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July 30, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 30, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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I have been intending to talk about this Ebola breakout for a couple of days.
And I did mention it in a passing fashion each of the past two days.
But it has now escaped its three origin countries, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and what's the third one?
Nigeria.
No, no, no, no.
Sierra Leone, Guinea, and there's one other tiny little African country.
It was contained.
It was the largest outbreak ever, but doctors have come down with the disease and died.
Doctors wearing full hazmat gear have contracted the disease and died.
There is no cure.
It's fatal in up to 50 to 90 percent of cases.
All the doctors can do is keep you hydrated and give you over-the-counter things for fever and so forth.
But what gets you with Ebola is organ destruction and internal bleeding.
And the problem with it is, is the first couple of weeks, it's just like the flu.
If you get it, oh, geez, I've come down with the flu.
Oh my gosh.
Or maybe if you live over in Africa, malaria.
But it takes a while.
But I think an American has died who was working over there, who was on his way back to Minnesota.
He died before he got here.
Now, the reason I bring this up is it's another reason to close the border, folks.
What has happened in all of these countries in Nigeria, the disease has spread to Lagos, and that's the bad thing because Lagos is a city of 21 million and it's got lousy health care.
There are no quarantine services.
Once it got into that major metropolis, it's spread by bodily fluids.
It's fairly, I mean, this disease can find you.
If it can penetrate hazmat gear, worn by trained doctors who are specifically treating this disease, you know, it is not hard to contract it.
And these countries, these three origin countries, the worst outbreak, I don't know, maybe ever.
If not ever, it's the worst outbreak in a long time.
What happens is the only way you can control this is to quarantine the people who come down with it.
It's the only thing you can do.
There is no treatment for it.
So you have to stop the spread, which means you have to shut down airports.
You cannot let people leave.
And this is what some of these original three African countries did.
But somebody got on an airplane to Lagos.
Nigeria.
And that's all it has taken.
Now everybody is worried that this thing could become global.
Who knows?
I'm not trying to create a panic here, but one of the ways that you deal with this is to close your border in and out.
If you are a country, if you're an origin country, the only way to contain this is to contain it.
It's the only thing, the only way to treat it is to contain it.
And in the good old days, and it's not that long ago, a threat like this would be met by a nation closing its borders and ports of entry to the countries where the disease is running rampant.
Not everybody, just to the countries where the disease is running rampant.
Now, we would never do that, of course.
That would be unfair.
That would be discriminatory.
That would be mean.
The way it's looked at by many in our country, it's not fair that they get Ebola and we don't.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, that's not fair.
And people do have that attitude about it.
I've talked to people.
What is it about Africa?
Why is all this happening in Africa?
This isn't fair.
Well, do you want it to happen in more places?
Well, it does seem like it's sort of unfair to Africa, as though the disease is picking.
It's spread by the fruit bat.
Do you have any fruit bats on your farm?
That's what spreads the, that's one of the carriers of Ebola.
At any rate, keep a sharp eye on this, folks.
Stay tuned to it, and there's going to be a lot of panic reporting because that sells media.
It gets clicks on the internet, sells newspapers, ratings on TV, or what have you.
But since it claimed its first victims in Guinea last March, the Ebola virus epidemic has killed 660 people.
It's infected nearly 1,200 people.
It's more lethal than any other outbreak in the Ebola.
It was only discovered in 1976.
By the way, last week's developments could transform this outbreak from an unusually nasty regional epidemic to something much bigger because on July 24th, Nigerian authorities confirmed that a Liberian man, Patrick Sawyer,
that's the man who was on his way to America, had collapsed in Lagos after flying there from the Liberian capital, Monrovia, and tested positive for Ebola.
Sawyer died before he got on the airplane to come to America.
So the three countries are Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia.
They're rural West African countries, but Lagos is different.
Lagos is Africa's biggest city, the 21 million people.
It is also one of the most densely populated.
