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Jan. 30, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 30, 2014, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
Why would they do that?
What in the world?
Explains it.
You know what I just learned, ladies and gentlemen?
Let's see.
Here goes.
Let's see.
Congressman Ryan.
Congressman.
No, no.
The chairman of the RNC, Rheinz Priebus, Rentz Prebis, and the RNC communications director, Sean Spicer.
They're all appearing on MSNBC to talk up immigration reform.
Republican National Committee Chairman Prebis and his communications director and Paul Ryan are appearing on MSNBC to talk up immigration reform.
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Why would they do that?
Nobody watches MSNBC.
They have any audio.
Why would they go to a network?
The viewers of which are already committed to amnesty.
Well, you might say, well, they're going there to be liked and understood and appreciated, loved, whatever, by liberal Democrats who are pre-destined to hate them.
And they put it could be trying to show that they're human and then not aliens and that they're nice guys and that they're on the same page as the Democrats that viewers of MSNBC support.
And that is that this program, actually, I don't think it's that little known.
I think it's uh actually widely uh known that I, your host and this program have instituted long ago a ban on any sound bites of MSNBC.
And so, you know, I don't like the I don't like to think of myself in these uh in any news story.
Don't like to think I am a factor, play a role in it.
I really, really don't.
But could it well be that they think they're safe going on MSNBC because I have a ban.
What's interesting about this is that the Republican National Committee Chairman, Rince Prebis, is himself launching a boycott of MSNBC over a tweet from the network that suggested the right wing would hate a television ad featuring a biracial family eating Cheerios.
You haven't heard about this, Rachel?
What are you still watching Al Gore's movie at home in your free time?
Well, I'll never forget, you know, Rachel came in, she believed it.
She was she all she bought it.
Hook line and sinker, Al Gore, uh, Earth in the Lurch.
Believed it.
Now she doesn't, by the way, but some people go back to the greatest hits.
Anyway.
The some some host, some somebody, maybe it was the network at large, said out a tweet yesterday.
Cheerios has a, I guess it's a Super Bowl commercial.
Is that right?
MSNBC's tweet sent from the network's official account last night at 806 p.m. said maybe the right wing will hate it, but everybody else will go, oh, and link to a Cheerios ad with a biracial family.
So I guess it was a biracial family sitting here eating Cheerios, Cheerios ran the ad, and the leftists at MSNBC assumed that the right wing would not like this at all because of course, as you know, the uh right wing is nothing but racists and bigots.
It turns out, remember that Mitt Romney's family photo was made fun of by MSNBC because Mitt Romney was holding his adopted grandson, who is black.
A little baby, a young boy, well, an infant, that maybe a little older than an infant, and the same network made fun of that by showing the picture, say, well, well, what is that in that picture?
They were the ones talking about a young black baby as a that.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
It was the famous Melissa Harris Perry.
Well, the famous, that's who it was.
So because of that, Rentz Prebis, the chairman of the Republican National Committee has called on a conservative commentator boycott of MSNBC over the tweet about the Cheerio's biracial family eating cheerios in it and the tweet about Republicans not liking it.
And there he is.
Today, with today.
Let me look.
Was Tuesday.
So is uh, and then Paul Ryan was on there yesterday.
Rince Prebus and Sean Spicer.
So I guess.
See, here it is.
Prebis goes on, goes on morning Joe, talks about immigration, tells the left everything they want to hear about it.
Hey, yeah, man, we're gung ho, we're in it.
And then later, MSNBC sends this tweet out insulting Republicans.
What is that?
Tell them.
What in the world?
What is it they so they go on there and they try to see?
We're nice.
We love immigration too.
We love immigrants and we want amnesty, and we're all for it.
We're on your side.
And later that day they send a tweet out essentially saying that Prebus and the Republicans are a bunch of racist pigs because they will not like a Cheerios commercial of the biracial family consuming the cereal.
Anyway, we've got the sound bites.
We have a soundbites.
Speaking of this, this is fascinating, too.
