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Feb. 18, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 18, 2013, Monday, Hour #3
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Hi folks, how are you?
Greetings and welcome back.
It's great to have you here, Rush Lindboss, serving humanity as always, simply by being here, emitting vocal vibrations coast to coast from behind the golden EIB microphone, telephone number 800 282-2882, and the email address Ill Rushbo at EIB net.com.
Ah, look a lot of people.
Even Snerdley, Snerdley Dubious.
You know, I I must tell you, I'm into my 25th year now.
I think I have established an incredible track record of accuracy, predictions, cutting edge stuff, and yet it is amazing how often people think I don't know what I'm talking about.
Even among my own staff, Snerdley cannot possibly think that CNN would do anything that makes Piers Morgan the star because his numbers, his ratings are so low.
You're missing the whole point.
Take a look at TMZ's ratings.
That's what they're shooting at here.
And by the way, it's not just snerdling.
I checked email during the break.
So let me just tell you, here are the top CNN headlines as of this moment.
Investigators find fire clues aboard crippled carnival triumph.
Letters from John Lennon's killer to be sold.
Danica Patrick wins historic poll position, Daytona 500.
Man accused of slapping crying boy on Delta flight loses his job.
93 World Trade Center plotter Ramsey Yusuf wants contact ban lifted.
Country singer Mendy McCready dies in apparent suicide.
What else to blame for Chicago murder raid?
Victims.
This is it.
Those are the you go to CNN's website, and that's it.
By the way, nothing on pre-existing conditions.
Nothing on the sequester.
Now, admittedly, that's their website and so forth.
But I'm just telling you if you start paying attention to seeing it, do it for the fun of it.
And see if more and more of their expert guests and things are not celebrities of what to one degree or another.
Weighing in on the sequester, for example, or weighing in on Hugo Chavez, or whatever's being talked about.
And you see, if uh if I'm not right.
Now, about this global warmth, it I wonder if Al Gore was in town, because these environmentalist wackos showed up to protest on the coldest day of the year.
And global warming, environmentalist wacko groups gathered on the National Mall in Washington someday and marched in the White House for a climate change rally, largely aimed at pressuring Obama to reject the Keystone XL Oil Sands Pipeline.
They don't have to do that much.
I don't even know why they're protesting him.
He's probably not going to okay it even now.
Organizers said that 35,000 activists attended the rally where speakers portrayed the battle over the pipeline as a struggle between grassroots green groups and deep pocketed special interests.
They've got the lobbyists, they've got the super PACs, they made the campaign contributions, they've got this town in their pockets, they have got the situation under control, and then you show up, and then we show up, and we can change the game, said Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat Rhode Island, talking to the crowd not long before they marched in the White House.
So once again, the environmentalist wackos, who are themselves a very deep pocketed and very powerful lobby, being spoken to as though there are powerful forces behind the curtain, pulling the strings and the levers.
But regardless, they show up on the coldest day.
Now, speaking of the sequester, Washington Post.
Automatic cuts are getting a big yawn from Washington.
In fact, this this whole weekend was a uh and by the way moving up somebody to 11 now, Mike.
This whole weekend was bizarre in terms of reporting on the sequester.
Here's Laurie Montgomery in the Washington Post.
As deadlines go, the March 1st sequester lacks punch.
Nobody's taxes will go up.
The Treasury will not run out of money.
Government offices won't immediately turn out the lights and lock the doors.
Most federal workers will not face furlough for at least 30 days.
Ms. Montgomery here doesn't seem to be the hysterical reporter that her paper is known for.
So Washington felt little need to cancel the president's day's break.
On Friday, Obama flew to Florida for a long weekend of Gulf.
Congress left town for nine days with scant hope of averting deep cuts to the Pentagon and other agencies in the short time remaining when lawmakers return.
So the Washington Post complains here there isn't enough hysteria.
That's what they're really saying.
That's what Laurie Montgomery's upset.
There's not enough hysteria about this.
