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Nov. 11, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 11, 2013, Monday, Hour #3
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They're unmasking it all today, folks.
I hope you're hearing this.
And I hope you're believing this.
Now look here.
Vulnerable Senate Democrats embrace keep your plan Obamacare fix.
So I told you the Republicans have already proposed similar legislation.
The problem is the plans are gone.
They've just been canceled.
What is this?
Keep your plan Obamacare fix.
I'll tell you what might happen with this.
And I I can't see it, but I wouldn't be surprised at the same time.
If the heat's on Obama and okay, okay, you know what?
We'll make some plans for the next year you keep your plan.
And then you you break your arm trying to find it.
He goes out, limbaugh theorem.
You get to keep your plan.
You can't find your plan that exists anywhere.
They're not going to allow the insurance companies to recreate it.
This is here we go.
But the very fact that this questions come up, and now it's all on dingy Harry.
Will Dingy Harry allow a vote on people being able to keep their current plan?
There's no need for Obamacare if you do that.
This is this is the fundamental point.
If you can keep your plan, there is no need for Obamacare.
Obamacare by design nukes your current plan.
I don't know if people would realize that, though.
I don't know if if if this ever if this were to happen, Dingy Harry passes this thing, or pop Republicans would probably go along, oh yeah, you got to keep your plan.
All that's gonna do is pull Obama's bacon out of the fire for a year, and it's gonna make sure these Democrats get elected, get re-elected.
Uh more on that as time unfolds.
It's not gonna happen overnight.
Watch Dingy Harry allow a vote on it tonight.
I promise we'd get to the uh sound bites of Sarah Palin on the uh Today Show today, and here they are.
Matt Wauer interviewing Sarah Palin.
Matt Wauer said, the president said you get to keep your existing policy if you like it.
Five percent of Americans can't keep it because it doesn't meet standards of the new health care law.
If it turns out that those five percent of people end up with a better policy, do you think they'll forgive him?
Before hold on just a second.
Hang on a minute.
We gotta find the the Obama saying that.
Damn it, what number is it?
Seven?
I put that on the bottom.
It's the one thing.
Okay, grab, yeah.
Uh this is February 25th, in 2010.
This is at Blair House, which is on the grounds of the White House or visiting dignitaries stay if they don't want to stay in old Lincoln bedroom.
And Eric Cantor, this is this is the discussion they had on um insurance regulations, a bipartisan health care summit that Obama convened.
Yeah, Paul Ryan was at this thing.
You might remember it.
And Eric Candor said, I don't think you can answer the question in the positive to say people will be able to maintain their coverage, people to be able to keep the doctors they want in the kind of plan that you're proposing, sir.
The eight to nine million people that you refer to that might have to change their coverage.
Keep in mind out of the 300 million Americans that we're talking about, would be folks who the CBO, the Congressional Budget Office estimates, would find the deal in the exchange better.
That's not happening.
So Obama says this.
This is the reason I wanted to air this is to show you the linkage between the regime and the news and the networks.
In this case, Matt Wauer.
There isn't a better plan than what people have.
That's the problem.
What am I missing here?
People are being canceled.
They can't keep their current plan.
What is available at healthcare.gov Is not better.
Every alternative is more expensive.
But again, with this 5% lie, it isn't 5%.
It's everybody.
He's just talking about the f the the first wave of cancellations being 5%, but it's going to be everybody.
Nobody is going to be able to keep their plan under this.
The plans will not comply.
They will eventually not qualify.
Something about them will be found to be changed, and they won't qualify by design.
So anyway, Obama says, well, yeah, I mean people are going to be canceled, but what they're going to find is an improvement.
So that's three years ago.
Just to show you that the White House gives its talking points to the sycophants in the media.
And any sycophants just pick it up and run with it, not knowing what the hell they're talking about.
Matt Lowers question to Sarah Palin.
Well, the president said you get to keep your policy if you like it.
Five percent of Americans can't keep it because it doesn't meet the standard of the new law.
But if it turns out that those five percent end up with a better policy, do you think they'll forgive him?
Where do you get this 5%?
It's not 5%.
It's most Americans will not be able to keep the health care policy and programs that they had desired.
And the new programs that are being forced down our throat are unaffordable.
People who are being told today, if you and some of them are still being told, well, if you like that insurance policy and that coverage, you still will be able to keep it.
It's just going to cost you a little bit more.
That's the point.
If it's going to cost you more, then it's not the same policy.
