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April 10, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 10, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Trying to squeeze in here more than I have time to do, Rush Limbaugh, saying more in five seconds than most hosts say an entire career.
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Middle of the week Wednesday, fastest, fastest week in media, folks, and the fastest three hours.
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Yesterday we played for you a soundbite, Melissa Perry, uh Harris Perry.
Melissa Harris Perry is a professor at Tulane.
She has a show at PMSNBC.
She is a standard issue leftist.
There is nothing extraordinary about her.
And by that I mean she's not extreme.
She's not way, way far out there.
She is a mainstream American liberal today.
And that is, folks, it's uh very important.
This is the woman who thinks that the whole notion that parents that kids belong to their parents is outdated.
She doesn't that that idea is is is cockamy.
The government is really the parent.
And my point is she's out denying that she said it today.
While saying the same thing again, she's out denying it.
She's trying to laugh it off and say that that people like me only heard what we wanted to hear, but in denying it, she's a she's she's saying it again.
But that's I I'm not gonna play her denials or I'm not gonna go and just trust me, she's out denying it and trying to make fun of or criticize the people who interpreted her literally.
I mean, she said what she said.
Well, there's a companion story with this now that makes my point that she is not out of the mainstream.
This woman who thinks that your kids are not yours is standard issue liberal.
Gosh, if I could just make people.
Yeah, I'm uh look at I admit to it is frustrating, folks, because it's so easy to understand who these people are.
They're not a mystery.
They're they're they've just done such a good job making people think they are what they're not.
They are opposite what they claim to be.
This woman who thinks that your kids aren't yours is that's standard.
That's that's that's Mark's.
That's that's what liberalism left ism socialism kind of it's what it's always meant.
There's nothing new about it.
The only thing new is that people like her are saying it publicly as though it's just common sense.
It's why they don't like school choice.
You don't have a say-so where your kids go to school.
It's not your re it's not your right to determine where your kids go to school.
It's not your responsibility.
It's all of ours.
It's the states.
And anything that promotes parental choice.
Why why do you think parents are not to be told when their daughters have an abortion?
Why do you think parents are not to be given any?
Say so in that.
It's because they're not your kids.
It's what that's always meant.
And so many people think that that's a far out extremist, you know, only the real lollipop losers believe that, and it's mainstream.
And I know that's not what the people of this country believe.
I know people voting Democrat don't think that.
Common ordinary everyday Democrat dupe, useful idiot voter doesn't there I've gone insulting them, but they they don't believe that.
They think their kids are their kids.
Some of them would love to get rid of them.
But we've not we've not gone to the dark side in this country to the extent that people don't think their kids are theirs.
But it is the mainstream liberal view.
And if I could just if all of us, if we could just somehow convey to people who these people really are.
And by the way, there's some very intelligent, bright people who do not understand this.
Here's Here's Melissa Harris Perry statement.
We do live in a nation where slaveholders took the infants from the arms of my four mothers and sold them for their own profit.
We do live in a nation where the government snatched American Indian children from their families and re-educated them by forbidding them to speak their language and practicing their traditions.
But that's not what I was talking about, and you know it.
It was George.
So in denying what she said, she said it again.
Here is what she originally said.
We have never invested as much in public education as we should have, because we've always had kind of a private notion of children.
Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility.
We haven't had a very collective notion of these are our children.
So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.
Once it's everybody's responsibility and not just the households, then we start making better investments.
Right.
So we we've got to get rid of this idea that your family is yours and that your kids are yours.
It's everybody's.
We're all in this together, and you don't own your kids, and you know it's and so she issues a statement.
Well, we do live in a country where slaveholders took the infants from the arms of my foremothers and sold them for their own profit.
And we do live in a nation where the government snatched American Indian kids from their families, re-educated them by forbidding them to speak their native language, but that's not what I was talking about, and you know it.
Now here's a little story on the surface, nothing to do with what you just heard, but it has everything to do with it.
