Sept. 23, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast. | |
| Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in. | |
| No supporting paperwork whatsoever, living in the shadows and loving it. | |
| Mark Belling is here tomorrow, and Rush returns live on Wednesday for authentic, full strength all American excellence in broadcasting as only he can do it. | |
| It's uh it's UN Dictator Week uh in New York this week. | |
| I don't care what you say, you can talk about New Orleans during Mardi Gras, you can talk about Paris during the spring elections, but there's nothing like there's nothing like the atmosphere of New York during UN Dictator Week. | |
| Uh, President Rouhani, the new Iranian moderate, will be speaking. | |
| Uh, and we could see the first handshake between US and Iranian leaders since Jimmy Carter welcomed the late Shah way back in 1977. | |
| Uh, this guy Rouani, uh, he's apparently like the George Pataki or Christy Whitman of Iranian apocalyptic millenarian lunatics. | |
| He's Mr. Moderate. | |
| The town is crawling, New York is crawling with Iranian moderates this week. | |
| You can't get into a restaurant for all the Iranian moderates. | |
| He'll be speaking to the uh UN tomorrow, and then uh I think uh on Thursday, he'll be giving a major address to the uh General Assembly's high level meeting on nuclear disarmament. | |
| This is where all the countries that are building nuclear weapons all get together and say, No, no, it's not me. | |
| I'm I'm not doing anything. | |
| It must be one of you guys. | |
| Uh so they'll all be having a big meeting on Thursday uh about that, but uh but the excitement is that that President Obama, the first Iranian president to the first American president not implying he's got a job on the side. | |
| The f there's many many a slip. | |
| He's not. | |
| He's uh he he's he's not the Iranian president. | |
| He's not uh that may that would explain certain things, but it's in fact he's not. | |
| He's the president of uh the United States of America, and he uh he's the first American president to refer to Ayatollah Hameini as Iran's Supreme Leader. | |
| He sent uh the guy Supreme Leader greetings on Supreme Leader Day in Iran a couple of uh years back. | |
| So got all the dictators, big time dictators in town. | |
| I was sitting in for Rush uh during UN dictator week a couple of years back and uh doing the show from New York, and I was absolutely furious with uh with HR, because I'd assumed uh like Excellence uh in broadcasting network would put me in a swank hotel with all the A-list dictators like Assad and Gaddafi and all those guys. | |
| Instead I was round the back of the freight yards in some Econo lodge with all the zealist dictators like the guy from Burkina Faso. | |
| I've never been so insulted. | |
| So I'm doing the show from uh Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire today. | |
| Not going to take a chance of that happening again. | |
| No dictators in sight round here. | |
| Uh unless uh General Bash here from Sudan is planning on doing a little leaf peeping uh up here this week. | |
| 1-800-282-2882 at the start of a brand new week in American politics. | |
| We'll bring you all the exciting dictatorial updates live as they happen, and also following our own uh thrilling political scene, Nancy Pelosi said on CNN over the weekend that all the cuts to government spending that can be made have been made. | |
| They've cut everything that can be cut. | |
| There's nothing more to cut. | |
| The cupboard is bare. | |
| Minority leader Pelosi told CNN's Candy Crowley, there's no more cuts to make. | |
| There's nothing left to cut. | |
| Oddly enough, uh I think that's uh that's also what uh Sudan's General Bashir said, but he was talking about women and children in Darfur. | |
| There's no one left to cut. | |
| Uh anyway, we'll t talk about Nancy Pelosi's uh view of the state of perfection that American government spending has now reached. | |
| Rod eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two. | |
| Chris Wallace interviewed uh Ted Cruz, my fellow Canadian, Ted Cruz, on Fox News yesterday and said he'd never received so much Oppo research uh from the guy's own party. | |
| You know, if the Republican establishment could do to the Democrats what they're doing to Ted Cruz, this country would have an entirely different political landscape. | |
| Uh so we'll try and figure out what's going on there with uh the Obamacare defunding debate and the alleged government shutdown coming down on October the coming on October the tenth, October the tenth, America comes to an end. | |
