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Oct. 4, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 4, 2013, Friday, Hour #3
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You know, there he is.
It is Obama on Fox Run.
I'm happy to have negotiations with the Republicans.
No, he's not.
But this, I'll tell you, this whole talk about negotiations bothers me anyway.
Now, to the extent maybe that you can make Obama look like the Stonewaller, that's that's fine.
Don't misunderstand.
Because on the one hand, you know, I can see as Obama.
I wouldn't talk to these guys if I were him.
Why?
I mean, knowing who he is, knowing the kind of authoritarian quasi dictator mentality he has.
Why should he dictate negotiate with these schlubs?
I mean, his way is his way or the highway.
Why should he negotiate?
And the reason I I mentioned it, I don't know that belly aching about Obama not negotiating is a way to force him to negotiate.
That isn't gonna work.
It's going to, it's going to require what's already happening, and that is action and deeds.
All of this bleeding about he won't negotiate, well, we're gonna negotiate.
Well, I don't expect him to.
It's not who he is.
He's said, I don't know how many times in five years he's not gonna talk to these people.
He doesn't like them.
He'd much rather be talking to Basher Assad right now.
He would much rather be talking to whoever's uh on the agenda of the Asian trip that was camped.
He'd much rather be talking to a guy that runs Iran.
You know, but running around saying, well, what are we gonna do?
We gotta get him in.
We just want to talk.
That's not the point.
He's going to have to be defeated.
He's gonna have to be forced.
And it's not gonna happen at the negotiating table.
You're not gonna go into a meeting and have a negotiation, a debate, or whatever, and have Obama sit there and the lights go off and he says, oh yeah, you know what?
You're right.
That isn't the way this is gonna happen.
Now, if all of this bleeding about Obama refusing to negotiate, if that works in terms of persuading the American people of his obstinence, and I'm all for it, don't misunderstand.
Uh I understand the obs the optics here and and uh the objectives because it is important.
Remember, I want to emphasize this again, Obama was elected by dreamy-eyed utopian idealists who thought that all of this angst and all of this fighting, oh God, can we just stop the fight?
It was gonna end.
There is a heavy contingent of the Rodney King crowd out there, folks.
The can't we all just get along crowd?
I mean, there's a famous conservative columnist who could lead the movement.
I'm not gonna mention the name, I don't want to get into any little shouting matches over that, but uh this person is governed by the oh, because I just hate the arguing, can't we just not fighting?
Can't we just that's not gonna appeal to Obama.
Uh the fact he's not negotiating, that's not gonna appeal to Obama.
Uh but if, as I say, people can be these dreamy-eyed utopian idealists who thought Obama was the I mean it this stuff wasn't gonna happen anymore if it can if it you know, harping on that makes that case for them persuades and fine.
I think people are showing up at these exchanges.
You know what's happening?
This is not being reported.
Bunch of Obama voters are showing up and they're getting sticker shock on these premiums.
I'm telling you, this is happening at these exchanges.
It has to be.
That's the law of the land.
There isn't any $2,500 reduction in your premium.
There isn't any you get to keep your doctor.
There isn't any you get to keep your plan.
That was all bogus.
You realize how bad it is when they've got two people they can highlight, say, hey, these are the these are the poster people, and one of them happens to be an Obama volunteer for organizing for America.
One of them is part of the volunteer organization that runs around supports Obama day in and day out.
I guarantee you there are people, and some of them young people, idealistic utopian little people, not little people, but young people walking in.
They really thought that healthcare was going to be plentiful and cheaper, and there's the sticker shock is happening.
And we're starting to get the end of the world predictions about the debt limit and all that.
Thomas Sowell has a piece today, Who Shut Down the Governor?
You know, Sol's brilliant.
He's at the Hoover Institute, which is a conservative outpost.
It's hidden.
It's out there, it's it's on it's in the Stanford campus, but you practically uh you need GPS and special permission to get there.
There's people it's practically bunker out there.
And Stall writes, even when it comes to something as basic and apparently as simple and straightforward as the question of who shut down the federal government, there are diametrically opposite answers, depending on whether you talk to Democrats or to Republicans.
But there's really nothing complicated about the facts.
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted all the money required to keep all government activities going except for Obamacare.
This is not a matter of opinion.
You can check the congressional record.
This serves a great purpose.
This strips all the confusion out of it.
The Republicans, I think now, folks, it's four times.
