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Nov. 6, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 6, 2014, Thursday, Hour #1
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Ladies and gentlemen, uh my contention that there is only one mandate the Republican Party has after the election, that being to stop Obama, has been debated all over cable news.
And I frankly, and I'm not trying to be funny here, I don't understand what the debate is.
What is there to debate about this?
You know, if you want to say that the election, well, Mr. Limbaugh may be partially right, but there's also the idea.
I heard this on TV this morning.
It may be that he's right, but I mean, that would mean uh nothing gets done.
I said, yeah, that's precisely the point.
Stopping Obama is making sure that nothing gets done.
Nothing of his agenda gets done.
That's huge.
That has to happen before anything else.
If you look at this country as a giant boat or ship on the water, you have to stop it before you can change direction.
Stopping Obama, stopping the implementation of the Obama agenda is the mandate.
And of course it means nothing of Obama's gets done.
But stopping the mandate is a huge getting something done.
Stopping Obama's agenda from being implemented is a huge getting something done.
I really.
Well, I say I don't understand.
I do.
I know that it's the competitive nature of commentary and the competitive nature of analysis.
And the overriding, I'm telling you, it's big out there with a lot of people, this notion that we've got to work together.
And the reason that notion is big is because professional political people misunderstand the electorate on this.
And they've got it in their heads.
Primarily the Republicans have it in their heads that the electorate wants both parties to work together and compromise and get along and smile and enjoy each other's company.
That's not what this election meant.
How many Republicans lost in the House?
Let me just give you a pop quiz.
How many elections?
How many how many Republicans lost seats in the House?
Nope, that's it.
Two.
How can you say that this is an anti-incumbent election if only two?
House seats were lost by the Republicans.
Sorry, folks.
No way this is anti-incumbent either.
It's anti-Obama.
It is anti-Democrat.
Now, Obama's out there at his press conference yesterday, and it was dripping with condescension.
And we got some sound bites coming up.
F. Chuck Todd says the Democrats are outraged privately that Obama didn't take any responsibility for this yesterday.
Yes.
here, grab it.
Audio soundbite number 17.
F. Chuck Todd on the nightly news last night with Brian Williams.
And the question I did hear from Democrats today, F. Chuck, and they think the president needs some new people around him.
I heard from Democrats today that thought the president made a mistake not accepting more responsibility today at that press conference.
The president's not talking about changing either his style or the White House staff.
Of course, there is some concern among Democrats that there's no accepting of responsibility.
And this, by the way, we're going to quickly pivot to 2016 very quickly, and the Democrats, I think you're going to see some outside of Washington beg the Clintons to sort of retake over the party.
Isn't it amazing the consequences elections have?
Isn't it amazing?
Now they want the Clintons to take over the party.
Some guy writing at Yahoo News, which is the perfect place for this story.
Yahoo News claims the big winner yesterday was Hillary.
Isn't it fascinating how in the drive-by media Democrats win when they get shellaced?
And this was a big shellacking.
This is a bigger defeat than 2010.
This was massive.
The Democrats may be that they're talking about a hundred-year loss for the Democrats in the House of Representatives, meaning it may be quite a while before they ever get back to being the majority in the House.
Do you know how huge that is?
It is huge.
This whole election was huge.
Now, I must admit something, because I got some emails yesterday.
Rush, you didn't sound all that helped up yesterday.
I was kind of surprised.
Big election, big win.
And I had to stop and think about it.
And I said that the emails that mentioned this to me were correct.
I didn't feel anywhere near as uh, shall we say euphoric or ebullient as I did in 1994.
I was happy, note misunderstand, but but there was a little what would the be the word unsettled.
And I think the reason for it is that there's still some well, I don't want to say doubt.
There's still some concern over what the Republicans are going to do.
Is there not?
And so it's a little guarded, it's a little guarded till we find out what they're gonna do.
We're gonna get a pretty good indication here when we listen to some of the audio sound bites, because this, you know, my analysis that the only possible way to analyze this election is a mandate for Republicans to stop Obama.
That's been all over cable news and every analyst you can think of being asked to comment on it.
And when you hear that, you'll I I was surprised.
Practically everybody that was asked agreed with it, but they all had a butt.
Yeah, Russia's right, but I think the voters still want us to work together.
Yeah, Rush was right, but there's more to it.
Yes, Rush was right, of course Russia's right, but then people threw their own ideas in here.
I heard from Democrats today that they thought the president made a mistake, not accepting more responsibility at that press conference.
