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Nov. 22, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 22, 2013, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24 7 Podcast.
And you happen to hear what Mitch McConnell said the Republicans would do if they win the Senate back.
They'll fix this nuclear option business.
And they'll take the rules back to the way they were before Harry Reid changed them yesterday.
So the Democrats essentially go nuclear.
They give themselves a nuclear weapon.
And we promise to get rid of it if we ever get hold of it.
And we're not even going to impose sanctions on them.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And here we are, my friends, at the most listened to radio talk show in the country, Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
It's open line Friday.
Which means that whatever you want to talk about is okay.
There are very few limits on subject matter content when we go to the phones.
That's not the case Monday through Thursday.
By now, you all know the rules.
We try.
We don't always succeed, but we try to take more calls on Open Line Fridays.
So here we are, the actual 50th anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy and the drive-bys are in in full anniversary mode today for a uh a host of reasons.
And then I'll tell you that no matter where you look, the focus is on how racist and bigoted and extremist and all that Dallas was.
And now today, they're even adding the whole South into the mixture.
Uh, which everybody knows uh was the case back then, but they're linking it to the assassination of Kennedy.
This is what the left has done since he was assassinated.
They have they've they've erased from their and everybody else's memory the communist was the assassin.
And they have replaced the communist with America.
America basically killed the president.
And that has been a major turning point for the Democrat Party and the American left 50 years ago when they really went full bore on blaming America simply because they could not accept the fact that a uh a brother communist had uh killed the president.
Anyway, uh and and the the further point of all of this coverage is the same point that exists every day in the media, and that is to demonize conservatives, demonize the South.
I mean, if you if you just went by the news reports today, the whole city of Dallas got up on November 22nd, 50 years ago to shoot Kennedy that there was a race on, and Oswald just happened to get there first, but the whole city wanted Kennedy shot.
And it was so bad that the Dallas Cowboys were talking about it in their locker room all week.
According to a show hosted by Bob Costis on an NBC cable network.
You believe the Dallas Cowboys locker room was worried that Kennedy was going to be assassinated by right wing kooks.
By the way, one of those right wing kooks happened to own the Dallas Cowboys at the uh at the time.
And a couple of right wing kooks used to run the Dallas Cowboys at the time.
Now it's just kooks that run the Dallas.
Just kidding.
I actually uh I like Jerry Jones and so forth, but uh it it is it's amazing.
The whole city of Dallas.
Oh, they just couldn't wait to that Friday morning whole city got up that day to shoot Kennedy.
It was not a lone communist from New Orleans by way of Moscow.
Nope, Dallas did it.
And never mind all those people who on a work day lined the streets to wave and cheer as Kennedy drove by.
Dallas did this.
It was Texas and the rest of the South who killed Kennedy.
Never mind that in 1960, Kennedy carried Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, West Virginia, Maryland, anywhere they could find dead people to vote, Kennedy carried the state.
Thanks to old Joe Kennedy.
The father.
Now, the nuclear option.
I'm not kidding.
The Politico has a report today, and let me quote, McConnell quickly noted that Republicans could fix the problem in the upcoming midterm elections by reversing the rules if they regain the majority.
In other words, if the Republicans ever get control of the Senate again, they will change the rule back so that the Democrats don't lose any power.
They will not use this new rule.
And by the way, folks, let me just I I mentioned this yesterday, and I it it really is a fundamental point, and I I want to make it again.
We hear all the talk about the tyranny of the majority.
When the Democrats are in the minority, we hear about the uh the tyranny of the majority.
Uh when the Democrats are in the minority, we hear all about minority rights and this kind of when the Democrats are in the majority, there is no tyranny.
It's just the way it is.
But in a system like ours, when the majority can change the rules any time it wants, there aren't any rules.
That's what that means, and that is what has happened.
Now, why did Dingy Harry do it?
It wasn't strictly that Dingy Harry wants more power.
