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March 12, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 12, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #2
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With talent on loan from God.
I am your host, Rush Limbaugh, fighting fatigue.
Up very late last night.
Celebratory aspects of the day.
Plus, my kitten kept attacking me.
There is a lot of that going around.
Now the little kitten is as funny as it can be, but it doesn't know sleep from wake.
When it's me.
Anyway, folks, telephone number you want to be on the program 800-282-2882, the email address, Elrushbow at EIBNet.com.
You know, I do want to spend just a couple of more minutes on this uh Florida special election.
There are abundant lessons here for the Republican establishment to learn.
A bunch of less for them to things to glean here that would help them going forward.
And reviewing the campaign is one of the best ways, I think, to impart some of the uh some of the lessons.
One of the other factors, independence, the precious.
Oh, we love them so much.
Independence made up 25% of the votes.
Jolly won those too.
The Republican won the independence, and that's what the consultants say you have to do.
It's a moderate district, a lot of snowbirds, a lot of uh transplanted moderates just to liberals from the Northeast have moved and lived there.
And that's why the Democrats thought that their global warming spiel would work to counter the negatives of Obamacare.
You know what else?
Uh Jolly, David Jolly was a lobbyist for offshore drilling.
I mean, you can't, you can't be a bigger target than that for a Democrat campaign.
My God, this is everything.
A lobbyist for offshore drilling, and not the Ted Kennedy kind.
This is oil drilling that he's a lobbyist for.
Now, in the conventional wisdom playbook, that's supposed to be a death warrant in a political campaign, and he didn't lose.
There was a an anti-David Jolly editorial back in January, Tampa Tribune, Tampa Bay Times, I'm sorry.
Tampa Bay Times said both Jolly, a Republican candidate for U.S. House District 13 and Lucas Overby, his libertarian opponent are refusing to acknowledge the overwhelming scientific evidence that humans have had an extensive impact on climate change and by extension rising tides in Pinellas County and elsewhere.
So I mean they laid it on full bore.
That is just journalistic malpractice.
That not an editorial, but whoever wrote it is a full-fledged idiot.
Okay, so Jolly and the Libertarian refuse to acknowledge the overwhelming scientific evidence that humans have had.
There is no such evidence.
There's no evidence that humans.
It's an open question.
If there was evidence humans had caused it, then there wouldn't be a debate.
If there was evidence, you couldn't refute it.
There isn't any evidence that humans cause the climate to change.
Nobody's disputing the climate changes.
But we're not causing, we don't have that power.
We do not have the ability.
And the proof is we can't fix it.
We can't stop it once it's doing one thing or the other.
Warming or cooling.
We can't stop it.
So how can we cause it?
The other thing about this global warming, and I think this is a fundamental point, and admittedly, it may be over the head of your average low information voter.
But for this global warming argument that the left makes to work, there has to be an unquestioned truth Or assumption, and that is that whatever was going on 10 years ago is normal.
And the way God intended, or the way nature intended, at some point you have to be able to say this is the normal for planet Earth, so that you can measure warming or cooling.
There's no evidence of what normal is.
There hasn't been record taking long enough for anybody to say what is normal.
Are the ice ages normal?
Are dust balls normal?
We define normal based on our comfort.
But is that what's normal?
We don't know what the normal, we don't, we we don't know what the point is that if it's getting cooler, we got a problem.
And if it's getting warmer, we've got a problem.
We don't, we just assume that at the moment in time we happen to populate the planet, it happens to be normal.
There's so much wrong with it.
Scientifically, there's so much wrong with it.
You can refute practically every claim made, because every claim is political.
You can refute it with logic.
So I think when you have an editorial like the Tampa Bay Times, it's just a uh bit of evidence of how corrupt journalism school has become, how corrupt the left is, the overwhelming scientific evidence that man causes.
There isn't any evidence that man causes it.
There is an attempt to make people believe it.
With contrived evidence, that's what the emails from the East Anglia University demonstrated that the climate scientists are making it up.
