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Sept. 26, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 26, 2013, Thursday, Hour #3
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Hi and welcome back, folks.
It's great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
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This is the most listened to Radio Talk Show in America.
Has been for a long, long time.
And it will be for a long, long time.
What do you bet that a lot of Peter King's constituents are calling his office asking him to support Ted Cruz?
And what do you bet that irritates Peter King?
Here's the thing about this, folks.
Well, one of many things, actually.
Have you noticed that the Republican Party has a oh, I don't know, call it a weapon, if you will, that it wields against its own voters.
And what they say is to the base, if you guys do this, we're gonna lose in 2014, or we're gonna lose in 2016.
If you don't help us support or help support us on amnesty or what whatever it is, we're gonna lose.
And my opinion is we're the only reasons they win when they do.
This is what they either don't appreciate or don't like or don't even understand.
But the Republican establishment not liking its conservative base isn't new.
They didn't appreciate or like Reagan in the 80s.
Now, when he won big, you know, success has many fathers.
Everybody wanted to be in that light.
Everybody wanted to be in that aura, but behind the scenes they couldn't wait for Reagan's term to end so they could get their hands back on the levers of power.
The establishment's the establishment, conservatives, they're small government, limited government, the establishment's pro-big government, no matter what party.
It's where the money is, it's where the power is.
And they don't want any part of limiting it.
They just want to trade running it with the Democrats now and then.
But here's what I'm sure they understand this, but they reject it.
And this is where they don't take us seriously.
Remember Scott Brown.
Scott Brown was for a brief moment in time, a Republican hero to the conservative base.
When he had a legitimate shot at winning the Senate seat that had been held by Ted Kennedy for decades.
And the reason he was a Republican hero was that he was campaigning very effectively and very persuasively against Obamacare.
The Republican base has opposed any form of socialized medicine forever.
No matter whose it was, no matter what nay, whether it was Hillary care or Obamacare, the Republican Party has always opposed it, wanted no part of it.
And the Republican Party was unified in defeating Hillary Care.
The Republican majority in the House was a conservative majority.
Swept to victory for the first time in 40 years in 1994.
It came off 40 years of Democrat control and a bunch of scandals that the Democrats were in charge of and benefiting from.
There were a lot of things that came together.
And then the Republicans ended up winning the House for the first time in 40 years at a conservative speaker, Newt Gingrich, the conservative leadership.
But they kind of got off track because they assumed that their victory meant the country had gone totally conservative.
And it's not what their victory meant alone.
It was was not just that.
And so they stopped teaching it, is the way I put it.
They stopped explaining principles as the reason they were doing things.
And thus the education, the ideological education, American voters ceased.
And that allowed the Democrats to exploit what they consider to be weak or weird personality aspects of the leadership.
Gingrich, Boehner, and these guys, they were they were all kooks and freaks and so forth because they created a vacuum by stopping, refusing to explain, not refusing.
They just they didn't as each legislative effort was made, balancing the budget, whatever it was, they failed to explain the principle behind it, thus educating the voters.
And slowly but surely they've got swept up and sucked in by the establishment.
And it's very seductive there to be part of it.
And slowly but surely the conservative majority in the House eroded.
Joe Scarborough used to be one of them.
Now, look what's happened.
Joe thinks he's still a conservative, but he's nowhere near the conservative he was when he was a member of the freshman class in 1994.
Let's go back to Scott Brown.
Scott Brown, a moderate Republican, was nevertheless a Republican hero because it was understood that his election represented the one necessary vote to stopping Obamacare.
Scott Brown prevented the Democrats from getting 60 votes in the Senate.
As a result of this, or because of this, people all over this country were sending campaign contributions to Scott Brown.
Money.
People were sending their money to Scott Brown because they judged him to be on their side.
Not just on Obamacare, but on pretty much everything else, many other things.
The Republican base has been united on this anti-Obamacare pedestal for five years.
From the first day Obama talked about it, the Republican base has been unified.
It is no more opposed to it today than it was five years ago.
The Republican base has been full-fledged, 150% against it from the first day.
The Republican base has not changed.
The Republican base is who is consistent here.
The Tea Party, the Republican base, you can count on who they are and what they believe and what they support and what they oppose.
They have not changed.
They have been very consistent, very reliable.
And the Republican Party of the base united for five years in opposition to Obamacare.
And in those five years, the Republican base elected people who promised them that they would get rid of or at least try to stop it.
And they gave them their money.
They gave every elected official who promised to stop Obamacare their money.
People all over this country donated to Scott Brown, not just Massachusetts residents, all over the country.
And it was the same for any other Republican running for office who convinced the Republican base that they were as opposed to Obamacare as the people are.