It is because the Obama agenda is thwarted.
The Obama agenda is thwarted legislatively, and it is currently thwarted at the D.C. circuit court.
The D.C. Circuit Court is the first place where the constitutionality of law is determined.
And it only goes to the Supreme Court after having appeared.
Not every case, of course, but the D.C. Circuit handles things in D.C. And one of the things in D.C. is Congress.
Now, right now on the D.C. circuit, there are four Democrat judges, four appointed uh Democrat, four appointed Republicans.
Some of the Democrat judges have been appointed by Republicans trying to show everybody how fair they are.
Obama has been pushing to expand the court to by three or four judges to give himself an unbeatable majority.
The Republicans opposed that, and because of the filibuster rule, the Democrats were not able to do it.
But now, with hill uh Dingy Harry going nuclear yesterday and getting rid of the filibuster, Obama can put as many liberal Democrat judges on the D.C. Circuit court as he wants.
Thereby ensuring that he doesn't need a law to pass Congress.
Judges, as we have discussed for countless years, are writing law from the bench in the process of adjudicating cases.
They're actually writing law.
They are implementing their personal policy preferences in their handling of cases.
And so this is simply a rubber stamp mechanism that happened yesterday for the Democrats to get whatever they want whenever they want, and ostensibly legal.
Now, one thing, don't be confused about one thing with the filibuster, because there's a lot of talk on cable TV.
That's it, it's you know it's actually depressing to watch the level of ignorance and stupidity that exists.
In institutions that used to be comprised of really good and really smart people.
Or maybe it's just now that I've gotten older and everybody younger than I am is an idiot.
I don't know.
But I'm I I I think no, I don't think that's it.
The simple fact of the matter is they got a bunch of people talking about how great this is because it ends gridlock.
This has nothing to do with gridlock, folks.
I don't doubt that there are some political commentators who actually think it is about gridlock, and because gridlock is so bad that this is good.
Now, gridlock is exactly what the founding fathers designed as they put this together.
The founding fathers realized that governments become tyranny in short order, and that's why the entire Constitution, particularly the Bill of Rights, was a limit on government power.
The founders had lived under tyranny.
They were aware of it all over the world.
They didn't want it.
They wanted to escape it.
They devised government that would limit the role of government in people's lives and the overall power that that government had.
Well, that doesn't sit well with a bunch of statists, leftists, and Democrats who want to use the government as a giant anvil of power, not only to get what they want, but to eliminate any opposition.
Up to now, the founding of the country, the Constitution had presented a pretty big roadblock.
The Democrats had to work hard to get around it, and they did.
But with this nuclear option now, there's nothing to do with gridlock, nothing to do with fairness.
It has everything to do, and this is the only reason it happened with ramming the rest of Obama's agenda through Congress and the courts during his second term.
This is insurance in case he loses the Senate.
It's an insurance policy in case they don't win the House but keep the Senate.
Obama knows, even though it ticks him off, he knows that because he doesn't control the House, that he will only be able to get what he wants through the back door.
Activist judges, executive orders, regulations written by bureaucracies, cabinet departments that have no power to do so, but do it nevertheless.
It's the D.C. Court of Appeals where a lot of that was blocked.
The D.C. Court of Appeals has been one of the major roadblocks facing Obama.
They have jurisdiction over pretty much every regulation coming out of Washington.
So Obama wants to stack that court with a number of his appointees, additional judges on the court that will give him, no matter who wins the presidency in the future, a permanent rest of the universe Democrat majority on the D.C. Court of Appeals.
Right now, as I say the D.C. Circuit has four judges who are Democrats and four who are Republicans or liberal and conservative.
Some of the Democrats were nominated by Republican presidents who wanted to show everybody how fair they could be in an interest of bipartisanship.
It was like Bush, after the rancorous recount of 2000, kept a lot of Clinton judicial appointees, went ahead and confirmed them, just to show that he was a good guy.
