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July 25, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 25, 2013, Thursday, Hour #3
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Greetings to you music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, and the Limbo Institute for advanced conservative studies.
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The actual Hillary quote is, I'm not sitting here, some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Winnette.
And that was 1992.
It was Hillary and Bill in a Steve Croft interview.
Croft said, I think most Americans would agree very admirable that you've stayed together, that you've worked your problems out.
You've seemed to reach some sort of understanding and arrangement.
Clinton said, hey, hey, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
You're looking at two people who love each other here.
I mean, it's not some arrangement.
What the hell you talk about, Croft?
I never agreed to see if you're going to say that.
This is not some arrangement, not some understanding.
It's a marriage.
It's a marriage.
That's a very, very different thing and arrangement.
The hell are you talking about?
And Hillary said, you know, I'm not sitting here as some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Winnette.
Oh, yes, you were.
That's the whole point.
Throughout, that's what she did, and that's what she advised Huma to do.
And there's a big, and you know, the advice to Huma might have been a little self-serving for Hillary.
I mean, after all, here you've got Hillary.
She stood by Bill.
Bill goes on to great things, and she gets to participate and maybe even try to take over.
What would have happened?
What would have been said if Huma would have kicked Wiener to the curb?
Well, it's interesting.
In relationship, look at she is, she spends more time with Hillary than she does with Wiener.
She's Hillary's body woman.
I mean, she everywhere.
I mean, even before they got married, after they got married, I mean, Huma and Wiener.
Huma was everywhere.
It's relevant to point out here, by the way, folks.
I mean, things are what they are.
Huma is a Muslim.
In that regard, Wiener ought to be able to get away with anything.
Pardon me?
Well, women, Muslim women don't have any power, right?
Muslim women are beheaded, stoned, whatever, if they drive, have affairs.
In certain countries, Muslim women, if they're raped, are killed.
It's their fault.
There's a lot of, folks, there's a lot of dynamics here that none of us really understand.
But just a thing on the surface.
So here's Hillary, who everybody in the media says is mentoring Huma.
And part of the mentoring would be, you stand by the guy.
You stick with the guy.
That's the only way to pull this off.
A divorce in politics and not going to help anybody.
You hang in there.
You be tough.
Okay, so that's what Huma does.
She did it very publicly.
What if Huma had said, you know what?
I don't need any of this.
I don't like this guy.
This guy is sick.
I don't want to be part of this.
I'm out of there.
Wouldn't it look good for Hillary, number one?
It would have cast, there would have been comments.
And then I don't know what it would have done to Huma, if it would have helped her hurt or not, within the leftist social structure.
But it's interesting.
We have a couple of what I would call competing soundbites on this.
First, we have a montage of drive-bys heaping praise on Huma.
She's smart.
She's sophisticated.
She's intelligent.
I don't know.
The hypocrisy of this.
I mean, these are the people that conduct this, the claim that Republicans have no respect for women, that Republicans are the ones conducting a war on women.
And these are feminists.
And feminism teaches you don't need a relationship to be happy.
You don't need a man to be happy.
Your life should not orient around a man.
A man shouldn't be the most important thing in your life.
That's letting the sisterhood down.
You need to be independent.
You need to be your own person.
You need to be your own boss.
I mean, that's what feminism was.
Radical feminism or otherwise.
So here's Huma doing what she did.
And there's been a real backlash.
I mean, the media stories all over the place.
There's real anger at Huma because she didn't just stand up for the guy.
She went out basically and not endorsed it, but she made it plain she knew what was going on and didn't care that she loves the guy.
And a lot of people are saying, how can that be?
So here's this media montage.
And it's always fascinating to me to listen to who the left thinks are the smart people.
Those who know her are moved greatly by her sense of self-respect.
This is a woman who's very, very smart.
She is very smart.
She is a smart woman.
She's strong.
She's smart.
Incredibly politically sophisticated.
A very delicate, sophisticated person.
She's such an intelligent woman.
We all respect her because she's intelligent.
A very accomplished, very educated, very sophisticated woman.
Isn't this amazing?