| That'd be a good time to book a one-way greyhound ticket north of the border or south of the border. | |
| Everything's going to come to an end on October the 10th, if the Republic the Republican Party, as Nancy Pelosi sees it now, is basically she she's the moderate and she looks on the Republican Party the way moderate Iranian President Rouhani looks on his predecessor, Ahmad uh Ahmedinajan, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. | |
| He was the guy who was always claiming that the 12th Imam was about to arrive any minute. | |
| When he was mayor of Tehran, he had the streets widened so that they would be wide enough for the Twelfth Imam to ride through on his return. | |
| The Republicans are the opposite. | |
| They want to close all the roads and narrow all the roads because when their version of the Twelfth Imam arrives, the world is coming to an end. | |
| So uh Nancy Pelosi says there's nothing more to cut. | |
| Nothing more to cut. | |
| We'll talk about that. | |
| Whatever happened to global warming. | |
| Uh if you are just starting your senior year in high school uh this year, there's been no by the time you graduate, there will have been no global warming since you were in kindergarten. | |
| There'd been no global warming throughout your entire school career. | |
| Yet you have had you have had twelve years. | |
| There's been no global warming since nineteen ninety-eight, since pre-kindergarten. | |
| You have had this global warming thing shoved into your head. | |
| Uh and the IPCC, the International Panel on Climate Change, and all the big global warming guys, are now finally having to confront uh the the way the reason their models have all their climate models have all been completely wrong and have not come to pass. | |
| So we'll we'll talk about that. | |
| Egypt has banned the Muslim Brotherhood. | |
| So that's pretty much it for the Arab Spring. | |
| Uh the Muslim Brotherhood has got no m messing around with the voice of the people or anything like that anymore. | |
| They had that with Mohammed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, big landslide, didn't work out. | |
| Military No, no, that's the moderate Muslim Brotherhood, H. That's the new they've taken power. | |
| This is why I honestly, HR, I shouldn't have to explain Middle Eastern politics this way. | |
| In in uh Egypt, it's the Muslim Brotherhood, and in in the new Iran, uh President Rouhani is the leader of the moderate brotherhood. | |
| They're all these moderate brothers. | |
| Uh all the moderate brothers are in Iran in the moderate brotherhood, but the Muslim Brotherhood had the non-moderate brothers, so they've all been banned. | |
| Uh and uh the military military is now basically drawn a line under the Arab Spring. | |
| Uh Mubarak is out of jail, he's tanned, rested, and ready. | |
| Uh, I think I saw a car in Tariq Square yesterday driving around with a Mubarak 2014 bumper sticker on. | |
| So he's gonna be back in the presidential palace uh uh any uh any day now. | |
| Uh and actually while we're doing uh while we're doing all these uh roundups of the world on fire, you may have seen this shopping mall in Nairobi uh burning this morning, uh live on cable TV. | |
| Uh it's the elite shopping mall in Nairobi, over sixty people dead so far. | |
| By the way, this is when I say an elite shopping mall, this shopping mall is actually way nicer than any of the no disrespect to anybody in the retail business in my own great state, but it's actually nicer than any of the shopping malls in New Hampshire. | |
| This is a super elite uh shopping mall with all the best emporia, all the classiest frozen yogurt joints. | |
| This is the fanciest shopping mall in Nairobi. | |
| Um Mr. Kenyatta, the Kenyan leader, his nephew and his girlfriend were among those cilled uh in the assault on uh this shopping mall. | |
| That's uh it's a lot of foreigners in there, uh a lot of the uh Nairobi upscale elite, a lot of children. | |
| There are child uh children's events going on there. | |
| The fascinating thing. | |
| I'm watching all the uh cable news coverage, you're clicking from channel to channel and you're seeing uh smoke coming from the building, and then you're seeing this cell phone footage of people running for their lives in terror through the aisles of the supermarket and this kind of thing. | |
| What nobody uh seems to be talking about is the fact that uh this assault seems to have been perpetrated largely uh by Westerners. | |
