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July 3, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 3, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
What is it?
Today's Wednesday, right?
So it was just two days ago.
Two days ago, right here on this very program.
Had somebody asked me why in the world are they still selling Obamacare Rush?
It's the law of the land.
Why are there ads on TV?
Why are we getting stories about how the California Health Exchange is going to be run by Democrats to sell Obamacare?
Why is there still a campaign for this?
And I, El Rushbo said, because they remember how health care resulted in a shellacking defeat in the midterms in 2010.
And they do not want that repeated in the midterms of 2014.
They want to win the House.
In 2014, the Democrats do.
They realize what an albatross Obamacare is.
They don't want to repeat it 2010.
I said it all day Monday.
I said it all day yesterday, starting with an appearance on Fox and Friends on the Fox News Channel.
Here is how well I'm yet never mind, I gotta play some by one.
I just summarized it.
So after two days of hammering on this program, nowhere else, I must say, nowhere else was it even being discussed.
Why are they selling Obamacare?
It wasn't even being discussed.
This ongoing campaign.
People in this audience were curious, and you called, we provided the answer.
All it took was two days, and yesterday the regime announces that they are delaying the implementation of the employer mandate for Obamacare until after the 2014 election.
They announce it on a day that they hold you know, leading into the Fourth of July long weekend, that low information voters will never hear about it, that nobody else will hear about it.
The media is all caught up in the brilliant politics of it.
The media thinks it is a brilliant political move.
I have a lot of questions about this, but one basic question.
I thought, listening to the Democrats, listening to Nancy Pelosi, listening to President Obama, that this was the answer to every health care problem in America.
I'll never forget Pelosi on the day the House passed the bill.
And maybe it might have been the day that Obama signed it.
She was at a microphone and she was barely able to contain herself.
She's so happy.
She just she kept saying affordable health care for all Americans.
I was watching that by the way.
You know, it's a never-ending debate about Pelosi.
Is she really the idiot she appears to be, or is that just an act?
And I still don't know.
The odds are she is, but she's also a liberal, which means she's a schemer, so it opens up possibilities.
But really, folks, I I I thought Obamacare was wonderful.
I thought it was gonna answer all the problems that everybody has in health care.
I thought it was the solution to every problem.
I thought it was good.
I thought it was needed.
I thought it was going to lower premiums $2,500.
I thought it was going to make health care finally affordable for everybody, whenever they wanted it, whatever they needed, that it was finally gonna happen.
And that some 30 million poor lost soul Americans who didn't have coverage were going to automatically be covered.
And that if you get to keep your poly, you like your policy and your doctor and all it, you get to keep it.
I thought it was magic.
But did you notice almost immediately after Obama signed it into law, Various industries and individual companies began to be excused from it.
The regime immediately signed waivers for favored donors and companies exempting them from it.
And that kind of puzzled me because I thought it was miraculous what had happened here.
The health care system was in tatters.
It was in disarray, and Barack Obama and the Democrat Party finally solved it.
It was one of the greatest days in American history to listen to the Democrat Party.
And yet there were all these waivers.
And now we're going to delay the implementation, not of the individual mandate.
We're going to delay the implementation of the employer.
I thought this was good.
I thought this was the way everybody was gonna get covered.
The employer was gonna have to do it, and if he didn't, then hello, everybody going to the exchange, which is now what's gonna happen because the individual mandate stays.
It's just the employer mandate that will not be implemented now until after the 2014 midterm elections.
I have been right and on a cutting edge about much in my career.
This is...
This, Mr. Snerdley, I've got to put up there in a top five in 25 years.
There are raging arguments even now.
Does the president have the authority to do this?
Is it in the bill that the president can do this?
Some bloggers say it is.
Other bloggers say no.
The bill does not permit this.
Let me ask you a question.
If Obamacare can be delayed, and that's what this is.
I mean, the employer mandate, the president decides, you know what?
This thing might actually hurt my party.
Next election, so uh, I'm just gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna delay the damage.
See, what I can't quite reconcile is Obama and the Democrats sold this as a utopia program.
They sold this as a panacea.
They sold this as a magic bullet solution.
They sold this.
And it's it's apparently not that.
It's apparently so bad that to actually have it placed into operation, implemented, would cause the president and his party a lot of harm at the ballot box.
Imagine that.
I thought this was going to solidify a Democrat majority because so many Americans wanted this, and it was such a wonderful program.
It was such a wonderful piece of legislation.
It answered every problem.
It addressed every need.
It lowered costs, it expanded availability, it brought health coverage and insurance to the uninsured.
It was going to bring the deficit down, it was going to bring the national debt down.
