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March 25, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 25, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Ladies and gentlemen, I have been sitting here pondering something and I about what Obama said over there at The Hague in answer to that question from Jonathan Carl.
It's the, you know, where he said it's just a regional power and they're just threatening their neighbors and so forth.
He said what he's really worried about is a is a nuke.
going off in Manhattan.
And that's probably because so many of his donors live there.
But I still can't believe that Obama's teleprompter said that.
By the way, greetings, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, Limbaugh Institute, Advanced Conservative Studies.
Here's the thing.
If Russia is just a regional power, then doesn't that mean United States is the only world power, the only superpower?
Then did Obama really mean to say that?
You know, note Obama said of all that nonsense in response to whether Romney was right about Russia.
That was the question.
Was Romney right about this, that Russia's the biggest geopolitical threat that we face?
Now, if Romney, I guarantee, if Romney during the campaign had said what Obama said about Russia, hey, they're nothing.
They're just some regional little podunk out there.
And all they're doing is threatening their neighbors.
Do you realize how Romney would be castigated for being ignorant about geopolitics?
I mean, they would still be pummeling Romney.
And thank God we didn't elect him because what an idiot.
But here comes Obama saying it, and it's brilliant and perceptive.
He worried about bombing Manhattan.
Russia is just a regional.
Can you imagine if Romney said any of this?
Or George W. Bush had said any of this.
So now, after, here's another thing, too.
So here's Putin.
He's out there.
He's riding around with no shirt.
He's fighting bears and alligators.
He's going hunting.
He's got supermodels on his arm.
And here's Obama saying, hey, you know what?
It's just a bunch of hicks.
They're nothing but a regional power.
They're taking over their neighbors.
If I were Putin, I'd say, oh, yeah, you want to see what a regional power can do.
I don't know if Obama meant to taunt him or not.
He might have meant to.
But you have to wonder if Putin isn't thinking, so what do I have to do to become a threat to these guys?
If taking Ukraine and Crimea is not enough, what do I have to do to get them?
It's not good, folks, is the bottom line here.
I hope China doesn't feel so weak that they have to annex Taiwan, because that's what Obama said.
You know, Russia's taking Crimea out of weakness.
They're a regional power, very weak, and so they're taking their neighbors.
Well, I hope the Chikoms aren't feeling so weak that they decide to take Taiwan because that would really put us to the test.
Because we've got a treaty with the Taiwanese that we would commit the full force of our military to defend them and prevent that.
I don't think that would see the light of day.
Well, I know we had it.
We did.
We and the Eurowweenies had a treaty with Crime.
But we help.
Clinton and the Eurowenies are the reason Ukraine doesn't have a military.
Ukraine got rid of its military on a promise that they would forever be defended by us and the Eurowweenies.
And Obama re-ratified that back in 2009.
That's why they don't have anything but sticks and busted table legs.
That's why we demilitarized them with the promise that we would defend them.
This is not good, folks.
I mean, I don't know how much of history is repeating itself.
I don't want to get into that, but this isn't good.
Now, also, I got an email during the break, and it's a legitimate question.
I want to answer it.
I think it's got an answer.
Rush, what are the Republicans supposed to do?
If the Republicans stand for tax cuts, there aren't that many people working anymore, and therefore there aren't that many people paying tax.
So, how important is a tax cut as something that's going to win votes?
I mean, Rush, you can pine for the old days when Reagan was coming around, but we don't have a work-oriented society anymore.
We have a dependent culture.
It's all in an email.
I'm summarizing it.
We've got a dependent culture.
We've got 92 million, 93 million Americans not working.
You don't care about tax cuts.
So, what are the Republicans supposed to do, Rush?
I mean, if it's not reach out to those people and promise that they can treat them better than the Democrats do, what are they supposed to do?
And I can understand the question, but there is an answer.
And it's right here in this headline: Scott Walker signs $541 million tax cut legislation, lowering taxes for the third time in less than a year.
Governor Scott Walker signed his $541 million tax cut bill in a ceremony yesterday at a farm in Cecil, Wisconsin, as he travels through the central and northern part of the state, touting it.
Walker called it a great day for Wisconsin taxpayers and a sign of the state shifting financial fortunes in recent years.
Instead of billion-dollar budget deficits, we have a surplus.
He's also got more and more people working.
So, I think the answer to those of you who think, hey, the Republicans have a point rush tax cut, smaller government with 92 million people out of it, it just isn't going to sell.
It's just the Democrats are going to own the people who are sitting on their butts.
The Republicans have to find a way to reach out to people sitting on the butt.
And the Republicans have to find a way to make them think that's okay to sit on their butts.
