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Sept. 5, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 5, 2014, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
It's another day filling in for Rush Limbaugh, and it's open line Friday.
Welcome to the program.
Eric Erickson filling in from Atlanta.
The phone number 800-282-2882.
You can get me on Twitter and Facebook at E.W. Ericsson.
Ed Henry.
You know Ed Henry from Fox News.
He is traveling with the president who is speaking in Wales just a few minutes ago.
Twice the president said he wants to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIS.
Twice he said it.
Last week it was he wanted to manage them.
Now he wants to ultimately degrade and destroy ISIS.
Apparently, the White House has convinced the president that ISIS is a euphemism for the American economy.
That's that's the way he's going to focus on it.
Have you seen these jobs numbers?
My goodness gracious.
I mean, the top of Drudge right now, record ninety-two million two hundred and sixty-nine thousand Americans not working.
The jobs numbers are not good for the president of the United States.
You know, so the most interesting thing, the Los Angeles Times has a piece out today.
What the United States needs to do is spend more.
Invest in infrastructure and education.
Now, believe it or not, what you are about to hear is I am a radio professional.
You may not think I am, but I am.
I've been doing this for a while.
And I have a million different topics to string together to make a point.
We'll see if I can do it.
We need to spend more on infrastructure and education.
Kind of like we've been doing for the last six years in the Obama administration, and it hasn't been working.
You know, so as we were leaving the show yesterday, I was watching my Twitter feed at the end of the show.
What?
The end of the show, and I started seeing tweets that Joan Rivers had died.
Now, I I thought Joan Rivers was brilliantly hilarious.
I I always thought she was hilarious.
Very, very funny lady.
And she said stuff that would make your jaw drop.
That this lady saying things that shouldn't be said.
I mean, that's kind of the the genius of comedy, isn't it?
One of the things that makes it work is you can provide commentary on society.
You can do it in a humorous way, and people are taking aback that you said what many of them feel like.
That's also to some degree.
One of the great things about radio I found is that I can be here and say things many of you agree with.
You don't have the outlet to be able to say it, and you nod along knowingly, cheering in your car as you're stuck in traffic.
Agreeing with what's been said.
Joan Rivers did this, and she did it quite brilliantly.
I mean, they compare her to, say, John Stewart.
There's a great article the other day about John Stewart on the Daily Show that he'll play a sound bite of someone selectively edited to make it sound worse than it is, and then he'll just stare awkwardly at the camera, and his audience is so well trained they clap like little seals.
And he hasn't done any comedy.
He's just selectively edited someone's sound bite and then awkwardly looked at the camera and they all clap like seals.
It's not really comedy.
And he toes a liberal line.
He'll never deviate from a liberal line.
He will always take that.
Most of the the prominent comedians the left find so witty and funny, then they're not really that funny.
Is is they just they're run-of-the-mill passing liberal commentators, saying liberal things that make liberals feel good about themselves.
We have descended into this world where we've got a multicultural political correctness run amuck.
We have this herd mentality on the left where you have to agree with them.
You must conform to them.
It really is the the height of irony here that all these people who claim to be nonconformists expect you to conform.
Like I was listening to some commentator in England the other day, he's a preacher over there noticing that all the all the kids In his church, all the millennials in his church who are nonconformists have all gone out and gotten basically the same tattoos to prove that they are nonconformists.
The herd mentality, it runs rampant.
You see it, you see it in among conservatives.
You really see it among liberals.
You see it in thought.
And look at this story out of the Los Angeles Times.
Saying what liberals have said forever.
We've just got to spend more.
We've got to invest more in education.
We've got to invest more in infrastructure spending.
There are no new ideas there.
We know what ideas work.
We have seen objectively in our society the ideas that work.
Get government out of the way.
Free up resources from government so that the private sector can do the work.
We've gotten to the situation.
Snerdley's trying to get me in trouble again today.
He's got more stories on these fast food worker strikes.
One guy who says he's been working in a fast food restaurant for 20 years and only making $8 an hour.
