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Nov. 11, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 11, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Greetings, my friends, and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
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And you just got stuck on such meaningless meaningful things as a minimum wage.
Have at it.
We talk to anybody here.
800-282-2882.
Calvin's out, not Calvin, what was his name?
The guy from Philadelphia.
Clarence, he's out there.
He's out there thinking Obama won something big.
He's out there.
Republicans got smoked.
He's looking for it anywhere he can find it.
It's a beautiful thing.
I like people looking at optimism.
Speaking of which, I teased this, and it's really not even worth a tease, but I did I mentioned this in earlier quadrants sectors of the program.
It's an associated press story.
It's one of the most ludicrous articles I've ever read.
And I realize I'm thinking that more and more as as I read AP stories or drive by me.
It's gone now beyond bias and all that.
This gets now ludicrous.
Hapless, pathetic.
Which the Washington Post is becoming that.
The New York Times has been there for a while.
I mean, in the real world, they live in a different world.
This is Julie Pace and Jim Coonin, and they alternate back and forth as White House stenographers for AP.
Headline in parties losses, Obama sees an opportunity.
Right.
Now, if when Republicans lose big in midterm elections, you ever remember a story talking about what a great opportunity it was for the sitting Republican president?
No, I didn't think so.
I don't either.
But here's how this story starts out.
With his party soon to be out of power up on Capitol Hill.
Regime officials say that President Obama feels liberated.
Liberated, ladies and gentlemen.
You know why Obama feels liberated?
He's liberated by the prospect of not having to work with these Democrats that don't support him anymore.
All those Democrats that campaigned for re-election and didn't want him around and didn't want him to campaign for him and didn't want them anywhere near them, he's now liberated from them.
He doesn't have to deal with those losers anymore.
He feels liberated by the prospect of detaching himself from Democrats who didn't see much use for him in the campaign.
And he is looking forward to exploring opportunities to strike deals with congressional Republicans.
Really?
We are supposed to believe here that Obama now feels liberated enough because he got rid of the Democrat dead weight.
He can now compromise with Republicans, and this is what he's been wanting to do all along, but these mean, ungrateful Democrats in Congress were stopping him.
That's what this story tries to say.
This story's point is that there are new opportunities to get things done with Republicans who appreciate Obama and the Democrats didn't.
The Democrats looked at him as a as an albatross around their necks.
But now he can compromise with Republicans, which he's been wanting to do all along, because the mean, unappreciative Democrats are gone.
And that's just the beginning of this story.
White House aides have also concluded the political landscape leaves Obama with little ability to help Democrats regain control of the Senate.
Meaning White House aides have concluded the political landscape leaves Obama with little ability to help Democrats means screw you.
Okay, you didn't want me helping you in these in these Elections, well, then you when we get to 2016.
That gives the president even more freedom to concentrate on finding areas of compromise with the Republicans.
Why didn't somebody think of this back in 2010?
Do you realize all the great things that could have been done if Obama would have just realized what a bunch of bad guys his Democrat buddies were?
The Republicans were the ones we've been waiting for, folks.
It's the Republicans finally going to be getting something done here.
Obama can finally get rid of these Albatross worthless derelict Democrats.
And it only took six years.
And now six years in, Obama has his real golden opportunity to really make a difference by compromising with the Republicans.
So the AP, in one of the most ludicrous stories I've ever read, now hilariously says that Obama is going to be compromising like mad in the next two years.
And Julie Pace and Jim Coonan call themselves journalists.
Now, hang on here.
I know what you're thinking, and I'm going to get there.
Right here in the headline, in party's losses, Obama sees an opportunity.
The heck with what these two reporters wrote.
I happen to think that's true.
I happen to think Obama does see an opportunity.
You know why?
Well, it just happens to be in the next story.
House GOP split on how to stop Obama executive amnesty.
And this is from the Weekly Standard.
You want to know why Obama sees an opportunity?
Because he's seeing stories like this.
Do you know that the Republicans, primarily in the House, because the new Republican Senate's not in office till January.
Do you know?
First thing to know is that the current continuing resolution that funds the government expires December 11th.
My brother's birthday, by the way, but the two have nothing to do with each other.
Now, if I ran a Republican Party, and I had just skunked the Democrats, and I had just gotten more seats in the House and the Senate than I've had in 55,000 years.
I'd say, okay, spending authority ends December 11th and we get sworn in on January 5th or whatever it is.
I'll come up with a funding bill for three weeks.
I'll come up with a bill that funds the government three weeks, and then we get sworn in, and next January we start on fixing this budget mess and stopping this continuing resolution crap, and we get back to responsible budgeting.
