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Nov. 11, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 11, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Last night it was Comedy Central.
And it was the Colbert report.
I always do that.
Colbert report.
And it was time to make fun of your host, L. Rushbow, for my take on the meaning of the election.
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.
Republicans were not elected to govern.
Thank you.
Republicans were not elected to govern.
Their one job.
Huge, huge Rush Limbaugh fans here tonight.
Republicans were not elected to govern.
Their one job is to stop Obama.
And that got practically a standing ovation on Comedy Central last night.
Totally.
Totally shocking the host.
And once again demonstrating the whole world agrees with me on this.
It uh it just does.
And it's a great validation, ladies and see.
You're looking for validation out there.
Well, I thought I would show you some.
Well, you want to hear that one more time?
Why do you want to hear it one more?
Why is that such a big deal?
I got an audience of a million people.
All right.
All right.
Snurdly wants to hear it again.
You really uh, I my instincts would be to let it go.
We've made the point, but Snerdley wants to hear it again.
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.
Republicans were not elected to govern.
Thank you.
Republicans were not elected to govern.
Their one job.
Huge, huge Rush Limbaugh fans here tonight.
Republicans were not elected to govern.
Their one job is to stop Obama.
You know, you know, you know why Colbert.
Damn there, I did it again.
You know why Colbert focuses they were not elected to govern.
Because he thinks that I'm saying, hey, they're not qualified to lead, or that's not what I meant by governance.
You people know that.
Um that's just another way of saying they weren't sent there to work with the Democrats.
They weren't sent there to make Congress work.
They weren't sent there to get along.
They weren't sent there.
That's not where they were elected to Ann Gridlock.
Look, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna beat you over the head again with this today.
I just you know it.
I've explained it countless times, and you get it.
And there's no need.
I just I just wanted to show you how shocked they were to hear massive rounds of applause in agreement with this on a liberal comedy network called Comedy Central.
Can you imagine their production meeting?
Like, oh man.
Oh man, this is gonna be so cool.
And the shock when the audience practically erupts in a standing ovation at the idea the Republicans were elected to stop Obama.
Just a tiny little moment in a universe of major happenings, ladies and gentlemen.
Take a little pleasure from it.
University of Pennsylvania tried, this is incredible.
The liberals at the University of Pennsylvania tried to take down the video of Jonathan Gruber saying they had to dumb down the presentation of Obamacare because of the stupidity of the American voter.
They thought they could take the video down and make the issue go away.
You remember Jonathan Gruber.
He's the, he's, by the way, he's the architect of Obamacare.
And I should say that he's one of the primary architects in Romney Care as well.
And it was in October of last year at the University of Pennsylvania's 24th Annual Health Economics Conference.
And he said that it was crucial that the American people never realize what was really in Obamacare, because the stupidity of the American voter would have otherwise killed the law.
In other words, he admitted, and he got applause.
He was talking to fellow economists.
And he admitted they had to lie.
They had to mask and cover the transparency.
They had to lie about what was in it, such as you get to keep your doctor.
You get to keep your plan.
Your premium will come down $2,500.
There are no tax increases.
It's not going to cost any more than the Iraq.
All every lie they told was purposeful.
Because they thought the American public was so stupid they wouldn't understand the nuance and the liberal definition of need for this law.
And that if they had been honest about it, people would never have supported it.
And that covers pretty much everything in their agenda, by the way.
If they're ever honest about their real agenda, they'd never get elected to anything outside of New York, San Francisco, and Hollywood.
And they wouldn't, folks.
And maybe Chicago.
They would not.
It's not just Obamacare they lie about.
It's not just Obamacare.
They think you are too stupid to understand.
So anyway, the University of Pennsylvania, after the uproar of this getting out, you tried to pull it down.
They pulled the video of the event, which took place in October of 2013.
And for a time yesterday, if you went to the website, University of Pennsylvania trying to see the video, you got a message that said, This video has been removed by the user.
Sorry about that.
And so that begot a Twitter and Facebook storm.
