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July 10, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 10, 2014, Thursday, Hour #2
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Hi, folks, greetings and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh in the Excellence and Broadcasting Network.
The Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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Have you noticed President Obama is out whining and moaning about the Republicans and their lack of action on immigration or any number of things.
And the thing that puzzles me about that is didn't Obama say recently, hasn't Obama said many times that he's got a what he's got a phone and he's got a pen.
And hasn't he said that if they don't do anything, I'm gonna do it?
He said, I'm just gonna if they don't do anything, you know, I'm just not I'm not gonna sit around here and do nothing.
I'm not gonna sit around here and not get anything done.
If they don't, if they don't do anything, I'm just gonna do it.
But now all of a sudden the president is not doing anything about the border because he says the Republicans are tying his hands.
Now I don't expect the low information voters to get the contradictory irony in that.
But this is an example of how he gets it both ways.
He runs around and he pleases his base by saying, Well, if the dead beats aren't gonna do anything, I'm gonna do it myself.
I'm not gonna sit around here and do nothing.
And then within a matter of hours or days, well, I can't do anything because those Republicans won't help me.
They won't do anything.
Republicans just sitting there not doing it.
I can't do anything without them.
They give you an example.
Last night in Dallas, after the president had his yuck session with Rick Perry.
You've seen the photo ops from that, by the way.
I saw it, I saw I think it was um two pictures, might have been the same picture published twice.
And it's uh Rick Perry at the far end on the left of a long conference table.
And he's sitting by himself.
There's a vacant seat.
And then in the same row, there's some people, I guess, from his...
Uh office administration.
And the other side.
Every seat is filled.
Obama's in the middle of the table.
Perry's not the far end on the left on his side.
And Perry is sitting there looking, I mean, he's just got a blank look on his face.
It's not blank.
He's either really frustrated, really angry, or something like and Obama is just having the best old time.
He's laughing and yucking it up.
And it is a photo for the ages, because people sit around analyzing, because nobody knows what was going on at the moment the photo was taken.
You know, somebody crack a joke, and Obama crack one of his own jokes, laughing at it, and Perry thinks, you know, this is nothing funny.
I'm not laughing at it.
Who knows?
Nobody knows.
But it it looks like Perry is dead serious and is very focused.
And Obama just he just having the best old time.
Nothing serious uh going on at the time.
Nothing serious being discussed.
No, there's nothing to see here, nothing going on.
Obama just sitting there just having a grand old time.
Well, Rick Perry looks dead serious and half half ticked off.
Well, anyway, after that meeting, Obama spoke about the immigration crisis.
And a reporter asked him, does the governor give any indication that he would ask a Texas delegation to get behind the supplemental?
Okay, this is inside the Beltway talk.
Is there any way that Governor Perry would try to get the Texas delegation to go along with giving you the money you say you need, Mr. President?
And then the reporter says, it sounds like you're concerned that the supplemental will fall victim to partisan politics.
These days in Washington, everybody's always concerned about everything falling victim to partisan politics.
You know, if I sponsored a bill declaring uh Apple Pie American, it might fall victim to partisan politics.
I get that.
As I indicated, Governor Perry, you know, he suggested, well, maybe you just need to go ahead and act, and that might convince Republicans that they should go ahead and pass the supplemental.
And I had to remind him, I'm getting sued right now by Mr. Boehner, apparently, for going ahead and acting instead of going through Congress.
So you said bring it on.
So what does it matter you're being sued?
You're running around the country whining and moaning and crying about being sued, I'm being then you said bring it on after you said that they're trying to sue you.
He's making a reference to impeachment, by the way, with this sue business.
And there's not going to be any official impeachment.
I don't think.
But that's for another time.
The point is Obama's running around when he says, yeah, the Republicans are threatening to sue me.
He's talking about impeachment for exceeding his constitutional authority.
And Obama says, bring it on, and he's out there, he'd been telling everybody, if they're not going to do anything, I'm gonna do it myself.
I'm not gonna sit around here and do nothing while they do nothing.
I'm gonna get things done.
I don't care.
And but now all of a sudden the threat of impeachment or lawsuit and Obama's hands are tied, I've nothing I can do about it.
If you needed any proof that what's going on at the border is intentional and desired, it's right there in that answer.
There's nothing I can do.
There's nothing.
I mean, Republicans are threatening to sue me if I do anything.
He's not afraid of the Republicans suing.
He would love it if they sued him.
The Democrats are trying to egg the Republicans on into impeaching Obama.