Why not implement this thing?
This is a magic piece of legislation.
For some reason, though, we just can't implement it before an election.
Now, if the president can decide, we got a law here, but you know what?
Implementing it and enforcing it might not help me.
So if he can just delay Obamacare, what else could be delayed that he doesn't like?
Maybe all these new border patrol agents in the Holvin Corker amendment.
Maybe they can be delayed too after the law has been signed into law.
It can be enforced, delayed, or ignored on the whim of the presidency.
What is the reason we go through the legislative process if when it's all over, the president can pick and choose what he's going to allow and what he isn't going to allow, what he's going to permit and what he isn't going to permit, what he's going to implement, what he isn't going to implement.
Why even go through the legislative process?
Yeah, we um we thought Egypt was a country in trouble.
Obama just canceled the game.
He didn't want Obamacare to play out, so he canceled it for now.
He'll play the game, we'll go back to it when he's got the Congress in his back pocket.
Then he'll reschedule a game.
I mean, folks, this is the stuff of banana republics.
Laws have no meaning.
You remember when the um when the president said the Congress was in recess when they weren't, so he could appoint some people he otherwise couldn't make it.
Remember when he he he rolled the bondholders of General Motors when he took over the car companies?
The bondholders are due, they're first in line to get paid.
He called them greedy.
He told them to get the hell out to eat it for the country.
Remember when he refused to defend the Defense of Marriage Act.
The regime just decided, you know what?
We don't like this bill, and we're not going to defend it in federal court.
Remember when he unilaterally granted amnesty to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens.
Just snap of his fingers, just did it.
And of course, his campaign spent millions falsely calling Mitt Romney a tax felon and a murderer.
But laws come and go at the pleasure of a corrupt regime.
The IRS serves as the president's goon squad.
His cabinet secretaries buy off businesses and industries one by one.
We don't yet know what the NSA is doing at his behest, and we don't really know what degree of cooperation the Federal Reserve has with Obama.
And really, one thing we do know the Fed is doing is bailing out banks left and right.
The Fed's bailing out and propping up rich people all over the place to the detriment of middle class people.
The dollar is becoming more and more worthless.
The ability for family in the middle class to accrue wealth is becoming harder and harder and harder.
Sequester.
Sequester was an excuse to punish the same people who already got roughed up by the TSA and the IRS.
What the what what?
What kind of country do we have now?
At least the people of Egypt had the good sense to turn out in the streets and express displeasure with the way they were treated.
At least they turned up in the streets and demanded redress from a fraudulent lying campaign.
But because the employer mandate would potentially harm the Democrats' prospects in the elections of 2014.
We're going to delay it.
A program that was magical, a program that answered every question and every problem.
A program that brought health care to people that didn't have it, millions of them.
A program that was going to reduce the federal deficit, a program that was going to lower health care costs, insurance premiums, and all the list, all the rest.
And it's so wonderful.
It's such a great program that we dare not implement it.
Because doing so might hurt the president's party.
So now you know what you heard here on Monday and Tuesday was exactly right.
They're out selling Obamacare, campaigning for Obamacare, even though it is the law of the land, because they know Obamacare is the reason for the Tea Party.
Obamacare is the reason the Democrats got shellacked in the midterms of 2010, and Obamacare and Amnesty and the Democrat Party in general could be the reason why the Democrats get shellacked again in the 2014 midterms.
And we can't have that.
So we are simply going to delay the suffering.
Apparently, there's going to be a lot of suffering with Obamacare now.
Imagine.
Apparently, there's going to be a lot of pain.
Apparently, costs are going to really go up.
Apparently, options for health insurance are going to really go down.
Apparently, the health care system's going to get a lot more expensive.
Apparently, the health care system is becoming a lot more complicated.
Apparently, it's going to be much more difficult to go to the doctor.
Apparently, they lied about everything.
And now the Democrat Party is stuck with it, except they're not.
They'll wait until after the election, where it in their mind can't hurt them.
And as I say the media, media, media sort of unbalanced today.
They are panicking that the prosecution of George Zimmerman is imploding.
The media is totally invested in George Zimmerman being convicted as a racist white Hispanic.
They are totally invested.
And it looks like the prosecution's case is just imploding.
And as such, there's panic now.
So much so, ladies and gentlemen, so much so that there is now talk and agitating for race riots.
Grab audio soundbite number 12.
This is last night on ABC News Nightline.
The anchored Dan Abrams interviewing Sanford, Florida police chief.
Cecil Smith, not Cecil.
C.S. Smith.
And a question from Dan Abrams.
If Zimmerman is found not guilty, is your office ready for that?