They are ignoring things that disprove their theory, and they're making up things that prove their theory.
There isn't any science.
The next thing that needs to be touted is science is not consensus.
Science is not up for a vote.
It's not a political contest to win.
But that's what it's become.
That's why I asked the question.
Why is whether it's getting warmer or cooler, political?
That question alone to me ought to alert everybody that they're being caught up in a hoax.
People intrinsically hate politics, don't they?
They hate lobbyists, they hate all of this, they like the goodies they get, but they don't like it.
They don't think it's honest.
They think they get screwed.
Why then do they choose to believe certain elements of the industry they all despise.
They don't think politicians are honest, they don't think politicians really care about them.
Um that is another thing.
That's another it you know that in the exit polls.
I'm making a detour here, I'm leaving the jolly race just because bulb went off in the brain.
You know the exit poll question.
There were two in the 2012 presidential race when I saw the first wave at 5 o'clock.
That's when we got the first wave in 2012.
When I saw them, I said, we're finished.
The first one was that almost 58% of voters still blame Bush for the economy.
I said, well, it's over.
The second one, and even worse was in the question cares for people like me, Obama 81, Romney 19.
And for the first time, I think this is safe to say in exit polling data, and not just exit polling, uh uh in terms of election day, but polling afterwards.
What normally wins is whoever voters think is the most competent leader in that question, whoever prevails in that question generally has won the presidential election.
This one, 2012, I think was one of the first, if not the first, it's one of the few, where the empathy question defined the winner.
And that signals a significant societal shift in what people want out of their president, cares about people like me.
That is evidence of the corruption of our culture throughout education and uh entertainment, pop culture things, cares about people like me.
Well, the Republicans never win that one.
They never, even Republicans that have been elected president always lose in that.
And therein lies one of the biggest challenges the Republicans have convincing people they care about them.
Because that is, if you want to talk about Republican branding that's gone wrong, that's probably it in a nutshell that Republicans don't care about people.
They care about the rich.
And no matter how incompetent the Democrats are, it doesn't matter because they at least care.
And then that feeds into all of this equality and fairness and all these other things that really have nothing to do with leadership.
But even that, the Democrats tried by by characterizing David Jolly as a as a pro-offshore drilling lobbyist and a global warming denier.
He doesn't care about you, and it didn't work.
So I'm telling you that there are all kinds of lessons for the Republican establishment and the Tea Party, too.
If anybody wants to win elections in this cycle, there's all kinds of lessons to be learned from this one.
And I, you know, the the global warming thing, I just I don't know why the Republicans haven't been more vocal, because it's to me, it's it's so easy to refute it.
I know we have our scientists who are trying to refute it that way, and God bless them.
But it the people that support it don't know the science.
The people that support it are brain dead.
They're just they're caught up in the emotion of it.
Um they they're accepting blame for causing it, and then they're accepting that carrot out there that they can be absolved from this sin if they agree to pay higher taxes and drive a chunky little car and whatever else price they have to pay, give up some of their freedom.
But I mean it just it to me it's just it's it's so commonsensical, this is a farce.
And that big question, how do we know what is normal?
What kind of vanity do we have?
How many human beings have walked this earth over however many years it is, whatever you believe, where do we get off saying that in our 85 years of life expectancy, that's what's normal for the earth.
That's the way it should be.
We don't know that.
We don't know that there even is a normal because the the climate, the planet are in a state of constant flux.
So we're going to define normal by where we're most comfortable.
Well, I'm sorry that doesn't even work.
Because frankly, we down here have had a very comfortable winter.
It's been fabulous.
As far as we're concerned, this could be normal all the time.
And most of the country has frozen its behind off.
There is no normal.
There is no automatic, this is the way it was intended to be.
We don't know that.
And so any so-called evidence that it's getting warmer or cooler from that point is bogus.
The whole thing is made up.
And now they're inculcating all of this with Michelle's push into healthy foods by determining how food is created, produced, grown, whatever.