Something like what is the number of people?
The number of people per square mile is incredible.
It's something like, oh, I can't find the number here.
And I don't want to try to recall it from my memory because I don't want to get it.
Here at 20,000 people per square mile.
I'm sorry, 53,000 people per square mile.
That's the population density.
That's bigger than New York.
53,000 people.
So the disease has spread there, and doctors, as I say, have gotten the disease and died from it, wearing full hazmat.
Like three doctors now, I think.
At least two.
So this kind of thing would be used, you know, at borders.
You would want to keep people from these countries out of your country, not to discriminate against them, but to protect your own population.
That is the way it is dealt with.
It's just, there's no tree, there's no cure, there's no treatment, there's no nothing for this.
Okay, since we're on the subject of immigration, yesterday on this program, ladies and gentlemen, I happened to remark on something I saw on CNN.
CNN reported as a graphic call.
I didn't have the sound on, but I didn't need the sound on.
It was CNN.
I knew what they were going to say as soon as I saw the graphic.
Now, as you know, Obama has been practically begging the Republicans to impeach him.
He wants to be impeached, it looks like.
More and more people are theorizing he wants to be impeached because the Democrats have made a political calculation.
They think impeachment will help them.
They think impeachment will hurt the Republicans.
Now, I'm not so sure of that.
But it's academic anyway, because the Republicans aren't going to do it.
But that's not stopping the media from reporting that they're going to do it.
That's the point.
Boehner took it off the table if it was ever on the table.
And I don't like all these things being taken off the table, by the way.
We just said we're not going to shut the government down, so we're not going to use the power of the purse to stop Obama, okay?
And now we're saying impeachment's off the table, so we're not going to use the Constitution to stop Obama.
So the Republican Party is bragging or broadcasting that they're not going to do anything to stop Obama.
And I'll tell you why.
Because they too believe that they still believe, even with all the polling data, the plummeting approval numbers, that if there's any pursuit of Obama politically, that it's just going to send the independents running right to the Democrats in the midterms and all that.
They really do believe, even now, that the public does not want to hear their dear leader criticized.
They don't want to hear their dear leader subject to impeachment talks or what have you.
And so the Republicans are doing everything they can to deliver.
We're not going to impeach you.
We're not going to.
It's purely defensive.
It's rooted in fear.
And I think it's a miscalculation.
Now, I don't want to be misunderstood here.
I'm not banging the bells here for impeachment.
That's not the way to go about that.
Impeachment is the last thing that happens in a process that ought to be happening.
And what ought to be happening is being led by Jeff Sessions.
What Jeff Sessions is doing is what the Republican Party at large should be doing.
He went to the floor of the Senate and he described an administration as lawless, that they were engaging in lawless behavior.
And by the way, it's effective because the drive-bys, poor little Jeff Sessions.
I mean, Nobody notices him.
Drive-bys are all over this guy like he is the reincarnation of Jabba the Hutt.
This guy's the biggest enemy now.
They just can't believe that he would dare call a president of the United States lawless because of this immigration policy and the threat that Obama will just with a stroke of his pen grant amnesty to five or six million of the 11 million who are here.
The stroke of pen amnesty is not about the kids that are arriving, folks.
What Obama is threatening to do, and nobody knows if he'll do it for sure, what he's threatening to do, since the Republicans won't act, is just do an executive order or an executive action that would grant amnesty to five or six million of the supposed 11 million living in the shadows.
I don't know how he's going to identify which ones of the 11 or 12 million get it, but it doesn't matter.
The theory is he's trying to goad the Republicans into just reaching the end of their tolerance and finally launch impeachment because the political calculation among the smart people inside the beltway is that any move to impeach Obama will just ruin Republican electoral chances and it will revive a moribund, depressed Democrat base.
I don't happen to believe that, but I'm not going to persuade anybody because the conventional wisdom inside the Beltway is set.
So on CNN, even though the Republicans have said that there's no impeachment, it's off the table.