But that's not what's going to happen.
Because this story points out that the Republican leadership wants to go ahead in this lame duck with the Democrats running the Senate.
They want to come up with a budget bill that takes care of the entire rest of the fiscal year, which would be through next September the 30th.
In other words, the Republican leadership does not want to seize an opportunity in January to implement their budget thinking, their budget philosophy.
It would be, to me, as an outsider, just telling you as an outsider, and I must preface it with that caveat.
To me, the sensible political thing to do would be to insist on a three-week funding bill, which takes us to when the Republicans get sworn in and run all of Congress, and then we budget so as to give ourselves opportunities to defund that part of Obamacare and defund that part, knowing he's going to veto it, but we still do it.
We come up with the bills.
We attach public opinion polls showing what percentage of the American people support us, and we'd send those bills up to Obama knowing he'd veto them, but we make him the obstructor.
But what I'm seeing in this story is the Republicans don't want to do that.
They want to take care of 10 months of spending before December 11th.
They want to fund the government with the Democrats running the Senate all the way through the end of the current fiscal year, which is September the 30th.
Explain this again.
The federal government is currently funded through a continuing resolution that runs out at midnight on December 11th.
Instead of just passing a continuing resolution that would keep the government funded until, say, February or mid-January, the House Republican leadership wants to pass a spending bill together with the Democrat-run Senate that would fund the entire 2015 fiscal year.
So the Republican leadership wants to take away a very important tool available to them that they could use in stopping amnesty, for example.
He can do executive amnesty all day long, but if it isn't paid for, it doesn't happen.
So you don't pay for it in this little continuing resolution you put together for three weeks or a month.
But if you're going to put together the rest of the year's spending, it's going to include anything discretionary that Obama could allocate.
That would also saddle the incoming Congress, which is going to have two years before the next election.
It's going to take one full year of the two years they have away from them.
If they go ahead and fully fund the government through the remainder of the fiscal year, then that means the new Congress would be saddled with a budget they had nothing to do with putting together.
Even though the incoming Congress will be more Republican and more conservative and certainly have many fewer Democrats.
So this probably is why Obama has an AP story reflecting how excited he is to compromise with the Republicans.
Now, again, a caveat.
It's a weekly standard story.
Budgeting and this sort of thing, that's their business.
It's not mine.
And I don't pretend that you could put me in, say, Boehner's job and I could do it better.
I don't, I'm I'm not that kind of personality.
I don't what they do is it's it's a business.
They have a business of their own.
There's certain things required in it to be successful like any other business.
It's not Civics 101 and all that sort of stuff.
But it still escapes me why what appears to me to be a really golden opportunity.
I mean, the odds are the Republicans are going to hold the House in 2016, but the odds are not guaranteed they're going to hold the Senate in 2016.
They're going to be defending more seats.
The Senate Democrats are going to be, it's a presidential turnout year.
Hell, anything can happen.
You got two years here to get started in stopping Obama and turning this thing around.
And the budget seems to me to be a crucial element in that in determining what you could deny Obama.
I mean, if you're serious about repealing parts of Obamacare to say, if you're feeling if you're serious about he's not going to get away with executive amnesty, the only tool they've got power the purse, and they're going to throw that away.
I don't understand.
No, I don't.
You're telling you're telling me I understand.
What is it I understand that I don't get?
Go ahead, say it.
Nobody can hear you.
Say it.
Are you telling me that you believe the current leadership still does not Want to confront and oppose Obama?
Because they're afraid to oppose Obama because of the same old things they'll be charged with racism.
Are you saying that still exists?
Well, okay, if you say Republican leadership's enemy was the Tea Party, not Obama.
Yeah, I understand that.
But I've also heard what Boehner and McConnell have said pretty forcefully about amnesty.
You don't think they mean it?
So you don't think that they're serious about wanting to stop amnesty.
They want amnesty the Chamber of Commerce, okay.
Even knowing the reason they won is to go there and stop all of this, they are going to ignore that.
That's what you think.
Stupid voters, huh?
Okay, let's see here.
An aid to White House Appropriations Chairman Howell Rogers of Kentucky says the omnibus bill will likely come to the floor of the House the week of December 8th.
It is my chairman's strong view that we need to complete the critical appropriations work, which is already months behind your schedule, in order to clear the decks, get off to a running start in the next con.
Oh, I see.
So what they want to do is get the budget out of the way so that they don't have to deal with the budget in January.
And that would mean they wouldn't have to deal with Ted Cruz.