Why would Penn pull down a public video that has political implications?
Was one of the questions.
Because they're a bunch of liberals is why.
And because their truth was exposed.
It was major.
It was here, they tried to pull it down.
Anyway, they ended up having to put it back up because they began to look like fools, thinking that they could put back in the bottle the genie that had already been released.
You can't do that.
So they put it back up.
But it was funny to watch them scramble around, folks, like turning on the lights and a bunch of rats in the barn going nuts at being exposed and discovered.
And they tried to turn the lights back off and it uh it didn't work.
Speaking of Obamacare, the Washington Post is on its best day hapless.
The Washington Post is an absolute sorry excuse for what it used to be.
But even with that, they continue to set new standards for incompetence and bias.
And just being plain wrong.
There's a story by Jose Del Real.
Obamacare consultant under fire for stupidity of the American voter comment.
Now, this reporter obviously just a Democrat with a press pass.
Which is what most of them at the New York Times and the Washington Post are.
They're Democrats disguised as journalists, give them a little press pass, let them go there, pretend to be reporters and so forth.
And he sells whatever is left of his journalistic soul in this piece.
Let me give you just one pull quote from it, as they're still trying to put the genie back in the bottle.
Now remember that this is for their liberal readers, the Washington Post Liberal Reader Base, New York Times, same thing.
And so they're trying to calm their reader base.
They're trying to calm.
It's not a big deal.
Don't worry, Gruber didn't screw it up for everybody.
And that's okay, it's okay.
Trying to calm everybody down.
Listen to this quote from the story.
Gruber's remarks have been greeted By the law's critics as an admission of intentionally deceiving the American public about the law in 2010.
But given the context of the remarks, Gruber seems to be speaking specifically about how and why the law's funding mechanisms were framed as they were when the law was being written.
This guy thinks he's helping Gruber by saying that.
And he is hammering another nail in the coffin.
Jose, that is exactly the point.
People were deceived about the funding mechanism.
That was the key, key key to getting how this thing was going to be paid for was the key to it getting passed.
Oh, and the lie to Bart Stuck about it not funding abortions.
But the way this thing was being funded, the way it was going to be paid for, the way it wasn't going to cost anybody anything, the way it was going to allow people to keep their doctors and keep their plans and lower their premiums and their deductibles, that was key to this thing getting passed.
And he writes, well, if you read the context, if you give the context of Professor Gruber's uh remarks, he seems to be speaking specifically about how and why the law's funding mechanisms were framed, were lied about.
This guy's trying to get this guy out of a jam and he digs a deeper hole.
But remember, he's dealing with his own liberal Democrat reader base, and they are looking for holes to be dragged out of.
So they'll take anything that they can get.
Economist Jonathan Gruber, one of the regime's consultants on the he was not a consultant.
He was the architect, Jose, is under attack from conservatives for comments he made last year in which he seemingly said, and then he quotes the stupidity of the American vote.
Seemingly seemingly said, he didn't seemingly.
He stated unambiguously that they had to lie about this thing because of the stupidity of the American people.
And actually, if you examine that, I think really what he we had to lie because of the intelligence of the American people.
We had to lie to them.
Otherwise, they would have seen what we intended to do.
That means they're pretty smart when you get right down to it.
And that's what bothers them.
Now, that's not to say that Gruber and his ilk on the left in the Democrat Party do not consider you and American voters to be a bunch of stiffs and stupid.
Doesn't mean they don't still hold you in contempt.
But what he's really saying is we had to lie.
We had to lie.
And uh because they're too stupid.
No, they're too smart, actually.
They would see what really is intended here, unless we lied.
So you relied what you thought was their stupid gullibility to believe your lie, is what you're relying on.
And it's 2010, so there's still some residual messianic attitudes about Obama in 2010.
So that's what they were relying on.
Anyway, it's CYA time today at the uh at the Washington Post.
But it's not over for the bad news about Obamacare.
From the Washington Times, Obamacare may not have enough enrollees to stay solvent.
