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July 31, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 31, 2014, Thursday, Hour #2
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So Obama says, in fact, grab soundbite number 20.
We just got this in.
I'm gonna play this.
It was from yesterday.
I just told the broadcast engineer we're gonna do one, two, three, and nineteen.
So what do I do?
Tell him grab number 20.
But it's Obama.
It's uh yesterday afternoon in Kansas City, standing in front of a bunch of people who we're led to believe still love the guy, think he's the greatest thing, probably voted for him.
He told them that they could keep their doctor, keep their insurance plan.
He lied to him 25 times about that.
He lied to them about their premiums coming down, $2,500 a month.
Turned the IRS loose on hundreds of conservatives, has opened the southern border, is out apologizing for America.
He's out there saying the Republicans have got to stop all the hate.
We could do so much more if Congress would just come on and help out a little bit.
Just come on.
Come on and help out a little bit.
Stop being mad all the time.
Stop just hating all the time.
Come on.
Let's get some work done together.
I know uh they're not that happy that I'm president, but that's okay.
Come on.
I've only I've only got a couple years left.
Come on.
Let's let's get some work done.
Then you can be mad at the next president.
Right on.
Right on.
This is uh it's a it's it's a new era in the presidency.
I mean, I can't even hear Clinton talking this way.
Hey, man, come on, come on.
Let's just hit let's just hit have a couple beers, man.
You know, calm down now.
Let's go have a couple beers, go to ball game.
You never know.
We might find a couple lovelies after that.
But come on, man.
But stop the hating.
This is uh this is the guy who said if they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.
This is a guy who said to his supporters, I need you to go out.
Talk to your friends, talk to your neighbors.
I want you to talk to them, whether they're independent or whether they're Republican.
I want you to argue with them.
I want you to get in their face.
Well, they can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in the back.
President Obama stop that.
Come on, just do some work.
He's just goading them, folks.
He's just goading these Republicans to give him what he wants, and what he wants is to be impeached.
And the Republicans are shouting from the rooftops that they're not gonna impeach him.
I think they've gone so far overboard, they've gone way beyond what's necessary.
They have, you know, I really hate doing what I'm I hate this.
Two things.
This business of shouting we're not gonna impeach the president.
Look, don't take it off the table.
In any negotiation, you don't throw away your options.
You've all you're doing is signaling to the president that you're not gonna do anything to stop him.
And you're signaling to the people that whatever he's doing, hey, folks, is he's not breaking the law.
He's not being lawless.
He's not out there being extra-constitutional.
I mean, if he if if he were, we'd do something about it.
But we're not gonna do anything about it.
What's the message that they're sending?
And then they said, one of them said, I think it was Steve Scalise, I'm I'm not sure.
Maybe more than one, in an interview.
Yeah, it was Sunday on Fox News Sunday, and whoever Chris Wallace was interviewing asked, so will there be a government shutdown?
No!
There will not be.
Are you listening?
There will not be a government shutdown.
Please love us.
So you're saying that there won't be a government shutdown.
Please listen.
We will not be the ones to shut the government and take away your freebies.
Well, that's tantamount to saying that the Republicans will not use their constitutional power to control spending and deny opportunity to Obama to spend and spend and spend.
Why take that off the table?
Why in July say there won't be a government shutdown?
The only reason you scared.
Oh my God.
Governor shutdown.
No, no, we'll get blame.
Oh God.
Oh God, no.
The American people don't want their government shutdown.
Oh no.
The American people can't get by without their government working.
Oh no, no, no, we're not going to shut the government.
Please, we will not shut down the government.
You hear us, we will not shut down the government.
There's panic.
There's panic.
Well, in doing that, they are saying that they're gonna do nothing with their power of the purse is the cliche to reign in Obama's extracurrictional or extra constitutional activities.
Why would you throw away your weapons to get re-elected or to get so the people will love you so they will not blame you for what's going on?
I'm telling you, you go out, you spend your life trying to try to prove negatives.
Spend your life trying to convince people that you're not gonna do what's going to cause the upcoming disaster, rather than trying to stop the disaster.
There is such a really glorious win opportunity here.
