Hear what Obama said moments ago in the White House.
He said, Ho Chi Minh, who was the butcher of North Vietnam for your low information.
He was the enemy in North Vietnam.
Obama said, Ho Chi Minh was inspired by our founding fathers.
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He was just trying to be nice to the Vietnamese guy that was in the office.
I mean, that's the...
He was just trying to be nice.
Hell, I know Obama does not believe that.
I'm positive.
Ho Chi Minh inspired by the founding father.
Obama's trying to reverse what the founding fathers did.
Ho Chi Minh was too.
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I mean, there's no Ho Chi Minh inspired by the Founding Fathers.
Obama can't possibly really think that.
And he certainly doesn't mean it is a compliment.
He doesn't like the Founding Fathers.
The Founding Fathers are a bunch of rich white racists to the American left.
Come on, let's be honest.
That's what they think.
Maybe Obama meant that Ho Chi Minh owned slaves.
I don't know, but he certainly, he was not, if any, you know, opposing our founding fathers, that'd be something to get you in tight with Obama.
Anyway, great to have you back, folks.
We have the fastest three hours in media.
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Let me, if I can, with some cogence and some real coherence, explain this Obamacare continuing resolution effort to defund it by, even if you have to, shutting down the government, September 30th is when the current continuing resolution expires.
It'll have to be renewed for the government to keep operating.
It'll be like the 19th continuing resolution.
We have a budget we haven't had for four years.
Now, as you know, Mike Lee has a suggestion.
We've got to defund Obamacare, and this is the last gasp.
This is the last chance, and the last chance is to defund it.
And he wants to make this move as part of the continuing resolution fight that as part of the next continuing resolution, we defund Obamacare.
Now, look, the Republican Party could just say to the country, look, the president just delayed Obamacare for businesses for a year to help the economy.
That's all they would have to say.
Obama has delayed the employer mandate by one year in order to do two things, to help the economy and to help the Democrats' election chances in 2014.
Obamacare is an albatross around whoever's neck has to deal with it.
So he has given businesses a one-year waiver so they will not be harmed by it.
So they will not be penalized by it.
It's a tantamount admission that Obamacare is not helpful.
It's a tantamount admission that Obamacare causes damage, that it causes harm.
And so Obama is out campaigning on economic growth.
In order to give that a boost, he's got to delay a major portion of his health care bill, the employer mandate.
The other side of that is avoiding negatives for the Democrats going into the 2014 midterms.
Well, the Republicans can say, we want to help the economy for longer than a year.
We're not interested in just having the economy be given a one-year exemption from damage.
We want to eliminate the damage all the way.
We want the economy to grow all the time, not just one year.
So we want to delay Obamacare forever and for everyone.
And there would be dancing in the streets.
Tea Party people, Republican voters, and every other group of people opposed to Obamacare would be dancing in the streets.
Think about, when was the last time that business and labor really agreed on anything?
And it's shaping up now that business and labor both want to do away with this.
It is a golden opportunity.
But I think, in my vast experience guided by intelligence, I think what really scares the Republicans here is that the likelihood of this working would require a government shutdown.
And that scares them literally to death.
Because I can't tell you, you in this audience probably know, but for those of you who were not paying close attention in 1995, for whatever reason, you weren't old enough or you didn't care back then,
1995 is perhaps, that budget battle is perhaps one of the, if not the most, formative negative experiences in the memory of the Republican Party at large.
Their memory of the 1995 budget battle is a series of disasters when it wasn't.
The reason they think it was a disaster is because the media portrayed it that way.
Do you know that after the 1995 budget battle, where the Republicans supposedly got shellacked, do you remember that the Republicans won a bunch of seats in the Senate?
I think it was six.
Let me check this.
Well, they held the House.
They did it.
I forget how many.
They gained seats in the Senate in 1996 after the 1995 budget shutdown or budget battle.
How in the world?
It is also claimed that Newt Gingrich lost his speakership because of the 1995 budget battle.
That's not why he lost his speakership.
He lost his speakership, actually.
The seeds for that were sown much earlier than 1995.
Newt, it'd be a distraction to go into why now, but the reasons he lost his speakership had more to do with internal House things than the 1995 budget battle.
The 1995 budget battle on paper at the end of the day was not a disaster for the Republicans, but it was media-wise.
The 1995 budget battle featured Republicans starving kids with the school lunch cuts that didn't exist.
There were no cuts in the school lunch program.
What there was in the 95 budget battle was a reduction in the rate of growth, but the amount of spending on the school lunch program was going to increase sizably.
