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Feb. 3, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 3, 2014, Monday, Hour #3
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It is the fastest three hours in media hosted by me, El Rushbo, and we're already into the third hour here.
Great to have you, folks.
A thrill and a delight for me to be with you.
The telephone number, if you want to be on the program, is 800-282-2882.
And if you want to send an email, it's illrushbow at eibnet.com.
Look, there are other things going on.
I just let me wrap up this theory because it's not my theory, but a lot of people hold it because they're unable to look at what is probably the simple logical explanation and reject it because it's too simple and too logical.
And the simple logical explanation for why the Republicans are pushing amnesty is because their money donors want it.
Remember, pop quiz.
Mr. Snerdley, who said money is the mother's milk of politics?
Who authored that phrase?
It was Jesse Unruh in California.
He was, I think it was an assembly, he was some head honcho.
It was a honcho, not a governor.
Willie Brown pronounced his name Unruh.
But he came up with it, money is the mother's milk of politics.
And there it is.
The Chamber of Commerce, who may, in fact, have been infiltrated and taken over by the left, because this is very unchamber-like.
We want it.
We want it now.
We're paying for it.
Here are the donations.
And you're not getting the money if you don't.
And then, as Ann Coulter said, who is more likely to hire John Boehner at $400,000 a year when he leaves the speakership?
You or somebody at the Chamber of Commerce who's satisfied with amnesty?
It's a question that she raised in trying to explain, because it's party suicide, not to mention what it's going to do to the country.
If you want to find out what it's going to do to the country, look at California.
If you want to find out what it's going to do to the Republican Party, look at California.
There's simply commonsensical way of looking at it.
No reason to do amnesty.
You're not going to get the Hispanic vote with it.
The Democrats own that.
The polling data shows these people do not believe in smaller government.
There's no reason to do it, and yet they're hellbent.
There must be something we don't know.
And in servicing that has arisen the theory, well, the Republicans really, you know, don't want to win in a landslide.
They don't want the Tea Party to have any role in the 2014 victory where they might pick up the Senate and hold a House.
So that theory is being bandied about out there.
And it has, well, it's got some support someplace.
Now, my prop.
Well, yeah, but it makes sense that they would want to limit Tea Party influence.
It makes sense they weren't happy with what happened in 2010, didn't like the fact Tea Party won, don't like, because it is established, folks.
I wasn't trying to irritate you or make you mad.
I mean, the fact of the matter is, at the Republican establishment level, party level, consultant level, at many Republican so-called conservative media level, it is now accepted that the people of this country want a big government.
And therefore, the idea of a limited, smaller government is a guaranteed loser.
This is what the Republican establishment thinks.
And this is one of the many reasons they want to get rid of the conservative influence in the party because conservative influence, of course, defined by the limited role of government as defined in our founding.
And that's not where the Republican establishment is now.
Some of the gurus in the Republican Party firmly believe that the American people want an active executive, very engaged, like Obama, except smarter, with more respect for the private sector.
And that's us, they say.
We Republicans, we know how to do big government smarter in less obtrusive ways.
So here comes a Tea Party and conservatives say, no, no, no, no.
It's limited government, smaller government.
Get it out of our lives.
And so they've got to go.
So any election where the Republicans win, where those limited government people have a role in the win, yeah, you can see the Republicans don't want that to happen.
That makes sense.
But this is essentially the prevent offense where you, yeah, yeah, yeah, we want to win, but we're not going to run it to score.
Yeah, we want the problem is an election is not a game where you know how it's going in the middle of it and can make adjustments.
And it's certainly not something that you can forecast in February or March and make policy based on, yeah, we know we're going to win, but not by too much.
And then thirdly, I don't know anybody in politics who ever really plans to win a squeaker.
The natural inclination in politics, win as big as you can.
That's where you get your mandate.
There's too much that can't be accounted for.
And even if you could pull it off, you'd leave yourself with all where would they be?
