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November 12, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #3

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	And greetings to you music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
	I had something I was already to impart to you.
	It's scrolled out of view, and I have no way of getting it back the way I'm set up here.
	It's basic, the Wall Street Journal has some details on the Obama deal with the CHICOMs and some of the other outrages here that are taking place.
	China and the U.S. agreed that ambitious greenhouse gas emission targets on Wednesday agreed to them.
	The White House said in a statement, Beijing setting a goal for its emissions to peak around 2030.
	It's the first time the CHICOMs, the world's biggest polluter, have set a date, even approximate, for its emissions to stop increasing.
	And the White House said that China would try to peak early.
	At the same time, Obama set a goal to cut U.S. emissions of the gases blamed for climate change by 2025.
	Anyway, this doesn't quite cover the outrage here.
	Their news stories on this are all over the board.
	Basically, what's happened here is wrong stack.
	Breitbart has the version of the story.
	The Obama administration is touting a new deal on greenhouse gas emissions between the U.S. and China, which will decrease its emissions more rapidly now, and China will stop increasing its emissions around 2030.
	According to the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. would double the average pace of its carbon dioxide reductions after 2020, eye-ing an overall reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
	I don't even want to go a greenhouse gas CO2.
	There is no such thing.
	It is not a greenhouse gas.
	It does not.
	This is so absurd.
	All of this is just flat out, patently ridiculous.
	Carbon dioxide cannot be cut back.
	It cannot be eliminated.
	It's what we exhale.
	Our emissions are way down anyway.
	Do you know why?
	Because we have expanded natural gas via fracking, which Obama hates, by the way.
	So he's gone over there and he's struck a deal with the CHICOMs have never agreed to any emissions because they do not want to slow down their economic growth.
	And Obama said, okay, well, will you agree to start in 2030 if we start now?
	And the ChiComs, well, hell yeah, dude, we'll sign that.
	You're going to start reducing your emissions now and we don't have to until 2030.
	That's right.
	And they signed it.
	But the whole thing, it's just, it's so nonsensical.
	Now, you can sit there and say, well, how can he enforce this?
	I mean, he can sign it, but how can he ratify it?
	How can he make businesses in this country do what he demands they do?
	Who's going to enforce this?
	Well, if he's got an EPA that's willing to penalize businesses, but what if the Senate hasn't ratified this?
	That's grab an audio soundbite.
	Grab soundbite number one.
	I want to take you back to June 19th of 2014, June 19th of this year.
	I mean, the election was a very distant light in the future.
	This is the two days before the summer officially began.
	This administration is not over.
	It is just hitting its stride.
	This regime is just getting going.
	These next two and a half years are going to shock people.
	Obama doesn't face the electorate anymore.
	It doesn't matter what the electorate thinks, therefore.
	It doesn't matter.
	Some of you might be shouting, what about the Democrats and the Russian Party?
	They're going to.
	He doesn't care.
	He doesn't care.
	And in fact, there's a part of me that believes Obama wouldn't mind having a Republican-led Senate to further blame his opponents for everything going wrong and justifying why he's taking all these executive actions.
	I mean, if the popular culture believes that Republicans are despicable and hateful and racist and sexist and homophobic and all that, and Obama is faced with a Congress made up totally of people like that, what?
	He's going to feel totally justified.
	I don't need to go with those guys.
	We don't need to let those guys stop us.
	We can't let those guys stop us.
	We've got too much progress we've got to make here.
	And he'll have popular support for ignoring Congress.
	That's his thinking, I believe.
	The attempt to capitalize on the foul, dank image of Republicans that has been constructed out there.
	So as far as Obama's concerned, the more the merrier.
	And if they happen to run the Senate as well as the House and are stopping him every time he wants to do something, he can point fingers of blame at them as public enemy number one and use that opposition to justify all this executive order and extra constitutional stuff that he's going to do.
	Now, something has happened since then, and it just happened today, that makes it a thought I should have had, and I should have had it back then in June and included it in that little monologue.
	Have you seen Mitch McConnell's reaction to Obama's announcement?
	It's pretty tepid.
	I mean, again, I had it in front of me and it scrolled out of view.
	I've got to do something about this.
	But McConnell basically said he didn't like it or he was outraged by, well, he didn't go that far with it.
	He said he was disappointed or something like that.
	I think that's it.
	McConnell said he was disappointed or he didn't say he was shocked or whatever it is.
	And I'm thinking, let's go back to the last couple lines of what I said here.