But the Democrats are running around talking about Republicans starving kids.
And I remember back in 1995, folks, I was it.
This is another thing for the Republicans to remember, by the way.
In 1995, I was it as far as conservative media goes.
The blogosphere had not come into existence.
The internet was still essentially, in this regard, an infant.
There were no other conservative talk shows.
Fox News was still two years away.
I was it.
It was still a media monopoly.
ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Washington Post, New York Times, local news, you name it.
I was it.
That's not the case today.
There is an entire conservative media that has now been spawned as a result.
Well, it's grown.
There is now a conservative media that didn't exist in 1995.
Huge blogosphere, a number of conservative radio talk shows, Fox News, a number of other isolated examples of conservatism on TV.
It would not be the Republican leadership right now.
I mean, this is so frustrating.
The Republican leadership actually thinks that its problems derive from this new conservative media.
It's the most amazing thing, and they'll tell you so if you know how to listen.
The Democrats, of course, are telling us all the time, you need to shut this limbaugh.
You got to stop listening to Limbaugh.
And you hear them attack Fox News all the time.
Well, the Republican leadership hears all that.
They believe it, just like they believe that they got to get more Hispanics if you're ever going to win the White House.
They got to go for amnesty.
They believe everything the Democrat media tells them.
And the Democrat media tells them that what's really holding them back is their media.
Talk radio, Fox News.
So the Republican leadership actually has an army waiting to support them that they are afraid of, that they don't want to use.
They're embarrassed of it, just as they're embarrassed of their own base.
But the Republicans did not lose their shirts in 1995.
In addition to not losing their shirts, the 1995 budget battle set the table for welfare reform that was to come when Bill Clinton vetoed it a number of times, eventually had to sign it into law in order to win reelection in 1996.
In terms of substance, the fights that occurred in the 1995 budget battle set the table for a lot of good policy that came out of it.
The sole reason, maybe not sold, I mean, the dominant reason that the Republicans today live in mortal fear of a government shutdown is because they got shellacked in the media in 1995.
They were accused of starving children.
And just one example.
Little kids in New Orleans were actually told by their teachers to write letters to members of the House.
Dear such and such member of Congress, I can't learn when I'm hungry.
Please do not cut the school lunch program and starve me.
Dear member of Congress, it is absolutely unbelievable that you don't want the children of this country to have lunch every day.
How are we supposed to eat?
These letters were written in the thousands.
They were mailed in.
They were amplified and reported on by the media.
And of course, it was absurd.
There weren't any school lunch cuts.
Nobody had ever proposed any, and there was certainly no movement to eliminate the program.
In fact, school breakfast was being added.
School brunch, school snack, then school dinner.
And then school club for late at night.
We got some vodka.
I mean, it was ridiculous.
But just as now, back then, there was abject fear.
Now, there's another thing that is, I think, important in understanding this.
It was only the year before 1994 that the Republicans won the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years.
They won 56 or 57 seats.
I forget which one of the two.
Surprised everybody.
There were two people that predicted it, me and Robert Novak.
Robert Novak and I were the only two who predicted, and I predicted it on the basis of corruption and scandal, the House Bank, the House Post Office, Jim Wright, the Speaker of the House.
I mean, the place was just as corrupt as it could be.
The Republicans had this massively brilliant 1994 campaign, which nationalized House races.
Rather than run all these House races on issues that were of local interest to the district, they ran a campaign based on what all these Democrats in the House would mean for U.S. foreign policy, national impact issues.
They had the contract with America, that 10-point plan that was essentially a list of promises and commitments they'd made, and it resonated.
And then when they swept into office, unfortunately, but it must be said, they swept into office and some of the Republicans got really, really huge egos.
And they totally misinterpreted why they had won.
They assumed as one of the reasons for their sweeping victory that the country had changed, that the country had finally matured and had eliminated liberalism.
It's finally risen up and said, we don't want the Democrat Party anymore.
And that's not why it happened.
It happened partially for that reason, but not all the way.
It happened because of the contract with America.
It happened because of Democrat corruption.
It happened because it had been that way for 40 years.
Circumstances are right.
And it happened because there was conservative media for the first time ever.
Me.
There were all of these factors.
But the incoming Republican class lost themselves and thought that they were the most popular people in the country in an ego sense.
They thought they were rock stars.
And so when the budget battle of 96, they thought Clinton was on the ropes.
Clinton might not even run for reelection in 96.
It was so bad for Clinton and the Democrats after that 94 sweep.