The president's not talking about changing either his style or his staff.
Why would he?
Do you people still not know who this guy is?
It's not his fault in his mind, in his head, this isn't his fault.
You ever heard of the Limbaugh theorem?
Given the right day of the week, he's not even the president.
All this stuff is happening.
Somebody else is making it happen.
He's out there trying to stop it just like everybody else is.
I'm amazed at the people like F. Chuck, who are as close to Obama as the bedroom could allow you to get, still do not know who the guy is.
Of course he's not gonna take responsibility.
It's in his fault.
When's the last time he took responsibility for anything that went wrong?
It's always somebody else's fault.
He was raised as a spoiled brat kid, and he never grew out of it.
But the PS, the PAs, it is loans.
And this, by the way, Democrats, I think you're going to see some outside of Washington beg the Clintons to sort of retake over the party.
Well, how's that gonna work out for them?
Because everywhere they went, they were rejected too.
Everywhere Hillary went to endorse somebody, and every well everywhere slick Willie went to endorse somebody, pfft.
In fact, Arkansas, where Slick Willie went, every member of the Arkansas House delegation is a Republican For the first time since Mars was discovered.
I mean, it was folks, this this defeat, just party line vote defeat.
It was a spanking.
This was loud.
It was deep.
It's broad.
It is wide.
It is everywhere.
They're and I knew it when I saw that Henry Masterlitis Waxman announced his retirement back in February.
They knew.
David Rodham Gergen also on this theme that Obama should have accepted responsibility.
CNN special report.
America's Choice 2014 to co-host Jake Tapper.
You heard about the controversies CNN guys are in.
Microsoft went out there.
Microsoft went out there and purchased sponsorships for their new uh pad, the surface, the surface pad, their iPad competitor, and they bought product placement commercials.
So on all of the anchor desks and the wise men desks and the analyst desks on election night on CNN, all you could see there were Microsoft surface pads.
Some still shots from backstage show that they were all using iPads.
They were using the surface pads to prop up the iPads.
The surface patch and Microsoft were just, they were there, but they were not being used.
And Jake Tapper was one of the guys.
And they called him on.
Jake, what are you doing?
I mean, seeing and accepted money here, big money from Microsoft to use the surface pair.
What do you do when you use your iPad?
I wasn't using it.
I was just tweeting on it.
But I was all my other work I was doing on the surface.
I was just using my iPad to tweet.
Anyway, Jacob Tapper, co-host, talking to David Rodham Gergen.
He said, David, you worked for presidents of both parties, which makes you Mr. Moderate.
What was your big picture take on Obama's press conference yesterday or earlier today is last night?
What do you think, David?
There's narrow unreality about it.
I mean, this is a president who has just taken a shellacking.
His party has suffered terribly over the six years since he's been elected.
They've lost more seats in the House and Senate than any other modern president has done over that time.
And I assume he'd walk in and take personal responsibility or some measure of responsibility.
Why?
And what I found was he was a little bit dismissive.
I mean, it was like not many people voted.
And by the way, all the other elections have had the same message.
They don't like the people in charge.
People are not satisfied.
And we'll just wake up every day and try to do better.
I think what people were looking for was more of a course correction.
He doesn't think he's doing anything wrong.
It's everybody else's fault.
It's the voters' fault for being stupid, voting the way they're voting.
It's the media's fault for not convincing the voters the way they should vote.
It's you analysts' fault for not realizing Obama's true brilliance and what he's really doing.
Why should he change?
It doesn't matter what the voters say with Obama.
Otherwise, we wouldn't have Obamacare.
Otherwise, we wouldn't have the debt.
Otherwise, we wouldn't have the IRS targeting the Tea Party.
If if Obama cared what voters think, Mr. Gergen, he wouldn't have done 90% of his agenda.
Everything Obama's done has been against the will of the people.
Look at the polling date.
Nobody wants amnesty.
What's he gonna do?
Executive order it.
And he's gonna essentially, he's gonna drop a nuclear bomb on this country when he does it.
You think he cares?
He doesn't care.
He doesn't need a course correction.
The only thing in his way is the Constitution.
Not you and not F. Chuck Todd and not the voters.
And once he figures out a way to get past the Constitution without any punishment, then there's Katie Bardador.
And the Republicans have basically said they're not going to punish him because they've taken impeachment off the table.
He doesn't care.
He never has if he cared, he would fix Obamacare so that people could afford medical care.
He doesn't care, Mr. Ger.
