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Nov. 21, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 21, 2013, Thursday, Hour #3
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Okay, so there's Obama.
He's up all happy now, folks, because um dingy hairy.
He employed a nuclear option.
And Obama was whining and moaning about all of his nominees that have been filibustered.
And they're wonderful people.
Why they keep your air and your water clean.
And they work in national defense.
And they're great public servants and all this.
There's a reason his nominees were filibustered.
They're all extreme leftists who are unqualified.
They don't know what they would not be good for the country.
And that's why they were filibustered.
And that's that's the built-in protection that the rule was for.
And this bunch of statist authoritarians is in the like it.
So as far as as far as Obama's concerned, this is Venezuela.
They're just gonna do whatever he wants is what he's gonna get.
And whatever he wants whenever he wants it is what he is going to get.
To hell if rules don't matter.
And that's uh exactly what's happening.
The Republicans have tried to stop a lot of his nominees.
They have succeeded, and he's that's why he's engaged in all these recess appointments that really haven't been recess appointments.
He's even fudged those rules.
This is a you know I I people are starting to see now what with Obama got.
They're starting to see the uh mistake that there's a great piece, by the way.
I know I said Elizabeth Hasselback bit, it's coming up, but folks, I keep my mind, you know, it just fires constantly.
Even when I go to sleep, I'm doing show prep.
Why aren't millennials marching in the street over Obamacare?
It is a Forbes story, and it is it is terrific because it talks about how these millennials don't yet know it, but they are the ones whose futures have been stolen in order to pay for Obamacare.
They all voted for the guy.
Um Chris Conover wrote the story.
Anyone I tell you what, uh to prove to you that I am not teasing and I'm not employing typical tried and true amateur-ish radio tactics.
Put that aside.
Go back to Soundbite Number 10.
Here's the this is I just want to replay what I said yesterday, comparing the Obama Paul plummet to that of George W. Bush.
I never believed the Bush approval number.
I mean, I believed it, but I didn't think that it was all owing to Bush.
It was the result of what had been said relentlessly for four years about Bush.
Bush lied, people died.
Books on the assassination of George Bush.
And none of it was ever replied to.
None of it was ever defended, reacted to, responded to by anybody at the White House from the president on down.
So it just sat there.
And we followed that with a soundbite from Dana Perino, which basically proved it.
Uh she wanted to respond to something that was out there, and he said, nope, you're not gonna do it.
I want you to forgive whoever wrote that criticism and that book, and I don't want you to live in uh anger and negativity.
This will be gone in three weeks, and that's why they dealt with everything.
Every attack on Bush, they said it's got a life of three weeks and it'll be gone, and um.
There was always a new one to replace it.
But Bush just refused to get political and he uh he said that his reverence for the office was such he's not gonna follow people to the gutter.
Well, in the process, the media had four years to drive his approval numbers down to 36%.
It was it took them four years, but they did it.
Now my point was Obama's number is now 37% at CBS.
It's 39 at Gallup, it's 36 Quinnipiac in Colorado.
The bottom is falling out of Obama, and it's on Obamacare.
And the point that I made yesterday was that this is real.
The media's been trying to protect Obama.
They've shielded him.
They've done everything They could to protect Obama and make sure that he's not accountable for any of the disasters that have happened.
Be they jobs, economics, foreign policy, this whole administration is a disaster.
And the media has shrouded Obama in a protective cover and helped him remain removed from it.
So he has no accountability.
But this they can't help him on.
And that was that was my point.
Now, I happened to casually mention when I saw the sound by ground that back when Elizabeth Hasselbeck, who I like, who I have not met, who I don't know, her husband was a quarterback in the NFL.
I don't know her.
I don't think at all against Elizabeth Hasselbeck.
But I do remember when she was on the view, and whenever there was any controversy involving me, she was.
I mean, there were there were times Dawn has reminded me, I frankly don't remember them, but Dawn is, oh, there's a bunch of times that she was supportive.
Okay, fine.
But there were also times where this is very embarrassing.
I don't know that I can support that.
I just just made the casual observation that when she was on the view, and I was less than okay, but now that she's on Fox, I'm astute.
And that's simply because she was a little bite here on uh Fox and Friends this morning reacting to the soundbite I just played of you, of me comparing Bush's approval numbers to Obama's.
Rush Limbaugh says, look, that approval rating that you just discussed.
Listen to his just astute take on why this is happening, why it's significant, because this is not a president that has had a media that's been unfair to him.
This is all on Obama.