It's got to be done in a green fashion, it's going to raise prices.
It's ostensibly going to be healthier and so forth, but it's just, it's, it's, it's, it's going to end up taking away food choice from people.
And it's going to raise prices like crazy.
And it's all based in the presumption that you don't know how to eat right.
You don't know what's good for you, but it's really based in more than that.
They just want to control every aspect of your life.
And that's what they're aiming for.
Quick timeout.
Sit tight, my friends.
We will continue after this.
Back to the phones we go.
On a one and only Rush Limbaugh program, Garvin and Casper, Wyoming.
I'm glad you called to thank you for waiting, by the way, too.
Hello.
Hey, big guy, what's going on?
Now you tell me.
Well, I kind of kind of want to touch on two two objects.
One, I'm tired of media taking our Republican candidates.
Why do they do that?
You're tired of the media doing what to our candidates?
Picking our our candidates.
They picked McCain and he lost.
They picked Romney and he lost.
Well, they're not doing it.
The Republicans are allowing it to happen.
They're not doing they're not doing a good job, anyway.
No, no, the Republicans think that that's what it's going to take to win.
They got to make the media love them.
They they think they think media, if they get the media on their side, and they've really won a huge battle.
And they think that's over the hump.
And they that the Democrats love uh media loves the Democrats.
They make the mistake of thinking that the media is actually ever going to support them, vote for them, um, promote them.
It's never gonna happen.
But they it's a lot.
They're not.
They're they're laying back buying our our our votes, and it's not working.
We need conservative people.
Uh yeah, you're summing up 25 years of this program here.
There you go.
The other point that I wanted to push on you, I wanted to tell you about we have a new cigar store in our community that has on Fridays the fire firearms Fridays.
If you come in packing a firearm to get 10% off.
I knew you'd love this.
You get 10% on a cigar if you walk in a tobacco star and buy a cigar.
If you're packed.
If you're carrying a firearm, have you ever seen Vice President Cheney in there?
No.
No.
He wouldn't come in.
Well, I don't know it.
He packs heat.
He goes hunting, he goes fishing.
I know he doesn't smoke cigars.
Um, Garvin, thanks for the uh for the call.
Appreciate it.
Um let me I want to grab somebody number three.
Scott Walker weighed in on the David Jolly race in Florida.
He was on Fox and Friends this morning.
Brian Kilmead said, What do you take away from that victory down in Florida with David Jolly?
It's 4 p.m. here in Washington.
Cut 13.
Sorry, I've got a number three written by here.
I think we're all out of order.
Just number 13, please.
This is a big deal.
For anybody who thought Obamacare wasn't going to be front and center in the 2014 election.
This election a day ago in Florida shows that that's exactly what the election's going to be about.
And it's not just about Obamacare, it's about the failure of big government.
Uh people, particularly young people are seeing the failure, but it crosses the age spectrum out there.
And I think if you're in Arkansas, Louisiana, uh, North Carolina, or Alaska, those Democrat senators are probably looking at these election results and sweating bullets right now because they know the same thing's going to be true this November.
It is, there's no question, but they're also learning that they too might be able to win running against Obamacare.
Because this, you know, the media look at they're reporting what happened, but they're not as usual reporting full bore on what what really happened and what it really means.
In fact, they're trying to downplay the Obamacare aspect.
They're um I don't know that they could, but I would I'm just warning people not to be surprised that you've got a bunch of Democrat senators who voted for it, but they're doing everything they can to distance themselves from the vote.
And I'm just telling you, politics is copycat, it's emulative, and these guys, they want to be reelected.
They're running away from Obama as fast as they can, and they're trying to distance themselves from Obamacare.
So here is a seat that Obama won twice, or a district that Obama won twice.
And believe me, Governor Walker's right.
The Democrats are gonna see this, they're quaking in their boots, and and they're gonna conclude maybe that an option open to them is to also run against Obamacare, even though they voted for it.
These people are gonna be desperate.