I bet you can guess what I think about that.
And the left's position is: well, we've got to demand that the government raise his wage.
We've got to demand that the government make people comfortable where they are.
You've got to be comfortable where you are.
Friends, one of the secrets I've learned, I am I just turned 39.
One of the secrets I've learned is that when you get complacent and comfortable where you are, you're probably not going to work hard to advance even further.
We should always be striving in life, not comfortable where we are.
But the left now, they're looking at this economy, and they're thinking that we should just we should make people comfortable.
We're not going to get any better.
The optimism is gone.
I don't think the optimism was ever there.
I don't think the left has ever felt optimistic.
They know to win elections, they have to say America's best days are ahead of us.
When really they don't think that.
I mean, they've never really bought into the American experience to begin with.
I mean, even back in the 80s, you had Teddy Kennedy going over to the Soviet Union telling the Soviets what a terrible guy Reagan was.
They were our enemy.
And he was going to complain to them about Reagan.
You forget that.
They don't tell you this when they celebrate Ted Kennedy on TV.
They don't tell you about Mary Joe Copecny either.
But that happened too.
The left is out of ideas.
They never really had ideas.
They just repackaged their their void, developed a cult of personality around it with Barack Obama, and suddenly he's president.
You know, I I was in a completely separate issue.
I was pointing out this morning.
I have a column in my local syndicated column, too, but I also have a column in my local paper in Macon, Georgia.
Was pointing out I remember in high school, when I got out of high school, went to college, worked for the headmaster of my local high school.
I'd go home to Louisiana during the summer, three schools in one building, they consolidated them into one big school with assistant principals for each of the schools, and put a headmaster in charge.
And I liked one of the assistant principals.
And she pointed out to me one time that he was very sharp, but he lacked substance.
He could package things so they looked great.
But when you actually delved into them, there was no there there.
It was shallowness, the sharpness of the package and presentation covered up with that.
That's what the left has in Barack Obama.
It's not to say he's not smart.
The left always says Republican presidents aren't smart.
Ronald Reagan was the dumbest man they ever met, and he beat them all the time.
Let's not say Barack Obama's not smart.
I think he's willfully malicious when it comes to the American experience.
I don't think he's a dumb guy.
But he doesn't grasp the details.
He likes the shiny.
He likes the shiny, and he's great at putting on the shiny.
Look at the campaign.
I was driving down the road in Atlanta the other day.
There's some candidate who has adopted a lot of candidates actually around the nation have adopted the look and feel of his campaign signs.
And they can be Republicans, and they adopt that shade of blue and that font and the way things are laid out, and it looks sharp and shiny, but the sharp and the shine cover up for the fact that there's nothing there.
It's just a cardboard cutout of something that looks substantive.
They're out of ideas.
And so what they're doing to compensate for the ideas.
Let's go back to me mentioning Joan Rivers.
One of the things Rivers did is a lie, she would say stuff that would leave people gasping, couldn't believe she could say it, but but People would laugh at it.
She said a lot of things that weren't politically correct.
And as time has gone on, a lot of comedians have found that they get driven from the stage if they dare deviate from liberal orthodoxy in any way, shape, or form.
They create a need to conform to stay in business.
They shun people.
They're into shaming now.
You know, like the president.
The president has come up with this global warming initiative the New York Times reported on last week.
A bunch of hoo-haw that Obama and powers in Europe have come up with where they're going to shame countries who don't comply.
So it's not going to be an agreement that has to go before Congress.
He's not going to do that.
He's just going to shame.
He and these other leaders are saying they're going to shame countries as if we can shame China into doing something.
But he's going to bypass Congress.
They don't want us to realize the Emperor has no clothes.
And so they want to shame and shun and silence whether it's global warming, whether it's this guy writing for the Huffington Post, I mentioned yesterday, former NFL player.
He's a vaccine conspiracy theorist.
He's a 9-11 truther.
and If he had given to Prop 8 in California, if he had supported traditional marriage, if he questioned mankind's role in global warming, the Huffington post would have never hired him.