You know, people aren't feeling this way because they've been told.
Here's the thing, folks, this is why this matters.
You and I know the George W. Bush approval number, 36, 37 percent, took the media four years to get it there.
The George W. Bush approval number was the result of four years of relentless, unstoppable media pounding.
The media drove that approval number of George Bush down to 36%.
The media did not drive this down.
Obama's 37% approval is all on Obama.
It's astute now.
It's an astute observation.
And I have to say, Elizabeth Hasselbeck uh is right, and I thank her for that comment.
Elizabeth, I beg people not to bother you with tweets and emails and so forth.
Okay, Brian Killmead next.
Following Elizabeth Hasselbeck, killmead added.
Keep in mind, two days ago, Nancy Pelosi says stand tall behind the Obamacare Act.
David Plough says Republicans will be crazy.
It's an impossibility they'll run against the Obamacare.
And we also know that uh Debbie Wasserman Schultz said that it's going to be something we run proudly on in 2014.
I don't know if that statement and that belief will last more than a week.
So he's thinking that the Democrats may turn on Obamacare.
I don't I don't know that that's gonna happen.
Anything's possible, though, because this is only going to get worse.
Nuclear option notwithstanding.
I mean, Obama's feeling pretty good right now.
Because he just there's no other way to put this.
He gets to play dictator now with judicial nominees.
That's that's really what that means.
He gets to play dictator.
That's something he's always wanted.
He is I saw him.
He's ecstatic.
What Obamacare?
What's that?
That's just a bump on the road.
This today, that's the big deal for me.
That's what he's thinking.
I don't care what they do to Obamacare, because it's not going anywhere.
It's going to become the law of the land, and I'm going to control one-sixth of the U.S. economy and whatever else I can grab, and now I can put Bill Ayers on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Anything's possible.
Anybody can be a judge.
Let's see.
Um back to this millennials story, because this is a shame.
That I mean, the people who have been royally screwed.
And we talk about how the debt that Obama has run up is going to be paid by your kids and grandkids and so forth, and all of that's true, but this Obamacare is even more in.
And this what it means is that the millennials, which this is the official definition of a millennial is born between 197 and 1995.
They are the SOCs on this.
Chris Conivore at Forbes, anyone with a conscience should be offended by the greatest generational theft ever witnessed in the history of the world.
Young Americans, especially the millennial generation, born between 1977 and 1995 are the biggest losers in this battle, but it will adversely affect their children and grandchildren too.
Obamacare simply represents the latest front in this war, which now rages from Social Security to Medicare to this deeply flawed law that is imploding as we speak.
Let's be clear.
By design, Obamacare can work if and only if enough young people are willing to pay premiums far higher than are actuarially fair in order to subsidize people my age, who on average earn far more than the young workers who are subsidizing them.
And I'm using the exact verbs, pronouns that Chris Conover wrote here.
So he's a he's a boomer, and he knows that it's millennials who are going to be paying the freight for his health care and nobody else's age.
It's millennials who are going to be charged higher premiums to fund the elderly sick and the elderly poor.
He says they just don't know it yet.
They all voted for this guy.
They voted for the Messiah.
They don't know yet how they've been shafted royally.
He says, even if some of them do.
I mean, I've taken calls from millennials who are worried that there isn't going to be any Social Security for them, for example.
That they're paying into it now for everybody else, but it isn't good.
So there's some of them who are aware of it, but but a lot of them have voted for Obama are not aware of it.
Now, even if one takes into account that millennials in the long run eventually will become old themselves and benefit from these subsidies, Obamacare still is an extraordinarily bad deal that effectively would force today's 18-year-olds to pay 18% more for their medical care over a lifetime than if each generation paid its own way.
Such an age-related tax is unconscionable.
Imagine if sales taxes or income taxes included a surcharge for everybody who happened to be 20-something.
If this sounds preposterous, welcome to Obamacare.
And Mr. Conover is right.
There is, in effect, a surcharge on 20-year-olds.
Moreover, if ever fully implemented, this law will strip the economy of more than 1 million jobs.
It'll relegate another 10 million full-time workers to part-time status.
And in both cases, it's going to be young, inexperienced workers who bear the brunt of these adverse effects on the work effort.
Equally appalling, the law will discourage young people from getting married, even though all the empirical evidence shows that marriage is one of the most potent anti-poverty programs in any society's arsenal.
Worse, if honestly scored, the law will add $2 trillion to the federal deficit in its first 20 years.
an amount that larger will be borne by today's youths and their progeny, if indeed they can afford to have progeny.