Just to show that we could walk across the aisle.
Of course, I remember just cringing.
You can't buy friendship with these people.
They're not interested in it.
You can't buy bipartisanship.
They're not interested in it.
They despise us.
We are a greater threat to them than any external threat facing this country.
There is no way that They are ever going to engage in bipartisanship other than that which exists because Republicans always cave.
That will be it.
So what Obama will now be able to do is pack this court.
And there's no stopping him.
Used to take 60 votes to get anything like that done confirm a nominee, expand the number of seats on a court, you name it now, the number's 51.
The Democrats have 54 going in.
They can't be stopped.
Now that there is a way.
Actually, a guy named Daniel Horowitz, writing at redstate.com, says that Senate Republicans can retaliate, but doubts that they will.
I will detail for you the options available to them.
But remember what Mitch McConnell is quoted as saying by the politico.
McConnell noted, Republicans can fix this problem in the upcoming midterm elections by reversing the rules if they regain the majority.
Meaning if they regain the majority, they'll ditch this and they'll reinstate the filibuster rather than take advantage of the power that they will have won and use it against the Democrats as the Democrats are going to use it against them.
I know that some use, but Russia, it's the right thing to do.
If it's a wrong thing, it doesn't matter who has control of it.
If you're going to sit here and criticize it, yeah, but I know and I understand that from a you know a strict moral code standpoint, but something's gonna have to be done to reign these people in.
Gotta start sometime if you're going to.
It just, to me, that thinking indicates there's the most important thing about that comment, if the politico has it right, is it just illustrates that there's no stomach for a fight.
Right?
Certainly.
There's no stomach for a fight, at least on the Senate side.
Now, back in 2005, President Obama himself said that changing the filibuster rule, getting rid of it, using the nuclear option would poison Washington.
He and Dingy Harry and every other Democrat, when the Republicans are threatening to do it, portrayed it as the end of civilization.
and I'm not exaggerating, be the end of everything.
They're not.
They're not honest.
They're nothing but power mad.
Really dangerous people in terms of preserving the country is founded.
They're not interested in it.
Folks, there's a story.
It's just a small example, but it's a story about more Democrats taking more taxpayer junkets to the Caribbean.
They don't care.
They're not worried about getting caught.
They don't care if they do get caught, nothing's going to happen to them.
I mean, there's no, there's literally no limit on their behavior.
There's no limit on the amount of money they'll spend.
There's no limit on how they'll spend it.
There's no, there's just no limit.
There's there are no guardrails.
There's nothing stopping it.
It's just really, we it it's it's almost now one-party dictatorial.
Whatever they want to do, they're gonna do.
They're not afraid of any ramifications.
They're not afraid of any pushback.
It's not embarrassing what happened to Charlie Wrangle.
It's not embarrassing what happened to Bob Menendez.
They're keeping it up.
What the hell's anybody gonna do about it?
They don't care what anybody says about it.
Gotta take a break.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
I heard another way of characterizing this.
As of now, whatever number of Republican votes there are in the Senate mean nothing.
In a sense, this is one of the most massive one-day assaults on voter suppression that we've ever seen.
There are 45 Republican senators.
They were elected by millions of Americans, and they may as well not even be there.
The votes of forty five Republicans in the Senate mean nothing now.
Zilch, Zero Nada.
How is the Republican leader Mitch McConnell dealing with this?
Well, I just have a story here at Breitbart.com.
Senator McConnell participating in a Carl Rove American Crossroads event or some such thing, in which Senator McConnell says that it's the Tea Party who are the bullies.
And how do you deal with bullies?
You punch them in the nose.
And he cited Ted Cruz and Mike Lee as two names, epitomizing the Tea Party who are bullies.
Harry Reid, I guess, is not a bully.
I'm holding here in my formerly nicotine stained fingers the exclusive political story.
McConnell, Tea Party bullies who need punch in the nose, and this is what the story says is now being challenged, by the way.
Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell said on a conference call organized by Carl Rhodes Crossroads Organization for large donors and their advisors back on October 30th that the Tea Party movement, in his view, is nothing but a bunch of bullies.
That he plans to punch in the nose.
On the call, according to a donor who was on the call, McConnell personally named Senators Mike Lee and Ted Cruz as Tea Party conservatives that he views as problematic for him.
Quote, the bulk of it was an attack on the Tea Party in general.
Cruz, in particular, the source, who was a prominent donor, said in a phone interview with Breitbart News.
But the most memorable line came at the end of the call.
McConnell said the Tea Party was nothing but a bunch of bullies, the source said.
And he said, you know how you deal with schoolyard bullies?
You punch them in the nose.
And that's what we're gonna do.
Unquote.
Carl Rove, as well as American Crossroads president and CEO Stephen Law, who also serves the president of a sister group, Crossroads GPS, were also on the calls.
Rolfe talked in a slightly gentler way, or let's say in a more diplomatic way.
Now from this article, Rove spokesman Jonathan Coligio denies that anything was said about Cruz or Lee or the Tea Party in general, but admits that the call did take place and that some discussion about the government shutdown and the Senate conservatives fund took place.
Your source is ascribing things to the call that simply were never said, Coligio said in an email.
There was no anti-Tea Party donor call.
Coligio declined to provide a transcript or a recording of the call of Breitbart News, McConnell's office has not commented on the matter.
So one somebody claiming to be on the call who was a donor says that McConnell said all this stuff about the Tea Party being a bunch of bullies and the way you deal with them is punch them in the nose, and then the spokesman for Rove said no, it never happened.
So that's speaking of bullies.
Have you heard this?
Sean Andrews, a former offensive, I think it was an offensive lineman for the Philadelphia Eagles has accused Donan McNabb bullying him.
Have you heard this?
Donovan McNabb denied allegations from former teammate Sean Andrews that he was a locker room bully who spread rumors about Andrews' sexuality.
The former Eagles quarterback told the Philadelphia Inquirer that he was happy to have Andrews a teammate.
He dismissed this guy's comments.
He said, it's ridiculous.
I don't know what comments you expect to get from me, but that's news to me and completely false for me to bully anybody.
It sounds unbelievable.
McNabb also questioned the timing of Andrew's accusations.
He and Andrews last played together in 2009.
Earlier this month, Andrews told an Arkansas magazine that his time with the Philadelphia Eagles was like a living hell.
He singled out McNabb as the catalyst for that atmosphere in an interview with Sync Weekly.
Yeah, he was a big part of it.
He was a big part of my issues there, Andrews said.
Bully is a strong word, but he was deg he was degrading to me, and he was spreading rumors about me, and it bothered me.
I haven't really spoken about it.
Good lord, folks, what in the world is happening to this game?
Players, hulks, 300-pound men are running around crying.
He mulling me.
He bullied me.
He was spinning rumors in my thing, you know.
I did not.
I'm loved and adored in this locker room.
We did plenty of conflict resolution in here.
I don't know what he's talking about.
He made me feel really bad.
He felt so traumatic I couldn't speak about it for five years, and I finally had to let it go since others are bringing it up.
I had to unlock it.
It's just unbelievable.
Let me ask you this.
Somebody, anybody who's played in the NFL, who's not a bully, who's not the victim of a bully, who isn't gay, who hadn't been accused of being gay, who has not had a concussion, who has not had brain dementia, who has not had a hearing deficit, who has not been maimed.
Would you please raise your hand?
Is there anybody left in the NFL?
I just it it's the phrase the feminization of America, the feminization of our culture.
That goes back, oh gee, I don't know.
I'd have to look it up.
I'd have to do a uh a web search of the archives at rushlimbaugh.com, but it's years.
Well, no, I don't think I talked about the that exact term, the feminization of our culture, the chicken of to me time flies.