Fewer than 10 million are projected to be enrolled, and 13 million are needed to stay solvent.
The regime on Monday said fewer than 10 million Americans will enroll in the health exchanges this go round.
That is well short of the 13 million target congressional scorekeepers deemed critical to its economics, meaning funding.
You've got to have 13 million people paying premiums through the nose in order to fund this thing.
and And it suggests another rocky rollout in the law's second year of full operation, and it's next week when the mandate hits.
It's next week when the next wave of unforeseen Expenses hit everybody.
Policy advisors at the Health and Human Services Department estimated at 9 million to 9.9 million people would enroll through the exchanges, or only a slight increase over the 8 million the regime says were active at the end of the first enrollment period this April.
The CBO, which is the government's official scorekeeper, had predicted the law would need 13 million customers on the exchanges.
Errol Isa.
California Republican chairman of House Oversight Committee said under the president's health care law, Americans have experienced broken exchanges, cancel coverage, higher premiums, and unaffordable deductibles.
Despite the regime's habit of moving the goalposts, the fact is Obamacare is simply not delivering the results Americans were originally promised by the president.
Neither is anything else.
And as the American people know, which explains the election results this past Tuesday.
Now here's why the number of enrollees is key.
If too few sign up at the exchanges, the pool of customers is thus too small.
And it could skew the economics of Obamacare, forcing insurers to raise premiums and pushing even more people to forego coverage and choose to pay the fine.
Ah tax penalty.
Instead, stop and think of something here.
We have Obamacare.
It was going to save the day.
It was going to ensure all the uninsured.
It was going to make sure that the previous existing condition, people were covered.
It was going to be magic, right?
Now what are we talking about here?
13.
They're hoping to get 13 million.
How many people in this country?
250 adults, 250 million, 220 million, what is it?
I don't care.
10 million, 13 million, it's jump change.
It's nothing.
8.8 million the first go around.
We're nowhere near mass adoption of this, which is a new group of people elected in the House of Representatives that have just been handed here another golden opportunity.
More on that as the program unfolds.
Don't go away, folks.
Here's the truth of the matter, folks.
If the American people were stupid, and Democrats would still run the Senate, and maybe even the House of Representatives, if the American people were stupid.
And this, by the way, really grates on the Democrats.
Believe me, is that if the American people were stupid, meaning falling for all the lies, the Republicans wouldn't have been elected.
It is elitism that is ignorant because it's arrogant and conceited.
And Jonathan Gruber is an elitist and therefore has no idea what life is really like for all the people he's out there writing legislation for.
All he knows is that they're stupid.
And they can't deal with the truth.
They don't know what's best for them.
So in order to give them what's best for them, Obamacare, we have to lie to them.
The American people are just a bunch of idiots.
So lies got Barack Obama elected twice.
Corrupt politics got Obamacare passed without a single Republican vote.
And this brilliant economist Jonathan Gruber wasn't smart enough to make Obamacare popular.
Imagine that.
If the American people were so stupid, they could have been talked into how wonderfully great this legislation is, and they'd be out there signing up, going nuts, throwing parties, talking about how they've all got free health care, but the American people are not that stupid and didn't fall for this.
Obamacare has never enjoyed majority public support.
You really can't outsmart free markets for very long.
Reality eventually sets in lies end up uncovered.
Markets work, be they Intellectual markets, economic markets, they work.
But you know what's really tied up in all this?
The people of this country trusted Barack Obama.
And in 2010, they still did.
They thought they had created moment in world history, electing the first African American president in a country that had featured slavery in its distant past.
They trusted Obama.
He was gonna fix everything.
He was a new kind of man, a new kind of politician.
But not to me.
This is, folks, this is exactly why what's happened here is exactly why we have to go after the credibility of these Democrats.
This includes Hillary, before they are elected, and it demonstrates itself.
We have to go after their credibility.
We have to just because we know we're right.
We can't afford to elect them anymore.
We stick with the hapless, the pathetic and the descending Washington Post.
Dana Milbank.
Why Obamacare risks falling into a death spiral?