It was never on the table.
The story nevertheless is that the Republicans want to impeach him.
CNN ran a story yesterday that essentially said Republicans to impeach Obama.
Republicans want to impeach Obama.
Republicans, even though it isn't true, CNN ran a story that isn't true graphically.
I don't know what they reported.
Anyway, this reporting by me on this program ended up being a discussion topic on the Fox All-Stars with Brett Baer last night.
And Brett Baer used a clip of me on this program to set it up.
CNN and other drive-by media are going to report this not as something Obama is trying to make happen.
They're going to report this as something the Republicans want to happen so that they get creamed by it even if they do nothing.
It's a strategy.
It's exactly right.
That's what CNN was doing yesterday, trying to report that the Republicans want it to happen, can't wait to impeach Obama, thinking about impeaching Obama so that it hurts them politically even when they don't do it.
And precisely because they don't do it, because the Republicans said they're not going to do it, CNN and the media say, yeah, watch us.
We're going to tell everybody you want to.
And that's all it's going to take.
So then Brett Baer went to Juan Williams, said, is it fair to say that most Republicans are not pushing impeachment Juan?
Isn't that true?
Pushing is a, you know, it's a soft word.
But I mean, if you ask people on the record right now, you get what Boehner said today, which is we have no plans, etc.
The base and a lot of talk radio hosts, Limbaugh included, are saying Obama is a tyrant.
He's exceeding his authority.
He's a bad man, et cetera, deserving of impeachment.
You know, impeachment is supposed to be for high crimes and misdemeanors.
But that is out there, that there has to be some way, will someone take care of this horrible man in some way?
The real remedy in terms of if the president has exceeded authority, as we've heard it described, would be to say that this president is deserving of a vote by the House on impeachment.
See, I continually get mischaracterized on this.
I have not led any pro-impeachment movement.
I am not, we're not there yet.
I just said it again.
The case has to be made with the American people.
It's a political event.
It's not a legal event.
Impeachments, and this high crimes and misdemeanors, you know, it's typical that somebody, it's a creature of Washington, has lived and worked inside the Beltway all their adult lives, would not know what that means.
High crimes and misdemeanors does not mean theft, larceny, murder, any of that.
High crimes and misdemeanors means derelict of duty.
High crimes and misdemeanors means action outside the Constitution.
High crimes and misdemeanors means action detrimental to the country in violation of the oath of office.
It's an entirely different thing than a criminal definition of high.
I mean, misdemeanors for crying out loud are zilch.
You don't get any jail time for misdemeanor.
You get a slap on the wrist, a couple hours of community service, and then you're gone.
What do you mean high crimes and misdemeanors?
High crimes and misdemeanors in a political sense has to...
I'll tell you, the fact of the matter is, if you want to know what high crimes and misdemeanors means, just look at what Obama is doing.
And you have your definition.
And I'm not surprised that Juan Williams wouldn't know this.
A tyrant exceeding his authority.
He is exceeding his authority, and he's doing it purposefully.
Anyway, we've got to take a brief time out.
We've got more after this.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have rush limbo, the cutting edge of societal evolutionist Dr. Krauthama.
He was asked by Brett Baer to weigh in on my comment that whatever the Republicans do, the Democrats and media are going to report that the Republicans can't wait to impeach Obama.
It is coming from real actions the president has taken.
Lawlessly changing the Obamacare law.
Lawlessly changing the drug laws.
Lawlessly changing our energy policy.
It isn't a matter of he being a bad man.
It's a violation of our constitutional rights.
And if he does it on immigration, I could see this president who said he'd be the one who would bring us together.
I can see him being cynical enough as a way to gin up feelings against the Democrats over immigration by executive order calling for the non-enforcement of the immigration laws, which would be an invitation to impeachment that I think would help him politically.
So Dr. Krauthammer believes, like most of Inside the Beltway Washington, that the politics of this are impeachment hurts Republicans.
