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June 11, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 11, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #2
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GOP leadership in chaos after Eric Cantor's loss.
That seems to be one of the themes today.
GOP leadership in chaos, not knowing what hit them.
And by the way, that letter that Brett Mozell sent to Eric Cantor said, don't do it, Congressman, do not go to an anti-Tea Party rally sponsored by George Soros.
Just don't do it.
He went.
Eric Cantor did attend it.
It was in Florida, Amelia Island, and it was Boehner was supposed to.
He bailed.
Boehner did bail, but Cantor went and he claimed that he was taking the message to the enemy.
And it was just back in April.
People don't forget these things.
They don't forget the pictures.
It's all combined in people's perceptions.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Great to have you.
El Rushbo at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
The telephone number, if you want to be in the program, at 800-282-2882, and the email address, illrushbo at EIBNet.com.
Here are the six points that Dave Brett ran on.
By the way, Cantor raised $5.4 million.
This guy had $200,000 and spent about half of it.
He had a staff of two people.
And of course, Cantor had, what, 23 staff of 23?
I mean, it was full more what you would expect.
And there's a lot.
Well, you could say David Goliath.
I mean, that might be an analogy.
It would be.
But I, you know, look, I can't really add to much of what I said in the first hour, and I said that so well.
Why even try to say it again?
But this is all bigger than Cantor, and it's bigger than one issue, immigration reform.
This disconnect is major and it is growing.
But I think one of the interesting observations to make is here you've got a guy who first, this election was historic.
This is the first time a majority leader of a party has lost a primary election.
The first time.
This is not insignificant.
And Dave Brett is not a wacko.
He's not a kook.
He's an economics professor.
He's an economist.
He's an American.
He's a real guy.
Here are the six points that he ran on.
He posted these six points at his website.
He mentioned them in his ads.
And there weren't very many ads because $100,000 doesn't buy you a whole lot of ads.
And Cantor did the typical establishment thing.
He's running negative ads and trying to beat this guy to smithereens and making fun of him.
He's inexperienced, doesn't know the ways of Washington.
And did.
He called him a liberal.
All backfired.
Brett posted these six points.
The free enterprise system is the most productive supplier of human needs and economic justice.
All individuals are entitled to equal rights, justice, and opportunities, and should assume their responsibilities as citizens in a free society.
Fiscal responsibility and budgetary restraints must be exercised at all levels of government.
The federal government must preserve individual liberty by observing constitutional limitations.
Peace best preserved through a strong national defense.
Faith in God, as recognized by our founding fathers, is essential to the moral fiber of the nation.
It's clear he's a lunatic, right?
Let me explain something.
Try to put this in some sort of context.
When I was growing up, and this is not old fuddy-duddy stuff.
This is just actually sort of a historical context here that will illustrate just how dramatically things have changed.
If somebody, even 30 years ago, ran for office on this platform, you know what they would have said?
Okay, big deal.
Everybody's for that.
What are you going to do about X?
My point is that these six points that he's posted on his website as his manifesto have become so unusual that they stand out.
30 years ago, it was just assumed that everybody seeking political office believed this.
This would not have distinguished anybody.
Maybe you have to go 40 years ago.
And I'm not making this up and I'm not kidding.
This would not distinguish anybody not that long ago because everybody that sought office was assumed to think these things.
Today he posts these six things and they are unusual.
They are radical.
That's how far off the track this country has gotten.
Let me read these again.
And again, keep in mind, nobody's embracing this.
Nobody's congratulating him.
Nobody's saying, yeah, you know what?
That's the ticket.
Nobody is saying yes if we just get back to that.
Just like the Republican Party really is making no effort to embrace what Scott Walker has done and is doing in Wisconsin, which is another blueprint.
That continues to befuddle me, but it's happening.
Free enterprise system, the most productive supplier of human needs and economic justice.
That's controversy today.
Not only is that controversial, more and more elected officials don't believe it.
They think socialism and big government, the benevolence of big government, is the most productive supplier of human needs and economic justice.
The free enterprise system?
Try this.
If you're a college student, write a term paper on that and see what you get.
