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Nov. 27, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 27, 2014, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Apparently we can add another Senate race to the column.
Alaska officially from the Alaska Dispatch, Republican Senate candidate Dan Sullivan appeared to grab an insurmountable lead over the incumbent Mark Begitch early today, with all of Alaska's precincts reporting.
Every one of them, all 441 Sullivan led by five, 49 to 45.
The margin remained essentially the same from the first returns early in the evening, but Begage won't concede.
All the votes are in.
He's down by four, but he won't concede, but it looks like Alaska makes it plus eight.
Now, as I said during the vocal portrayal there by the Beach Boys.
You know what happened by now, you know most of the details.
You don't know what I think about it, and we're going to get to that.
But what I want to do here is cut to the chase.
The result yesterday is exactly what I said it would be.
The Republican Party now has one of the most important and unquestionable mandates a political party has ever had at its junction with American history.
Especially a political party which did not run on a national agenda.
The Republican Party purposely stood mute nationally.
Now, if you go into the races, the House and Senate races all over the country, you will find that many Republican candidates ran specifically against Obamacare.
And that is an important note to make and an important thing for you to remember.
Individual Republican candidates won and they won big.
They won in a wave landslide running against Obamacare.
The National Republican brand or image didn't say a word, which makes the mandate that they have all the more incredible.
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.
How can you govern with a president that disobeys the Constitution?
How can you govern with a president that is demonstrably lawless when he thinks he has to be?
The Republican Party was not elected to fix a broken system and make it work.
The Republican Party was not elected to compromise.
The Republican Party was not elected to sit down and work together with the Democrats.
The Republican Party was not elected to slow down the speed the country is headed to the cliff and go over it slowly.
The Republican Party was elected to stop before we get to the cliff.
And that's the mandate to stop Obamacare, to stop amnesty, to stop the open borders policy of Obama and the Democrats, to stop the big government assault on the free enterprise economy,
to stop national security policies that have allowed terrorist networks all over the world to pop up and fill a vacuum created by the absence of the world's lone superpower on the world stage.
That must be stopped.
The Republican Party was elected to stop the run-up of a debt greater than all previous presidents combined have created.
The Republican Party was elected to stop efforts by this administration to use the IRS and other agencies of government in Violation of manners and law in attacking political opponents.
The Republican Party was elected to put an end to this incessant and divisive lie that is the war on women.
Yesterday's result cannot in any way mean that voters want Republicans to work with Democrats.
And anybody who tells you that, and anybody who thinks that could not be more dangerously wrong.
You do not have election results like we had yesterday, with the intent being that the losers, the voters intend the winners to work with the losers.
This election was about stopping the losers, in this case, the Democrats.
There can be no other correct analysis of what this election was about.
They were not elected to fix a broken system.
They were elected to stop the people who are breaking the system.
The results do not mean that voters want Republicans to govern.
The election does also not mean that the country's become conservative.
It can't be said that there was an ideological component to the mandate because the Republicans did not run on ideology.
The Republicans ran everywhere to stop Obama, and that's what the mandate is.
Now, whether they want to accept the mandate or not, that's another question.
Whether they are even aware of the mandate is an even bigger question.
As I listened to the wizards of Smart, all the analysts, both parties, all movements on TV last night and today, the thing I'm hearing from everybody is that what the voters want is for Washington to compromise and people to work together.
That's not what they said.
That is not what the voters said.
They didn't say in the exit polls, they didn't say it in the election results.
This was a skunking of the Democrat Party.
This was the people of America standing up, a thwart history and yelling stop.
And there's only one entity that can do that, and that's the Republican Party.
They were not elected to get along.
They were not elected to reach across the aisle.
They were not elected to compromise.
They were not elected to end gridlock.
They were elected to stop the policies of Barack Obama and the Democrat Party.
Too much damage has been done.
Too many people, because of a president of the United States are having their jobs converted from full-time to part-time.
The American people didn't think that was on the table.
They didn't think the president, when he was promoting Obamacare, meant that they were going to get fewer hours to work.
They didn't think it meant they were going to lose their health care.
They didn't think it meant that their premiums were going to skyrocket.
They were have the American people showed up yesterday and voted in numbers and voices with one message.
Stop this.
There is no legitimate alternative analysis.
I don't even know how you come up with the idea or the conclusion that the message in the vote yesterday is...
Yeah, they want us to cross the aisle and work with the Democrats.
They wanted you to work with the Democrats, you wouldn't have won.
If they wanted the Republicans to work with the Democrats to help the Democrats accomplish more, they would have just elected the Democrats.