In fact, were he hired anyone else, they would have worked to try to drive him from his job.
People with conservative ideas and values, they're not allowed to work in liberal society.
There's a conformity here.
So when we get to a jobs number, we get to a jobs number that more Americans are now out of work than in work.
And the liberal line is that, well, it's just baby boomers who are retiring.
When that's not true at all.
But you can't, you can't point it out.
You can't point out that their ideas have failed, because these days, if you point out that their ideas have failed, you're a racist.
If it's a Clinton in office, if it's Hillary, you're a misogynist.
They put up these things, these words, these labels to block you from telling the truth.
The emperor has no clothes.
Barack Obama is an empty suit when it comes to these things.
We're building a coalition to go after ISIS now.
We're going to destroy them, according to the president.
He's going to do to them as he's done to the American economy, but hopefully worse to them.
But we're not going to commit troops on the ground.
We're just not going to go after them with actual American soldiers.
We're, I don't know if we're gonna speak ill of them and whoosh bad things on them.
I the left is out of ideas.
The economic numbers today, they show it.
But anyone who points it out is yelled at, shunned, condemned.
How dare you, you racist, say these things.
Well, you know what?
I'm behind the microphone today.
And I'm allowed to say, the left is out of ideas, and the economic numbers today prove it.
Eric Erickson, Infrarush Limbaugh.
Speaking of being out of ideas, listen to this story.
Eric Erickson Infrarush, by the way.
Listen to this story.
Democrats borrow a GOP idea on health care costs.
No, no, notice the title here.
They're not borrowing Republican idea on health care.
They're borrowing an idea on health care costs.
Borrowing a Republican idea, a group, including former senior Obama and Clinton advisers, is unveiling a novel proposal to let states take the lead in controlling health costs.
Individual states would set their own target curbs to targets to curb the growth of health care spending.
If they succeed, they'd pocket a share of federal Medicare and Medicaid savings ranging from tens of millions to 100 billion dollars or more.
In other words, they're going to outsource the death panels to the states, but they'll call it a Republican idea.
So when grandma gets run over by the White House bureaucrat, they'll say it was the Republicans who did it.
The proposal is a sign of Democratic sensitivity to a major piece of unfinished business for Obama's Affordable Care Act, cost control.
Wait a second.
they told us that the costs were baked in.
They told us that we were going to save money.
Barack Obama told us the deficit would go down because of Obamacare.
He was so impressed with its economic savings, he was willing to embrace the term Obamacare.
And now suddenly they're worrying about costs.
Oh, and Ezekiel Emmanuel, Rom's brother.
The guy who's gone out there and admitted that states who didn't set up health care exchanges weren't supposed to get money.
And now he's trying to walk it all back.
Now he's saying all health care is local.
Kind of like politics.
You can probably get all the players in one room.
No, no, no, no, no.
You don't get to federalize, nationalize, socialize health care, not figure out how to pay for it, and then go out and say, hey, now we're going to embrace Republican ideas on making it all work.
You broke it, you buy it.
You screwed it up in the first place.
The only way to fix Obamacare is to get rid of it, not to restructure it.
You know, I am deeply fearful, by the way.
I am deeply fearful that when the Republicans, if they take the Senate back, they're going to do a dog and pony show for their base and say, oh, well, we we tried, but he still has the White House, so we're gonna have to work with him and fix it now.
There's no fix for this mess.
The Democrats are out of ideas.
But you know, here's here's a secret.
A lot of Republicans in Washington are out of ideas as well.
A lot of Republicans are out of ideas.
That's why, look at these Republican primaries.
Pat Roberts in Kansas is in trouble.
The Democrats had this bright idea of getting their Democratic nominee.
Think about this.
The way the Democrats want to keep the Senate is to start taking Democrats off the ballot.
There's an independent running in Kansas who's actually a Democrat.
And the Democrats have decided he's going to split the vote with the Democrat, and voters are embracing these outsiders, so they'll go with the independent candidate by taking the Democrat off the ballot.
