.
Government's where it comes from.
Government apportions wealth, and your take depends on how much you can learn the system.
There's a reason, folks, that the Obama administration ran ads on Mexican soap operas on radio advertising food stamps.
When you can import a socialist, you're ahead of the game.
If you're a Democrat, if you can import somebody who already believes government's the answer, then you're ahead of the game.
You don't have to educate them that way.
You don't have to indoctrinate them or train them.
If they arrive that way, you're really way ahead of the game.
So that's why I will repeat, EIB amnesty program, as announced in the first hour of this program today, because I see where the trend is going.
I see where we're headed.
I see that amnesty is hitting us.
It's going to happen, folks.
Losing elections has consequences.
There will be amnesty in this country.
That's what, when you hear the word comprehensive immigration reform, that's what it means.
Amnesty for whoever is here, and it's going to be blanket, and it's going to be pretty quick.
That's where we're headed.
So I want to get in the game.
I want to propose EIB amnesty, and I'll agree to it.
Amnesty for every illegal citizen who is here.
There's just one caveat.
In exchange for having all of the laws that have been violated forgiven in exchange for blanket, automatic citizenship without having to take the test, without having to learn the documents.
We're just, you're here.
You've been here a number of years.
You're a citizen.
That's where we're headed.
One caveat.
You can't vote for 25 years.
And let's see how much support that idea gets.
Let's see if amnesty is what really is desired.
Let's see if it's citizenship that all of these compassionate Democrats really have in mind.
That's how they sell it.
Why, these people have been here for years.
They're good, decent, exactly the kind of people we need in this country.
It's a country built on immigration.
You've heard the stories.
We can't be exclusive like this.
We need to be inclusive.
If somebody wants to come to our country and improve their life, how can we say no?
I'm not going to shut my country out to somebody who wants to come here and improve their life.
If they are living like slaves anywhere on this planet and my country can make them free, fine.
I will not stand in the way.
That's where we're headed.
We're good people, and we're going to grant amnesty, but you can't vote for 25 years.
Let's see how much support that gets.
I'm serious, folks.
I'm dead serious.
I will support amnesty for any and all illegals if, as part of the deal, they can't vote for 25 years.
What kind of support do you think that will get?
None.
None.
And when it gets no support, that ought to tell you something because the proposal is only illustrative.
I make the proposal for a simple reason, to teach, to illustrate.
And we know what the answer would be.
Quickly, Melina in Joplin, Missouri, you're next on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Former Army wife, Army mom, excuse me, Army, Marine, and Air Force mom, dittos.
I just called.
I hadn't been able to listen to anything for two days since the election.
And I turned you on today because it's like, okay, I'm ready.
You know, I've had my little break.
And you started talking about Obama being Santa Claus.
And it just brought into me a middle picture of him like a split screen where, yeah, he's Santa Claus to them, but he's like the Grinch to the rest of us, where he's going to come in and take everything from us because we're too happy or we're too whatever.
And he's just going to spread that around then to everyone else.
It's just kind of like the picture it was painting for me there.
Well, that's the purpose.
I love it that you're visualizing Obama as Baracka Claus.
Yes.
There he is.
He's got his Baracka Clause to some people, but to others, all he's doing is giving them a piece of coal.
Yeah, that's right.
He's the Grinch.
It's like the flip side.
You get the Grinch.
That's right.
Well, it's a shame that you have.
I understand, by the way, taking a couple of days off from all this.
I understand.
It's a shame that you did because you have not heard how many Democrats are livid.
They are outraged that I would dare say that the Democrat Party is Santa Claus and that they run the government as Santa Claus.
They're outraged by it.
They can't believe I would have the audacity.
They're accusing me of slandering Obama voters, calling them moochers and takers.
They're outraged by it.
They're demanding I be thrown off the radio for it.
I'm just mean, just terribly mean.
You could listen to the podcasts of this program and catch up.
No, look, the amnesty for all illegals, but you can't vote for 25 years.
We'll find out if the real motivation for amnesty is social justice or vote buying.
We'll find out.
Like that.
It's going to get no support, folks.
You are.
Hi.
How are you?
Great to have you back.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the Limbaugh Institute.
It's Open Line Friday.
St. Lucie County.
What do you have?
We're in Palm Beach County, all blue.
4% greater support for Obama this year than four years ago, where we live.
Broward, same thing.
Miami-Dade, same thing.
So those are the two counties south of us.
North of us is Martin County and then St. Lucie County.
Now, St. Lucie County just went blue for the first time.
Meaning went Democrat.
Snerdley's all shocked.
Snerdley's a little sad about it.
He says, they're going to blame you somehow.
They're going to blame you for St. Lucie County going blue.
Blame me.
I mean, when you got people in St. Lucie County, that's where when you go into McDonald's and ask for chicken McNuggets and they don't have any, you call Obama.
Is it any surprise then that that county would go blue?
How many of you, if you went into any place, like you go to the Apple store, you want an iPhone 5 if they don't have any, and you get panicked and you call 911 and ask to speak to the White House.
Well, they get people in St. Lucie County who do that.
And the fact that it went blue doesn't surprise me.
I did something.
I did a little test here.
I googled.
So I've got a theory about young people.
And I think young people are terribly insecure, under 30.
They're insecure about their future.
They're insecure about themselves.
I mean, success is a daunting thing to everybody.
Everybody wants it.
In this day and age, it's very difficult to achieve it in this climate.
So I Googled the following phrase.
How do you help Hispanics progress?
And you know what the second item is?
Seven ways the Affordable Care Act helps Latinos.
The second item in a Google search: how do you help Hispanics progress?
Second item, seven ways the Affordable Care Act helps Latinos.
So then I Googled, how do you help young women progress?
The third item, women and Obamacare via the Center for American Progress.
Now, the Google people, it's just the algorithms.
We're not setting things up here.
You can't buy positions in our search pages.
Right.
How do you help women progress?
And a third item is women and Obamacare.
How do you help Hispanics progress?
And a second item is seven ways the Affordable Care Act helps Latinos.
Also from the Center for American Progress, that's an Obama think tank that John Podesta runs.
There was a day, folks, August of 1976, Ronaldus Magnus spoke to his campaign staffers, many of them in tears, after a very narrow loss to Gerald Ford, the incumbent for the presidential nomination Republican Party, was in Kansas City.
And his message, Reagan's message, was, don't give up your ideals.
Recognize that there are millions and millions of Americans who want what you want.
Folks, we only lost this election by one and a half million votes.
And here's another thing to remember.
If the 3 million votes, the 3 million Republicans that everybody thought would turn out had turned out, 3 million Republicans did not vote.
The statistical analysis is that if those 3 million had voted for Romney, Romney would have won the popular vote by a couple hundred thousand.
We didn't lose this because of immigration.
We didn't lose this because of women.
We didn't lose the, well, we lost it because we didn't turn out the base.
There were 8 million Obama voters who did not vote this year as opposed to 2008.
There was not more enthusiasm for Obama in this country.
It was not conservatism that lost.
It was not our ideals that lost.
It was our campaign strategy.
That's where this was lost.
Reagan's words ring true.
Don't give up your ideals.
Recognize there are millions and millions of Americans who want what you want.
Don't forget, folks, EIB Amnesty Plan.
Every illegal in the country automatically granted citizenship with the proviso they cannot vote for 25 years.
Have an okay weekend.
If you still want to feel miserable, I think you should.
And we'll be back here on Mondays.
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