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Oct. 16, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 16, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
What day is it?
What is this?
This is Wednesday.
It's unbelievable.
Already Wednesday and Monday, of course, dragged like I can't believe, so I can't.
Well, here we are, fastest week in media.
And always, folks, a thrill and a delight to be with you.
Rush Limbaugh here, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Great to have you here.
The telephone number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882 and the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Okay, look, uh, ladies and gentlemen, there's so much out there that seems on the surface uh to be inexplicable.
The problem in this country, as the uh uh a majority of people recognize them.
Look at this poll here.
Look at this.
This is a uh this is a it's it's a uh new poll.
It's it was a pew poll.
I don't know what it was.
Why don't they just put what the poll is early in the It's a Yeah, it is a a poll from the Pew research center.
And the bottom line, eighty-one percent of the people in this country are dissatisfied.
Eighty-one percent are dissatisfied.
Do you think they're dissatisfied with Ted Cruz?
Do you think they're dissatisfied with the Tea Party?
Do you think they're dissatisfied with the um uh with the opposition to Barack Obama, the Republican Party obviously thinks so, but that is tantamount insanity.
New poll shows more frustration with Washington over the government shutdown and a risk of default, number of people satisfied with the state of the country's plummeting to the lowest level since the 2008 financial crisis, and it's uh only 14% of Americans say they're satisfied with the way things are going in the country.
The um the survey picked up a strong throw the bums out sentiment.
Now, of course, what this poll uh attempts to convince people of is that everything in Washington was fine, and that everybody was happy with Washington until the shutdown.
And uh, I mean, everybody, we were just robustly happy, and then the shutdown came, and whoever's responsible for that, why everybody's really ticked off at them, and that would be Ted Cruz and Mike Lee and the Tea Party, and of course the Republican and Democrat establishments are lined up that way, and that's what the polling data is attempting to establish.
The fact of the matter is, a majority of people in this country have been dissatisfied for a number of years about the way the country is going.
And you know and I know that the people in this country who are dissatisfied with the way it's going are not dissatisfied with the Tea Party.
They are not dissatisfied with Ted Cruz or Mike Lee.
They are the only opposition to what's been going on.
I don't think I was I was trying to think um earlier today, if ever in my life I could remember any political, a major, not a third, but any major political party being so irrelevant.
I have never seen it.
I have never seen a major political party simply occupy placeholders, as the Republican Party is doing.
There hasn't been any opposition, not any serious opposition.
There may have been votes against this or that, votes against Obamacare, there may have been votes against the stimulus, but in terms of a policy-oriented, a package of policies, a package of principal beliefs of opposition expressed daily by party leaders against what's happening in this country.
There hasn't been.
And I know why.
And you do too.
The Republicans have been hoodwinked at two things that have happened— A, they are literally paralyzed because Obama is African American.
They literally paralyzed.
Before that happened, the Democrats and the media ran one of the most brilliant Political tricks I have ever seen pulled off.
That political trick convinced Republicans, and more importantly, their brilliant moderate consultants, that criticizing any Democrat president would anger the independents.
Remember that?
Because the independents, the God bless them independence.
Oh my God, folks, the princes and the queens, the princesses of our culture, the moderate independents, the only reasonable people out there, the only open-minded, non-bigoted, non-closed-minded human beings in America.
That 20% of the voting population is independents.
If you win them, you win everything.
Ask Mitt Romney about that.
He won big with independence, but his base stayed home.
That's why we're here, anyway.
So the Republicans got hooked into this belief that any criticism would send the independence running to the mild mannered, never critical, never extreme, never loud, never arguing, never bickering Democrats.
So the Republicans agreed to tie one hand behind their back because of Obama's race.
They had the other hand tied behind their back by this trick that got them to shut up.
You better you and really double down on that any criticism of Obama, because now you're criticizing the first black president because you're a racist.
So they now gotta go there, not gonna be critical.
Doesn't matter if he's president, doesn't matter if if he's transforming this country in ways it was never founded to be, doesn't matter.
Well, we can't criticize him because they're gonna call us racist.
And then you add to it the silly notion that any criticism would send precious independents running to the Democrats.