And it isn't 5%.
And but but again, I'm I want to focus on the fact that Matt Lauer, I don't even think knows what he's talking about.
He's given this talking point from the White House.
It's a three-year-old talking point.
We went and dragged it out after we heard Matt Wauer's question.
Where does this come from?
It comes from Obama.
Well, yeah, 89 million, 5%, 300 million people country, big, but if they lose their plan, that's a better one.
What the hell?
Well, right on the schedule here, Matt Lau or Sarah.
Well, if they lose their plan, but if their plan that replaces it is an improvement, aren't they gonna love the guy?
So Matt Wauer then said Chris Christie called the shutdown of the government, and that strategy hatched by Ted Cruz and a member of the Tea Party a monumental failure.
If you look at the results of the election, isn't the message of the Tea Party that the middle ground, uh not the far right, is the most fertile ground for upcoming elections?
Now, here we're we're back to these precious independents.
Fertile ground.
Matt doesn't know yet that the polling data all shows independents abandoning Obama in droves.
He's just repeating his silly little talking points that somebody at the regime or his producer gave him.
Standard operating questions think that they're gonna embarrass Sarah Palin and make her look like a fool.
Well, I mean, isn't the message to the Tea Party that the middle ground, not the far right like them, is the most fertile ground for upcoming elections.
When you stand in the middle of the road, you're gonna get hit on both sides of the road.
We need to take a stand, especially on this Obamacare and support those who are just fulfilling their campaign promises.
So many politicians ran for re-election and for election, saying they will do anything in their power to defund the status socialized medicine program called Obamacare.
Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, some of these guys actually were fulfilling their campaign promises.
They stood up, they took the stand, fought for us.
It is true it's a cliche, but you know, in the middle of the road's where you get hit.
But that the middle of the road, again, the precious independents or the precious moderates.
Isn't that the future for the Republican Party?
That trick has been employed on them successfully my whole life.
And so, thanks to people like Matt Wauer and so forth pummeling Republicans with this independent moderate crap, the Republicans run campaigns aimed at 20% of the voters.
Is there more?
Well, that's it.
She took him to cleaners, the whole thing.
Um was a tour de force.
Uh let's get let's keep going.
Ted Cruz on the uh tonight show on Friday night, Jay Leno.
Now, Leno's been ripping Obama, but Lemo's a Democrat.
Leno's no, you gotta just accept that.
He's he's a Democrat, feminist wife, and all that.
Nice guy, don't misunderstand Big Chin, but he's a Democrat.
He's on the lib side of things, but you know, he's an equal opportunity jokester.
Like him, don't misunderstand.
He's got Ted Cruz on there, and he said, Look, I know you're a man of principle, you have your principles.
Does that prevent compromise when you're so set on what you do?
My view on compromise is actually exactly the same as what Ronald Reagan's was.
Reagan said, What do you do if they offer you half a loaf?
Answer you take it.
And then you come back for more.
I don't think Ronald Reagan could get in the Tea Party today.
You know, I don't think that's right at all.
Look at what Reagan did.
Reagan led a grassroots revolution.
I think where we are today is an awful lot like the late 1970s, where we had economic stagnation.
We had people hurting because of the government policies under Jimmy Carter.
They weren't working.
Remember, Reagan challenged an incumbent Republican president in 1976 in a primary.
And there was a grassroots revolution where he said, listen, this isn't working.
Let's get back to free market principles, back to the Constitution.
Now see, here's Leno.
He doesn't know anything either.
Chris Matthews has this stoop.
What?
Well, he doesn't.
He doesn't know except what he's been told.
So Matthews has this book out there that Tip O'Neill and Reagan, eh, they didn't really believe what they thought Reagan did.
He did they compromised every day, and then they went and had a beer.
There was this this whole notion that Reagan compromised his conservatism all the time, and there was a big buffoon Tip O'Neill led the way, and at the end of the day, Reagan went and out and had a beer with that's it's a crock.
And so it isn't a crock that Reagan wouldn't be suitable for the Tea Party.
If Reagan could come back to life, he'd be the nominee tomorrow.
Ronald Reagan was the Tea Party in the 1970s.
That's exactly what Cruz is saying.
Reagan led a revolt against the Republican establishment.
He led a revolt against Republican donors of the day.
He was despised in his day by the Republican establishment.
They did not like him.