My memory is that that's about four years old.
But you know what?
We'll do a web search.
I think we still have people left who know how to do that, and we'll do a search of the I'm feisty today, folks.
I can't help it.
I've been really reigning it in here.
And I want to tell you something else.
And I know that this is going to incur the wrath of several of my friends who are gonna accuse me of having my head in the sand.
But all I can do is share with you what's in my heart.
This stuff that the Democrats are pulling here, all of it, the filibuster, Obamacare, all of this stuff.
I have to tell you, I have I'm an optimistic person and I have faith, and I may even be a little polyannish at time.
And I understand that you have to make things happen.
You just can't sit around and wait for them to happen, but I'm telling you.
I think all of this is gonna come back and haunt these people.
I think it's gonna bite them.
They may temporarily get away with some of this stuff, but but this is evil stuff that they're doing.
This is really evil behavior.
I mean, just making a mockery of the way this country was founded, making a mockery of the Constitution, laughing at spending taxpayer money uh on their own health care or on some vacation trips to the Caribbean with prostitutes and whores that they're hiring.
And it gets known, they get caught about it, and they don't care, they just keep doing it.
Charlie Wrangle doesn't pay his taxes.
He's got he's living a lifestyle of somebody makes ten times what he earns, and he gets away with it.
There's no problem whatsoever.
And if you call him on it, you're a racist.
And I'm just telling you, you know, I sit here the first half hour of this program, if you just look at it in a self-contained way, it's depressing as hell.
The filibuster alone.
Forty-five Republican votes now don't matter.
And the people who elected those 45 have no voice.
And this is not Venezuela.
It's still the United States of America.
Now to cut and dried dispassionate way of telling you that, but sounds desperate.
It sounds horrible.
What are we going to do?
Especially when we have a party that's unwilling to fight back.
We have a party that seems more interested in wiping out its own base than taking out their real enemy.
But I still think, and it's not blind faith.
It's actually faith in the majority of people in the country.
I just I still have that.
I know we're plagued by bunch of ignorant, low information people that the Democrat Party have created and continue to cultivate.
I understand all that.
And I know the media is what it is.
I know all I just call it naivete.
I have this sense that justice happens at some point.
It all evens out.
And they're going to pay for this.
I don't know how, and it may not even be in my lifetime.
And I'm not, but they're the they're not going to get away with this.
They have just they have they are the majority.
They change the rules whatever they want, no matter what.
There aren't any rules.
That can't go on.
I mean, you the country can't survive as it is.
The Senate cannot function as it does.
There are no rules.
Whatever Barack Obama and Harry Reed want them to be day to day.
You look at the public opinion.
The Democrats are not overwhelmingly popular.
This country's not in love with these people.
Obamacare's hated.
Obamacare is despised.
Obama himself, the bloom, is off that rose.
He is not the Messiah any longer.
He is now your standard ordinary, everyday politician who lies, who breaks promises, who's in it for himself, who can't do anything on his own.
He's not qualified.
All of this is becoming known.
Sadly, too late.
The media has not been able to protect him from this, ultimately.
They did for a number of years.
But ultimately, this is my point.
For five years, Obama was able to keep himself the truth about himself hidden.
It's now out there.
Despite the media, despite every cover-up effort that they have engaged in, despite every ounce of energy they have expended to portray Obama as a messiah, the truth has surfaced.
And I understand the linkage that leftists have to the Democrat Party and how they hate us and so forth.
I understand all of that.
And I know that it it it's going to sound uh because there are a lot of a lot of people on our side are fatalists.
And a lot of people on our side are trying to make money off the fatalism, to tell you the truth.
Uh and which is not uncommon, by the way.
People that have financial newsletters will tell you that their subscriptions skyrocket the more they predict crash.
So there are a lot of people wrapped up in negativity trying to profit from it.
I understand all that.