Note that there was no behavior the Democrats could engage in that would send the independents running to Republicans.
The Democrats can call Republicans hostage takers.
They can accuse them of taking ransom.
They can accuse them of being terrorists, and that doesn't bother the independents.
But when the Republicans question Obama's Obamacare plan, you racist pigs.
How dare you?
And so the Republicans have been talked into halfway, and they agreed on the other half to shut up.
And they have bought hook lined and sinker that what the American people want is kumbaya.
Everybody living together in a circle and loving each other and no acrimony, nothing but love everywhere.
That's what everybody wants.
And if anybody interrupts that, they're gonna pay that.
And so the Republicans have done everything they can to try to make everybody like them, and what they've ended up doing is creating one of the greatest political disasters I've ever seen in my lifetime, simply because they failed to show up.
And then when they finally did make a play of showing up, they didn't have the guts to stick with it.
Undertake a partial government shutdown.
Let's call it a slowdown.
Undertake an 87% shutdown the federal government for two weeks.
And the end game is that dingy Harry gets to write the continuing resolution and the debt limit expansion and extension.
That's and then after that two and a half weeks, all of it, the Democrat side, the Republican side blamed on Ted Cruz.
One guy did all this.
One guy created all this havoc.
One guy, if this one guy would have shut up and never said anything, why we'd be what?
In Fat City.
So the Republican establishment, the Democrat established, there is a full out now.
I want to warn you about this because folks, we're gonna have to hang tough.
We're gonna have to, I you may think I'm crazy here.
We're gonna have to remain as best we can detached from that mess, and stay up, bucked up, optimistic of good cheer as best we can because there is an all out assault now, not just on Cruz and Lee, and not just on the Tea Party, but on the conservative wing of the party.
It isn't new.
We've spoken of it on many previous occasions, but now they're feeling fortified, being fortified because now they all think they've got all the ammo they need.
And that is this last two and a half weeks is brought about strictly by the Tea Party.
Now you've got moderate Republicans who call themselves conservatives, like David Frum suggesting that the greatest thing that could happen to Republican Party now is if the Tea Party just branched off and formed its own conservative party.
You've got moderate Republicans and some who call themselves conservatives suggesting, you know what, you Tea Party people, why don't you just take a hike?
And even in the new republic today, there's a column.
The New Republic, a liberal journal of opinion telling David Frum that if the Tea Party really does that, you moderate Republicans are forever going to lose.
You don't have a prayer of winning if you succeed in driving your base out.
This is not the time to abandon Ted Cruz or Mike Lee, folks.
And I'm not talking about sending the money, and I'm not talking about anything traditional.
I'm just talking about in your hearts and in your minds.
Because you know they're right.
You know that what they attempted to do here was uh was I I think valiant.
It's been an illustration of just how terribly wrong things are.
And there are plenty of opportunities for lessons to be learned here.
Now look, I'm not living in a false reality here.
I'm I'm thinking about this last night, too, while I was pondering if I can ever remember a greater political disaster in my lifetime, if I could ever remember a time when a political party just made a decision not to exist for all intents and purposes.
I mean, do you know the Republican Party now can't wait to move on amnesty?
Paul Ryan and Eric Candor, they can't wait.
Obama can't wait.
After this cave on the shookdown, or whatever you want to call it, the next move at light speed is going to be for amnesty.
The Republican Party leading the way.
It doesn't make any sense to me.
Not in the traditional political sense.
Now, if you throw money into it, demands of donors, advice of consultants, it makes total sense.
But those are the people that have been securing defeat for this party, and those are the people who have set the table that has resulted in where the party is right.
They've been running it.
The conservatives have not been running the Republican Party, and nobody can say they have.
The conservatives have been trying to, but they don't, they've not, the conservatives do not run the Republican establishment.
I mean, whatever the Republican Party is today is because the wizards of smart that run it are not the conservatives.
They're the ones who have authored this.
It's their signature on all of this.
And they are like a lot of other children, a lot of other victims, blaming everybody else.
And that's where we are.
But the opportunity here, I still like it.
I've finished my thought.
