Nov. 25, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| CNN poll. | |
| Devastated, devastated at CNN. | |
| Only 40% of Americans believe President Obama can manage the federal government effectively, according to a new national poll. | |
| A CNN ORC ORC international survey released today also indicates that 53% of Americans now believe Obama is not honest and trustworthy. | |
| The first time that a clear majority in CNN polling has felt that way. | |
| Nobody ever noticed this before now at CNN? | |
| I mean, Obama's, he's no different today than he was five years ago. | |
| Obama's no different today than he was in year two. | |
| He's no different today than he was in year three. | |
| Obviously, the big lie, which again, folks, remember, is very personal in nature, this lie. | |
| You like your policy, you can keep it. | |
| If you like your doctor, you can keep it. | |
| That's deeply personal. | |
| Made even more personal because of all the hype about the importance of health care to staying alive and not bankrupt that the Democrat Party has made it. | |
| And this was, this lie was told for years, day in and day out for years. | |
| And it seems to be the thing that has caused people to open their eyes and see Obama as he has always been. | |
| He was lying about Romney nonstop during the campaign. | |
| Nobody thought to make a big deal of it then. | |
| According to the survey conducted last Monday through Wednesday, 40% say the president can manage the government effectively. | |
| 60% say he can't. | |
| And CNN didn't use the 60% number. | |
| They used the 40% number to lessen the impact. | |
| And that 40% is down 12 points from June and is the worst score Obama received among the nine personal characteristics tested in the new poll. | |
| I was watching CNN. | |
| I had it on here all morning long, and I have yet to see Wolf Blitzer crowing about these new low numbers. | |
| Wolf Blitzer has not yet appeared on CNN to report this poll. | |
| The middle of the piece here says that Obama's likability numbers are now as low as the numbers of people who agree with him on his policies from the article. | |
| Obama's woes are not limited to honesty and his managerial skills. | |
| 56% say he's not a person they admire. | |
| An equal number say that he does not agree with them on important issues. | |
| This is like our caller from the high mountains of New Mexico last week. | |
| Her name was Linda. | |
| She's the one who said that this could mean people are now finally willing to admit they don't like Obama when they always haven't. | |
| Her point was that these polls are nothing new, that this is the way people have always felt. | |
| They've just been scared to death to say so to each other or even to pollsters. | |
| And we've had some, I'm checking the soundbite roster because I'm wondering if, no, I thought we had some sound bites today from Democrats worried about this, but that must have been from last week. | |
| Anyway, there are a number of Democrats upset about this, and there's a companion story to this. | |
| This, well, actually, it's another version of the same story. | |
| And really, you know what the CNN poll does? | |
| It confirms the Washington Post ABC poll first reported last week and what CBS corroborated. | |
| And that is that Obama's approval decline involves more than just his performance. | |
| The American public is souring on Obama as a person and as a brand. | |
| And that spells trouble for his agenda. | |
| And in spite of the media doing everything they can to prop him up, and this is my point last week, and I'll make it again, it took the media four years to get George Bush down to 36%. | |
| The media has not taken Barack Obama down in these polls. | |
| They have been trying to stave this off. | |
| The media has been trying to prop him up. | |
| They are his PR firm. | |
| That's all the media is today, folks. | |
| I mean, even more so than saying it's a Democrat Party PR firm. | |
| It is a Barack Obama PR firm. | |
| A crisis management firm. | |
| They don't do news. | |
| They're not reporting anything. | |
| They simply are doing everything they can to protect Obama, keep his image built up or to keep it from slacking too low. | |
| Despite that, the numbers are plummeting. | |
| And the personal qualities, the likability and the trust, those are slipping underwater. | |
| The companion story is from Joe Curl at the Washington Times, and it's an opinion piece. | |
| And his point here is that the media is ignoring all of the infighting going on in the Democrat Party and ignoring all the abandonment of Obama. | |
| You know, last week, I hate to keep reminding you of points that I've made, but I feel compelled to. | |
| Not because I want to remind you I made them, but because I think things need repetition. | |
| I have found that a profundity uttered once does not penetrate. | |
| A profundity, or any point you're trying to make, people need to be hit with it over and over before it registers. | |
