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Oct. 3, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 3, 2013, Thursday, Hour #2
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You know, back in the old days of the Soviet Union if somebody Pravda or Isvestia had asked Brezhnev or Khrushchev a question like Dana Bash asked Harry Reed to be sent to the gulag or a re-education camp.
No, they wouldn't have been sent to MSNBC because there wasn't one.
There was just not even a Soviet Union had anything that bad MSNBC is an embarrassment to the regime.
The Soviet Union, oh yeah.
Make no mistake about it.
MSNBC is an embarrassment for the regime.
Now the regime may not know it, but it's an embarrassment for the regime.
The Soviets knew what they were doing when it came to media.
They they had Pravda is Vestia Interface, but they didn't have goons, loons, and just whatever that stable is there.
They at least tried to put their best foot forward.
Anyway, greetings, folks, and uh and welcome back.
It's a delight to have you here, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
800-282-2882.
I want to go back to this New York Times story for a second.
This really is outrageous on so many levels.
But let's take it at a base level.
The thrust of the story is that there are a lot of poor blacks and single mothers in the South who are black, who two-thirds of them aren't gonna have any health care or insurance.
And it's because of Republicans, yes, Republican governors, yes, you see, the Republican governors are denying two-thirds of their poor black and single mother population's health care.
That's what the New York Times says.
And it it it prompts an obvious question.
Here's the lead sentence.
A sweeping national effort to extend health coverage to millions of Americans will leave out two-thirds of the poor blacks and single mothers and more than half of the low wage workers who do not have insurance.
Well, uh excuse me, but uh what what is Obamacare for?
How is this in any way the fault of the Republicans?
Why did we do Obamacare?
Why do we have Medicaid?
How can it be a sweeping national effort, the purpose of which was to cover the uninsured?
Remember, that's the primary selling point of Obamague, plus it's either going to be free or a lot cheaper to you.
A sweeping national effort to extend health coverage to millions would leave out two-thirds of the poor blacks and single mothers.
Yeah?
Okay.
So why do we have Medicaid?
What what is Obamacare for?
Why are we doing it?
You see, nothing ever seems to get better.
No matter what we do.
I mean, we've had poverty program on top of poverty program.
We've had programs to ensure the uninsured, we have treatment guaranteed at emergency rooms.
We've had the war on poverty, we've had the great society, we have transferred trillions of dollars from producers to nonproducers, and nothing ever gets better.
Where does this story come from?
How in the world can that be?
After this wonderful thing called Obamacare.
Nothing ever seems to get better.
And you know what this really is?
In reality, this is probably just Part of the regime's effort to push for single payer.
Now that they have Obamacare, guess what?
It still is insufficient.
Who knew?
Despite the biggest hearts in the world, the Democrats.
Despite all of the compassion in the world, the Democrats.
Despite all of the caring and all the feeling, and despite all the love in the world, the Democrats.
Nothing is getting better.
We still have poverty.
We still have unemployment.
We still have all of these economic problems.
We still have two-thirds of black people uninsured.
It's just we've got to do more.
It's just not enough.
Well, what do you mean?
Uh go to the exchanges.
Well, now wait a minute now.
See, this is this is where you Republicans.
See, this is I've got I've got I've got Republicans here on my staff and they're shouting in my ear, well, what about the exchange?
What about the exchange?
Typical Republican answer.
Heartless, no compassion.
What do you mean, go to the exchange?
Yes, they can.
If they don't have a proper ID and they don't, how are they gonna get covered at the exchange?
You see, the Democrats have made sure they don't have proper IDs so that they can't be cheated on when they vote.
That's just one thing.
Now, 26 states don't have any exchanges.
Don't forget that.
Well, the f uh no, the fed but by virtue of the law, the federal government cannot run an exchange.
Although Obama cherry picked that and threw that out.
Since not every state established an exchange.
But the New York Times headline is millions of poor are left uncovered by health law.
Well, what about Medicaid?
It would seem to me that Medicaid's leaving them out long before Obamacare did, if they're not covered, right?