	If the Republicans happen to run the Senate as well as the House and are stopping him every time he wants to do something, he can point fingers of blame at them as public enemy number one and accuse them of not being cooperative and trying to oppose his agenda, which is the implementation of great things for America.
	He's trying to save the planet here.
	He's simply trying to save the planet, save the climate.
	Here, Republicans are standing in his way as usual.
	Republicans are the obstacles standing in his way, which is exactly what they were elected to do.
	But what if they are afraid to even stridently say they oppose what Obama's doing because they are expressly afraid of that reaction from Obama?
	What if their fear that Obama is going to malign them and impugn them and call them obstructionists?
	Their fear of him doing that, what if that actually makes them less public or less willing to state their outrage?
	McConnell said he was particularly distressed over this, but he didn't say it shouldn't happen.
	He didn't say Obama doesn't have the right to do it.
	didn't say Obama doesn't have the power.
	He just said he was particularly distressed about it.
	What if they are so afraid of what Obama will say about them if they come out in direct opposition that they don't come out in direct opposition?
	That would not surprise me, especially if, and I don't know what they think the election meant.
	I haven't seen enough of their reaction to know.
	To me, it's patently obvious.
	They were elected to stop exactly what happened in China yesterday.
	The Republicans won in massive numbers to stop what Obama did in China yesterday with global warming and what he plans to do on Amnesty and what he plans to do on net neutral or any other executive action.
	He's got a 39% approval rating in Gallup.
	They were elected to stop him.
	What if they are afraid of expressing opposition because they're afraid of what Obama will say in characterizing them?
	And what if that means they will not stand up and say anything stronger than, I'm particularly distressed?
	What if that's it?
	What if that's as much as we're going to get from them?
	Why isn't there any outrage over Gruber?
	Why isn't somebody other than Trey Gowdy was on Fox last night, but why isn't the Republican Party standing up in outrage and defending the integrity of the American people by calling Obama and Gruber and everybody on there?
	What do you mean lying to the American people?
	There's easily a statement they could craft here.
	I don't know.
	Only time will tell, I guess.
	And then you move forward and you find out that they are interested in making a deal with Harry Reed on the budget during this lame duck session, as we talked about yesterday.
	I've got that coming up in the stack as well.
	Stuart Varney had a reaction as he was on Fox today, Fox this morning, and he was asked, what's your reaction to this, Stuart?
	He's an economics analyst and reporter at Fox, and he was asked his opinion on Obama's deal with the CHICOMs on global warming.
	This is not a lopsided deal.
	This is a total cave on the part of President Obama to his Chinese counterpart.
	We are going to accelerate the cutting of our emissions.
	We've got even bolder targets.
	China doesn't have to do anything.
	They can keep on polluting at this current level, even increase their emissions for another 15 years.
	All they've agreed to do is peak their emissions in the year 2030.
	We cut, they don't.
	And then when you come to the money, we're going to pay for this.
	Our utility bills are going to go up, and it's going to cost us jobs.
	It doesn't cost the Chinese anything.
	They pay nothing extra for this so-called agreement.
	It is totally lopsided.
	And it's totally the truth.
	Now, you might be asking yourself, why would any president want to implement policies that are going to drastically increase the cost of living?
	Why would any president do anything that's going to raise utility bills?
	I would remind you what he said in the campaign about the coal industry.
	Well, you can do a coal plant if you want, but we're going to see to it that you'll go broke trying.
	He has made it plain that he believes The only way to reduce these horrible emissions is to raise taxes on the activity that creates them as an incentive for people not to engage in this kind of polluting behavior.
	But we're talking about CO2 here.
	We're talking about a natural substance that plant life thrives on.
	And I thought these people were all vegetarians anyway, they love plant life.
	We've got CO2 emissions have increased every year, as they always do, as nations around the world ramp up productivity, as they modernize, as economies grow, CO2 emissions increase.
	There hasn't been any warming in 15 or 18 years.
	What with all the new CO2?
	CO2 is a natural substance.
	We exhale it.
	So you say, well, why would any president purposely, willingly, happily propose policies that would raise people's utility bills, raise the cost of doing business, raise the cost of the standard of living?
	Why would anybody do this?
	And it's a great question, and there's an answer to it.
	And it's the answer that people don't want to face.
	And the answer is not complicated.
	We have a price to pay.
	We've been living fat off the hog too high off the hog for way too many years.
	We haven't deserved all this prosperity.
	This prosperity has come from cheating other people and discriminating against other people and stealing from other nations.