I believe we have plans that will uh be able to deal with issues as they are eyes.
I assume the worst case scenario then would be riots.
Yeah, and I was saying it again.
You know what?
We were not talking about riots.
We're talking about rallies.
If people choose to come to Sanford and voice their opinions, or if they want to come and rally, we welcome that.
We want people to have the opportunity to express themselves.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So come on in.
This is the media guy says, well, obviously you're talking about riots then.
And the police, no, no, we're not talking about riots.
We're talking about rallies.
If you want to come in and rally here in Sanford for a while, we'd love to have you.
Come on in for the rallies.
If Zimmerman's acquitted.
Dan Abrams said, well, I mean, worst case scenario is riots, right?
No, we're not talking about riots, talking about rallies.
They're agitating for riots already.
Media sees it imploding.
So they're looking for any positive news they can, and they're finding it in Obama delaying the implementation of the best piece of legislation the world has ever known.
Back after this, folks.
And we're back.
El Rushmore, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Besides kicking the Obamacare negatives past the midterm elections, there's something else going on here, folks.
The individual mandate survives.
So while the employer, the place you work, will not be mandated to provide you health insurance.
You're still going to be required to have it.
And so your employer, by the way, can use this year to cancel.
If your employer wants to, your employer can say Sayonara can get out of this now.
That's right.
Businesses can now kick everybody out of their plans and not pay a penalty, which will then force all of you to the Obama exchanges.
Which is what Obama wants Ultimately, anyway, because the exchanges are the government.
So this is a twofer for Obama.
He's not going to run the risk of having the implementation of this bill be harmful to the Democrats before the election.
And it actually speeds up his ultimate dream of that being the government.
Being sole provider, single payer, single source, or everybody for health care.
We had a caller yesterday, by the way, that suggested, remember this, that suggested essentially let's pass the amnesty bill so as to help Marco Rubio get elected and save the country.
So question.
If we're going to do that, should the jury convict an innocent George Zimmerman in order to avoid race riots around the country.
You tell me.
You know, folks, I'm sitting here once again.
I have been so dumb.
I've been so gullible and just too trusting.
I really thought that one of the reasons that we elected and then re-elected Barack Obama was so that there would not be any more race riots.
I thought the election of the first black president would end racial strife.
And so did millions of Americans who voted for Obama on that basis.
I mean, millions of Americans voted for Barack Obama because they hoped that it meant the end of racism.
That if enough people voted for Obama, the conclusion would be there are no racists in America anymore.
We have cleansed our souls.
And we have been absolved of our sins that stem from slavery.
And by golly, you know, it just seems to have gotten worse out there.
Isn't it a shame?
Now we actually have media people agitating for race riots in regard to the George Zimmerman trial.
Because the prosecutionist trial is imploding.
We have a media that is totally invested in Zimmerman being found guilty and hanged and then electrocuted and then drowned, and then shot, and then cremated for whatever happened to Trayvon Martin.
Who, if Obama had a son, that's what he would look like.
But I thought electing Obama and re-electing Obama none of this is gonna happen anymore.
I'm kind of sad.
A little let down.
Major disappointment.
Such high hopes.
I really thought there's gonna be the end to all this.
Let's go to the uh audio soundbites.
We have a montage here of media and others sort of realizing that they're gonna lose the Zimmerman case.
So what is it in addition to agitating for riots?
The uh media is suggestion suggesting here that uh maybe get a conviction on the lesser charge.
This guy is gonna get convicted of something, my God.
If it's jaywalking with a racial intent.
What about manslaughter?
What about the possibility that they could convict on a lesser charge?
If he gets convicted of manslaughter, it's actually as bad for him as second degree murder.
They have a lesser charge there, manslaughter.
A compromise verdict for manslaughter.
Why not manslaughter?
Manslaughter, a compromise verdict.
Is it possible for the jury to on their own say, well, we don't think it's second degree murder, but manslaughter?
A lesser included charge, which would be manslaughter.
Maybe better off with manslaughter.
Negligence, a negligent homicide, manslaughter, assault, something.
Here comes the media begging, can we at least do manslaughter?
Oh my god, if we're not gonna get murder one, can we get a given manslaughter?
This guy's gotta get convicted of something.
We're too invested in this.
And short of a conviction, the media is saying, oh, it'd be so, so sad if we had riots.
*clap* Thank you.
You can see what's being stoked out there.
Here is Mark Garagos.
You may remember the name.
He's been a lawyer on TV for a long time.
He's represented a lot of TMZ type people.
He's represented a lot of people, low information voters follow and know who they are.
I don't remember him.
Was Garagos involved in a Michael Jackson trial?
