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Aug. 1, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 1, 2014, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
It's Rush Limbaugh.
And our anniversary date.
First of August.
Starting our 27th year.
The Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
And here is an anniversary cake that has just been presented to me by the staff.
What a shock.
What an absolute surprise.
You said there's no balloons in here.
Could have seen this coming.
You know how I knew it was coming because every year I ask for it not to be done.
But I understand.
You know, I'm getting the point now, I appreciate it.
I thank you all very much.
I'll blow out the two candles, made a wish.
And the wish now will come true.
And there is the cake.
And everybody saw the cake on the JellyCam.
So uh there it is.
Close-up shot.
Here is the card presented by the staff.
I have yet, of course, to open it.
But anyway, folks, it's great to have you.
Uh telephone number.
If you want to be on the program, 800 282-2882.
It's also open line Friday.
We got that to do today.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
It's a white trash cake, my favorite cake.
Simple white cake.
Publix.
Yes, Sarib.
Open line Friday, whatever you want to talk about.
Have at it.
800 28282, if you want to be on the program.
We're starting our 27th year, 26th anniversary.
No big deal.
We did a big deal on the 20th, a little bit of a deal on the 25th.
26th is just another year, but some for some reason.
When I think that I'm starting my 27th year, for some reason 27 seems a lot bigger than 26.
Starting 27 years, that is a long time.
And number one throughout that entire period, over a quarter of a century.
Numero Uno.
And you know why that is.
That's because of all of you who have unwavered in your support of this program and have been there day in and day out and admit it when anyone asks.
I cannot tell you how much that means.
You will never know.
Uh and and the uh degree of success that I have had in my life that is expressly due to all of you, is overwhelming.
My parents, were they alive, would not believe my life.
And not just because I didn't graduate from college.
They wouldn't believe it.
Because in their day, this kind of thing was something that happened, just a rare few number of people, and it was odds more than anything else.
Uh but it has been it has been just a dream come true.
Every day is an adult Christmas for me.
And I really, I really wish everybody could enjoy the same.
I wish everybody could experience it.
So it's one of these things.
I could pass it out or give it away.
Believe me, I would.
Now, what we're going to do today, we've got our regular program, of course, but as far as the audio soundbites, we're going to go back in time.
We always do this on anniversary programs and relive some of the moments from what I call the groove yard of forgotten favorites.
Cookie went out and found a couple of...
Actually, three fascinating sound bites when I appeared on Firing Line the first time with William F. Buckley Jr., was one of my uh heroes and one of my idols.
It was in 1992, September 16th of 1992.
So we were into the fourth year of the program, and even then I was warning people about what was going to happen with multiculturalism and the Washington Redskins team name.
In 1992, I was warning, you you will hear it.
This is what I mean by being on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
We have some uh other things from the past as well.
We try to make them different every anniversary year so that we don't repeat the uh the same things.
And in addition to looking back, the Grooveyard of Forgotten Favors, we'll talk about what's happening now.
And it is getting so it's just inexplicable.
There's no common sense explanation for anything that's happening.
You look at it, I mean, the polling data, for example, on immigration.
Right now, the uh the Kaiser Family uh foundation has put out a poll, and it shows that Republican voters think standing tough on immigration is the most important issue by far, even more important than repealing Obamacare.
What are the Republicans doing?
Trying to pass amnesty.
Republican voters, Americans of all stripes, are literally melting phone lines in Washington.
They are letting all of their elected officials know that they don't want any part of either comprehensive immigration reform or temporary legal status for the kids coming across the border.
And the left says, Whoa, that's a really great thing.
It ha Limbaugh, how are you going to make hay out of the fact that the only Republican immigration policy is deporting children?
You really think you can make hay about that?
And I said, I don't think that's what this is about.
And I don't think that's how the American people look at this.
Doesn't matter children, it doesn't because what the American people know is that the parents of these kids are next if something isn't done here.
What the American people know is that if this is not dealt with, there's no end to this, and it's there's got to be an end to it.
There simply has to be.
Or else borders don't mean anything anymore.
And if your borders don't mean anything, it won't be long before you don't have a nation.