Medicaid's well, I know.
You see, the story points out that the Republican governors, because they're racist pigs, didn't expand Medicaid.
And so these people don't have access to it.
Because Republicans don't want anybody to have health care.
Because the truth is, Republicans don't want anybody to get well.
Because the further truth is Republicans want everybody to die.
Because the truth is, Republicans don't like anybody.
And the truth is, if you don't die on your own, they'll figure out a way that somebody else can make you die.
Because the Republicans hate you.
That's the message of the past three days.
And the New York Times has that message on the front page of their paper today.
You boil it all down, that's the message.
What cost too much?
Now wait, here's okay.
Let's let's go back to Obamacare 101, because Snerdley is shouting at me.
Wait a minute, you can't blame the Republicans.
The states don't have enough money.
And they can't print through them.
That's that's all true.
But it never stopped the Democrats, did it?
As far as low information voters are concerned, not having the money never stopped the Democrats, did it.
Right.
Well, yeah, we got Detroit, but what of it?
So it's still there.
They got the Lions, they got the Tigers.
What of it?
Detroit's still There.
The Democrats never run out of money.
The Democrats never run out of phones.
The Democrats never run out of food stamps.
Only the Republicans do.
See.
What do you mean we don't have the money for it?
That's no excuse.
The Democrats never run out of money.
I'm telling the I the states can't print money, I know, but but Democrat governors find the money.
Democrat governors are willing to go into debt because debt doesn't really matter.
Look at California.
They're dead.
Record debt.
But everybody there's got health care.
But where Republican governors are just not going to spend the money, even if they don't have it.
And even if they do have it.
I'm I'm being facetious here for I'm telling this this is the message that has been sent, and and the attitude I just share with you is the reaction of many voters.
Well, Democrats never run out of money.
I never hear that excuse from Democrats are always willing to give me health care.
Why, they never tell me they're out of money.
And really the only time we're out of money is when the Republicans won't let anybody spend it.
Now, if you go back to the very beginning of Obamacare, one of the problems with it, and that's what this New York Times story is all about, really.
One of the problems is that the feds don't have the money either.
And one of the ways that Obamacare, remember now, was brought in under that magic number of a trillion dollars.
I'm not gonna bother re-explaining why that was the magic number, but it was that in order to sell this, it had to be scored by the CBO as costing less than a trillion dollars, the basic same cost as the Iraq war.
One of the ways they did that was offload Medicaid spending to the states.
And from the get go, the states are we're not we don't have this.
We we don't have this money.
You can't we don't have it until you appropriate it to us.
And Obamacare said we're not gonna appropriate it to you.
You have to come up with the money for Medicaid.
Well, there isn't any money, folks, and there hasn't been any money really for a long time.
And the states cannot print money, and so they're faced with a federal requirement that they handle all Medicaid cases, but they don't have the money.
So the New York Times story today is all about how Republican governors don't want to spend the money because they're racist pigs.
It's not the fault of Medicaid, it's the fault of Republicans who refuse to spend the money because they don't believe in it.
They don't believe in in the entitlement state, don't believe in welfare, they don't believe in helping the underprivileged, they don't have any compassion.
You know the drill.
That's been the message in the media of the Republican Party for I don't know how long.
And the New York Times has it on their front page.
But I d despite that, and I'm gonna repeat something I said in the first hour, and I can't tell you why.
I mean, if this is a gut feel, of course it could be be wrong.
I actually think that the Democrats are showing signs of losing it in this shutdown.
I really do.
I don't, I think they're in uncharted water.
I it's what I was talking about yesterday.
When you know you have the media on your side, you just are confident you're gonna get your way, and they have been with the Republicans ever since basically the 2008 election, a 2012 election, throw 2010 out, they basically have been able to intimidate the Republicans into falling in line on anything, be it amnesty, uh gay marriage, you name it.
And so the Republicans think that they go ahead and make it so that Obama has to shut down the government, and they thought all it'd take is a day.
And the Republicans, Boehner and these guys in cave, and so far it hasn't happened.