They think that would bring their base out in droves in November.
And this is what I mean about saying things on both sides of an issue and trying to get away with both sides.
Here's Perry.
This is uh on CBS this morning, Major Garrett.
Do you think Americans need to see the president at the border?
That's what presidents do.
That's what leaders do.
They show up and they see for themselves what's going on.
So I think it's very important for him.
Because I recall, you know, President Bush got chastised greatly for not showing up in New Orleans when Katrina occurred.
Do you believe this is on the magnitude of that?
The parallel for me is that when we know a hurricane is coming, uh, we put things into place so that we can deal with it.
I have told this administration, and others have told this administration for years that this is exactly what was going to happen.
You know, I gotta say something.
I this this Katrina comparison has got to stop.
And I'll tell you where the Katrina comparison falls apart.
George Bush did not cause that hurricane.
Barack Obama is responsible for this.
That's point number one.
This is a humanitarian crisis that has not been caused by an act of God, such as Hurricane Katrina.
I mean, to compare the two things is ridiculous.
You talk about photo ops and and trying to seek political advantage, making this into a Katrina.
What why do that?
The only reason to do that is to once again hearken back to how ineffective they think Bush was.
Because that is the primary, that's the that's I think maybe the only thing this administration still has going for it.
They've got polling data, shared it with you on this program before, very frustrating.
People still blame Bush for a lot of stuff.
The regime knows this.
So you bring up Katrina all the time, reminds people of Bush.
Oh, yeah, that was really bad.
And in comparison, Obama looks pretty good.
Or at least he doesn't look nearly as bad as Bush did.
But there's no comparison.
Bush didn't cause the hurricane.
It was an act of God.
It was a natural disaster.
This could have been prevented simply by enforcing the law.
Here's another thing.
I'll tell you how we get our hands tied.
Get our hands tied with with uh I mean, you we we could tie our hands on doing anything right with this kind of philosophy and thinking.
But Rush, but Russia, it's children.
We can't send them back.
I mean, they're coming here and they're seeking well, what are we supposed to do?
Are we supposed to just sit here and preside over the abolition of our border in order to be nice and show compassion?
Are we to sit here and allow the unraveling of our culture and our society just so people don't think we're mean?
What happened to standing up for our values and and and our system and preserving our border?
You know, I was I was gonna joke.
And I uh people would uh obviously take it the wrong way, but I think the only thing that really upsets Obama is that there still is a border.
I'm joking.
But I mean, this is a way to make a point.
But the idea we're being flooded with people breaking our law.
And because they're children, we can't send them back.
Oh no, we can't do that.
Why?
Well, it's just not humane, Rush.
It doesn't send them back.
Okay, so uh are we to just sit idly by why while every institution, tradition, value,
is assaulted, eviscerated, simply so that we don't hurt people or make people upset, or or what have at what point do we stand up for ourselves?
At what point do we decide that what we are and what we've built is worth preserving for people to come here legally.
We got our hands tied.
We paralyze ourselves into doing what's right for ourselves and for everybody else, by the way, at the same time with these distractions.
There is more harm that can come to this country by pretending we don't have a border than can come to this country by enforcing it and the law.
But it's the other way around.
There are people think we diminish ourselves by enforcing our law.
We diminish ourselves by enforcing our border.
We're bigger than that.
We're bigger.
We can establish a law, of course, but when something like this happens, we should pretend our law doesn't exist.
We are better than our laws.
And that's cockamamy.
Immigration, getting into this country ought to have some value.
There ought to be, well, there is a process by which people achieve it that has value, that is in itself an accomplishment.
We're devaluing everything that we stand for.
And not just with this border influx, but it it's it's and it has been happening for a long time in many of the institutions that have defined this country's uniqueness, exceptionalism, greatness, and difference from other places in the world.
There's an all-out assault, and there has been for a long time on all of those institutions.
And now there's an all-out of salt on the border, southern border.
And we tie our hands.
We can't send them back.
No, no, no.
We do more damage to them.
We do more damage to ourselves by having all of these things that we built, defend, stand for, eviscerated, evaporated, and done away with.
Be back after this.
Don't go away.
Let me grab a call quickly.
This is Chris in Charleston, South Carolina.
Chris, nice to have you.
Welcome, sir.
Thanks so much, Rush.
I wanted to get your thoughts on two quick things.
A while back, you had made a prediction that Obama would do something that would wake up the low information voter.
And I wanted to know that judging by Bernadette Lancelin's reaction, could this be that moment?