And that's not who the Republicans are.
Scott Walker decided to be a leader in a blue state.
Look what happened.
It can be done.
I guess, you know, the thinking, what are the Republicans supposed to do?
If the American culture, the society, is rotting.
You have two things you can do if you're a politician.
You go along with it and try to get the votes of the people who are wasting away, or you can be a leader, try to get them off their butts and talk about the greatness of the country.
Well, whatever.
You inspire them.
That's what Walker chose to do.
Walker chose to inspire people.
Not saying he so much told people to get off their butts, but I'm just using that because when you got 93 million Americans not working, what are they doing?
They're all eating, by the way.
I think one of the reasons for the melee that is undeniable from coast to coast in this country is that there isn't any inspirational leadership from anywhere.
Obama clearly is not inspiring anybody.
Obama is a status quo worsening kind of guy.
Obama is a guy who wants you to believe he's the best guy to manage the decline.
And there's nothing inspirational in a decline.
Nothing.
You go out and talk about, and we want to maintain the old American work ethic.
Work hard.
But he doesn't.
There's not one Obama policy that is in any way sympathetic to that or that promotes it.
Inspiration.
Still think it works with people.
And clearly, something's going to happen.
We can't keep going with 92, 93 million people not working.
Can't keep that up.
And everything that entails.
We're not going to remain an economic powerhouse.
We're not going to be able to create careers and standards of living that people want.
I mean, even the people not working, not all of them want to just sit there and live their lives that way.
Harry Reid, by the way, back to Crimea.
This is just this.
We're getting here now into CNN territory.
Senate Majority Leader Dingy Harry said Monday that Republicans helped Putin annex the Crimean Peninsula, blaming it on the Koch brothers.
Dingy Harry said Republicans helped.
You know, we have that parody of Ross Perot, they're coming to take me away.
We need that redone with Harry Reid singing it.
Because this is just, he's blaming the Republicans for Russia annexing Crimea.
He blamed the Koch brothers for this last week.
Somehow the Koch brothers are profiting from this.
And they want Putin to go in there and annex Crimea because the Koch brothers apparently are profiting off of Putin's natural gas lines.
Now the Koch brothers, as the Democrat Party is using them, they don't really mean the Koch brothers specifically.
The Koch brothers represent the evil, 1%.
And since they happen to be libertarians, they are not Democrats.
And they're closer to Republicans.
So they're a convenient target.
And it works.
David Koch, the David of the Koch brothers, donated $100 million for children's cancer research or whatever.
I forget the name, but it's a famous New York hospital.
And the Nurses Union and the NAACP and a bunch of others showed up to protest the donation.
They didn't want the money if it came from Republicans.
They didn't want the money if it came from the Koch brothers.
And that money would have meant jobs for nurses and all kinds of, well, it did mean, it will mean jobs for nurses and a whole host of benefits for children.
Let's take a break.
We'll come back.
And let me look at the phone roster.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, cool.
We're set.
We're getting some phone calls.
I got the CNN soundbites.
And I will admit, I have been sort of pushing the CNN soundbites back in deference to the stick to the issues crowd because they don't want to hear about the airplane crash anymore since it's solved.
I hear from them, certainly.
The stick to the issues.
You know, it's no, as far as the stick to the issues crowd, it's solved.
There's nothing politics.
There's no Obama bashing in it.
There's no politics in it, so it may as well not exist.
It's a waste of time.
That's the stick-to-the-issues crowd.
If you can't talk about the Democrats or liberals or Obama, it's a waste of time.
I'll be back.
Don't go away.
Well, the National Football League owners are meeting their annual meetings taking place right up the road in Orlando.
Well, it's what, three hours up the road.
And they just passed a new rule.
Players will no longer be allowed to dunk the football over the crossbar of the goalpost after scoring a touchdown.
Now, there are other rules changes coming down the pike, but that's not going to be the only one.
They've had some rules changes on the what thing now that the N-word thing has been shelved.
They have an existing rule that they can employ that already prevents that kind of incendiary, insulting, destructive language.
Not the new rule.
But yeah, they're going to really tighten up on the whole bullying thing.
They've got an existing regulation, a bylaw that allows, but they've got a new rule.
No dunking the ball over the crossbar after scoring a touchdown be illegal.
2014.
Why?
You have any idea?
No, they don't.
They never damage the goalpost.
No, no, no.
That's fans that do that coming out of the stands at college games, jumping and dancing and holding onto it.
There's never been a player damage a goalpost.
They may, it might end up off-center and have to ground crew come back out and center it, but no damage to it.
But no, they just don't like the way it looks.