You know, and I can understand, you know, I can imagine these guys sitting here listening to me say this.
And because my voice is raised, ah, there goes Limbaugh again.
You know, this guy just he just gets up on his tangents.
He just sounds like he's really extreme.
I'm not being extreme at all.
I'm this is mainstream.
This is intelligence guided by experience.
He doesn't care.
He doesn't think he's doing anything wrong.
Take a look at the way he's been raised.
Take a look at his character personality type.
It's never his fault.
He's the smartest guy in the room.
We can't keep up with it.
It's It's not his problem if we can't follow what he's doing, if he's 15, 20 steps ahead of us.
I mean, he's the guy that got the Nobel Peace Prize without having done a thing for it.
I mean, what else do you need to know about?
I mean, I would have turned it away.
I would have turned it back.
I said, wait, I don't want to accept this until I've actually done something to deserve it.
Well, that's another.
Well, see, this is this is this is a good point.
Sterling says, what difference it would make if he claimed responsibility?
It's an excellent point.
Okay, so Obama goes up to his press conference.
I'm sorry.
You know what?
Everything that happened yesterday.
My fault.
I blew it.
And as such, I got two years left.
I'm gonna fire everybody, I'm gonna put in a new chief of staff, uh, Supreme Court, do everything.
What was it?
Applaw?
What what what what what happens if he accepts responsibility?
This is another one's touchy feely, ring your hands in anxiety, liberal outbursts.
What would it have meant if he had claimed responsibility or taken it?
What would it have meant if he had uh acknowledged he needed to make some changes?
What's the big deal?
He didn't gotta do it anyway.
I'll tell you, the uh that press conference is did you see it, Snerdley?
Well, we've dripping with condescension here.
You know, he said that he heard two-thirds of voters didn't even vote.
Well, should I take anything away from this?
You know what?
Two-thirds of the country didn't vote.
Those are the people that love me.
They hate Republicans.
Why shouldn't they vote?
Okay, so he heard that two-thirds of the voters didn't vote.
He heard it.
Well, what did they say?
Did those voters complain about losing their careers and being relegated to part-time work?
Did they complain about unaffordable health care?
What'd these two-thirds of the voters that you heard didn't vote say?
They complain about losing their doctors, they object to weaponizing the IRS, they object to open borders, letting in virus carrying illegals, they object to amnesty.
What are these two-thirds of voters telling you that you say you heard?
Mr. President.
Did you hear them whisper in your ear something that you can't repeat to us?
Or at least two-thirds saying, Mr. President, you're the greatest man that's ever lived, and we worship you.
And we didn't vote because we know you didn't need it.
What did they say, Mr. President?
Said he heard the two-thirds of voters who didn't vote.
He said, I heard him.
I hear you.
I know what did they say.
What could they have possibly said?
He said he heard him.
I mean, I know it's an expression.
I use it myself sometimes.
Somebody complaining to me.
It doesn't happen much when they do.
I hear you.
I hear you, I hear you.
Well, Obama said I I heard him.
All right, well, what'd they say?
Give me my doctor back.
Screw amnesty.
So uh President Obama can hear non-voters.
He just can't hear the ones who do vote.
Isn't it amazing?
He just having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have rush limb.
800-282-2882.
By the way, folks, we have not lost the pop culture.
Many people think that we've lost it, but we don't.
We we have not lost, we still have.
We still have a toehold in the pop culture.
Last night, the CMA awards in Nashville.
Here is co-host Brad Paisley.
Listen.
Why isn't our government doing something about this?
I'll be the first one to say it.
President Obama does not care about postpartum Taylor Swift disorder.
I'm pretty sure that's why the Democrats lost the Senate.
But I mean that was Carrie Underwood.
I'm pretty sure that's why the Democrats lost the Senate and the place erupted.
We have not lost all of the pop culture.
You should have seen it.
The place erupted, and there were two or three other jokes about Democrats in Obama, and it was overwhelmingly loved and applauded by the audience in Nashville.
This afternoon, John Boehner is going to do his post-election press conference.
And I have an idea.
I want to submit an idea, and I'm serious about this, to the speaker on how to proceed.
I'm sure we're going to get bills, legislation sent up to the White House.
I would like for something to accompany each bill.
A press conference.
A press conference to announce the passage of the bill that includes a letter to the president attached to the bill.
Read the letter.
The letter should contain polling information demonstrating it's not just a bill from the Republicans.
It is a bill that has the support of the American people.