If they pull this off, if they win getting amnesty, they're done.
The same level of anger that's directed at them now will exist.
In fact, it'll be worse.
The day-to-day life of a Republican will be worse if they win while guaranteeing the Tea Party has no role in it.
And I know they've got to be thinking about that.
Now, I'll tell you what, I could believe, put it over here on a little island.
I could believe, because I've seen this, you know, the old Pascal, it's easier to believe that something that has been can be again than it is to believe that something has never been will be.
Well, I have seen entities not care about winning.
I've seen it in sports teams.
I have seen it in certain politicians.
Some don't want to win.
And I could believe that some of the Republicans don't care about winning.
Not that they would not, I don't believe they want to win small.
I just think there's some that are indifferent about winning because it's harder.
When you win, you've got pressure.
When you win, you have to be aggressive and do things.
And when you win, the people that voted for you expect you to carry out the mandate.
And that's hard.
The media is going to criticize us and they're going to call us bigots and racists.
And, oh, man, we don't want that.
I wonder if the Broncos last night were trying to win, but not by too much.
That makes no sense, right?
It's just like, yeah, the Seahawks, they wanted to win, but they didn't want to trown some NAFPAD.
It just doesn't make any sense, does it?
So why would it make sense in politics?
But somebody not wanting to win is an entire, some of them, it's comfortable.
You go back to the old Bob Michael days.
They were comfortable in the minority.
There was no pressure.
They could never be blamed for anything that went wrong.
It was a safety net in a way, and it was a low-pressure existence, and they didn't have to do any work.
They didn't even go to half the meetings because the Democrats wouldn't let them in.
And that was okay, too.
Back when we had 135 members in the 435-seat house, and that's as recently as 1987, 80, 88.
So you can certainly see where some rhino-Republican types would be saying, yeah, okay, we're going to do some things that are going to tick off the base, might cause us to lose, but so what?
The media might love us then.
Media might love us if we bleed all over the Tea Party.
The media might actually love us if we kick the Tea Party around.
And believe me, they want to be loved by the media.
Oh, folks, do not doubt that for a moment.
Oh, could I give you some lessons in this just with news events that happened over the weekend and nothing to do with politics?
Just do not doubt me.
They would love to be loved by the media.
They would love to be able to go, for example, to White House correspondence dinner and be heroes or to be popular at the White House rather than, oh no, here come the Republicans.
And then everybody starts making jokes about them.
They love to be loved by the media.
So if they can secure a defeat by killing the Tea Party off, they might be heroes.
There's any number of possibilities for believing that.
But I don't think anybody ever plans to win, but not by too much.
I don't think there's some diabolical plan here.
I just think it's run-of-the-mill indifference by people that are worn out.
They're tired of being ripped and criticized.
They just and they want to get some praise from the people ripping them to shreds.
They don't care about being ripped by the Tea Party because they don't particularly like the Tea Party anyway.
They would love to be loved by the media.
You know, Donna Summer, love to love you, baby.
Well, John Boehner and Media, love to love to have you love me, baby.
Don't doubt me on this.
From Reuters, study finds deregulation is fueling the obesity epidemic.
That's right.
Study published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization claims that governments need to take control of their economies to prevent people from getting fat.
From the article, unless governments take steps to regulate their economies, the invisible hand of the market, i.e., evil, greedy capitalist food processors,
will continue to promote obesity worldwide with disastrous consequences for future public health and economic productivity, said Roberto De Vogli of the University of California, Davis, who led the study.
Study published the Bulletin the World Health Organization, UC Davis, right down the road from my adopted hometown, Sacramento, California.
It's up to governments to take steps to regulate their economies, regulate these greedy, like the people that make Oreos and the people that make Crisco and the people, whatever they find unacceptable.
Those people shouldn't have free reign out there unless governments come in and protect unsuspecting Dumcoff citizens who are getting fat even though they don't want to get fat.
They're getting fat because of private sector greed.