And then another member of Congress said, no, no, no, no, no, no.
We're not we're not gonna impeach Obama.
What he's done doesn't even rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors.
And it does.
It specifically does.
High crimes and misdemeanor is a phrase that the founders borrowed from the ancient Brits.
But it has a specific meaning.
And it can't mean murder and all that, because those are not misdemeanors.
You know, this high crimes and misdemeanors thing.
This is where you have to go look at original intent.
High crimes and misdemeanors simply says, it's all it means is has somebody gotten to point we can't trust them with the power that the Constitution gives them.
I mean, that's the that's the root of it.
There are specifics to high crimes and misdemeanors, and Obama has engaged in them.
I have a story.
Let me find this.
This is another amazing.
We had an amazing AP story today that contrasts Obama's claim of a roaring economic recovery with actual interviews of American people saying their lives are turning to horse manure.
I mean, that's the kind of stuff you get with Republican presidents.
But the AP did it.
An actual story, the thrust of which is there isn't any real economic recovery that average Americans are experiencing.
And then there's this.
This the Washington Post said Juliet Eilperin.
Juliet Eilprin hates the Tates Republic.
I mean, is so in the tank for the Democrats, it's not, it's impossible to categorize.
And she has a study today that says, or a piece, study hundreds of rules passed by the regime are technically illegal.
Hundreds of rules passed by the Obama administration technically illegal.
Washington Post, July 29th this year.
Details.
Over the past two years, the regime has published hundreds and hundreds of rules on how wheelchairs should be stowed aboard U.S. aircraft, how foreign trade zones should be regulated, how voting assistance should be provided for U.S. citizens overseas and so on.
But there's a problem.
Technically speaking, these and some eighteen hundred other regulations should not be in effect because they were not reported to Congress as required.
Yet there is little that Congress or the courts can do about it.
The situation illustrates the obscure process used to create federal regulations and how easily it can go awry.
Under a 1960 1996 statute, most federal rules are supposed to be reported to the House and Senate in paper form and to the General Accountability Office electronically, but since the start of 2012, who was president then?
Let's see there be Obama.
That has not happened.
Since 2012, this administration has simply implemented nearly 2,000 regulations they didn't report to anybody except the enforcement agencies.
2,000.
President Obama has just created 2,000 laws without Congress and without telling Congress.
High crimes and misdemeanors.
He's acting outside the authority granted him by the Constitution over and over and over again.
And yet, Republicans say his behavior has not risen to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors.
They've just been over every which way possible to try to convince people that they don't hate Obama.
That they're not going to do anything to harm Obama while he's sitting there with 39% approval, nearly 70% disapproval of his immigration policy, folks.
Thanks to all of you who have been on hold since before.
I appreciate your patience.
We start.
This is Key in San Francisco, and thank you.
Great to have you.
I love, I love San Francisco.
It's great to hear from somebody from there.
How are you?
I'm doing great, Rush.
Megadiddles, and thank you for listening to me today.
Rush, I firmly believe, and I've been listening to you since my college days when you were in Sacramento.
I firmly believe that conservatism, when articulated clearly and when practiced faithfully and without apology, wins every time.
And so I am incensed when I look at the current political landscape, when I look at the establishment Republicans, and I look at the opportunity that they are squandering, because not since when Reagan got a chance to position conservatism against the failed liberal policies of Carter, have we ever been given an opportunity to so clearly position ourselves as conservative men and how different we are.
When you look across this country, when you look at every major metropolitan area that has been controlled by Democrats and liberals for the last 50 years, you look at Detroit, you look at every other area where you just have to show up and point fingers and show what liberalism unchecked can do.
When you look and listen to the to the very uh polls that you just mentioned in the first hour, when you have uh union members who are upset with Obamacare, never has this country been more hungry and waiting to listen to and be open to an alternative to the failed liberal policies that we are seeing on display each and every day.
And so when I see establishment Republicans just squander this opportunity, they will never have an opportunity like this again.
Not in my lifetime in Russia.
I'm in my early 40s.
I've got a seven-year-old, I've got a four-year-old.
They can see conservatism flourish for the rest of their lifetimes if we don't squander this opportunity.