Cybercast News Service.
In the message that he issued along with his budget proposal today, just this morning, President Obama said that he wants to see four-year-old children in the United States enrolled in public schools.
Babies, folks, four-year-olds in public schools.
The president said America needs to start enrolling four-year-olds to make sure that the children are better prepared for the demands of the global economy and to help parents save on child care costs.
So we've got to get your kids out of your house now at age four and into the public schools under the guise of relieving you of the oppressive financial pressure.
The costs of raising your child.
We're gonna take that kid away.
We're gonna put the kid in public school at age four, your baby.
At age four so that you get relief on the costs.
Now you couple that with Melissa Harris Perry, and you tell me that these people are not saying what she is saying, and they don't believe what she believes.
Obama clearly is of the same school of thought that she is.
That the idea that children are part of finite families, and that children belong to their parents.
Well, we gotta disabuse people of that.
Well, you're gonna get it rid of that idea.
And Mrs. Clinton, by the way, it takes a village.
This is mainstream American Democrat Party thought, folks.
After saying that the United States needs to equip our citizens with the skills and the training to fill jobs in manufacturing, energy, and infrastructure, the president then said, and that has to start at the earliest possible age.
You know, like the ChICOMs do.
They go in and take children away from their homes as babies to train them for the Olympics.
Or to train them for other things.
The president said that not enough American four-year-olds are in school.
Too few four-year-olds are enrolled in school.
In other words, too many four-year-olds are at home with their parents.
So Melissa Harris Perry, she's not off the reservation.
She's not some loon wacko left extremist.
She is mainstream Democrat thought, and she's being paid big bucks at Tulane to teach your kids, her students, this same gobbledygook.
And Columbia University just hired convicted terrorist, right?
Kathy.
Yeah, weather underground.
Kathy Bowden was her name.
Bowden.
He's a murderer.
And by the way, there is some common sense.
A police organization has written a letter to the president of Columbia and said, why the hell did you hire this person?
And ought it not be the onus of the universe to explain this kind of a hire.
You want to hire a murderer and a terrorist and a wetter underground veteran to be a distinguished professor at Columbia.
So it's mainstream, folks.
And I'm telling you, and I'm being optimistic in this, I just do not believe that a majority of thought in this country agrees with Melissa Harris Perry.
I do not believe that the majority opinion is that kids don't belong to their parents.
Do you know anybody who thinks that?
Do you?
Well, you no, no, no.
I'm talking in your neighborhood.
I'm not, yes, of course we know Hillary.
Do you know anybody in your neighborhood who believes this?
Do you know anybody you work with who believes this?
Now, they probably are there, and you just haven't gotten that out of them, but I'll bet in some, depending on where you work, there probably are people who think that, but you don't know it.
But do you think the majority of people in this country, the majority of parents really think that their kids aren't theirs?
Do you think the majority of parents think that kids ought to be enrolled in public school age four so as they can save expenses?
This is really hideous stuff, but it is what goes as mainstream thinking in the uh in the Democrat Party.
Let me take a brief timeout.
Back with more after this.
Jay Rockefeller, Senator, West Virginia, one of the towering architects of Obamacare.
Yes.
Yesterday, openly criticized program managers of Obamacare for not moving quickly enough to build it.
Jay Rockefeller warning that if it gets off to a bumpy start, it's just going to get worse.
Well, it already has gotten off to a bumpy start.
There aren't any reductions in premiums.
You don't get to keep your doctor.
The exchanges are an absolute disaster already.
Not every state even is going to have one.
The ideal would be that they don't even exist, but they do exist.
They are a nightmare.
IRS size forms to apply at an exchange, sixty-one pages to fill out, just to see if you qualify.
Decrying Obamacare as way too complex.
Rockefeller warned that the acting Medicare director that Obamacare is so complicated that if it doesn't get done right the first time, it's just going to get worse.
And we got audio sunbites if I put it, what have I got number six yeah, number 11?