All individuals are entitled to equal rights, justice, and opportunities.
No, that's okay, but the controversy comes next and should assume their responsibilities as citizens in a free society.
What right do you have saying what somebody should do?
Easy for you to say, assume your responsibilities.
You have money.
Easy for you to say, you have an education.
But what about the single mother?
And what about whatever concoction the left wants to come up with?
All individuals, yep, are entitled to equal rights.
Yep, and justice.
Yep, and opportunities.
As long as they come from the Democrat Party.
But if it is said that you must exercise your own responsibility as a citizen toward a free society, that today has become controversial.
Radical, in fact.
Dave Bratt says fiscal responsibility and budgetary restraints must be exercised at all levels of government.
That is considered so trite and so ignorant and so rose-colored glasses and so absent any awareness of the way things really are.
That's just neophyte stuff.
This just proves he doesn't know what he's talking about.
Fiscal responsibility, budgetary restraints.
He just doesn't know how Washington works.
He'll learn.
He'll learn.
The next one.
The federal government must preserve individual liberty by observing constitutional limits.
Today the Constitution is the problem, precisely because it limits the government.
The biggest obstacle Barack Obama has is not the Republican Party.
It isn't talk radio.
It isn't anything other than the Constitution.
That's the biggest obstacle in his way.
And everything he can do to get around it, he's doing.
And there's no pushback.
It's gotten so bad.
I talked to Andy McCarthy after the program yesterday for the interview, the next limbo letter about his book on impeachment.
It's so perfectly timed.
He could not have come out at a better time.
It is so well assembled, so well crafted.
Andy McCarthy's book on impeachment.
He makes the point that, hey, the legalities are all there.
If you get this to a court of law, which in the constitutional sense is the Senate, just in strict, objective legal terms, it's slam dunk.
The problem is that impeachment makes the Senate the jury.
So there's no way.
No, and no, you cannot peremptory challenge, get rid of certain senators from the jury.
They are the jury.
And Andy makes the point that the American people actually need to be the jury.
Until the American people are demanding it, the political will, nothing's going to happen.
But the legal case is clear.
Obama is clearly impeachable.
There have been wanton high crimes, misdemeanors, violations of the Constitution.
They're all over the place.
Precisely because the Constitution is his biggest obstacle.
Dave Bratt says federal government must preserve individual liberty by observing constitutional limitations.
And every one of them swears to do that when they take their oath of office.
Peace is best preserved through a strong national defense.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
That's that Reagan crap again.
There we go.
And the era of Reagan is over.
That's silly.
Peace best preserved through a strong national defense?
No.
Doctors, nurses, clean water, Hillary Clinton, the State Department, that's how you preserve the peace.
Negotiating with the enemy.
Appeasing the enemy.
Apologizing for America.
Accepting blame for what's wrong in the world.
That's how you get peace and preserve it today.
Faith in God, as recognized by our founding fathers, is essential to the moral fiber that, oh, man, this could get him seriously threatened.
That is exclusionary language, that's discriminatory language, that's insulting language, that's zealotry, bigotry.
Who's God?
Founding fathers of a bunch are racists themselves, slave owners, founding fathers of a bunch of the original 1%.
Founding fathers are unjust and immoral.
What God?
Moral fiber?
What gives you the right to determine the morality of this country?
Who are you, Brett?
What do you mean, moral fiber of the nation?
What right do you have to say what morality is?
Because morality today is defined by individual choice.
I'm telling you, folks, that this six-item list 30 years ago would have been met with, yeah, fine, big deal.
Now, what are you going to do when you get elected?
People would have demanded specifics.
Today, these six things result in a landslide election victory and have people standing up and cheering.
And the fact that the seat of our government finds these six things threatening is all you need to know about why Eric Cantor lost.
Telephone calls are coming up.
Just one thing.
Eric Cantor is saying he's going to leave the leadership on July 31st, the day before the big push for amnesty starts in August.
This was the first time, as I mentioned mere moments ago, the first time a House leader has been defeated in more than 100 years.
Quite historic.
Eric Cantor, the first sitting House majority leader to lose a primary since the position was created, which was 1899.