I was I was thinking yesterday I said, and this is picked up a couple places, and I knew it would be.
No, I've not forgotten the Phil Mushnick thing.
I gotta don't worry.
In fact, there's a there's a new addition to that, that the Adrian Peterson's.
This guy's got more kids than he knows.
Now there are a couple more have just been discovered.
But we'll get to that in a moment.
Um I said yesterday on this very program that there are times I feel like we have just lost a war to the communists.
I use the term communist generically, but I've I I can remember back, I'm a child at a Cold War.
And I, as a child, the the threat that the Soviet Union was going to succeed.
That was a daily thing you lived with.
And if you were one who was engaged in all that, that was frightening concept.
And I almost feel like that's happened here.
And then in addition to that, it seems like it happened overnight.
I mean, all through the Bush years.
I guess the signs were there, but I missed them.
I didn't see the utter total transformation and I will call it deterioration of the pop culture.
I knew it was going on.
I thought it was more gross.
It's just with the election of Barack Obama.
And then the next day after that, it is like the country that was founded didn't exist at all.
And the transformation that Obama talked about wanting to make really had already almost been completed.
And yet we had had eight years of Bush, not commenting on the specifics of Bushian policy, neoconservative, all the things the Iraq war, but but it was uh, you know, how do you go from Bush winning two elections to where we are now in the spate of a week is like what it seems to me to have happened.
And because of that, I don't this is where I'm not living in a false reality.
Because I don't really think that's happened.
We are being asked to believe it has everybody, oh, yeah, Russia's got it.
These are changing times.
Country's changing, it's passed you by.
You know, you're you're 62, Rush.
You may as well be 82.
You're not relevant.
You don't know anymore.
You don't have anything in common with anybody in this country.
I mean, people tell me this.
You gotta get rid of it, Rush.
You're not anywhere near here, but no, no.
And this happened overnight.
They want us to believe this.
They want us to accept it, and they want you to, but things don't happen that way.
Now I know they've been trying this 50 years and they've been succeeding, chipping away, education, Hollywood.
But all of this stuff happening here coupled with this inexplicable political cave-in.
I mean, no opposition to this at all.
Not serious opposition, no serious pushback.
Nobody standing up until Cruz and Lee came along to explain what's wrong with what's going on, to explain what's wrong with Obamacare.
By the way, the Obamacare stack today, and one of the funniest things, you heard about this, the poor little diarist at Daily Cause.
This little guy, I guess he posts there regularly, that's why they call him a diarist.
He went to his Obamacare exchange.
And he found out he's going to go bankrupt practically with what the prices are.
So he wrote about that.
And he had a headline.
They call this reform F this.
Well, all the daily cause commentary just jumped on this guy, made him feel like three feet also.
He went and changed his headline, tried to soften it.
I've got the story.
Some of these comments, why why don't you go shop the market if you don't like what you find in the exchange of saying, who who are these fools?
Do they not know there isn't a market anymore?
There's no market to go shop.
And these are the true believers.
And I think the fact of the matter, the true believers don't even know what's really happened here.
The true believers haven't even really figured out what's going on, who Obama is and what he's really doing.
And all that is yet to happen, because it will happen, and they will figure it out.
And well, I gotta take a break, but how about how about this headline?
Let me uh it's a Clinton story.
Yeah, that does this dovetail so perfectly with the trick.
Don't criticize Democrats.
The independents won't like that.
They'll go running right back to don't criticize Obama.
Don't be mean-spirited, don't be partisan.
The Republicans buy it.
Here's Bill Clinton in a political story headline, Bill Clinton, conflict is good politics.
It's just I'm sorry for pounding a table.
I take a break and come back and put all this in a context that's imminently understandable.
You sit tight, folks.
Be right.
As Ted Cruz on TV right now ripping this deal.
I have to tell you, I admire the guy.
He's unflappable.
You talk, you talk about I'm sorry, I'm for I I know that the panel I'm not even pounding it.
I'm sort of just putting my hand on the table.
I'm sorry for the distraction.
I will try to limit it.
He's up there, he's on TV.
Says this deal ain't any good.