One Michael Jackson is a there's a you know, I get Garagos confused with Gloria all red and and that whole LA legal bunch out there.
Anyway, it's last night in CNN, special defense or self-defense or murder, the George Zimmerman trial.
Yes, a CNN special, because the prosecution is imploding.
And the legal analyst Jeffrey Tubin and criminal defense attorney Mark Garagos during a panel discussion about the prosecution strategy.
Jeffrey Tubin says, why, as a prosecutor, would you call the defendant's best friend?
Why would you do this?
Why give the defendant's best friend a forum to say what a great guy George Zimmerman is?
Why would the prosecution do that?
No, stop.
They're throwing the case.
So I don't know.
Why in the world would they be throwing the case?
Mark, I honestly believe at this point, after watching the cops do payback and everything else, I really think, and watching the prosecution sit there when Marco Mira asks questions that are beyond a reasonable doubt objectionable, and they don't object.
They wait till the following day.
I think they've just decided they're just gonna phone this in, they're gonna lose this and say, okay, you guys wanted us to file this case.
We filed it.
Can I translate that for you?
What Mark Garagos is saying is there never has been a case.
Mark Garagos is saying that the prosecution was forced into this by the media, national media, local media, societal pressures, uh, even local media, local law enforcement.
Uh well, not so much local law enforcement, but the first uh state attorney on this case.
And Garagos saying, these the prosecutors, they don't have a case.
They don't have a case, so what they're doing here, they're phoning it in.
They're gonna lose it, and they're gonna say, look, we didn't have a case.
You wanted us to file a case.
There wasn't a case.
We didn't have a guilty plea here, but you people demanded it.
So we're giving it to you.
But we're the and he's sincere.
Because what's happening in this case, uh this witness is just one example.
There have been two prosecution witnesses who have been better for Zimmerman than any of the defense witnesses that have been called.
It really has been remarkable.
There have been two witnesses called by the prosecution, which destroyed the prosecution's case.
I'm having a mental block where I can't remember them off the top of my head, but so Garagos saying, look, these guys are not this bad.
You know, they're really not this.
I mean, even small town prosecutors in Florida are not this bad.
They're phoning it in, they're doing the best they have because they don't have a case.
They just did this because the societal pressure and the media pressure.
And when it's all over, they're gonna say, hey, look, you wanted us to file it, we filed it.
You wanted us to prosecute it, prosecute it, we prosecuted it.
But that's the best we had.
Audio soundbite number two.
This is John King.
This is this morning on CNN's New Day.
What was this other show?
Self-defense or murder, the George Zimmerman trial.
Now CNN's new day.
They got so many CNN's yesterday, CNN's tomorrow, CNN's, they're all over the map of the names of their shows here.
Anyway, this is uh uh the new day.
Oh, this is their new morning show with uh Chris Cuomo, the brother of Andrew Cuomo, son of Mario the Pious, and the new co-host, Kate Baldwin.
And they're speaking with the CNN national correspondent John King about the decision by the regime to delay the requirement that businesses with 50 or more employees carry health insurance.
The employee mandate's been shelved for a year.
So Kate Baldwin said to John King, right away people are crying foul, saying that this is all politics.
Do you think, John, that this has to do with the implementation, or do you think, John, there's also a little bit of play that this will possibly help spare Democrats from facing up to some trouble in the polls come the midterms in 2014.
That is a lot of syllables for a question.
And here's what John King said.
Pick up the phone, call any Republican strategist anywhere in the country.
Ask them what they thought the single biggest factor would be in creating an intensity gap in 2014 and getting the Republican base fired up.
Obamacare.
This was their central turnout strategy.
Republicans were basing their turnout strategy on implementation of Obamacare in 2014.
Now it's pushed past the midterms into 2015.
So the administration says business were complaining this is all about policy.
This also will have huge political impact.
And that's really all it's about to the medium.
They don't care about the nuts and bolts of the bill.
They don't care what's going to be damaging to the country or whether it's going to help the country.
All they care about is whether it's going to help or hurt Obama.
And uh and how.
And their really primary desire is that it not help Republicans.
They can either say it that way or you can say their primary desire is that it hurt Republicans.
Now, you heard him say here, yeah, these Republican consultants, me.
Yeah, these Republican strategists, yeah, they've been looking for Obamacare as the number one thing to turn people out in 2014, the election, and now it's off the table.
And that's why it's a brilliant move, because Obama just taken away from Republican strategists, their number one tool to get out the vote.
I am I'm sure you are too.
I mean, if King is actually right about the thinking of Republican strategists, the entire Obama administration is worthy of a get out the vote.
I don't care.