I have it right here, my formerly nicotine stained finger.
AFL's CIO chief Richard Trumpke is trashing the Republican immigration plan.
He says that it is unacceptable.
Because a direct path to citizenship isn't included.
He said the Republican plan means they would never get citizenship.
They would never get a green card.
It's a joke, it's a hoax, it's what it is.
It looks, it's like fool's gold.
Without citizenship, it's a non-starter because you can't fix a broken immigration system and create a vast class of millions of people living in the community and working in our workplaces without citizenship.
You can't do that.
They have no rights, Trump said.
The labor unions are united.
Our price of admission is citizenship.
Republicans aren't taking seriously till they start talking about citizenship.
And that means a direct route to green cards and a real path to citizenship and real voter registration for Democrats.
He didn't say that, but that's what he really means.
Now, I have a theory about this.
You might logically be, what a minute, what's Trump doing here?
Here are these Republicans, and they can't wait.
Have you seen Drudges Page?
It's hilarious.
There's a picture of Boehner standing in the House well with a sombrero on.
It's hilarious.
It is a hilarious.
It just speaks volumes.
And so there's there's there's no doubt here.
The Republicans are, they've made it plain.
Uh, and Biden said that Boehner told him while Obama was doing his state of the coup speech that they're gonna move on immigration.
So they're gonna move on it.
The news is they can't wait to make it happen, and yet here comes Trump.
Now, what's really going on?
I think in a in a roundabout way, he's trying to help the Republicans by acting toward the Republicans the way his base expects him to.
The Democrat base would expect all of their leaders to oppose in just instinctively anything the Republicans propose.
The Democrat base will no doubt be suspicious of what the Republicans are offering here.
The Democrat base won't believe the Republicans really want to push Amnesty.
They really want to believe they suspect the trick.
So Trump and the Democrats have to keep that base happy.
So the first thing they do is they come out and they raise hell about it, which then affords the opportunity for the Republicans.
No, no, no.
We're with citizenship has got to be you're right.
So Trump gets to win both ways.
He gets to go public opposing Republicans, which a Democrat base demands.
And then it looks like Trump is forcing the Republicans into further concessions.
When in fact he's not.
I mean, they're already on board with this.
You and I know this.
If this happens, nothing has changed since 2007.
If there is amnesty, folks, it's the end of the Republican Party.
So there are legitimate questions that people ask.
Well, if it's the end of the Republican, why would they preside over their own demise?
Why would these guys do that?
Well, let me give you a real base answer.
Nothing to do with politics.
Many of these guys, Republicans in the House, earn whatever it is they get paid, whatever their salary is.
But they're not going to be there forever.
Maybe they want to get hired by a Chamber of Commerce subsidiary when they retire.
Maybe there's big bucks down the road from a trade association or something.
They do the right thing here.
Maybe this is a ticket to a lobbying gig.
You have to look at it because it doesn't make any sense politically.
There's no reason why people would knowingly, purposely preside over the demise of their party.
And it wouldn't be just the demise of the party, folks.
It'd be the demise of the country, as you and I know it, and certainly demise of the country is found to be look at California.
That's a one-party state.
That's what the country would be.
That's where it's headed.
And there's all kinds of survey data.
That, you know, one of the things, as a conservative, one of the things I've always been told over the years is that, well, Rush, you know, you need to change your thinking on this because these are these are conservatives in waiting.
These are these are hardworking, self-reliant.
I mean, they're made to order conservatives, and it made sense for a while, but the polling data doesn't show.
The polling data shows that they believe in big government.
The polling data shows they want big government.
Polling data shows they're eager to vote Democrat.
The polling data does not show what I have been told by other Republicans that this is a ready-made conservative voting block if we just go out and make a connection to them.
So there's that.
That's the uh, I guess that would be the big, you get jobless news today, and it's it came in way worse than anybody thought, but it just means that the labor market is solidifying.
Right here.
From Reuters, jobless claims rise more than expected.
But the underlying trend suggests the labor market continues to heal.