Um I must confess that I have asked myself that about this issue a number of times because this is affecting everybody, and it is apparent that Obama's doing nothing to stop it.
That's the thing.
That he's not even making an appearance.
He's not even making a show of trying to stop it.
He's not even acting as though any of it bothers him.
And I wonder if the low information crowd is so mindless that that this isn't a problem to them.
I would think it would be.
Time will tell.
I think it is.
The truth is Obama's approval numbers are falling, and they're falling pretty rapidly.
I think the bloom has been off the Obama rose for quite a while, actually.
You just don't see it reflected in media stories.
Can I ask another quick question?
Yeah.
Well, is this not the perfect opportunity for someone like John Boehner or Ted Cruz to seek Bernadette out and invite her to Washington for a beer summit and say, hey, there's room for you in the Republican Party.
You think like we do.
We want to hear your thoughts.
I mean, she's she's saying what we're what we're thinking.
And this is a a chance to reach out to her and folks in her community, is it not?
I can see where you might have a point.
Uh, but I I think that the I don't know about Cruz, Boehner, and the Republican leadership, I just don't think they're thinking in in these kinds of terms.
I I don't think their strategic thinking encompasses a move like that right now.
They're in basically a defensive posture of don't do anything to make anybody mad.
I understand the theory that when someone's blowing something up, you get out of their way, but that has really not paid off.
And I just hope that someone in DC is listening, someone thinks, let's pick up the phone, let's call Bernadette.
Let's let's tell her, hey, there's room for you in the Republican Party.
You're you're a conservative and you don't even know it.
Well, I'm gonna try to find the actual uh audio from from YouTube.
It ran in a Houston TV station, KTOK, I think, and there's a YouTube video of it that I think has gone viral.
And it might help if um if we could contribute to Bernadette being heard in her own words.
Uh and I let me let me try to dig it up.
Now, along these lines, and I don't mean to be throwing cold water on you, Chris.
This is something I've got in a stack over here I was going to get to later.
I just have time now to basically tease it.
There's a there's a huge poll that Reason magazine just published.
It's a poll they conducted.
And uh only have time to give you the headline and and some of the top line bits of it.
Millennials think government is inefficient.
Millennials think government abuses its power.
Millennials think that government supports cronyism.
But millennials also want government to guarantee health insurance and living wages and plan to vote for Democrats in 2014 and 2016.
So here you have this this current young generation out of college or soon to be into their early 30s, and they see government as ineffective and inefficient, and they admit it, and yet they want more of it.
Be right back.
I want to go back to the call that we just had from Chris in uh in Charleston, South Carolina.
Because you know, there's a larger question that he was actually addressing.
I mean, what he he really wanted to know why don't the Republicans go find Bernadette Lansley in a Houston.
By the way, we're working on that.
We have to edit it for our broadcast purposes, not the substance, just get rid of some of the fluff so it doesn't take ten minutes to listen to.
And I'll have it for you here in mere moments.
But he wanted to know why don't the Republicans go down there and lasso this woman, bring her to Washington, do a public event with her, and tell her that the Republican Party has the answers to the questions that she was asking.
Now here's the sad I gotta hit you between the eyes with it.
What it really meant.
His suggestion, the fact that he even had to suggest it, is very troubling.
Because the larger question that his idea exposes is this.
We have a humanitarian crisis.
We have just since April, 240,000, maybe 300,000, conflicting numbers, but we're talking about rounding errors now.
Just since April, 240,000 to 300,000 illegals have flooded the border, and of those 55,000 are children.
Why aren't the Republicans using this episode to prove the need to secure the border and defeat amnesty?
That's the question he was really asking.
And let me ask you another question.
Have you heard anybody in the Republican leadership?
You've heard Cruz, and you have heard a couple of, but have you heard anybody in the Republican issue of leadership even try to turn this issue into a political advantage for the Republican Party?
Have you heard it's a it's a sad reality, folks.
Apparently, what is happening in this humanitarian crisis is in and of itself not even enough for the Republican Party to try to draw a distinction between itself and the Democrat Party with that is just amazing to me.
Now, they might say to me, Rush, these are children.
We don't want to politicize these sad, unfortunate.
Oh, get off of it.
You are sitting where you are because that's all the Democrats do.
But get past the idea that it's kids, the border is being eviscerated right before our very eyes.
That's what's happening here.
There is essentially no border if anybody is allowed to cross.
If anybody's allowed to cross, because we have sympathy for them, and then we turn over military bases to house them, and then under cover of darkness or some other way, we then start distributing them to families and sponsors all over the country.