And people are very cognizant of this.
This is this is what they're tantamount concerned with.
The Republicans in Washington, the Republican leadership, there are all kinds of ways to explain their behavior.
Common sense, however, will not answer your questions.
I'm going to tell you why they're doing what they're doing.
No.
And it isn't complicated, ladies and gentlemen.
It's kind of tough to swallow.
But it really isn't complicated.
Even though you are melting the phone lines, they don't care.
Their donors are telling them they want comprehensive immigration reform, which is a much different thing than what is being discussed at the border today with the children.
The donors, the people, the Republicans really think make their lives possible.
Like I think you make my career possible.
I mean, yeah, I'm a factor.
I'm here every day, but if you weren't, it wouldn't matter.
And I I have never placed myself above you in anything.
My I mean attitudinally, I mean, no way you would know this, but each and every day when I do this program, the only people I care about are you.
And it's a matter of respect.
Am I meeting your expectations?
You you you invest a certain amount of time here every day where you could be doing something else.
So you have some expectations.
It's my job to meet them at least and hopefully surpass them every day.
The show is the thing.
And giving it my best each and every day.
And if a day goes by that I don't, or if I think I don't, or that I think I haven't, I go home down on the dumps and start thinking about how to make up for it the next day.
But the Republicans in Congress, those people that matter to them are the donors.
Because they think that without the money, they couldn't run for re-election, couldn't run for election.
And if they don't get the money, then all the votes in the world aren't gonna matter because they'll never get them.
They put money in front of votes.
They don't get the money to campaign and do whatever else, then they're never going to be able to Reach you, convince you you should vote for them.
So their donors are really the ones wagging their tail.
Chamber of Commerce, Tom Donahue said within the past six weeks that if the Republicans don't do amnesty, comprehensive immigration reform, they may as well not even nominate a candidate for president in 2016.
Now that's a that's a little extreme, and he but he was trying to make a point.
Hey, do not ignore us.
If you guys don't give us what we want here, there's no reason why we are going to financially support you.
Now they look at financial support the way I look at you loyally, admitting and listening that you admitting that you listen every day to this program.
So the bottom line is the the the simple explanation is that the for the most part, the Republican leadership in the House supports amnesty.
There's no other way to explain what they're doing.
Maybe harsh, maybe extreme, but common sense, if you employ it, they're not trying to stop it.
Why aren't they trying to stop it?
Well, the people that they think make them possible want it.
Therefore, they're supporting amnesty.
What they are doing, what they're trying to figure out how to do is to pretend that they're not for it.
And that's why they're twisted in all kinds of different shapes.
While they are figuring out ways to end up making comprehensive immigration reform possible, different from what's happening on the border.
That would be simple to deal with, I think.
You just shut down DECA.
You just say that we're no longer going to legalize children from anywhere unaccompanied, and we're not going to grant them any kind of temporary stat, which just end it.
Real simple, one sentence.
Not going to do that either.
If they don't support amnesty, they at least believe that their donors want it.
And so therefore they've got to deliver.
But they know you don't want it.
So they're on a tightrope.
It's not that they want to blow you off.
They want to give their donors what they want while at the same time figure out how to convince you that that's not what they're doing.
And that's why it's hard to figure out what they're doing.
And that's why common sense doesn't apply when trying to answer it.
Now, the problem they're running into, the House leadership is as they try to occupy both sides of this narrow little line, supporting amnesty because their donors do, and then trying to make make you think they don't, there is a small number of conservatives in the House who are calling them on it.
That's how I know.
I am smart enough to figure this out on my own, but I don't have to in this case because the conservative Republican representatives are calling them on it.
They're telling us this is what's going on.
When this is all said and done, when it comes to anything on immigration, they like Obama doing this on his own.
All these executive actions, executive orders, since everybody involved wants the same thing, then the Republicans' job is to make their voters think they don't want it.
So how do you do that?
Let Obama do it alone.
Therefore, they like Obama doing it on his own.
So they don't take a direct hit, and then they file this lawsuit bill.