And I I do think, just by watching them and listening to them, they are they're they're outside Their guardrails.
Now, yeah, yeah, yeah.
In terms of the perception of low information or average Americans, did they see that?
I don't know.
I d uh I'm not gonna postulate that they do.
I'm gonna wait for actual evidence of that.
But we it shouldn't uh shouldn't take too long.
The current Medicaid program, just so you know, missed 14 million people.
I don't know how that's possible.
Medicaids to cover the poor before Obamacare.
And all this points out is, folks, look, it's it's dingy Harry with that that really mean answer to Danabash, that answer of his was all the evidence you need that we ought not be giving this kind of power to people in government.
Number one.
Number two, it is true to say nothing ever works.
Nothing's ever enough.
No matter what we spend on welfare, the New York Times is never satisfied, no matter what program Obamacare, for all intents and purposes, socialized medicine, front page New York Times today, it's not enough.
And what it all means is they are incompetent.
Their ideas do not work.
Their compassion is meaningless.
It doesn't translate into relief.
The people depending on liberals are still living miserable lives.
Nothing changes.
And no matter what they get, and no matter what they do, it still isn't enough because it never works.
Back to the audio soundbites.
I'm gonna get to your calls in the next segment.
Please hang in there and be tough.
When has a U.S. president ever told Wall Street that they're not worried enough?
I I've started to talk about this in the opening segment of the program.
I don't recall a president ever.
It's unprecedented in my mind.
Purposely, Jimmy Carter did this just by virtue of his existence.
He scared the hell out of people.
But Obama here is warning the market.
He is he and you know, he wants the market to plunge.
He's orchestrating this to be able to blame the Republicans for it, folks.
And I am not exaggerating.
He is talking down the stock market, and it's working, is down 180 right now.
He's talking down the stock market.
I'm sorry, down 125.
He is talking down the stock market in relationship to the shutdown so as to blame the Republicans for it.
Here's the first of two sound bites.
This is a CNBC, an interview he did there with John Harwood.
No, I think this time's different.
Uh I think they should be concerned.
When you have a situation in which uh a faction is willing, potentially to default on uh U.S. government obligations, then we are in trouble.
Nobody's talking default except him.
The Republicans are not talking default.
So he's answering a question from Harwood, CNBC.
You mentioned calm.
Wall Street's been pretty calm about the shutdown.
The reaction I would say, generally speaking, has been Washington fighting, Washington posturing, yada yada.
Is that the right way to look at it?
No, this time it's different.
It could be bad, John.
We could be headed to default.
Bam!
What do you think's gonna happen?
These people on Wall Street live and die when what Ben Bernanke is gonna say expels gas.
Whatever he says, they live and die by it.
Here comes his boss essentially, Obama predicting doom.
Harwood says, uh, you said one time recently, keep hoping a light bulb goes off.
It gives the impression that you think your Republican opponents are either craven or stupid or nuts.
Is that what you think?
And if you think so, does it help your cause to let people see that out loud?
I think it's fair to say that during the course of my presidency, I have bent over backwards to work with uh the Republican Party.
And have purposely kept my rhetoric down.
This is after he just predicted a market crash, or warned about it.
He did Well, he warned of a default.
And he said the Republicans are taking us that way.
And major stock market indices are indeed reeling today this afternoon.
And at one time, the Dow Jones industrial average was down a hundred and eighty points.
Third day of concern about the fiscal mess in Washington and how it is growing.
And Obama did this.
Obama created this panic for the express purpose of blaming the Republicans for it as part of his um keeping the rhetoric down.
As part of it bending over backwards to be cooperative and work with the Republicans.
Chuck U Schumer this afternoon, Capitol Hill, grab somebody 28.
We have time to squeeze this in.
Here is what this piecemeal cherry pick stuff is really all about.
To fund these piecemeal bills would give Ted Cruz a veto power over what is funded and what isn't.
Ted Cruz came up with this strategy.
Shut down the whole government, and then we'll pick a few pieces and let you fund them.
Ted Cruz is not the entire U.S. government.