We make no effort to reunite them with their real moms and dads.
The upshot is what border?
It doesn't matter that we have a border, it doesn't mean anything.
Crossing the border illegally is not even something that anybody wants to object to here.
What I would say to Bernadette Lanceline is, well, I'll tell you what, Bernadette, the things that have you upset, if you want more of it, just keep voting Democrat.
That's what you're going to get.
If you want more illegals, vote Democrat.
If you want the border to mean less and less, vote Democrat.
If you want your government spending more and more money on people who are not citizens of this country yet, vote Democrat.
If you want what's happening at the border to become an everyday event, vote Democrat.
If you want higher taxes, if you want less opportunity, if you want your gasoline to cost more, if you want your grocery bills to go up, if you want your job opportunities to cease to exist, if you want your utility bills to go up, elect Democrats.
I don't know why the Republicans can't say this.
I do know why the Republicans are not making a big deal out of this at the border because they do want amnesty.
We know this.
The Chamber of Commerce is holding them hostage.
This Tom Donahue guy who runs a chamber of commerce has basically told him if they don't do Amnesty, they may as well not even nominate a presidential candidate for 2016.
Because there isn't a Republican that's going to get a dime of donor money if they don't do Amnesty.
And make no mistake, money, primary influence in politics.
But this is the larger question that Chris really raised when he wanted to know why the Republicans aren't seizing the opportunity to make something out of this rant by Bernadette Lanceline.
The larger question is why aren't the Republicans using this to prove the need to secure the border?
Why aren't the Republicans seeking a political advantage in this issue by drawing a distinction between themselves and the Democrats?
That question is something, ladies and gentlemen, that we've been asking ever since Obama came into office.
We've never had a greater opportunity in the last six years to contrast who we are with the extremes of liberalism.
This is it.
We don't have to tell people any longer what will happen if these people end up with unchecked power.
Twenty-five years of this program, and I've been warning people what's going to happen if liberals win here and win there, what we're going to get.
It's no longer a warning.
We are living it.
And as such, no greater opportunity to draw the distinction, to contrast ourselves to the Democrats.
But there isn't any of that happening.
And it is an election year.
We're not that far out from November.
Hell, we're going to have a new iPhone just a couple of months, and the elections right after that.
That maybe a new eye watch.
But you know, Sturdy, why do I want to wear something on my wrist that tells me I'm out of shape?
I already know this.
You know, tell me this iWatch is going to have this bunch of sensors in it, going to tell you all of your health stats.
I don't need to be told I weigh too much.
I don't need to be told I'm not walking enough steps.
I don't need to be told I'm drinking too much cash.
Why do I want to buy something that's going to nag me that I wear on my wrist.
Maybe it'll motivate me.
Ha!
Something you can take off and put in a drawer is going to motivate me.
Fat chance.
But but Apple is making a bet that everybody's, you know, hot to trot on health.
So it's probably a good bet for them, but I frankly don't want to be reminded of this stuff.
All I have to do is look in the mirror, and I know I don't need to buy a watch.
Anyway, I'm sorry for the diversion there.
Point is he raises a great question.
And at the opportunity, like I just said, you want higher taxes, burn a debt, keep voting the way you've been voting.
You want higher energy prices, you want higher utility bills, you want fewer job opportunities, you want no border to exist at all.
Keep voting Democrat.
There's a reason this stuff is happening.
This is not just coincidental.
All of what's happening in this country right now is directly traceable to government policy.
Pure and simple.
No, I haven't forgotten this poll on the millennials.
I've got it here.
I promise to get to that.
And by the way, I just ran across a story, uh, ladies and gentlemen from today.
It's by Susan Crabtree.
And I don't think she's any relation of Michael Crabtree of the San Francisco Afortiners who is hated by Richard Sherman of the Seattle Seahawks.
I don't think it's any relation.
Crabtree, not that common a name, but I still don't think they're related.
How a campaign move on immigration is haunting Obama now.
She writes the border crisis is forcing President Obama to pay the price for a re-election move he made two years ago.
At the time, Obama was hoping to energize Latino voters who were disappointed that he had raised deportations to record levels in an attempt to build credibility with Republican lawmakers for an eventual deal on amnesty.
Do you remember that?
Well, there was a there were a few months where deportations were up.
And if you remember, during the 2012 campaign, Obama went on Univision or the other Spanish language TV network, and it was the only place he really got hit with tough questions.
And this was one of the reasons why.