Even breathing it, even discussing it.
If they went so far as to actually start drafting articles, why that'd be the end of the Republican Party.
The American people may be ticked off, but they love them some Obama.
They love the first African-American president.
And there is no way the American people are going to sit by and watch their president sent packing by a bunch of mean-spirited racist extremists.
That's the political calculation behind.
And apparently Dr. Craunhammer believes it too.
I'm not so sure.
But it's academic because the Republicans aren't going to do anything.
It doesn't matter.
Even though they don't, the media is going to report that they want to.
So you better steal yourself for the fact.
We're going to find out what the politics of this are because I guarantee you, Obama is going to do everything he can to draw them out.
By the way, Dave Camp, who is the Ways and Means Committee Chairman, House of Representatives, wrote a letter to the Attorney General Eric Holder today because a newly discovered email exchange from Lois Lerner's official IRS email account directly demonstrates her deep animus toward conservatives,
which she referred, I can't say the word, she referred to conservatives in this email as it's a bodily orifice where one eliminates waste.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, you clamor.
Clamor.
Exactly right.
George W. Bush called Adam Clamor.
He's a real clamber.
It has a meaning.
It's a bodily orifice.
Well, in most, for most, it's a point of exit.
Others have a different idea.
But for the most part, it's an exit point.
And she referred to conservatives as this in this email that's been found.
So Dave Camp, the House Ways and Means Committee, has sent a letter to Holder trying to make the point here that there was institutional bias going on at the now.
We all know this.
I mean, this is exhibit, what, 597 in this whole story.
But I remember, I remember telling you, not all that long ago, the first time I saw Lois Lerner, I just, I saw somebody that just, she looked like a Cruella de Ville.
She looked like, and does look, just a mean, unhappy, constantly angry, irritated person.
Just looks that way to me.
She looked like somebody constantly loaded for bear, ready to go.
I had no doubt what was being said about her by people as this IRS scandal vis-a-vis the Tea Party details were released.
And now there's just a little bit more evidence as to who she is.
And not only that, she referred to conservatives not just as exit point bodily orifice, she called them terrorists as well.
Tea Party terrorists.
And it just, it gives evidence to the fact that there was a bias aimed at political enemies of the regime at the IRS.
It's just one of the many things that you could put in articles of impeachment if you wanted to.
This high crimes and misdemeanors business.
I mean, there are real world events that are driving this, this discussion.
And make no mistake, Obama really is trying to goad the Republicans into doing it.
That's all they've got.
Either that or the race card or something similar to try to excite their base.
Because there is literally nothing going on policy-wise in this administration that is being supported or people want more of.
And so what they've decided to do, the race card or impeachment, it's all part of this attempt to make Obama this little victim.
This is such a nice guy, and he only wants to, oh, people, here come me Republicans.
Damn it, there they go again.
They just want to destroy every nice person.
What they're trying to gin up, Obama as the victim.
Obama as a good-hearted, fighting against all the odds, trying to fix all the problems, victim of powerful, mean spirited, racist forces in Washington.
Now, Obama's approval rating last we saw it reported was at 39 percent in Gallup, an all-time low.
And you know why his approval rating is down?
Because he has made mistaken assumptions about public sentiment and I think they're making a mistake on the public sentiment on immigration.
Now follow me on this.
They thought this stuff at the border going on right now.
This is not coincidental.
We found, just as a reminder I know that those of you listen regularly this is going to sound like a repeated news item a bit of redundancy, but I ask your indulgence because there are people tuning in for the first time every day here.
We found that back in january, the administration had posted a jobs listing memo on one of their internet sites and they were seeking logistics and transportation companies to apply for federal contracts to transport 65,000 immigrant children between January and July, something like that.
They knew in January.
And this whole, by the way, this assault on the border by unaccompanied children actually began in December.
It was in January that we found the jobs posting memo.