Absolute total disconnection from reality and fact.
There's another health story.
Experts are warning of caffeine use disorder.
Years ago, caffeine was going to give you a heart attack, hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis.
Uh, it was gonna give you uh Alzheimer's, and then they said, you know what, we're wrong.
Actually, there's some magical cures to caffeine.
You can uh no more Parkinson's if you drink a lot of caffeine, drink a lot of coffee, uh blood pressure will go down.
Now they're back.
Experts warning of caffeine use disorder.
I tell you what, I want to change the headline.
Experts warn of government use disorder.
This is what is causing more people.
Do you know what the black teenage unemployment rate is in Chicago?
Try 92%.
The black teenage unemployment rate Chicago, 92%.
Who's been running the place for as long as we've been alive?
Who've been doing the community organizing there?
Obama and his buddies.
Who's been voting for Democrats year after year after year?
The 92% unemployed.
Stunning.
And then the uh Reverend Jack starts bellyaking about the prison population.
And trying to convey the impression that we're just willy-nilly putting minorities in jail just because that's where we think they belong.
They're not committing any crimes, according to the Reverend John, at least the crimes they're committing, we shouldn't be punishing.
Which is an increasing trend from the left.
More and more crimes shouldn't be punished.
They should be understood like immigrating illegally.
So I got a brief time out here.
We'll come back when you hear the sound bites.
We're going to break the ban.
I've got to break the ban.
I mean, if the Republicans are going to go on MSNBC and tout immigration, you got to hear it, right?
I have to break the ban.
But I'm not.
The ban actually holds.
I'm not going to start doing audio sound bites of the regular rasmataz that happens on that silly stupid network during prime time.
But if if Republicans are going to go there and tout amnesty, I think that you should hear it.
The sun is shining a little brighter today in places where it's shining.
And the world's a little warmer today in places where it's been cold.
And the world and country is a little friendlier today in places where people have been mean.
And the reason is Henry Nostralitis Waxman has announced his retirement from the House of Representatives.
Said today he will not seek a 21st term in his Los Angeles-based House seat.
He's been there 20 years.
That's what I mean.
40 years.
I think I've been here 25.
He's been there 40 years, ladies and gentlemen.
40.
And he's decided at 42 would be too many.
Nostralitis said at the end of this year, I would have been in Congress for 40 years.
If there's a time for me to move on to another chapter in my life, I think this is the time to do it.
He's now the 17th member of the House and the seventh Democrat to announce retirement.
Now why?
Well, there's a little interesting story, might call it a companion story, here at the Politico.
And the headline, Democrats cede the House, C-E-D-E, in order to save the Senate.
With a Democrat's grasp on the Senate increasingly tenuous vote.
Did you know about this?
Did you know that the Democrats were thinking privately they might lose the Senate?
Did you know that?
You did?
Have you seen that in the news?
Or is it because you're talking to people privately and all that?
It has not been in the news.
It hasn't been in the new.
But the point is the public doesn't.
I mean, yeah, they have to defend more seats and they've got the but the media's not reporting a Democrats or any trouble in the Senate.
I mean, who knew?
I mean, if you listen to the media up till this story, the question is, can the Republicans hold the House?
But the apparent truth is that the Democrats have given up if we can believe this.
I mean, there's always that caveat that this is.
Yeah, well, I know it says the donors again, but look at say this is it's politico, it's the drive-by media, and anything could be a feint.
It could be a trick.
I don't know what the trick would be, but I'm just saying we have to remember who we're dealing with here.
And we normally doubt.
Pretty much everything comes out of the drive-by media.
I'm just saying they continue to do so.
One way they can lose the house.
Yeah, immigration.
So I that's a I don't know what this means.
Democrats cede the House to save the Senate.
The Republicans are going to lose the House if they pass immigration.
Even if Obama doesn't sign it, if they pass immigration that's got anything like Amnesty or Path to Citizenship in it, they're going to lose the House.
And not because Democrats are going to be so happy they'll show up in droves, it's going to be because Republicans won't vote.