This deal doesn't provide any relief to the American people.
All this deal does is benefit Obama and Harry Reed.
But we got to be fair.
Harry Reid didn't get everything you wanted here.
We've got to be, we've got to be honest.
Harry Reid wanted a one trillion dollar debt limit increase, and he didn't get it.
He only got 986 billion dollars.
So he didn't get 14 billion of the one trillion that he wanted.
I'm sure those are on our side will claim victory here.
It's hanging tough.
But Cruz was supposed to make a speech.
Oops.
I misread the clock again.
Back at it.
Okay, so Dingy Harry and uh and and McConnell were announcing on the Senate floor that they've reached agreement here to give Obama and the Democrats what they want, and then everybody go home.
And I I don't know if the agreement was the Republicans can stay home after they go home, but they may as well.
Now, Ted Cruz went out and he had a uh a press conference at the same time this going on, at which he said that he would not block the Senate deal.
All he could do would be block it for a day or two, and he said that wouldn't make any sense.
So he's uh basically by not blocking it, not trying to block it, it's a done deal.
And of course, the drive-by's are ecstatic.
Folks, we're gonna borrow another trillion dollars.
And you know, we're gonna borrow a trillion more dollars to pay off money we've already borrowed.
Boy, it's a great day in Washington.
And I want you to just keep in mind Obama said raising the debt limit didn't mean that we're gonna go into more debt.
We just had to be able to pay our bills.
Okay, so Christine Lagarde, the IMF babe, she'll be happy.
A global economic catastrophe's been averted here.
The only thing left now is to steamroller and wipe out the Tea Party so that something like this can never happen again.
And that is going to be the objective going forward of both the Republican and Democrat establishments.
But we're good, we're we're going another trillion dollars in debt.
And that won't even take a year to run that up.
You wait and see.
And this trillion dollars that we're gonna borrow is to pay off money we've already borrowed.
Even though Obama said that that's not what any of this means.
This this pew polls 81% dissatisfied, but you won't find Obama's name in this poll.
And I'm sorry, that's just unrealistic.
That Obama doesn't get any blame.
Obama's approval number is pick your poll 37 or 41%.
So it's a done deal, and it's it's uh it's now for the conservatives, it's regroup time.
And I just want you to, I just want you to be prepared.
There's gonna be an all-out assault on the people that uh that you think have done a good job, and by extension, and all out assault on you.
It's gonna come from both parties, gonna come from the media.
Now, here's I want to go back to this Bill Clinton piece, because remember the trick.
As I I need to reiterate, one of the reasons we're here is for reasons that still baffle me.
The Republican Party has agreed to not oppose anything.
I mean, tantamount.
They've agreed not, yeah, they voted against Obamacare, and yeah, they but there's not nobody really associates opposition with the Republican Party.
And of course the pressures on them to, you know, be Democrat light.
I mean, isn't it a Democrat saying you guys are never gonna win any elections unless you stop this war on women?
What's that mean?
You guys better come out for abortion pretty quick.
You're never gonna win.
And I know you guys are never gonna win the White House, as though the Democrats care.
You guys, we're we're trying to help you, the Democrats.
You're never gonna win the White House again unless you come out for amnesty.
Really, The Democrats really want to advise us on what we need to do to win the White House away from them.
The Democrats really want to advise us on how to act so that we take some of their voters.
That's absolute insanity to believe that.
And yet, amnesty is the next card to fall.
Now that this deal has happened, you watch.
There'll be a fast move in Republican circles to push comprehensive immigration reform, go all in now.
I can't tell you what the Republicans think they're going to achieve.
Except this: I really do believe that some of this is oriented toward driving the conservatives out of the party.
I really think some of this is oriented toward the Republicans actually seeking to get rid of their conservative base.
And even if it takes fifteen years in the wilderness to rebuild a new base of people who don't embarrass them, of people who are of the right temperament.
Maybe that's what they're willing to do.
Maybe maybe they've got commitments in their donors to keep them afloat.
If they just get rid of somebody's wacko right wing extremists, and we'll just go all in here.
We'll try to put together a new base of really responsible, moderate, temperate, uh independent type American voters.