And it was.
He had Clinton running around.
Hey, I'm still relevant, you know.
Hey, I'm still president.
So they had this massive ego.
They thought the country had changed.
They thought everything was going their way.
And then the budget battle of 1995 happened.
And overnight, the country hated them again.
Psychologically, this was difficult for them to deal with.
On the one hand, one day they're rock stars, the most popular politicians in the country, in the world for a long time.
And then the next day, they're hated.
And nobody wants to be hated, and certainly in the media and so forth.
I think all of those factors combine to today.
The memory of that is so clear.
They are scared to death of having that repeated.
But it wasn't bad.
They set the stage for a lot of good policy.
They increased their hold on the Senate.
Clinton ended up signing welfare reform.
Substantive good things happened.
But the media killed them, and that's what they remember.
And it's got them paralyzed.
Every Republican leadership since is afraid.
To the phones regards Open Line Friday.
Joyce in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi.
Mr. Limbaugh, I am a rush babe.
My handle is Husker's Rock.
And I have nicknamed you.
I've listened to you for two years.
And, sir, you are the king of think.
You are the Renaissance man, and you are bulletproof.
And there's nobody who can argue with politics with me anymore.
In fact, they asked my advice on it.
But that's not why I called.
Wait a minute.
You just can't let that go.
That is awesome.
You've been listening to me for two years now, and so people can't argue with you anymore.
They don't stand a chance.
No, I am converting liberals with your help of your iced tea and your mugs.
And I know how to, I know the whole thing.
I can call them the Rush King of Think and bullet.
You're the king of think.
Joyce, hang on.
I have to take a scene profit time out here, but I am nowhere near being finished with your call.
So don't go away.
Back to the phones, Joyce in Lincoln, Nebraska.
I'm glad you called.
We got a little bit more time now.
I wanted to take time.
Thank you.
Those are awfully nice things that you said.
It's true, though.
It's really true.
And you have taught me how to have a sense of humor, yet be able to out talk liberals, and they see my point.
I really like in just two years, you have now become a source authority for people, that they seek you out to have things explained to them.
That's.
They ask me.
That's big.
That's really big.
And it's because of you.
So that's why I've nicknamed you the king of think, bulletproof, and the renaissance, man.
I am, and I'm not easily impressed, but your brain impresses me.
Okay?
And I'm not just saying that.
That's probably what you say to all the guys, though.
And I do not.
I've been married to the same man for 40 years, and he is a very bright man.
And you, your brain amazes me.
Well, thank you very much.
I really appreciate it.
I know that's not why you called, though.
It is, and I called because, well, for one thing, if people, I made up a jingle on Wiener Guy, and if anybody, I emailed it to you and I Twittered it to you, and it's so funny, it cracks me up.
I laugh out loud.
Maybe nobody else thinks it's funny, but it's pretty funny.
Anyway, I called because I loved the talk about cigars last Friday on your show.
I have, I do not drink and I do not smoke, but my husband and I are having our 40th anniversary, and I want to buy an expensive single malt, whatever that is, and the best cigars there is, because I know he likes cigars and he needs to relax because his job is so stressful.
And I thought, aha, King of Think will know what to tell me to buy.
You're looking for some guidance on the finest single malts and cigars, is that right?
That's correct.
And I live in Nebraska.
What does that mean, that you might not be able to find what I'm going to recommend?
I might, yeah, I'm going to have a hard time.
No, you won't.
No, you won't.
I'm going to give you some options.
Okay.
Because it's hard.
To name just one single malt, there are many.
It's a scotch that's not blended.
It's just one barrel.
And there are many of them, and it's like anything else.
It's individual taste.
What might be my favorite could be not somebody else's, but it doesn't mean that mine's better.
Just I have a preference for it.
So I'll give you a couple.
Okay.
Glenn Morangi is a great single malt.
G-L-E-N-O-M-O-R-A-N-G-I-E.
Glenn Morangi.
Okay.
Comes in a number of different years.
The older it is, the more expensive it's going to be.
Okay.
And the second would be Mac Allen.
M-A-C-A-L-L-A-N.
Mac Allen.
And the same thing there.
The older it is, the more expensive.
Mac Allen 20 is good, and you should be able to get that anywhere.
At a liquor store?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, okay.
I will.
I'll get the Mac Allen.
I wouldn't be surprised if Walmart had it.
Oh, my goodness.
Well, you can probably get Dom Perignon at Walmart.
Because I saw a movie once where a guy sold his friend's car for $300 and went out and bought a bottle of single malt.