See how this works.
From the Washington Post, a day after Obama told Ted O. Baxter on the Fox Super Bowl pregame show that everything's fine with healthcare.
Yeah, we had some glitches, but now we're up and running.
Healthcare.gov cannot handle appeals of enrollment errors.
Tens of thousands of people who discovered that healthcare.gov made mistakes as they were signing up for a health plan are confronting a new roadblock.
The government can't fix the mistakes.
The website is incapable of handling appeals, as it were.
Why is anybody surprised at this?
What errors have they ever been able to fix?
Seriously, what errors do they ever fix?
The only way they address an error is with a new program that compounds the first error, but is designed to fix it.
It never does get fixed.
It's simply outrageous what these people have done.
And that's why we play that sound by the Pelosi on Jon Stewart.
I don't know.
It's not my responsibility.
He wanted to know why is this website not working?
I don't know.
It's not my responsibility.
Not your responsibility.
You gave it to us.
You sold it to us.
You helped Obama lie to us about all the great things that would happen and what we'd be able to keep that we liked.
Now they can't handle mistakes.
Not surprising.
Labor union officials, this is the Washington Post as well.
Labor union officials say Obama betrayed them in the health care rollout.
Labor leaders who have spent months lobbying unsuccessfully for special protections under the Obamacare Act warned this week that the regime's continued refusal to help is dampening union support for Democrat candidates in this year's midterm elections.
Now, the Washington Post, I don't know what the purpose of the story is, if it's to rattle them and scare them, but if it really is that they feel this way, and that's a stretch, I admit, but if these labor union people really believe this, if this is really true, then there is no way they can campaign or give money to any current senator incumbent running in 2014.
Here's a poll quote.
Leaders of the two major unions, including the first to endorse Obama in 2008, said that they have been betrayed by a regime that wooed their support for the bill in 2009 with promises to later address the peculiar needs of union-negotiated insurance plans that cover millions of workers.
What they're saying is they haven't gotten the last part of that.
They were promised whatever to get them to sign on, support it, and promote it.
But now that it's here, the problems they all knew at the beginning, the regime is ignoring, and they're mad.
They've got Cadillac plans, folks.
Now, here's the well, they got waivers, but the waivers have expired.
It's real world time.
It's real world.
And here come the fees and taxes.
They're all subjected to it.
And what they're saying is that the regime promised them that all this would be addressed by the time this time arrived.
And it hasn't been.
So that's why I believe this.
I think they really, everybody's ticked off about this.
Everybody should be ticked off because it's screwing everybody, folks.
I got to take a brief time out.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Let's go back to the phones.
We have Sarah on the phone, Blacksburg, Virginia.
Hi, Sarah.
Thank you so much for waiting.
Great to have you here with us.
Thank you for having us, Rush.
You bet.
We are a homeschooling family and have had a hard time making history interesting.
And my uncle gave us your book, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims for Christmas and read it every night with the kids.
And they loved it and made them much more interested in history.
Oh, that's great.
How old are they?
They are 8 and 10.
Oh, perfect.
Absolutely perfect.
You know, I've wondered this about homeschooling because I've not seen it.
I was not, well, I was homeschooled, but not formally, but not the way you're talking about.
I would think, I've just always assumed that homeschooling, it would be easier to interest the kids since A, they're yours, and B, you know them and you know what you have to do to hold their attention and you know what you have to teach them, you know, what you want to impart.
I'm kind of, don't miss it.
I'm not criticizing.
I don't know enough to criticize.
I'm just I'm fascinated to hear you say they were bored with anything, unless that's history, because you're the teacher and you're not boring.
I know.
I can tell you can't be.
Well, it's kind of hard for them to imagine stuff from so long ago.
We tried different books and different ways of learning.
You know, science can be fun because we can do experiments.
My son's really interested in math, so we have no problem with that.
But history was just one of those things that we would start reading and they would get bored pretty quickly.