And perhaps most sickening of all, Rand Corporation scientists estimate that as a result of Obamacare, at least 3.8 million Americans who already have have coverage that they like will not only lose it, they will end up remaining uninsured.
Now, other than all that, it's a good deal for millennials.
After all, they get free birth control pills.
And that's it.
In two thousand eight, sixty-six percent of people under 30 voted for Barack Obama, mm-mm, making the disparity between young voters and other age groups larger than in any presidential election since polling began in 1972.
President Obama's margin of victory that year was sufficiently large that he could have won even if the youth vote had been split 50-50.
In contrast to Tufts University analysis of the 2012 election showed that had a youth vote been split 50-50 for the presidential race in just four states, Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Virginia, Romney would have been elected.
That's regrettable, as such an outcome might have averted the disastrous Obamacare rollout that has created consternation on both sides of the aisle.
Now Gallup poll figures show that as recently as May of 2013, 60% of those 18 to 29 approved of Obama's performance in Orifice.
Same fraction in that age group who voted for him in 2012, 60 percent.
This approval rating has plummeted to 45% now.
In the most recent poll, still higher than any other age group.
It's a puzzle.
Since as one pundit put it, Obamacare is simply the latest instance of generational theft being perpetrated against younger Americans.
They don't know it yet, and that's not why they voted for him.
Voted for him for all of the usual social pop culture reasons.
They didn't vote for him on issues.
They didn't know any.
They voted for him on things like gay marriage and equal rights, global warming, and all this stuff they think threatens their future.
Not aware at all that it is Obama who threatens their future.
Before we go to the break, I have a brief question for Senator McCain, Senator Susan Collins, and the rest.
How is that working across the aisle thing working out for you now?
With this nuclear option thing.
You stuck your hand out across the aisle.
Shake hands with them, and now you've got to somehow reach around and take a knife out of your back.
And we're back.
And we head back to the phones to Indianapolis.
This is Amy.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Thank you so much, Rush, for having me on.
Hey, I have been waiting to tell you this all summer.
You have made my summer awesome.
You just made me have a really fabulous summer.
And I'll tell you why.
My husband and I, we have eight children.
Only homeschool.
And every summer we go out to the garden and and plant what I affectionately call my communist garden.
Which basically means it's it's the fi that the idea is to have everybody come out and everybody work together and do their own part so that we can bring this garden in at the end of the summer.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
You you a communist garden, did you say?
My communist garden, where we all work together and do our part.
And you're thanking me.
No, no, no, no, no.
That's what we've done for many, many years.
Which basically ends up being the communist garden ends up being me planting everything, me watering, weeding the garden, and be harvesting it and then eating all the food.
Oh, oh, yes.
Exactly.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But after many years of listening to you tell the true story of the Thanksgiving story.
And my kids finally getting to the age where they're old enough.
This year I went out with the kids and I said, kids, we are done with this communist garden.
And this year we're going to start a capitalist garden.
So I handed my kids the seeds and the sprouts, and I said, You go plant it, you take care of it, and when you bring the harvest in, I'll pay you.
Rush, all summer long, I had tomatoes and cucumbers and potatoes and and onions and all different kinds of vegetables, and I didn't do a bit of work.
You sound like one of the greatest capitalist CEOs of ever heard.
Now you're making the kids work for nothing.
Oh no, I paid them.
Oh, I paid them.
They they bartered with me too of how much I was going to pay them, but yes, they got paid.
So you paid them based on their outfit or output.
Yes.
Yes.
And it was wonderful.
Well, you're like a pilgrim.
You took the lesson of William Bradford and you employed it in your own collectivist garden.
Exactly.
So I and that's because of you.
So I want to thank you for teaching me this great concept.
I got a wonderful summer because of you.
So thank you.
Well, you're more than welcome.
I I've that's that's uh that is actually a funny story.
It's actually a uh a great story.
Uh for letting me.
What's the age range of your brood?
Four to seventeen.
Four to seventeen.
Yes.
And you homeschooled all of them.
All of them.
Wow.
And and they're avid listen listeners of the Rush Limbaugh program.
Well, Rush Babies, absolutely.
Absolutely.
So thank you.
Well, thank you.
You and uh you know what, hang on.
I I'm uh because uh you've codified the story here, but I want to send it to you in the form of Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
I'm gonna send a couple of books out that go around your eight kids.
If you hang on, L Snirdbow will get your address and we'll get those out soon as we can.
By the way, folks, I got a re I just reminded myself of something.