And I thought, I'm going to do that before I die.
Yeah, you can, some of them, just, I don't want to scare you, but depending on how old, some of them are much more expensive than that.
But you can find a great, great bottle for that price, and maybe even a little less.
Even if you get a single malt that's 10 years old, a single malt that's 10 years old is going to be fine.
10, 15, 20.
Now, cigars.
Yeah.
That's going to be a different.
I don't know whether his taste is mild, kick-ass.
He loves cigars and he needs to mellow out.
His job is so stressful.
Okay.
I want to sit around the fire and mellow out.
Let me give you a couple here.
Again, I'm at a bit of a disadvantage because there's so many good ones that I'm going to anger some of these guys that I leave out.
And I hope they will understand.
I'm just, you're saying mellow, and let me just give you three.
Okay.
And you might be able to find one of these.
If you can find cigars by Arturo Fuente, that's the brand name.
And then you can find the Don Carlos or the Fuente Fuente Opus X.
But find something by the Fuentes.
It'll be awesome.
Or.
Fuentes.
F-L-I-E.
F-U-E-N-T-E.
Fuente.
F-U-E-N-T.
Okay.
T-E.
The other one, Ashton, A-S-H-T-O-N is another mild, good cigar.
Macanudo is another good cigar.
And if you want one really, really, really strong.
Well, we want something that we don't care that it tastes mellow.
I want him to mellow out.
Well, it'll work.
This will work.
Okay.
Here we have La Flor Dominicana.
Double.
La Flor Dominicana double Liguero chisel.
You don't have to spell that one.
La Flor is two words.
L-A, then F-L-O-R.
Okay.
Then Dominicana, as in Dominican without the N.
Okay.
And then double, D-O-U-B-L-E.
Yeah.
Legaro, L-E-G-U-E-R-O.
L-E-G-E-R-O.
Chisel.
Chisel.
And that's the shape.
Okay, are they plugged in everything, or do you have to bite off the end?
No, you get a clipper.
You get a clipper and clip off the end.
Will they do that for me?
They will.
Okay.
They'll have all that.
They'll have lighters, clippers.
They'll have everything you need there.
Okay.
And where do I go for something like that?
Well, now in Lincoln, I don't know.
Tobacco and what it is.
I'm sure there are tobacco shops.
However, you find locations.
Google tobacco shops in your area or go online and buy these things online and have them shipped to you.
Can you have liquor and cigars shipped to you?
Yeah, I wouldn't do it with the liquor.
You can find the liquor.
You'll find the scotch.
Cigars, yeah, you can get them shipped anywhere.
Okay, and they're maca la local.
Macanudo.
Macanudo.
Macanoodle.
No, M-A-C-A-N-U-D-O.
Macanudo.
Mac and noodle is a macaroni.
Anyway, you can't go wrong with any of these things.
All right, okay.
Snerdly, what do you mean you just checked Dom Perignon at Walmart?
You went online?
You didn't see Dom Perignon at Walmart.
Might not be on the line.
I just, I can't believe that they're not going to have this, but she'll find it.
I'm guessing Walmart's got it.
Walmart's got everything.
Anyway, Joyce, I appreciate it.
Thanks so much.
Happy anniversary, birthday, all of that.
We'll be back after this, folks.
Don't go away.
Okay, did a little research there for Joyce.
Joyce, I know you're still listening, and we found a place for you right there in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Jake's Cigars in Lincoln, Nebraska sells cigars and scotch.
So, Joyce, we found for you a one-stop shop, Jake's Cigars in Lincoln, and I guarantee you that pretty much everything I suggested to you, old Jake will have.
Yeah, use the offer code Rush and see what I get you, Joyce.
Go to Jake's Cigars in Lincoln, and yeah, offer code Rush when you check out.
Now, if you really want to go, Joyce, if you really, this is the 40th, did she say anniversary?
I mean, that's big, Joyce.
There is a 64-year-old Mac Allen that is about $460,000.
Now, most of that is because it is bottled in Lalik Crystal.
And most of what you're paying for is the Lalik crystal bottle or container.
But Mac Allen 64 in Lalik, 460 grand.
See, if you really want to splurge on a 40th anniversary, well, yeah, you'd need to sell more than a car for that.
But I mean, it's an option.
I don't know that Jake will have it at Jake's Cigars in Lincoln.
Offer code Rush.
Here's Brian in Detroit.
Brian, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey, hi, Rush.
This is a real pleasure.
I've been with you since 1989.