Now, House Majority Leader was not something that was part of the House of Representatives originally, like many other things that was invented, created as we went along.
By the way, strong military, preserve the peace.
Hashtags.
Hashtags preserve the peace today.
And don't you dare forget it.
Okay, where are we starting from?
Oh, Mechanicsville, Virginia.
This is Linda.
Linda, your first, and it's a delight to have you here.
Hello.
Thank you.
I just wanted to let you know that I do live in the 7th District of Virginia, and I did vote for David Bratt, as did all my friends, all my neighbors, my acquaintances.
And basically, you've pretty much covered in the last hour why we did that.
You know, we are fed up.
We are tired of being.
I'm 70 years old.
I think that I know better how to manage my health care, what to drive, what to eat, what to drink, how to heat my home, than the bureaucrats in Washington do.
You know how to spend your money more wisely than they do.
You know how to live your life in general.
You don't need them to do that.
And, you know, in the beginning, I've voted for Eric Cantor in the past, and in the beginning, he was very connected to us and seemed to want to do the right thing by us.
But they get up there, and once they get up there, it seems like the only thing they're interested in is advancing their own career, and they don't want to hear from us.
Let me think.
I think that it became obvious to people in Virginia 7 that they were no longer his constituents, that the leadership was, that Washington won, even Obama.
Is there one thing?
There is this one thing that made your mind up to vote against or vote for Bratt, or was it just a slow evolution of thought?
No, it was everything that's going on just one thing on top of the other, on top of the other, on top of the other.
And, you know, our government's out of control.
We need to clean house.
And, you know, the only way to do it is one by one.
Well, this is the only way we've got.
Yes.
The elections are it.
About one by one and get some, you know, fresh thinking-minded people.
And I can also tell you, they haven't talked too much about the turnout was huge.
I don't know.
I've not heard too much.
Oh, no, no.
You might live there, but I read people in Washington.
You don't know what you're talking about.
In fact, the reason that Cantor won, you may not have heard this because it rained.
Or Cantor lost is because it rained and the turnout was depressed.
Oh, it didn't rain here.
Well, yes, it did.
That's what it was doing.
It rained here like for five years.
See how stupid you are?
You don't even know when it's raining in your own district.
Is that the reason?
Oh, boy.
That's what they're saying.
There's somebody.
I wish I had the name.
I can't think of it off the top of my head.
Somebody blamed it on the rain.
It couldn't have been immigration.
It was some media pundit.
What difference does it make who?
They're all the same.
The drive-by say that the rain tamped down the turnout.
Not that it was real high.
Linda, thanks for the call.
Appreciate it.
Totally get it.
Kathy Powhatan, Virginia.
You're next.
Welcome to the program.
Thank you, Rush.
Honored to talk to you.
Yes, I live in the district that's next to, I live in the 5th district.
And we're conservative here in the 5th and 7th district.
And the thing that bothers us the most when our constituencies go to Washington is that they compromise away our freedom.
They compromise away the Constitution.
They compromise all that has been fought for that we want to leave for our kids.
We see regulation.
I happen to be an insurance person.
I visit businesses every day.
And all they can do when they look at what's going on with their health insurance is they just shake their heads.
Wait a minute.
Now, wait a second, Kathy, because I can quote, I don't know how many Republicans who say that the people, which would include you, want them to compromise.
They want people in Washington to work together to get things done.
No, that's absolutely wrong.
We want them as a firewall against what has been happening with regards to Obama and his constituency and the attack on our freedoms and our rights.
Why do you think they don't get that anymore?
I mean, I'm drawing a blank.
Why do they not understand what their purpose is?
Well, they're not paying attention.
Now, I have to say, my representative is Robert Hurt.
What he does different from what Canter does is that he has virtual town halls.
I get a phone call every couple of months and saying, look, we're having a town hall.
You can come ask your questions.
And he answers them.
It might be a small thing, but at least I know he hears my voice.
And he knows.
And he votes pretty consistently.
And I'm going to vote for him in the next election.