And they're well, um, if these people are shameless, I mean, I I wouldn't expect them to admit they made a mistake.
The way they could do it is say it hasn't been implemented the way they thought it was, that they were misled, that this is not at all what they voted for, and they're right.
This throw throw Obama under the bus.
He's he doesn't have to mention his name.
Just say blame it on the exchanges, blame it on anybody else.
It's not what I voted for.
I don't like it the way it is, and don't be surprised if they try it.
That's all I'm saying.
How are you?
Welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies Here's another point.
I'm I'm sorry for the scatterbox here, folks.
It's uh I'm having trouble organizing things here today.
I'm just got the brain synapsies are flying all over the place.
I want to want to zip back to uh global warming for a second because you got you listen to the right Democrats, John Kerry, Obama, they're out there and they are saying that climate change is the greatest existential threat facing the planet today.
Greatest existential threat placing facing the planet.
Now, there are some real violators.
For example, India, the ChICOMs, the Russians, Brazil, they are all huge polluters.
They're all worse than we are.
Every one of those countries is worse in terms of CO2 emissions than we are.
They all happen to be growing their economies at near record paces, by the way.
CO2 emissions accompany economic growth.
Are we willing to go to war with them if they don't cut back on their emissions?
I mean, they're out there trying to make you think it's the greatest threat we face, other than the Tea Party.
Greatest threat we face.
Now you've got a bunch of people out there that are part of the greatest threat we face.
Climate change.
Somebody ought to ask Kerry, are we ready to go to war if it's this big a threat?
Just trying to make a point, uh, folks, that saw all of this is just so trumped up, and it's all designed to scare everybody.
Now, Obama did say if you can't afford Obamacare, then give up your cable TV or your phone.
It happened on Spanish language media.
It was last Thursday, Obama was at the museum, and he participated at town hall, focusing on the importance of Latinos capitalizing on the benefits of Obamacare.
And it was uh is hosted by a partnership of people, uh, Hispanic-oriented media types.
Now, during the QA, the moderator said this question comes from a man who says he wanted Obamacare for a family of three.
He says he makes $36,000 a year.
The minimum he can find, the minimum premium is $316 a month.
He says, I think that's too much for me.
I can't afford that on $36,000.
Now, Mr. President, a lot has been said about the costs uh and families that live paycheck to paycheck, $316 a month for health care, that might be a lot.
What would you say to that man?
I guess what I would say is if you looked at that person's budget and you looked at their cable bill, their telephone, uh, their cell phone bill, it may turn out that it's just they haven't prioritized health care because right now everybody's healthy.
Nobody actually wants to spend money on health insurance until they get sick.
Now, what aside from the obvious folks, what's wrong with that?
So here's a guy, 36 grand a year, the cheapest premium he could find is $316 a month.
He can't afford it.
So Obama says, well, uh look at your budget.
Uh cable bill, telephone, cell phone bill, mate, sir.
You just are not prioritizing things right.
Hey, Mr. President, you may have forgotten it's not a matter of priority.
This man has to have it, or he's in violation of your stupid law.
He has been mandated by the Supreme Court and you and everybody else that he's got to have this.
It isn't a matter of choice.
His cell phone is.
His cable TV bill is.
But your health care bill is not.
He has to have it, or he is committing a crime.
Punishable with a fine and maybe imprisonment if he goes long enough without it.
It's not a matter of questioning the budget and making adjustments and changing priorities.
It's a matter of no choice whatsoever.
But this is the first time that I have heard Obama blame people for selfishness for greed and for not having their minds right.
And he did it at the museum last Thursday with a Spanish language audience.
Latinos.
I would love to hear him say that in front of one of his average, everyday college student crowds.
I would love for him to well, maybe you ought to look at your bill and your budget.
And maybe you don't need that cell phone.
Maybe you don't need cable TV.
Maybe you don't need Netflix.
You just got your priorities wrong.
You know what?
You need health care.
You don't, you don't want to pay for it.
Uh so if you need it.