It's not basketball.
There's no dunking in football.
And I think also they're worried that a player might get a concussion hitting his head on the crossbar as he jumps up to dunk the ball.
What else could it be?
Okay, to the audio soundbites, this is me.
Want you to hear what I said.
This last Wednesday, another airtight prediction made before anybody else.
I'm going to make a prediction to you right now that CNN is going to continue to cover this story 24 hours because they're getting ratings for the first time in 20 years.
They are not going to let this go.
I'm not going to predict what the coverage is going to be.
Maybe it'll be rooted in we don't believe the explanation, or maybe we're going to find guests who don't believe it, but they're going to keep this alive.
I said, if they have to for the rest of the year.
And every day goes by, they don't find a plane.
CNN's on the air continuing to cover the story.
And as I predicted, here's Piers Morgan last night, CNN.
When I watched the Malaysian Prime Minister, I just thought, as I was listening to this statement that he made, how can they be so sure?
Without any wreckage at all that's been independently verified as coming from this plane, how can they be unequivocal?
Well, they answered that.
You know what they said?
Well, there's no evidence that we're wrong.
That's exactly what they said.
People say, wait a minute.
All you've got is this in Marcat satellite data that based on the pings and Doppler curves and so forth, that's where you're going to get it.
Yep.
Well, you don't have it, but nobody else does either.
We are just convinced the plane, the flight ended.
It's over.
It crashed.
We want to be done with this.
And you can't prove that it didn't because you can't find it still flying and nobody can find it on the ground anywhere.
So we are proclaiming it crashed.
That was the answer.
Well, that's not going to be good enough for CNN.
Last night on Piers Morgan Live, he spoke with correspondent Richard Quest on the explanation given for the disappearance.
And Piers Morgan said, Richard, is it enough for them to be not 100% certain?
If they're not 100% certain, why has the Malaysian prime minister gone out and told all these relatives your relatives are dead?
Because we know the route it took.
We know it hasn't been seen.
We know there's all these facts.
We may not have any wreckage for weeks.
We may never have wreckage.
So he has basically said, this is the best evidence that we have, and that is why we conclude the flight ended.
The best evidence they've got is that you don't have any evidence it didn't crash.
That's what they're saying.
Well, he is leaving.
He is leaving.
Piers Morgan, a lot of British accents on CNN.
It's not working out for him, but they still got him.
Now, next up in the situation room last night, Wolf Blitzer talked with Jeffrey Toobin, who's the lawyer, CNN, a legal analyst, about the announcement that the flight crashed.
Blitzer said, which country's court will have jurisdiction over lawsuits that inevitably will emerge here, Jeffrey?
Think about the complexity here.
You have a Malaysian airline, mostly Chinese passengers, an American manufacturer in a plane that apparently, apparently went down near Australia and international waters.
Most likely, as I understand it, the litigation would start in China and Malaysia, but there will certainly be an effort to bring some of the cases to the United States because that's where the deepest pockets are and that has the most plaintiff-friendly litigation.
Does that not sum it up?
That's going to tick Putin off, too.
Because all the lawsuits are going to be where the money is, the United States.
And Toobin is very proud of that.
We got deep pockets and we got a plaintiff-friendly litigation system here in America.
We didn't have anything to do with anything except we manufactured the airplane.
There were two or three Americans on board.
Can you imagine if they never find the plane, if they never find the passengers, if, well, the Malaysian Prime Minister has said the flight ended.
So he is suable.
There's no evidence.
The Malaysian Prime Minister has said the flight ended where it ended out there, four hours from Perth, Australia.
Far from any landing sites, as he said.
Don't have time.
We've got to take a break.
But weighing in next on this, the inimitable Sheila Jackson Lee.
Wait for it.
Snerdley's going crazy here, folks.
He can't figure out how anybody can be sued when they don't have an aircraft.
How can you sue Boeing?
You don't have an aircraft.
You don't know why it crashed.
How can you sue Malaysian Airlines?
You don't have an aircraft.
You don't have any bodies.
How can you sue anybody?
What you need to do is go look at CNN earlier today.
They went out and they got Bill Nye, the science guy, to talk about the legal issues.
That's how hard up they're getting for guests.
Bill Nye, the science guy, who's not even a science guy.
If you know the truth, I'm not trying to destroy your kids, but he's not.
It works this way.
Then Jeffrey Toobin gave it up.
You go after Boeing.
All a lawsuit is, is you make some claims.
Then you get a jury.
You're going to sue Boeing for whatever.
Blame them for the crash.
All you got to do is get a jury that hates American corporations and loves to take care of a little guy and then go make your case.