| And last week, I tried to make the point that what I thought was going on was the Democrat Party over Obamacare and Ancillary Things was terrified. | |
| That I don't, I didn't see the Democrat Party as unified. | |
| You have all these Democrat senators up for reelection wanting to abandon Obamacare and delay the individual mandate. | |
| Signature issue. | |
| Willing to walk away from it. | |
| The very people who voted for it, nevertheless, I don't think they should be allowed to walk away from it. | |
| They need to have it hung around their necks. | |
| But we never hear about this. | |
| never hear about the internecine battles in the Democrat Party. | |
| All we ever hear from the media in their public relations effort for Obama and Associated Ways of the Democrat Party is what a mess the Republicans are in. | |
| And there's no question there's internecine battling going on in the Republican Party. | |
| But the Democrat Party is not utopia. | |
| There is not a whole lot of love and unity taking place. | |
| Let me give you a couple of pull quotes from Joe Curl. | |
| The Democrat Party is ripped to tatters. | |
| The fake love fest that broke out after Hillary Robham Rodham wandered off into the wilderness in June 2008 is over. | |
| She's back, and so is her troublemaking husband, who last week advised Obama to honor his commitment on keeping your health insurance. | |
| And Obama, or rather Clinton, knows about honor. | |
| In addition, nobody is afraid of Obama anymore. | |
| Nearly 40 Democrats bailed on Obama to support the Keep Your Health Plan Act of 2013, just a day after Clinton made his pronouncement that Obama should honor his commitment. | |
| They weren't worried in the least about fallout or retribution. | |
| They were too busy saving themselves. | |
| And saving themselves meant breaking hard from the president. | |
| Now, here's the thing. | |
| Republicans, contrary to media reports, were never confused about Obamacare. | |
| Not one Republican voted for it. | |
| That means that rhinos and lefty middle righties and conservatives and Tea Partiers and moderates and even Mavericks, the whole big tent stood as one in opposition to a law they knew was insanity. | |
| There is no dissension in the Republican Party over Obamacare. | |
| There is dissension in the Republican Party over what to do about it, but there was never any support for it to make it happen. | |
| There's a lot of dissension over what to do about it, but not about the concept of it. | |
| Now, what the worriers see is simple. | |
| The Obamacare story has legs. | |
| By the end of the month, the website's supposed to work, but it won't. | |
| By year's end, millions are supposed to be signed up, and they won't be. | |
| The end of March 2014 is the deadline for enrollment, but that's going to be moved beyond the election. | |
| It's funny, a year ago, when a second moderate Republican got destroyed, that'd be Romney, by a progressive president, the GOP was worried that it had been banished beyond the wall, destined to spend a generation in the long winter. | |
| But then Obamacare began to take effect with disastrous results. | |
| Oddly, the left doesn't yet know this simple fact. | |
| It's only going to get worse. | |
| There is no other outcome. | |
| It can only get worse. | |
| There are going to be mass cancellations next year of the people who get their insurance through the employer. | |
| There are going to be massive premium price increases. | |
| It's going to skyrocket because the number one demographic needed to sign up isn't the millennials because they don't have any money and they're not sick and they don't want to pay for other people's birth control pills. | |
| And half of them are still on mom and dad's policy anyway. | |
| So why should they sign up? | |
| So if you couple the fact they don't have any money, they're still on mom and dad's policies, probably still living at home, and they can't find any jobs, how in the heck are they supposed to prop up the system? | |
| They can't. | |
| They simply don't have the money, nor does anybody else. | |
| It is only going to get worse. | |
| There isn't a fix for it. | |
| And so that's why Organizing for Action, the offshoot of the Obama website, Organizing for America, is urging all of its supporters to dominate Thanksgiving dinner, talking up and selling Obamacare. | |
| They've even, on that website, they've got a script for Obama acolytes. | |
| It's called Healthcare for the Holidays. | |
| At Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners, people will be under the misconception that Obamacare policies are too expensive. | |
| You tell them that it's not too expensive, that there are a variety of plans available in the new health insurance marketplace, so you can pick one that fits your budget. | |
| There's also financial assistance available based on how much you make. | |
| This is in the script. | |
| So young Obamacare robots are going to be pockmarking family Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners, selling Obamacare, the true believers. | |