Yeah, well, they want us to work together.
They want us to fix.
No, no, no.
They want as much gridlock as it takes to stop what's going on.
The country is careening out of control.
All of the public opinion polls show it right track, wrong track, two-thirds of America, wrong track.
The number was increasing as We got closer to the election.
The mandate the Republicans have is to stop Barack Obama.
To stop the further implementation of Obamacare.
To stop government policies that are destroying the private free enterprise economy.
Voters across this country know this is not how this country is supposed to be.
They know that this is not what they were electing in 2008 and 2012.
And they have shown up here.
They have thrown Democrats out of office all over this country.
They have thrown Democrats, even the polling data could not have been more wrong in several key races.
And that's a subject for later on in the program.
But there is no confusion about the message the voters sent yesterday.
It may be the myth of the dream of the establishment types, both parties in Washington that what all this means, eh?
They want us to work together to get things done.
They want us compromise and like each other and stop all the arguing and uh stop all the acrimony.
They just want everybody have fun, go along and get along and and and get things done.
That's not what this vote was about.
This vote was about stopping Barack Obama.
It can't be that it was about anything else.
Now, how do we do this?
How do you go about stopping Barack Obama when you've taken impeachment off the table?
Well, let's listen to Ted Cruz.
Ted Cruz on Fox this morning about 1240.
He was interviewed by Brett Bayer.
Beer said, one of the messages of this election could be that America wants to see Washington work.
Some people said compromise would be a good thing.
What's your thought on that?
Sometimes an evil word, compromise in Washington.
It is incumbent on Republicans to stand up and leave.
It is incumbent on us to deliver with a bold, positive, optimistic agenda.
You know, the fact that the people rose up and voted the Democrats out of power doesn't necessarily mean they trust the Republicans.
They've given us another chance.
But we've got to earn that trust.
And the way to earn that trust is to listen to the priorities of the people.
And I hope come January Republicans stand united.
We stand as one, and we systematically one after the other vote on positive pro-growth ideas.
We vote on tax reform.
We vote on regulatory reform.
We vote on embracing the American energy renaissance.
We vote on going after and stopping Obamacare.
We deliver on the promises that Republicans campaigned on.
Brad Bear then says, Well, you bring up Obamacare.
You have a Democrat president.
His name's on the legislation.
He's going to veto whatever you send up there.
So how do you do it?
With Obamacare.
I think we should start by using reconciliation to pass complete and total repeal.
Now you're right.
The President will in all likelihood veto that.
If that happens, we should then systematically repeal the most onerous parts of Obamacare.
We should pass legislation saying you can't have your health insurance canceled because of Obamacare.
We should pass legislation saying you can't be forced into part-time work like so many people, especially single moms have been.
We should pass legislation saying no bailouts for insurance companies under Obamacare and force the president to face those single rifle shot repeals and decide whether he's going to listen to the American people or just remain an absolute partisan.
And you know, if he vetoes those bills, I think there's a real chance we might be able to get the votes to override those vetoes.
That's how you do it.
That's how you start.
That's how you use the ammunition you have in your arsenal.
But you must understand they, the Republican Party must understand that they have one objective.
There was one lesson that was being taught last night, one message being sent.
Stop Obama.
Stop this.
Stop this country careening out of control and being transformed into something it was never founded nor intended to be.
Stop the Democrat Party.
Stop Barack Obama.
The Democrat Party, part of that has been dealt with in the Senate and the House.
Make no mistake.
If voters wanted Republicans to work with Democrats, they wouldn't have seen to it that So many Democrats got creamed last night.
The country is tired of Democrats.
The country is worn out with Democrats.
The country's depressed because of Democrats.
The country is out of work because of Democrats.
The country is feeling aimless because of Democrats.
The country is not optimistic about its future because of Democrats.
There is no way.
The vote yesterday was a signal to work with them.
They have had six years of unstoppable destruction.
And the American people.
And I, by the way, want it stopped.
The Republican Party was not elected last night because it's loved and adored.
The Republican Party was not elected last night because it's conservative, because it didn't run as conservative.
The Republican Party was not elected for a formative reason.
Republican Party's strategy was to shut up.
The Republican Party national strategy was to stand mute.
When your opponents committing suicide, shut up, get out of the way, let them do it.
Now, in the local races and all the Senate races and House races, if you listen and paid attention, there was an issue on the table.
It was Obamacare.
And it was going to be stopped.
If the Republican Party does not admit why they were elected, this is all going to end up being for naught.