They were calling him the deporter-in-chief because he had upped deportations for a few months, and it was all smoke and mirrors.
It was designed to show the Republicans they could trust him if they would join him on an amnesty bill.
So Ms. Crabtree says, in June of 2012, Obama announced a half measure that he would take on his own.
Through an executive order, Obama allowed hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who came before the age of 16 to remain in the country.
And I remember that.
Maybe you do too when I mention this.
I remember that like it was yesterday now, just out of the blue one day with the stroke of his pin.
Hundreds of the anybody undocumented, who came before the age of 16 was just allowed to stay.
Republicans said nothing because they were afraid of angering the Hispanic vote for Romney.
So Susan Crabtree says that as a campaign tactic, it was a hit for Obama's base.
It helped him win Latino voters by 71%.
According to an analysis of exit polls by the Pew Hispanic Center, but the hidden cost was Obama's credibility on the issue among many congressional Republicans.
Although immigration reform passed the Senate, it has stalled in the House, and now a border crisis spurred by thousands of young migrants has brought the mistrust to a head.
So it's just another media person with a theory as to why and how this may be hurting Obama, but it just raises the question if it has, where are the Republicans trying to make hay on it.
In fact, it could well be, folks...
Everybody's trying to figure out how in the hell did this happen.
And by David Rodham Gurgen's own estimate yesterday, 45 days it takes to get here.
Once they decide to leave El Salvador, Guatemala, Ecuador, 45 days to get here.
So it's not as like they can sneak up on us.
And everybody's saying, how did this happen?
Why now?
Maybe this can be traced back to Obama in 2012 with the stroke of his pen, granting every undocumented alien under 16 permanent status.
You think that could be?
I mean, it makes a lot of sense to me.
Well, I know it goes deeper than that, but I'm looking for a simple explanation to the low information voters.
And I'm looking for something the Republicans could use.
Everybody's trying to figure out how did this happen?
Why now all of a sudden?
There's your answer.
Obama executive order 2012.
Anybody under 16 already here gets to stay.
Voila.
Who's coming?
Kids under 16.
Be back.
Don't go away.
All right, here we go.
Here is the audio of the YouTube video that actually ran on uh Fox Eyeball News, KTLK TV Channel 26 in Houston, Bernadette Lancelin complaining about Obama's border policy.
Not right.
Now billions of dollars want to be borrowed from the White House to help feed and house them.
Who the f kid there in our country?
Not just in this neighborhood, but in our country.
All these kids really.
Why can't they go back?
I'm sorry that that the parents are in poor living uh conditions or surroundings or whatever's going on out there.
I don't care.
I care about what's going on right here in my own backyard, my neighborhood.
Am I the only one in this community that's out here that watches the news this morning?
Oh my god.
I feel alone right now in this.
And I'm very saddened by it.
By the way, folks, I have to say her instincts are right on the money.
When when when she says, Look, I'm sorry that their parents are in poor living conditions or surroundings or whatever's going on out there.
I don't care.
I care about what's going on right here in my own backyard.
What she doesn't she may know it, but she basically saying, look at we just we can't fix everybody.
It's not our role to somebody's gotta take care of themselves here.
We're taking care of ourselves, we're doing everything.
That's what her point is.
And she's she's right on the money.
You know, we're handcuffing ourselves with this whole idea that that whoever what we've got to just let every value and tradition we hold dear crumble in order to be nice.
Doesn't work that way.
I want you to listen to this again.
I want you to listen to this woman's passion and her anger over this and her instincts are right on.
Not right.
Now billions of dollars want to be borrowed from the White House to help feed and house them.
Who the f kids there in our country?
Not just in this neighborhood, but in our country.
All these kids, really?
Why can't they go back?
I'm sorry that that the parents are are in poor living uh conditions or surroundings or whatever's going on out there.
I don't care.
I care about what's going on right here in my own backyard, my neighborhood.
Am I the only one in this community that's out here that watches the news the morning?
Oh my god.
I feel alone right now in this, and I'm very saddened by it.
She's out there, she's she's she's ticked off with the low information crowd herself.
She doesn't know it.
And of course, billions of dollars want to be borrowed from the White House.
I know she means Congress, and I know we're already spending more money on poverty in this country than anywhere else in the world is.
I know that, but I uh her instincts about this are um I think pretty spot on.
I've got to go out of time again.
Be right back.
By the way, the Unaccompanied Alien Children program has cost about $265 million all Already this year, and it's nowhere near the end.
There is no end to this in sight, but do you understand that?
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