We we had the uh the great call there from um uh Amy in Indianapolis.
Uh and I r we've I I mentioned the other day we have this this little I don't know what that this little promotion uh some so many people were sending us email uh encouraging us to reach out to schools uh to want Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims to be part of the curriculum, uh, or at least in school libraries, and so what we did we've uh we got a place at the twof by t dot com website.
If you click on the adventures of rush revere at 2fbyt.com, you'll find information on a free challenge.
And that is Rush Revere and Liberty, the talking time traveling horse, are seeking the most deserving screw all or screwels in the country to get a large donation of not just Rush Revere and the and the Brave Pilgrims, but also American classics, uh written by authors like Mark Twain.
And in addition, the scruals will get computers and supplies and any tangible item that will improve their classrooms.
And what I asked people to do was in 500 words or less, let us know why your screw is the one qualified to get all this.
And I I need to change it.
Because people are writing us novels.
And I appreciate that.
People are going, I mean, full bore into into making the case why their scruel should get a bunch of copies of Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims and school supplies and books by classic authors.
But I need to ask you to reduce the size of your submissions to 500 characters.
Because the five no a newspaper column is 750 words.
We've got people writing us short stories.
And it's more than we can handle, folks.
I mean, I've it it's well, I don't want to but you we're being inundated as I knew we would be, and as you too.
But the you remember, brevity is the soul of wit.
The fewest number of words necessary make the most powerful point.
You uh and I'm just uh if you could, if you if you are submitting or if you haven't yet submitted, but you were going to submit your for lack of a better word, essay on why your screw should be the recipient of this large S. Yeah.
Some something so something short.
You know, get in, get it, and get out.
Something very pithy.
Um I I did say, I went back and I looked, I said 500 words or less.
And I did say that, but now, just like Harry Reed changed the Senate rules, I'm changing.
There aren't really any official rules here.
I'm just if if I change it to 500 characters, it it might cause you to be a little bit more disciplined in your submission.
It's a provisional change.
It's not really a fundamental rules change.
We'd have to consult any government authorities over this.
Anything.
But it's uh it's just it's something we really want to do because people are begging us to do this, and we want to do it.
But we can't do it for everybody, so we have to be subjective in it.
And believe me, the the fewer words you take, the more powerful if you do it right, your persuasion will be.
And also there's something I want you to look at.
We've we've added a new um uh gift item there that I just I just adore it.
We call it Ted T. Bear.
And it's uh it's uh it's a white little bear, comes it's beautifully packaged and so forth, and you see a picture of it at the two of my t.com website.
What about liberty and uh that sit tight, folks.
I mean, do everything we can here according to the schedule.
Uh but I uh the demand here that we are experiencing is this overwhelming.
We it couldn't be happier and and more gratified.
And we're we're dealing with it as uh we're small business folks, and we're under assault like yours is by the regime.
And we're we're doing everything we can here.
There's a study that is just coming.
Get this.
CBS, eyeball news from Houston.
Men with attractive wives, more satisfied in marriage.
They needed a study for this.
Actually, I think they might have, because I think this is one of these big myths.
The physical attractiveness of one spouse plays a major role in marital satisfaction for men, while women's happiness in their marriage was not affected by their husband's looks.
A study of more than four, boy, it is that ever.
I mean, no matter where you go, you can see that's that that's the truth.
I mean, there's no question.
That's the thing that gives men hope.
I it really is.
When you see some of the men, women should, it gives every guy in the world hope.
There's no question about it.
But there's also another truth out there, but I'd be very, very at risk if I were to make the point.
Anyway, 450 newlywed couples over the course of four years found that men with physically attractive wives remain much more satisfied in their marriage than men who didn't.
However, the attractiveness of a woman's husband played no part in the satisfaction that women felt from their marriage.
Now the key word here is newlywed.
450 newlywed.
Go talk to them after they've been married ten years survey people and find out what you get.
Newlyweds?
Newlyweds, nothing's real.
You go talk to them after ten years and you find out if the beauty means anything.
And you find out if if the husband's become a beer-guzzling Doritos vacuum cleaner couch potato with the belly done lapping over the belt.
Ask if the woman doesn't care.
And you'll find out she damn well does.
No, I've got no personal experience with that.
I'm just telling you, newlyweds are a whole different thing.
And for every no.
It'd make the liberals mad.
Glorious dynamic especially.
Here's Don in Pittsburgh on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Great to have you, sir.
Welcome.
Hello, Rush.