IRS, sequester, stimulus, Obamacare, amnesty, the list goes on and on a Benghazi, overall incompetence, no jobs, no prospect for jobs, plummeting dollar, plummeting economy.
There is all kinds of opportunity there are all kinds of opportunities here to gin up Republican turnout.
Now it's true that Obamacare was the root of all turnout in 2010.
And it is true that the Democrats are trying to limit that turnout being replicated in 2014, but there's also amnesty over here.
any number of things.
You know what the Republicans ought to be doing right now?
On my humble opinion, I realize I'm not a trained, professional, political strategist, nor am I a trained, political consultant.
Like the ones in the last election were.
But here's what I think I would be doing.
And it's what I would be advising the party.
If Obama is admitting, by virtue of delaying implementation of the employer mandate that doing so is harmful.
Can we just repeal the whole thing?
Just go for the whole enchilada.
Go for the whole banana, whatever.
Go for the whole thing.
The president of the United States, the Democrat Party, is admitting that this thing is harmful.
They're admitting they didn't tell the truth about it.
They are admitting that other things they've said about this bill are not true.
If they are having to delay implementation of one of the key ingredients that was going to keep premiums down, if they're having to delay that because it would harm them politically.
Then what about the rest of this?
This is the time to make the case to repeal the entire thing.
By the way, folks, we have a guest coming up top of the next hour, the um the political activist and uh uh I don't want to say prankster, but James O'Keefe, who has sandbagged Acorn successfully,
and any number of other uh Democrat and uh leftist organization sandbagged him by going and pretending to be one of them with a hidden camera, the old 60 minutes trick, and exposing them, has got a new book out called Breakthrough.
And I was uh well I was one of the first people that he sent the manuscript to.
The book's coming out.
We're gonna talk to him for a few minutes here at the top of the hour.
Uh David in Moore, Oklahoma.
I'm glad to welcome you first here to the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Hello, Rush.
Uh I just wanted to call you and tell you what a blessing you have been and your father has been to our family.
Uh you have eleven rush babies in Moore, Oklahoma, and every year we're not we can't go swimming, we can't eat hot dogs, we can't do anything until we've read your father's piece, The Americans Who Risk Everything.
And it it's become uh a a love tradition, and because of you and your father, uh my family knows who Abraham Clark is, and they know who Thomas Nelson is.
And uh I just can't tell you what a tremendous blessing it's been to our family and how we we've so enjoyed it, and uh we we love the contribution that he has made to uh to our family.
Thank you very much.
Do you actually uh still spend time on Independence Day talking about this?
Oh, absolutely.
Every year it it we have to read it before we do anything else.
The whole thing.
Yes, sir.
That is amazing.
It's my my father, way back, I mean, I I must have been uh in high school, because I know still at home, uh, researched and prepared a speech called The Americans Who Risked Everything.
And it is about the lives of the 56 signers, the Declaration of Independence, and we have posted it at Rushlinbaugh.com for years.
And it w it it it tells the story of these men who signed, who pledged their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor, and it it dramatized well does draft it details how they did.
It details what happened to their families, the suffering, the threats, the imprisonment, the torture.
All they had to do was renounce signing the declaration and their families would be let go, and they didn't.
They hung tough.
Their profiles and courage, you might say.
I remember when I when I uh first mentioned this early on in this program's history, like in the first year or two, maybe three years, immediately a bunch of leftist groups started uh an effort to accuse my father of plagiarism or some such thing, which fell by the wayside.
There was nothing to it, but it was a classic uh attempt.
So I'm really honored that uh still means so much to you after having been familiar with it for such a long time.
I I never can get through the part about Thomas Nelson ordering uh ordering the troops to fire on his own home.
Uh he he said, Why why do you not fire on my home?
Because that's where the British troops were, and they said, Well, out of respect for you, sir, he said, give me the canon.
I never can get through that part without getting emotional.
My kids all get emotional, and I mean it's it's just a a wonderful holiday tradition.
The founding of this country, um it's it's so improperly taught, if taught at all.
But the it the the founding of this country from the declaration all the way through the Constitution and the Convention, Constitutional, it's a miracle.
There's a there was a book written called Miracle in Philadelphia about of the Constitutional Committee.
And it really is in the course of human history.
It is a miracle.
This country and the founders it it will blow your mind if you re-familiarize yourself with it.
And David, I thank you.
Bottom of my heart, so does everybody in the family for your phone call today.
We'll be back.
Don't go away, folks.
Okay, a brief timeout here at the top of the hour, and we'll come back and we'll be talking at James O'Keefe, the master of the hidden camera, about his new book, Breakthrough.
Sit tight, my friends.
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