But the light, you know, Canter, all he's doing is saying, look, okay, we want to appease people so that, you know, you'll think we're nice and you think.
Well, I'll tell you, I do think that being in the Republican leadership is a political death sentence.
Because, folks, I'm just going to, Kathy, folks, her perception, and our previous caller, that the Republican leadership is compromising, is working with, is helping Obama and the Democrats.
That's not why there is an opposition party.
There's not why.
That's not why there's a Tea Party.
But yet these people, it's another media Democrat trick.
Republicans apparently have bought it, Hook, Line, and Sinker.
And if they haven't bought it, if it's what they normally think and believe anyway, then it's even worse.
But they really do think That compromising their beliefs to get things done is what people want.
Hi, how are you?
El Rushbo.
Talent on loan from God.
Back to your phones in a moment.
I want to get to the audio sound bites.
I want to show you some of the inside the beltway reaction/slash detachment.
The gulf widens between the ruling class and the country class.
This isn't so much elites versus plebes.
This is ruling class versus country class.
The ruling class literally is out of touch.
Let's start.
Start with number two here.
This is Squawk Box today on CNBC.
Joe Kernan speaking with co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin and co-host Becky Quick about Cantor's primary loss.
And this is how that went.
It's immigration.
It's immigration.
And it's not just Limbaugh that is the radio show.
There's like female radio show conservatives.
Yeah, and I never understood that it's going off on Cantor about it.
Learning.
Right.
Learning off about it.
And I never really, I go, what, God, they really are.
But then this latest episode with all the children that are, what is it?
It's like 40,000.
You're for him this.
Yeah, I thought.
I am for everybody getting along and being able to hire the people that we need.
That was Joe Kern.
Now that's just meaningless pap.
I am for everybody getting along and being able to hire the people that we need.
93 million Americans not working.
Some estimates are 100 million Americans not working.
We do not need an influx of poorly educated, poor people added to the job roles.
Anyway, you see the point of this bite I wanted you to play here.
Wow.
My God.
It's not just Limbaugh.
Holy!
Do you realize?
Now, folks, you may be laughing.
I find myself chuckling.
This is how out of touch.
They don't know.
They think, well, no, no, snarly.
They think I am a kook freak extremist occupying positions on issues that are supported by a few, really minute number of people.
I'm, as far as these people are concerned, they never listen to this program.
They have no idea what happens here.
They have no idea what's happening in the country.
They are stunned to learn that the people of this country oppose immigration, that it isn't just me.
Stunned.
That's what he's saying.
It's immigration.
It's immigration.
It's not just Limbaugh.
There's all kinds of people who are opposed to immigration.
That's what they were talking about.
It's not just Limbaugh.
They don't know.
Here is F. Chuck Todd talking to Savannah Guthrie on the Today Show today.
Question was, why did no one see this coming, Chuck?
I feel like I read something a week ago that said Eric Cantor had this locked up.
No sweat.
The issue of immigration, particularly in the South, immigration is just the one issue that animates the conservative base in a way we haven't seen anywhere.
And then add in what's happened in the last 72 hours, the coverage of the crisis of these unaccompanied minors that have been crossing the border.
It gave urgency to Dave Bratt's message at the perfect time in a perfect situation, low turnout.
It all came together.
See, it was low turnout.
It was kook southerners who really were brought to the boil by virtue of these photos.
But see, immigration is just something southern conservative hicks care about.
They don't know.
This is my point.
People do know how out of touch.
F. Chuck Todd does not know what he thinks he knows.
This is the point.
None of them do.
And they insult their audience with reports like these two are insulting to people, which they don't get.
So then Savannah Guthrie said, look, this is going to have broad implications to the political world, F. Chuck.
I mean, there had been so much talk this election season that maybe the Tea Party was over because it hadn't been able to unseat major establishment candidates.
And here we go, seeing something.
There is no Tea Party.
There is no leader.
There's no convention.
There's no contract with America.
There is no Tea Party.
It's just average Americans fed up and feel like they don't have any representation anymore.
That's all it is.
That's why you'll never get rid of it.
The Tea Party is American citizens who have lately been told they are the problem.