Despite their nonstop series of articles on the upcoming apocalypse, and you've seen these stories.
And you've heard Democrats claim that food will be taken from the mouths of babes, that we will not have a nuclear arsenal, that we will not be able to defend ourselves.
CNN steps in, they claim that some eighty-five billion dollars, unless Congress does something, some eighty-five billion dollars in massive spending reductions will hit the federal government doling out furloughs to much of the nation's 2.1 million federal workforce.
This according to experts, but only in the bizarre world of our one party news media would a cut of $85 billion from a budget of $3.8 trillion be called massive spending reductions.
Let me give you the proper perspective.
The sequester features $85 billion of cuts.
And because it is $85 billion in cuts, you've heard what's going to happen.
Federal workers thrown out of jobs.
The sleigh ride at Jellystone Park canceled.
Food for kids will be not provided.
No school lunch, no school breakfast, no school this or that.
It's the same thing as the budget battle of 1995.
We're talking $85 billion.
We're not even talking about real cuts.
I don't even know why I go through this anymore.
You all know it.
We're not cutting anything.
We're just reducing the rate of growth.
The baseline says that defense, Medicare are going to go up eight to ten percent.
So instead they're gonna go up six to eight percent.
And that's called the draconian cut.
Look, $85 billion.
The sequester will reduce the budget by eighty-five billion dollars.
The relief package for Sandy Aid, Hurricane Sandy Relief Aid cost 50 billion.
The extension of federal unemployment benefits cost 30 billion.
Congress passed those without batting an eye.
Right there is eighty billion dollars that we're spending.
Nobody blinked.
It's not a big deal.
But eighty-five billion dollars in cuts, why the world is gonna come to an end.
And there aren't any cuts.
Now what the White House is doing, by the way, I've got some companion stories here.
CNN Money.com, federal worker furloughs could start in April.
That's right, because this $85 billion in cuts, we could have to lay off two million federal workers.
And then from the Washington Times, budget busting burgers, beef, chicken supply could be casualties of Congress and the Obama sequester fight.
Food shortages may be one impact.
There may be national food shortages if the sequester happens.
We may have to shut down the Pentagon.
2.1 federal workers might be furloughed.
It is irresponsible.
None of this is going to happen.
Because there aren't any cuts.
All there is.
If the sequester happens is reduction in the rate of growth.
And I, for one, don't think the sequester is going to happen.
Do you notice a pattern here?
Everything's the same.
If it's the debt limit deal with the same thing.
If we don't get this done, oh my God, we can't pay our bills.
Oh my God, what's going to happen to the credit rating?
Oh my God, we're going to be the laughing stock of the world.
Oh my God, we're not going to be a pay of bills.
Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God.
And then at the last moment a deal is struck, and everybody goes, uh good.
And then we have after the fiscal cliff, or debt limit, then we got the fiscal cliff.
And it's the same pattern.
If we don't get the it was the same pattern in 2008 with TARP and the automobile bailout.
If we didn't spend $800 billion right now, the economy of the world will collapse.
And there's still $200 billion from TARP that's not been spent yet.
But the same pattern, and now it's the sequester.
And what this is is an ongoing concerted effort to ensure as best they can that no massive majority public support for any reduction in the size of government will ever happen.
That's the objective here to so poison people's minds.
$85 billion out of a budget of three and a half trillion, not spending $85 billion wouldn't even be noticed.
It would be the equivalent of you earning $100,000 a year and losing a quarter.
Or the equivalent of people telling you that you've got to give somebody a quarter.
What impact would losing 25 cents have on you if you earn $100,000 a year?
Three and a half trillion dollars and all this panic and apocalypse over $85 billion.
So the point here is to make sure the public never ever supports spending cuts.
Because even a dollar will ruin something or somebody from the politico.com.
House Democratic leaders are urging their rank and file members to use the recess this week to hold press conferences and other events, humanizing the negative effects of sequestration alongside seasoned citizens, small business owners, police officers, and teachers.