That's why they're they're they're melting down.
Cruz has accomplished a lot here, and they these people would rather get cancer than let Ted Cruz win.
Garandam to you.
Okay, time to go to the phones with people patiently waiting for the longest time.
We will start West Virginia with Judy.
Thank you for waiting.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
I'm good.
Thank you.
I first of all wanted to thank you.
And how you've educated me throughout the years.
I really appreciate it.
Well, thank you.
I'm flattered very much.
Um because my husband works on a government job.
And uh he's just been furlonged.
And they were told last Friday that if the Republicans didn't come around that they this would happen today.
And I just wanted to tell the Republicans, guess what?
You're winning.
Don't back down.
Don't be idiots.
Basically.
Let me expand on this.
Because Judy, I I think you are dead on on this.
And folks, um, if if you if you even watch Fox, if you if you turn on any TV and you hear me say, folks, I make the Democrats are imploding, you're gonna think I'm nuts.
They're all nodding through the glass that I'm nuts.
That's see, Snerdley just said it, and I'm telling you, you are a victim of exactly what you need to be avoiding.
What you're looking at, yeah, the Republicans are being hammered.
But if you get outside the beltway, the real people of this country, you think these World War II vets are bland at the Republicans, you think you think you think people who's who can't get in the Grand Canyon or whatever it is, you think they're mad at the at the Republicans over this?
I'm telling you, they are fit to be tied.
It's Obama that runs this country.
It's Obama who's the president, it's the Democrats who have the power, and it's the Democrats that are going ext they're getting extremely uh look at what Obama is having to do now.
In order.
The reason I think they're imploding is because they keep getting more extreme in trying to scare people.
And this business of talking down the stock market, that is a last ditch effort, if you ask me.
But my friends, if all you're doing is watching CNN or Fox or anything else, all you're seeing is Republicans get hammered by who?
Democrats.
I don't care if they're media, I don't care if they're pundits, I don't care if they're reporters.
They're all Democrats.
So, of course, if you watch the news media, you're not getting any news.
You're watching the Democrat Party in action.
And of course the Republicans are getting hammered.
But they are not getting hammered outside of Washington.
And that is why it is really important right now that these people not cave.
And I can imagine the pressure on them inside the beltway because they think they're getting hammered.
They think they're losing left and right.
They're getting, they're they're going wobbly.
Some of them are.
Not all of them, but some of them you can see it.
But you get outside this beltway, here's Judy in West Virginia.
Her husband is a furloughed government employee.
She doesn't want the Republicans to stop doing what they're doing.
The Republicans get hammered every day.
That isn't gonna stop when you watch Washington.
And folks, let me just let me put this into the way.
If you watch even Fox, if you watch Fox, if you watch CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, you know what you're watching?
You're watching a soap opera titled Inside the Beltway.
You are not watching what's happening in America.
You think you are.
You think by turning on Fox, or and I don't mean to be yes, I do mean to include Fox.
You turn Foxy or whatever.
You're watching what's happening in Washington because that's their world.
And for the vast majority of people in Washington, how it's affecting Obama is their focus.
If you read the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Associated Press, yep, Republicans are getting hammered.
And you would think that they're losing left and right, and it may be Armageddon, and we've got to stop this, and we uh end this shutdown and agree to whatever debt limit Obama wants and move on, because it's, and I'm telling you, it's not playing that way out there.
That's my sense.
I've got emails.
Check your people do social media check it.
You know, and get away from the predictable comment sections that you normally visit, which are populated by Democrat loons like on Twitter or wherever.
I'm telling you, I'm telling you it's it just is a mistake to base, yeah, and you know this when I put it this way, it's a mistake to base what's happening in the country on what you see on the TV show inside the beltway, which runs on every network.
What's on every network is the agenda as established by the Democrats every day.
What news is going to be covered?
What stories?
What what what narrative?
If there aren't even any stories, it's the narrative of the day, it's the template of the day, but it isn't news.
It's made to look like it, and you got combinators coming in commentating on what ostensibly is the news, but that's not what's happening on these networks.