| They're being sent little marching orders via the Organizing for Action website. | |
| Right? | |
| Exactly right. | |
| On the day that we are all supposed to be, again, read George Washington's original Thanksgiving proclamation. | |
| It is giving thanks to God for the United States of America. | |
| Thanksgiving is a national American holiday, and its purpose is to thank God for the United States of America. | |
| And instead, Obama acolytes are being propagandized to take over Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners to convince people to give thanks to Obama for Obamacare. | |
| Now, if I may, folks, you know, every year on this program on the day before Thanksgiving, I read from my book, The Real Story of Thanksgiving. | |
| I'm not going to do it this year. | |
| I don't think, because we got a special change plan for Thursday, the actual program on Thanksgiving Day. | |
| But it's things like this, this Organizing for Action website, creating a bunch of little Obama bots to go out and propagandize family Thanksgiving dinners. | |
| That is why I got so excited when the idea to write a book for children about the truth of the founding of this country. | |
| And that's Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims. | |
| And in it is the truthful, real story of Thanksgiving. | |
| And in the book, the reader is taken to the first Thanksgiving because Rush Revere is personally invited by William Bradford to attend. | |
| In fact, we even reproduced the official invite that Rush Revere got from William Bradford. | |
| And this is why I did the book, because this kind of propaganda is out there. | |
| It's not just contained in the schools. | |
| Even at home, The left is trying to corrupt and propagandize people by sending their little army of robots out to take over dinners and propagandize how great Obama is on Thanksgiving. | |
| By the way, folks, since I'm talking about this, we're getting the cutest Thanksgiving drawings. | |
| We've got a, at the 2fbit.com website at the Adventures of Rush Revere portal. | |
| We've offered people to download blank outlines of Liberty the horse, talking horse time, which one of my favorite characters, and Rush Revere for the kids to color. | |
| It's like a little coloring book, except coloring pages. | |
| And we have, you can download and print them out and give to the kids who are reading the book just actually color and their bubbles, for they can put in their own quotation of whatever the horse Liberty happens to be saying in their picture, and it's. | |
| We've started a little art contest here and we're getting the cutest drawings of Liberty the horse and uh Liberty standing next to a turkey in our, in our little drawing that we have made the outline of, and the kids can then download it and color it in and what we just it. | |
| All of this is explained at the uh Rush Revere portal at 2fbit.com. | |
| But it's a contest and people can get their entries in as soon as they can by just going to 2fbit.com and clicking on the Adventures Of Rush Revere, you see the art contest and the by don't forget the Rush Rush Rushing To your school contest either. | |
| So this is just the beginning, folks. | |
| We have only begun to scratch the surface with all this back. | |
| No no, no. | |
| The first thanks, the pilgrims thanksgiving. | |
| It was not to give thanks to Obama, it was not to give thanks to the Indians. | |
| The first thanksgiving was giving thanks to God, the pilgrims first thanks that's. | |
| That's the importance of the truthfulness of this story in getting out to people and that's why it's in the book. | |
| It's a fundamental. | |
| It's actually the timing of this couldn't be better um, with the book's release and the subject matter in thanksgiving, and George Washington's first Thanksgiving proclamation is thanking go, the number of times he uses the word go in that print in that proclamation would stun your average low information Democrat today. | |
| It just it would, it would. | |
| It would stun him. | |
| The whole point was thanking go for the United States Of America. | |
| No, somebody sent me a joke email. | |
| Well rush, were the pilgrims thanking Obama didn't? | |
| No, the pilgrims were not thanking Obama. | |
| Uh, let's see. | |
| And i've got these two soundbites, grab grab, let's stop. | |
| Okay, grab soundbite 20. | |
| i mentioned some of the dissent people worried in the media about obama not being able to recover here's ron fornier Yay from last Wednesday. | |
| And those aren't even the most important numbers. | |
| What held up President Bush during his most troubled times in his first and second term were that people, even if they didn't agree with him, they liked him and they trusted him. | |
| Same with President Obama. | |
| He got through some tough times because people liked him and trusted him. | |