Come up with a piece of legislation, poll the American people on it.
60% say oppose amnesty, 70% attach that fact to the bill, do a press conference, and attach public opinion to the public submission, not just of the president, put to the country of the piece of legislation to let people know the country overwhelmingly favors it.
I checked, folks, the uh the turnout.
Because Obama's out there saying two-thirds of the votes uh didn't happen, two-thirds of voters didn't happen.
I heard them.
I hear them.
I heard the two-thirds who didn't vote.
And as is always the case after a landslide Republican wins.
Same thing happened in 2010.
But I mean, this is even bigger because this is on top of 2010.
They lost 700 plus legislative seats all over the country in 2010.
This is on top of that.
Now they won some of those back in 2012.
But I looked it up the the turnout in the 2014 midterms is almost not that much different from the turnout in 2006.
You might be saying, well, what's the big deal about 2006?
Well, the big deal about 2006 is when the Democrats took back control of the House for a while.
And it put Pelosi in charge of the House of Representatives.
And to go along with Dingy Harry.
And of course, the 2006 midterm, as far as the media is concerned, it was a huge.
Oh, oh, can't tell you how important the 2006 midterms were.
They were just, oh, my mama from heaven.
The 2006 midterm, some of the most important midterm elections in American history, because they got rid of the Republican majority and reinstalled a Democrats in their rightful place running the House.
Okay.
So we have 2014 midterm turnout, almost the same as 2006.
It doesn't mean anything, see.
And this is interesting.
Tuesday afternoon on CNN International's show called Amon Poor.
That's the last name of Christian, who's just lost her staff, by the way.
She's still the mysterious CNN trench coat foreign correspondent.
And she has a program on CNN International.
She interviewed John Stewart of the Daily Show.
But he didn't have his 30 writers with him.
And therefore he was pretty much word naked.
A guy that has 30 writers write what he says every day.
You don't have them with you, and it can be panic city.
And so it's it's interesting because it it shows how different people are on television when their writers aren't around, their teleprompter's not around.
First thing, here is the exchange that ended up with Stewart having to apologize for a supposed joke about not voting.
And all of this happened when he didn't have a script.
Here's the first of two bites.
Did you vote?
No.
No.
No, I just moved.
I don't even know where my thing is now.
What do you mean?
I moved to a different state.
That's election day.
This is John Stewart, who, in the eyes of the media, is Walter Cronkite for the under 15 crowd.
Well, the Walter Cronkite for the under 30 crowd.
This guy is their hero.
I mean, this guy is their guiding light.
John Stewart, why he is it?
He's got all the answers.
John Stewart tells you what to think.
John Stewart's cool and hip.
And here he is admitting on CNN International all over the world.
He didn't vote on election day, and he doesn't even know where his thing is.
Because he just moved.
And Democrats were upset about this.
Democrats were demonstrably upset.
You don't what do you mean you didn't vote?
You're John Stewart.
You are you're you're the guy that fills the low information voters' heads full of junk.
You're the guy we depend on to misdirect the low information voters in this.
When you tell them you didn't vote, it's gonna look cool not to vote.
We're Democrats.
We can't have people thinking it's cool not to vote.
So this required an apology because the Democrats were very upset about this.
I did vote today.
I did know where my uh Mood was, I was being flipped, and it kind of took off.
And I you know what I want to apologize, because I shouldn't have been flip about that because I think I wasn't clear enough that I was kidding, and it sent a message that I didn't think voting was important, or that I didn't think it was a big issue, and I do.
And I did vote, and I was being flipped, and I shouldn't have done that.
That was stupid.
So I apologize.
And uh that was That was later Tuesday on his uh on his own show in the Comedy Central Network uh the Daily Show.
He did vote.
But he said up there, no, I just moved.
I didn't even know where my thing is now.
I just I moved to a different state.
Yeah, I did.
I vote.
Well, somebody if you know an enterprising journalist can find out.
They can't find out how you voted, but they can find out if you did.
If they Yeah, it's not hard to do.
You can find did you know that, Don?
People can find out if you vote or not.
They can't.
Oh, it's easy.
Anybody can.
You don't need to be an enterprising journalist or journalista.
But this is what happens when you don't have your writers with you.
This is what happens when you have 30 people to tell you what to say, and they're not with you when you go on Christianeman portion.
Okay.
Do I get started with this or yeah, may as well, because I'm not going to be able to get all this in in the first hour anyway.
I want to finally get to all of the news media analyzing and reacting to my analysis of the election meaning, and that is that it was a mandate.
