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June 25, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 25, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Hi, welcome back, folks.
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So far, did you see this ChICOM woman killed herself and her husband learning to drive.
Get this.
I feel like I'm watching an episode of The Sopranos.
A woman tragically killed her husband and herself while backing up her car in an underground parking garage in Zingbo, Zijiang province on June 18th.
She was learning to park the car.
It's in a parking garage.
Their six-year-old daughter was inside the car, watched all this happen.
The Qinjang Evening News, it's a checom paper, reported that 41-year-old driver, surnamed Lynn, was issued a driver's license in May, was practicing backing up her Lexus, RX 270 SUV, into a parking space as her husband directed her from behind.
She backed up too far and pinned him up against the wall.
Now, according to the report, she then stuck her head out the window after hearing her husband scream.
And instead of putting the car in drive, she left it in reverse and hit the accelerator, thinking that she was going to move forward.
Instead, she not only squished her husband instantly, but then her head got stuck between the car and a wall along the parking space, and that was it.
She basically squished her husband and decapitated herself, learning to park her SUV.
So it's another SUV killer.
Rescue team arrived soon after, but there were no survivors.
The couple's six-year-old daughter saw the entire tragedy unfold from inside the car.
A source said that the woman had successfully parked in the space once before that day, but her husband asked her to do it again because she needed to practice.
So he was behind the cars and didn't she look in the rear view, okay, honey, back it up, back it up a little more, a little more, a little more.
Oh, whoa, whoa.
He starts screaming and she forgot to put it in drive and hit the accelerator.
No, they haven't blamed the SUV, but this is uh a Chicom story.
Okay, Amnesty.
A piece here by Chris Saliza, who has a column in the New York Washington Post called a fix.
And the headline is the Latino vote does not exist, not really.
Conventional wisdom is settled on this reality.
Republicans' inability to attract Hispanic voters not only cost them the 2012 presidential election, but has the potential of doom them as a national party in future elections too.
And the numbers are stark.
Romney won just 27% of the Hispanic vote last November, a dismal show that made the 31% McCain won look good.
But if Romney had got Siliza doesn't say this, I'm just telling you, if Romney and everything else in the election stayed the same.
If Romney had gotten 70% of the Hispanic vote, he still would have lost.
Stop and think about that.
Every Republican in the Senate and the House who's prepared to vote on this on the basis that they need to do this to hopefully ever win again.
If Romney had won 70%.
He still would have lost.
What are you laughing in there?
What is so funny?
Are you?
I don't know what you're saying.
They're laughing themselves.
Oh, Don wants to know why I told the SUVs.
Don is still upset.
Well, then you're laughing about it in there.
Don't still upset that I told the SUV story.
Why did you lead off with that when you're going to move into immigration?
I don't know.
I just was going through the stack and I saw it there.
I said, if I don't mention it now, I never will.
And I frankly, Don, it was a fascinating story.
A woman crushes her husband trying to learn to park this way.
I'm just fascinated by it.
I don't know why.
Maybe I'm morbid, but I think this is absolutely a TV script that had this this this kind of detail in it.
Okay, honey, back it up, back up.
Look, you need to practice your parking.
You did okay today, but you need to do it again this afternoon.
Back up hold it.
Oh it is an upsetting, unnerving story, but it still happened.
So anyway, every Republican in the House and Senate had better understand 70% of the Hispanic vote in Romney still would have lost.
McCain got 31%.
Reagan got 36%, 37% in 84%.
George Bush got 30% in 88.
After Amnesty in 86, after Amnesty 86, the Republicans got fewer Hispanic votes.
The entire premise, stated premise.
And let's be honest about the stated premise is bogus as hell, folks.
The stated premise for this is the Republicans have to do this to ever have a chance.
That is so bogus.
The numbers tell the truth on this.
70% of the Hispanic vote and Romney still loses?
What are we doing here?
It might sound good that this is about getting Hispanic votes, but what a crock.