What's happening is the advancement of the Democrat agenda.
And you've got to get outside that.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
How are you?
Hey, you spoke about the Obamacare success story with a 30-year-old guy in law school getting a free ride.
Yeah.
They're probably tickle think about this.
Go, what's going to happen in a few years or less than that?
This guy starts earning six figures.
He's stuck in the program.
Hello, premiums.
Here I come.
Now that's a good point.
This uh he's talking the first story we had in the program today is a uh Hartford current story.
Brendan Brendan, uh, some 30-year-old law student, he's a 3-0, University of Connecticut.
He is in, folks, an insurance plan right now at Scruwel, where he has a $39 a month premium.
So he went to the Obamacare Exchange in Connecticut on the website, and he got through and he signed up.
And he found out that he qualifies for Medicaid as a college student.
He doesn't have any income, not to speak of, so he's poor.
So he qualifies for Medicaid.
So right now, he doesn't pay anything.
Now the reg, he's 30 still in school.
The regime wants people like this guy paying full Freight to pay for Nanon Graham.
And so people are making a big joke about the fact that this Brendan guy, a healthy, strapping 30-year-old, has been converted into a ward of the state by Obamacare.
But Lee's point here is if this guy finishes school and does become a lawyer and does find a job and all of those are questionable, then he's no longer qualifying for Medicaid, is he?
He won't qualify for Medicaid once he's.
If he gets a job as a lawyer, is he won't qualify for Medicaid anymore.
And as Lee points out this 30-year-old strapping young Brendan guy, he's not gonna like it.
He's not gonna like the revelation that his premiums are gonna skyrocket.
And that's true, and that's gonna be a delayed reaction, because that requires old Brendan to graduate and then find a job at a at a decent uh war firm or where he hangs his own shingle or what have you.
It's a great point, Lee.
Appreciate that.
Back after this, folks.
Let me tell you something else you're missing.
If all you're doing is paying attention to cable news.
It's a sad commentary, folks, but it's and the truth is if you watch cable news, you're watching inside the beltway.
What would be another way of analogizing this?
If you're watching cable news, what you are watching is the Democrat Party view of the world every day.
That's all you're watching.
Now, you have families of World War II vets who can't get into their memorial.
And I'm telling you, they're not blaming the Republicans for this.
People, do you know that the cemetery, the American cemetery at Normandy that Catherine and I visited last June is shut down.
An American cemetery in France with nearly 10,000 Americans buried, is shut down in France because it's administered by a non-essential branch of the federal government.
Do you know that the beach at Normandy, the observation points that are shut down.
You're in France, you're in Europe, you want to go see the American cemetery, you can't get in.
You're not going to blame just the Republicans.
I don't care.
But there's something else that is not being in any way really truthfully reported on.
Anywhere on cable news, Fox is the closest.
Do you realize what a disaster these exchanges are?
Do you have day three now, and these things are an abject disaster.
These websites to sign up for Obamacare.
I want you to trust me.
The absolute frustration that people are encountering there is not being reported.
And the reason it isn't is because there's no way the Republicans are responsible for it because they opposed it.
The Republicans did not want Obamacare.
This is Obamacare.
These are the Obamacare exchanges.
It is Barack Obama who's told everybody how smooth it's going to be, how wonderful it's going to be, how cheap it's going to be, how you get to keep your doctor, how you get to keep your plan.
They're finding out this isn't true, and they're not mad at the Republicans over this.
Now, if you watch Washington News, you will hear that people are angry at the Republicans about it.
And you'll have reporters asking Chuck Schumer.
And Chuck Schumer will say, Yeah, yeah, we're Republicans.
And Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
And they'll go find two or three Republicans that want a cave, and they'll ask them, and they'll blame the Republicans.
But it's not the story outside the Bellway.
And that story, they aren't telling you.
Remember, Obamacare is Obamacare.
And a lot of these people that are not ideologically or even politically attached, health care is a big deal to them.
And they believe this.
I mean, they've had the media, they've had Obama's gonna be wonderful.