Here is one of the original bandwagon supporters, Dana Milbank.
A sometimes regular guest on the fledgling MSNB.
Oh, by the way, you know, folks, there's a funny story in USA Today about what happened to MSNBC.
It's just so unfortunate.
It's so sad.
Oh, it's so bad.
They tied their fortunes to Obama, and look what happened.
It really is a long drawn-out story about how nobody's watching, they're not excited.
It's so sad, it's so pathetic, and they're all ringing their what went wrong, my God.
They were going to become the Fox News of the left and once again demonstrate that the left has no idea how to build an audience.
It's all fundraising and donors and you can't build an audience when you have contempt for them.
When you start out thinking your audience is dumb and stupid, and where Gruber thinks, well, we've got to lie to the American people to get this passed.
Every liberal journalist has to lie in order to keep their base happy.
They have to lie to everybody.
Well, let me put it a different way.
Every liberal journalist thinks their base is stupid too.
Think everybody is stupid.
That is part and parcel of being an elitist or part and parcel of being in the uh in the establishment.
Is that everybody else is a rube?
So here's the SPN, or uh well, it could be same thing.
MSNBC trying to hitch their wagon to Obama, and what have I always said, Snerdley?
My success is not determined by who wins elections.
That was one of my first early articulated policies that I made sure everybody in this audience understood, way back starting in 1988.
Yeah, I may get excited over a candidate here or there or party preference, but I don't tie myself or this program to any particular elected official.
A, I don't run their life, their campaign, their business, or their policy derivatives.
I don't have anything to say about what they do.
Why tie myself to people I don't know?
And I made that determination early on, but MSNBC tied themselves to Obama, and much of the left-wing media's done the same thing.
And look what's happening to all of those people on the left that tied themselves to Obama the Democrat Party.
And so now here comes Dana Milbank at the fledgling Washington Post, same thing's happening to them.
Why Obamacare risks falling into a death spiral?
So it turns out there is an Obamacare death panel after all.
See, there is.
There are death panels, but this guy continues to deny the truth.
You're not smart enough to deal with the reality of what a death panel really is.
Sarah Palin came along and blew the whole thing by correctly naming the advisory board that determines who gets treatment and who doesn't.
That's a death panel.
That was one of those truths that the Obamacare architects could not allow out there.
So they had to attack her, destroy her again, And anybody else that picked up the mantra.
And so on the left, they continue living in their fantasy world that Obamacare is not what it is.
And what they don't understand is the whole country's way ahead of them.
This stupid bunch of Americans is way ahead of the drive-by media, which is caught twisting and turning in the past, trying to save an already ruined presidency.
Well, ruined in the popular way presidencies are judged, presidential approval, blah, blah, blah, in terms of actual accomplishments that are attached to Obama's real goal.
It's a very successful administration, transforming the country.
But I don't want to get to intricate for this purpose here.
Nana Milbank's worried about Supreme Court.
That's the death panel for Obamacare.
Oh, yeah.
They got nine members, they operate out of a marble building directly across the street in the Capitol.
When the Supreme Court on Friday announced that it would take up another challenge to Obamacare, it delivered the threat of two mortal blows to the signature achievement of the Obama regime.
First, the Supreme Court raised the possibility that the justices who narrowly spared the law in 2012 will in June come out with a new ruling that would dismantle the law on different grounds.
You know what a real threat or fear that the left has about this.
They know that Obamacare is unconstitutional.
They've known it since it was written.
Gruber lets the cat out of the bag by saying we had to lie, and we had to cover the transparency because of the stupidity the American people.
In other words, we had to lie in order to get this thing passed.
Because if people knew what it really was, it wouldn't stand in the light of day, it wouldn't stand a chance.
And the unconstitutionality is the commerce clause and the fact that the federal government can't force you to buy anything.
So They can't force you to buy anything.
So that begot the argument is it a mandate, is it a tax?
The federal government can tax.
But no, it's not a tax.
It's a fine.
If you don't buy insurance, we're gonna fine you.
