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May 16, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 16, 2013, Thursday, Hour #2
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Greetings and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
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And we're looking forward to getting to your phone calls in this hour.
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Facing a trio of controversies.
President Obama trying to halt a perception among both White House opponents and allies that he's been passive and disengaged.
Has unexpected developments consume his second term.
That is the very perception he has so carefully created.
So that the media sits here and they're so worried.
Oh my gosh, Obama's so disengaged.
And he's right where he wants to be.
Right where he wants to be.
Okay, the press conference, they just finished the joint part of it with the Turkish prime minister, and now Obama is theoretically answering questions from the White House press corps, so let's jip it and listen to a little bit.
I have no idea what they're going to be able to figure out exactly what happened, who was involved, what went wrong.
Yeah.
And we're going to be able to implement steps to fix it.
And that ultimately is the main priority that I have, but also I think the American people have.
They understand that we've got an agency that has enormous potential power and uh is involved in everybody's lives.
And that's part of the reason why it's been treated as a quasi-independent uh institution.
But that's also why we've got to make sure that it is doing its job scrupulously.
Right.
Uh and without even a hint uh of bias uh or uh a hint that uh sometime somehow they're favoring one group over another.
Uh and as I said yesterday, uh I'm outraged by this in part because uh look, I'm I'm a public figure.
The uh if if a future administration uh is starting to use the tax laws uh to favor uh uh one party over another or one political view over another, obviously, we're all vulnerable.
Uh and that's why, as I've said, it doesn't matter whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, uh, you should be uh equally outraged at the prospect.
Turn it down for just a second.
Look, the whole point of the IRS scandal was to get him re-elected.
The whole point of the IRS scandal was to prevent his enemies from organizing and raising money.
The whole thing was political.
He was responsible for it.
He set the stage for it.
He is the one that sets the tone for it.
He is Mr. Partisan.
He is the man that they are all loyal to.
He is the guy who inspires this kind of thing.
For him to come now and say, oh, you know, I'm just as mad about it as you are.
We're gonna fix this thing.
Yeah, they didn't do anything about it until its problems surfaced.
And of course, they didn't know any of these problems were taking place.
You know, folks, it they're they're insulting our intelligence.
The president's insulting our intelligence with this.
But again, I just I just want to stress that this is liberalism.
This is big government out of control.
When liberals end up with this kind of power, this is how they use it.
They use this is why they want government to be big, and it's why they want to be part of government.
They thirst for this power, and they love using this power.
They love turning the power of the federal government on their enemies.
Who though conservative do that, Mr. Limboy?
No, no, this actually, no, you might find rogue examples of it.
You've got to go back to Nixon to find a Republican accused of this kind of stuff.
Republicans want to get government out of people's lives.
Republicans, well, conservatives do.
Conservatives want people not to have to even think about government every day.
It's just they're making it's kind of like an Operating system in a computer.
You just want it to work.
You want to be able to do what the computer does without having to interact with the operating system all the time.
You don't want to have to go ask the operating system for permission to copy something and to paste something and the email.
You just want to do it.
Liberals want to run the operating system, and they want to use the operating system against you.
Or they're political enemies.
That's not at all what conservatives view government as.
Government has necessary functions.
Set those up so that it runs efficiently as possible, but the last thing government's supposed to be is an obstacle.
It is not supposed to get in the way of progress.
It's not supposed to get in the way of happiness.
It's not supposed to get in the way of prosperity.
Liberals look at it as an entirely different thing.
They make a life of it.
Big government liberalism.
That's what this is.
Now I've got this whole stack of IRS news.
And we may as well tackle some of it.
Remember Max Baucus?
Max Baucus is a Democrat, Montana Senator.
He's one of these guys right now running around talking about how outraged he is over the IRS.
Well, you might remember Max Bauchus urged the IRS back in 2010 to target conservative groups.
Max Baukas, three years ago urged the IRS to do what it ultimately did.
Today, Max Baucus is running around acting like he's outraged by this.
Max Baucus was not the only one.
Senator Chuck Schumer.
Michael Bennett, Sheldon Whitehouse, Jeff Merkley, Tom Udall, Gene Shaheen, Al Franken.
They all wrote two letters to the head of the IRS demanding the IRS investigate all these conservative 501c4 tax exempt organizations.
The second letter that they wrote just happened to coincide with the peak of this activity at the IRS in March of 2012.
So all these Democrats demanded the IRS do this.
After the Citizens United case, after the 2010 midterms, even prior to the 2010 midterms, money is the mother's milk of politics.
Everybody knows this.
And Democrats wanted to do anything they could to make sure that conservatives couldn't raise money to compete with them.
They urged the IRS to really be tough on granting approvals.
By the way, the left has taken out a new tack on this IRS thing.
And it goes something like this.
And these are leftists in the media.
Well, you know what?