Go to Colorado, you go any, I don't care anywhere you want to go where the Republicans won, and a key element of every victorious Republican campaign was a pledge to do something to stop Obamacare.
To stop Obamacare, to stop Obama.
The Republican Party has not become popular overnight.
The Republican Party has not become loved overnight.
The Republican Party's the other guys.
The Republican Party is the only way, only place the voters can turn to stop what has happened and is happening to their country.
The Republicans have an opportunity here to rebrand.
They have an opportunity to become loved.
They have an opportunity to become respected.
They have an opportunity to actually listen to what voters have said and do it and become a majority party again.
They have that opportunity.
But if they think that their purpose is to make everybody in Washington smile, if they think their purpose is for the media to say nice things about them because they're compromising with Democrats, this is all going to have been for naught.
And This is not about being liked.
It's about saving the country from the transformation that's underway.
It's about stopping what Obama and the Democrats have been doing in stealth ways to many people for six years.
They don't want any more of this.com.
The next thing I want to do is go back in time and revisit some things that were said leading up to the election yesterday, starting with me.
All the way back on February 13th of this year.
Almost a year ago, 10, 11 months ago.
I think if the election in November were today, it would be a wave election that would make 2010 look small.
I think that the American people, the polling data is all there.
There isn't any majority of people other than subsets of Democrats who support anything Obama's doing.
In national poll after national poll, a majority of Americans oppose everything Obama's doing.
Fox News poll came out yesterday, and a huge number of people do not like Obama ignoring the Constitution.
A huge percentage are very opposed to this lawless behavior of his.
There's another factor that is going to lead to a wave election.
I mean, massive Democrat defeats.
Massive Democrat losses in November.
The losses were so massive that the polls got many of them wrong.
The polls missed so much, it's incredible what happened yesterday.
This this this election yesterday is even bigger and has more impact than even is being admitted to.
The full scope of this defeat, the full meaning of this defeat has not set in with most people because they are in a state of denial.
Particularly the Democrats and their buddies in the media.
They're trying to tell themselves it was an anti-incumbent election, that it was not a rejection of Obama.
It wasn't a rejection of Democrat policies.
It was just, you know, the confluence of events and timing and uh, yeah, it just people wanted to change.
It was a repudiation of the Democrat Party.
Again, it was another repudiation of Barack Obama.
It was a repudiation of his policies and the direction he's taking the country.
This was a rejection of Democrat incumbents.
The Republicans have more members of the House of Representatives than they've had since 1946.
Every member of the Arkansas delegation is a Republican in the House of Representatives.
Everywhere Bill Clinton went and campaigned, the candidates lost.
Ditto Hillary Clinton.
Even Obama's mini me, the Democrat running for governor in Maryland, Maryland got beat.
Ed Gillespie came out of nowhere.
And by the way, Ed Gillespie ran on an agenda.
Ed Gillespie running for the Senate in Virginia did not run a campaign standing mute.
He did not run a campaign being just the other guy, like the national Republican strategy was.
Ed Gillespie ran a campaign of specific agenda-oriented items, and look what happened to him.
There might be a recount there.
That came, that surprised everybody.
None of the experts, none of the wizards of smart called that.
All last night, no matter where you turned on cable news or broadcast news, you found a resistance to the notion that this was a wave election.
You found resistance to the notion that this was a huge and dominant, not just Republican win.
Because that it was, but this was a smackdown of the Democrat Party.
You have to, folks, you have to keep something in perspective.
You have to keep something in mind.
The Republicans were invisible nationally in this campaign.
There was no national Republican agenda.
The Republicans did not try to nationalize house races.
They didn't, everything was local.
And so you had campaigns for the Senate and for the House featuring issues, primarily Obamacare and spending in debt and amnesty.
But you didn't have a Republican agenda that was widely understood and widely known.
This was a total full-fledged rejection of the Democrat Party, a huge smackdown.
And that is why I say the only logical analysis of this is the American people who voted, want this stopped.
They no longer approve.
They no longer buy into.
They no longer support what the Democrat Party and the President are attempting to accomplish.
They want it stopped.
They want a serious effort to stop this made.
And that effort had better be made, and it had better be one that can be seen.
Otherwise, this election's going to end up being a one-off.
Because if the voters think it's safe to go back to the Democrats, they'll do it.
History is replete with instances of that.
And that's why it's important for the Republicans to be honest with themselves.
They were not elected because of who they are.
They're not elected because they're conservatives, not elected because they're liberals.
They're not elected because they're moderates.
They're not elected because the independents love them.