And we'll go out and we'll expand our demographics.
We'll get a lot of Hispanics doing this by throwing away the Tea Party, and we'll get a lot of women voters coming back.
We throw away our base, and we'll get we'll get the transgender and the lesbian gay bisexual groups, and we'll go out and get we'll get the Indians that are ticked off at the Redskins, we'll get them, we come out against that, and uh pretty soon we're gonna own the country is the way they're thinking.
And it all they had to do to bring all that off, all they gotta do is throw away their base.
That's Christmas morning for them.
Now the Democrats never stop whipping up their base.
Have you noticed?
There's never any pressure on the Democrats to get rid of their base, and you never hear Democrats ripping in their base.
You never hear the Democrats acting embarrassed, and believe me, their base is genuine looney tunes.
Their base lives and works in asylums.
But the Democrats never act embarrassed by them, never act like they want to get rid of them, never ever do anything other than whip them up.
Keep them engaged, turn them out.
Meanwhile, the Republicans are tamping their base down.
Why?
Because the Democrats don't like their base.
And it's more important to be liked by the Democrats within the Washington establishment, I guess, than it is to have the current base they've got.
Now, about this trick about shutting up, not being critical.
Politico story.
Former President Bill Clinton is weighing in on the government shutdown, saying the problem is that constant conflict can be a big advantage for politicians at the ballot box.
Constant conflict is actually good politics, Clinton said.
Because the more you can inflame your supporters, the more likely they are to show up on election day.
Well, what is that?
That sounds like he's talking about whipping up the base.
And if you're if if if your supporters are more inflamed than the other side, even if the other side has more people agreeing with it, you'll win because your crowd will show up.
Whoa!
So while the Democrats and the media have the Republicans convinced that any criticism of Obama is gonna is bad politically, and any bickering and anything that wreaks at partisanship is extreme, mean spirited, racist, sexist, bigoted homophobic and shut up.
Meanwhile, the Democrats are out doing the exact opposite.
They're trying to whip their lunatics into a frenzy to get them to turn out and to get them to register other lunatics to turn out.
Now, what Clinton meant this to be, I'm sure he meant this to be an attack on the Tea Party.
But when you when you strip that motivation out of it, and Clinton's talking about conflict is good politics, of course it is.
Conflict is good.
Talk to anybody that sends out a newsletter on Wall Street, and you ask them, what is the one thing they do to gin up subscriptions?
They predict a crash.
They say the crash and right around the corner, and I've got the answers for you.
By my newsletter.
And subscriptions skyrocket when you do that.
And I asked somebody on Wall Street, well, what would happen to your subscriptions if you wrote a piece now, well, the market's looking good and only no problems out there and everything's cooling.
Might get some, but not nearly as many as if they think there's a crisis.
And remember, the Democrats, there's no crisis.
That's too big to waste.
And so the Republicans have played right along with this.
I I remain mystified.
My only answer to this is that it isn't a purposeful effort here to get rid of the base.
They really are embarrassed by their base or don't like the base, and just not conservatives in the Republican establishment.
I've got to take a brief time out here, but we come back.
I've shared with you the limbaugh theorem, which to summarize, is essentially the explanation of how it is that even after five years, Barack Obama is not accountable.
Even after five years, Barack Obama is not held accountable for his policies.
How is that possible?
How in a poll can you have a majority of Americans disagree with Obama's policies, disagree with the direction the country's going, not a recent poll.
This is a poll before the election.
How can you have polls like that and at the same time have Obama's approval numbers in the high 50s and Obama winning elections?
How does that work?
Well, the limbaugh theorem explained it.
And it's essentially that Obama is not held accountable to his policies because he's not seen as governing.
He's always seen campaigning against what's happening.
While he's making it happen, he's nevertheless on the campaign trail as president, looking like it's a constant campaign, speaking to friendly audiences of uh deer in the headlight eyes college students, dazzling them with his presence, and he's talking about all these horrible things going wrong and how he's he's working hard, for example, to create jobs.
He's working hard to bring down the deficit, he's doing everything, but there are these powerful forces that's still opposing him, and it was worse than he even knew when he took office.