After they have stood aside and let Obama do what he's doing, then they file the lawsuit.
That's part of convincing you that they really don't want this to happen.
So it in a sense, they are trying to balance deceptions.
If you don't know that, and you're just trying to use your natural intelligence, peppered and flavored with a lot of common sense, you're gonna go nuts trying to because none of this makes any common sense.
Not from the standpoint of preserving the country, saving the country, or preventing Obama from transforming it.
None of it makes any sense.
If you look at the Republican Party as an opposition party, none of this makes any sense.
But if you see the Republican leadership and the establishment and their donors essentially on the same page as Obama, then maybe on your own, you can start to figure this out and make it make sense.
Grab audio summary number three.
This is Ron Fournier.
Now, Ron Fournier is going through a transformation of his own, I think.
I don't want to blow it here by calling him on it.
These guys like to also live under a certain amount of cover.
Ron Fournier, former AP Bureau chief in Washington, former slavish member, the drive-by media, pro-Democrat.
He's now over at the National Journal.
And he's sickened.
This immigration fiasco literally has him sickened.
It's almost as though he has seen the light.
What he has concluded is that neither party wants to stop this.
That's what he's and he doesn't believe it.
Neither party wants to stop it.
He was on Brett Baer last night on the Fox News channel, and the question was Republican leadership wants something.
What is it?
Yeah, but means nothing.
The Senate's gone.
The President's not going to sign it.
All we have today is Republicans are trying to come up with something so they can say, hey, we tried to solve the crisis, and the Democrats already have something that they can say, hey, we tried to solve the crisis.
Both parties know they're not solving the crisis.
What is happening is our Congress is going on vacation for five weeks without addressing a severe humanitarian crisis on our border.
I don't even have the stomach to parse blame.
Now, he's talking about the bill that would provide Obama money for humanitarian reasons to deal with these kids, but he's he's he's he may as well be talking about immigration policy overall.
So both parties know they're not trying to solve the crisis.
Amen.
Amen.
Brief time out, open line Friday, anniversary day, EIB network back after this.
So minding my own business last night, actually taking a break from show prep, catching up on a couple of television shows that I watch and I haven't seen recent episodes.
And I get an email said James Carver would just nintendo Baxter show and said that you came out for amnesty today.
I missed that.
And the reason the email remissed it is because I didn't come out.
I mean uh uh uh impeachment.
And Carve was on Oh Baxter's show last night and said I came out for impeachment.
And the email said, gee, I missed that.
And I wrote because I didn't say it.
I never have called for the impeachment of Obama.
All I've said is that I think it's a mistake to take the option off the table, to take the ammo out of your arsenal.
But I've never said pull a trigger on it.
The political will isn't there, it's a political act, not legal.
Here's the uh audio soundbite how it happened.
And clearly, you know, Carville didn't listen to the program, so he's got it's obviously media matters, buddies telling him what.
I mean, they just lie through their teeth.
I mean, this is another thing, too, with all due deference to the Republicans.
Their heads are swimming.
No matter what they do, they're lied about, no matter what they do.
I mean, there's another uh a couple examples in the staff uh stack of stuff here of wealthy Republicans donating to causes that liberals hold dear, and they're just mocked and laughed at, and the money is the people who tell them give the money back, you can't accept the money.
It comes from these tainted Republicans.
Even when the Republicans try to go out of their way to prove that they're charitable, nice guys, it's just thrown right back in their faces, and they're lied about.
And I don't I don't know the person alive who knows how to deal with being lied about all the time.
Don't know anybody that has the answer to that.
Here's uh how it sounded.
O'Reilly uh did his talking points memo, and as he always does, he asked his guest Where he went wrong.
And of course, the guest never says that he went wrong.
Smartest thing I've ever heard.
And Carville's turn last night is what he said.
You can say to Republicans don't like Obama.
Yes, 55% of Republicans of the country won't impeach Obama.
Rush Lembaugh calling for impeachment today.
Just like the impeached President Clinton.
President Obama won re-election in 2012.
Get over it.
Yeah, no, you're told from Pete Russell.
I didn't.