And you, sir, have always said liberals will always show you what they are afraid of.
When you look at Lois uh Lerner and the IRS and all these scandals, who are they targeting?
It is not the establishment Republicans, it is conservatives, because they fear conservatism.
This guy, you obviously have been listening to me since the Sacramento days, because there's nothing wrong with what you said.
You are absolutely right.
But I want to ask you a question.
Why do you think the establishment Republicans don't see it that way?
Because I don't think they care.
You know, the difference is again, the the first president that I in my childhood was aware of was Reagan.
And one thing about Reagan was that you knew here is a gentleman who believes, who not only believes in what he says, but cares about his country.
He wants to put his country first.
When I look at the landscape today, I see a bunch of career politicians who are more concerned about getting re-elected, about staying in power, than putting the interests in the needs of their nation.
Now, wait, wait, wait, though.
Let me play devil's advocate.
You just said, and a lot of people agree with you, that this nation is hungering and thirsting for an alternative to be articulated well and reasonably and with good cheer, and the people are just dying to vote for it.
So if that's driving them, their effort to be re-elected, why don't they do what you say they should do?
Because I don't believe they're true conservatives.
I don't believe that they believe in conservatism.
All right, and why not?
I'm going to keep drilling down.
Because there are answers to all these questions, I'm at why not?
Well, again, because they are listening to the media, the way that they're being portrayed, as you have said many times, they just want to be liked, and in their minds, they think that if they just espouse conservatism, they won't be liked.
And somehow they have it in their minds that to retain power to get re-elected, they have to be liked.
There is a specific answer to my question, and you've you've given part of it.
But in the real world of politics, one of the reasons is, in addition to what you said, when they see conservatism, they see Barry Goldwater, they see a land slide defeat, they see a Republican Party in the wilderness for 40 years.
They don't see the beginning of a movement.
They don't see something that led to Ronald Reagan.
They don't see Reagan.
They see Goldwater.
Their consultants see that.
They are not conservative, as you say.
They have also, I think, as establishment types.
How many times have you heard what you would think are conservative media say, you know, the American people have made up their minds, and they actually want a big, energetic government and president executive, they call him.
They want this.
We have got to adjust to the reality that the American people want a large, efficient, energetic government working for them.
We have to convince them that we can do it better and smarter.
And that's the current mindset of Republican consultants, many in the so-called conservative media, uh, who advise the Republicans that you are talking about.
You throw that into the mix, in addition to everything you said that they're really not conservative.
And there's another big one, too.
They don't believe in smaller government.
Government's the answer to everything.
Government's where they make their money.
Government is where they have their contacts.
Government is where they go to lobbying work after they finish their work in office and really score.
And without big government for lobbyists to massage and manipulate and earn big money, uh there could be no big financial opportunity.
You've got to have a big government so that it can be massaged and managed and manipulated, scored money off of and so forth.
And that really follow the money and you'll have the answers to many questions.
But at the root of it, they they really aren't conservative, but they're not conservative because it embarrasses them.
They uh they they think pro-life is a killing issue, for example, social issues and everything.
The things that they've won on are the things that they are afraid of.
I agree wholeheartedly, Rush.
And you know, as a as a as the son of immigrants, you know, my family immigrated here uh when I was a little young child, and I will tell you though, that America, the America that conservatism stands for, is why people have immigrated to this country for so many years and still do.
Uh it is it is for what America, even to this day, uh, still stands for.
And nothing better epitomizes that America Than conservatism.
No question about it.
There's another thing, too.
You and I look at what's happening in the country.
We see a crisis.
We see a crisis that really threatens the existence of America as founded.
The Republicans you're talking about don't see that.
They don't see a spending crisis.
That's not the problem.
You ever seen them reduce spending?
Really?
And they don't believe that's a problem.
They'll tell you, look, man, the national debt's been growing ever since I was a kid.
We're still here to any problem.
That's an old chivalrous.
Nobody's it's not going to kill us.
It's no big deal.
They don't, they don't uh they still see the world the same way that uh that you do.
And it's a shame.
But at the root of it, you're right.
They're not conservative.
We can get into the whys and wherefores of it, and that's useful simply as an as an informational or educational exercise.