So it's the same thing.
If we do this, your town's gonna lose its cops.
If we do this, your town's gonna lose its firefighters.
Even though your town and your cops and firefighters are not paid by the federal government.
It doesn't matter.
Your teachers, your teachers, your senior citizens, they're gonna lose their social security, and they're gonna lose their Medicare, and they may never get it back.
We're talking 85 billion folks.
Let me just tell you something.
To ever get serious about this, serious about it to the extent that we make changes that will matter and prevent us from becoming Greece.
We've got to be talking trillions of dollars in cuts, not 85 billion.
85 billion is irrelevant.
It is chump change.
It's insignificant.
We are headed for an utter total collapse.
We are going to have to cut trillions of dollars.
We are seventeen trillion in debt.
And it's going to be twenty-two trillion by the time Obama leaves Orifus in 2016.
And there's no end in sight for this.
The federal government currently spends ten and a half billion dollars a day.
We're talking about less than ten days worth of spending.
One week.
One week of government spending, we're talking about being cut.
And with one week's worth of cuts, all of this apocalypse is going to happen.
And as usual, you're being lied to and extremed to death.
Pummeled, beat up.
They're not even letting you up to breathe.
You are being so immersed in this stuff.
Brief timeout, much more straight ahead on the other side of our own obscene profit timeouts.
Callaway.
Callaway.
And back to the phones we go to Tom in Palm Desert, California.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
Um Megadiddles from Occupied Reagan Country.
Yes, sir.
Yeah, listen, um, before I get to my question, I just wanted to tell you that for ever since the election, I had to quit listening to your wonderful show because uh unfortunately you're so spot on and so accurate that it hurts.
And sometimes it's painful to listen to because on the one hand, we've got you over here uh a beacon of of uh sensibility and and hope, but we're surrounded with uh darkness all the time, and our side has nothing but wimps in Washington that uh aren't gonna help, and once they get reelected, they go back in and they play nice and nice, you know, like the Bob Michael syndrome.
Yeah.
So nothing ever gets done to help us since the days of Reagan.
But uh Well, Mike, I have a question for you.
It's Tom.
Yeah, okay, Tom, I've I've I I've uh I I've got a question for you.
Very simple.
The last thing I want you to do is to stop listening.
I'm with you.
So what should I do to change?
How do I stop being this beacon of hope?
Because it just hurts to hear No, so I what should I do?
Should I become what uh Okay, I got an idea for you.
I really do.
I think that because you reverberate the the feelings, the very strong feelings we have out here.
Those of us who love America, we know it's a gift from God.
We know that the greatest generation fought to give us this great land, and what we have today is not what they fought for.
But I I would suggest to you perhaps maybe have a show or two or three shows that have answers or potential solutions, maybe bring some of the people that that only you've got the ability to get on on a national microphone, and and either maybe break a uh one of your patterns and let us talk directly to a guest like uh a John Boehner or somebody who's in power and let them hear from us instead of just we get them once every two years when they want to get reelected.
Maybe have a solutions challenge or a solution.
There's uh there's a problem with that.
And that is I don't understand your your your idea is to get people in here.
Have me to break the format by actually have some guests.
Absolutely.
Have some guests again, because it's it's you know, I love you, Russia.
Well, now that's not helping.
That's making me feel even worse.
That's making me look like I don't have the answers, and I gotta subordinate myself to a bunch of people that you think do.
And see, I don't care what anybody else thinks.
That's why I don't have guests.
The decision makers on your show, and maybe let us act.
Why are they gonna change when they're here?
Why are you not standing up against Obamacare?
Why are you going on vacation?
Why aren't you calling out Obama on his hundred and off rounds when the world You don't want me to interview them.
You want me to savage them for you.
I want you to challenge them.
How about that?
How about how about challenge them in your professional way that you can because we hear we know what the problems are and and we echo them with you.
We agree with you.
Yeah.