And yet they see themselves getting up, going to work every day.
They see themselves as not the problem.
And they're being told their problem because of what they think.
They're told they're the problem because of what they believe.
They're told they're the problem because of where they live.
They're told they're the problem because they believe in God.
They're told they're the problem for whatever number of reasons.
And they simply are fed up with it.
But there is no Tea Party.
And yet these people, that's why I played the first soundbite of the program today with me earlier in this program, back in late May, thinking they had wiped out the Tea Party.
And there isn't one.
I mean, there are people that raise money for it.
I don't mean to be insulting Tea Party people, but there is no Tea Party.
You don't see Tea Party on the ballot.
Here's Britt Hume on Fox.
Megan Kelly said, look, this was driven in large part by an anti-establishment.
We're sick of it attitude among constituents.
Amnesty is a word with a meaning.
You can look it up in the dictionary, and I wish there are people who I wish would do so.
And it means pardon.
It basically means an unconditional pardon.
There is not a single immigration reform measure that has been advanced seriously by anybody, certainly not by any Republicans, that would involve an unconditional pardon for anybody.
Amnesty is an epithet, but it has been very, very effective.
And it is certainly what I believe was effective against Mr. Cantor.
And it's not at all clear to me that any immigration measure that he would have ever signed on to would have entailed an amnesty.
The country favors immigration reform, broadly speaking.
Nobody's for amnesty, and nobody says they are.
Why then does everybody oppose it then?
He does sound angry.
He was mad.
He was TikTok.
I think it was Britt Hume who also lamented that Cantor's loss was really bad because it was his send to signal to the people of country that the Republicans just can't get an immigration bill done.
Not sure.
I think it was Britt Hume.
It might have been somebody else.
But he's really mad about this amnesty business.
I mean, there's a coalition here.
Fox News leadership, Wall Street Journal, which is the same thing.
It's Drive-by media, the establishment of both parties, Chamber of Commerce that's they say it isn't amnesty blanket pardon And he says, look, the country favors immigration reform broadly.
Yeah, but can we define that?
Immigration, when we hear Barack Obama talk about immigration reform, I'm sorry, Britt, we hear amnesty.
We know amnesty.
I know the DREAM Act, there are any number, when we hear any Democrat talk about immigration reform, we know what it means.
We know that they want a current inflow, constant inflow of poorly educated and economically poor people who are going to vote for them once they become citizens.
This is what the Democrats want.
That is why they want immigration reform.
Immigration reform is simply voter registration drive for new Democrats.
That's all it is, Britt.
When we hear any Democrat talking about immigration reform, it's a voter registration drive, which is why we do not understand Republicans supporting it when it is going to mean the end of the Republican Party.
It's mathematics.
It's not even politics.
Now, consequently, if there is a substantive immigration reform proposal movement idea in the Republican Party that secures the border first, then yeah, you'll be able to get away with saying Republicans support immigration reform.
Immigration reform is a different thing depending on who you say it to or depending on who is saying it.
I'm just telling you, the people of this country are not idiots.
When Democrats start talking about immigration reform, we know damn well what they mean.
The Republicans talking about immigration reform used to mean something else.
Used to mean securing the border.
It used to mean letting in certain people at certain times and they would assimilate and everybody would become Americans.
That's not what the Democrats mean by it.
So we don't understand why, frankly, the Wall Street Journal and the Chamber of Commerce and every Republican in Washington wants to help the Democrats succeed with their definition of immigration reform.
And frankly, we don't understand why you don't see that.
What we think is that Republicans, conservatives, whatever inside the Beltway are so cowed, they have been convinced that they can never win another election unless they get a majority of Hispanic voters voting for them.
And the only way to do that is to send a message to Hispanic voters that we Republicans don't hate you and that we're not racist.
And the only way to do that is to open the borders that come on in.
And we don't like approaching everything from a defensive position wherein we must assume guilt and then have a policy which assuages that guilt.
We resent that.
And that's what immigration reform has become on the Republican side.
It may as well be the Republicans admitting the Democrat charge that we're racists and bigots.
And so to prove that we're not, come on in.