But that remains the uh the fact.
In fact, not only are they not, they are wrong about it.
They have fears about it that are misconstrued.
I mean, if you if you associate if consider if all conservatism is to you is Barry Goldwater, and believe me, you know, don't discount that.
That to them is what's going to happen if we nominate a why do you think they keep nominating moderate Northeastern liberal Republicans?
They really think conservatism equals landslide defeat.
Why they don't see Reagan is probably rooted in the fact that they don't want to admit that they were wrong, and they really don't want to get into the argument of smaller government.
Because they really, really, really don't want to do the work necessary to make that happen.
Well, looky here, folks.
Now, you gotta you gotta kind of be intrigued by this.
The uh the CIA has admitted that they did improperly hack Senate computers.
Remember when DI FI and some of the others heard that their computers have been hacked by in uh NSA or CIA and how outraged they were there were the uh denun.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
That that's that's what would never target.
No, no.
CIA Director John Brennan admitted that the CIA did hack into the computers of Senator Diane Feinstein and other Senate staffers, an allegation he had denied in March.
In a search for Bush era interrogation practices, computers were hacked in a quote, manner inconsistent with the common understanding between the Senate and the CIA.
Mr. Brennan apologized to both Senator Feinstein, who heads the Senate Intelligence Committee and the panel's top Republican, Senator Saxby Chambless, for the actions of his officers.
The CIA's reversal comes after a briefing on the inspector general's findings.
These IGs, these inspector generals, or inspectors general, are uncovering a lot of poop in this regime.
I mean, not just CIA.
The IGs at the IRS, the IGs at the EPA, the inspector general, they're really uncovering a bunch of poop.
It's being papered over.
So nobody hears about the poop.
But they're really uncovering a lot of stuff.
But note Brennan's excuse here.
We were we were just we were searching for Bush era interrogation practice.
Meaning, yeah, we were looking for evidence that the Bush administration waterboarded and tortured Khalid Sheikh Muhammad at Club Gitmo.
So you can excuse us.
We weren't searching for anything on you.
We were we were hacking your computers to see if we could find any evidence that the Bush administration should be charged criminally or some such thing.
And that's their out.
No, Senator Feinstein, we never thought you were doing anything we needed to know of it.
No, no, no, no, no.
But we thought you might have been told about torture that the Bush administration was doing, and that's what we were looking for.
So we'll see if that appeases, Senator Feinstein.
In the meantime, Mike in Louisville, Kentucky, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
You mentioned uh earlier that uh Obama has chosen his legacy to be the economy.
Well, my question is how does anyone get to choose their legacy?
Is that not a uh history that will do that?
Well, who writes the history?
Well, I'm sure there's plenty of Obama acolytes that would be doing that, but after decades perhaps, they will uh hopefully someone will get back and see the facts of what's going on here.
Right.
I know what you're thinking.
You're thinking, okay, we're gonna have some Obama hacks who are gonna write the first history of the Obama administration.
But then generations are gonna come and go, and people are gonna be born 50 years from now who won't have any idea what went on here other than what they can dig up, and they will be appalled, and they will write the true legacy of Obama.
Right?
I would I would hope so.
Well, who's gonna teach them what they know?
Well, that's a good question.
Well, see that's probably not gonna find it in the uh history books.
That's that's the thing.
I mean, if you go look at a history book that I would never forget this.
In um it was in the late 1990s.
There was a man, he was the president of Boston University, his name was John Silber, and he did a research project on the top five history textbooks used in American high schools in the public school system, and he found that the single longest reference to Abraham Lincoln was a paragraph.
Yet there were chapters and chapters on Bill Clinton and his greatness.
Now, admitted, these are people that were alive during Clinton, who were trying to cover him and protect him and all that, and also propagandizing uh students of the of the era.
And so I I understand that but the time we get to a generation of people that are unaffected, unbiased, unattached emotionally or any other way, to what was happening at this moment, that the truth will out.
But also, is it not the uh the condition of the country as a uh result of these past six years and the next two?
That that has got to be a fact that will have to be considered.
I know, but see, here's what scares me.
And I'm not trying to be a pessimist, I really am not.