And it isn't.
And it's, you know, they're used to Walmart.
They're used to efficiency.
They're used to go to Amazon, buy something, it works.
Walk into Walmart, buy something, it works.
The system works.
The process works.
They're used to this.
You go to the iTunes store, buy the latest Bono tune, it works.
You get it.
Everywhere you go, except at Obamacare Exchange, it isn't working.
They're not blaming the Republicans for this.
I want to grab somebody 28 again, because I think this is uh another important joke.
Just like Obama now trying to talk down the stock market, that's an act of desperation.
What that tells me is that in their internal polling focus groups, the Republicans aren't being blamed.
And so they're having to really pull out all the stops, talking down the stop market, stock market just so you can have the Republicans blame for it, tie them to the debt ceiling and the default and all that.
They always overplay their hands because they're never grounded in reality.
Everything they're doing is a lie or a mirage or an illusion, and you just you d eventually those things catch up to you.
Once in a while.
Now, here's Schumer at a press conference talking about the shutdown.
And this is why they're not going to accept a bill to fund the NIH for kids to get cancer treatment.
This is why they are not going to accept a separate bill to fund Head Start, the National Parks, or WIC.
This is why they're not going to accept a separate bill to fund the military.
There's one reason why, Ted Cruz.
They are not going to let Ted Cruz now win.
Now, the fact, you're going to hear Schumer admit this in a minute.
The fact that that's even said.
Remember now, inside the Beltway TV, Ted Cruz is the biggest joke.
Every Republican hates Ted Cruz.
He's a lunatic.
He's a wacko, he's a nut.
He couldn't possibly be supported by Republicans.
Oh, it's good.
Ted Cruz been a nominee.
Don't make me laugh.
Ted Cruz is who they are.
Livid it.
Ted Cruz, in their minds, is responsible for all of this.
Here's Chuck Yu Schumer.
To fund these piecemeal bills would give Ted Cruz a veto power over what is funded and what isn't.
Ted Cruz came up with this strategy.
Shut down the whole government, and then we'll pick the few pieces and let you fund them.
Ted Cruz is not the entire U.S. government.
Well, who is?
Obama?
How's that working out for you?
No, they're ticked.
They are really upset.
And I gotta let Ted Cruz win.
Oh, no way.
No matter.
Kids with cancer, Ted Cruz, kids with cancer lose.
It's that simple.
Kids with cancer or Ted Cruz gets credit for a bill that funds them, kids with cancer don't get treated.
Welcome to the Democrat Party.
Here's uh here's Bruce, Melbourne, Florida.
Bruce, great to have you.
EIB network high.
Hey, Russia, thanks for taking my call.
You've hit it right on point.
Obamacare isn't the real issue.
It's who is gonna maintain control of power in this country.
And we have a majority of Americans in this country who really disapprove of Obama Reeds, Pelosi's, etc.
And basically, we're stuck with the situation.
We are now facing a battle of Waterloo McRoman.
If we cave in, Obama and his minions get anything down the road that they want.
And we have to really support the cruises, uh, the Mike Lee's out there that that are in our corner, or else we're gonna lose what this country was founded on.
It's great issue, the Constitution, giving us liberty, freedom, free market, and you name it.
And again, what they're trying to establish as far as the Democrats and Obama is to disregard the wishes of the people.
And the you know the minority will back the power that they're seeking, it's it's just gonna have total disregard for the majority of us in this country who don't want to lose, you know, the America that we believe in.
Well, what you make a great point here at the beginning of your call.
Don't forget, folks.
Every poll, the vast majority of people don't want Obamacare.
Every poll.
You think they're blaming Republicans when they run into this walking disaster that these exchanges are?
You think they're blaming Republicans?
They don't want this anyway.
They have to do it and it doesn't work.
There's and of course, your point about caving now would be an absolute disaster.
You're you're right about that.
The American people, I'm telling you, outside the beltway, they're not hip to any of this, folks.
They're not buying it.
Hi, welcome back, my friends.
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And we will take a brief time out here at the top of the hour.
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