| Uh Al Shabab, the group responsible, which joined up with Al Qaeda uh last year, it's like an official subsidiary of Al Qaeda, it's a wholly owned operating unit of Al Qaeda. | |
| Uh They released the name of the people who who'd pulled this off. | |
| There's uh three British subjects uh listed in uh this list I have here, Liban Adam uh from London, Akhmed Shadoon from London, and Sherifia Luthwaite, who's from Aylesbury and is known as the White Widow. | |
| She's the widow of one of the London tube bombers. | |
| So three three British subjects. | |
| But then listen to where these guys come from. | |
| Ahmed Issi, 22 of St. Paul, Minnesota, uh Abid Fatah Osman, uh, Keenadid, uh, 24 of Minneapolis, Abdig Dishakur Hassan of Portland, Maine, Mustafa Nuruddin of Kansas City, Missouri, Shafi D of Tucson, Arizona, Abdul Karim Ali Mohamed of Illinois. | |
| Uh this is uh there's a and one where's oh yeah, Abdurazik Mouled of Ontario. | |
| There's more Americans. | |
| Uh at last count, that's that's what, half a dozen Americans, three British subjects, uh a Canadian in there, uh pulled off this uh this attack on this shopping mall. | |
| According to Al Shabad, now they might just be talking nonsense about this and it might not mean anything. | |
| Uh and of course they're not. | |
| They're not British subjects or United States citizens in any real meaning of that term, because uh citizenship is about allegiance, it's about allegiance, that's what it's about. | |
| Uh these people are flying flags of convenience. | |
| They happen to have American passports and they happen to have British passports. | |
| But nonetheless, it is interesting. | |
| There may be more American perpetrators in this Al Qaeda terrorist atrocity than there are American victims, which is an absolutely astonishing thing. | |
| US citizens flying to Nairobi uh to blow up Kenyans and uh and other people. | |
| And just to go back to what Nancy Pelosi was saying on uh there's nothing more to cut from the federal budget, how about we we cut this thing? | |
| This has been going on a while. | |
| There have been uh Somali terrorists who hold US passports, flying back from Minnesota to join the jihad in Somalia and in neighboring states uh for some time now. | |
| When they self-detonate in their little corner of East Africa, the State Department pays, which means you pay, you pay for all the various particles they've exploded themselves into to be collected up and flown back to be buried in a uh graveyard in Minnesota. | |
| If you've ever had a relative uh who uh die abroad while on vacation or whatever, you'll know that the United States government is not the most cooperative uh or helpful or friendly if an American happens to die overseas and his family wish to bring him home for burial. | |
| But the State Department, money no object, pays for these loyal US citizens, self-detonating mysteriously in Kenya and Somalia and other parts of East Africa for their for their dust particles to be collected back in a nice attractive urn and shipped back uh to the United States uh for burial. | |
| So when Nancy Pelosi says there's nothing to cut from the uh from the federal budget, we've cut everything to the bone. | |
| Everything there is absolutely necessary. | |
| What about cutting that one? | |
| 1800, 282-2882, Mark Steinin for Rush. | |
| We'll talk about that and the rest of the day's news straight ahead. | |
| The start of another week on the Rush Limbo Show, America's number one radio show, Rush returns live on Wednesday. | |
| Everyone's very excited about the uh new Mr. Moderate come into town, uh Iranian President Hassan Rouani. | |
| He's not like those old Iranians, those guys threatened to rain down death and destruction. | |
| This guy is Mr. Moderate, and his trip uh to New York for UN Dictator Week this week has been described as a peace tour, and for the first time in thirty-five years, an Iranian leader could meet face to face with an American president and shake his hand. | |
| And so obviously, you know, the the uh the Iranian regime, it's not like that old guy Ahmed Inajad. | |
| This guy is super moderate, Mr. Moderate, and uh just how moderate is he? | |
| Uh Iran held a large-scale military this is from the Washington Free Beacon. | |
| Iran held a large scale Military demonstration over the weekend, parading ballistic missiles and other weapons that were painted with the slogans Death to America and Death to Israel. | |
| Because nothing nothing kicks off your so-called peace tour like getting out the uh missiles that are painted with the slogans Death to America. | |