And by the way, why do policy for votes?
People have been critical to me for opposing this because of the way these people are going to vote.
Well, hell, the whole Republican Party says the reason they're doing for this, this is for votes.
They're not even denying it.
Now we know the Democrats are doing it for votes.
I don't know.
This doesn't make sense in the we've got to do it for votes business on the Republican side.
There's no evidence anywhere that suggests that this is going to help them.
Electorally.
Zilch, zero, not anyway.
So Siliza says the numbers don't tell the whole story even close to it.
Carlos Lozada, the editor of the Washington Post Outlook section, and the brains behind worst week in Washington column, explained why the numbers don't tell the whole story in a piece that ran over the weekend entitled Who is Latino?
And Carlos Lozada makes two very important points in the article.
First, he notes that the Latino community is only thought of as the Latino community by those not in it.
That, folks, is profound.
And again, Carlos Lozada, the editor of the Sunday editorial page in the Washington Post.
The brains behind their worst week in Washington column.
So here you have a member of the state-controlled media admitting that the Latino community is only thought of as the Latino community by those not in it.
There isn't a single definitional or electoral strain that runs through everyone that, Who at least according to the Census Bureau is Hispanic?
Well, duh.
Hello?
I mean, is this not common sense to say that?
I mean, all women don't vote alike.
All whites don't vote alike.
All amputees don't vote alike.
What is this why why are all Hispanics thought to be the Latino vote?
Well, you because you need conventional wisdom and you need a ruse.
You need a ruse to rope people in.
So Carlos Lozota writes, is being Latino a matter of geography as simple as where you or your ancestors came from?
Is it language you speak or how well you speak it?
Is it some common culture?
Is it just a vaguely brown complexion and a last name ending in A, O, or Z?
Politicians build Latino voter outreach operations, businesses launch marketing campaigns to attract Hispanic superconsumers, yet depending on whom you ask, politicians, academics, journalists, activists, researchers, or pollsters, contradictory definitions and interpretations emerge.
Latinos themselves seem uninterested in being broadly characterized.
And they talk about a pure research survey of Latinos.
The second key takeaway from Carlos Lozada's piece is that because there isn't a Hispanic vote, it's impossible or wrong to describe the issues that everyone in that non existent community cares about.
And so is the idea that passing comprehensive immigration reform will solve Republicans' issues in courting Hispanics.
Duh.
So we get this story on the this admission from an Hispanic editor of the Washington Post on the verge of the vote.
So this man has just said there isn't a Latino vote, and therefore it's impossible or wrong to describe the issues that everybody in that community cares about.
So essentially, everything anybody says about the Latino vote is just smoke and mirrors made up to advance some political agenda.
And our side's buying it.
That's what's so cockamy screwy about this.
You've got Lindsey Graham saying over and over again a version of we've got to do this to get back in their good grace.
We've got to do this to have a chance with them.
We've got to do this for them to listen to us.
We've got it as though every Latino is sitting out there and hating Republicans because they diss the Hispanic community.
There is no Hispanic vote.
There is no common set of things they are for or against, and therefore it isn't possible for the Republicans to get in their good graces or be in their bad graces.
It's not possible.
Now, individual Hispanic voters might hate or dislike or love Republicans or Democrats, but as a group, and the group is the reason we're doing this, all of it is a myth.
And here's the thing.
You instinctively know this.
I instinctively know this.
And we wonder why, in the name of Sam Hill, the Republicans in the House and Senate don't know this.
Well, what is the likelihood that they do know it?
And that all of this is smoke and mirrors for another agenda.
What if all of this is being said to rope in vo not House and Senate Republicans?
They're in on it.
What if all this is being said because there is another agenda at stake here besides Hispanic votes?
Now, as far as the Democrats are concerned, that's what this is about.
They already have, quote unquote, a majority of people who are Hispanic in the way they vote.
They've got a and polling data suggests they're going to hold on to that.