Well, the Secretary of State out there said you can't do it.
You didn't comply with the rules for taking your nominee off the ballot, but that's how they want to do it.
Republicans, though, wouldn't be in this mess anyway if they tried to go out and get new candidates with new ideas.
Instead, they got Pat Roberts there, Thad Cochran in Mississippi.
I mean, these guys added up together, they're older than Methuselah.
And they don't have any better ideas than Methuselah would have these days.
The Republicans are out of ideas.
Mitt Romney has an op-ed.
It's a very good op-ed in the Washington Post about rebuilding the military.
Accurately puts a lot of blame on the president who has just turned our military into some sort of weird social experiment now, where the military the other day was proudly released the numbers of transgendered soldiers that they think might be transgendered, which ironically would outpace the total population in the nation.
There's no way the report was right.
But the the White House is convinced that they should social engineer our military.
So we can have pregnant female soldiers on the front lines.
The whole thing is nonsense.
Romney's right.
But the reason Romney is doing this, the reason we keep hearing this buzz of Romney is that Republican consultants in Washington, D.C. are out of ideas.
And so their best idea is, hey, let's bring up Jeb Bush or Mitt Romney to run for president.
They'd be killer nominees.
Everyone in Washington is out of ideas.
Regardless of party, the establishment leadership of both parties is out of touch.
I mean, we talked about the story yesterday where the Washington defenders of Eric Kahn are making $2 million a year saying, Say it's okay because he's not really raking in cash.
Two million dollars a year to these people isn't raking in cash.
Republicans, don't get me wrong, have wonderful ideas.
Look at the states.
The states are laboratories of our democracy.
You've got Scott Walker, you got Rick Scott, you got Bobby Gendall, you got Rick Perry, you've got Nikki Haley, even Chris Christie and John Kasich and Mike Pence, and you got these wonderful Republican governors around the nation and some not so wonderful ones.
But they're coming up with new ideas to revitalize the country.
Look at how Mitch Daniels handled health care in Indiana and Obama here tried to undo it.
They had to get rid of it lest people see that a Republican plan could work.
You see what Bobby Gendal is doing in Louisiana gets common core, but Republican consultants in Washington are focused on a Bush and a Romney.
They're all out of ideas.
The interesting thing here, though, is the Democrats now trying to claim Republican ideas.
I I thought everybody hated Republicans these days.
And yet Democrats are trying to take Republican plans.
Welcome back.
It is Eric Erikson, and it's open line Friday.
I'll get to your phone calls shortly, but I'm I'm stringing together a bunch of stuff.
Now, they tell you when you start out in radio when you come back from commercial breaks, you're supposed to do a reset.
You're supposed to do a tease going in, and you're supposed to do a reset coming out of commercial breaks.
Now, those of you who have listened on radio long enough know that if you're a Rushlin Ball's audience, you're just expected to be here.
You you don't go away.
You don't change the dial.
But for those of you who might just be tuning in, stringing together a bunch of random desperate stories together, the failure of the Democrats on the economy.
By the way, I can't leave out part of it is a malicious intention to fundamentally transform America.
We'll get there.
But this failure of ideas coming from Washington, particularly from the Democrats, and it leads to bad places.
It leads to really bad places.
I want to shift gear here.
And I don't want to compare this to what I have previously said, but it plays off the same idea of being out of ideas.
And so what happens when you get out of ideas?
When you run out of ideas, well, then you start screaming at people who point it out.
You call them racists, you call them misogynists, you drum up pretend wars on women, you try to scare people and silence them.
You drive from the workplace people who give to causes you disagree with.
You censor people.
The Los Angeles Times, if you were to submit an article citing a news story that came out the other day that the Arctic sea ice has grown— They were saying that it would be completely gone by 2013, they being the global warming nuts.
Al Gorex included.
They said the sea ice would be completely gone.
Well, now the sea ice has grown back.
It's growing.
And we haven't even reached the point of the summer of the end of the summer and beginning of the fall where it typically completely begins to grow and it's already growing.