Here is Senator Rockefeller.
Senate Finance Committee Hearing yesterday.
I'm of the belief that the ACA is probably the most complex piece of legislation ever passed by the United States Congress.
Tax reform, obviously, is going to be huge too, but I mean up to this point, it's just beyond comprehension.
He's one of the architects, folks.
Jay Rockefeller's one of the guys' staff that worked on it.
So he knows.
It's beyond comprehension.
I'm telling you.
This can't work.
That doesn't mean it's going to go away.
What it means is it's going to be a nightmare.
What it means is it's going to be an absolute disaster.
And you know what's going to happen?
What always happens in Washington.
Washington creates a program because they think there's a pressing need, or in this case, because they just want to commandeer one-sixth of the economy, put it under government control, grow the government, give themselves more power, so they do that.
Then that doesn't work.
And then they run around and say, My God, we've got a mess here.
This is horrible.
We need a new program to fix this.
And that's what they'll do.
They'll come up with Obamacare 2, which will be designed to fix what went wrong in Obamacare 1.
But there will never be any acknowledgement that they are the problem.
They create the problem, they offer the the fix.
That doesn't work, and the cycle repeats.
And that's how you end up with redundant federal entitlement programs.
That's how you end up with multiple programs for school lunch, school breakfast, multiple programs for child health care, because the first one doesn't work.
And the same people who act like they were on the sidelines when it all happens.
Hey, guess what?
We need to come in here and fix this.
And the same people who blew it up the first time and then go in to fix it, and they blow it up again.
And he's just warning everybody that's what's ahead of us.
It's it's too late now.
It's already off to a bumpy start.
Now, Monday in Boston, Kathleen Sibelius, the Health and Human Services Secretary said this about the impact of health care reform.
Probably no one fully anticipated when you have a law that phases in over time, how much confusion that creates for a lot of people.
What do you mean no one fully anticipated it?
We did.
Countless people did.
Countless people screamed from the mountaintops that this was a disaster, that this was unworkable, that it was going to lead to mass confusion.
But here comes the sanctimonious arrogance and contempt of the elites.
Well, probably no one fully anticipated.
Would you have a law that phases in over time?
How much confusion that's going to create?
Well, no one fully anticipated this.
Not adequately planned for the rule out.
Everybody ends up being totally confused.
It just no fault of anyone.
Of course, we're just anticipate the complexity.
This is all a crock.
They don't care at the outset about the complexity.
This is such a By the way, uh, ladies and gentlemen, just explain uh all of this.
Uh Jay Rockefeller and his complaining about the complexity.
And uh Kathleen Sabilus, no one counted for it.
Here's here's the thing, and never forget this.
They want it to be complicated.
It was supposed to be complicated.
It is supposed to be a nightmare.
It is supposed to be impossible.
You know why?
So that people will eventually demand single payer to make it simple.
Don't doubt me.
This is all part of the plan.
You think Jay Rockefeller's really gonna go out there and say something harmful to the Democrat Party?
You think Jay Rockefeller's really gonna go out there and give MO to the Republicans?
No, he's not doing that.
They're setting it up for single payer.
They're trying to accelerate the public demand for simplicity.
Let's just get rid of the exchanges.
You know what's get rid of private insurance?
Get rid of all that.
Get rid of my employer provider.
That's too much trouble.
Just let me go to the government and get the insurance and be done with it.
In fact, I'll go to the doctor, government pays the bill.
That's it.
That's all this is.
This is the original intent.
Obama said so in 2007 in a speech to the Service Employees International Union Group.
And he said, I'd love to get the single payer overnight, but we're not going to be able to.
It's going to take 10, maybe 15 years.
Where people demand it.
He essentially says his union believes, look, we can't force this on people.
They won't accept it right now.
But we can make them want it.
How do you do that?
You screw it up so badly.
You make all the places people go for insurance so screwed up that they will willingly accept, you know what, the government will do it and just be done with it.