They can't.
The Fourth Amendment, they can't.
However, and this is the fear the left has, they know that the Supreme Court just didn't want to go there.
The Supreme Court just didn't, I mean, it was the first black president.
It was his major signature legislation.
And it was for health care for the poor, and okay, we'll look the other way.
And so John Roberts did some finagling and found a way to make this thing sound constitutional.
But the left knows that a whole bunch of chicanery took place.
They know they're hanging by a thread, they know they're on thin ice here, and they know that a lot of justices in this well, they don't know, but I suspect they fear a lot of justices have been chomping at the bit for a second go-round at this thing because it isn't constitutional, folks.
If we were in a totally objective, nonpartisan sane world, this law would have been struck down inside of three hours of it arriving at the Supreme Court.
The federal government simply cannot demand that we buy things.
It's right there in the Commerce Clause and the Fourth Amendment.
You cannot, they cannot do it.
Ways were achieved to mask what is really happening here by calling these things fines if you don't buy it, blah, blah.
So they know they're hanging by a thread, and they know there may be even unborrowed time, and now the court, the Supreme Court, decided to hear the case again, this time over subsidies.
And this is an area that in an objective, black and white, sane world, the regime doesn't have a prayer.
Yeah, the the uh point of this is real simple.
The only subsidies for Obamacare are available at state exchanges.
Well, as you recall, most states did not set one up.
And therefore the people in those states, according to the law, had no way of getting subsidized Obamacare.
And believe me, subsidized is the only way the vast majority of Americans can afford it because it's so damned expensive.
Subsidies meaning taxpayers pay a greater portion of your policy than you do.
So when this eventuated, when the states, Republican governors in these states, refused to set up exchanges, that left a whole lot of people out of the subsidies, and that just wasn't.
Oh, we're gonna allow that politically.
That would be I mean, that that that would be political disaster for Obama.
He's out there promising everything's gonna get cheaper.
He's promising the uninsured are going to get insured, he's promising don't worry about what it costs, but you're gonna be subsidized, except most people don't live in a state with an exchange.
Oh no.
So the federal government violated its own law and set up its own exchanges.
Which, whoever wrote this law, Gruber, stupidly left out, or sorry, stupidly left in that the federal government could not set up its own exchanges.
They had to be set up in the states.
And by the way, there was a purpose for that.
That was to shift as much of the cost off to the states as they could to keep the overall final number under that precious trillion dollar figure.
So Obamacare was written in a way to dump as much cost off to the states as possible.
And that's when the governor said, uh-uh, we're not just gonna sit here and accept these new costs.
We can't print money like you can.
So they didn't set up the exchanges.
And so the unintended consequence that liberals think that people are just a bunch of sheep and they're gonna, whatever legislation comes down, abide by it and not find ways around it.
Well, when they figured out that a whole bunch of people were not going to be qualified for subsidies, the federal government violated Obamacare and created their own exchanges.
And that's what the Supreme Court's gonna hear.
Supreme Court's essentially going to hear: are those subsidies that are being provided by the federal government constitutional?
Are they part of the law?
Or has this whole thing been turned upside down?
And as Millbank writes about it, but even if the justices make no such ruling, meaning striking it down, the very act of taking up the challenge to the law will itself undermine it.
So Millbank is in fatalistic defeatist mode because all the court had to do was take the case, and that undermines it.
If they'd have just flat out rejected it, fine and dandy.
But the Supreme Court has taken the case.
They're gonna hear it.
They're gonna have an opinion.
It doesn't matter what the opinion is, the very fact they're taking the case undermines it.
Why?
Because Millbank and his people know that this thing is a crock.
Gruber and everybody lied about it.
They created a bunch of falsehoods in it.
It's unsupportable economically.
The American people don't want it, but that doesn't matter to them.
They want it, they want you subjected to it, subordinated to it.
And the very idea the court's gonna look at it again is just gonna create in the minds of all these stupid Americans that something's wrong with the law.
And we can't have that.