If you were to send an email, a letter to the editor to the Los Angeles Times to tell them the climate scientists have gotten something else wrong, they wouldn't run it.
Because they're out of ideas.
They are hostile to other ideas, and they've developed this religion around their secularism and their lack of ideas, and they fill the void with a bunch of nonsense, horse manure, including this whole idea that you and I are to blame for our eventual destruction because we dared to breathe and our cows dared to pass gas.
Where does this lead?
Let's go jump over across the pond to England.
Many of you yesterday emailed me and said, Why aren't you talking about Rotherham?
Rotherham is a city in north of England.
Over the past sixteen years, it appears, gangs of men have been routinely, ritualistically, savagely, whatever words you want to add, raping young girls there.
More than 1400 girls have been abused.
Now, the press reports, including a report from the New York Times.
I'll put it on Twitter so you can see it.
The New York Times, there's a word that these reports don't use.
I bet you know what the report is.
What the word is Muslim.
They they don't use the word.
They don't want to stir up tension.
Now here's the irony.
Theresa May, she is the home secretary for Britain.
And she said the reason this went on for so long and no one did anything about it is Because of this idea of political correctness, institutionalized political correctness.
See, what was happening is these were young, typically white girls who were being routinely raped by a bunch of, well, some reports called them Asian men, some reports called them Pakistani men.
It was in fact a group of Muslim men.
They were literally being picked up in taxicabs going home from school.
One girl was taken out into the middle of a field, they poured gasoline on her.
And they said if she told anyone next time they would light the match.
Another girl was pulled into a car by a man, and he pointed a gun at her and told her on the count of three, she was going to die.
He counted a three and he pulled the trigger and nothing happened, and he shoved her out of the car and told her if she told anyone next time there would be a bullet in the gun.
This went on for 16 years.
And these kids, some of their parents caught on.
They caught on.
They were going to the police.
They were telling the police what was happening, and the police would do nothing.
They didn't do anything.
They turned them away.
They said they needed the name of the accuser.
People were having to flee the town with their children to save their children.
And they didn't do anything because the authorities didn't want to stir up racial tension.
The authorities didn't want to incite racial ethnic violence.
They didn't want to make it a case of Muslim immigrants, Pakistani immigrants, Afghan immigrants.
They didn't want it to be about that.
Britain has failed to integrate immigrants into its society.
They failed to integrate immigrants into society.
It seems now, talking to friends of mine from England, a lot of them are basically told they need to be ashamed of the whole idea of the England and a British Empire that the sun never sets on.
They should just give these people a pass.
Well, as a result, people are staying in local communities that they're living in ethnic coals where the everyone around them is the same and it's giving rise to Islamic fundamentalism around the country.
It's giving rise to rape gangs and other things happening, and they won't talk about it because their policies have failed.
And if you point out that the policies have failed, you're called a racist.
You're called a bigot.
And a small group of leftists have worked over time to insert themselves into levels of government around the country because they think the English people at their heart aren't good people.
And they can get into government and they can make people good.
They've gotten to a point now in Britain where your children can be taken from you if you're not doing things the way the state says you need to do.
I mean, that that's that's one of the things that the left wants to advocate here is a more interventionist government.
What is the MSNBC thing that children should all be part of the government wards of the government, not families?
Families are just kind of the outsourced branch of the government to take care of children.
Francis Schaefer, some of you have heard of Francis Schaefer.
Francis Schaefer died years ago.
He wrote a book called The God Who Was There back in 68, 1968.
One of the things he noted about the growing rises and trends of secularism in the United States is that we typically are 30 years behind what happens in Europe.
We saw the rise of multicultural political correct socialism rise in Europe 30 years later, it begins to trickle over to the United States where we love to embrace European ideas.
There's a failure in this country.
There's an increasing failure in this country to integrate immigrants into the country.
That's why so many people are so upset about the open border of we're failing to integrate people into this country now.
Now, thank God we're not in a situation like Rotherham.