So he's he's he's seen while causing these problems, while creating this disaster, he's seen as trying to fix it.
It's the limbaugh theorem that explains that.
But now something is happened that explains why the limbaugh theorem works.
And I understand that some of you may have had some problems with the limbaugh theorem, because even though I explained it well, you might still understand how does it work, even though the constant campaign and Obama is seen as campaigning against all the stuff that he's actually making happen, how is it that people still don't attach him?
I mean, after all, he's president.
All presidents get attached to their policies.
How has he escaped it?
Well, a theory has been advanced by a psychoanalyst.
Dr. Keith Abloh, Fox News, that I think goes a long way to explaining why there is a limbaugh theorem and why it works.
And we'll get to that right after this.
I know some of you people get irritated when I play sound bites of the of the bad guys.
But if you just gotta hear the smarmy reaction of Dingy Harry, and it what he says here will last for about two hours.
Here's Dingy Harry, ecstatic, announcing it's all peace and love now in Washington.
I thank Republican leader for his diligent efforts to reach this important agreement.
Republican leaders' cooperation was essential to reach an accord that could pass both chambers of Congress and also be signed by President Obama.
This is not a time for pointing fingers of blame.
This is a time of reconciliation.
I look forward to working with my colleagues on both sides of this great capital to pass this remarkable agreement.
Oh, yeah, a remarkable agreement, another trillion dollars of debt to pay off previous debt that Obama says isn't new debt.
Oh, they're so ecstatic, and the drive-by's are so ecstatic, and oh, the opposition, boy, they are just the best people because they finally gave up.
And it's so bad we're not even gonna blame them for a couple of hours.
In fact, we're gonna even make it look like they get some of the credit here.
Don't you like that?
The Republican leaders' cooperation was essential.
You know what that is?
That's Dingy Harry trying to get Mitch McConnell defeated in Kentucky.
That's what that is.
Well, I couldn't have done this without Mitch McConnell.
I could not have made this happen.
We couldn't have gone a trillion more dollars into debt, and I couldn't have got something that Barack Obama will sign without my great colleague on the other side of the aisle.
So Dingy Harry here has just done a masterful.
He's just produced a great campaign ad for the Democrats running against McConnell.
Oh, yeah, I have nothing to do with this.
Mitch McConnell made this happen.
Okay, uh, let's get started.
I'm gonna have to carry this over to the next hour, but I want to get started on it since I've mentioned it and I don't want to be accused of teasing you.
Listen to this.
This is Keith Abloh today on Fox and Friends.
And he is a clinical professor of psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine.
Steve Ducey said to him, so the average person might hear partisan rhetoric, but what do you hear when the president speaks?
Others might hear partisanship, but what do you hear, Dr. Eblow?
In the words hostage taking being held for ransom.
He said that the Republicans are threatening to blow the whole thing up.
There's a real victim mentality here.
And it really explains the president's whole mentality and many of his policies.
That if he feels victimized and believes millions and millions of us have been victimized by America, well then that explains why he wouldn't negotiate with hostage takers and victimizers who have kidnapped him and threatened to destroy him.
And I think that's the way he feels.
And I think this is right on the money, and this I've said it in my own way on other occasions.
I've said that Obama was born with a chip on his shoulder and went through the all of his life with it.
And he had people uh raising him and educating him, telling him how this country screwed him and his friends now it was immoral and unjust.
And what Abloh has done here is attached the all-important word victim.
Obama is a victim of America.
And so are all African Americans, victims of America.
And when you are victims, you get sympathy.
And you get accommodation.
Everybody try to feel sorry for you, don't want to Criticize you, don't want to be hard on you because you're a victim.
You're just and Obama plays that and parlays that.
And this is just yet another reason why he is insulated from any criticism.
Poor guy's a victim.
And he really looks at these Republicans as part of the group that victimized him and his friends and his family.
Throughout all of his life, this country is to blame.
That's exactly right.
There's more to this, though.
Back in a sec.
Okay, folks, your phone calls are lining up too, so um a lot to do in the next hour, and we'll we'll manage to squeeze it all in as we always do.
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