The people supported them with money, with time, with get out the vote efforts.
And so it eventuates that the people who empower Republicans by electing them have taken these Republicans at their word.
They have given them money.
They have supported them.
They've gone out and campaigned for them.
They've manned phone banks for them.
They have voted for them.
They've done everything to get them elected.
And today, many of those people who were the beneficiaries of that money, the beneficiaries of all of that time and effort have now gone soft.
And they are personified by John McCain, Peter King.
You name it.
All of the people, the last five years who engendered the trust and the support of the voters, of a lot of them have faded away.
And it turns out that they have that they weren't what the voters thought they were.
And so now the base, which has been consistent, which is filled with support for people who promise one thing and then follow through on it.
The reason Ted Cruz is so manifestly popular right now in the Republican Party is because he is doing exactly what he was elected to do.
The people in Texas who elected him see him go to Washington and do exactly what he told them he was going to do when he asked them for their support.
But not every Republican, of course, can say this anymore, and as such, they have lost support.
And there and so what has happened now is that those Republicans are turning on the base and calling them extremists or wacko birds, whatever term McCain used.
And now, after all of this love and support based on trust, the Republicans continue to hold over their heads defeat.
If they don't change, if the base doesn't change, if the base doesn't modify, if the base doesn't moderate, if the base doesn't get less, if the base doesn't become less demanding, the Republicans are going to lose.
And meanwhile, all these people saw most of the candidates they supported win.
And now defeat is an anvil being held over their heads unless they change.
And this is why within the base and within the Republican Party, there's this whatever you want to call it, lack of trust, diminishing support, what have you.
And it's why, whenever anybody like a Ted Cruiser or Mike Lee stands up, they're supported.
It's substantive.
It's not personality.
The base is not interested in personalities or pop culture.
They these are issue-oriented people who give their money and time to people they think are like-minded.
And I don't know, you know that this anvil of defeat that they keep holding over the Republican base head.
I think it's just the exact opposite.
I don't think we win.
And the history bears this out, recent history.
I don't think we win the next election.
If this continues, the Republican Party cannot successfully win by moving in the direction of the Democrat Party.
And then demanding that its voters do the same thing.
That's when voters stay home.
And they stop writing donation checks.
Now, I don't, I really don't know if if the Republican Party doesn't know this or does know it.
Maybe they're tired of this base.
They don't like this group of people.
Maybe Republican establishment does not want a base that's conservative.
Maybe they're willing to lose a couple of elections in order to come up with what they think would be a new base, base, you know, comprised of who?
Some African Americans and some Hispanics and some uh malcontent women and whatever.
I don't know what they're doing.
I don't know what base they want to trade us in for, but to some people it appears that's what they want to do.
But uh this is this is not complicated.
And the sc the Scott Brown case is a is a great example.
Here's a man that the entire Republican Party base was willing to support all over this country.
And he ended up losing his re-election ever, didn't he?
Elizabeth, whatever name is Warren.
He ends up losing to a genuine legitimate wacko.
You didn't build that, Elizabeth Warren.
All because people who originally invested in him thought it wasn't worth it to do it again.
Because once he got there, he moderated.
Which is what the leadership, of course, wanted him to do.
And he did.
Let me take a quick timeout here, folks.
We'll continue with much more on the EIB network right after this.
Do not go away.
Okay, back to the phone sweet go.
El Rushboat at 800-282-2882.
This is Dennis and Fresno.
Thanks for the call, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Hi.
Thanks for taking my call, Rush.
Yeah.
Honor to speak with you, a thirteen-year student, still listening and learning.
Ross, I wanted to hear your thoughts on something that kind of came to my mind after all of this stuff happening with the Republican Party.
And it is that is it likely that the Republicans don't want to get rid of Obamacare because they know when they get in power, they're going to have absolute control over this country.
Or at least some form of that Obamacare.
I don't know.
I I honestly don't think that's I haven't I haven't gone that far off of the deep end yet.
Not to say that that you have.
I'm talking about the idea that there's that kind of conspiratorial thinking.
I just think that it's too hard.
It's too hard, it's too risky to fight this.
I think I think the assumption is it's done.
It's the law of the land.
They can't do it.
So why make themselves enemies trying?
And in this, they don't understand the long game.
They don't understand planting the flag and letting people know who they are, what they stand for.
That's the the idea that that the success or failure of this effort resides only in successfully defunding Obamacare is incorrect.
There's a long game here.
The Republican Party's got to establish its identity.
It's got to let people know who it is and what it stands for.
It's got to push back.
It's got to say what it doesn't support.
And by not taking every opportunity to do that, they're they're just I I they're doing great damage for their chances down the line.