| Nothing says moderate. | |
| In the Middle East, nothing quite paints you as a moderate than going around with missiles saying, Death to America, death to America. | |
| That's that's a message we can all unite around. | |
| So uh President Death to America, President Rohani is uh is gonna be in New York for Dictators Week this week. | |
| And he's expected to uh maybe have a handshake with President Obama, maybe President I bet they'll be laughing it up about the old Death to America missiles. | |
| They'll be uh they'll they'll be kibbitzing about that one. | |
| Uh in amongst all the big news we've been talking about, that let's not forget the biggest story of all, by the way. | |
| Uh popular bathroom wipes blamed for sewer clogs. | |
| This story is out of Beamus Point, New York, from the Associated Press. | |
| Increasingly popular bathroom wipes, pre-moistened towelettes that are often advertised as flushable, are being blamed for creating clogs and backups in sewer systems around the nation. | |
| Um these moist towelettes uh that uh people prefer, I think Cotton L now is actually marketing it as the alternative to toilet paper. | |
| Uh it has a campaign called Let's Talk About Your Bum and ads showing people trying to wash their hair with no water. | |
| And well, I actually I'm amazed Cottonell is doing this. | |
| I'm staggered by this. | |
| Uh but apparently it's uh a lot of it is to do with the fact that uh two ply toilet paper uh became disparaged as environmentally unfriendly. | |
| So people have now moved to these moist towelettes, which are supposed to be flushable, but they're seizing up sewer systems all over the country. | |
| Now, uh President Rouani won't ever need to use his Death to America missiles because every sewer system is just coming to a halt and we're just going to be drowning in in these pre-moistened towelettes. | |
| Uh Tom Walsh, the s the senior project coordinator at the South and Centre Chautauqua Lake Sewer Districts in New York, uh that this Western New York community this summer, officials set up traps, basket strainers in sections of pipe leading to an oft-clog pump to figure out which households the moist towelettes were coming from. | |
| They then contacted the householders whose moist towerlets they had identified as blocking. | |
| You know, people worry about the NSA. | |
| People say, Oh, the NSA, they're reading our emails, they're tapping our telephone calls, they're monitoring our credit cards. | |
| It's gone way beyond that, folks. | |
| I can just about handle, you know, the uh the big security state reading my emails and monitoring my telephone calls. | |
| But when they're monitoring your moist tower when they're in your sewer pipe monitoring your moist towelettes, then the the big security state has gone too far. | |
| That is what uh the South and Center Chautauqua Lake sewer district in New York was doing this summer. | |
| They know the household the moist tower letters come from, and then the moist towerlet SWAT team goes round uh to these Western New York households, Beamus Point, New York, and uh and uh gives them a warning initially, but the next you know what the next thing you're gonna be looking at the the TV and the nice little couple at 27B Elms Elm Street, the place is gonna be a smoke in ruin because uh the uh the Moist Tower Let's SWAT team have had to go and take them out. | |
| So this is this is what's bringing the country to a halt. | |
| Uh same thing going on in Wakeesha Wisconsin, the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, which serves Montgomery and Prince George's County in Maryland, uh the Orange County, uh keep wipes out of pipes. | |
| There's a whole new campaign. | |
| Now you know who I blame for all this, by the way? | |
| Cheryl Crow. | |
| Cheryl Crow was the one who uh she was very involved in the campaign against two ply toilet paper. | |
| And I took this personally, uh, because I'm a Canadian and the Canadians are basically the house of sound of two ply toilet paper. | |
| I mean, it's just like uh we're we're turning it out, we're cranking it out all over Canada every day, and uh and then like the Saudis with the oil, giving it all to you Americans. | |
| And then an ingrate like Cheryl Crow says that's r that's wrong, and you should only use one one ply piece of toilet paper every time you go to the bathroom. | |
| Uh As the I think they they re-recorded the old uh John Lennon song, uh All We Are Saying Is Give One Piece a Chance. | |