Those who know her are moved greatly by her sense of self-respect.
Does anything about Carlos Danger strike you as sophisticated?
This is what I don't get.
Does anything about Carlos Danger strike you as smart, savvy, politically sophisticated?
Now, I'll tell you this.
If Huma was the wife of a conservative from flyover country, would any of these people call her intelligent?
If Huma were married to a conservative, would they describe her as politically sophisticated and very smart and very accomplished?
So there's that.
Then we go to the CBS This Morning show, the co-host Nora O'Donnell.
This is too good.
Nora O'Donnell is surprised that even some liberal Democrats are concerned about this.
Usually, is it liberal Democrats would be fine with all this.
Usually they wouldn't care.
They're not concerned about Wiener's behavior.
That's fine.
In this case, even liberal Democrats are wondering about it.
And this is in stark contrast with the montage that you just heard.
A friend of Huma is quoted in the Wall Street Journal and a couple of other places this morning as saying that she actually knew about this last fall before he announced for mayor, that she was furious about it at the time that she considered leaving him, but she made the decision to stay in the marriage because of their son.
And as a result of that, there are a lot of questions this morning, not about Anthony Weiner's lewd, raunchy, disgusting behavior, but about Huma Abedin and standing by him amongst a lot of liberal Democrats.
What liberal Democrats?
We just heard a montage of liberal Democrats onto who they were.
Chris Kumo, who said those who know her are moved greatly by her sense of self-respect.
Then somebody by the name of Jeff Gardier, it's New York magazine.
And then there was somebody called Chris Smith, the Democrat strategist.
No.
I'm sorry, Jeff Gardier is a clinical psychologist.
He said, this is a woman who's very, very smart.
Really?
And then the next one was Chris Smith of New York Magazine who said, yeah, she's very smart.
And then there was Democrat strategerist Emily Tish Sussman.
She's a smart woman.
And then the forehead was in there, but Galley said she's strong, she's smart.
And Dana Bash, CNN, she's incredibly politically sophisticated.
And then Charlie Wrangel, she's a very delicate and sophisticated person.
And then Kimberly Cutter and then Shannon Bream wrapped it up.
So they thought she's all incredibly smart, incredibly filled with self-respect, politically sophisticated.
And then Nora O'Donnell.
Yeah, liberal Democrats are wondering why Huma is standing by Weiner.
And one of the reasons, of course, obviously is Hillary.
So let me take a brief time out.
We will state for just a couple minutes and be back and continue with much more here on the EIB network.
Don't go away.
Back to the phones, Rego.
This is Rick in Clarkston, Michigan.
Back to Michigan.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Thank you, Megan Ditto's Rush.
I have a question, a statement, really.
Obama mentioned about all these pony scandals and they were a distraction.
And if we were to listen to the pundits like Valerie Jarrett and James Carney and everybody, this guy's the smartest guy in the room.
His IQ's off the charts.
He's the deepest thinker.
He's the president of the United States.
Can't he multitask?
Well, it's a great question.
But remember who his audience is.
A, he's speaking to the choir out in Illinois.
So he's got basically those audiences of his are screened.
He's got sycophants in the audience.
He's got, he's speaking to the choir.
The next thing that happens is that his audience is low-information voters.
And the low-information voters feel sorry for Obama.
He has evoked sympathy.
So when he says that there are a bunch of distractions, remember, he blames everything on the Republicans.
That's the whole point.
The whole strategy.
Obama has been president for four and a half years.
And his objective has been to remain unattached to anything that has happened.
His strategy, in addition to remaining unattached, is to be seen as opposing what has happened.
He's the architect.
He's made it happen.
It is his policies that have been implemented.
The Republicans don't have any power.
The Republicans don't control anything.
The Republicans can't really stop much.
Well, they could now.
With the House, they've shown very little inclination.
But for much of this man's administration, presidency, they haven't been able to stop anything.
The Republicans don't have any power.
All they can do is stop or delay, but they cannot advance their own agenda.
And yet, Obama has succeeded with the help of the media in convincing low-information voters, and there are a lot of them, folks, that he's trying real hard to fix things for them.