Here is immigration reform.
And by the way, XYZ company wants to hire you at 80 cents an hour.
Come on in.
We don't understand it.
To us, commonsensically, sensibly, it makes no sense.
So when you say the country at large favors immigration reform, define it.
Because there is no earthly reason, not a single reason that I can see for the Republicans ever supporting Obama's idea of it.
And by the way, it's a been there, done that.
It's Simpson Mazzoli.
We've been through this.
Teddy Kennedy promised us that what has happened wouldn't.
We've been there, done that.
I got to take a brief time out, my friends.
I know it's sad because I'm on such a roll, but the programming format is the programming format.
Here we are back at it, El Rushbow in the EIB Network.
You want to hear something funny?
They had an anti-war, pro-Bergdahl rally at the White House today, outside the White House.
Code Pink.
Now, Code Pink, if they're honoring this guy, they must have concluded he's a deserter because otherwise, why honor him?
I mean, these are anti-military types.
This is Medea Benjamin.
You know, Code Pink.
These are these radical Cindy Sheehan types.
She was a pretender.
But I mean, these are the people that get into congressional hearings.
Democrats give them passes under the table.
They get in to disrupt things and they get thrown out.
Fewer than 24 protesters showed up to an anti-war, pro-Bo Bergdahl rally in front of the White House today.
Wait a minute.
Actually, is this Wednesday?
So it was yesterday.
Organizers, including Code Pink, the Answer Coalition, to march forward, build the rally's message in promotional material is welcome home Sergeant Bergdahl, end the war in Afghanistan and shut down Guantanamo.
Now, why is Code Pink defending a war hero who served with honor and distinction?
They don't do that.
I am convinced that Code Pink thinks that he deserted.
That's why they are honoring him.
That's who they are.
They would naturally approve of that.
John Kerry used to be their favorite military guy and threw medals over the White House fence, but now it's Bergdahl.
And it's not because he served with honor and distinction.
Code Pink doesn't honor military people for doing that.
They honor military people for deserting or for speaking out against or what have you.
Timothy in Mechanicsville, Virginia, you're next.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
I'm a police officer military veteran.
I live in Cantors District, and I voted for him before.
I didn't this time.
It's mostly because the Republicans haven't done anything to stop Obama, the death, IRS, health care, all of that.
Wait, wait, wait.
Hang on.
Who did you vote for?
No, no.
I was going to attack Democrats like Timothy.
Timothy.
If you drive down here, he can't hear me.
Either that or he's filibustering.
Take him down.
I don't know what he's saying.
Who did he vote for?
No, he said he voted for Cantor.
All right.
Timothy, are you still there?
He's still talking.
Okay, so he's filibustering.
All right.
So I still don't know who he voted.
I just needed to find out who he voted for.
If I didn't know that, none of us, the rest of what he was saying made any sense.
You're screwing up today.
Just kidding.
Really, I don't know.
He's still talking, right?
He's still out there filibustering.
Our phone system isn't that bad.
It's not that bad.
He had to have heard me at some point there trying to get into.
All I wanted was a simple answer to a question.
Who did you vote for?
Military man, police officers, so forth.
Oh, now look.
Now there's not enough time to take another call and be fair with it.
So let me take a brief time out and come back, wrap the hour up with a fun, find something to do while we're in the break here.
Don't miss it.
Okay, random numbers on turnout.
And if anybody tries to tell you that the turnout was low, do not believe them.
It's a flat-out lie.
Here are the numbers.
In the 2012 Republican primary in Virginia 7, 47,037 votes were cast, 47,000 votes.
In Cantor's district.
Yesterday, 65,000 votes were cast.
There was an increase in turnout by 38%.
So you see nearly a 40% increase in votes, which would have to mean that there was higher turnout.
So, see, this is classic.
Here come the drive-bys.
Well, there can't be immigration.
No, no, no, turnout.
It had to be the rain.
That's right.
It had to be the rain.
It's suppressed turnout.
No, no, no, no, folks.
You couldn't keep people away from the polls yesterday.
40% increase in votes cast yesterday versus 2012.
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