| Sheryl Crow made a terrific uh awareness raising single of that. | |
| It was it was it was very moving. | |
| Uh and as a result, so suddenly, you know, people say instead of using half a roll of two ply toilet paper, people are going on to the moist towerlets, and the moist tower the whole country is seizing up from moist towerlets, and naturally, what's the government's response to a problem? | |
| A big government program now where they're putting in these traps in the pipes to identify which household. | |
| You know, in Britain, in Britain a couple of years ago, the uh the Blair uh Tony Blair put uh mini cameras uh in trash cans to monitor your garbage. | |
| They're they're putting them now in the toilet. | |
| Now now I don't want to I don't want to devote the entirety of today's show to the scourge of moist towerettes. | |
| Just just the first two, two and a half hours, maybe. | |
| Uh but let me let me uh let me cite Rush from a week ago. | |
| Uh uh a week ago on this show, uh I think it was m last Monday, maybe Tuesday. | |
| Uh Tuesday, Tuesday, Rush was talking about what he calls the chickification of the National Football League, the chickification of the National Football League. | |
| And he notes that four NFL linemen, and Rush is pointing out these are the big guys, uh they're the guys who basically uh have to eat five times what a normal person eats uh to maintain the weight they have to uh they they have to keep up. | |
| These guys have all signed on to endorse uh a f a moist towelette for men called one wipe Charlie. | |
| One wipe Charlie's, which is uh uh from a small company in Venice, California. | |
| And as uh Rush said, they're trying to crack a new market with uh Moisson toilet wipes. | |
| And this is the Cheryl Crow thing. | |
| All she is saying is give one piece a chance. | |
| And these are supposedly one wipe, one piece, one wipe. | |
| Now if you think about it, these guys have to eat five times what a normal person eats. | |
| So they're putting in one end, they're putting in five times as much as anybody else has to put in. | |
| Uh so whatever the the one wipe is, it's gotta be fairly the one wipe in the one wipe Charlie has got to be pretty substantial. | |
| And uh let's yeah, let's name names. | |
| I named all the guys, the American jihadists causing all the trouble out in Nairobi, so we should uh we should maybe name the one white Charlie guy. | |
| The Dallas Cowboys, Travis Frederick, the Minnesota Vikings, John Sullivan, the Buffalo Bills, Eric Wood, and the San Diego Chargers, Nick Hardwick have all signed on as endorsers of One Wipe Charlie's, the uh the Moist Tower Let for men. | |
| And now we hear that this whole thing is wrecking the sewer systems of America. | |
| So it's gonna be the whole country is gonna be a wash in and but by the way, this isn't, I should I should say, just as with the American jihadists blowing up people in Nairobi, they're also British subjects in there too. | |
| There is also a British connection uh to the problem of the uh the moist uh towerlets. | |
| In London, England, in the sewer system uh in London, England, they also had a problem with moist towerlets, and uh they they eventually the blockage was so severe uh in in July, they found a fifteen ton double decker bus-sized lump of moist towerlets that had all stuck together down in the London sewers. | |
| This thing it's the size of a London bus, a double-decker London bus down in the London sewers. | |
| Uh it's like wipezilla that's living there in the London sewers, and next thing you know, you'll be it'll be in the new disaster movie. | |
| You'll switch on TV, it'll be there, it'll be eating Tower Bridge, tossing Big Ben over its shoulder, rampaging down Buckingham Palace to to sit on the royal family. | |
| They'll die a hideous death from fragrance-free moist towerlets. | |
| This thing, this uh fifteen ton wipezilla that had all stuck together down in the uh in the sewers of London. | |
| But these uh but Rush was on to this tangentially a week ago when he was bemoaning the chickification of American football uh by these four guys signing on to be endorsers for one wipe Charlie's. | |
| Okay. | |
| Let us go to Mickey in Longview, Texas. | |
| Mickey, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show. | |
| Good morning. | |
| Uh d I'm an architect, and we're already dealing with this problem. | |
| What the problem is is the codes that we have that we have been in service for a hundred years, allow pipe to go down to an eighth of an inch per foot on slope. | |
