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May 28, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 28, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #2
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The drive by's the Democrat Party.
The Republican establishment salivating, excited and happy over their belief that the Tea Party is no more.
The Tea Party is gone.
The Tea Party has been vanquished.
And what they really mean by that is that they think they've finally ended the day where conservative Republicans slash Tea Party nominate wackos in primaries who will then go on to lose.
However, uh Democrat pollster Doug Schoen is saying that the Tea Party ain't dead, quote, unquote.
Huge victories by Tea Party backed Republicans in the top two runoff contests in Texas on Tuesday proved, quote, the Tea Party ain't dead, said Doug Schoen.
This is a clear, unambiguous sign that activist conservatives in the Republican Party have a strong position that is not going away.
It's a very clear sign that reports of the demise of the Tea Party are grossly exaggerated.
He said these are blowout landslides, and the Republican establishment needs to take heed.
Julie Turner, president Texas Patriots PAC, told Newsmax, we're just delighted with tonight's results.
It was a huge Tea Party win.
Tea Party-backed Republicans won Texas's top two races on Tuesday.
Two-term State Senator Dan Patrick Trounst incumbent Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst denying him a fourth term.
While State Senator Ken Paxton defeated State Representative Dan Branch in the attorney general's contest.
Dan Patrick 65% to David Dewhurst's 35%.
The Tea Party isn't dead.
It's a it's it's nothing more than a fervent desire on the part of the Washington establishment, both parties.
The Tea Party is never going to die.
The Tea Party's made up of average ordinary Americans who are all of a sudden becoming activist because they are simply combination of outraged, insulted, and frightened by what has become of Washington.
It's out of control.
The spending, uhnesty, everything being contemplated is simply antithetical to the founding of this country.
You know, I spent some time uh discussing amnesty yesterday.
It's one of those things, some people really revved up about it still.
Others get a little bored by it.
I mean, it runs the gamut.
But I want to remind everybody again.
And maybe maybe some of you have have arrived at this understanding or conclusion on your own, if so great.
But a lot of people look at amnesty in economic terms, and some cultural, in terms of lack of assimilation.
But there's a depending on how you look at it, there's a second or third aspect to it, which is really hideous, which is purely partisan politics, beneficial only to the Democrat Party and no one else.
The Democrat Party believes in the politics of grievance.
The Democrat Party and its supporters is a collection of miserable, unhappy malcontents.
Now, I'm talking about rank and file voters.
I'm not talking about the leadership, although I'm I don't think they're happy, but at least they're economically secure and they have power and they have leadership.
But I I I don't see these people.
I'm thinking of Harry Reed, Pelosi, uh Obama.
I mean, I don't see them as a bullion.
I don't I don't see them as really happy.
I think they're capable of it.
Uh their their mindset is constantly negative and pessimist.
Uh And they're angry all the time.
And they're angry at the country.
They're angry at their opponents.
And no matter what they get, no matter how much of their agenda they get, they're never happy.
It's never enough.
So they're never satisfied.
And so they never get to a point where they just want to leave well enough alone.
No matter how much they get, everything's still out of whack.
Everything's wrong.
Everything's bad.
Everybody else is a threat.
One of the ways, in fact, one of the requirements for the Democrat Party to advance is to undermine sabotage, if you will, elements of this nation's founding, both political and cultural.
And that's where affirmative action comes in.
Affirmative action is a never-ending grievance.
It is a solution to a problem that can never be solved, by definition, the Democrats will tell you, there is no end to affirmative action, because there's no end to the problem of discrimination.
Because that's what America is.
America is discriminatory.
It is racist.
It is bigoted.
It has been since its founding.
Now, if you're going to make that argument, and if that argument is what you use to justify all of your socialist policies, i.e., we got to do this to make it fair for people.
We got to do this to balance the scales.
We got to do this to level the playing field.
What do you need?
You need a never-ending supply of minorities about whom you can say America is to blame for their plight.
So in addition to cheap labor, and in addition to unregistered Democrats who come into the country and become voting Democrats after a while, in addition to those two characteristics, what amnesty and a never-ending flow of poor very poorly educated people provide them is a never-ending supply of people
they can point to and say, look at these poor people.
Look what this country has done to them.
Or look how this country is discriminating against them.
It is a way to have in perpetuity the allegation or the charge that this is a racist, sexist, bigoted country that needs to be reformed.
That needs to be fixed.