	This prosperity of ours has come at the pain and suffering of minorities and who the hell knows whatever else is in his mind.
	And as such, it's payback time.
	United States is the problem in the world.
	United States single-handedly destroying the climate.
	We're too advanced, but we're illegitimate.
	We don't really deserve all this prosperity because we didn't build it.
	And you didn't build that.
	And corporations and businesses don't create jobs.
	Everybody knows that.
	And what difference does it make now that the ambassador died in Benghazi?
	We're dealing with somebody who has a big chip on his shoulder about the country.
	I mean, this is literally a deal that will raise the cost of living and will take discretionary dollars out of everybody's back pockets.
	Every American family is going to become poorer because the cost of energy is going to purposefully skyrocket under a false premise and a hoax, something called global warming being caused by carbon dioxide, of all things, and other so-called pollutants that we must cut back on.
	The CHICOMs, the leading polluters of the world, are exempt for another 16 years.
	They can continue their economic growth.
	They can continue energy production.
	And all of this comes at a time when Obama claims we've got to get the economy rolling again.
	This is going to put whatever brakes, this is going to put the brakes on whatever economic expansion there is, and there isn't much, if any, at all.
	This is just, I don't know, I don't have a word for it.
	It's outrageous, it doesn't cover it.
	We don't have a word to cover this, what is happening here.
	But I'll tell you, being particularly distressed about it doesn't cover it either.
	Anyway, I got to take a break here, my friends.
	It's the Rush Limbaugh program.
	I got so into this I didn't even have time to open the hour.
	But you know who I am, and you know what I believe, and you know what the phone number is.
	So there.
	I tell you, folks, this climate deal is suicidal.
	If this were to really happen, if it were to ever really happen, suicidal.
	And the premise that the United States is destroying the planet, and therefore we must penalize ourselves for all the damage that we've done.
	Meanwhile, the number one polluters.
	You know, if I were the CHICOMs, I would have said, Mr. President, are you sure you want to punish your country this much?
	I mean, we need your economy growing for ours to grow.
	If I were the Chikoms, say, wait a minute, we need Americans to still be able to buy stuff that we make, and you're fixing it so nobody's going to be able to afford anything.
	Well, I don't care what Hillary Clinton's going to say about it.
	She's not going to disagree with it.
	What does Hillary Clinton have to do with any of this?
	Screw these.
	Hillary Clinton's not the final word or answer.
	I don't frankly care what Hillary Clinton thinks.
	I know what she thinks about it.
	She's going to agree with it.
	She's the same Sololinsky radical as this guy is.
	Here's McConnell, by the way.
	This is his reaction to it on Capitol Hill during a meeting with incoming Republican senators.
	The president continues to send signals that he has no intention of moving toward the middle.
	I was particularly distressed by the deal.
	Apparently, he's reaching the Chinese on his current trip, which, as I read, the agreement requires the Chinese to do nothing at all for 16 years while these carbon emission regulations are creating havoc in my state and other states around the country.
	Okay.
	The president continues to send signals that he has no intention of moving to the middle.
	I'm pounding my heart here, folks, making sure it keeps beating.
	President continues to send signals that he has no intention of moving toward the middle.
	Is that what they thought the election meant?
	Obama, not moving to the middle.
	Whoever thought?
	Oh, man.
	I don't know.
	Here's Rick in Augusta, Kansas.
	It's great that you waited.
	Thank you, sir, for the call.
	Hello.
	How are you today?
	I'm, well, you know, I'm confused.
	I am too.
	I was okay here until about, I don't know, 10 minutes ago, and I'm confused.
	I'm really, really confused.
	But I don't want that to distract you.
	No, I've been confused for over a year and a half now because through all the lies and deception that he's put out over these last six years, do you think there's a chance that we're going to get this country back instilled to the values of the work values as they were?
	Because now as a Late 50s guy, you know, the company, General Aviation, he's basically killing general aviation because he just,
	every time he mimics a word about general aviation is doing this, this, and that, I mean, you can just see that we're going to lose the older guys, and they actually come and say, you're 55, you need to retire, you know.
	Wait a minute, I need to know more specifically what you're talking.
	I know what general aviation is, but what is happening to it specifically that Obama is causing, and what does he say now and then that adversely affects it?
	Well, he says, like, you know, only certain people need to have this and that aircraft, you know.
	And, you know.
	You mean when he attacks businesses for their charter flights or others like getting on a plane and going to Vegas like he did back in 2009?
	And he flies around on the biggest chartered plane there is, you know?