But the problems all the time and not giving a voice uh directly at the powers that be and at least ask them, look, what are you doing?
Or what can we do?
What what how can a person, a lone voice out here in in occupied California, what can I do aside from screaming at the end of the day.
Well, look, it's not hard.
Obama has to be stopped politically.
But there's no I don't know.
No, I do know.
No, I do know.
No, I t don't take it personally.
All this guy wants to do is have me say to these people what he wishes to say but can't.
So what he thinks is I put out a call to John Boehner and John Mader come on the program and I'm supposed to say, You suck.
Where's your guts?
Why don't you stop Obama?
That's what he wants me to do for him because he doesn't think Boehner will take his call.
That's all he wants.
He doesn't want me interviewing them and coming up with solutions.
He just wants me to give them what for No, it's not gonna change anything.
It's gonna that's you know, why do people honk their horns in a traffic jam?
It releases stress.
Why they do road rage.
Doesn't change anything other than got that off my chest.
Uh I mean, don't you get mad you're driving along and you see a long line of traffic and you know one person's caused it.
One stupid idiot rubber necker stopped and caught and you would love to get hold of that one idiot and just tell him he's an idiot.
And then be done, and you'd feel better.
That's all this guy wanted me to do.
Because Boehner's none of these guys are gonna come on here and say, uh, you know what, I'm glad you asked me here, because now I can tell you what the solution I've really like as though that's gonna happen.
He wants me to waterboard these guys is basically what he would.
He wants me to waterboard Republican leaders on this program.
Essentially, and with a British accent, so that it's a respectable.
Here's uh Peter Lynchburg, Virginia.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
I got to thinking when I heard the story at the top of the hour about the aircraft flying over President Obama and Tiger playing golf in Florida.
Yeah.
Made me think that perhaps I'm sure the you know White House press corps wouldn't be that desperate.
But I think the entertainment press would be trying to get a picture of these two out on the course.
And while I was on hold, I got to thinking perhaps what if these were drone aircraft.
Camera laden drone aircraft trying to get a picture of these two on the course.
Well, they would have known because they sent an F-16 up there.
Well, I'm sure they sent an F-16, that's for sure.
No, they did.
Well, I mean, um four aircraft over in no fly zone in one day.
I know there's a lot of traffic in Florida, I'm sure with private aircraft.
Let me tell you something.
Half these fly boys, they're flying VFR.
They don't know the Floridian from Augusta National.
I mean, half of 'em might not have even known Obama was there.
True, true.
And especially if they're flying VFR, they might not have even been told that Obama's if and so it's I'm sure it was accidental.
But now you're you're thought about a drone.
Who who would launch the drone?
Who what in your thinking here?
Well, who would launch a drone?
Anybody could launch a drone.
I mean, they're they're quite readily easily to be built.
They're privately owned.
You can build them quite easily now.
They're kits online, you can buy 'em.
Really?
Oh.
Well, now I've got a drone.
I was given a gift.
Those little baby helicopters.
Yeah, it's one of those helicopters that flies over the property.
You know, to make sure the dogs are not peeing on the carport.
With closed circuit key, you know, and it it's cool.
It's cool.
Got a little uh uh IP address and and a camera and it goes back to your computer.
And also have one of these cute little things that rolls around the floor in the kitchen keeps track of the dogs and the dogs look at it and they don't know what it is and it attracts their attention for five or six seconds.
Sounds like a smart trash can.
And yeah.
Anyway, there were they did they scrambled uh uh just I don't think the media would spend the money.
Yeah I I you know probably not to risk somebody's FAA license to fly an aircraft.
But one thing if if I if I wouldn't mind asking one more question.
Yeah.
Um with with this uh immigration bill I honestly think that even if the Congress comes up with a bipartisan agreement that I think that the president will probably veto it even though it would probably you know it hasn't border security.
I think the president as I said earlier the forget the sequester that's a distraction and and forget all these other tiny little things that are made to look gigantic the thing everybody needs to have their sights set on is 2014 in the House races because if the Democrats win the House then the back to the way it was for Obama's first two years.