The Republicans in the House have voted four times to fully fund this government as Obama wants, except for Obamacare.
It is not the Republicans who shut the government down.
It is not the Republicans who are denying kids treatment for cancer at the NIH.
It's not the Republicans keeping people out of the World War II memorial.
It just isn't.
The Republicans have passed legislation four times to keep the government running.
As usual, the Democrats and the media have jointly shut down the government because all that matters is Obama and his legacy and his reputation and his image and his optics and everything but reality.
That's all they're concerned about.
How does this look for Obama?
And they believe that this association of Obama and the Democrats with their friends in the media, that alliance can destroy the Republicans, it can destroy the Republicans' resolve, it can cause them to cave because it can make the American people believe the Republicans are reprobates, mean-spirited extremist racists and all that.
and it's not happening this time.
I would say to you today what I said to you yesterday.
If all you're doing is watching cable news, including Fox, you think I'm full of it.
Because if you're watching the news, again, there isn't any.
If you're watching the media, the Republicans are getting hammered.
If you're watching the media, Boehner is with a Nat's eyelash at caving.
If you're watching the media, Ted Cruz is a lunatic who practically deserves to be put in prison.
If you're watching the media, Rand Paul and these Republicans is an absolute bunch of wackos.
If you're watching the media, they're just getting hammered left and right.
If you're watching the media, you'll see stories of people being hurt and harmed by this, losing their jobs, losing this or losing that.
It's all because of Republicans.
That is not the perception.
Obama's approval numbers are playing.
I think in Gallup, I saw one poll today, his numbers down four points since the shutdown began.
Obama's approval numbers down four points.
It's a major poll.
I just don't have it right in front of me.
Can't tell you which one it was, but it's big.
Something like Gallup or CBS, I forget which.
But it's not working.
And you know why you know the the best evidence of this?
The government still shut down.
That's the best ev the best evidence.
Ted Cruz is still doing Ted Cruz.
Obama cancels his trip to Asia.
You know why?
Somebody figured out it really wouldn't look good.
Here's a guy refusing to sit down with the Republicans and talk about this.
But he's eager to sit down and talk with uh some who might consider them to be enemies of America.
So somebody figured it wouldn't look good.
And somebody also figured it might look better if Obama took this seriously and hung around to make it look like he's actively working on it.
But it is not a matter of opinion that the government's been fully funded except for Obamacare.
And therein lies where the area of negotiation is.
And the area of negotiation is, look, Mr. President, you've exempted these people, and you've exempted that group, and you're giving that group a subsidy, and you're giving this group a subsidy, and you're giving members of Congress a subsidy.
Why not us?
Why not the rest of the American people?
Mr. President, you have exempted the employer from their mandate to provide insurance.
How about no mandate on the individual to have it?
Just for a year, Mr. President, just like you did.
Those are the things to negotiate about.
That's what Obama won't talk about.
Obama will not talk about the unfairness that he has instituted.
Remember, again, Betsy McCoy.
What is being implemented is not what Obama signed.
The health care bill that was signed into law long ago ceased to exist.
It didn't have subsidies for members of Congress.
It didn't have a one-year delay on the employer mandate.
It didn't have 2,500 waivers.
It didn't have all of these things that Obama has extra-constitutionally decided to do.
What is being implemented is not the law of the land.
What's being implemented is not the law that was heard and argued over at the Supreme Court.
There's every reason in the world to hold this up.
There's every reason in the world to keep further implementation going because lawlessness is taking place.
So all Mr. Sowell here is saying, if you want to start talking about who shut down to the government, it isn't the Republicans.
They've offered four different times full funding for every aspect, women, infant, and children's, so that the mother of the four-year-old fat baby can have her formula.
That's not me.
It's an AP story from earlier in the program.
So that whoever needs what, it's there, so that the kids can go to the NIH hospital and get their cancer treatment.
It's funded.
The Republicans have offered to open every park.
They've oped to fund everything to do with the VA, military, you name it.
It's the Democrats who refusing it.
And it's people like Harry Reid say, why will we do that?
We're not going to do this piecemeal.
Ted Cruz doesn't get to run this government.
Oh, really?
So there's another element that we can't let Ted Cruz win anything.
Ted Cruz is an idiot.
Ted Cruz is an extremist.
Ted Cruz is a wacko.
Ted Cruz is insane.
We can't let Ted Cruz within.
Cruz is a tea party.