Let's just play it.
Uh as it happened last night on the Kelly file, Megan Kelly show on the Fox News channel.
Her guests were the columnist Kirsten Powers of USA Today, Joe Trippie, Democrat strategist ran Howard Dean's campaigns, and Dana Perino, the former press secretary for George W. Bush, and now the co-host of the show, the five on the Fox, and they got it all started playing a soundbite from this program.
It is rare that a political party running for office in a midterm election, not standing for anything, ends up with a mandate, and they have one, and it is the biggest and perhaps the most important mandate a political party has had in the recent era, and it is very simple what that mandate is.
It is to stop Barack Obama.
It is to stop the Democrat Party.
There is no other reason why Republicans were elected yesterday.
Republicans were not elected to govern.
I knew people would misunderstand that, but I meant to say it exactly.
They're not sent there to govern, meaning they're not sent there to compromise, they're not sent there to fix things, they're not there to make something work, they're not there to end gridlock, they're not there to compromise.
They were sent there to stop.
This administration's assault on the free enterprise economy.
The economy, you know that the the media totally miss this, folks, because they think there's a recovery.
Obama is out there talking about a recovery, and administration officials announce all these economic recovery numbers.
The unemployment rate's going down, and this economic growth is going.
There isn't any unemployment going down.
Nobody's getting new work.
The labor force participation rate is at a record high, 93 million Americans not working.
There is no economic growth taking place.
The free enterprise economy is shrinking.
Government's taking and taking more of it away and raising and raising taxes and taking money out of the free enterprise economy.
There's no growth, and people are living it.
They're living not being able to find careers.
They're living not being able to find full-time jobs.
They're living their health care premium skyrocket.
They're living their out-of-pocket costs skyrocket.
They're living it.
So when the regime puts out these bogus numbers that says unemployment's Going down and the economies are growing, they know it isn't true.
And if you look at the exit polling data, this was about the economy, as uh most elections are, some aren't, but this one was, along with everything else, but the regime doesn't get it, and the media doesn't get it, and I think a lot of people inside the Beltway don't get it.
I I think I actually do believe that there is a huge divide between the people in the professional political class, both parties, who live in Washington and New York and in Boston and everywhere else.
I don't think people in Washington, because it's booming in Washington.
Employment is up, salaries and wages are up, nobody's losing their work to part-time work, because that's where the money is.
And as the as the free enterprise economy shrinks because government takes more and more of it, that's more money for the government sector, and more and more people are working there, and they're doing great.
And as such, I don't think they really have a full-fledged understanding of how bad it is for the great middle class in this country.
Rich Democrats are getting richer.
Wall Street Democrats are getting richer.
The poor have their benefits increasing with welfare and foods.
The middle class is who's paying for all of this.
And they are not advancing.
And they know it, and they voted this way, and they voted to stop the Obama administration assault on free enterprise economics.
They just don't want any more of this.
They didn't send the Republicans there to get along.
They didn't send the Republicans there to fix a broken system, meaning the way Congress gets along.
They sent there, sent them there so that it would be continued gridlock, because the biggest example of getting something done would be stopping the implementation of the Obama agenda.
Now we'll take a break.
When we come back, we'll get to the sound bites of all the analysts reacting to what I said and what I think.
And there were a lot of them.
A lot of great calls on hold, and if you are one of them, please be patient and hang on, as we are going to get to you.
In fact, one of them has a great point to make that if if if the voters and don't hang up out there, this is John and Mount Clemens, St. Michigan, but I don't want to take the call right now because I gotta get started with it.
His point is if the voters wanted Congress to work with Obama, they would have elected Democrats.
Amen.
That deserves an iPad or an iPhone.
That that that is brilliant.
He's exactly right.
That that may be the most down-to-earth simplest way to explain this.
If voters wanted Congress to work with Obama to get things done, they would have elected Democrats.
Anyway, let's start with a reaction to my version of the election, the mandate analysis, Dana Perino, on Fox, Meghan Kelly last night.
He certainly has a point, but I don't think it's the only point.
I would describe it as stop, drop, and roll.
They want to stop President Obama from doing more things like Obamacare.
They want to stop executive action on immigration.
And I also think there's a significant part of the population who wants to stop him from doing a deal with Iran.
The drop part, Obamacare certainly still played a major part.
And the third thing is get the economy on a roll.
And so that's where I think uh Bush.