| As soon as a president loses that competency and credibility with the public, which Bush did in 2005, and President Obama is now their toast, especially in their second term, there is really no history of a president in their second term having come down this far, ever coming back up. | |
| Ron Fournier, a National Journal former AP, remember they talked people into not liking and trusting Bush. | |
| Obama has done it on his own, but his point is: second term toast. | |
| Don't recover from it. | |
| And it's only there's an old saying out there that I just heard five seconds ago: trust is like virginity. | |
| Once you lose it, tough or it's impossible to get it back. | |
| Well, stop and think about it. | |
| Somebody lies to you the first time. | |
| I don't care. | |
| You never fully trust them ever again. | |
| It's always, and if it's a big personal lie, I mean, you may screw up and invest in them over and over again and get lied to over and over again, but you never really trust them. | |
| Well, Obama is so. | |
| I think that's probably right. | |
| I think Obama is so much smarter than the rest of us. | |
| That the concept of not being trusted, what is that? | |
| That's so insignificant. | |
| That doesn't challenge him. | |
| You're right. | |
| Not being trusted, no big deal. | |
| He's so far ahead of everybody. | |
| That's a mundane thing that, yeah, ordinary people, small people, they're the ones concerned with things like trust. | |
| But the really big people know that that's just a waste of time. | |
| And that's Obama. | |
| And that's from Valerie Jarrett. | |
| Told us all these things. | |
| Here's Carol in North Carolina, Carrie, North Carolina. | |
| Great to have you, Carol. | |
| Hello. | |
| Hi. | |
| It's a real treat to talk to you. | |
| Thank you very much. | |
| I was listening to your show. | |
| I gosh, it was within weeks of its inception. | |
| I was so amazed to find somebody that actually agreed with me. | |
| That's probably still the case all these years later. | |
| Oh, and by the way, I think it's ironic that President Obama is asking people to discuss what's probably the biggest legislative turkey of our lifetime, our Thanksgiving birds. | |
| You know, if you go to this website and look at this script, this is really creepy. | |
| And it really illustrates how they think they're nothing but just robots, and they're giving them an actual script how to plan your talk. | |
| Start a packing list, start the conversation, pledge to have the talk. | |
| It is really collectivist, creepy here, this whole thing. | |
| And you're right. | |
| I love your line. | |
| Well, thanks. | |
| Biggest legislative turkey of our lifetime, right here at our table. | |
| I think it probably is. | |
| And the reason I'm calling is in 94, the Republicans swept into power when they nationalized the election with the contract with America. | |
| That's right. | |
| It seems to me this year, or in 2014, the issues are national. | |
| It's Obamacare. | |
| And it seems to me that if Republicans follow their same model, they might be able to win again. | |
| Make it to say that they oppose Obamacare, but don't just leave it as Obamacare versus the status quo. | |
| If they can't come up with a plan that they can get behind it, at least maybe they could lay out some free market principles that are patient-centered that they could run on. | |
| What do you think? | |
| Now, that is an excellent point, because I'll tell you, again, I had, I didn't get to these last week because they made me mad. | |
| I didn't play these soundbites because they made me mad, and I didn't want the people who uttered these words to look bad on this program, so I didn't play the sound bites. | |
| And it was a bunch of Republicans saying that we have to, if we're going to oppose Obamacare, we have to have an alternative. | |
| And that, we don't have to have an alternative plan. | |
| What they meant was we just, and people that, that you admire, and the idea that, okay, the Republicans or the Democrats proposed something like Obamacare. | |
| And their point was, well, we just can't say no. | |
| We have to have an alternative. | |
| Why? | |
| Why can't we just say no? | |
| Why do they always get to set the agenda? | |
| And our answer to it is always to assume that everybody wants it. | |
| We just have to come up with our own version that's better. | |
| Why not just say no? | |
| And the way to say no is exactly what Carol just said here. | |
| And maybe you could call this an alternative. | |
| No, this is not the way to fix health care. | |
| The way to fix health care is and then teach the free market. | |
| Teach free market principles. | |
| Teach people how free market principles could accomplish what they want. | |
| More competition, which would equal lower prices, which would equal more health care and greater choice. | |
| And it does not require a legislative plan. | |
| What it requires is government getting out of it. | |
| The problem that I have is these people proposing an alternative. | |
| They mean a legislative alternative. | |
| And that's the mistake the Republicans make. | |