He's working real hard to get them affordable health care.
He's working while he is responsible for it soon being unaffordable and maybe unavailable.
He's telling them for now the 19th or 20th time, and he's really, really worried about the economy and their jobs.
He's working really, really hard to get them work, but the Republicans only care about the rich while his policies have resulted in the loss of nearly 9 million jobs.
So your observation is, of course, a correct one.
Well, what do you mean?
These aren't distractions.
You can multitask.
You're a president.
You've got power.
These distractions only work if you want them to.
But that's not how the low-information voter thinks.
The low-information voter thinks the world is united against this guy because he's told them that it is.
Powerful forces arrayed against him, using all kinds of deceitful tricks and phony scandals to distract and delay our beloved young president from accomplishing his objectives.
The decline in racial relations is a great example of how Obama pretends to be doing one thing, bringing us together, while he's actually doing the opposite.
Racial relations in this country are plummeting.
Racial strife is rising.
All the while, Obama is out there talking about unity and bringing us together.
And we're all in this together.
And we've got to get together and work hard as a group to get this all fixed.
But while he's doing that, or while he's saying that, he's actually making race relations worth, or worse.
So it's a correct observation you're having, but it's an observation that is made by a minority of, I don't know, people, voters, what have you.
Josh in Southwest Ohio, you're next.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Thank you, sir, for taking my call.
Wanted to give you a little more ammunition about this Obamacare deal.
She made a big promise that part of Obamacare would be we could keep our current plans.
Nobody's plans would be taken away.
I am a pastor of a small church here in Ohio, and we have, through our denomination, we have an agency that provides health insurance and life insurance and retirement, all that through, so we could get group policies to make the, supposedly make it more affordable.
Well, we got a letter in the mail 1st of July that stated because of the Affordable Care Act, they are going to be no longer offering health insurance as part of that agency because of the rising costs.
So we are going to be forced to go out on our own to these health care exchanges, the state exchanges, the federal exchanges are looking for private health care.
And being in Ohio, we're not doing a state exchange.
So I've got to just wait and see what I'm going to be able to do for my family with my wife and my two little girls.
This is by design.
This is by design.
This chaos, this uncertainty, this unavailability, or in some cases, it'll be available, but it's going to be so cost-prohibitive.
It's going to be so cost-expensive, price-expensive.
It's designed to force eventually single-payer.
Josh, this is happening all over the country.
It's happening to you in Southwest Ohio.
It's happening all over the country.
And it is, as I say, it's happening on purpose.
Now, at first, Josh, if you can't find an affordable policy, you will be allowed to pay a fine.
And for the first couple of years, the fine is not that expensive.
The fine's actually going to be less than what a health insurance policy would cost you.
That also is by design.
That is so that you don't buy health insurance.
And that is supposed to harm the private sector health insurance market and eventually eliminate them.
They have no customers, then they have no business.
And going out of business is what Obama wants.
And eventually, he wants everybody forced into an exchange, state or federal, where the government is solely in charge.
The only place you can go to get health insurance, the only place you can go to get access to care.
And then eventually the federal government's going to take it all over.
That's the plan in five to ten years.
And as I was saying at the top of the program, all of that implements, like Josh, you say it's happening to you now, and it is all over the country happening in a lot of places.
For example, the second largest health insurance company in South Carolina is pulling out of the state at the end of the year because of Obamacare.
Medical Mutual of Ohio, the parent company of the Carolina Care Plan, sure is about 28,000 people in South Carolina.
They're also pulling out of Georgia and Indiana.
And their spokesman said, under new regulations, which are vast and complex, it's in our best interest to focus on our core market of Ohio, where we're headquartered.
So they're pulling out all over the place.
Now, I mentioned the top of the program.
There is probably going to be one last chance to derail this final implementation, which is in January.
What's happening to you now, Josh, is going to be happening nationwide starting in January at a pretty rapid clip.
2014 is the magic year for full implementation of Obamacare.
And there's going to be one chance, the end of September, to derail this and to do maybe a repeal of sorts or a defunding to make sure these things do not get implemented.
And that's the continuing resolution fight coming up.