There's a there's a the odds are defunding this thing is going to be difficult to do.
Everybody knows this, but there's a there's a whole lot to gain in trying.
I just don't think that they want to try.
I think the idea of failing and what the media is gonna say about them and so forth, they think that's gonna do them more harm than just letting this thing go and letting it collapse and letting it fall on its face and then be there to pick up the pieces.
I don't, I really don't think that they secretly like it and hope it becomes a law of the land so that they have the power to administer it when when their day comes, if it does, when they're ever back in the in the White House.
Because I still don't think that's who Republicans are.
I I I just I think it's something entirely different than that.
I would I would think that they would argue Obamacare, not not in terms of what it's gonna cost People because people can't really relate to that.
They know the Santa Claus will help them in any case.
But coming point by point, here's what we're proposing would be a better way to handle this whole health care debacle in this country.
Well, there is that in the House side.
The House does have an alternative health care plan.
They do.
They've presented it.
You may not have heard it.
Yeah, I've heard it, but I haven't heard them really touting it strongly, you know.
Well, they would tell you that they have and it don't get covered.
And there's an element of truth in uh in in that.
Here's the, you know, the the the Obama and the Democrats believe their press.
They think they're greater than anything.
And the Republicans believe the Democrat press, too.
The Republicans believe that Obama and the Democrats are greater than anything.
And they can't battle them.
Okay, we're back.
L. Rushbow.
Great to have you here, folks.
And half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Now the GOP has a as a plan B that they are that they are pushing today.
And the New York Times has it with uh two different headlines.
Uh the first headline for this story, raising fiscal stakes, comma.
GOP sets terms to lift debt limit.
Same story posted later, different headline.
House GOP leaders list conditions for raising debt ceiling.
Now what what this is give you a couple of paragraphs.
House Republican leaders shifted the budget battle on Thursday to a potentially more consequential fight over raising the government's borrowing limit, rolling out conditions for a debt ceiling increase, pulled from three years of frustration over efforts to roll back regulations and undo Obama's first term achievements.
These conditions include a one-year delay of the President's health care law, fast track authority to overhaul the tax code, construction of the Keystone Pipeline, offshore oil and gas production, more permitting of energy exploration on federal lands, a rollback of regulations on coal ash, blocking new EPA regulations on greenhouse gas production.
There's a lot of conditions here that they have put forth.
In agreeing to lift the debt limit, one year delay of Obamacare.
So what what this is, instead of defunding Obamacare, they are willing to settle, in addition, another story for ending the medical device tax and delaying the individual mandate.
Like what?
Right.
The employer mandate got a waiver for one year.
And so the Republicans are saying, well, okay, well, then let's delay the individual mandate for a year to make it fair.
And that's exactly right.
They're trying to fix it.
This is the compromise.
They're trying to.
Okay, so there's the employer mandate's been delayed for a year, so the Republicans are saying, well, look, we'll give you the debt limit increase if you get rid of the personal mandate.
Um individual mandate.
And all that's doing is tinkering with it.
That's not defunding it.
That that's not rolling it back or or stopping it.
All of the top Democrats want to do away with the medical device tax anyway.
Read read Dinji Harry just called it stupid a half hour ago.
Delaying the individual mandate will just put the real pain on until after the 2014 midterms, which the Democrats want to.
I mean, the the Republicans ought to, in a strategic sense, the way I look at it, want the individual mandate.
If they're if they're looking for this thing to collapse, and they want people to realize that it's it it it's if they think this will discredit the entitlement state, discredit liberalism, why offer to delay one of the things that might do that in their thinking.
I don't profess to understand this.
I'm not in their business.
There may be something here that I don't understand, but as I look at these two proposals, they offer to uh uh you know go along with lifting the debt limit for a one-year delay of Obamacare, and then they've offered uh well I would be tempted to take it too if I was a Democrat to delay
the individual mandate for a year, thereby limiting the amount of pain felt by the voters until after the 2014?
I don't know.
I you all can figure this out in other news.
Look, there's other stuff going on at that time.
I just wanted to tell you what being proposed out there, CBS News, Obama's approval rating has dropped to 43%.
Yep, Obama approval at 43% in the CBS New York Times poll.
You probably will not see this reported.
You'd I doubt you will see it discussed or talked about too many places, but it is out there.
The IRS, unable to account for $67 million spent from a slush fund established for Obamacare implementation.
This, according to a Treasury Department or Treasury Inspector General report released today, the health insurance reform implementation fund was tucked into Obamacare in order to give the IRS money to enforce the tax provisions in Obamacare.
The fund was about one billion dollars, and it was used to roll out enforcement mechanisms for the 50 new tax provisions of Obamacare.