The IRS really only did what they were supposed to do.
All of these conservative groups are a bunch of phonies.
They weren't doing social welfare.
These were a bunch of conservative groups disguising who they really were.
They were lying about being 501c4s.
They were lying about being charities.
They were lying about all this.
They're just a bunch of tightwise who wanted to not pay taxes, and they lied to the and the IRS was doing exactly what it should have.
So the left is not just bending over, rolling over this.
They're aggressively fighting back, and now the IRS has its defenders, even while Obama's out there saying it's inexcusable and it's reprehensible.
And we're gonna fire everybody that had anything to do with it.
Here is another example.
Do you know that one pro-life group in applying for its tax exempt status, the IRS, was told that they would be granted their tax exempt status if they promised not to protest Planned Parenthood.
Oh, you didn't know that.
Oh, yeah, ladies and gentlemen, that was absolutely happened.
And not just not protest Planned Parenthood.
There were a number of other similar restrictions on other groups, conservative groups that were applying for 501 C4 tax status, tax exempt status.
But a pro life group said, yep, okay, you'll get it, but you can't protest Planned Parenthood.
IRS can't tell people that.
But they did it.
They realized everybody's intimidated by the IRS.
Whatever the IRS says, that's what people will do.
Let me give you a quote from Obama.
I've played this audio soundbite.
I don't need the bite.
I just want to read this to you.
This is Obama from early the early two thousands.
And I have a radio interview in Chicago or his speech to a union group.
I don't remember which might have been on public radio in Chicago.
But this is what he said.
The Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in our society.
To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn't that radical.
It did not break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as it's been interpreted, and Warren Court interpreted it the same way that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties.
Says what the states can't do to you, says what the federal government can't do to you, but it doesn't say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf.
Now the meaning of this is Obama's ticked off at the way this country was a statement.
He doesn't like the Constitution.
He said the other day he is restrained by it.
When you're restrained, it means you want to do something that you can't do.
And he said the Constitution constrains him, restrained, means there are lots of things he'd like to do to you, but he can't, because the Constitution says so.
And the fact that the Constitution limits government ticks him off.
The fact that the Constitution limits government and promotes liberty and freedom of the individual, he doesn't like that.
He calls that a charter of negative liberties.
When I first heard that term, I said, wait a minute, that doesn't mean what how can liberties be negative?
What do you mean?
And I had to be sat down and explained the liberal mind on this.
A charter of negative liberties is a constitution that limits government.
So in their mind, the Bill of Rights, bunch of hogwash.
The Bill of Rights is a bunch of negative, can't do stuff.
And to statists and and liberal big government types who want to use the government to do things to people, such as using the IRS as has been done here in the last three years.
They did it anyway, even though the Constitution says you can't do it.
The Obama people did it anyway.
Obama today and last night I didn't know about it.
Hell, I'm mad about it as you are.
We're fired a guy who was gonna leave anyway.
Is it any surprise that his IRS, when you hear that quote, is it any surprise that Obama's IRS discriminates against pro-constitution and pro-life groups.
He swore to uphold the Constitution.
It's in his oath of office.
Broadening IRS victims include pro-life advocates as Congress investigates.
This is a web post from the Thomas Moore Society.
And it's about the pro-life group that was granted its status but told it couldn't protest Planned Parenthood, or it would be in violation.
Let's take a quick time out.
We'll come back and maybe gyp the presser a couple more minutes and get to your phone calls right after this.
And we're back.
I'm just trying to figure out here if this press conference is nearly over.
What's he talking about?
Green.
Yeah, IRS is long gone, Benghazi.
Let's go to the phone.
Sierra Vista, Arizona.
Hi, Linda.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Russ.
How are you doing?
Very well.
Thank you very much.
I apologize I'm on my cell phone.
I'm driving.
Um I wanted to talk to you about uh what I think is maybe the theoretical justification for your limbaugh theorem, and that's the fact that this Article Q of the Constitution is very, very clear.
It says that executive power shall be vested in a president of the United States.
The other two articles are not that clear.
You know, um legislative powering granted belong to the two houses.
The even the judiciary, it says the judicial power shall be vested in Supreme Court and Inferior Courts, etc.
So Hamilton says the reason for that when he justifies a unitary executive is because they have to have the power to do what they need to do, and then they have to be held accountable for doing those things.
So I think that the your point is that while he wants to stand back and pretend he's not a part of it, we need to hold him accountable and say that's not how the Constitution works.
The executive power is vested in the president and the president alone so that he has power and so that the people can look at it and see who's at fault when something goes wrong.
Right.
That's exactly right.
Except the problem is you're looking at it from a legalistic constitutional sense, and the guy you're talking about resents the hell out of the Constitution.
Yeah, even Chris Matthews last night on MSNBC, Chris the tingle up his leg Matthews, he's in real distress because the limbaugh theorem has probably it's finally hit him.