It's good to talk to you.
Thank you very much, sir.
You say you're in Detroit.
Are you in the city?
Well, I work in the city.
I live in the suburbs.
But, yeah, I work in the inner city, a group of conglomerate of hospitals.
But anyhow, we deal with a lot of low-income or no-income people.
What do you do?
I'm a pharmacist.
A pharmacist in Detroit.
Yes.
A lot of people believe that Obamacare, the people that come in, is free.
Even some of my staff, they believe that was going to be free.
And they just got their new insurance.
And it showed that it doubled or close to double depending on how many hours they get in period.
This is why it's going to implode.
This is why when this thing fully implements, it's going to be fun to watch.
I know, Brian, let me tell you something.
The day this thing, the overall bill was signed, I had people like you calling here and sending notes, people in their office.
Okay, my health care is free now.
That's how they heard Obama selling it.
That's what they think it means.
I know.
They're just totally, they're so uninformed.
It's so awful.
And I feel terrible.
I mean, I love this country to death.
And I just see it going right down the flush hole with these information voters who have no information.
They come in for things that are written on prescription.
And just because the doctor writes it on prescription, you don't doesn't mean that it's covered.
I mean, they don't pay.
They pay for some over-the-counter things that you or I would have to normally pay cash for, but they get it covered on their insurance because it's a form of Medicaid which covers the prescription.
Give me an example.
I can't even.
What over the cover, over the counter is covered by Medicaid?
Well, one item is like Claritin syrup, which is an over-the-counter item.
What is it?
What is Claritin syrup?
Claritin syrup or even Claritin tablets are both over-the-counter.
They're anti-histamines.
They're allergies.
Oh, Claritin.
These things are covered by insurance?
Yes.
Oh, yes.
They're covered completely, 100%.
Zero copay for these people, yeah.
And most of the people that we get anyhow have zero copay.
And when we tell them, sometimes there's a time that does come that either the prescription, whether it's a prescription item or an OTC item that it's not covered, they say, well, it's supposed to be free.
They really believe in their heart of hearts that free.
No, nothing is free.
Somebody's paying for it.
Somebody along the line is paying for this.
They don't care as long as it's not them.
But it's not just this.
A lot of people think a lot of things are free.
And they're entitled to it free.
This is how the Democrat Party has sold things to these people.
This is how the Democrat Party has acquired their voters.
I'll tell you something.
The Obamacare ads make you think it's free.
Even now, the Obamacare ad, the ads that they are running to promote and sell this, as they give, you know, they'll run up to the 2014 midterms and try to change public opinion upon it on the bill.
The ads they're running now will make certain people think that Obamacare is free.
Now, we know that morning after pills are now free.
Remember that controversy.
Brian, thanks for the call.
Appreciate it.
Open line Friday.
And where are we going next?
Give me a little green line.
John in Biloxi, Mississippi.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
It's a pleasure to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
I was just calling because I had a different approach on what Obamacare was probably really intended to do.
I have this feeling that maybe it's intended to get some of the low-information voters who already have hatred towards the capitalist system to maybe hate them a little more, considering the fact that a lot of these guys are going to be losing plenty of hours to it, and on top of that, working two jobs, whereas the people that employ them get to avoid having to pay for the health insurance.
So in their minds, they're just getting richer anyway.
Well, there's no doubt that's going to happen.
I don't think that was the purpose of it.
That's an ancillary benefit for Obama.
The purpose of Obamacare, if you're a liberal, the purpose for national health care is the control of the population.
That's why you want to do it.
If you're a big liberal, if you're a huge leftist socialist, you want health care.
Take a look at every socialist slash communist country, and you'll find at the outset, the dictator, as he is setting the table and making his pitch to the people, free health care or government-run health care is always among the first two or three things.
Because if they get that, they then have total control over the population.
Because every lifestyle decision and behavior, every decision that you make, everything you eat, kind of car you drive, everything you do is going to have a relationship to healthcare costs.
And that's how they're able to control it.
Vladimir Lenin was the first modern era dictator to propose universal health care.
And it has been a cherished dream of every leftist ever since, including the Nazis, National Socialist Party of Germany, healthcare, right there in the top two things.
It is total control of the population.
Now, as people lose their jobs or get converted to part-time and end up worse on the economic ladder, they are going to hate the rich even more.
And that helps the regime in charge as well because they get to continue to promote class warfare and envy.
Hey, we got this.
We got the audio soundbite coming up.
Obama this afternoon at the White House comparing Ho Chi Minh to our founding fathers.