| Right. | |
| All the sewer lines under all the streets everywhere are based on that. | |
| Then we do away with all the water coming out of the toilets. | |
| The toilets are reduced to practically no flush. | |
| And so when you get these stupid toilets in the minimum amount of water, we're having things block up everywhere. | |
| This is government overcontrolling itself. | |
| Uh if we yield to what they're requiring, we'll have to spend about a zillion dollars digging up all the sewer lines everywhere and relaying them. | |
| Well, and and not just the sewer, as you say that uh that eighth of an inch a foot or whatever it is, that's standard it varies depending on the size of the pipe, but in uh residential you can go to quarter inch per foot, but that is already blocking up. | |
| Uh I've got some property I own where the customers now are having problems with the toilets because uh the toilets, so we've had to find some older toilets that produce more water to make them work. | |
| Oh, so you're going to the 'cause when they I mean when we talk about, by the way, this toilet tank problem, the small toilet tank problem, that is the legacy of the Clinton Gore era. | |
| Al Dor. | |
| Al Gore's greatest accomplishment in public life was to reduce the size of the American toilet tank. | |
| And if you remember in those reduced the flow of the water out of a shower head so that you don't uh it's just absurd. | |
| This they need to leave us alone. | |
| Well, as you say now, we now have uh pipes that were designed for like full force of water. | |
| By the way, I love this because I mentioned all the two-ply toilet paper was coming down from Canada. | |
| Uh when when they had these small toilet tanks come down, people were smuggling man-sized Canadian toilet tanks over border from Canada into America. | |
| But I think all the full man-sized toilet tanks uh that can be uh i illegally in the old bootlegging days across Lake Lake Memphramago bringing in the uh the Canadian uh whiskey from Montreal. | |
| Uh but I think all the all the full-size toilet tanks that can be smuggled in have been smuggled in now. | |
| So we're gonna have to find a a better a better solution than that. | |
| But basically you're saying that the the whole way that we line up plumbing, the whole amount of space you need between the floor and a ceiling if you're putting in a new bathroom to run a pipe down, uh basically doesn't take into account the low-flow water and the moist towelettes. | |
| No. | |
| Absolutely not. | |
| And it all needs to be changed, and I don't know where you how far you go with those changes, because all that pipe that's in the ground has been there forever. | |
| Well, I think Mickey, we may finally have found the elusive shovel ready project for that trillion dollars of stimulus uh that Obama couldn't figure out what to do with I think he threw that all down the toilet, judging from uh how visible most of it is. | |
| Uh and actually might the federal government more or less metaphorically wiped its bottom with that trillion dollars and flushed it down the toilet. | |
| Thank you for your call, Mickey in Long View T. You just never know. | |
| The whole point is sometimes, you know, sometimes you deal with the big things, what's going on in Washington, whatever, but sometimes actually it's the little things. | |
| It's the little things that are actually more emblematic of uh of what's going on. | |
| People start uh it's uh it's like banning the plastic bags, uh, which they're doing at um uh a lot of American supermarkets and they're saying, Oh, do you want to recycle a bag, do you want to bring back a bag and all the rest of it. | |
| So people are coming back now with old shopping bags. | |
| Uh they they went to the supermarket uh three weeks ago and they come back to the supermarket with the shopping bag they've lovingly saved from their trip three weeks ago, and they uh and they bring that shopping bag into the store and it's got all these little germs and microbes that have been sitting there because instead of doing it as we used to do in the old days was to uh was to just take the bag, throw the shopping bag away. | |
| Now we keep them all and take them back to the store and there's all these germs and microbes running around from something that's supposed to be more environmentally friendly. | |
| And that's the same way. | |
| By the way, we'll be back to what the Romans were doing. | |