We've got to get people finally accepting this and ignoring this and moving on to other things.
The more attention on Obamacare, the greater the opportunity everybody's gonna find out the fraud that is in it.
And that's why they're they're they're quaking today.
Just the fact the case is being accepted, taken up by the court, has got them scared to death.
And it has them scared because they know what a house of cards this thing is, folks.
Los Angeles Times today.
Regular pot smokers have shrunken brains, according to a new study, and their IQ lowers significantly.
Experimental mice have been telling us this for years, but sm uh pot smoking humans didn't want to believe it could happen to them.
Compared with a person who never smoked marijuana, somebody who smokes marijuana regularly has on average less gray matter in his orbital frontal cortex.
By the way, that region is a key node in the brain's reward motivation, decision making, and addictive behaviors network.
So apparently smoking the evil weed erodes the part of your brain that helps you make rational decisions to end up being properly motivated to understand risk reward and your addictive behavior more ambiguously in regular pot smokers.
That region is better connected than it is in non-users.
The flow of signal traffic is speedier to other parts of that motivation decision-making network, including across the superhighway of white matter that connects the brains, blah, blah, blah.
The second page I didn't print.
Because that's all I needed.
That's all I needed to know.
Smoking pot shrinks your brain.
The front orbital cortex thing.
The only thing that shrank in mice were the brains.
I don't know about other organs.
Peter in Reno, Nevada, heading back to the phones.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, how are you?
First time caller.
Great to have you here, sir.
Thank you.
Great.
Regarding uh the professor's comments, uh, Gruber, uh, the only people that had to be fooled were was every Democrat in the House and every Democrat in the Senate.
Uh every Republican voted against it.
The only ones apparently dumb enough to fall for it was every single Democrat.
Well, I didn't.
Yeah, I know the point you're trying to make that the Democrats in Congress are idiots too, but but I I don't ascribe Gruber's comments to them.
They are part of the group participating in the fraud, sir.
The the Democrats in the House and the Democrats in the Senate have voted for this thing, they're not victims of the administration lying to them.
They knew exactly what this was.
They were co-conspirators in this.
They knew exactly what was on tap here.
They were just as eager for this thing to pass as Obama and Gruber and Ezekiel Emmanuel and anybody else involved in this at the top tiers.
They were not victims.
They were not stupid.
They knew exactly what they were voting for.
They knew exactly what they were voting on.
They knew exactly how to tell the lies.
They knew exactly what to lie about.
They were in on it.
What the election proves is they didn't get away with it.
The American people are much smarter than the Democrats give them credit for.
Here's Dave in Gurney, Illinois, your next sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
This goes back to that uh clip that you played at the top of the show, uh, Colbert.
Uh Bert.
Right.
Anyway, uh, the only reason these liberal entertainers bring up your name is because they know it will bring attention to themselves.
It's uh they name-drop you because it it's a form of uh self-induced gravitas.
Otherwise, nobody would listen to them.
Well, how does this work?
I mean, are you saying that that uh they mentioned my name so I will play the sound bites of their show and and and elevate their audiences or what?
All they have to do is bring up your name.
Hey, look, it's like when you went on the golf show.
Um, what was the golf show?
The Haney Project.
When you went on the Haney Project, I bet he increased his viewership just because of the fact you were on there.
I know I never would have watched that show myself, and I never watched Family Guy until you were on an episode of Family Guy.
Well, you're very shrewd.
Kind.
They're very kind.
Thank you, sir.
Yes, and you're you're you're, I mean, you've just connected with Snerdly like you can't, but that he believes this and has for years.
He makes these people drop my names just to elevate themselves, and so forth.
And in some cases, I think that actually is true.
But in this instance, there's no question.
Colbert was shocked.
At his own audience.
He just couldn't believe what his audience gave.
Obama thinks he's got a new opportunity now since the Democrats lost the Senate.
It's really convoluted.
It'll take me to untangle this for you.
In addition, women, much more pessimistic than men are about the U.S. job market.
And much more.
Hang in there be tough, my friends.
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