They were as when he won two landslides, of course, success has many fathers and failure as an orphan, so there were a lot of suck-ups and a lot of groupies that glommed on to Reagan because everybody likes a winner and wants to be close to that light.
But they didn't.
And it it it it behind closed doors, they're calling him a dunce and an idiot and a wacko right-wing conservative, and they're planning on what life will be like when he's gone, you know, out of office and so forth.
Cruz is exactly right.
Reagan was the Tea Party of his day.
Leno couldn't possibly know that.
I mean, it just I'm find myself here having to climb down again.
You know, I'm I'm I'm getting too wound up.
I'm just I'm just getting too because we're surrounded by stupidity.
We're strip by you know what we're s we're surrounded by two things.
Stupidity and ignorance combined with arrogance.
Now I'm convinced that the explanation for a lot of where we is just stupidity.
They're just a lot of stupid, and not just voters, but I'm talking about journalists and this they just you know we assume that they're curious and know things because it's their job and they're close to it.
They're stupid.
They're not curious.
They are ignorant of things, and they're ideologues, so they they're ignorant.
They don't take the time to learn conservatism or conservatives or republicans because they've got this preconceived notion that they're racist, sexist big, and homophobes and all that.
So they're actually the close-minded ones among us.
They are the bigots.
They are the ignoramuses, the arrogant ignoramuses.
I mean, Ted Cruz is there.
As far as Leno's concerned, Cruz is there just to be mocked and made fun of.
And maybe acquire an audience, but as far as Leno actually listening to what Cruz is...
Cruz is answering Leno's going, yeah, you idiot.
You don't have to talk about you extremist, you racist pig, yeah.
Go ahead.
That's that's they don't know.
No clue.
I don't want to indicate that way.
He may not be saying that.
I take I take that back.
So I like Leno.
That's he's he's I mean, compared to Letterman and the rest of that crew at night, no contest.
But I just the one thing I don't know how to how to deal with stupidity.
I mean what how do you deal with stupidity?
How do you inform stupidity?
Ignorance is a different thing.
You can open the mind to the ignorant of the open you can you can open their eyes and have lights, but the stupid are another, the closed-minded stupid are another thing.
All right, so let's see, is there one more here?
Yes, there is.
Leno then said after that bite, Leno said, Well, if all this effort is in jobs, why so much in social issues that have nothing to do with jobs?
Look, my focus has been jobs, economic growth, and in particular Obamacare.
Obamacare, it's the biggest job killer in this country.
And you know, it's interesting.
The reason we played that bite was to show you the applause.
Obamacare is the biggest job killer in this country, and the audience in the Leno show um erupted.
Now let's go back to March 13, 1975 on the Tonight Show.
1975.
Johnny Carson had Ronaldus Magnus, and they had this exchange.
Everybody is confused.
Uh, how are we gonna get out of this?
I think that one of the things is that people keep looking to government for the answer, and government's the problem.
A moment ago you you asked, you know, about people and feeling not only confused but low and down in America.
First of all, the American people, if they would just take a little inventory and look around.
You triple our troubles, and we're better off than any other people on earth.
And we've asked so much of government, and we've gotten in the habit over the last 40 years of thinking that government has the answers.
There's very little that government can do as efficiently and as economically as the people can do themselves.
And if government would shut the doors and sneak away for about three weeks, we'd never miss them.
Ronald Reagan was the Tea Party.
But there's Leno's, well, Reagan, he couldn't even get it at Tea Party.
Reagan you know, a lot of the leftists say that.
You know, Reagan, he wouldn't even find it.
He he we the Republicans, he would reject Reagan in a primary list.
Bull.
Shh.
Bull.
It's a crock.
All right.
I swear I gotta come down here.
I've got back we are, Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, no matter how frustrated I sound, folks.
I still love it.
Don't mess don't ever misunderstand, but I'm just some of this stuff.
Look at you, look at all the money we've spent on education, and look how stupid we have made people by design.
Frank in Haymarket, Virginia.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hello, thank you for the call.
Sorry for allowing my call.
First thing I'd like to give out major kudos to whoever came up with your on-hold satire.
It's it's fantastic.
I'm glad you like it.
It's really as usual, it was my idea.
Hilarious.
Okay, as far as your original question.
Don't delay it.
Defund it.
Go in, publicize it.
Hey, this is the 35th, 42nd time.
Excuse me, we're looking to defund it.
Because by delaying it, you are helping out the Democratic Party.