Just like they need a permanent underclass of dependent people who can't take care of themselves, they need a permanent large group of people who are of color,
poorly educated, that they can in time blame America for, which allows them to continue in perpetuity their policies that undermine the whole premise of the founding of this country.
It is really insidious.
It is, in fact, a requirement for them.
And when you when you look at it that way, in addition to the fact that it's automatic Democrats that are being legalized and registered and cheap labor, when you realize that what it also is is a way to forever convince people this place is rotten,
unfair, capitalism bad, discriminatory, then why would any republican ever be in favor of it?
There simply is no evidence that people who will benefit from amnesty make up what is so-called the natural constituency of conservatism or the Republican Party.
There's no evidence.
The evidence in the polling data just the opposite.
They are by 75-25 believers in big government, believers in socialism, believers in command and control, government where it comes to health care and economic matters.
Why would any Republican, knowing that this is one of the primary reasons for the never ending inflow, and one of the primary reasons for amnesty, why would any Republican so because of that question, there's always going to be a Tea Party.
There is always going to be a Tea Party opposing this.
Because what the Tea Party is is average ordinary Americans trying to save their country.
So they're never, you know, much Washington establishment might dream and hope that they can vanquish the Tea Party, but they're never going to vanquish the Tea Party as long as they are on this course.
Because there are always going to be people, and I fervently believe it's a majority of people, who do not like the direction that we are going, who do not want socialized single player medicine, who do not want a country made up and populated increasingly by poor and undereducated people.
They're just they're not going to accept it.
They don't want it.
It doesn't make sense.
Why in the world would you want the majority population to be poor and uneducated?
The Democrats would love it, but why would anybody else?
It just doesn't make sense.
And so there will always be people standing up against that.
Whatever you call them, the Tea Party this or the Tea Party that are just straight out patriots, but they're always going to be citizens.
And I predict that they're going to come from all walks of life.
They're going to come from all kinds of different political parties.
You're going to get some liberals and Democrats, Democrats.
They're going to be fed up with this at some point.
They're trying to stereotype who the Tea Party is, and they will fail at that.
Because they're just patriots.
They're just people, want to save the country from the direction that it's going.
And not even for themselves, but for their children and grandchildren.
I was talking to a guy recently.
And I love to ask people for short versions of their life history, particularly people who have achieved a lot, very successful.
Ask them where they started.
It's amazing.
It's amazing how common the story is.
The elements of the story are pretty common.
Came from nothing.
Parents really didn't have grandiose visions because they'd come from the depression and World War II, and those two things beat them down, their definition of success.
Like my father, when I quit radio, went to work for the baseball team, he was finally happy.
Thought I'd finally made a good decision.
And he told me, if you stay there 40 years, you put in, you could become a vice president and get a company car.
That was nirvana.
I'm talking to this guy and listening to him describe how his life turned out, decisions he had made, the work he had put in.
And then he said, what scares me is I don't I'm worried that my two sons aren't even going to have the opportunity.
They're already in so much debt.
The government has already spent the taxes of their whole lifetime and their kids'lifetimes.
Yes.
I don't see where they're going to have the opportunity to acquire the kind of wealth that I did, he said to me.
And that's what has a lot of people scared.
Because everybody wants their kids to do better than they did, and it's always been one of the if not an expectation, one of the promises and one of the opportunities that this country provided.
And work for it, it wasn't guaranteed to anybody.
But if you did it, the odds are you're gonna be much better off following the old rules of hard work and self-reliance, responsibility and all that, you'd be rewarded more often than not.
And when examined over an entire lifetime, there's no question that that kind of ethic would result in a certain degree of success.
However it's defined by the individual.
And this is what people fear is being lost now.
And as long as they fear it, there's going to be a Tea Party trying to save it and recapture it.
With the belief that getting hold of what's happening in Washington and reversing direction can make it possible.
And frankly, I'd rather be on the side of that kind of optimism than be inmeshed with a bunch of people who are fatalistically pessimistic who think all is lost.
And that's not the Tea Party.
And so they can dream that the Tea Party's dead, and they can dream that the Tea Party's been vanquished, and they can dream that the Tea Party's gone away.
They see the Tea Party as just conservatism.
They don't even know what it is.
They don't even know what the Tea Party is.
They don't even know what primary factors of that mindset are.
They just think it's extreme conservatism.
But regardless, it hasn't gone anywhere.
It isn't going anywhere.
And I think this November, everybody is gonna see overwhelming evidence of just how many of these people there are.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Okay, so the phones as promised, and we go to Traverse City, Michigan.