Anyway, this story with Democrats' grasp on the Senate increasingly tenuous in the House, all but beyond reach.
Some top party donors and strategists are moving to do something in the midterm election as painful as it is cold-blooded.
Stand by.
There's more.
Don't go away.
And we're back.
Rush Limbaugh here on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
And we're going to get to the audio soundbites of the Republicans and MSNBC in a second.
I've decided it's time.
Um, because of this political story, I mean, this is dynamite here, and I I think it's time to put on my political analyst hat and get into some of the strategy that is unfolding before our eyes, and some of it's not before our eyes, but nevertheless, it is beginning to happen.
Now, the first thing, if if this political report is true, if it's true that the Democrats have given up on winning the House, and if it's true that they are not sure they can hold the Senate, then why do the Republicans need to rebrand themselves?
Why do they need to become more like the Democrats if the Democrats hold on everything is as tenuous as the politico reports that it is.
There are two issues that as we sit here today driving the November midterm elections in the House, of course, the issue is immigration.
In the Senate, and should be in the House as well, is Obamacare.
Now, I think the reality on the Democrat side, you have to, in order to accept, agree, understand this this uh perception or this theory, you have to divorce yourself from what you've heard and hear daily in the drive-by media.
The drive-by media daily is gonna be focused on Democrat success, uh Obama's success, or what do the Democrats and Obama have to do to be successful to beat Republicans?
And of course, the news is always gonna be slanted such a way that that's happening.
Republicans are on the ropes.
The truth of the matter is I think the Democrats hold on the Senate is really tenuous, and there are a lot of Democrats up for re-election who are scared to death about their previous votes and positions, and they want nothing to do with Obamacare, and they want nothing to do with Obama.
One of them's Mary Landrew.
There are a bunch of others, and this is why we're getting a story today about the Democrat hold on the Senate being so tenuous, so tenuous that they have given up trying to win the House.
I think Waxman resigning from the House is also one of those little indicators.
Uh he's at a stage in his career.
He doesn't want to be there and be in the minority.
Has no desire, there's nothing in it for him anymore.
If this was year four, year five, even year ten, be a different thing.
But year 41 and 42, sorry.
So you might suggest that we might interpret from his announcement to retire that that uh he thinks that the conventional wisdom is that the Democrats aren't gonna win the House.
But then again, here are the Republicans over here on in immigration.
And I'm I'm gonna hold I'm going to treat you to an entirely different analysis of that here later.
I just want to stick now with the the two issues and where we really are, and where we really are, is that the American people, a vast majority of American people, are fed up with everything that's happening in the country right now.
Now, some of them may not blame Obama as much as we would like them to, but they're still upset.
They're upset the party in power.
They're upset.
Democrats and their behavior will tell you this.
Obamacare is an absolute disaster.
President can go out and make as many speeches as he wants.
He can go out and try to create lies and uh false premises and pictures of it, but it is a disaster.
Now, the other day when when Obama in this interview with uh the New Yorker, I joked about it and had fun with it.
But it's a reason why he does these things, folks.
Uh because this is, you know, how he curse that it writes like a fifth or sixth time recently that he's called me out, and it's clear that they have polling data and focus group data, which tells them that their base gets really motivated and inspired when my name is mentioned or when Fox News is mentioned.
They hate us.
So that's an attempt to rally the base.
Why do they want to do that?
I mean, it things are going so smoothly here, uh, and Obamacare is doing so great, and the job market's coming back, and everything Obama lied about in the state of the uh coup address, you know, why have to go out and gin up their base?
They're in trouble.
My point is they're they're in real real trouble.
Democrats are in real real trouble.
Not only do they not have a chance of winning the House if the Republicans leave immigration alone, but but they could legitimately lose the Senate, too.
This is could be 2010 all over again, and every time this happens, nobody in the media has any idea it's gonna happen.
1994, contract with America, Republicans massive.
First time they won the House in 40 years, got up day after election.
Nobody in the media could believe it.