	And, you know, then he attacks people like you and people that pay my wages and good wages.
	And then the companies have to, they got a bottom line.
	So they say, okay, you're 55.
	You can't, you know, I'm now older than 55 because they give me a severance package and out the door I go.
	And, you know, then they hire younger people so they can hire them for half the what they pay me and they give them less benefits because of health care costs.
	Right.
	Because you're pretty much.
	It's not just general aviation that his experience is, but you're right in that Obama has targeted general aviation and he has stigmatized it.
	And when that happens, the people that own private jets try to do it very quietly.
	They try to stay under the radar, which means they try to incur less and less expense.
	And that all has a negative impact on people like you who work in that industry.
	And there's no question that Obama stigmatized it because that's the rich.
	That's just wasted money.
	It's polluting the planet.
	Not everybody can do it, so it isn't fair, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	As to your first question, do I think we're going to restore what you, I think you mean is a decent and moral society with virtue and all?
	Yeah, I do.
	But I think there's always going to be a segment of the population that is that.
	I think there's always going to be a segment of the population that wants that.
	I think there's always going to be a segment of population that wants to expand.
	There's always going to be a culture war.
	And I don't think that decency and goodness are ever going to be wiped out.
	I believe that it's going to triumph at some point because I think all of this rot gut hits a bottom at some point.
	Now, I don't know when that is.
	I keep waiting for the bottom to be hit, and I find out that Lowe has no end yet.
	So it's still got a long way to go.
	I mean, like, there was an Eminem concert last night at HBO to coincide with Veterans Day.
	And hello, all of you MFing veterans.
	And it's being praised for its artistic value.
	And Bruce Springsteen showed up and repeased some anti-war protest song that was heralded as a great upgrade or some such thing, if I've read these stories right, in an event that was supposed to honor veterans.
	And that's the kind of stuff that just depresses or angers people left and left and right.
	But here's the thing, Rick, and everybody.
	One federal election is not enough.
	The forces of evil, if you will, have a lot of momentum.
	And one election is not enough to stop it, makes a statement.
	But this is why I'm still, I don't quite know how to characterize my reaction to Senator McConnell saying that what we have here is proof that President Obama has no intention of moving toward the middle.
	No, he's going to move further to the left.
	He was never going to move.
	This thinking that in the old days, that's really not that long ago.
	And McConnell's thinking here, I think, is representative of a period long ago.
	In America, way back when, in an election like this, the losers would realize that they have lost touch with the voters and they would either pretend to or legitimately change their marketing and their policies or whatever and tack more in the direction of voters so that they might win the next election.
	In the modern era, the Democrats have, after they've lost elections, have said they're going to do that, but it's just been for show.
	They don't.
	They move further left.
	The expectation, however, that losers are going to change their ways to be more like the winners, I do not know how in the world you can have been paying attention to Barack Obama the last six years and think that he fits that mold.
	Now, the Republicans, when they lose elections, they do think, well, maybe the country doesn't like conservatives.
	Maybe we need to stand for amnesty.
	And maybe we do need to.
	Republicans still behave this way.
	But Obama is never, ever been going to move to the middle.
	I mean, if his healthcare architect is willing to laughingly admit they had to lie to the American people to get what they want done, why in the world do you think they care about public opinion?
	Why do they care about the approval of the public?
	It's not necessary.
	It's not relevant.
	This idea that Obama continues to send signals he's not going to move toward the middle.
	Are there Republican consultants who believe that I don't, this just totally mystifies me.
	That there may be some Republicans who think that Democrats lose so they will move to the center or toward the middle because that's what you do when you lose elections.
	And when that doesn't happen, now what do we do?
	I have to take a timeout here, folks, because I am so confused by this that I have been rendered almost speechless in my attempt to communicate to you why I'm confused.
	No, I'm still confused.
	I'm trying to think of a way to express my confusion.
	I think I'm going to have to put it off until tomorrow.
	I just can't believe that does anybody really think that Obama was going to move to the center?
	I guess that's what has me stupefied.
	So, Mr. Snardly, when he was asking me about Hillary Clinton, what's Hillary Clinton going to think about this?
	Well, his point was everybody knows she's going to be the next president, right?
	So his question.
	That's what everybody thinks Hillary is going to be.
	I'm getting so sick and tired of that, too.
	But the question was, well, is Hillary going to saddle herself with this kind of punitive economic treaty that's going to make people poor?
	And it's a decent question.
	For the Democrat and next Democrat president, if there is one.
	But I don't think that's where this is headed.

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