This is Brenda, thank you for calling and for waiting and being patient.
Hi.
Hi, Russ.
Thank you for taking my cough.
You bet.
I w I wanted to discuss the um Elliott Rogers situation, and I simply want to point out that it's something I think the liberal media will happily avoid, and that is that this is what happens when children are not parented.
I I think his parents should be held responsible.
I obviously he's responsible for what he did, but his parents are also responsible because I think he was um neglected to say the least.
I think he was probably also abused.
And you know, I think that that they just happily continued on with their what do you mean abused?
What are you thinking happened to him?
I scanned over his manifest last evening, and one one um incident really stood out.
His stepmother, when he entered his father's home to get a drink of water, his stepmother ordered him to exit and to ring the doorbell, and he went ahead and started to drink his water, evidently, and she smashed the glass out of his hand and it shattered on the floor.
The father appeared when he heard the glass shattering, and he ordered him out of the house.
Evidently he was supposed to go ring the doorbell and enter properly.
Well, yeah, that sounds like ridiculous.
Father afraid of the mother.
Exactly, and that's the power play that goes on in this country.
We have kids getting shipped off to daycare.
We have kids getting it.
Well, you know, I didn't there have been incidents like this uh that have come up, Brenda, and every time not every time, but oftentimes somebody will suggest, you know, the parents played a role here.
We really need to consider how the child was raised, and uh maybe the parents.
And and a lot of times when that happens, people know, wait a minute, you can't start getting off on that tangent of the parents are responsible or share some of the blame because the kid did what he did.
But if you know it it makes it makes sense, uh i in a way, in fact, the father, have you heard what he said photos?
Of taking pictures of the women's behinds and his documentary, I guess, or his photo collection.
No, no.
The the the father has said to the media, I don't want your sympathy, I don't care.
I want these politicians in Washington to finally do something.
Really?
Yeah.
Well, then he can be number one as a defendant.
I think in the civil case of each each of those kids who who lost their lives.
I I think he's probably being very honest if he is saying I don't care, because I think that is evidenced by his son's life and by his son's experience.
Well, but No, no, yeah, uh but here's a guy who thinks the solution to this problem is in Washington.
With gun control.
That's what he's talking about.
The the and and well, the but the father of the kid, too.
Father, Elliot Rogers' father.
The victims are saying this too, but everybody is saying, what is Washington going to do?
And that's a wrong question.
Somebody needs to ask, what is Washington doing right anywhere else to even want to turn this over to somebody there.
And a slight error, ladies and gentlemen.
It was not uh Elliot Rogers' father, one of the victims' fathers, who said one of the politicians gonna do something about this.
And that means one of the politicians gonna get rid of the guns.
Uh Elliot Rogers' father, I don't know that he's spoken publicly about the incident, but he has blamed the NRA and lack of gun control laws uh before.
Uh however, there aren't any existing or proposed gun control laws that would have stopped Elliot Roger.
If I'm not mistaken, I hope I'm not committing a minor error again, but I think this kid passed three background checks, one for each gun that he bought.
Um he didn't need any large capacity magazines, which are already illegal in uh in California.
The family had called the cops on their son, but it was too late.
They went to his apartment and questioned him, but it it went nowhere.
Um still, this reflexive reaction to turn to politicians in Washington.
Now I understand the utter emptiness, uh sadness, rage, anger, and and you know why that parents in a situation like this have.
And I guess I understand human nature and wanting to turn to the source of all authority.
But I just it isn't me.
That's the li when is the government gonna it's just the opposite.
I don't view there's nothing in my life I want to turn over to them that they can do better than I can do myself, other than the U.S. military.
And of course, I don't want to build my own roads and stuff like that, obviously.
But I mean I'm talking about just turning over the you know, personal aspects of life and you know, having some central authority that you think is going to end sadness, or can deal with it.
And it's face folks, it is a creeping problem.
We got we got dingbats calling 911 when McDonald's doesn't have any McNuggets.
And some of them think they're calling Washington.
It's an amazing thing.
Here's Dave in uh Indianapolis.
Hi, Dave.
Glad you called, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Ross, it's a real pleasure to talk to you.
Thank you for taking my call.
Um, I think I've got a thread that will run through uh the entirety of what you've been talking about since we start of the show.
Multiple issues.
Okay.
I believe a primary responsibility of parenting, foundational responsibility, is for the parents of a child to be the restraint, to be the the uh uh the molders of that child's mind in what's right and what's wrong, and to be there in the way of them, harming others and harming themselves, and to train them, raise them up in how they are supposed to behave to understand right and wrong, and to be in the way until that child grows to the point of being in the past.