If they do the budget and they get the the whole budget for the remaining fiscal year all the way through the end of September, that means they cannot have to deal with Ted Cruz and Mike Lee and these Tea Party upstarts, right?
That's what you're thinking.
Wow.
So even after achieving, even after being the beneficiaries of a massive landslide election that carried with it several mandates, you are of the impression they simply are going to ignore that.
Well, the weekly standard piece seems to indicate that.
I don't understand.
It would seem to me, and again, it's not my business.
I'm not saying it's none of my saying I don't, I'm not an expert in this stuff.
I don't I don't know all the ins and outs they're thinking of.
But on the surface, it doesn't seem to make any sense to me to take this many tools out of your hand.
This many weapons out of your hand.
I mean, the Democrats have gotten away with funding this government a month at a time.
This is how you.
Oh well.
Okay.
I I just noticed a brief timeout I must take, my friends, but we will continue.
Don't go away.
We'll get back to your phone calls and a couple of audio sound bites I still want to get to here, so still loaded, forbear, and get to it after this.
Don't go away.
Back to the phones we go.
This is uh this is Doug in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and welcome, sir.
I'm really glad you waited.
I appreciate your patience.
Oh, no problem.
Thank you very much for having me on.
Um thank you for all you do.
I appreciate that, sir.
Thank you.
All right.
Um I had a question.
Um, when I was watching the elections uh the other night, I noticed uh a common um party line coming from all the Republican candidates, and they were instead of saying appealing Obamacare, they were saying uh the term replace Obamacare.
And I was wondering if I should take that as some form of foreshadowing that the Republican Party is planning on compromising with some form of socialized health care.
Well, you what you should know is that the phrase replace, repeal and replace, is not new.
There are, as as many Republicans have been saying for a couple of years now, Doug, there are some elements of Obamacare that they like and they want to keep.
And one of them is the pre-existing condition.
Aspect.
They do not want to be seen as wanting to take that away from people.
And there are a couple other things.
I don't remember off the top of my head, but there are a couple of other elements of Obamacare that they claim are good and that people want, and it would make no sense to take them away.
So they came up with the phrase repeal but replace.
And so your instinct, which is rooted in fear, is justified here.
Because if they just said repeal it and swipe it and and and then maybe have at it a different way, that'd be one thing.
But repeal and replace, yeah, that that should make you wonder just how serious the commitment is.
And a lot of people are wondering how serious the commitment is.
We're gonna find out here pretty soon.
Yeah, we're gonna know sooner or later, aren't we?
Yeah, we are.
And it but sounds to me like Doug, you've already got it figured out.
Well, it seems to me like what they want to do is they want to just, as you said, keep all the parts that they like, and now we're gonna end up with some sort of uh I I guess bastardized version of socialized health care, and it's just gonna have a different name than Obamacare.
Oh I look I uh I don't pretend to know what their intentions are.
I I know what their fears are.
And they are they're afraid of the media, mischaracterizing what they do, and so everything they say is is designed to limit a negative media response.
But don't doubt me on that.
What they actually end up doing, we don't know yet.
But all I know is this replace and repeal business.
They have said that there are a couple things, and I can't remember all that they've mentioned.
It is not many, but two or three things they think they're pretty good, that are good things that we should not broom.
I've had them tell me this personally.
The only one I remember is the uh is the uh pre existing condition thing.
The other big health care uh Obamacare feature, if you will, that the Republicans say they want to keep, because they say the American people like it, is the provision that would keep your uh um children legally on your family policy up to age twenty-six.
They do not want to repeal that.
They don't want to get rid of that.
They uh Republicans don't.
They claim that the American people really dig that.
They really like that.
Uh the the children of the American people really dig that and and want to hold on to that.
And they may be right about that.
Uh uh parents everybody's scared to death of not having health insurance.
Everybody's scared to death of not getting medical treatment, and particularly for their kids, and if they know their kids can't get a job, and if their kids can't find uh their own sources of health insurance, then the easiest thing to do if to keep them on the policy, do that.
Uh you might like to throw other people's kids out of their house, but not your own, is is the way it works.
And so they may be right about that too.
You might call your neighbor whose kids are still living at home, you might call them much of slackers, but if your kids are living at home, they're not slackers.
The other guy's kids are, but not yours.
And so when somebody comes along and says, we can't get any of these kids, get them, come on, they gotta be self-reliant.
Can't keep living off mom and dad.
Yeah, right, except for mine.
Mine are different.
It's okay here.
So those are the two biggies that Republicans claim the American people would be up in arms about if they were ever eliminated.
Pre existing condition and kids continue to feed at the tr uh uh stay on the policy until age twenty-six.
Orlando in Simpsonville, South Carolina.