| If you're wondering where the expression the wrong end of the stick comes from that's from uh Roman baths two thousand years ago and that's that's what the environmentalists will have everybody back uh back doing before before too long. | |
| Uh that's not the only uh story that's going on today I uh I mentioned that uh significant numbers of Americans and other Westerners uh British subjects Swedes Finns there's a Dagastani of course you can't really have a big jihad plot without a dagastani it's like the Sarneev brothers at the Boston Marathon uh but Mike Plough uh th these this is uh being pulled off by Al Shabab. | |
| By the way, Al-Shabaab is like, it's this group nobody ever heard of until a couple of years ago. | |
| People think, ah, Somalia, who cares about a bunch of guys killing each other in Somalia? | |
| The guy who chopped off drummer Rigby's head in the streets of London, in Woolwich, South London, he had been repeatedly picked up, flying to Kenya, was arrested in eastern Kenya, trying to join up with Al-Shabaab in Somalia, and eventually figured it's easier to stay in London and chop somebody's head off. | |
| And these American guys... | |
| uh from Tucson not just from places you expect like Minneapolis or Maine there's a ton of Somalis got relocated to Lewis and Auburn in Maine. | |
| Uh not not just from uh Minnesota Maine, from Tucson, Arizona. | |
| Tucson, Arizona there's apparently a guy, he's one of the perpetrators of this thing in Nairobi. | |
| As Mike Plough tweeted to me uh a moment ago, who put the Barb in the Al Shabaab Shabab? | |
| That's a very profound question, Mike, and uh as we also say who put the Ram in the Ramadanading dong. | |
| Uh Mark Stein in for Rush, more straight ahead. | |
| Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network. | |
| Let's go to Tony in Milburn, Florida. | |
| Tony, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show. | |
| Great to have you with us. | |
| Mark, let me just preface this by saying you're our favorite Phil and my wife and mine when we listen when Rush isn't there. | |
| That said, let me I I need your insight into something. | |
| This morning I was listening to Fox News and I happen to see Lindsay Graham on I couldn't believe what I was hearing. | |
| I've got to find out if this is true or not. | |
| Did I just hear him say that the Republicans in the Senate are now going to vote with Ted Cruz and defund Obama and throw it back to the Democrats to get a yes or no vote from them and put the weight on them as being the ones that aren't going to defund Obamacare? | |
| Yeah, as I understand his position, I think he's mocking the House Republicans who claim that they want to defund Obamacare but don't. | |
| don't know how, whereas he's saying um he's he's uh the wise old bird who knows how to defund Obamacare. | |
| That's as I understand his position. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Yeah he he's uh he says it's he says he's he's definitely going to vote to to defund it and he's mocking the Tea Party, what he calls the you know the Ted Cruz guys uh for saying that they don't know how he was I mean he's basically saying leave it leave it to me. | |
| You don't need those excitable loons I can defund it for you. | |
| But then if if that's the case, didn't Ted Cruz actually win the argument that if if if they're gonna vote with him in the Senate that he won the argument and now the Republicans are going to go along with his train of thought and have the Democrats be the ones to say um no they're they're gonna fund Obamacare and then the Republicans use that as an issue. | |
| Because I thought it was the other way around that they were going to uh fight amongst themselves and split it up and as Republicans were going to splinter in the Senate and half were going to vote this way and only five s only five Republicans were going to vote voted to fund Obamacare and the rest were going to vote against it. | |
| Yeah I mean that's the that's the interesting point, isn't it is that everyone makes the assumption that the Democrats are united on this. | |
| In fact according to if you uh if if you follow the the so-called rules of the Senate, which are whatever Harry Reed happens to say they are at any moment. | |
| But he does uh he needs uh six he actually needs six uh Republican votes on this and and the I don't see where he gets where he gets those from. | |
| But you know, just just to look at it this way, Tony, instead of saying, you know, the Lindsay Graham faction versus the Ted Cruz faction or whatever it is, this is an issue where the the the public is overwhelmingly opposed to Obamacare. | |