But with your book, it wasn't that way at all.
Well, that's great.
You're making my day because that's actually the purpose is to make it come alive and to take the kids to it.
And it did for them.
And then we have since gone to the library and checked out books on the Puritans and Pilgrims and Pocahontas and such.
And so it's been a nice way to be able to extend it as well.
That's great.
So they've become interested in the actual people and want to know more now.
They did, yeah.
They did.
The characters were exciting for them.
And it did.
It made them want to learn more about the people of those times.
Well, you're right.
History can be dry.
It can seem to a lot of people, young people, especially.
I mean, real young, irrelevant.
What does it mean to them?
Okay, okay, so there were these pilgrims that came here.
Big whoop.
That was so many long ago, I'm not going to deal with it.
And it is so important.
You want them to grow up having a profound respect for the country they live in.
Absolutely.
Why it's unique.
And that's hard to find in public schools, and it's hard to do even at the homeschooler.
So we're thankful for that.
And they had a question for you if they could speak with you.
Oh, you've got them there.
Fine and dandy.
Hit me.
Hit me.
Sure.
I have Todd and Mallie, and I'm going to let them talk to you.
All right.
Hi.
You must be Mally.
Yes.
What's your question, Mally?
Are you going to make a second book?
Am I going to make a second book?
Am I going to make a second book?
You know, I really want to.
I really, really, and I use Mallie just so you know, I usually, if I really want to do something, it usually gets done.
So I might make a second book.
You never know.
You never know for sure, but I might.
Would you, obviously, you'd like to, you'd like me to make a second book so you could see it.
Okay, well, thank you very much.
That's awfully nice of you to say, and I will make sure to keep that in mind as I ponder whether I'm going to make another one.
Thank you.
Oh, thank you, Mally.
And up next will be Todd.
I remember that.
Hi, Todd.
Hi.
What's your question?
Oh, yeah.
Are you going to have like a TV show or a movie or something?
We're going to have a TV show.
So are we going to do a video of this?
You know, we are at the time.
We're playing with the idea.
We're toying with the idea of what it would be like to animate it.
And we're looking into that.
I can't say for sure that something like that would happen, but it's something that we would like to make is an animation of one of these.
But we're just in the beginning stages here and trying to figure out how much we can get done within reasonable amounts of time.
So that also, I would have to say, is a possibility.
Don't know how big a one, but it's a possibility.
But I'm really flattered that you're interested, and I thank you.
And I want you guys to hang on because we'll send them audio version and Ted T. Bears.
We'll double-dose them on that.
So that's the mom is Sarah in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Thank you all very much.
Grab soundbite number four.
I said I've got some sound bites in the Super Bowl and I wanted to get to them.
Up first is Russell Wilson, winning quarterback, University of Wisconsin out of Seattle.
Let me tell you a story.
Well, I only know his story from the time he was drafted.
He's the quarterback in Wisconsin.
He gets drafted the same year that the Seahawks sign as a free agent, the guy thought to be the greatest backup quarterback in the league, a guy named Matt Flynn.
He had backed up Aaron Rodgers for the Packers, and he'd come close to winning a couple games and just played lights out.
And he became a free agent after that season.
And he was highly sought by a number of teams.
The Seahawks made the deal.
So they go to training camp with that guy expected to be their starting quarterback, Matt Flynn.
And Russell Wilson shows up as a mid-round draft choice out of Wisconsin.
And within a couple of weeks, he gets a starting quarterback job.
And Matt Flynn ends up released and out of football.
Then he signed with the, I think, the Raiders for a while.
Didn't work there.
Went to Buffalo.
He ended up back with the Packers this season.
Nothing against him.
It's just that this guy, Russell Wilson, was drafted the same year.
The Seahawks thought they had their quarterback for 10 years.
And instead, he got thrust into the starting job two weeks into training camp.
In the post-game last night, the sideline reporter, Pam Oliver, said, You told your teammates before the game, why not us?