We can't have a Tea Party winners.
I mean, they're quaking, folks.
Because the Republicans aren't caving.
Here's a poll quote from Thomas Sol's piece.
Perhaps the biggest of the big lies is that the government won't be able to pay what it owes on the national debt, creating a danger of default.
As we pointed out the last time this came up, there will not be any default on bills.
You know why?
Because the government continues to collect Tax revenue.
And the income to the government of tax revenue is sufficient to pay bills for a while.
So the magic, the drop dead date is October 17th.
And Obama's out there saying, well, we got to pay our bills.
If we don't pay our bills by October 17th, there's no money for Social Security checks.
And there's no money for Medicaid.
And there's no money for I think it's, by the way, another sign of panic.
It's a little early to throw the Social Security card out, but he did.
I mean, that's still two weeks away.
But Thomas Sall says tax money keeps coming into the Treasury during the shutdown, and that amount exceeds the interest that has to be paid in the national debt.
The monthly tax revenue collected by the government, income tax, you name it, whatever all tax revenue that comes in is still enough to pay interest on the national debt, even during a shutdown or a debt limit freeze.
Even if the debt ceiling is not lifted.
That only means the government's not allowed to run up new debt.
Doesn't mean the government can't retire present debt.
It doesn't mean that it's unable to pay the interest on existing debt.
None of this is rocket science.
But unless the Republicans get this side of the story out, and articulation has never been their strong suit, the lies are going to win.
This is what Mr. Sowell says.
He's right.
The Republicans, their biggest problem is they are convinced they're losing.
They're convinced, as usual, they're going to be racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes, and obstructionists and all this.
And so they're having little factions that want to cave and get out of this right now, the moderate Republicans, other Republicans that want to destroy the Tea Party.
The thing to do is to hang in here and to point out that Obama and the Democrats and the media are lying when they offer all these scare tactics.
The country isn't going anywhere.
The country isn't going to shut down.
The economy isn't going to shut down.
We're not going to stop paying our bills.
We're not going to stop paying the interest on the debt, even if the debt limit isn't raised.
It wouldn't be hard for Republicans to go out and say that.
And I think some of them, we played the soundbite of Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul in Paducah, Kentucky.
They didn't know the mic was on, but they're mic'd and it's live and they're talking very quietly to each other, and they're sharing with each other the idea, you know, we actually could win this, like we might they couldn't believe it.
They actually couldn't wait.
We might be winning this thing.
Yeah.
They could very well be winning this.
Let's take a brief time out, shall we?
Be back with much more on the EIB network right after this, folks.
Do not go away.
So the spokes kid Jay Carney just said that the regimes in that Obama would not sign measures passed by the Republicans through their gimmicky piecemeal approach.
Gimmicky priest piecemeal approach.
He probably doesn't know it, but that is the way the congressional budget process normally works.
It's the piecemeal approach.
But since Obama's never had a budget.
They might not know that.
But even with the continuing resolution, that's still piecemeal.
That in fact, that is the definition of piecemeal.
The CR.
Obama said something the other day, can you believe you just can't have people shut down an enterprise just because they don't get what they want?
Hey, Barack, you ever heard of the AFL CIO?
Here's uh here's Tim in San Diego.
Hi, Tim, great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hi there, Rush.
Yeah, a gimmicky piecemeal approach.
So, you know, uh, that's what we call kids with cancer.
You know, they're just little gimmicky piecemeal uh parts of the pie we don't really care about.
You know, on Tuesday, something unprecedented in American history occurred.
The first official United States death panel was convened when Harry Reid was asked if he'd be willing to save the life of a single kid with cancer, and his response was why would I do that?
And in a single pronouncement, Heartless Harry and the death panel Democrats Denied this kid treatment for cancer, and guess what?
It only took two days after Obamacare was implemented for the death panels to begin.
You know, that is an excellent point.
It's kind of like Hillary Clinton and Benghazi.
What difference does it make now?
Exactly.
Whatever's it made.
Well, why would I do that?
You know, the essence of a death panel is a person weighing somebody's life against other priorities.
And Harry Reed weighed the life of the kid with cancer.
And he's I have 1100 people sitting at home and they have problems too.
This is a great you know, you you this is a great folks.
Look at all this piecemeal stuff.
Look at Obama, you can't open that park, you can't do that, you can't go there, you can't go to your memorial, uh, we're not gonna open a Grand Canyon, and these people are running health care.