In fact, yesterday, if you were listening to the point, you remember me making the very point that I was not and have not.
And don't worry, I'm not denying this because I'm trying to get myself on the side that says never do it.
A lot of Republicans are doing that.
They're being lied about like I was last night.
No, no, no, no, I would never want to impeach.
I would never, no, no, no, don't confuse it.
It's a trick.
It's all a trick.
It's designed to get people feeling nervous and defensive.
And then publicly, no, it would never impeach.
Well, I'm not going to say that, but I'm just going to never have called for it.
I have not done it.
And the thing is, these people know it.
I think Karbell knows it.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
How about that ceasefire that John Kerry brokered over in Israel?
A ceasefire that gave Hamas everything it wanted.
90 minutes.
Was it 90 minutes or was it 90 seconds?
90 minutes after the ceasefire went into effect.
An Israeli defense soldier was kidnapped.
Secretary Lieutenant, the second lieutenant Hadar Golden, named as the captured officer, terrorist emerged from a tunnel shaft.
And a suicide bomber detonated near soldiers prior to the suspected kidnapping, a Hamas attack on IDF soldiers southern Gaza, which occurred, yeah, hour and a half after the start of a humanitarian truce ended with the suspected kid.
This ceasefire has erupted.
So an IDF soldier, Israeli defense force and soldier feared kidnapped.
Two other soldiers have been killed.
And if there had been no Obama carry sponsored ceasefire, the soldier would not have been kidnapped.
And even with this, they still think it was a good idea.
They still are demonstrating they know what it takes to get a peaceful solution.
I'm telling you, everything that is happening looks like it's blowing up, and every explanation that we are offered for it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
And then every excuse or explanation after something inexplicable happens, makes no sense whatsoever.
We don't have anybody in national leadership, certainly not in the administration, that can get anywhere near the truth.
Do you realize Benghazi has now fallen?
It's gone.
We have lost it.
It's been totally overrun.
I guess because of that video.
They got so mad over the video that all of Benghazi is gone now.
And it's not a country, for those of you on Rio Linda, it's still it's a city in Libya.
Now back to immigration for just a second.
Because there is this is unbelievable, too.
This this, I'm telling you, today is surreal.
And it seems like every day is surreal.
One surreal day after the next.
Chris Steirwalt, who was the Fox News digital political director, says that there is a single reason why the Republicans got back into action to try to pass an immigration bill.
And it was because of a tweet from White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer.
Why is the White House working so hard today to pass a bill to address the border crisis that's dead on arrival in the Senate and would surely face a veto from President Obama if it were to pass?
Well, I have answered that in the first half hour of the program.
The reason they're doing, they know it doesn't have a chance in the Senate.
They know it doesn't have a chance.
Well, even if it got through the Senate, Obama would veto it.
But that doesn't matter.
Like we told you yesterday.
They're doing this to try to curry favor with Hispanic voters.
They're doing this to show Hispanic voters that they love them.
They're doing this to show Hispanic voters they don't hate them.
They're doing exactly what the Democrats are telling them they should do.
Come out in favor of whatever immigration reform deal is on the table.
You come out in favor, because if you don't, says, for example, Chuck Schumer.
If you Republicans don't, you're never going to win the White House.
And we really want you to win the White House.
Right.
So the Republicans really think this is not BS, but this and this is not speculation.
It's not satire.
It's not an attempt to be funny.
It happens to really be true.
This current Republican leadership actually believes that passing a bill that promises not to deport the kids that are coming across the border now will actually win the White House for them or go a long way toward helping them win because they think this is what the Hispanic community wants.
It's come down to this.
Disagreeing with anything the administration wants to do is automatically now portrayed as racist, sexist, extreme, I mean, just disagreeing, having a debate, simply opposing, disagreeing, equals now, racism, bigotry, what have you.
That's the climate.
That's the climate the Republicans find themselves in.
Just disagreeing gets that charge.
Just opposing, intellectually opposing what Obama wants to do equals all of these horrible characteristics.
Media enforces it because the Democrats want that to be the way all this is characterized.
So the way it works is this.