But more importantly, you're validating that a sitting president has the right to change and modify any law to suit his or her needs.
Irregardless of what that law says, and uh that's not right.
Well, I agree with you.
Yeah, I mean it's just it's totally nuts.
Additionally, you know, these donors.
Okay, we need to find out who they are, and we need to, you know, go and either boycott their product or service or you know, protest them, let them know how we Feel.
This is nuts.
You know, the Mike Cruz and the Ted Lees, they're the ones who are standing up and saying, hey, enough is enough, and I'm going to be here.
I'm going to do what I promised to do, and I'm going to follow through on it.
For the betterment of the nation, not the betterment of myself or my party.
Stop this nonsense of it's all about the power.
Getting it and keeping it.
I appreciate the call, Hank.
Thanks for Frank.
Frank, Frank's reacting the first hour of the program.
He's been on hold since then.
That's what I'm people have been waiting a long time.
They always do to be on this show, and I appreciate it.
But he's bouncing off the fact that, you know, three weeks a month ago, the Republicans in opposition to Mike Cruz, as Frank just said, uh, in opposition to Mike Cruz is no, no, no, no, don't do anything.
Mike and Ted Lee, don't do anything.
Just let this thing implode.
It's going to implode.
Okay, now it's imploding.
And I said Friday, let's just not let's let it implode.
I thought I would agree with the establishment, see what happened.
Establishments now saying, no, no, no, no.
We can't let this go on.
This is hurting people.
We we need to delay the mandate.
Do you guys haven't?
I just wanted to illustrate that they're out there saying this and saying that, but when it actually happens, they actually turns out they don't support what they claim to.
And as to the donors, he's bouncing off the fact that Republican donors are targeting Tea Party members of Congress that supported the government shutdown for defeat.
And that's what he means.
He wants to know who these donors are, have them identified so that they can be boycotted and so forth.
So that's from the first hour, that's why I'm recapping for you.
Here's Jose in uh in Hawaii.
Jose, I'm I'm glad you called.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I thought I'd never get on your show.
It's a real honor.
Thank you.
You bet, sir.
Privileged to have you.
Well, I'm calling because I think we agree on the answer to this question, but let me check.
Do you believe that America's founders could have remained loyal members of the corrupt monarchy and worked from within to reform it into America?
Well, I don't, and that's why I'm starting a new party, but I'd also like to know what your answer to that question is.
Well, I want to make sure I understand the question.
Uh are you let me ask it in my own words.
Are you asking me if I think the American founders could have remained loyal to the king and re and and created a country that was nothing more than a satellite of Great Britain?
Is that what you're asking me?
Well, not just think like believe.
Like do you do you believe it?
Well, no, because it didn't happen.
Well, that's exactly what I what my answer is as well.
That's why they decided to break out and start America on their own.
They basically In fact, George Washington was offered kingship.
The founders offered George that that's all it's what they knew.
They were fighting it.
This is the power, folks.
By the way, this is the allure, and this is why.
I'm sorry, I got to calm down here.
This is why the morality of people who are leaders matters.
The founders specifically despised the monarchy.
The pilgrims were the first to escape it.
The founders established the United States of America as an independent nation.
They wanted no part.
How and they understood what monarchy was, they opposed the king.
You read the Federalist Papers, uh everything, everything, the Constitution, the way they set up this government.
And even after doing all of that, people approached George Washington and offered him the chance to be king.
Now the reason they did was because he was such a profound leader, and his morality was unquestioned.
George Washington could have been king, and he rejected it.
And he rejected it precisely because it wouldn't be the United States if there was a king.
Because kings are not elected.
And he was he wanted no part of it.
Now, what if Washington had been an egomaniac who wanted all the credit for the revolution and all the credit for the founding and then wanted to be king for his uh his uh position in history and so forth.
I doubt that there would be a United States of America.
Even though that's the folks, this is the lure of absolute power to average people.
It's a corrupting thing, and it's why you need people of distinctly great morality to reject the offer or the desire to acquire such power.
And we don't have that.
Barack Obama fashions himself as a king in his mind.
The Constitution doesn't exist.
If he can routinely change any part of it via executive order or whatever.
And when when George Washington rejected the offer to be king, the world was shocked.
Uh and you know Washington as the father of the country is a is a valid moniker.
But i i one thing that that doesn't get played up enough, and by the way, hello, rush revere in liberty.
One thing that doesn't get played up enough is George Washington's morality and his character.
His character gets talked up.