Is that really what we want?
People willing to cherry pick day to day what's going to be open or what isn't, based on their desire to inconvenience people or harm them, and they are the ones going to run the health care?
Is that really what we want?
Let's grab a couple of audio sunbites.
I want to hear from Ted Cruz.
He's on Greta Van Susterin last night in the Fox News Channel, and he says essentially that it's the Democrats who were scared.
She said, Senator, I read an article today, which said that the Senate was off to sort of a snippy start.
The reference was Senator Reed is calling you the joint speaker of the House.
A reference that he thinks that you're doing something over in the House or controlling them over there.
What do you think?
I mean, is it is it out of line?
Or sort of funny.
What do you think about him accusing you of running the House?
The more progress we have made, the more energy there has been from the American people behind defunding Obamacare, behind stopping the harms from Obamacare, the nastier the Democrats have gotten, the nastier Harry Reid has gotten.
It's gotten more and more personal.
They have been using personal invective, they've been calling us anarchists and terrorists.
That's a sign of the fact that they're concerned.
For months they've been saying there's no chance of stopping Obamacare.
If there wasn't any chance, they wouldn't be this scared.
They wouldn't be this shrill, they wouldn't be this nasty and personal.
And I think what they're scared about is the American people are energized right now.
And personally, I find that inspiring.
You know, I have to agree with this in this sense.
Pretend for a moment that we're all Democrats that we love Obamacare, and it's the law of the land.
It's there.
And the Supreme Court has given its stamp of approval.
It's the law of the land.
We've done everything to it they did.
We've given waivers, we've uh allowed subsidies.
Everything is the same except it's ours.
And we have the White House, and we have the Senate.
Why would we be scared?
If the law of the land, there hasn't been an entitlement ever unraveled.
The closest anything like this ever happened, and it only took a month when uh back in the Reagan years, the Medicare or well, social security, something seasoned citizens were gonna have to pay an additional dollar and a half or something, and they literally had a cow, and so that was written out after about a month when they attacked Rostinkowski in his car on the street in Illinois.
A bunch of seasoned citizens did.
Other than that, these things don't happen.
Why are the Democrats scared?
Not scared.
Why is Harry Reed getting so nasty?
What where's the confidence?
It's their bill.
They've got their president to sign it.
It is the law of the land.
The Supreme Court's stamp of approval on it.
So what are they afraid of?
I mean, if they believe in it, if they love it.
If if what are the odds that this bill is going to be decertified?
I mean, it's not going to happen.
The bill isn't going to be decertified.
But what are they afraid of?
It's really a good point.
What is the point in getting all snarky?
What's the point in getting insulting and mean?
What's the point of falling into a trap where you actually admit that you don't care about kids suffering with cancer?
There's Something is going on.
They're afraid of something.
I happen to have a pretty good idea what it is, and it's what they're always afraid of.
And that is the American people learning the truth about them.
That's something they live, I think, in constant fear of.
And you understand that if everything about you was a lie that you have everybody convinced, everybody you wanted to be convinced, believed every lie you've told them.
If that ever began to crack, that veneer began to crack, you might be a little worried.
And I something is has to explain this.
If they were supremely confident, if the Republicans were indeed the lunatics that they're being portrayed as, Harry Reed and Obama would be laughing themselves silly, and Obama would have gone to Asia.
And then be talking about how sorry they feel for people like Cruz.
They just can't accept that they lost.
But this bill is being implemented.
It's a great thing for the American people.
Blah, blah, blah.
That would be the approach, but they're not doing that.
They are acting panic stricken.
And they are in the process telling everybody who they really are.
Harry Reed, the veneer, the mask, the camouflage is gone.
That's really who this mean little man is.
And it's the same thing for Dick Durbin and the rest of these.
That's who they really are.
They are mean, vindictive, selfish.
You ever known people that delivered ultimatums like Obama does.
What do you what does it say about somebody that behaves and acts that way?
Have you ever noticed that people who repeatedly give ultimatums?
One of two things isn't at work.
They're either just arrogant, conceited SOBs, or they don't know how to work with others, and they're insecure, and they're trying to bluster and cover up that.
People who give ultimatum, my way, you're gonna do it the way I want to do it, you're gonna do it by the date or whatever, or then we're not gonna do nothing.
People that do ultimatums in uh, particularly in a governmental setting like ours.
I'm not talking about boss at a company.
He can ultimately all day long.