Now we're to believe that the Republicans are so stupid that they've been hoodwinked into believing that the Democrats want to give up some of those votes so that the Republicans might someday win the presidency?
well, this party's presidential options are down of tubes if they don't do this.
So the Democrats are willing to share their votes with us?
The Democrats are willing to help us get some of their voters in order that we might someday win the presidency.
And people like McCain and Graham and whoever else think, yeah, the Democrats are trying to help us.
What in the world is happening here?
Well, you know and I know that what we're being told doesn't make any sense.
The Washington Post, Sunday, and now today, Tuesday, well, Zeliza's piece was yesterday.
So Sunday and Monday, the Washington Post is telling everybody, hey, Republicans, the reason you're doing this is made up.
Your stated reasons for wanting amnesty don't exist.
Your stated objectives cannot happen because there is no Hispanic vote.
There is no Latino vote, and therefore there is no magical set of issues that you can adopt that's going to make those people turn from hate to love.
So then Siliza says, well, what if any impact will the two points Losada makes about the Hispanic community have to politics in future elections?
Possibly none.
Remember that politics tends to practice the art of simplification rather than that of complexity.
Politics is the art of lies.
Way too often.
Way too often politics is the art of lies.
Now, the National Journal, Republican voters warn lawmakers against citizenship for illegal immigrants.
Associated Press Senate passage of immigration bill is on track.
Here's some other headlines.
CBO, we can't tell you how much illegal immigration would uh would cost under a bill meant to solve it.
We can't tell you how much illegal illegal immigration would decline under a bill meant to solve it.
The CBO doesn't say, we have no idea what's going to happen.
Lindsey Graham is back.
The gang's bill is necessary for the GOP to get reattached to Hispanics.
They're not unattached.
They just disagree with you.
They prefer to vote Democrat.
And supporting this amnesty bill isn't going to change that.
Then the Investors Business Daily has an editorial.
Why is Congress rushing a bad immigration bill?
Money and power.
The means don't matter.
The rule of law has taken a back seat to self-interest.
Nothing makes sense.
This is my point earlier.
Nothing makes sense here because we look at our government as being governed by rules, a constitution, laws on the books of the people, by the people, for the people.
Very naive, given the low caliber of representatives we have in Chicago and Washington.
We want to believe that they are working on our behalf.
We want to believe that they're doing everything for the benefit of the country and for us, but they're not.
They are for themselves, is the explanation for this.
And whatever and however they benefit from this, they're not telling us.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
National Journal has a random act of polling...
Mainstream media would never conduct such a poll.
The conservative rank and file have a loud and clear message for Republican officials.
You support citizenship for illegal immigrants at your own peril.
Sizable plurality of registered Republican voters say that they'll be much less likely to support their incumbent lawmaker if he or she votes for immigration reform that includes a pathway to citizenship for those currently living here illegally.
This, according to the latest United Technology's National Journal, Congressional Connection poll, the findings show that even as national Republican leaders tout the Senate's reform bill as a political necessity for the party, it remains a risky vote for individual Republican lawmakers wary of a primary challenger.
The poll found that while most people don't really care about amnesty one way or the other, Republicans and independents do.
And when I say most people, I don't I don't mean the vast majority of American people.
What this poll focuses on is that Republican and even independent voters do care about it and they care about it a lot.
The reason other people don't care about it is because it's not perceived as a crisis.
It's not even at the top of anybody's list of priorities.
Not even Hispanics is the way to look at it.
Yes, being treated as a crisis, being treated as the thing that must happen now.
What this bill is effectively the end of the Republican Party, because this will send the Republican Party base fleeing.
And that's probably why, aside from the money that's a that from big donors, I mean, it's gonna happen here.
The Republican Party, many members of it, probably wouldn't mind at all if the bitter clingers in its base went away.
Very important what the article calls the most conservative block of voters.
Blue-collar whites and in places where many Republicans draw their support, rural areas, 45% without a college degree said they're less likely to support lawmakers because they do this.