The views expressed by the host on this program, documented to be almost always right, 99.7% of the time, 60 plus, a little bit more than 60 House Republicans have signed a letter urging Speaker Boehner to defund Obamacare, according to the Politico.
Why only 60?
Sounds like the Tea Party caucus to me.
Sounds like that's about it.
The House isn't, I don't understand it.
There's no pushback on Benghazi.
There's no investigation in the IRS scandals.
There's no attempt here to defund Obamacare.
Not much in the Senate either.
You know, folks, two things.
You can make the point, okay, there aren't that many conservatives in the Republican Party.
Okay, fine.
But the Republican Party is still the Republican Party.
It's still an opposition party.
Where's the pushback?
What, are they all Democrats now?
Okay, even if the Republican Party wants a new base, and I don't doubt that that's what's going on.
People ask me all the time, why is the House Republican leadership doing X, Y, or Z, same thing in the Senate?
I don't think they like the base.
I think they want to cast it aside, the traditional base.
They never have really liked it.
Conservative base.
They don't want it.
And then come back, live and fight another day, putting together a new coalition.
Well, fine and dandy.
Even if you want to do that, you're still the opposition party.
There still isn't any pushback.
Forget conservative pushback against liberalism.
What about the Republican Party opposing a Democrat Party?
Or is that out the window, too?
Now, this continuing resolution, we are governed by, we still don't have a budget.
We're governed by continuing resolutions.
And the one that we're living under expires and will have to be renewed on September 30th.
And there is going to be a big push by conservatives to use this as an opportunity to defund Obamacare and to try to eliminate the final implementation of these exchanges and some of these other mandates that are slated to become law next year.
Now, the effort is going to be made.
I can tell you right now that there is no desire on the part of the Republican leadership to do this.
Yet Tea Party Republicans in the House and a couple of Republican, maybe three or four senators are going to make this effort.
And they're going to do it by trying to rev you up.
I've talked to a number of these people and you've heard them and we've talked to them on the program too.
And they firmly believe that you can stop things by faxing, phoning, texting, emailing.
They really believe it.
They need and are going to need your assistance because there isn't right now any desire to have a fight over the next continuing resolution.
Not among the leadership.
But the continuing resolution, well, what Russia talking about?
A potential government shutdown, aren't you?
Well, maybe, or at least a threatened one.
In the Senate, it's Mike Lee and Ted Cruz, which are leading the charge to try to kill Obamacare in September via the continuing resolution.
Now, there's another thing that's going to happen before that.
The congressional recess, the August recess, starts on August the 5th.
And so members of the House and Senate are going to go home to their districts.
Well, some will go to the south of France.
And some will go to the Arctic to check on the melting down there.
And some will go to Antarctica to check on the melting down there.
And some will go to Bangkok because there are more prostitutes per capita there than any other city.
And they'll fan out, but some of them are going to stay home.
And they'll have their town hall meetings.
And town hall meetings in 2010 throughout 2009 is what led to the 2010 midterm success.
And there are people who are hoping that that kind of thing will be repeated again.
But it's going to come down to the wire.
And there are elected Republican conservatives in the House and the Senate who are going to make one final effort here via this continuing resolution fight that will come up in September to make one last attempt to stop any further implementation of Obamacare.
And I tell you what, you're going to hear from these guys.
They're true believers, and you're going to hear that if this fails, that this is it.
Once the full and final implementation of Obamacare occurs, then the full-fledged entitlement is entrenched.
And getting rid of it after all of it has been implemented has never been done before.
I take it back.
One time, the Medicare thing where the seasoned citizens pelted Rostankowski in his car during the Reagan administration, they did, one time, but it was in its very, very early days.
It had not yet had time to become entrenched and the tentacles had not woven their way deeply into the fabric of society.
Obamacare's tentacles are already worming their way into deep, dark crevices throughout our culture.
And extricating the tentacles that are there is a challenge in and of itself.
But this effort is going to be made.
It's going to be serious and they're going to lean on you.
They're going to ask you to help.
They're going to ask you to just pummel Washington with messages of, we don't want this.