Nobody had ever conceived the idea that it could happen.
And the same thing can happen.
These people live in such an insulated, isolated world where they assume everybody is like them.
They hate Republicans, they think everybody does.
They think Republicans, racist sex is big at home, they think everybody does.
They can't, the Tea Party, minority kooks, freaks, everybody laughs at them, they make everybody laughs at them.
They have no clue.
They are really not in touch.
None of this, by the way, and I must stress, and this is frustrating, none of this potential right now, just as it was the case in 2010.
None of this potential disaster for the Democrats has anything to do with the Republicans.
It's happening to them by default.
The Republicans are not opposing much of this.
The Republicans that do stand up and oppose it are slapped down by Republicans, such as Ted Cruz and Mike Lee.
If the Republicans were actually engaged as an opposition party, pushing back and attempting to make connections with the American people on Obamacare and on immigration, this coming midterm could be a wipeout along the lines of 2010, and it may be close to that anyway.
Because in the Senate, the driving issue is Obamacare, and it has got Democrats in the Senate just in.
They don't want to even appear with Obama anywhere he goes.
Now, do not make the mistake of thinking I am betraying myself with false optimism.
I am the last to get on a phony optimism role.
That doesn't serve me or anybody else.
I'm simply painting the picture for you as I see it now, reading the tea leaves, looking at what's happening and listening to the primary players.
And then this political story hits today with Democrats' grasp on the Senate increasingly tenuous and the House all but beyond reach.
Some top party donors and strategists are moving to do something in the midterm election as painful as it is cold-blooded.
Admit the House cannot be won and go all in to save the Senate.
Now, this meme, if you will, this narrative is brand new.
In the mainstream media, it is a brand new narrative.
Prior to today, the narrative has been the Republicans are on the verge of being wiped out as a party.
Now all of a sudden, the narrative has become Democrats can't win the House and have given up on it, and Democrat donors are dictating and Democrats, you know, you guys had better work fast on saving the Senate because you're losing there too.
The calculation, there and this is the politico.
Alex Eisenstadt is the writer of the story.
Their calculation is uncomplicated with only so much money to go around in election year that is tilting the GOP's way.
When did you hear that?
When have you heard that the election was tilting the GOP's way?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in the mainstream media, nothing is ever tilting the GOP's way, is it?
Calculation is uncomplicated.
With only so much money to go around in an election year that is tilting the GOP's way, Democrats need to concentrate resources on preserving the chamber they have now, Senate.
Losing the Senate, they know could doom whatever hopes Obama has of salvaging the final years of his presidency.
The triage idea is taking hold in phone conversations among donors and in strategic sessions between party operatives.
Even some of the people who have invested the most to get Pelosi back into the speaker's chair are moving in that direction, meaning away from Democrats winning the House.
Now I'm just here to remind you, you would never know any of this from the recent reporting that we've seen in the drive-bys.
Or you wouldn't know this from even if you listen to some of the elite Republican strategists.
The consultants.
So where is this coming from?
According to them, the Democrats are going to easily hold on to the Senate and probably gain control of the House because the Tea Party has ruined the Republican brand forever.
That's what the Republican establishment believes.
They do.
They think no way we can win the Senate, and the Tea Party is going to blow it for us in the House because everybody hates the Tea Party.
But if this report is true, it certainly explains Obama's recent change in tone, in which he's basically throwing in the towel on the midterms and vowing to go in alone with executive actions that bypass Congress.
It could well mean that these promises to just okay the hell would you guys.
It could well mean he's signaling that they know internally that they're not going to win the House.
It's a delicate decision for Democrats and one they are not taking lightly, reports Politico.
None of them wants to surrender the House to Republicans for another two years.
None of them wants to leave Boehner in the speaker's chair.
None of them want the rowdy band of Tea Party lawmakers in charge.
Ceding ground to Republicans this year would make it that much harder for the party to win back the House in 2016, which could be a more favorable year for the Democrats.