Don't you wait for responsibility?
Don't you understand in the modern era what you just described equals retarding your child's growth?
You're You are limiting your child's experiences and exposure to opportunity and life as it really exists in this country.
You can't stop them from experiencing the excrement as much as you want.
It's out there, and it's better that they find it.
You can't do all that.
Yes, I it it's my responsibility to do so.
And I think one of the key problems that we have as a society is the undermining and the destruction and the emasculation of males, the destruction of the family, and in particular targeting the father in the proper role the father is supposed to have.
I'm not suggesting that a child cannot turn out correctly.
Um if there are problems with a family, I understand completely that those happen.
Well, don't forget that the property.
Yeah, but don't in this case, don't forget that this kid's parents, they knew there was something wrong.
I I don't know, they sit a therapist since age eight, but you know, there there are people who think that uh is its own problem.
That with all these uh therapeutic babies, what are they told in therapy?
They're told they're invincible, they're told their self-esteem is paramount, that they have a right to love themselves and to put themselves first and to be concerned about themselves and so forth.
And that's and I believe a study was done until some years ago, and they they were evaluating where one could find some of the highest tested levels of self-esteem.
Do you remember that stuff?
I do remember that.
Absolutely, I remember that.
Prison.
They found it in prison.
I think it is the entitlement mentality.
I think it is the lack of personal personal initiative and responsibility, the lack of personal accountability that is not taught to children today that is the reason for that the man babies that we've got in our society.
I mean, take a look at it.
Not everybody's going to go into a school and do what was but God forbid happened in Sandy Hook.
I grieve for those parents.
But uh that that family was a train wreck, and I think when you combine someone who has some problematic wiring with a dysfunctional family, you end up with what happened in California.
Let me ask you a question about something you said about uh the emasculation of males.
Um, because there are a lot of people who would think you you're on to something there.
One of the modern tenets, one of the tenets of modern era feminism, which you know you trace back to the early 70s, uh, is that men are predators, that men are beasts, that and and look at look at what the hashtags on Twitter today.
Uh not all men are like this guy, they say, but women face this threat from men every day of their lives.
This and it is a Twitter hashtag, it already has a million whatever, and it's growing.
And so they're saying that uh that that is that is a huge problem uh and and it is a symptom.
And I think the root cause goes back to men, the emasculation of them, and the lack of teaching boundaries and proper treatment of women and proper respect for women from their father and mother.
Well, perhaps uh look, a lot of people uh agree with you.
I for example, got a uh little story that I found of all places.
See, wait, wait, wait a minute.
Yeah, I found on one of my tech blogs yesterday.
Listen to this.
Study finds lonely women use Facebook all the time.
Those who overshare on Facebook may be dissatisfied with real life, according to a new study from Charles Sturt University in New South Wales, Australia.
Women who consider themselves to be lonely or depressed are more willing to disclose everything about themselves on Facebook.
The study was titled Self-Disclosure on Facebook among female users and its relationship to feelings of loneliness.
79% of users who admit to being lonely disclosed personal information, like their favorite books and movies on Facebook.
The figure is higher compared to 65% of other users.
According to Market Watch, 98% of lonely Facebook users shared their relationship status publicly, as opposed to restricting the information to friends.
Practically all of the women on Facebook who consider themselves unhappy are just they're just volunteering every piece of data about themselves.
Modern era feminism has been a poison in many ways.
I mean, you look at the vagina monologues.
Renowned Broadway play, and it's all rooted in the predatory brutish potential of men.
And remember the fake survey that the media trumpeted and everybody believed for a short period of time that Super Bowl Sunday saw the most violence against women of any day of the year.
And that's when men were doing what?
Well, they were sitting there getting drunk, eating snacks, drinking beer, watching the now brutal game of football, and when things didn't go right, taking it out on their long-suffering poor victim wives.
And it turned out to be a totally bogus survey, just totally made up by a group of people with the connections to some feminist fundraising outfit.
And so the chickenfication of uh of the culture, there's no question, it's happening.
In fact, I read, I don't know how much of this is true.
There's so much out there.
I read that one of the reasons that Pinch Schultzberger got rid of Jill Abramson was that she was hiring women in every key editor managerial position she could.
She was just slowly but surely getting rid of all the men in the department.
I can't remember where I read that, but it was right.
It was the New York Times.