But we in this country have more and more people who, when you point out the lack of integration, when you point out the number of people who are coming to this country and can't sustain themselves because they can't learn English or they don't learn English, or there are interest groups out there who tell them they don't have to learn English.
Well, you're a racist for pointing it out that they might need to learn the language.
If you want to seal the border, you're a racist.
You can't talk about the failed policies.
And again, some of those policies are malicious policies to fundamentally transform the country.
You point that out, you're an even bigger racist.
The left, through maliciousness and wanting to fundamentally transform America, as Barack Obama has said he wanted to do, never letting a crisis go to waste, through the incompetence and failure of its own ideas, through the good intentions of bad ideas that they have.
These ideas are crumbling down around them.
And so the vitriol is getting louder and louder.
Pointing out that if you're a 30-something and you've been working at a fast food restaurant and you're only making minimum wage and you have no ambition to improve your station life other than to go stand out on a sidewalk and hold up a protest sign and demand the government raise your wage for you instead of you trying to do it yourself, it means you failed at life.
The left is outraged by this.
What they're really outraged by is pointing out their policies are failing, either through malicious intent or what have you.
Thank God we're not in a situation like England is in right now.
I tend to think Schaefer is right in his book that we're 30 years behind them.
We are on the verge, though, in this country of people fearing they can't speak their mind.
People fearing they can't say things.
That's one of the brilliant things about Rush Limbois, just being fearless and having a willingness to speak truth to everyone, not just to power, but to everyone, to say true things.
As Andrew Breitbart would say, the truth isn't mean, it's just truth.
The truth is liberal policies are failing.
They've wanted to fundamentally transform the nation.
They're only making things worse.
And because we point it out, they yell at us, they try to censor us, they try to shut us up, they try to shut us down, they drive people from jobs who who give to Proposition Eight.
They won't run letters to the editor pointing out that the Emperor has no clothes on global warming.
This is the path the left has taken, censorship and shaming.
But they can't shut us all up.
We still exist.
And we're here to point out they're failing badly.
Eric Erickson in for Rush Limbaugh.
Seeing some people and their their tweets.
By the way, you know, the this whole multicultural political correctness, not being able to speak the truth thing.
It's one reason that we're having trouble dealing with ISIS because we can't actually confront who they are.
Radical Islamists, not just a bunch of fringe guys living in a cave.
There's a problem there.
Let's go to the phone, shall we?
It is open line Friday after all, Eric Erikson in for Rush.
Sean in Elmwood Bark, Illinois, you are up first today on the EIB network.
Welcome.
Welcome.
Thank you very much, Eric, for taking my call.
And I have a little something I like to say, and that is political correctness is the scepter of tyrants.
And normally those people who demand that we speak in a certain fashion or curtail our language are those very people perpetrating a fraud, a scam, or an outright crime, which is my favorite global warming that you were just speaking of.
It's always been mysterious to me that all of the politicians, brothers, moron cousins, campaign contributors and lobbyists, seem to own these companies.
I find that to be quite funny.
And that's another point.
Good point there, yeah, that they're profiting off this scam they've created.
They've learned how to play the system.
Has Hillary uh, the Duchess of Chaffington's brother ever had a job that wasn't affiliated with a grant business.
I don't think he has.
But the reason I called is because I do not think the failed Republican policies as you were talking about is benign.
I don't think that at all.
In fact, I think it's a very orchestrated coup of social engineers, fabian socialists, and outright uh tyrants to take away the sovereignty and freedom that was promised us by the Constitution.
Oh, Sean, look, I just I completely agree with you on this.
I I think a lot of it, not all of it, but a lot of it is there's a malicious intent there.
Look, the establishment in Washington, D.C., let's not give party labels because it is the establishment.
They live to promote their own power and well-being.
They have utter contempt for people in what they call flyover country.
That the people they fly over and never have to touch on their way from coast to coast.
That they've got utter contempt for them.
They only show up in Des Moines, Iowa when they've got to go campaign for president.
They're not there otherwise.