And that's another bogus assumption they're making because they believe that Hillary is unbeatable, is inevitable and infallible.
So something really going on out there that is 180 degrees different than what has been the normal day-to-day narrative in the media.
There's genuine, and I think there's another thing that's happened that explains this, and it is that the state of the coup speech didn't save any bacon.
The state Of the coup speech did not change anybody's fortunes, did not reverse anything for Obama.
In fact, Democrats just got angrier.
Democrats got even more let down or depressed or what have you.
I have to take a brief time out.
You sit tight, my friends.
We'll be right back.
Don't worry.
Let me just cut to the chase here in the uh in the bottom line.
And again, I have to stress, uh, folks, this uh I don't want anybody to misunderstand.
This is as we speak today.
But this Obamacare is it's an abject disaster.
It's the media, you know, they've reported problems with the website.
They don't have the slightest idea.
They're not in touch with people.
The media does it has no connection with their audience.
They've got an audience.
I mean, people watch CNN, not very many.
People read the New York Times.
Um, people uh MSNBC, but there's no connection.
They don't really know.
Uh most journalists do their job for other journalists anyway.
You know, F. Chuck Todd will go on MSNBC and do a reporter on the Today Show, and he's really aiming it at journalists at ABC and CBS, trying to impress them.
Um there really isn't a connection with their.
If there were, they wouldn't be seeing their vast audience ratings erode.
It's just it's media 101.
They're not connecting with their audience.
And as a result, folks, they don't really know the emotions that are coursing through Americans over Obamacare.
They don't know the fear, even though they're responsible for it.
Year after year, the Democrat Party, aided and embedded and promoted by the media, has told people you're one paycheck away, one illness from bankruptcy.
Republicans want to take this away from you and take that away from you, and if they do, you're dead.
You've got nothing.
Well, they've been hearing this enough, they believe it.
And now they're getting canceled.
People are losing in the millions their health insurance.
And to them, it's a deeply personal thing.
It is maybe in a lot of people's lives the most important thing.
It's related to their lives.
It's related to staying alive.
It's related to not getting sick or getting well when you do get sick.
Uh and on its own, it's prohibitively expensive.
You can't engage in responsible health care without an insurance plan.
And they're being canceled left and right.
I mean, people, A, are livid.
They were lied to for three years about if they liked what they had, they could keep it.
That's huge.
The Democrats and the media do not understand the bond that they have broken here with people.
The website not working, no faith in the government to do anything right in this regard.
Then you add to it the security concerns, people who have signed up now are told that all of their personal data is accessible by anybody in the government who wants to see it, and you get the NSA spying.
The health care alone, Obamacare alone, the utter disaster that it is, is huge.
The Democrats are on the verge, they could lose six or seven seats.
And if that happens, the Republicans pick up the Senate.
And I want to stress, and it's a very frustrating thing to say here, it's not because of anything the Republicans are doing, just like 2010 wasn't.
Democrats lost all the way down the ballot in 2010, but not because there was a Republican idea they were voting for, not because there was a Republican or Tea Party leader they were following and supporting.
They were just scared and angry over what Obama was doing to the economy, what they knew health care was going to be, the debt, what that meant for their kids and grandkids in terms of future taxes, taking away disposable income.
And it's it's it's only gotten worse.
There hasn't been any improvement.
There isn't any improvement in the job market.
College graduates who buy into this notion, go to college at your ticket.
Well, it's not anymore.
Hey, you can't afford that without an insurance company or a loan.
I mean, nothing.
Folks, there's it the the disconnect here is major and they don't know it.
Because they don't have the connection with their own audience.
So it's and I think they're just now starting to accept the reality here that they're in big trouble because of it.
And that's why we get the political story.
Now, sadly, even though I'm in the midst of a great role here, I have to stop again.
But don't worry, not losing my place.
Never do.
Fretnot.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have not lost my place.
Pretty much wrapped up the point I wanted to make there.
The next stage will get into Republicans' immigration and what is really happening there.
These audio soundbites and MSNBC, so sit tight.
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