| They're overwhelmingly opposed to it. | |
| So uh so this isn't this isn't one of these tricky issues where there's different factions i out there in public opinion that uh this or other part of the Republican Party might want to woo. | |
| This should be like it was when this thing came in. | |
| If you remember when Obamacare passed, it was without a single Republican vote. | |
| All the squishiest squishes of spineless, jelly spine rhino squishes held firm for Obamacare. | |
| Those ladies in Maine didn't vote for Obamacare. | |
| Nobody no Republican voted for Obamacare. | |
| And it ought to be this thing ought to be the same way, because at some point this is going to be a disaster and it'll either be a disaster that leads to sanity in hell in healthcare arrangements or it'll be a disaster that leads to the world's biggest and most expensive and most bureaucratic and most incompetent socialized healthcare system. | |
| But when it becomes a disaster, who are you going to give more credence to? | |
| People who stood on their principles and said no I've never believed in this thing I'm I'm tired of the stupid political games here. | |
| I mean how difficult is it to say uh f for a Republican to stand up and say I'm sorry uh I'm not interested in what John Roberts says about the constitutionality of this thing or other that's not what it's about. | |
| This is uh this is a uh an inappropriate thing in a free society to annex a sixth of the economy on a party line vote and shove it down uh the country against the wishes of the people and uh when they when anyone in two hundred years time wants to look up my voting record, they'll see I honorally honorably opposed it on principle all the way down the line. | |
| And that's where these, you know, give a little, take a little, reach across the aisle types like David Brooks in the New York Times uh are looking at it all wrong. | |
| If you believe this is going to be a disaster for America, how can you do other than vote against it, Tony? | |
| So how do you think it will turn out? | |
| Do you think the Republicans will stand together and vote to define Obamacare? | |
| Well I I would I would hope they do. | |
| I would hope they stand on the on the same argument. | |
| By the way, I want to talk about this in the next hour too. | |
| You know, we the the reason this is this threatens so called military spending and social security and all the other stuff and your granny's gonna die and nobody's going to be getting their food stamps is because this whole business by continuing resolutions and uh that's a relatively new thing in American life. | |
| I mean that's basically the way it's been now since the nineties but in a sane world uh Obamacare would be funded on its merits and the idea that it's all or nothing that you have government that government uh either signs on to whatever the President wants or the whole thing comes juddering to a halt. | |
| The legislature either gives him everything he wants or the whole thing comes juddering to a halt is entirely new in American political life and it shouldn't and it shouldn't come to that. | |
| But I hope as long as we're doing it this way, as long as Harry Reed, who's an absolutely as a parliamentarian is about as low and contemptible a figure as you could find in any civilized society as long as Harry Reed wants to play these games this way, and that's the only way to do it, I hope the Republican Party stands firm and votes to defund Obamacare. | |
| Mark Stein for Rush, more straight ahead. | |
| Mark Stein for Rush at the start of UN Dictators Week I think the last time I was here was uh was what turned out to be Colonel Gaddafi's swan song a couple of years ago. | |
| Do you remember he was uh he wanted to pitch his tent in Central Park and uh Bloomberg wouldn't let him it was a zoning issue or something. | |
| He wasn't allowed to pitch his tent in Central Parliament he had no means of disposing of his moist towelettes or whatever it was. | |
| So he then went and pitched it on an estate up north of New York owned by Donald Trump. | |
| Donald Trump people forget about the Trump Gaddafi connections, but Donald Trump uh leased this house to uh to Colonel Gaddafi and then that zoning board closed him down and uh poor old poor old Colonel Gaddafi wound up having to take the dictatorial suite at the plaza or the St. Regis uh or whatever it was for uh dictating he spoke for um an over an hour and a half uh to the General Assembly and seventy five minutes into the speech, |
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