There's not but the morality of George Washington.
Because had had he accepted the whole notion of being king, who knows?
It's really doubtful that here we are today, as we are.
And it's uh the r uh people trusted him to be king because they didn't associate him with King George.
They didn't look it as a ruler, but you give people absolute power, and they'll use it, particularly if you expect them to.
And he rejected it.
He rejected that kind of power and really didn't even want to be president, if you want to know the truth.
Uh but he did it to get this fledgling nation uh off the uh off the ground.
Uh and now, Jose, are you still there?
Yes.
Okay, now what what what is the Tea Party have to do with this?
What was the point you were making about the Tea Party?
Well, my point is that they're trying to work from within the Republican Party to reform it into, like you said, conservative values.
Oh, that's true.
That's true.
They're trying to take it over.
Yes.
And I thought maybe it would be better if like they created their own party, or people just started to create their own parties that resonated with conservatives, because like even here in Hawaii, it's really hard to to talk to these Republicans because I guess they got into the game like Glenda Lingo.
They get Well, you know, now Hawaii is a is a special case.
Republicans could actually die there.
Uh if if they were I take that back.
As I say, I got to climb down to it.
Look, the Hawaii City Council passed some stupid resolution opposing me.
I don't even remember what it was about.
Something to do with uh an education story out there.
Now what the Hawaii is so liberal that Republicans, in order to survive politically, have to be their own version of liberal.
It's just Hawaii is as as liberal as Massachusetts is or anything.
I take it back about Republicans staying alive and this kind of thing.
So to me that's sad that they would have to change their values just to survive.
I mean, is are we doing this to to change, or are we just doing this to stay in the game and just get, you know, day-to-day jobs.
Is it a job for them?
Or are they doing this so they can create change in Hawaii?
No, there I in the case of Hawaii the calculation has been made that there aren't enough conservatives there to win elections if you just go full boat that way.
So the Republicans there are you know, have moderated their conservatism to be uh uh Rhino Republicans or liberal Republicans or whatever.
There's some conservatives, nevertheless, who are there.
There's the places is there are actually a lot of them.
They're just not elected.
Um that's the thing about that, but uh you know Hawaii is where you live, and so that kind of really matters to you.
The big part of your question is the third party aspect.
And we just Saw what happens in Virginia if that happens.
The Republicans gonna lose every time.
The Tea Party's gonna lose every time when there's a third party.
The Democrats sponsored this so-called libertarian.
I mean, not even even Ron Paul came out and opposed this libertarian in Virginia in the governor's race.
And all he did was take 7% of the vote.
And if he hadn't been on the ballot, McAuliffe wouldn't have been elected.
Pretty safe assumption.
But he was on the ballot.
Now, a third party isn't the way to go.
It really isn't.
I understand your your frustration in uh in Hawaii.
It's it'd be like living in San Francisco.
It'd be like uh living in in uh Massachusetts.
You choose to live there for uh reasons other than the politics of the place.
You wish it would change to suit you.
Uh there are just certain enclaves of liberalism that were always going to be that way.
And Hawaii is probably one of them for a whole bunch of socioeconomic and uh otherwise political reasons, but it's still uh again.
I want to take back the idea that Republicans don't survive out there.
I was just, again, I gotta climb down here, folks.
I'm so worked up about some of this stuff today, but I'm just way out there.
We'll be back.
It was the Honolulu City Council.
They passed a resolution denouncing me and my advertisers because the uh the Chikom premier came over, did a press conference, and I did an impersonation of what he was saying, and they thought that I was mocking the communist leader of China and mocking the Chinese language by impersonating him.
So they passed a resolution.
The Honolulus, I know it was funny.
Nobody can laugh about anything anymore.
Every so wound tight.
It was hilarious.
They passed a resolution banning me, well, not banning me, but denouncing me.
I thought about, because I went scheduled to be there some time later, a couple months, and I actually thought about going and turning myself in to the Honolulu City Council to see what would happen.
And they probably who knows what they would have done.
You know, I just like w imitate uh Kim Jong yeo when he was uh promising to do whatever he was promising to do and imitate Gorbachev, but they didn't like it because they thought I was mocking the Chinese leader in Chinese language.
The Hawaiians don't like anybody mocking communists.
It's too close to home.
Folks.
Government shut down today.
It's Veterans Day.
Anybody care?
Anybody miss it?
Government shutdown today.
See you tomorrow, folks.
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