And there's nothing even if they want to that the Republicans can do legislatively to stop Obama.
If the Democrats win the House he doesn't have to go the executive order route to get what he wants that's why 2014 House races that that that's the next big thing and I I wish it weren't and the presidential race last November that that was ball game in terms of being able to repeal Obamacare.
Now the House races of 2014 who's going to control the House is actually ball game for the kind of country we're gonna be now I have I said earlier I agree with you I think Obama thinks that there is much more value in doing battle with the Republicans over amnesty than actually getting a bill that grants it.
I think the Democrats have calculated that they'll get many more votes by having the Republicans out there as this mean spirited racist extremist anti-immigrant bunch than they will get if they get a bill that grants amnesty so I I think the Democrats begged Obama not to submit his own immigration bill.
The Democrats and the gang of eight those senators and they went up there they announced their bill they all stood there on the podium they attached their names and their faces to the bill what's Obama do Blida this weekend playing golf and his immigration plan is leaked to the USA today and his chief of staff is on TV yesterday morning talking about it.
It's not even his.
As far as perception is concerned, it's not Obama's bill.
Obama's picture isn't anywhere near it.
Obama didn't talk about it.
He didn't have a big ceremony where he presented it.
It's the administration's health care bill.
But it was leaked.
It sort of dribbled out there.
The whole purpose of this bill is to gum up the works.
This is a monkey wrench thrown into the whole gear.
By design.
Because I really believe, I'll say it again, I think Obama calculates there are
are many more votes to get in the 2014 election with the Republicans as the usual bogeyman than there are votes to get by actually passing an immigration reform bill now the Republicans on the other hand they think and this is the danger point some Republicans think that a panacea for them awaits passage of an immigration bill and that's where they're dead wrong.
If they if they think passing an immigration bill with something that looks like amnesty in it is going to result in a massive shift of Hispanic votes for them they're listening to the wrong people.
They're listening to the wrong consultants The wrong advisors.
They're listening to the same people who've advised them on nominating the wrong presidential candidates.
Over the years, it'd be the same mistake.
What the Republicans need to be doing with immigration, I mean, just my mind, just off the top of my head here.
They need to fight for something they know they can't get simply because they don't have the numbers.
They need to be fighting for something called sovereignty of the United States border.
And their immigration bill ought to have something in it like this.
And this again, just thinking of the moment.
But I'm not thinking about something passing.
I'm thinking about the Republicans need something to be seen fighting for, even if they are going to lose it.
And it's something like this.
You know, we've got 10 to 12, 20, whatever it is, million immigrants in the country.
We're not talking about deporting them.
Nobody is.
But we're gonna clock, we're gonna lock down this border.
And we are going to re-establish this distinct American culture that immigrants in the past came to this country for.
And we are going to do everything we can to require assimilation.
You're gonna have to, you you cross that border legally, you're gonna have to be able to hum some bars of the Star Spangled Banner.
You're gonna have to be able to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
You're gonna have to know your zip code.
You're gonna be able to tell us answer some questions about this nation's history.
You're gonna have to know who George Washington is.
You're gonna have to know what the Civil War was about.
You know, basic simple things that everybody in this country's taught in the first five years of their life, or five years of school.
And if you don't do any of these things, you do get sent back.
And that border is gonna be tight, and you sneak across that border and get caught, you're sent home, and you have a red mark, you never get back.
We are serious about the border.
And we are serious about people who come here becoming Americans.
And we want people to come here and become Americans.
We want people to come here and assimilate.
We want people to come here and build this into the greatest nation ever again.
You can construct an immigration bill that spells out your belief in this country that requires people coming here to reflect those beliefs and learn them.
You may never get it passed, but it it's something that you fight for, and it's distinctive, and once again, it draws a contrast between them and the Democrats who are simply looking for votes.
And right now, that's what everybody thinks that the Republicans are doing, is simply looking for votes.