He just realized it.
Although he doesn't know that, he he's not saying that.
But he's finally realized Obama doesn't appear to like the job.
This guy doesn't like people, he don't like forging relationships, he doesn't like doing the work on Capitol Hill, he ought to like he don't like being an executive.
He doesn't like being an executive, he doesn't really like it.
And that distresses people like Matthews, who savor this job.
They sit around dream about having this job.
And they look at this guy, and he's conveying that he doesn't like it, that it's a problem, that it's all too much red tape and stuff.
What they do not understand is that this is a purposeful construct.
And I if I if look at illustrate this, if I must say it's rather political sense, folks, this is rather genius.
I don't know of any other president who has been successful in detaching himself from the events of his own administration.
I have never seen that happen.
This last presidential election was the first in my lifetime, and maybe the first in many, many and maybe all elections where the economic circumstances of the country were of no concern to the voters.
In most cases in the economy, the president owns it, good or bad, it's his.
He gets the credit when it's great.
He gets the blame when it's not.
Obama has managed to pull off this detachment in a very, get down to brass tacks, very easy way.
He is constantly campaigning.
His campaign never ends.
His presidency is not one of governance.
In fact, there's a, in one of these AP stories today, there's even a reference to the fact Obama's even quoted as saying that maybe it's time for me to start governing.
I mean, he's admitting what's going on here.
He has purposely structured his presidency so that it doesn't appear that he's governing.
He is not the executive in charge and responsible for what's happening.
All of this that's happening is happening despite him.
He has managed to create, in the minds of low information voters, it'll actually...
elected him.
That he wants lower deficits, that he wants greater job creation, that he wants economic growth, that he wants all the things that aren't happening.
The truth is he's getting everything he wants.
The truth is he is marching through this country like a hot knife through butter.
His agenda, he's putting notches in his belt every month.
Stimulus, Obamacare, tax increases, blowing up the Bush tax, whatever the agenda item.
The only major thing that he wanted that he hasn't got is card check.
And maybe some environmental stuff.
But for the most part, how many of you think he's not getting what he wants?
How many of you think is his agenda stalled?
How many of you think that Obama's not succeeding in advancing his agenda?
You know damn well he is.
That's what concerns you.
That's what scares you.
And yet, he structured it in such a way that the people of this country, majority numbers, oppose his agenda.
They oppose what he wants to do.
They oppose what's happening in the country.
They don't like the direction the country's going.
And in those same polls, they do not associate him with any of the problems.
Because he's always seen as opposing everything that's happening and trying to fix it in the permanent never-ending campaign.
No authorship.
You're guiding light through times of trouble, confusion, murkiness, tumult, and despair.
Even the good times, Rush Limbaugh, serving humanity, half my brain.
Tied behind my back just to make it fair.
You want another example of the limbaugh theorem on display.
From the Hill.com.
SEC Near's decision on requiring businesses to disclose donations.
Here we go from the article.
The Securities and Exchange Commission under new chief Mary Joe White is approaching a crucial decision on whether to publicly whether to require publicly traded corporations to disclose their campaign spending to shareholders.
If pursued, new disclosure rules could have major ramifications for both political spending on elections and the increasingly influential regulator.
Folks, this is a backdoor way to get the same information that Obama was getting the IRS.
This is no different than what the IRS was doing.
Except in this case, they're using the SEC to demand that publicly traded corporations disclose their campaign spending to shareholders.
The IRS was telling public, you know, average citizens forming tax-exempt foundations who their donors were, demanding their donor list, which is illegal.
And this is another end run around the Citizens United decision.
The Supreme Court said that corporations are people, and as such, they can make political donations to candidates and causes, and that just sent them for a loop.
Now the reason people, why do they care so much about that?
What is the big deal?
I mean, Senator United with an outrage, but I don't even know why I'm outraged.
Can you explain?
Yeah, because corporations have lots of money.
Mr. Castradi upset he didn't know why.
Wants me to tell that.
Corporations have lots of money.
And the possibility exists that they would give that to Republicans.
And that's not fair.
Republicans aren't supposed to be able to get campaign donations.
Right now, the Democrats run and rule the roost with union donations.
The unions collect all that money through dues and they rent and they money launder all that money back to the Democrat Party.
And the Democrat Party has a massive fundraising advantage, but the unions.
Well, the Citizens United case said that the people who employ the unions can also donate.
And that really ticked them off.
Oh, they're still seething.
And so the SEC, the Securities and Exchange Commission is now going to demand that those corporations have to divulge their campaign spending to the stockholders, meaning to the public.
So if XYZ corporations decides to donate, I don't know, $15,000 to say John Boehner, it's got to be reported.
So that shareholders know.
And the reason for this is to intimidate the giving.