And that's the objective.
Looky here.
The state health exchanges that are central to the Obamacare bill, they are costing the federal government more than twice the initial budget to implement.
The Obama administration, in its just release budget, the regime expects to spend 4.4 billion dollars in fiscal 2012 and 13 on grants to states building the exchanges.
A year ago, they estimated spending two billion.
This year they say, nah, it's gonna cost four.
So the price of the exchanges in one year has already doubled.
That's just one tiny little element of this monstrosity.
That's where it's where it's all headed.
Yeah, I saw Jay-Z and Beyonce and Cuba, and I it's just I don't know.
They they get Jay-Z down there puffing on a cigar, wearing a Che Guavera shirt.
The Beyoncé with her hairstyle and such a I don't know what that was.
It looked like a hairstyle designed to catch bees.
I I but we're we're told that we have to look at this from the Cuban people standpoint.
A couple of celebrities, this is a great statement of American culture to have these two icons down there.
This gives the Cuban people hope.
What do you mean it gives the Cuban people hope?
They don't get to leave with Jay-Z and Beyonce.
It may be cool for Jay Z and Beyonce to be strolling the street, but when they leave, it ain't a good day because the Cubans have to stay.
I don't know.
If there were pictures of me strolling in Cuba, there would be people trying to put me in jail for it.
Not just me, I don't want to have to personalize just anybody.
That they're down there and then.
And what it is, the hell with a Cuban people perspective.
What about here?
It's making a communist dictatorship look like a paradise.
It's it's it's nothing more than these two going down there and basically stamp of approval for a dictatorship.
That's what it is.
And Obama and his sequester country, I think it's decadent.
I think it's irresponse.
I think it is a thumb in the nose.
For Obama to be throwing all these parties in the midst of all this while he's out there having a grand yuck-yuck time, basically saying, Look what I can do that you can't.
And all these performers of, you know, falling in with him.
I think it's low rent.
I don't think there's anything presidential about this.
I I think it's I think it's a guy taking advantage of the perks Of office to have a good time, well, who cares what's going on around him?
You disagree with that?
Or do you think there's some legitimate cultural contribution being made here?
It is, it's royalty.
It's it's it's a celebrity of the United States.
It's it's uh it's Obama and Muchel my Bell.
And and that's right, and then Beyonce Jay-Z, part of Obama's court, you know, the jesters or whatever down there and I don't know.
Um, Mitch McConnell's guilty.
What he said about Ashley Judd.
Where's the outcry over his office being bugged?
There isn't any outcry of his office being bugged.
The outcry is over, boy, how mean is this McConnell guy?
God, can you believe what he's gonna do, that little girl?
He's gonna quote what she actually said about herself.
Rand Paul went to Howard University.
It's a black college.
He uh made a speech there this morning, actually.
And it's uh in the Washington Examiner, says that Rand Paul reached out to blacks, arguing that the Democrats and Obama have failed African Americans.
He also admitted the Republicans have a long way to go before blacks see Republicans as their guide to success.
That's no, they don't.
That's just a matter of opening your eyes.
What are the Republicans have to do?
Prove a negative, prove they're not racist?
How do you what that's not possible?
Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, there's all kinds of role models.
What the what do you mean the Republicans have a long way to go?
I know why he said it, but they don't have a long way to go.
To me, the onus is on black people to get it straight.
The onus is on the black population to see the truth.
The onus is always on Republicans, they're always on conservatives to somehow prove that they're not what the Democrats accuse them of being.
How in the world can you ever do that?
How can you go to Howard University?
I'm not a racist.
When you show up at the MAACP, you're sure I'm not a racist.
You can't.
It's a lose lose proposition.
Rand Paul said, I come to Howard today, not to preach or prescribe some special formula for you, but to say, I want a government that leaves you alone, that encourages you to write that book that becomes your unique future.
He basically went to the students at Howard University and said, We want you to be who you are.