Thank you for having me on your show.
Yeah, I've been a long time listener.
I really wanted to make a statement.
First of all, I've I'm a 20-year Navy veteran, sir from 74 to 94.
And uh believe me, add my service to my country was made me proud.
And I'm proud to listen to you every day because you provide a great service to our country.
Thank you very much, sir.
Really appreciate that.
And what I really, you know, what really puzzled me, Rush, is how anybody with a sliver of intelligence can let this man just pour garbage down there in their minds every day and expect them to believe it.
Now the new thing is it's it's a renewal notice, not a cancellation notice.
I don't get it, Rush.
I really don't get it.
Because we're not talking about, let me help you.
You're talking, he's talking about Juams.
Julia was one of the favored leftist hacks, invited to the White House.
There were a couple from MSNBC, they think Chris Matthews was there, and then maybe some New York Times.
It was yesterday.
And in the meeting, it was a it was a confab where Obama was sharing them with them ways in which he wishes his lie about keeping your policy had been covered.
And he told these reporters, because Juan Williams reported this.
Juan Williams came out and said that the president said he wishes the insurance companies had said that they had just sent out renewal notices rather than cancellations.
Because they weren't renewal noticellations, they were actually notices of renewal uh better plans.
And so Don in Pittsburgh heard that, and he says it's also his intelligence.
And he asked, how can any intelligent person come out and say, oh, okay, Mr. President, fine, that's what I'll report.
It's not about intelligence.
It's about hackery.
It is about activism.
It is about people who are disguised as Democrats, disguised as journalists who are just Democrat hacks.
And Obama brought them up and said, okay, here's how we're going to deal with this.
We're going to simply say the insurance companies are the evil rotten players here, and they were trying to sabotage our great plan by calling these cancellation notices when all they were were renewals.
And the renewals were actually for a better policy.
Because you were going to get free birth control pills.
Paid for by everybody else.
So Juan Williams came out and said that's what the president wants.
Yesterday, Sheila Jackson Lee got this all started by saying, and I doubt that she got it started because frankly she doesn't have the capacity to get it started.
Somebody told her, and she repeated it.
She said, they shouldn't have sent out cancellation notices.
They should have said these are improvement notices.
So that is what probably will become the new narrative that the insurance companies, that's what Obama was setting the table with.
He's bringing in some friendly hacks, and he he doesn't give them orders.
He doesn't say, I want you guys to go out and he sits there.
Wouldn't it have been greater if they would have just said, and these guys hear that.
He knows that they want to help him.
So uh it's uh like watching a TV show the other night, and there's some evil corporate business owner who is being troubled by a prostitute who has befriended one of his sons.
And in the room was a young up-and-coming junior executive thug who's trying to impress the boss.
And the boss starts lamenting, damn it.
I just wish this woman just if she weren't around, my God.
And the guy goes out and kills her, thinking that he will impress the boss.
Well, that's how this worked.
Obama brings them in, he complains and whines about how evil the insurance companies are.
They're out there sabotaging his great plan.
All he wants to do is help people.
I can just see this.
He's got these salivating little Democrat journalists in there.
Uh Man, all I want to do is help people.
You know, we just want to try to give them better coverage and so forth.
And the damn insurance companies call it cancellation notices.
And all they were were renewals.
And so these guys in the room want to help the president.
They want to get noticeed.
They want their gold star.
They want to have continued access.
So they hear what the president wants and they go do it.
We'll see if it works.
What do you think the odds are, snerdly, that, oh, in the next hours to days, we will begin to hear how the insurance companies sabotaged our beloved president.
And they called these notices cancellations when they were actually renewals.
I think the odds of this are very high.
Here's what Juan Williams said.
Here's his quote as he reported it.
What you hear from these senior officials is they're concerned about what happened with insurance companies.
They wish the insurance companies hadn't sent out cancellation notices.
And if they had, that they had simply call them renewals.
That's what Juan Williams said, Obama and the officials in the room said.
Well, they were dragged in there to indirect or subtle instructions.
Marching orders.
And Juan came out with the microphones.
And so this is what the regime once said, and that's so let's see.
Let's see if it actually happens that way.
Odds are pretty high.
Find out soon.
Look, folks, if you have a policy and you get a note saying this policy no longer exists, here's your new policy.
Half the coverage, twice the price.
That's not a renewal.
And that's what they're going to try to get away with as insurance companies.
That's their favorite thing to just blame it.
Blame it on the private sector, whoever's the next target.
And we'll see tomorrow.
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