It's not good.
Here's Lloyd, Michigan, on the way to Minnesota en route.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Thank you.
Uh I drive for a small trucking company, about a hundred and twenty-five people employed all told.
And one of my friends called me this morning and says in the driver's room, he seen there last night laying on the table was a brochure uh said as the first of August, they're dropping all of our health care, and we'll have to go somewhere else to find it.
So I just thought, well, now that's interesting.
Thank you, Mr. Obama.
So I suppose that's happening around the nation, but I just thought I'd let you know that do you know the reasons that they're doing this yet?
Have you seen have you seen any of this brochures or this paperwork that explains it?
Explained or told to you.
No.
Uh he just told me that I haven't seen it myself, and he just told me it's like August 1st, no health care provided for anybody at this trucking company.
That's right.
No matter how many hours you work, nope, doesn't matter.
It's a dropped.
All right, they're offloading you.
So you're you're gonna have to go by law.
If your company doesn't provide you insurance, guess what you have to do.
Right.
And like myself, uh You either you get you got two options.
You actually have three options.
You pay a fine and don't get any.
You go buy your own and try to find a group you can join, or uh wherever you live, you find your state exchange, your Obamacare exchange, and you go buy your policy there.
Now I'm uh drawn social security and I'm on uh Medicare, Medicaid, whatever it is.
So I don't know, does that affect people like myself?
Yes, the law says you have to have it.
Even though I'm even though I have uh Medicare.
Yep.
Really?
I'm pretty uh I'm I'm I'm I don't think that there are any excuses for not having a health insurance policy or paying a fine if you don't, and I don't think Medicare qualifies.
Huh.
See now my wife will be turned 65 in September, so uh I I haven't any other insurance other than that, other than AFLAC a little bit, but I was gonna get her uh with this plan B. And myself, I never did take it, so they always want ten dollars a year a month more for a fine, you know, because you didn't take it right off the bat.
Well, here's the way to look at this.
If your company is dropping your health insurance, uh, and well, why is that a big deal?
Because they're dropping your health insurance, obviously.
So you don't have any health care.
Do you look at Medicare as your safeguard?
I mean, if if you had health care with your company, why did you do that since you have Medicare?
See, I never did take it.
I never this is like 176 bucks for a week for my wife and I, so we just never we just never took it.
Oh, so you weren't on the company health care policy.
I never was.
Oh.
All right.
Well, then does Medicare cover what you and your wife need?
I never used it.
Well, you're gonna have to now.
If if you are on Medicare, I stand corrected, I think.
Hell who knows.
But if if you're on Medicare, you won't need to buy insurance, but you're gonna have to prove that you're on it.
Right.
Yes.
Are you a Teamster?
Are you a member of the Teamsters United?
Oh, uh-uh.
Oh, and uh is an independent company.
So union.
Well, you can try getting by with your Medicare.
And see what I look at, I'm among the legions that when it comes to Medicare, I've I've never used it.
Um, so I'm not I'm not certain how much Medicare qualifies you in the eyes of the law as having a policy.
Now, if you qualify for Medicare, then you might you might already be covered.
And you might not have to buy any insurance.
Right.
Now I'm gonna have to check into that and make sure that uh before starting paying some kind of a fine.
It's well, we think here, we think, but you know, that I can never be sure.
So don't quote me as gospel, but we think here that Medicare Medicaid count is being covered under Obamacare.
But they're running it, and uh it just depends on what you're told when you happen to use it.
You gotta prove you're under Medicare, though.
So apparently that's what you've been using if you haven't been on your company's uh policy.
So your your fellow employees at the trucking firm uh are gonna have to either, if if if they don't qualify for Medicare, they're gonna have to go out by law and be insured somehow somewhere.
Or pay a fine.
That's what the 16,000 additional IRS agents are for, is to track down people who are not paying their insurance and assess and collect fines.