We can't we can't run the country that way.
You're gonna.
I hope he slips up and says this to an English language audience somewhere down the line.
Because I can tell you right now the drive-by's are not going to report this.
This is the first time that I can recall Obama has not been empathetic.
He got angry and blamed the citizen.
Blame the victim for not being properly devotional to him and his health care law.
So once again, here's Obama opening up the truth.
You don't know how to live your life right.
I'm going to make you.
You don't know what's best for you.
You don't know what's important.
And since you don't, we have to force you to do the things that are important because we do know what's best for you.
Here's uh here's Robin in Houston, Texas.
Hi, Robin.
Welcome to the program.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Hello, Russ.
What an honor it is to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate it.
You are my favorite, or rather our family's favorite patriot.
Well, thank you.
I really appreciate that.
Thank you very much.
And I wanted to tell you that I rushed out to get your new books and buy many many copies.
God bless you.
We are we consider ourselves Rush Revere ambassadors.
We passed them out to all of our friends.
That's great.
How many did you buy?
Do you know?
You remember?
The first book I bought 10, and this time I bought four from Barnes and Noble, but I'm going back and buying more from Amazon and the audio book.
Let me ask you a question.
When you when you buy, say, ten copies, do they look at you strange at the checkout?
Well, I was very mad yesterday.
Um I had to ask.
I fully expected it would be in the front.
Um, you know, on display, and I had to ask, and they were on a top shelf in the back in the children's section.
And I I was not a happy camper.
And what did they say?
I didn't, I didn't say anything.
I was in a hurry, but um, but I told my kids and they they they were not happy, so um Oh no, you don't want that.
Oh no, you don't you do not want the kids unhappy.
No, and I I think it would be best if they went to the manager and told them uh they were unhappy.
But you found it nevertheless.
I did because I was on a mission.
When you're uh an ambassador for Rush Revere, you're on a mission.
This is I can't uh this is so humbling.
I can't say, you know, we we love uh we love getting reports like this from like we we look at you, you're you're part of the troops in the field.
We are here you're calling here giving reports, you know, and and we've got all kinds of people like you that report this kind of stuff.
We've got the uh the Rush Revere Adventures of Rush Revere portal at the twoifyt.com website.
And some people uh are taking pictures of their experiences and sending we got places now for people to post pictures that are related to reading the book or buying it or what have you at the Rush Revere section of uh twoifyt.com.
And but to hear from you personally like this, this is just over the top great.
So you four 14 copies of both books you've bought if I adding it up.
Yes, but we're buying more.
So we haven't we just we're not done.
We're we're not done.
We're going to buy many more.
And my son, um I got the book, and I can't, I'm not gonna get anything done today because I have to read it to him.
Um he's begging me, he's he if I can say he's throwing a tempered tantrum in a good way.
He ends one chapter and he's he's like, read it, read it, read it.
And uh, how old is your son here?
He's 11.
He's and he wants you to read it to him.
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They wanted me to tell you they want cartoons, and before the second book came out, they wanted Rush Review Legos.
Um so when we got to the third chapter, and my son is reading uh your we're we're reading it together, and he's he's so he's cracking up about Star Wars and Legos.
I mean, he's loving it.
Well, I I I don't know I I'm feeling here feel compelled to do something for you.
I feel like saying thank you just isn't enough, but you've got everything.
You've you know what I could do?
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I can send you a couple of Ted T bears.
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But I'll send you a couple of those.
Did you did you say you did or did not find the audio version yesterday when you looked?
I I did not find the audio version, but we still have yours in our car from the first one, and we still listen to that even though we've read the book.
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All right, well, good, because it is a little different uh hearing the author actually read it.
But uh we'll send you the audio version of the of the second book too.
That's wonderful.
Yeah, I it's the least I could do.
This is just you just you're you're just over the top.
Now hang on, Robin, don't go away, so Mr. Snurley, get your address that we can uh uh get this stuff out to you as soon as we can.