Great to have you on the program, Orlando.
Hello.
I can't tell you how thrill it is to be speaking to you, Ruff.
How are you?
Well, thank you very much.
I'm good.
I'm good.
It's great to have you here, Orlando.
Yeah, I'm I'm one of those rare but not rare Afro American slash I disgrace that I'm an American, uh, happen to be of of African descent, um, that that's a huge fan of your show.
I was telling Snerdley that um that you may be, as we look back over the annals of time, one of the greatest living Americans for our time period, because there's such a vacuum of leadership.
We have needed a booming voice, and your voice echoes like it does through a mountain valley or a huge room with cathedral ceilings and how the left and liberals wish they could silence that voice and and thank God you have not been silenced.
Wow that's uh that's really that's really that's something uh Orlando I appreciate that uh you're you're you're I want to tell you that you know I w I've been on a personal journey look I'm not I'm I don't I'm not trying to be falsely humble here uh when you when you I mean I I appreciate you saying that I really do but um look I don't I don't want to diminish your compliment because I really do appreciate it.
I I d I don't think of myself that way.
Uh I'm just the guy on the radio here that has a job to do every day.
But, I mean, I do appreciate it, and I don't doubt that you mean every word of it, and it's very moving.
I just know that I've been on a personal journey since 2008.
I was an unemployed health care worker after, you know, being in health care for 20 years.
This booming recovery has now allowed me to work full time, so I went back to school, and I love history.
And the more I studied history, the more I realized that you were right, and it encouraged me to read everything I could.
It encouraged me to go to Hillsdale College, and while I was studying my other history stuff, just sit down for an hour and just learn how great our country is.
I believe in American exceptionalism, that we are an exceptional people.
people um that we should not accept mediocrity or or the status quo that we can do better and that education of of ourselves is the key because you had the earlier Carla talking about how great minimum wage is well studying just the basic knowledge of economics disturbing the market equilibrium without an increase in demand and productivity or or demand for the product will only breed more unemployment and more inflation it's just a basic thing.
If you change the curve at one point, it's going to change at another point.
So we need voices of education to help push us out there to go look for what the real truth is.
And I appreciate that as an American.
Now, let me say something.
Let me say, I'm not pandering here either.
But you, with what you have just said, you epitomize what my hope in doing this program is every day.
that out of the blue, however young, you came to it you came to this program and you you were intrigued and you looked into all of this stuff yourself and that means you learned it you just didn't hear me say it you went out studied it looked it all up whatever you learned it yourself which now means you believe it because you know it to be true.
So you you epitomize what my dream is here of this program creating a massive number of informed participating voting citizens.
And Rush Revere for the next generation is awesome too Russ.
Just passing that knowledge see my son he he doesn't know yet but he's getting it for a Christmas pageant the whole series he he won he looked at the books and read a few pages.
He said that this is a great book I said we'll we'll see if we can't talk to Santa Claus about that but that's what he's getting for Christmas.
He's getting the whole set of Rush Revere he's 10 years old very inquisitive loves history like me loves how good he's 10 wait he's 10 years old you just said Seth is 10 he's 10 70 he w he he he wants that he doesn't know he's getting that stuff yet.
No he doesn't know he's getting it no well let you got Seth is his name.
You you have to let me add to the to the bundle that you're gonna give him for Christmas.
When we finish, no, we want to send him some Revere stuff.
No, no, we send all kinds of stuff out to people that email us and send us things out.
We try to maintain as much personal contact with everybody who gets hold of us about these books as we can.
And Catherine leads that effort, and she's on top of this like you can't imagine.
And it's a massive undertaking.
But if you would give me, when we hang up here, give Snurdly your address, we want to put together some other.
other stuff for you to to present the Seth when when you give him if they're gonna be if they're gonna be indoctrinated in schools um you know with the massive education machine we ought to balance that with some truth.
And and uh since they're trying to do it with all the kind of revisionists that they can, all the revisionism that's going on.
I want Seth to know what great country that he lives in and that his father could not have gone to school, worked his way through school the first time, working his way through school the second time.
He could not, I could not have done that if our nation had not been so great.
And I want him to know what a great land that he is growing up in.
Well, God bless you.
My God, this is this is awesome.
Uh Seth, we need a note of this, replay Seth's call like once a week.
Orlando, Seth is his son, that's right.
But Orlando, this is um you've left me speechless here.
You're just incredible.
You are exactly you are exactly what is hoped for here.
And again, it's because you've gone out and learned this stuff yourself.
You were you were interested and intrigued enough to do it.
And that means you know it.