They weren't elected for anything other than they're the other guys, which is what they wanted.
That's how they set themselves up.
They are the other guys.
They are the agents of opposition.
They are the Republican Party was where you go if you want this stopped.
They had better understand this is not about working together.
It's not about compromise, not about governing, not about fixing a broken system.
It is about stopping Barack Obama.
They wanted Harry Reid stopped, he's been stopped.
They wanted Schumer stopped, he's been stopped.
He's in the minority.
Dick Durbin Ditto.
A Republican governor in Illinois.
All over the board, no matter where you go, across the fruited plain, there is not a single pollster or expert who came anywhere near calling what this was.
Well, they were freaking out all over TV last night at what was happening.
And you know, early on in the evening, it was all developing very slowly.
It we were stuck at plus three for hours.
And even the talking heads on Fox started warning people now look, this plus four could become plus three if we lose I'm sorry, not they didn't say if we.
If, you know, the Republicans lose Nebraska, which they could I'm watching.
What the what do you mean if a Republicans lose uh uh uh Nebraska?
Anyway, my point is that the uh I want to say this.
There was the breaks were on all night.
Don't believe what you're seeing, because it hasn't happened yet.
Republican victory after Republican victory, but but but that plus five could become plus four.
Don't get too excited.
It started slow.
It wasn't until about midnight that it began to sank in for everybody.
Sink in for everybody.
No matter where you watched, here.
We had an audio sound by a montage of uh drive-by talking heads.
It took a while, but by the end of the night, they all fell in line with what had happened.
I would characterize it as a wave election.
It's hard to escape any other conclusion.
This really does seem like a wave.
Republican title wave the wave election.
You have an historic number in the House.
It seems like a wave to me.
There wouldn't be a wave.
I'm not sure if they know what a wave would look like.
This is a wave.
Everybody did really well, so let's call it a wave.
When everybody does really well, it means that a wave has kind of swept them into the wheel.
You see those wave?
I do.
Is it a title wave or just a wave wave?
This is I would call a wave.
It doesn't get much wavier than this.
I was really thunderstruck by how the punditry missed the size of this Republican wave.
This was what you would absolutely call a wave.
Make no mistake, this wasn't just a Republican wave.
It was more like a political typhoon.
Right, and the pollsters missed it in many cases, and that's that's an important element in this.
And polling data can be a a break or a stop on media bias.
But that's for another discussion.
I want to get on to the next soundbite.
Tom Brokaw showed up uh last night on Charlie Rose.
He was on MSNBC as well.
Charlie Rose said, hey, I begin with that because um, you spent an enormous amount of time reaching out and looking at America and where it is.
So, Tom, as you're looking out there at America, what do you see now, Tom?
I thought about my own lifetime.
I was born in 1940, we're right before the war.
And I think there have been about eight big ideas in my lifetime, mobilizing for the war, GI Bill of Rights, Kennedy saying we're gonna go to the moon, the Civil Rights Act, Nixon saying we're gonna open relations with China, uh Ronald Reagan staring down the Soviet Union and the Cold War ends without a shop being fired.
We're trapped in a lot of little ideas in this country at the moment.
And they don't seem to be serving anybody particularly well.
So that's Tom's attempt to explain the election results last night.
This is you're I know you're saying, what the hell was that?
Why is Rush playing that soundbite?
I asked myself the same thing.
Uh but what it means is no, I did.
If he's just his version of Peter Jennings' temper tantrum, is all it is.
He just it's little ideas.
Back when I was a newsman, back when I was an anchor, it was all about big stuff.
This stuff happening now, don't bother me with it.
You you got me on here to talk about what the kids are doing.
I got better things to do.
Charlie, come on your show talking about this podunk stuff here.
Back when I was a newsman, back when I was with Peter Jennings and and and and Cronkite and rather, we did big stuff.
We uh we stopped Reagan.
Well, we we tried to stop Reagan from defeating the Soviet Union, but he beat us.
We did get rid of Nixon.
You know, and and we convinced Kennedy to go to the moon.
And we convinced Kissinger to go to China to save Nixon.
We did all kinds of big things in the media.
But now it's podunk stuff, I don't have time for it.
Charlie, what Obamacare was their hundred-year dream.
But no, that what Don Broco has to do here is minimize this outcome.
Exactly what I told you yesterday they're gonna do.
They're gonna trivialize it, delegitimize it, minimalize it.
Doesn't mean what you think it means.
Here, one more.
Charlie Rose said we gotta take a break.
Charlie Rose said, that person with the bully pulpit, Tom, that's the president.