In the meantime, back after this, folks.
Don't go away.
L Rushbow.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
The pace.
No, I'm gonna get to it in the next hour.
I've got this whole thing on the on millennials and how they are just confused.
And I I've I just cleared a a news item to illustrate exactly why they are confused.
We'll get to that in the next hour.
I've been promising this for a couple days.
We'll get to it coming up soon.
But from the Washington Post, the pace at which Americans signed up for Obamacare Health Plans slowed last month in the fledgling federal and state marketplaces, according to new government figures, showing that slightly fewer than one million people enrolled in February.
And even with that, they don't know how many of the people who have enrolled have actually paid.
And they don't know how many who have paid have had their payments credited.
Now, you you remember we were constantly assured by the media and the and the rest of the Democrat Party that enrollment would snowball as time went by.
In any case, the White House still refuses to say how many people have actually bought Obamacare.
So the number has to be really bad.
Grab sound bites 14 and 15.
Now, I want to go back.
Snerdley thinks that I am crazy when I say that the Democrats running for re-election in the Senate might also see what happened in Florida and run against Obamacare.
They've got a built-in way to do it.
This law's been changed 30 times.
This law is not, they could very easily, and in fact, if they do it right, they could credibly go in a campaign.
This is not what we voted for.
It wouldn't be brazen, is my point.
Look at if you look at polling data, one thing's that I hate to throw cold water on things.
But if you look at polling data, a majority of people do not want this repeal.
They want it fixed.
Sadly, so the Democrats can see that all they've got to do is say this is not what it was intended to be.
They don't have to throw Obama under the bus that they might want to, but they can simply say this law has been changed 30 times.
It's been changed so many times that it bears no resemblance to what we voted for.
Uh and we want to fix it.
We know it's not working right, but if there's any, they they can take this lesson.
They can run for re-election against it if they do it right.
And they've got a built-in way.
Because the law is not what anybody voted for.
Obama has made how many?
20, 30 changes if you count the waivers and the delays and all that.
This law's nowhere close.
This and the Republican retort to this is of course, because no Democrat would ever win again if they fully implemented this.
What these guys voted for, they would never stand behind anyway.
What these guys voted for, they don't dare implement, or they would never win another election.
Why is it being changed?
Why is it being delayed?
To protect Democrats, because it is so bad.
There's any number of ways for the Republicans to counter whatever Democrats do.
I'm just saying the Democrats could also learn a lesson from this.
And don't think they won't.
Here's Sibelius.
This is about the pace of enrollment.
He's on Capitol Hill today, House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the budget requests for health and human services.
And Jim Renacy, Republican Ohio, said, Madam Secretary, in an interview on September 30th last year, you said I qu I think success looks like at least 7 million signed up by the end of March 2014.
Well, open enrollment ends this month, and you're well short of that 7 million.
Based on your own standards, Obamacare will not be successful at the end of March.
What do you now call success?
Success looks like millions of people with affordable health coverage, which we will have by the end of March in the private marketplace, in Medicaid, young adults on their family plan.
So we will have, I think, a successful program.
So you are changing your standard of 7 million by the end of March 31st.
I said success looks like millions of people having election health care.
So the 7 million is gone.
They did say 7 million.
Let's go back and listen.
This is Dr. Nancy Snyderman and Sabelius.
Nightly News, September 30th, 2013.
What does success look like?
Well, I think success looks like at least 7 million people having signed up by the end of March 2014.
Whoa, look at that.
Last September, I think success looks like at least seven million people.
So Jim Renese says, well, you said seven.
No, I said millions of people.
Hey, did they catch these people in open lies and prevarications?
I look at the clock.
Gotta go.
Back at.
Now, folks, this to the polling data that says a majority of Americans do not want Obamacare repeal.
They want it fixed.
I I I should have added that I'm not sure I buy that because Alx Sink, as part of her campaign, promised to fix Obamacare, and it didn't help her.
And it would tend to disprove this notion that fixing Obamacare is what people want.
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