I'm I'm I'm trying to be a realist.
I I have expected what you think is going to happen.
I've expected to happen in my lifetime.
I have expected for ultimately this disaster to be seen for what it is.
I have expected the downward curve in moral depravity to reach a bottom and start rebounding.
That hasn't happened.
We haven't reached the gutter yet.
Or either that we're so beneath the gutter if it's standing straight up, we're still not going to reach it.
The same thing is happening with with liberalism is so dominant in education and media that the truth is being buried.
The truth is being papered over.
You ask, how can you know who gets to write their own legacy?
Obama will be able to.
If he wants his legacy to be the economy, I guarantee you.
There are thousands of people right now who will write the book.
There are thousands who whatever he wants.
There are people who'll give it to him.
But there will be millions of us that will uh feel the effect.
Well, I know.
See, the the that that's the hope.
The hope is that that at some point uh a majority finally have had enough and say no more and start trying to correct some of this.
That's that's what some people hope that a future or maybe current generation of young people will finally do.
But you still have to go back to who's teaching them what they know.
You know, why is Obama the way he is?
Was he born this way?
Is Obama the product you for for Obama to believe what he believes about this country?
For Obama to believe this country's unjust and unfair and is not a legitimate superpower, that we don't deserve all this.
Somebody has had to put all of that into his head in a persuasive way, day in and day out.
Somebody had to make a concerted effort to teach him this because this is not what American history is.
His belief of what this country is is not right.
But it's what he's been taught, it's what he believes.
And it's become so much a part of his fabric that it's not now a matter of belief.
To him, it's just what is.
And it's the same with every other leftist just like him.
And it's spreading.
Your kids are learning this in school.
They're learning Obama's perspective, the Democrat, the modern Democrat Party's perspective on things, which again, if I may say is why I've decided to write these excellent, if I might add children's books.
Yeah.
The Rush Revere Time Travel Adventures with exceptional American series.
But is to try to counter some of this at a young informative age.
And I it I'm like you.
I keep thinking, okay, 50 years from now, or what whenever how far down the road you want to go, independent analysts are going to have all the data in front of them.
They're going to see what happened with immigration, they're going to see what happened to the economy, and they're going to be able to conclude, we hope, that it was the direct result of a presidency and his policies that caused this to happen.
Well, what if the people 50 years from now also believe that this country should have experienced that to find out what it's like to be another country in the world, because we were not legitimate, that we were a superpower, not because of our greatness inherent, but because of our theft and because of our aggressive colonialist behavior.
What at some point this stuff's got to stop.
At some point the truth has to be taught to be.
At some point this stuff has to be countered.
Some of the stuff being taught in universities today is this out is outrageous.
Modern journalists are required to take history courses.
What do you think they're learning?
I mean, it's it is a it's a it's a massive, massive reversal that's got to take place here.
But the beauty of our country, hopefully, is the fact that we can uh um reelect and regroup and change uh if heavens forgive we or forbid we might go too far.
Well, in the midst of all of this alarmism that I'm sounding, I must again say, and I've believed this my whole life.
I just I just said it.
I've expected, because I'm an optimist, I've expected during the lifetime of this program, 26 years, I have expected that we would reach the bottom in certain things and rebound.
And I still think that's going to happen.
Now I have to face the reality, it may not happen in my lifetime.
But I still think it's going to happen.
I think we're beginning to see the signs of it already in young people.
Not all, but certain young people.
I think we're beginning to see the signs of some young people who don't want to live the way they're going to be forced to if they don't fight it in this country.
I think seeing a lot of young people who don't want to be the extreme nutcases their parents are.
On the left, I mean.
I think old Codger 60s generation liberals, I don't think their parents, their kids want to be like them, or their grandkids.
At least I'm seeing signs of that.
But I remain optimistic, unlike you, I because, and I'll tell you why I'm optimistic, I still think the majority of this country, and a decent-sized one, is really repulsed by what's going on.
I think Murietta California and those protests of the buses, I think that's a microcosm of this whole country.
And their attitude about that issue, for example.
Just the people of this country do not want to erase the southern border.
They don't want what's happening now.