Why is the House working so hard today to pass a bill to address the border crisis that's dead on arrival in the Senate, would be vetoed by Obama if it were to pass, In other words, why are they working so hard today on something they know isn't going to ever happen?
Because they want, they're trying to practice the art of deception on a very narrow tripwire.
They want amnesty, but they want Obama to get all the quote unquote credit or blame.
But for their donors, their donors must see that the Republicans tried to make it happen.
The Republican donors know that it can't happen right now.
The Republican donors, however, apparently want to see the big money donors apparently want to see that the Republicans are trying to make it happen.
Ergo, the Republicans are authoring legislation that would give the big donors what they want.
Reform amnesty and certain kinds of treatment here at the border with the kids.
So they pass a bill that doesn't have a prayer.
And they can say to their donors, see, we tried, and look, it's everything you wanted in it.
But Harry Reid said no.
And we can't control Harry Reid.
But we tried, we tried.
And they say the same thing Hispanic voters.
See, we tried, we do love you.
We do respect you.
We do want you to vote for us.
See what we did.
But it doesn't have a prayer.
And so then after they try and it gets shot down, then Obama does what he does using his executive actions, and he gets the blame while the Republicans get what they want.
Because it's what their donors want.
The reason they're back at it today, Dan Pfeiffer went to Twitter moments after the House leaders canceled their vote yesterday, shortly after two o'clock.
Boehner and the Republican leaders pulled their immigration bill yesterday.
This is the funding for Obama to do whatever he wants to do with the kids.
Moments after they pulled the bill, Dan Pfeiffer tweeted, the House GOP once again proves why the president must act on his own to solve problems.
So Pfeiffer's out there, he's gloating.
See, look at the House Republicans.
Once again, they can't get anything done.
So only Obama can.
This is a message guaranteed to hit low information voters right in the brain.
This is a message directly aimed at low information voters.
It's a message that justifies what Obama has been saying out there on his little campaign trail.
Hey, you know what?
I just wish they stopped hating and do their job.
But if they don't, I'm gonna have to do this on my own.
So the Republicans come along, they pull the bill as it should have been.
It was a lousy bill.
And then Pfeiff goes out and tweets, well, see, this is why Obama's got to act on his own.
So the Republicans to counter that are back in action today trying to pass something.
Because they're dancing on so many pinheads of deception.
They've got to try to convince you they don't want Obama getting away with this.
They've got to try to convince you that they're trying to stop Obama, and they've got to try to convince their donors that they're trying to make all this happen.
And then they've got Dan Pfeiffer to deal with, which is uh this little you know we're lucky there wasn't a hashtag on this.
If there was a hashtag, my God, we might have had people actually changing parties yesterday.
If a Democrats had really pulled out the big guns and added a hashtag to this tweet, ah, folks, I shudder to think, oh, oh, I'm getting heart palpitations, thinking what might have been yesterday.
Thank God they didn't do a hashtag attached to the tweet.
Chris Steyerwaltz says that had Pfeiffer waited just a little bit to gloat, it might have been harder for Boehner and his team to get members back from the exits to start working on a new compromise.
But once Pfeiffer from the White House went out and tweeted, well, see, these buffoons can't do anything.
That's why Obama's got to do it.
They were forced back in because what happens when you don't stand for anything.
It's what happens when you don't have your own cause.
It's what happens when you're not willing to push back.
It's what happens when you're trying to balance yourself on the tripwire.
So that if you fall off, you can't get hurt.
That's really hard to do.
Message made it clear to frustrated Republican members just how the president planned to use their failure to advance his bill.
Exhibit A said one leadership aid to Fox News.
See?
This is exactly how Obama's gonna do it.
The House Republicans come up with an idea to pass a bill, they fail.
Failure is the only option because Harry Reid won't deal with anything they send him.
So they goed the Republicans into passing a bill in the first place.
They goad them by saying you guys are never going to win the White House if you don't get on good standing with the Hispanics.
So they go pass a bill, and no chance for it to ever see the light of day, and Obama says, Yeah, right, all right, now I can go out and say, see, I have to do it myself.