Now, didn't that echo something your dad once told you, Russell, why not you?
I used to always tell me, Russ, why not you?
You know, and what that kind of meant is, you know, believe in yourself, believe in the talent God's giving you, even though you're 5'11, you know, you can go a long ways.
And so, you know, that's why I decided to play football, and I wanted to go against the odds a little bit.
And what he was saying there is, Russ, his dad chose to motivate that.
Well, why not you?
All these other guys, why not you, Russell?
I mean, the rap on him is he's too short.
Third base, baseball, he couldn't see over the pitcher's mountain short to throw to first base.
Too short.
Can't throw the ball over the linebackers and the defensive lineman.
And of course, it's all been blown to Smith Areens.
But his dad said, well, why not you, Russell?
You can do it just like anybody else can.
And it stuck with him.
And he's now becoming the first, it's his second or third season.
He's become a leader on the team.
Here's Peyton Manning, who got mad in the post-game when a reporter asked him how embarrassing it was to have happen last night what happened after the record season he had.
It's not embarrassing at all.
I would never use that word.
There's a lot of professional football players in that room, the locker room, to put a lot of hard work and effort into being here, into playing in that game.
And the word embarrassing is an insulting word, to tell you the truth.
So he want to hear about that.
What do you mean, insulting?
Or embarrassing.
Isn't it embarrassing?
We got beat.
They played better than we did.
We're not embarrassed.
It's an insight into the way he thinks.
But the average Broncos fan probably was feeling a little embarrassed or perplexed.
I guarantee you, your average Broncos fan still hasn't been told in a satisfying way what the hell happened last night.
He is saying that the Broncos players are not embarrassed.
They tried.
They showed up.
They were prepared.
They gave it everything.
They're not embarrassed.
They might be humiliated, might be angry.
They're not embarrassed.
Peyton Manning doesn't get embarrassed.
He doesn't want you using that word to describe his team.
That's what he's saying.
John Elway, Fox News Sunday, is being interviewed by Chris Wallace.
And Wallace said, look, Mr. Elway, this is a political question.
It's a political show.
I have to ask you a political question.
In the course of researching you for this interview, I found out, I didn't know, Mr. Elway, that you're a big Republican.
And in fact, you contributed a lot of money in 2012 to Mitt Romney.
Why do you support the GOP?
I believe that, you know, as a country, that, you know, we're given the opportunity to succeed or not succeed.
And I think that, you know, for us to be able to, I don't believe in safety nets.
Obviously, we've got to have some kind of safety nets, but I think that my philosophy is when you're given the opportunity to go take advantage of that.
And I think that that's when you get the best out of people.
And so my beliefs align best with the GOP.
My beliefs.
Why are you smirking in there?
You are.
You're smirking or you're doing something.
Why are you smirking?
Why are you frowning then?
They are.
They're frowning in there.
Would you get over it?
He said Peyton Manning is a leader and a motivator, and embarrassed is something he's not going to stand for being reported about his team.
That's, I don't, I think he's telling the truth.
I don't think he was embarrassed.
I don't think those people have a different mindset about themselves.
Embarrassed, feeling embarrassed.
What is embarrassed?
Do you feel no?
No, that's humility.
It's a different thing.
I got beat is different than I'm embarrassed.
I'm embarrassed is a put down.
These people do not put themselves down.
You ever heard Tiger Woods say he was embarrassed over the way he played?
He never says that.
They never say they were embarrassed.
Then they get mad when other people assume that they are.
That's a mental mindset that the true champions never let in.
Has anybody ever asked Hillary Clinton if she is embarrassed as Secretary of State about what happened in Benghazi?
Or anything else?
Has anybody ever asked her if she's embarrassed?
Well, they should.
Exactly right.
By the way, New York Times just tweeted that last night's Downton Abbey may have been more dramatic than the Super Bowl.
I'm telling you, it was not good, folks.
Downtown Abbey was fine.
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