That's exactly right.
That's where it was.
Anyway, I appreciate the call, Dave.
I got to take quick time out here, and uh I still, I still am out to get these Obama sound bites in from his uh commencement speech at West Point today, with uh Christiana Man Porsi in it not pleased.
Very, very let down.
I might play the Greta sound.
You mean me on Greta, yes, sir.
You know, you're just in there, just stirring it up here.
The program's going along fine, doesn't need sound bites of me on Greta.
But maybe.
I'll I'll I'll think about it.
Hi.
Welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network and the Limbaugh Institute.
For advanced conservative studies, the VA scandal is growing.
It is not abating.
Bonuses went to the worst hospitals.
One of the points I made last night on the on the show with Greta, she asked me with VA.
I said, You remember when Obama was out slamming the doctors, surgeons specifically, accusing them of doing unnecessary surgeries just to pocket big bucks, unnecessary amputations, uh, unnecessary appendectomies, this kind of thing.
And he was pointing out how there would need a federal government to get in charge of this stuff to prevent poor, unsuspecting patients from being ripped off by and it was a total assault on everybody In the medical community, all surgeons.
And it wasn't true.
But what is true?
Obama's own VA featured a bunch of bureaucrats massaging and maneuvering waiting lists while patients died in order to get their bonuses.
So once again, what Obama accuses the private sector of encouraging and condoning his own regime is practicing.
And Investors.com has the details.
Freedom of Information Act request by Illinois based watchdog group.
Open the books.
Reveal the VA spent millions on bonuses during the last three years at uh uh Edward, excuse me, Edward Hines VA Hospital in Cook County in Chicago.
Eric Shinseki tried to bring closure to the scandal by firing the VA under Secretary of Health, Dr. Robert Petzel, who was he had already announced his retirement.
Earlier this month, Obama had already announced his replacement.
They didn't fire anybody.
That's more smoke and mirrors.
They were going to fill the position with Dr. Jeffrey Murowski, the director of the VA's Great Lakes health care system in Winchester, Illinois.
Since 2009, he had oversight responsibility, the Edward Hines VA Hospital in Cook County.
And that is the hospital where the Freedom of Information Act requests by Open the Books discovered the VA had spent millions on bonuses during the last three years.
And worse, in 2013, only about one in four of the 4,230 employees at Edward Hines VA hospital were providing actual primary care.
There were 309 doctors, 800 nurses out of 4,230 employees.
Exactly what happens to the public school system.
You've got X number of teachers, and all the money goes to liberal compatriots and union people in the administrative levels of education, which never once see the classroom.
Exactly what's going on at the VA hospitals.
Top heavy with administrators that don't do anything but collect a check.
4,230 employees at Edward Hines VA Hospital, and only 25% of them were those providing actual care.
And they got bonused.
Here is John in uh Waxaw, North Carolina.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey, hey, Rush, I want to talk about the other guy with the big ears, Prince Charles.
Oh.
Have at it.
You said you weren't going to take a shot at him, but I will.
Okay.
He said capitalism was served the greater good for humanity.
Hey, steamboat, capitalism.
Television.
Capitalism.
Electric light bulb.
Capitalism.
Increased standard of living, capitalism.
There you go, in a nutshell.
Television, capitalism, cell phone capitalism.
Yep.
Greater good of humanity.
Made my life a lot easier.
Yeah, but he's a monarch.
He's the biggest welfare case in all of Britain and his family.
You wouldn't expect him to actually be a staunch supporter of capitalism.
He wouldn't want to know what to do out there.
Yeah, but he just I know it's all gobbledygook, but like you had said, but everything, I mean, you can say, okay, you know, there's, you know, I was I was going to mention the internal combustion engine as capitalism.
Right.
But, you know, that's part of his problem right there, you know, pollution.
But 99% of capitalism, perfect.
Well, uh, it's in addition to defining the superiority of capitalism in terms of providing the most for the most is indisputable.
But that's to miss the point.
Uh what the Prince is doing is in addition to besmirching it, impugning it and so forth, he's essentially blaming it for a hoax.
And it's irresponsible because Prince Charles, I mean, they're big in People Magazine and the e Entertainment network and Princess Diet.
A lot of people think they're smart and know what's going on and they have influence.
And it's irresponsible, is what he's doing.
He knows better.
Sadly, my friends, we are out of busy broadcast time for this busy broadcast hour.
But there's a whole lot more on the other side of our obscene profit break timeout.
So sit tight.
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