The reason that the SEC is doing this, the reason Obama's doing this, because they're trying to intimidate these corporations into not donating if they have to divulge where they're sending the money.
But this is a perfect example of the limbaugh theorem.
In public, Obama is expressing his outrage at the IRS, asking conservative groups for the names of their donors, and meanwhile, behind the scenes, his SEC is doing the exact same thing via regulators.
And while you're not looking, while you're noticing everything else, while you're focused on the IRS, guess what?
The SEC is basically doing the same thing.
The unions pay no taxes, by the way, unlike corporations.
See, this way the SEC will automatically get the names of everybody in business who is giving to conservative groups, and the Democrats will soon be able to expose and punish these donors or harass them, and then have the IRS audit them.
Have you heard the name Frank Vandersloot?
Have you heard the name Sheldon Adelson?
Look at look at all of the harassment of Romney donors by the IRS.
So the regime now wants the SEC to force corporations to reveal the names of all the people they donate to.
All those candidates, and then here comes the harassment.
And this is liberalism, folks.
This unfairness, this mean-spiritedness, all of this extremism, all of this using the power of government against citizens is liberalism.
Liberalism is not benevolent.
It is not compassionate.
It is not fair.
It is not justice.
Mr. Limbo, that is a third.
All of this, of course, is oriented towards social justice.
Social justice isn't justice.
It's harassment.
So all of this is liberalism on parade.
Everything that you're seeing here, IRS, Benghazi, SEC, Fast and Furious.
You name it.
Amnesty.
This is liberalism on parade.
That's why so many conservatives oppose it among other things.
But by the way, speaking of guns, that is one element of the Obama agenda he has not yet gotten.
But you know how hard he's trying.
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This is Mike in Little Elm, Texas.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you.
First time caller, listener since 1988.
My um issue is that no one seems to be talking about the IRS scandal from a civil rights violation issue.
Um it occurs to me that um the strategy is to silence political speech and to uh discourage or prohibit uh freedom of assembly, which is not unlike what went on in the 1960s when Bull Connor was using um attack dogs to disperse uh protesters who were exercising their civil rights.
And no one seems to be talking about this, and as I understand it, this is a criminal violation.
When you violate someone's civil rights of speech and assembly, you're committing committing a criminal act.
No, no, no.
This was just a couple of rogue agents that got a little bit outside the bounds of propriety.
We took care of them, they're gone.
It's all right, nothing to see here.
But you raised an interesting point, though.
Because isn't it true that throughout 2008 and 2010 and 2012?
What do we have to hear every election?
We have to hear that we conservatives are trying to suppress the black vote, right?
Or that we are trying to suppress the female vote, right?
What are these clowns actually doing?
They were suppressing conservative votes.
They were they were suppressing conservative fundraising.
I'm gonna tell you, these people, these liberals, when you hear them, folks, this is almost universally true.
They're of course are exceptions, but when they accuse us of something, you can damn well bet they're already doing it themselves.
And make no mistake, um, this is terrorism.
Uh Bull Connor was terrorizing.
Oh, yeah, the fire hoses and the dogs.
Exactly.
The aim is the same, and it is to terrorize people with a threat of jail or financial ruin.
I think that's right.
To intimidate, terrorize, exactly right.
And here is the question: where are the people from the 1960s who were so outraged then?
Where are their voices today?
Why aren't they saying, wait a minute, this free speech.
This is what we fought for back in the 60s.
We're not gonna allow it.
That's not what they were fighting for.
That was that let me tell you, you know, you're asking a serious question, and I'm gonna give you a serious answer.
I'm not, I'm not just spouting here.
You ask where are the civil libertarians, the free speech uh people of the 60s, they're applauding is what they're doing.
Those people were all leftists back then, they're all liberals back then.
They were protesting.
Uh uh everybody thought they were protesting government this and government that.
They were protesting the Republican Party and standard, ordinary, good old fashioned American values.
They were they were extremists and renegades.
They are applauding this.
We conservatives are the in their mind, we are the straight laced Puritan moral enemy who want to deny them their gay marriages and their gay soirees and their gay this and their gay that and they're black this and they're black this and they're fun.
We want to deny them all that.
They love it when the government tells a bunch of church people they can't organize and raise money because they don't like church people.
Yeah, it's a it's it's interesting to me that that um the tyranny that the government uh is using here, and make no mistake, this is Obama's IRS.
Exactly right.
But these people for the 60s, people misunderstand.
I had to explain to me my mid-dector once.
They were obedient.
They were obedient liberals.
They weren't protesting anything.
That they weren't protesting what everybody thought they were protesting.
I gotta take a break.
That's it, folks.
Another exciting excursion of broadcast excellence, hour two in the can.
On the way over to Broadcast Museum at Rushlimbaugh.com.
I gotta take a brief time out, but we'll be back and continue after more evil profit taking here.
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