The bottom line is the regime knew in January that these kids were coming.
It takes 45 days to get here from Central America.
It didn't just happen overnight without anybody knowing it.
It wasn't just all of a sudden one day out of the clear blue, tens of thousands of children are trying to get in the country.
This has been orchestrated in part by repeated claims by the regime that if you're here, you get to stay.
Obama 2012, or 2010 rather, no, it was 2012, just granting amnesty to all of the illegal alien kids 16 years of age and under.
Just if you're here, you stay and you're not illegal.
Sends a message.
The point is, these people were on the way.
It takes 45 days to get here.
There's no end in sight to it.
The politics of it is that the regime thought making children the face of illegal immigration would lower resistance to illegal immigration.
They were playing the children card again.
A great miscalculation, a huge political miscalculation.
They thought if the only noticed immigrants coming across or if the only reported immigrants coming across were poor children without their parents, that the American people would open their arms and accept them.
And the exact opposite has happened and the regime was surprised.
They have been, I think, really surprised by the degree of protest that this has been met with.
I'll give you another example where they miscalculated public sentiment, the health insurance subsidies and the Supreme Court decision this week or last week.
Remember, when Obamacare was passed and we finally saw what was in it, the bottom line was that the only people getting subsidies were enrollees via state exchanges.
Well, 36 states didn't set up exchanges.
The law specifically said that citizens who sign up through healthcare.gov, the federal exchange, would not get subsidies.
This was done to pressure Republican governors into signing onto Obamacare and setting up exchanges.
It was thought that the Republicans would cave because public sentiment would be such that people would demand their freebie, would demand their subsidies.
And if they didn't get them, blame the Republicans.
That has not happened.
Another political miscalculation by the regime.
They had been surprised.
There were 36 states that said no.
And the D.C. Circuit Court ruling may lead to Obamacare's collapse because they tried a political maneuver here that has blown up in their face.
They also thought that the effort by Republicans to demand accountability for what went on in Benghazi, and they also thought that the IRS scandal and the VA scandal, the Fast and Furious, they thought those would have gone away by now.
They thought people would have forgotten Benghazi and the IRS.
They thought that these kind of things would have worked to their advantage politically, and none of them have.
Every one of these things, in a political sense, I'm talking about public opinion, not the Republicans.
In the sense of public opinion, Obama's approval ratings are falling, and all of these things the regime thought would jack up favorability haven't.
Instead, they've got a select committee that's going to be chaired by Trey Gowdy on Benghazi.
They have other congressional committees looking into all of the other evidence of wrongdoing obstruction, be it the IRS, be it the VA.
Now they've got judges, federal judges demanding that the government go under oath, the IRS, try to get to the bottom of that scandal.
They really thought that Obama engaging in high crimes and misdemeanors, i.e. this lawless kind of behavior as described aptly by Jeff Sessions, children as the face of immigration.
They thought that this would force two things, Obama's approval numbers up and even further anger at Republicans.
This has not happened.
Now, the next thing on the list that supposedly is going to redound to Obama's benefit is immigration.
If the Republicans, well, the Republicans aren't.
So if the media can convince people that the Republicans really want to do it, Obama thinks he's going to be sitting in Fat City.
Well, every political calculation they have made has blown up in their face.
And the big one is the illegal immigrant children.
That has resulted in a blowback that the regime and the Democrat Party never counted on.
So they're finding and experiencing a lot of reaction they didn't expect, issue after issue after issue.
Now, from my standpoint, you have a president, we do, who is engaging in lawless behavior.
I mean, there isn't any question about it.
It's just a matter of how much you want to think about it and admit it and then what you want to do about it.
But the fact that it's happening is not arguable.
All of these executive orders, the threats to just with a signature grant amnesty, none of this.
I mean, this is what Nixon dreamed of.
Nixon never got close to doing any of this.
He just dreamed of it, and they impeached him for that.