You dare not let this happen.
And I know many of you are going to say, you know, we're tired of this.
Why is it up to us?
We're not there.
Why do we ever, they know how we feel.
Why do we have to keep reminding them?
I know what you're going to say about it.
But it's still going to take your effort.
It's going to require your involvement.
And these guys all tell me it still works.
It's among the few things that do work.
It was Reagan's catastrophic Medicare coverage that was repealed.
That was in 1988.
Here is Donna in Frederick, Maryland.
I'm glad you waited.
It's great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
It's my pleasure.
One of the common things I'm noticing with respect to morality in this country is liberal men in particular, especially say the political upper class types, are arrogant.
And they think it's okay to behave like Mr. Weiner and people like that.
They think that they can promote that as acceptable, that kind of behavior.
They're hoping they'll brainwash us with their propaganda.
But sadly, the other class that's hit so hard with this is the ignorant lower class who were, you know, inspired, shall I say, by, you know, people who don't behave in a moral way to have children and then run off and leave the poor, you know, woman fending for herself.
So, you know, this has hurt us in so many areas and so many demographics.
But the real suffering here is the American family and the middle class is struggling to do its part to keep things afloat and keep morality in check.
It isn't going to change anytime soon because these, and you're right, it is the Ted Kennedys and the Bill Clintons and the Weiners.
Not only do they get away with it, they're celebrated when they get away with it.
They are praised when they get away with it.
Ted Kennedy, do we need to remind everybody what he got away with?
Bill Clinton repeatedly, and these people are put on pedestals.
They are men that we are told we should admire and respect.
There is no price paid for what you're calling immorality.
The Kennedy lifestyle has been adopted by the entire inner city.
The Kennedy lifestyle is something that is looked upon favorably by the elites throughout our culture, both political and social.
But they never pay a price for it.
I mean, Clinton lost his law license, big deal.
That was the extent of it.
And there's a double standard.
And the reason the Democrats get away with it is that they never make the case for morality.
When somebody starts talking about family values, what do they do?
They laugh at it.
They mock it.
And then they go live their mockery.
And they're held up as champions.
They are praised for getting away with stuff that irritates us.
That's why they're heroes.
They're praised for getting away with stuff that irritates you, Donna.
They're praised because they are able to win by doing things that irritate you, that you can't do.
So there's no concern for morality in that group.
And as such, to the extent that they're role models, and they are, I mean, they do inspire other kind of behavior.
Other people do pay a price for it because other people are not able.
They may get away with it, but their lives are not enhanced by it.
Bill Clinton's life was enhanced by it.
Ted Kennedy's life was enhanced by it.
But others who try to follow in their footsteps, usually, even though they might get away with it within a certain realm of definition, their lives are not improved.
These guys, their lives actually get better.
They get richer.
They are put on an even higher pedestal.
They're given even more power.
And while they're doing this, they are said to be the great champions of women.
It's amazing.
Cindy in Omaha, glad you waited.
Great to have you.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet.
I just wanted to let you know that Omaha is a great place to live, but lately, well, not lately, for some time now, on the news, it's either a crime and things being committed by illegal aliens here in the city or gangs.
And recently, like over the weekend, an illegal alien, they don't even know where this guy is from, broke into a 93-year-old woman's home, assaulted her, beat her, raped her, and she died yesterday.
Oh, my God.
Now, I know this stuff happens all over, but this is my town.
This is Omaha.
And I'm just sick and tired of hearing it every night on the news.
And, you know, other people commit crimes too, but we don't hear about it by other people.
Let me tell you something.
The crimes that the left thinks are committed by illegals are buried.
I'm glad you called.
That's a horrible, horrible story.
And you're right.
It is happening all over the country.
That's why people are livid over this push for.
I can't believe it.
It's going to be Friday tomorrow.
I can't believe it.
I'm glad it's going to be Friday, but I can't believe it's so fast.
Open line Friday tomorrow.
That's why I'm looking forward to it being Friday.
Always look forward to that.
Thanks so much for being with us today, folks.
I know there's no place else you would have rather been.
See you tomorrow.
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