Rush, President Rush Limbaugh, I think is not uh being fulsome enough in the answer because I think that the people do want to see a change in the economy.
And these senators, the members of the Congress that won't be.
All right, that's enough.
That's enough.
First of all, see the faux pas there, President Rush Limbaugh.
It's all on their minds.
It just is.
See, she agrees partially.
What she doesn't know is she agreed fully.
How do you get the economy back rolling?
The first, you've got to stop what Obama's doing to it.
Obamacare is destroying the private enterprise economy.
Obama's tax increases that are part of Obamacare, and a number of things that he's doing, all of the spending that he's done and wants to continue doing, all the continuing resolution, the way we're doing budgeting and all of this is contributing to the slowdown of the economy.
He's got to be stopped.
His policies have to be stopped.
The Republicans alone are not going to be able to get the economy rolling because they have to go through Obama to do that.
And he's not going to willingly work with them on different ideas.
Therefore, his ideas have to be stopped.
And that's a major achievement.
I again uh I've heard so many people on Fox this morning that were saying, well, I agree with Rush partially, but but then nothing would get done.
All contrary.
Thus the whole point of stopping the Obama agenda is a major getting something done.
It's huge.
It's the only thing.
And this idea that that Republicans and Democrats have to work together to produce legislation that leads to X, Y, and Z. No, that's not what has to happen right now, because that would mean compromise with the Democrats, and the voters don't want any more of that.
So many people are caught in this prison of belief that we have to work together and get something done.
Yeah, normally, yeah.
Normally, when everybody's on the same page, normally when everybody arguably wants the same thing.
It used to be that both parties wanted economic growth.
It used to be that both parties wanted great career opportunities for a lot of people.
It's not that way anymore.
Democrat Party wants as much dependence on government as they can concoct.
That's why they're going to do amnesty.
The Democrat Party is not the Democrat Party of JFK.
Ask not what your country can do for you.
Ask what you can do for your.
Those are those are those are curse words today to the Democrat Party.
The Democrat Party today wants as many unself-reliant people as they can concoct and create.
Why work with that?
The Democrat Party wants as many victims as they can create.
They want as many people thinking of themselves as victims of this unfair, unjust, and immoral, racist, bigoted country as they can create.
They don't want people self-reliant and productive.
They want to be that for people.
In the old days, you could work together.
At least the objectives had some things in common.
That doesn't happen right now.
So the old idea of, well, if we stop Obama, nothing's going to get done, precisely.
We've had six years of something getting done, and we can't afford any more of it.
Here's Joe Triffey, Democrat strategist, uh cohort of Carl Rove on election night coverage, and he ran Howard Dean's campaign.
Some of the people did mean what Rush said.
Stop, don't compromise, don't work with the Democrats, don't give in to the president.
And I do think there are a lot of people who do want things to get done and want compromise.
And that actually exists within the Republican Party, too.
Who?
If that were the case, like our upcoming caller is going to say, why not elect Democrats?
If you want to get something done, if you want people to work together, keep doing the Democrats.
By the way, with the Democrats running the Senate, and the President having the White House, the Democrats having the why isn't any more getting done than is getting done?
Why is it such a mess anyway?
Because Democrats are in charge.
The Republicans are trying to work with them.
Listen carefully.
The Republicans have come up with something like what did I hear?
300 pieces of legislation the past two years.
And they're all dead.
Harry Reid shut down the Senate to protect Obama.
There wasn't any debate.
There were no deliberations.
There were no amendments.
Nothing was taking place in the Senate.
No legislation was being advanced.
Who did that?
Dingy Harry, Democrats.
Why?
Protect Obama.
The legislation coming from the Republicans was designed to work with them and help fix what's wrong, and that wasn't desired.
This is an old cliche that people are falling back on.
Well, I do think people want things to get done, and they want compromise.
Things are getting done.
Just the wrong things.
Obamacare is getting done.
And the worst parts of it haven't even hit yet.
Those were delayed purposely until after the election this week.
Amnesty is going to get done incrementally.
Illegal immigration is getting done.
People want it to stop.
The idea that nothing's getting done in this country is absurd.
What the Democrats want is the Republicans to have some fingerprints on this mess.
And that's what they had better not let happen.
Gotta take a break here at the top of the hour, but we we're just getting started, folks.
Just started up the jets here and just set the table.
Yeah, I know Obama's responding to Michael Jordan.
Michael Jordan called him an excrement Phil de golfer.
And Obama is righteously indignant and offended by this.
Because it's true.
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