And if you got no evidence, best speculation, best probable cause.
It's a civil lawsuit.
And then the judge thinks it's excessive or not enough.
He can make adjustments or what have you.
But just because there's no airplane doesn't mean they can't sue everybody.
You know, John, it's like a town sweep.
You just throw everybody in and sue everybody and hope you get a jury that goes along with one of your targets.
And you do it here.
Toobin said, we got a litigious, friendly and a plaintiff-friendly judicial system here.
Okay, Sheila Jackson Lee.
This was on the floor of the house.
I wish this had been on CNN.
The floor of the house, Sheila Jackson Lee, Democrat, Texas, speaking about the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.
I call upon the aviation industry to stop hiding behind cost and how much it costs and start ensuring that our pilots and our customers, our flying public, are safe.
Why do we have the capacity to dismantle the transponders?
Why wasn't the emergency call already in place that it automatically signals when an aircraft goes off its discerned or destinated destiny and destination as it relates to its flight pattern?
Why does it have to be done manually?
Oh, my God, folks, are we in so much trouble?
This is a congressional leader.
This whole thing is a satire, is a parody.
I call upon the aviation industry to stop hiding behind cost and how much things cost and start ensuring that our beloved pilots and our precious customers, our precious flying public, are safe.
Why can somebody turn off the transponder?
Why wasn't the emergency call already in place when the plane goes off its discerned or destinated destiny as relates to its flight pattern?
It's Destinated Destiny, which in this case happened to the leader of the Democrat Party folks in the House.
The discerned destinated destiny was Beijing.
Okay, Scott, Dayton, Ohio, you're next on the phones.
Thank you again for waiting.
Hello.
Hello?
Yeah, hi.
Yeah.
Hey, look, I'm about to lose my health insurance because of Obamacare.
I've had it for almost 20 years.
I have an autoimmune disease.
And the insurance I have now through my employer helps me cover the cost of that.
Why are you going to lose it?
Because of Obamacare.
But what specifically about it is, is it the cost?
Is it not covered?
Is it a pre-existing condition?
Why are you losing it?
It is the whole crew here is going to lose their health insurance.
Everyone that works for my boss.
Oh, okay.
So your employer is getting rid of the benefit.
Yes.
Because he can't afford it anymore.
Yes.
And I have an autoimmune disease, and I take infusion treatments every six weeks.
And I have a list of medications that I also have to take orally.
And without my health insurance, that not only do I want to keep my plan, I actually need my plan.
Well, I thought you could keep it because I thought that Obama had put a hold on people like you losing your coverage for a couple of years.
As far as I know, I'm still going to lose my health insurance.
Well, you're losing the paying agent.
Yes.
And I've been to the Obama website.
Are you losing your job?
No.
So theoretically, you could cancel your cable bill or your cell phone and then buy your insurance yourself.
Because that's what Obama said.
Well, look, even if I were to cancel both of those, I still would not be able to afford the premium that they want a month to cover me.
Oh.
And to top it off, when I end up in the hospital, which is exactly where I'll end up because that's where I started, guess what he's going to do?
He's going to fine me for not buying something I can't afford.
Yeah, but it'll be less than what you would have paid if you had bought it.
And look at the bright side.
Now, I know it's serious, but what are you going to do?
What are your options as you've looked at them?
Well, my options are to not get health insurance, which will put me in a hospital.
But you can't afford to stop taking my medicines.
Yeah, but you can't afford to treat yourself.
You can't afford the treatment if you don't have insurance, right?
That's correct.
So have you gone to healthcare.gov?
I sure have.
I sure have gone to healthcare.gov.
Well, there's another option you've had.
And this idea, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Obama himself have mentioned this, that you could choose to become liberated from work.
You could, because right now, look at you.
You're locked into a job just to get your health care, and that's unfortunate.
Now, since the job doesn't provide you health care, you can quit.
And then you can discover the...
And how does one pay for their other bills?
Well, you discover your inner poet or artist, and then you go try to get a subsidized policy at an exchange.
Wow.
Yeah, right.
So what do people like me do, Rush?
People like you are losing their insurance.
People like you are being canceled left and right.
It's in the millions.
People like this.
I'm going to tell you something.
This has come up a number of times.
This kind of stuff, it does two things.
It breaks my heart and infuriates me because you've done nothing.
You haven't done anything.
You have sat around and you've listened to your president tell you that your health care system's broken and he's going to fix it.
And I don't care whether you voted for him or not, he's breaking it.
You are probably a guy who has tried as hard as you can your whole life to play by the rules.
You've tried to stay within a moral code and all that.
You're probably one of these guys.