And so right now the cynics look at both parties simply trolling for votes, don't really care about the people that get here.
Just the Democrats are going to be a little bit nicer because they're the welfare state guys.
Well, position this is something we're looking for Americans.
We're not looking for votes.
And we're looking to shore up and secure our border.
And there's certain things that you've got to do once we let you across.
And if you get cross, if you get caught crossing illegally, you never get back in here.
And that word gets spread all over the world, and we adhere to that.
And the ones that do get here that we allow in, we permit in under the policy that we come up with.
And then we'll deal with the assimilation of those who are here, but nobody's talking deportation, but the border has got to be secured and shut down.
And as I say, look, this is just the I mean, the most general of approaches here, when I say, you know, be able to hum a few bars of the national anthem.
I'm not being facetious.
I'm I'm serious, but I'm I'm using this as imagery.
You've got to become an American when you come here.
You've got to want to become an American.
You've got to make a modicum of effort to become an American here.
Because it's the greatest place on the planet.
We want to keep it that way.
This is good for people to come.
It's not punishment for them to have to do this.
It's what every immigrant in the past wanted when they came here.
We simply re-establish that.
And then we realize that Immigration involves more than just people from the Southern Hemisphere.
It involves people from Europe and Asia and everywhere.
That it's not oriented toward one group of people.
And you fight for it.
You know you're going to lose it with this current president and party, but you fight for it.
And you give people a rally and cry.
And you define yourselves in the process.
Instead of simply running around and make it look like you also are trolling for votes, or you want to be credited with compassion.
So forth.
I mean, the Democrats own that.
Nobody's going to steal that away from them on the Republican side.
I'm a little long.
I got to take a brief time out.
Sit tight.
There's more straight ahead.
Don't go away.
Don't go away.
Maybe we do have time.
But I gotta one thing.
There is one reason.
I just thought of it.
There is one reason to broom the no guest policy and have some politicians on here as guests.
One reason only.
That way they would hear what I'm saying.
It may be the only way that they will hear what I'm saying instead of hearing about what I'm saying.
Is to actually have them here or on the other end of the phone line.
I'm being facetious, of course.
It's not worth even that, but I'm just there's Alejandro.
Alejandro from Beaumont, Texas.
I'm glad you called.
You're next on the program.
Great to have you here.
Rush, a pleasure and honor to speak with you.
As an immigrant from Argentina, I got here when I was twenty years old, and I got I apologize in the way of speaking out really nervous.
I listened to you on the radio as soon as I got on Miami, and you say something really profound.
You always have to uh involve yourself with smart people and try to learn what they do.
And then you say uh try to find something to make a living that you really love.
And um here from Argentina, I actually was running away from a guy like Obama.
We have free medicine, free everything in Argentina, and I'm here.
And what I accomplish in this country, believe me, is no way in the world that you can accomplish as much as you can in this country.
For a while, I know.
I was I was a line cook.
Today I own my own company, and I have a wish at a love.
I just become a uh private pilot and I bought my own little plane, and I mean I'm aesthetic, I'm super happy, and last year I got my citizenship just to go vote Obama out.
Well, God bless you, Alejandro, and I'm gonna tell you I've got 30 seconds left here, but I think what you said something profound, and you you went by it pretty quickly, and I want to go back to it.
He said, People like him come to this country to run away from the Obamas of their country.
So he came here and he found what he was looking for, he became successful, is able to buy a little airplane, and now he feels like he's back home.
He feels like whatever he was running away from caught up to him.
That's so we've had people in the Eastern Bloc who've called and said same thing over the years.
Alejandro, I'm honored you're in the audience.
I'm glad you got through.
I gotta go.
Back after this.
You know, if we're talking amnesty for 11 million Alejandros, it'd be a whole different ball of wax, folks.
This guy, Alejandro's people like him are the Democrats' worst nightmare.
Anyway, we'll be back tomorrow as everybody else's work week begins.
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