Regardless of whether the Senate's Republican or Democrat, and the House will certainly be Republican, the president's at the White House.
He has the bully pulpit, and it is his responsibility, is it not, to offer the leadership and take the lead in trying to set the tone for the final years of his presidency.
A lot of this has to do with the fact that he gets hammered 24-7 by Fox News on the right and by talk radio, which is a huge voice in this country.
I was in the Midwest the other day listening to Talk Radio.
I don't know who the guy was, but he was saying Obama's voters are people who live in excrement.
That was his phrase.
And they they expect us to lift them out of excrement.
I'm not gonna lift a hand to listen out.
That was the kind of language that was going on.
At some point that penetrates.
No, no.
He was reading a Democrat website.
He wasn't listening to talk radio.
Anyway, uh you see, this is all because talk radio, which is really big, Charlie, in this country.
It's really big, and Fox News, all they do is hammer Obama.
So it doesn't mean anything.
Don't worry, Charlie.
Everything's cool.
If I have to, I'll come back and be a real newsman again to show you.
But don't sweat it.
Even President Obama knows that this election was all about him.
Even President Obama knows that the electorate said yesterday they want Obama stopped.
And if you doubt me, let me take you back to October 2nd and roll call.
Obama, my policies are on the ballot.
I'm not on the ballot this fall.
Michelle's pretty happy about that, but make no mistake, my policies are on the ballot.
Every single one of them, Obama said in prepared remarks at Northwestern University.
As all of these Democrat candidates were begging him not to go anywhere near them, as he was asked if they were begging him to stay away, as they were denying even having voted for him.
And by the way, do you realize Alison Lundergan Grimes was never ever even viable in that race?
Do you realize that Wendy Davis never stood a chance?
She was never in that race.
She lost by 20, and yet the pollsters all told us why McConnell might end up losing.
Alison Lundergan Grimes was never a viable candidate.
That's the extent to which this stuff was misrepresented, and we know why it's done.
It is done to try to shape public opinion.
Well, while these people were all out there trying to keep Obama far away.
What was Obama doing?
Undermining their effort.
Obama was saying, hey, you know, these are all my buddies.
And I wouldn't be where I am if it weren't for them.
They've all voted for my agenda.
Every one of these people that doesn't want me around.
I understand how reality is.
I understand politics, but they voted for my agenda.
And he says, My policies are on the ballot.
Yep, he knows.
All you have to do is listen.
This election was about stopping this, not compromising with it, not working with it, not crossing the aisle and getting along with it.
It was about stopping it.
And even Obama knows it.
Here's Terry in Columbus, Ohio, as we meet the objective of getting a phone call in in the first hour.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Hey, thanks for allowing me on.
Uh I remember back when you uh made a statement that I thought was very harsh when you said you hoped Obama and his policies all failed.
Now remember everybody jumping on you and running you down.
And I even begin to think maybe you were just a little bit harsh.
But by golly, now uh I know that you were not only harsh, you weren't harsh enough.
I I'm telling you, uh I'm glad what you predicted happened because now we can see the before and the after, and we know the before was much better.
I appreciate that.
You know what?
It takes a it takes a big man to call and say what you said.
I mean, to admit that you thought I'd gone too far, but now you think maybe I didn't go far enough.
I appreciate that, Terry.
Folks, let me he's talking about what I said on January 16th.
Wall Street Journal had asked a bunch of uh nationally renowned famous people to write 200 or 250 words on their hopes.
The presidency, first African American president.
I said, I don't need 250, I can do it in four.
I hope he fails.
And I said this on January 16th.
And I have to tell you something.
Uh one of the greatest attributes, somebody that hosts a radio show like this is empathy.
You have to have empathy for the audience.
And I I consider this relationship that you and I have almost to be familial.
Uh been here 26 years.
And those of you who are lifers, I mean, you're you know what this program's about and what I'm about.
I figured everybody would understood what I meant.
And I don't even think it's harsh.
It's no different than saying I oppose socialism.
I don't want socialism to succeed.
I hope he fails.
I didn't want the presidency to fail.
I want the country to fail.
It was the exact opposite.
I wanted him to fail implementing his policies.
And he didn't.
We are where we are.
By the way, what in the world isn't trying to save Mr. Brokow, the country from socialism, isn't that a big idea?
You tell everybody we're just we're caught up in little small irrelevant things here compared to your day.
Stopping the country from going socialist, that's a huge deal.
And that's what the election was about.
Hang in there, folks.
Hang in there.
Oh, yeah, much more straight ahead.
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