So I think that the miscalculations that are piling up here, you have a president that is engaging in lawless behavior, is threatening even more of it.
I think if they think that is going to help them politically, they may be miscalculating, my friend.
Welcome back, folks.
Rushland bought talent on loan from God.
And we start on the phones today, Fairfax, Virginia.
This is Karen, and thank you.
Thank you for calling.
Hi.
Oh, Rush, it is a pleasure to talk to you.
Is it still, after 26 years, is it still a big deal to listen and talk to me?
Is it really?
It really is.
It really is.
I thank you very much.
That's very sweet of you to say.
Thank you.
And I want you to know I have two grandchildren now, one and three years old, and I am looking forward to buying all your books for them.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Deeply appreciate that.
Thank you.
What I wanted to tell you is that I wholeheartedly agree with usually 99.9 of everything you say, and I do on this.
But this is what my concern is.
If the Republicans move forward with impeachment, which is 100 percent deserved, and they...
Wait a minute now.
Now, hold it.
I'm glad you said that.
I need to clarify.
I am not advocating that.
I understand.
I'm not.
And neither are the Republicans.
Boehner said yesterday there isn't going to be any impeachment.
And yet, look, this is exactly what Obama wants.
We're still talking about it.
What we need to be talking about is exactly what Jeff Sessions is doing, is talking about Obama's lawless beach.
Don't even say the word impeachment.
Just talk about Obama's lawless, extra-constitutional behavior.
It's already a majority of people who are opposed to it.
But anyway, I didn't mean to interrupt.
Go ahead and finish your thoughts.
That's okay.
I heard on the news break earlier then that they were going to sue Obama.
Is that correct?
Yeah, but that's not impeachment.
Okay.
Well, that's what I heard on the news break on the radio.
Yeah, presidents get sued all the time.
This is nothing new.
This is suing Obama for separation of powers violations.
Those things happen all the time.
But that's not drawing up articles of impeachment and having a trial in the Senate.
None of that.
Well, it just seems like if they keep talking about it, and I'm sure the Democrats want to keep talking about it, because it's going to take the light off of Obama and all the awful things that he's been doing and the things that are undoing all the good things about this country, and it's going to put the Republicans in a bad light for November.
How is talking about all of the violations of his oath of office Obama is committing, taking the eye off it?
Talking about that is good.
Talking about trying to move, well, okay, you're right.
Talking about that is good and bringing that to the surface.
What concerns me is the way the Democrats and the liberals and the media constantly take the truth and spin it so far out of proportion.
And we on the conservative side always come off looking like the villains.
And then when something does take place and you need the Republicans to stand up for what is right and what we are doing or they are doing that is right, they fold.
They don't speak up for themselves, for our cause.
And the Democrats are out there talking a mile a minute.
Yeah, I know.
That's what, the last six years.
Yeah.
But I want to prepare you for something.
I want to prepare you for something.
I just.
The only people that are talking about impeachment as though it's going to happen are the media and Obama.
And I was going to try to prepare you for the fact you're going to be pulling your hair out.
You called here.
He said, Rush, we can't do it.
We can't do it because they'll just galvanize Obama's support.
We can't do it.
I agree with you.
The Democrats know that too.
So they're just going to lie.
The media is just going to lie.
They're going to report every day that the Republicans want to impeach Obama.
You're not going to hear one Republican say they want to impeach Obama.
Not one Republican is going to say it.
Yet the media every day is going to have stories about how the Republicans want to do it, even though they don't say it.
So you just better get ready because exactly what you don't want to happen, the media is going to try to convince the low-information Nimrods it is happening.
They're just going to lie, Karen, like they always do.
You need to steal yourself and get ready for it.
Have faith.
Here, Nancy Pelosi, I mean, it has to be a buffoon.
Has to be.
No deportation without representation, she said.
No deportation without, meaning we need to give them pro bono lawyers.
Anyway, got to take a brief break here at the top, but we be back, folks.
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