That'll be done on your tax return.
It'll come out of your refund, or it'll be an additional assessment when you file.
That's why will Obama escape blame for this under when this stuff hits, will Obama escape blame for this along the lines of the limbaugh theorem.
Um we'll find out.
I mean, 2014 is the magic year.
You know, you give it a year from now, summer next year.
And all this stuff uh kicks in.
His name's on it, Obamacare, and he's the one who's told everybody their costs are going down.
So you would expect in a sane world that, yeah, uh this will attach to him.
You would expect no, the low information people don't know their refunds.
The low information don't know Jack, Mr. Snerdley.
I mean, here's what we think we know.
Section five thousand parentheses A, parentheses small F of the Internal Revenue Code.
And that's where you have to go to find out a Medicare provision for Obamacare.
Section 5,000 of the Internal Revenue Code says minimum essential coverage, health care, can consist of either a government sponsored coverage such as Medicare or Medicaid, or B an eligible employer-sponsored plan.
Well, this guy's losing that.
So if he's got Medicare Medicaid he's covered.
However, and there's always a kicker.
Medicare, don't forget, has been cut to the bone by Obamacare in order to so-called make it fit in under this trillion dollar magic number cost.
Remember the $500 billion Medicare cuts.
Well, what that means in practical application is that Medicare coverage is being cut to the bone, and you cannot, starting in October, you can't buy Medicare Advantage because it's been cut.
I think the Medicare Advantage cuts commence in October.
For those of you who even know what it is, Medicare Advantage, it'll no longer be allowed.
Now, to make you feel even better, Medicare doesn't have any money.
You've heard that we have a $16 trillion national debt approaching 17 trillion.
Well, part of that is that Medicare's unfunded liability, meaning the amount of money pledged to qualified recipients now stands at $33 trillion.
That's about three times the size of today's economy.
That's an Wall Street Journal article points this out today.
It's stored by John Goodman and Lawrence Kutlakoff.
Medicare by the scary numbers.
So Obama cut Medicare by $700 billion and then tried to double recount it elsewhere.
But remember they took the money to expand Medicare.
You remember Romney talking about it all over during the campaign, trying to get the low information voter.
Look at you Medicare Obama has cut Medicare 500 700 billion or whatever it was.
Well the bottom line is that Medicare's unfunded liability, meaning what is currently pledged to the American people when they hit the age of eligibility for it is $43 trillion.
And we don't have it.
The national debt is approaching $17 trillion.
The unfunded Medicare liability.
That's why there's been all the talk about the need for entitlement reform, which the regime is saying to.
Wall Street Journal, not my number, their story, 43 trillion by.
Bottom line, get ready for that to be pulled out from under you at any time, and then force you over to some exchange.
Anything can happen.
That's why I don't want to sit here and tell you, for sure, any of you to call here.
I'm losing my health company at my trucking company in August.
What's going to happen to me?
Who the hell knows?
And if you don't have the money to buy it yourself, I guarantee you, you are a prisoner.
You're going to be depending on things that you have no control over.
And you'd be hoping and praying, and you might be inclined to tell anybody that you're dealing with that, yeah, you voted for Obama, yeah, you're going to vote for Democrats.
Might help you out.
You never know.
I but this is the whole thing's unsustainable.
Now remember, Obamacare was supposed to get rid of all this, eliminate all these costs, eliminate all these expenses.
So you think the low information voters are gonna love Obamacare because they're gonna see Eva Longoria promoting it or their favorite NFL player promoting it?
Let me just point something out to you.
If your average Obama voter walking into McDonald's in Port St. Lucie discovers they're out of chicken McNuggets and calls 911, what do you think is going to happen when that person wants to go to the doctor?
And somebody tells them no.
The Democrat Party doesn't like to tell anybody no.
And do you know how many people are gonna be told no under Obamacare?
If you think they go nuts when they're out of chicken McNuggets, wait till they need a chop a dictomy or whatever.
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