What's missing is an existing political, elected political opposition.
The reason people feel powerless and overwhelmed is because when they turn to Washington, where this stuff has to be stopped, they don't see anybody trying to.
And that's the source of people being pessimistic or depressed, down in the dumps, whatever.
But I'm going to tell you right, if if there were, and I look a Reagan, if if if there were, like Ted Cruz, these guys, if any of them manage to continue to rise in the in their area of dominant influence, and if they're able to do it, you're going to see a massive I don't want to use the word rebellion, but you're going to see a revival.
It's just awaiting leadership.
There is just no leadership, I think, for the majority of people in the country.
You have to throw the media into this too, in terms of its power on impacting public minds and attitudes.
The people who are the majority of this country have been made to feel like they're the minority.
In fact, they've been made to feel you, me, as though we're a very small minority.
It's worse than that.
Some people in the majority feel like they're all alone.
They feel like there isn't a big number of people like them anymore.
That's how effective the media has been in marginalizing what used to be common sense mainstream thought is now considered extreme wacko, hate-filled racism, bigotry, and homophobia.
And when the when when this majority that exists here, we know it does, is absent leadership.
Then you're gonna have people i increasing uh attitudes of frustration and feeling helpless and so forth.
And that's why there's so much anger at the Republicans in Washington.
There isn't any opposition.
There's no pushback.
The majority of people in this country literally feel like they have no representation.
But if that were to change, you would see public attitudes, confidence and all that upbeat at it.
You would see that rebound so fast, and I think it's going to happen.
I just don't know when.
But I just I refuse.
I I cannot come to grips with the fact that people like modern day Democrats can succeed in transforming, i.e.
destroying this country is founded.
I just refuse to accept they're gonna get away with it.
Yeah, I know.
I gotta take a break.
I'm way long here.
Here's David in Gilbert, Arizona, as we stay glued to the phones.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Hello.
Hi hi, th hi, Rush.
Thank you very much for taking my call.
I just want to urge you to keep doing what you're doing.
Um your message is impeccable.
Uh I wanted to comment on something that I've been observing.
I've heard my own Senator McCain uh use this rhetoric.
The rhetoric is that there's this deepening divide between Republicans and Democrats in the country, and I believe it to be a farce.
Um I did some digging into history, even with my liberal education programming that I had, I was still able to scrap up some or find some uh you know facts here and there about some things that occurred.
And if you look back at the beginning and founding of this nation, there were people who are pro-slavery, and there were people who are abolitionists who are against slavery.
And I I don't know if um there could be any more stark contrast between the two um philosophies represented there.
And if you fast forward a little bit to 1803, 1804, I believe that the third vice president, Aaron Burr, shot Alexander Hamilton dead in a duel because they were political rivals, and we simply do not have politicians doing this these days.
So I think that this uh deepening divide, this rhetoric that you hear everywhere, is completely manufactured.
And I think it serves the point to get you're right in the sense that people longing for the days when we were unified or longing for days that have never been.
Right.
And and that brings me to my question, where you know, I would be perfectly fine if John Boehner challenged President Obama to a duel, but I don't think that's gonna happen.
So, what is this point of this lawsuit that Republicans voted on in the House today?
What are they seeking to accomplish if they're not going to impeach him?
They're trying to appease their base.
Right.
So, what do we do about it?
I've I've contacted my congressmen and urged them to change leadership when you know after the election.
Were you able to get through?
Because I don't think you might get through.
The phone lines are melting right now because of Boehner's immigration bill.
I have called my local congressman's office and spoken to his people on the phone and sent the message that way.
Good move.
You can't get through the Washington switchboard right now.
Yeah, the Republicans are trying to pass their immigration bill.
Another appeasement move, this one aimed at Hispanics.
And it's it's it has no chance, and even if it did, it would die in the House.
It isn't going to go anywhere.
They know it, they're just trying to show the Hispanics that they don't hate them, like the media and the Democrats say.
But the phone lines are melting.
The American people in mass are trying to let everybody in Washington know that they oppose this bill from now.
Sit tight, my friends, because we've got much more straight ahead on the excellence in broadcasting network, Rush Limbaugh.
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