We want you to be the best you can be, and we're going to get out of your way.
We believe in you fulfilling your destiny, potential, and all that.
It was actually very good.
And he at the same time told them how Obama has failed them and how the Democrat Party has failed him.
And he got it exactly right.
And now there is a companion story.
This uh first story.
I got it around 11.30 this morning.
Here's the latest dispatch on the Rand Paul story.
Same paper, Washington Examiner.
During the QA session after Senators Paul's speech Wednesday at Howard, one student explained that he didn't agree with Rand Paul's view of government.
Student stood up and said to Senator Paul, you say you want to provide a government that leaves us alone.
Well, frankly, I don't want that.
I want a government that's gonna help me.
The student insisted that he wanted assistance for his education.
And he wanted assistance from the government in other things.
And he asked Senator Paul if he supported a culture change within the nation.
Do you, Senator Paul, have a formulated solution to come up with a new American, with new American values, so that citizens of this nation have a worth more than dead presidents and Ben Franklin?
I don't know, I don't know what that means.
But that was the question.
So basically, Paul goes up there.
He tries to look, the Democrats have failed you.
They're holding you back.
They're limiting your potential.
We want just the opposite for you.
We want you to be the best people you can be.
We want you to maximize your potential.
We want you to have all the freedom in the world.
We don't want you being dependent.
Kid stands up, I want to be dependent.
I want the government in my life.
Well, what are you going to do?
Why should we be surprised?
That's how that's a kid been raised, right?
It's exactly how he's been raised.
The government's his only hope.
The Democrat Party's his only opportunity.
The only thing this kid's got's a Democrat Party in government.
Lord knows what he's been told about the Republicans.
By the way, there is going to be more of this, folks.
We haven't even begun to see the tip of the iceberg.
Washington state.
The state of Washington has sued a florist over refusing service for gay wedding on religious grounds.
The state attorney, attorney general, has filed a lawsuit in Benton County Superior Court against a Richland florist who refused to provide flowers for the wedding of longtime gay customers, citing her religious opposition to same-sex marriage.
The state's suit against Baronel Stutzman, who is the owner of Arlene's flowers and gifts, came just days after the AG's office wrote to ask her to reconsider her position and agree to comply with the state's anti-discrimination laws.
No, I saw that as a website of real world news, but it's from the Seattle Times.
R I E H L Dan Real, real world news.
But this is just the state is suing a single florist, a small business, because of her desire.
exercise her religious freedom.
Let's see that.
Just the beginning.
Over this gay marriage business.
What there's a snerdle says at a drive-by caller begging me to make a prediction on the masters.
I have never I've never made a prediction on the masters.
I have never.
You know what?
I'm going to have to look at the field.
Make sure I know everybody that's uh playing.
As I understand it, the lawsuit in the state of Washington against the florist.
If I understand this right, the lawsuit basically says you can be religious all you want inside church, but outside church, to hell with it.
Your religious values may not exist outside church.
You can have freedom to exercise religious liberty in your church all you want, but outside the four walls, we own you.
I'm looking at the clock.
I've got a couple of calls I really wanted to get to.
There's so much.
I knew I wasn't gonna be able to squeeze this all in here today.
And that's okay because there's always tomorrow.
It's kind of like when you're on a diet.
It is always tomorrow.
And so there is here on the EIB network.
But I must take a brief, obscene profit break now.
Now, back to wrap it up after this.
Listen to this.
This is Christine Romans at CNN on uh starting point this morning talking to band leader Booker T. Jones about the um uh sequester Soul Train at the White House last night.
Who was more starstruck?
The president or all the performers?
The performers.
The performers were really uh excited.
Everyone was really anxious to meet uh not only president, but the first family.
Oh yeah!
Oh, yeah, meeting Obama one thing, but we wanted to meet Muchel.
And uh they got it all done.
Sequester Soul Train.
White House last night, and we see you tomorrow, folks.
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