You just haven't been it's just not floating around because somebody said it to you or told you.
You you actually have learned it and believed it.
And it's uh it's a beautiful thing.
I I can't, I really can't thank you enough.
So don't hang up here, Orlando.
Keep keep the phone up the hook so that we can get hold of you and get an address to send the uh additional items for Seth for Christmas.
And now, my friends, a uh brief time out.
Be back after this.
Don't go away.
Ladies and gentlemen, yesterday on the program, we spent some time sharing with you the uh the guts and details of a story by Dan Balls in the pathetic uh increasingly inconsequential Washington Post about how the um Democrat Party's been hollowed out, the past two elections, that the old Jurassic Park dinosaurs kept winning and winning, and now they finally lost, and all that time no Democrat bench was developing.
No youthful replacement Democrats.
And uh Dan Bowl is very, very worried here that uh with these resounding two defeats in 2010, 2004, that uh Democrats, for all this talk about their association with the youth vote, they don't have any.
Now, this program is show prep for the rest of the media.
And as evidence, all of a sudden, out of the blue, yesterday CNN.
It dawns on them that the Democrats are a bunch of dinosaurs.
And we have a little montage of them talking about this with the Gloria Borger and Wolf Blitzer last night on CNN's The Situation Room.
If you want to change candidate, it's not gonna be Joe Biden against Hillary Clinton.
She can make the case that she's changed, even though she's been around for a while, because she's a woman.
That's why people are talking about Elizabeth Warren, um, who, by the way, is less than two years younger than Hillary Clinton.
So it's not like she represents a new generation.
See if the independent senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders.
Well, Bernie Sanders.
He's been spending a lot of time in Iowa.
He's even older than Biden, he's actually 73.
He's seriously thinking about running.
All of this raises the question, if it weren't for Hillary Clinton, where's the young blood in the Democratic Party?
It just occurred to them.
Just occurred to him yesterday.
Oh no.
See, they've been running around the Republicans and losing women, Republicans are losing his panics, Republicans are losing.
Well, the Republicans are winning elections.
And now the Democrats are uh oh, uh where's where's our future?
Uh Wendy Davis was gonna be, but Wendy Davis never was a real thing anyway.
Lost by 20 points.
She was never in it.
That was not a giant pollster scam.
F. Chuck Todd on the Today Show today, talking to Matt Wauer.
Um, wait a minute.
Why F. Chuck has a new book.
I didn't know that.
Did you know that F. Chuck has a book?
Does John Stewart have a new book?
John Stewart does not have a book.
That's because they want who they wanted to hire at uh meet their depressed.
Okay, anyway, F. Chuck's book is The Stranger, Barack Obama in the White House.
No.
F. Chuck Todd, Barack Obama, the stranger in the White House, and Matt Wauer said, has he been his biggest failure?
What what's what's been Obama's biggest failure?
I mean, what what is it, F Chuck?
I think when you look at it, that was the great promise of Barack Obama.
The guy in 2004 showed up at the convention.
He was the one that was going to break this polarization when he leaves the White House.
We're going to have 24 straight years of this red versus blue.
He didn't unite us.
And that was his promise.
Barack Obama was going to unite everybody.
He's going to bring us all together.
That was the great promise.
He showed up at a convention, he was the one that was going to break this polarization.
He's failed.
F. Chuck basically saying Obama's a failure.
Didn't live up to his promise.
Will there be a Twitter campaign against F. Chuck Todd here?
He's saying Obama has failed.
I said I wanted him to.
Truth is he didn't, though.
You know the drill on that.
Folks, there was a huge story in the political.
There is a huge story politico today.
And I, Il Rushbow, was going to get to it.
But other things took precedence today.
But I'm going to hold this over until tomorrow because it's the politico.
This is an Obama health organ.
And the piece is fire, Valerie Jarrett.
And it is a long, detailed, drawn out piece that is making Valerie Jarrett the fall guy, fall woman, whatever for everything going wrong in the regime.
And it is vicious.
And a lot of people have speculated that Valerie Jarrett actually is the radical that teaches radicalism to Obama.
I mean, he is in and of his own radical, but that she is the real, you know, the Angela Lansbury character in the Manchurian candidate.
And the politico ain't digging it anymore.
So I'll have to save that for tomorrow.
Hey, folks, thanks very much for being with us today.
Heck of a day.
Great, great day today.
It's always great when I have a chance to be here and host this program and be with you.
And we'll do it again all over tomorrow.
And tomorrow's already going to be Wednesday.
I mean, time of just zipping by.
Thanksgiving's going to be here before we know it.
It's amazing.
See you then, folks.
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