There are 50 brand new taxes, they're called tax provisions here, and the IRS was given a billion dollars to implement it.
They don't know where it is.
It's an Obamacare slush fund is what this originally was anyway.
A billion dollars to implement rules and regulations, not a billion dollars to go hire people, a billion dollars to implement rules.
Anyway, 67 million of it is missing.
Now, all of the economic does and data that you've heard recently from the Washington uh press corps that is actually government numbers, throw it out.
Here's the real world, Walmart stores cutting orders that it places with suppliers this quarter and next quarter to address rising inventory that Walmart flagged in their last earnings report.
Last week, an ordering manager at the Arkansas headquarters described the pullback in an email to a supplier.
Yeah, we're looking at reducing inventory for Q3 and Q4, said the September 17th email, which was reviewed by Bloomberg News.
What this means is, and this this is the truth.
I mean, this is the real world.
Now, Walmart's trying to spin this, obviously.
They've got stock price and everything else to be concerned about, but they are cutting orders.
They have an inventory buildup, so they have cut orders for this quarter and the next quarter, which is the Christmas quarter.
They're not expecting a booming at Walmart for crying out loud.
So all this talk about a rabid rolling economic recovery heading right on, and the only thing we're missing is jobs being created.
There isn't any.
If the leading discounter is trying to get rid of inventory by not replacing it, that's what this means.
They're putting sale prices on things and they're not going to replace this inventory.
They don't expect buyers.
in nearly the numbers that they're accustomed to.
That is real world economics.
And in today's installment of health news, the UK Daily Mail, the headline is your statin affecting your memory.
How many of you people are in cholesterol medicine?
I would bet you that every hand in this audience over 40 is raised.
And why is that?
Because the health industry has convinced everybody that cholesterol is an instant killer, that you're gonna die if your cholesterol is high.
And so people are obsessed now with keeping their cholesterol in control.
Which I understand I if you are one, I'm not being critical.
To each his own when it comes to your health.
I am not a preacher, and I do not demand anybody to live the way I do, although I think it'd be great, but I'm not I don't demand it.
But here is a medical report.
A new study has found that some commonly prescribed statins for cholesterol can impair brain frunk function.
All of these statins, many of them, have been found to impair memory.
Lipitor, however, does not.
Say British or Bristol...
Bristol researchers.
Pravastin, the brand name Pravacol has been found to impair memory.
Uh Lipitor doesn't, say the researchers.
But statins taken by millions could lead to memory loss researchers have warned.
Staten patients feeling fuzzy headed and befuddled.
Teams said it was highly likely that other statins affect memory loss.
Other experts dismissed the research and insisted the benefits of statins outweigh any side effects.
So if you're getting stupider, it's okay, because at least your cholesterol's in line.
If your memory is now, might this impact you know the way I look at stuff like this.
Is this how Obama won the election?
People just forgot how bad liberalism is.
Get everybody in a cholesterol medicine because it's known to affect people's memories.
I'm just kidding.
Just kidding.
It's the latest uh latest health news out there.
I'm not trying to scare you, I'm just the news is out there.
So now many of you have to weigh your memory or your cholesterol.
Which is more important to you.
I'd say for most people probably wouldn't mind forgetting half of what they would be back.
Another NFL player has committed suicide.
Paul Oliver, number 29 uh 29 years old, played for the San Diego Chargers, shot himself in his home.
We don't know anything yet as to uh as to why.
Twenty-nine years old.
Cherie in uh in Valprazo, Indiana.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
I'm so excited to talk to you.
Thank you.
Before I get to my main point, I just want to say that the cruise filibuster reminded me that I haven't felt this good about America since the first day I heard you on the radio.
Well, thank you.
That's 1989.
Very flattering.
I appreciate that.
Thanks.
Um Senator Vitter also spoke during that filibuster, and and he has a bill or an amendment to force Congress to be subject to Obamacare just like the rest of us.
And I support that, but then I thought, hey, this is crazy.
We're seriously gonna pass another law to force Obama to obey the ACA law that was already passed by Congress and that he already signed into law.
The problem here is that we have a lawless president who refuses to faithfully execute the laws.
And our only recourse is impeachment.
Now, both said I shouldn't even bring up impeachment because we have uh Senate that's controlled by the Democrats.
But one thing I mentioned to him is remember, impeachment takes a long time.
It could take a year or more to um work through to the actual vote.
I know.
And you know what that's the problem with it.
There are things that need to be stopped or dealt with long before that would play out.
Gosh, I wish I had more time, but I've got to go.
Open line Friday tomorrow, my friends.
Man, I can't believe how fast this week has gone by.
We'll see you then.
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