You do this by then or you're gone.
But I'm talking about somebody who routinely deals with people that way.
Uh they're covering up desperation or inadequacies with with bluster and this faux authoritative behavior.
These are people who have not learned to deal with frustration.
I've always believed that Obama has led a charmed life.
Well, what has he ever had to work with others?
I th I think that there have been people greasing the skids for Obama, taking care of whatever needs to be done.
I I don't I don't think he's um he's really had to compromise with people.
He's he's found ways to get rid of his opponents, get rid of his enemies.
He doesn't have to negotiate, he doesn't have to talk, he doesn't have to get involved in debates and all that.
Does that just for show?
And I don't think he deals well with what I think to him this is all insolence.
How dare they oppose me?
How dare they try to stop my law?
How dare anybody?
And I think that's one of the relevant characteristics that we are dealing with here.
Low frustration tolerance, arrogance.
Uh nobody's good enough to even be in the same room.
Who the hell do you think you are?
This is why Obama prefers speeches to celebrity-loving college kids.
He goes out, purposely finds young people dazzled simply by his presence.
Doesn't have to say anything brilliant, doesn't have to do anything, just show up to an audience that's just dazzled and impressed and blinded by his presence and willing to act like he's a rock star, even fake, fainting if necessary.
Somebody who's comfortable with fake phony glitzy applause because of the optics of it.
And that suffices for one-way communication.
Somebody who refuses to sit down and talk to people.
If you really believe something, I'm gonna tell you if it were just me, if I really believed something and I had these opponents, and I were president, I'd bring them in.
I'd try to explain, even though I know who they are, I would try to explain to it.
I believe in it so much I'd try to explain to him.
I don't think he even cares about the details.
I don't think any of that matters.
The fact that we got or he got national health care, whatever it turns out to be, as long as it ends up single payer, whatever the hell happens between now and then doesn't matter.
How dare anybody get in his way?
Dare anybody stop it.
So ultimatums and threats to walk out, and I've been over backwards, to be fair with these Republicans.
And he goes out and calls them names to these starry eyed college kids in the audience.
And if people see, this is the problem.
He's a bully, and the Republicans act afraid of him.
And all that does is enable him.
All that does is propel him.
Fear is what enables bullies, acting afraid of them, and intimidated by them is what enables them.
And then that's when intimidation becomes an effective way to manipulate behavior.
You know people like this.
You've run into them.
People who use fear and intimidation to get what they want.
Sometimes parents can create that in their kids.
When they if they if they allow their young children to get whatever they want whenever they want it, then if the if the parent decides that the solution to that is to become their child's friend, well, big potential problems.
And so we have all of this, I think, combined in a in a in a presidency that that is not what when things don't go as planned, and when people aren't automatically respectful, and when they're in this bowing down and blanketly accepting what the president wants, when there's all this obstinate, there's this reaction to it that's not good or healthy.
And if Republicans would just stop enabling that bully and intimidation by stopping being afraid of it.
That would be a sea change.
And that's what Cruz is demonstrating, if you ask me.
Fearlessness.
And look at how they're reacting to that.
They don't know how to deal with it.
They don't know how to deal with people who aren't afraid of them.
They don't know how to deal with people they can't manipulate or bully into shutting up and going away.
There's a lot to learn here, folks.
A lot to learn.
Back after this, I have to.
One-tenth of one percent of message iMessage users are having a problem.
They're going to fix it in a software update coming.
I'm lucky.
I haven't had any problems with it.
You have any problems in your snertly?
Yeah, I am.
You're the first guy.
You know, I've been reading these little tech blogs, these little snarky zit face big bitching about it.
And I have run into anybody with a problem.
You're the first guy.
On your iPhone 5, messages.
What happens?
They freeze.
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
Have you tried on LTE in addition to Wi-Fi?
Okay.
All right.
Well, use email in the meantime, but they've got a fix for it coming.
It really is, for some reason, suspecting a affecting a small number of people.
All right, folks, if you're if you got an iPhone, iOS 7, you're trying to send a message with the blue bubble, and it isn't sending until they fix it.
Do this.
Tap and hold on the message that won't send, and you'll get an option that says send as text message.
And then click that, and it'll go out as an SMS, you know, the old-fashioned kind of text message.
Do that until the software fix is going to come next week or real quick.
7.0.3, I think it is.
Anyway, that's my tip for the day, and we will see you Monday.
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