They're thereby justifying his extra constitutional behavior because the Republicans just can't do anything.
Great to have you here with us today, folks.
Anniversary day, August 1st.
The program began in 1988.
So we are starting our 27th broadcast year on our 26th anniversary.
26th doesn't sound like you said 27th year.
That is a long time.
Okay, so I've set the table.
What is happening today?
I'm not really sure.
But I'm gonna, I'm gonna tell you what I think is going on, because I'm not there.
The House is going to vote today on what's called the the uh the Blackburn bill.
This is uh this Marsha Blackburn, Republican Tennessee.
She has introduced uh language that essentially freezes DACA.
DACA is the unlawful deferred action for childhood arrivals program that Obama initiated in 2012, The Dreamers, in which he just proclaimed with the stroke of a pen that any child in the country illegally under 16 is automatically legal and can stay.
And that's what he's talking about expanding with the stroke of his pen.
And the White House is sending signals, you know what, he just might legalize all 11 million.
He might do five or six million, he might do eleven.
If he's going to do five or six million, how are we going to know which ones?
You know, one of the big problems that, and I've I've said this I don't know how many times, one of the big problems the Republicans have is they have they've got no confidence.
They literally have been beaten down.
It's to the point now, folks, that when Obama makes an argument, they assume he has won it simply by making it.
They are so beaten down, they don't think they can even win in a debate against Obama.
They don't think they can beat Obama because Obama proclaims a position, states a position, and it's just assumed that everybody's going to agree with him.
They believe, even with Obama plummeting in the polls.
Folks, Obama's at 39% in Gallup.
He's at 40.
The economy is a mess.
The jobs being created, they have details of it.
There's nothing to write home about.
There's no recovery.
There is nothing for Obama to hang his hat on.
But they believe, I'm telling you, they believe that he is just as popular today as he was in 2008, or they they must.
It's gotten to the point that all Obama has to do is make an argument and they think it's over.
They think everybody agrees with Obama when he says something.
And they don't want to be seen disagreeing with Obama because that's racist, or it's being mean or unfair.
I don't know what.
But I do know what causes it.
No confidence.
Absolutely no confidence.
Being a puppet, either the donors telling you what to do or your voters telling you what to do, but having no sense of self.
So anyway, back back to the legislation.
The House is going to vote on Blackburn's bill that would freeze DACA.
No more kids.
The problem is, and I as I'm reading this, it looks like, and I'm reading from Heritage, and here's what they say.
To be clear, heritage would have preferred language to freeze DACA be rolled into the supplemental.
However, it's undeniable that the president's unilateral actions have become the focus of the debate.
It looks to me like that the Blackburn bill is a separate bill.
It's not part of the big thing.
It's not part of the supplemental.
It's not part of the bill that will send Obama some money.
And if that's true, it's toothless.
So it and again, I could be wrong about this, but looks like this is the way that they've set this up.
Give the conservatives the vote they want on freezing DACA, the Blackburn bill, but it's a standalone.
It's over there.
It's not in the main bill, which is called the supplemental.
So once again, those practicing deceit, they can say they voted against DACA.
They voted against any more kids being made legal.
They can run around at town hall meetings in August, and when they run for re-election, hey, hey, remember what I voted against this.
I voted against DACA.
But it wasn't part of the main bill.
So they get cover, while in the main bill, the supplemental, they go ahead and vote for the authorization of some money for Obama to deal with this as he wants.
Now again, I'm only assuming this because of this one little Paragraph in a release by the Heritage Foundation where they say we would have preferred language to freeze DACA, the Blackburn bill be rolled into the supplemental, which means it's not the supplemental, which means it sounds like it's a standalone over here.
We'll see.
But as best I can tell, that's what's happening today.
That's what the Republicans are doing in their vote today.
It is two separate bills.
The Blackburn Bill, freezing DACA, is a separate bill from the supplemental.
Obama's gonna ignore it anyway, and it isn't gonna be passed by the Senate.
So it's it's it's just again, it's a public perception thing that is uh taking place.
Look, there's lots more to do, folks, and we'll we'll move on to it and get into your calls.
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