And there are a lot of people who have given up, and there are a lot of people who think there's no recovering from this, and that may be.
I am just telling you that I have, I can't even tell you why I've got the faith, other than I have faith in the country.
I have faith in the people who live here.
I have faith in the people who actually make this country work.
And in my life, the people, just in a personal sense, people who have behaved in reprehensible ways have always gotten theirs.
At some point somehow.
Not that I ever had anything to do with it.
I just it just it happens.
Now, bad things happen to good people, too.
I I don't want in any way here to be thought naive.
But it's faith, folks.
I have a faith in this.
I just this is so evil and reprehensible what is happening here.
And there's not ultimately going to be a reward for it.
Just mark my words.
People engaging in all this are going to pay a massive price someday.
I don't know how or when.
But I know human nature.
And I also know that no matter what they do, the left, and no matter how much they win, they're never going to be happy.
They are never satisfied.
They could get everything in the world they want and they would not be happy.
They w if if they were able to totally exterminate every single person who opposed them, they still wouldn't be happy.
They're not capable of it.
They'll never be satisfied.
Let's take a brief timeout.
Be back and continue after this.
Do not go away.
Okay, here are the results of the flash research.
The chickification of the news.
The first known reference to the chicken of the news was in 2007.
Six years ago.
There have been numerous references to the feminization of the culture.
The chicken of the NFL, the feminization of the country.
That goes back to 2006.
In our first search of Rushlimbaugh.com.
Some entries are in 2000 2008.
But I guess it would be safe to say 2006, 2007 is uh is when I first began to talk about the chickification of the news, the newsroom, uh chickification of the culture, feminization of culture, and I predicted the end of the NFL in May of 200.
Whoa.
March of 2012, a year and a half ago.
Predicted the end of the end of the NFL, as we know it.
It'll always have a NFL.
Here's uh here's Kathy of Buchanan, Michigan as we as we start on the phone.
It's great to have you.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you so much for all you do.
You're an inspiration and you give us hope.
Well, thank you.
Trying to.
Well, I've been listening to the issues going on today and yesterday with the Democrats, uh, the judges, the circuit courts, and like many other people, I'm I'm outraged by this.
I'm so frustrated, and the Republicans seem to uh not be doing much about it, be downplaying it.
And I'm wondering if this has to do with something that was talked about earlier this week, in that the Democrats are just desperate for any issue to get people's eyes off of Obamacare.
And I'm wondering if the Republicans' lack of response is possibly to that, that they just don't want to distract anyone from the main issue right now, which is Obamacare.
Uh perhaps.
Um that is a level of strategic thinking, however, that we have not seen from the Republican Party, so that would be a tough one to decide on.
It's more likely they didn't react to it because they're afraid to.
Uh and they don't know how to.
As for Obamacare, guess what?
Obama has decided he's just gonna delay things till 2015 now.
Some total of the news stories today.
It just it's gonna delay a bunch of stuff to 2015.
Just get it past the election.
Just do it.
Who's going to stop him, by the way.
So uh look at the the the Republicans by staying silent on a nuclear option, even if that's their strategy, they're just turning over the daily news agenda, the Democrats, whatever the Democrats want it to be, and the Democrats are trying to cover up Obamacare with the Kennedy assassination coverage.
The thing about Obamacare is, though, it's happening to people.
It's happening to people every day.
Now I know it really helps when the media is out there hammering it too.
But this is not the kind of thing that unless the media talks about it, people won't know about it, they will.
They're living it.
It is happening to them.
And Obama's plummet in the opinion polls is real, and it's related to that.
Despite the media trying to cover it up, and in spite of the Republicans having nothing to do with it.
Yeah, what Obama wants to do, he just wants to delay the Obamacare enrollment period.
He wants to move it from October 15th of 2014 to November 14th, 2015.
Just move it after the election.
The mandatory enrollment day.
He wants to move that so that people are not affected by that before the election.
How transparent can you get?
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