| Instead of coming up with their own bill, say, no, this is not the way to fix it. | |
| The way to fix our problems is, and then you teach the free market. | |
| You talk about health savings accounts if you want. | |
| You talk about how health care ought to be priced in such a way like everything else is, based on what people can afford, like hotel rooms are, and airline flights, and on what they want. | |
| If you only want to buy insurance for catastrophes, buy it. | |
| If you don't want to have to buy insurance, everybody else has birth control pills, you don't have to. | |
| You know, it would be a golden opportunity to explain what we as conservatives are about. | |
| The problem is, folks, that way too many Republicans have been Washingtonized and think that everything must change by virtue of a bill, that there must be a law. | |
| Well, the best way to affect change positively in healthcare is to start eliminating laws and turn the market loose and devise a system so that doctors can charge whatever they want. | |
| Doctors can do whatever service they want. | |
| Insurance companies can insure whatever you want and are willing to pay for. | |
| And it's priced on the ability you have to pay for it outside of catastrophes and emergencies, which are obviously outside of anybody's ability to afford. | |
| That's what you really need big-time insurance for. | |
| Okay, you have it. | |
| This is a golden opportunity. | |
| It would make an ideal campaign theme for the Republican Party at large in this year, well, next year's midterm elections. | |
| The problem is, I don't know how many Republicans are thinking that way. | |
| That's my problem. | |
| I know all the Tea Party types are, the Ted Cruz, the Mike Lees, and all of the other conservatives, but I don't know how many Republicans are thinking this way. | |
| I'm telling you, I didn't play those bites because I didn't want you hearing these people talking about an alternative to Obamacare. | |
| I didn't want them to hurt themselves by having themselves heard on this program. | |
| So that's why I brew them to sound bites. | |
| I was trying to do them a favor. | |
| But there were a couple of governors and presidential hopefuls and so forth. | |
| And they get caught up in this trap of needing an alternative piece of legislation. | |
| We need an alternative amnesty. | |
| No, we don't need. | |
| What we need every time a Democrats propose something is no. | |
| We're in this mess from the New Deal on because the Democrats have gotten what they wanted. | |
| Just say no to it. | |
| We don't have the money anyway for all of these brand new pieces of legislation. | |
| Now, as for nationalizing the elections, that's true. | |
| In 1994, Contract with America took house races, which largely depend on local issues. | |
| You know, who's brought home the bacon, who got the sanitation plant built and all that. | |
| And instead, the 94 campaign was about the danger Democrats pose to foreign policy, economic policy on a national basis. | |
| And it worked. | |
| And the reason it worked is because there was a singular strategy behind it. | |
| I don't know that back then in 94, that bunch of Republicans wanted to beat Democrats. | |
| They wanted to eliminate them. | |
| They wanted to take over the speakership. | |
| They wanted to take over. | |
| I don't know that the Republican Party has that same mentality today. | |
| Yeah, I hope that they do, but I just, I don't know. | |
| I got to take a break. | |
| Carol, thanks much. | |
| We'll be back after this. | |
| Hi, how are you? | |
| Great to have you back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Netherburg. | |
| Do you remember at the national prayer breakfast in January, Ben Carson, Dr. Benjamin Carson, put himself on the map by basically just offering an alternative philosophy to healthcare. | |
| Essentially, free market solutions, like I just said. | |
| And remember the reaction he got from the media? | |
| That's a frontal assault on Obamacare. | |
| And they thought he was taking the president on and being disrespectful and all that. | |
| And all he was doing, he had his alternative, but it was not a piece of legislation. | |
| It was not a new law. | |
| We don't need any more laws, for God's sake. | |
| We're overwhelmed by law. | |
| We need fewer. | |
| We need more freedom, free markets, turn people loose with their entrepreneurial creativity. | |
| That's how problems got solved. | |
| And that's where the value of work and products and services is established. | |
| Not at the government, not by Democrats' compassion or their caring or any of that. | |
| Taking care of business, little Bachmann Turner overdrive. | |
| There's Obama in San Francisco talking up amnesty. | |
| And it's a distraction, but he's also dead serious about it, folks. | |
| Pedal to the metal, full court press. | |
| He knows he's got maybe one year to get the rest of his agenda done, and he's not going to stop. |
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