They're not they're not out on the Heartland.
They're not out there eating barbecue on the campaign trail because they like barbecue.
No, that they've got to do the dog and pony show.
They need to get these suckers to vote for them.
They have absolute contempt for us, people in the heartland.
People I live in Macon, Georgia, well outside the D.C. New York corridor.
They are dripping with contempt for people who live outside the New York D.C. corridor.
And it's not one party, it is the established leadership of both parties.
And the media that that fosters and festers within this crowd, the circle of jerks, as I call them.
They go blind in the bathroom over the power that these guys can give to them, that they bash each other on the floor of the Senate, and then they go out and have drinks at night and sleep with all the lobbyists and the various reporters in relationships with them.
They feed off of each other for their own aggrandizement and betterment, and they have decided that you, Sean, and me and everyone else out there, we're too stupid to know what's good for us.
They're going to put technocrats in charge of it.
And they're going to align themselves with the veneer of doing what we want, making sure that they've stacked the deck against us so that what we want isn't what they give us really isn't what we want.
It all collapses.
They say, Well, we tried to give you what you wanted, so let's go let the bureaucratic, technocratic lobbyists and guys from K Street fix it for us after they write campaign checks.
The look, I hate to be cynical.
I was an elected official at one time.
I've seen this game from the inside at the local level, too.
You get these consultants and lobbyists come in, they write campaign checks to members of Congress, who suddenly scales fall off their eyes.
Their hearing suddenly becomes crystal clear, and they listen to these lobbyists who help them write legislation to carve out loopholes.
Friends, the reason Middle America can't get ahead in Barack Obama's economy is because Middle America can't go to Washington with lobbyists and write the checks to carve out loopholes from the regulatory structure and the tax structure that so many major corporations are getting.
Barack Obama goes out and says that the rich keep getting richer and the poor keep getting poor in America.
Yes, because that's how he designed the system.
He and the Democrats, they controlled Congress for two whole years.
By the way, did you notice that they were just as angry when they controlled everything as when they didn't control it all?
They're perpetually angry.
They had a chance to fix it.
Instead, they nationalized health care to line the pockets of donors and lobbyists who figured out how to profit from that system.
And there are Republicans who would do the same, who would much rather like the XM bank.
Keep things going for the let the good times roll in Washington, D.C. for the lobbyists and the fat cats and the power brokers.
Meanwhile, the middle class can't get ahead.
We don't need government to lift the middle class up.
We need government to step back, get out of the way, and not make us a requirement for the middle class's advancement that we hire a lobbyist to carve out a loophole from a regulation or the tax code or pass a law to let us get ahead.
If Washington would just get the hell out of the way, I'm sure the middle class could do it.
The middle class beat the Nazis and the Japanese in World War II.
They won the Cold War.
They could certainly get this economy going again if Washington and the lobbyists they listen to and the check writers up there would just sit back and start doing what's good for the country instead of what's good for their pocket lining.
Eric Erickson in for Rush Limbaugh.
Well I don't think I can do anybody justice on the phone, so you you'll have to bear with me, those of you on the phones.
It is an open line Friday here on the Rush Limbaugh Show, 800-282-2882.
I'll do good and actually take phone calls from people since it is open line Friday.
I've got just a ton of things when we come back.
A friend of mine, he actually writes at Red State with me, Dan McLaughlin.
He also is written a brilliant piece at the Federalist on the historic difficulties for Hillary Clinton running in 2016.
An analysis you're not going to hear from the left, and they can't refute the details of it.
It's, you know, when you think about it, Reagan is one of the few presidents who won a third term.
People viewed George H.W. Bush as the third term of Ronald Reagan.
And when he stretched his legs and decided to be his own president, it didn't end well for him in 1992 against Bill Clinton.
Rarely does the party holding the White House win three times in a row.
There are historic problems against it.
They're really a brilliant analysis from Dan McLaughlin, I want to talk about when we come back.
And the president and his obsession with bending the arc of history.
He somehow thinks that history bends on its own.
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