You work hard.
You do what's necessary to get your job done.
You try to do it well.
You're not trying to, you're just, and this kind of stuff is happening to people like you all over this country.
Right, yes.
So what do people like all of us do?
I mean, I am not passing.
I'm not a passing news story.
I'm a human being.
And without my treatment.
I know, but to them, you're a stat.
You're just a statistic.
You're a number.
And in Harry Reid's case, you're a liar.
Harry Reid says that.
Harry Reid, oh, he burns me up with that.
Oh, he burned me up when he said that.
Well, he said you're lying about.
And everybody else telling a story like you is lying.
He sure did say that.
Well, I got news for him.
We are not lying.
The person who's lying is the president.
But yeah, in the meantime, all that does you nothing.
You've got an autoimmune disease that you need constant treatment for.
Can you and you can't.
This is not something you can go to the emergency room when you need to, absolutely not every six weeks.
They hook me up to a system that infuses me with a drug called Remicade and that's just the infusion.
That's every six weeks, and then there's a list of other medications I have to take orally every single day.
When do you?
When does your policy what?
When does your policy cancel?
Um, i'm i'm not absolute for sure, but in several months.
So you've got some time here to to try to come up with a substitute or replacement.
I, I do, but every, every direction I go I, I get nothing.
I, I I get not.
Every direction i've gone i've I, i've called, i've uh, written senators um, i've called the, the Obama Plan.
I've called the State Plan.
It seems like i've, i've.
Just, I just keep going.
Humor me, why can't you replace this?
Why can't we?
Why haven't you found another group to join that gets you a premium that you can afford?
A group?
Where do I find a group?
Well, normally an insurance company would help you find a group to become a member of.
I have, I have run into no such help.
I've talked to private insurance companies.
It seems like i'm at a brick wall where the the president of the United States says, we don't care if you end up in a hospital and and then, on top of that, we're going to fine you for not buying my insurance my, my plan.
If I like my plan, I can keep my plan.
Well obviously, just so people know, would you, would you, if you don't mind sharing, would you tell people what a um, a sim, a single infusion of Remicade costs six thousand dollars yep, six grand yep.
And you need one every six months, every six weeks, every six weeks.
And my and the cost of the medication is outrageous, but through the insurance plan that I have through my small-time employer, I can manage the cost.
I'm not saying it's great, but I can manage it.
The the cost isn't even double or triple or five times.
When I went to Obama's Health.gov, it was unbelievable.
I know everybody is discovering the premiums are doubled, the deductible is tripling.
Yes um, it's a horror story.
It's a horror story and i'm absolutely horrified because I was in the hospital last year and I was in there for over two months for them trying to get me under control, and now that they finally have yeah, what did your President, what did your employer tell you?
If he told you, was the reason that he said?
The memo said, i'm not making this up, due to Obamacare, I will no longer um cover your health insurance.
Okay, it means, it means he can't stay in business and comply at the same time.
That's, that's what that means, correct?
So I've been, ever since that memo came out, I've been absolutely horrified.
I don't want to be in the hospital.
I know.
I want to stay where I'm at.
I want to keep working.
Look, this infuriates me.
There's no excuse for this.
This wasn't broken.
And your guy, your boss, would not have to cancel if it weren't for the fact that Obama's transforming the healthcare system.
And I would expect you to be mad at your boss more than you sound, but you sound like you're fairly informed.
That's what Obama's hoping is you're going to blame the boss.
Scott, I have to, I'm really sorry.
I've got to go.
I'm way long on the segment.
Here's stuff.
I don't know what to do.
I just think this kind of is so unnecessary.
Just one of the problems with our previous caller, Scott, is he's employed by small business.
And these small businesses are canceling their health care coverage as a benefit, not just because they can't stay in business and offer health care.
It's not, I mean, that's true, but it's not the only reason.
In a lot of cases now, insurance is not being offered to small employers or small groups because the insurance companies can't stay in business and make up the costs elsewhere as they used to be able to with larger groups.
And what's happening here, the entire market and actuarial system is being destroyed.
Everything that used to work, the small guys got covered, however you want to describe it, larger groups are subsidizing smaller groups, and the insurance companies are able to make their money.
They combine everybody together.
They found a way to make it all work.
That's all been destroyed now.
By the way, if the plane crash isn't enough for you, CNN at 10 o'clock tonight, the wreckage of the Exxon Valdez, oil and water.
They're doing a one-hour special on something that's 22 years old to do another hit piece on oil.
Just amazing.
Don't forget to go to rushlimbaugh.com to get to the link to vote in the Children's Choice Book Awards, folks.
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