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December 4, 2014, Thursday, Hour #3

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	Greetings, my friends.
	Welcome back.
	Great to have you.
	Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies and telephone number if you want to be on the program.
	800-282-2882 in the email address, Lrushbo at EIBNet.com.
	All right, now there's a there's a vote going on in the House of Representatives right now.
	It's a symbolic vote, and it's designed to make those of you in the Republican base, think that they are serious in the House about stopping Obama's amnesty.
	Now let me see if I can marshal all of my communicative skills here.
	Not communicable.
	That would be making you sick.
	Communicative skills to see if I can splain what's happening here.
	I guess the best way to start is to just use the story in the drive-by media as a foundation.
	It's from the Hill.com and the headline, White House, Bill to roll back immigration order is unfair.
	So right away, you see, you're supposed to think the House is doing something really good because Obama's complaining about it.
	The White House on Wednesday blasted a bill offered by Representative Ted Yoho, Republican Florida, that would roll back the president's executive action on immigration, calling the bill a White House, calling a bill unfair.
	Bad policy, too.
	The press agitator, Josh Ernest, said the House legislation would exacerbate flaws in our broken immigration system and distract limited enforcement resources from targeting criminals for deportation.
	Never mind, we're not deporting anybody now, including criminals.
	I think of uh see 30,000 plus criminals, murderers and rapists that ICE released last year, not deported.
	Remember that?
	But let me tell you what this is.
	This is inside the beltway on full display if you know how to interpret this stuff, and I of course do.
	That's why I'm in this chair and behind this microphone.
	The Speaker of the House, John Boehner, is holding a vote.
	It's happening right now on a bill blasting, criticizing, ripping Obama's executive amnesty.
	However, the bill does nothing.
	The bill means nothing.
	It's admittedly, it's a symbolic vote.
	It's not going to go anywhere in the Senate.
	And in fact, it's the first of many of these kinds of bills that will be voted on over the next couple of weeks.
	So if I'm right here, you can you can expect a series of stories like this in the mainstream media that highlight efforts by the Republicans to stop Obama.
	And you'll be treated to similar stories from the drive-by media about how mad about it Obama is.
	And even if it passed the Senate, even if it got there and passed the Senate, which it won't, because Dingy Harry still runs the Senate, Obama would veto it.
	This vote, I think, I mean, one of the ways to describe this would be a cynical charade to try to placate the bitter clingers who don't want to see our country and its culture fundamentally transformed forever.
	So the White House has to play its part here.
	The White House has to play its part and pretend that what the House is voting on today is really terrible, and that they're really worried about it because they're in on the charade.
	Folks, I know this may come as a shocker.
	It was just, I don't know if you if you heard this.
	Maybe you didn't hear about this.
	Mitt Romney said recently that he thinks that the Republicans need to swallow hard.
	What are you laughing at in there?
	Mitt Romney said Republicans need to swallow hard.
	And Mitt Romney's the former nominee, and he's he may be another one.
	And he's meeting Mitt Romney's got his finger on the pulse of the Republican establishment.
	This is not Mitt Romney isolated and alone.
	Mint Romney's not speaking to Mitt Romney, you may not have heard that Mitt Romney said the Republican Party should go ahead and swallow hard and pass full comprehensive amnesty or immigration reform.
	Right now, beat Obama to punch.
	Obama did five mil.
	Let's do them all.
	It's gonna happen anyway.
	We may as well do it and get the credit for it.
	Jeb Bush believes the same stuff.
	Do not you know as well as I do.
	This government shutdown business.
	The the the daily Washington soap opera, here we are, it's December again, and all of a sudden we're facing government shutdown.
	Second year, isn't it amazing?
	How this happens.
	You know what the government shutdown is?
	It's something for the Republicans to hide behind.
	It's an excuse for not stopping Obama.
	Oh my God, then we'd have to shut down the government.
	What does that really mean?
	The government never gets shut down.
	It's always open.
	And except when it snows.
	But these people, even if there are, and it wouldn't be in this case, if there are government workers that get laid off, they end up getting a two-week vacation, however long it lasts.
	They get their back pay, they'll get their Christmas turkey.
	Everything's made up, everything's retroactive.
	The government shut down last year.
	The only thing that really happened to me consequence was that World War II vets were denied use of the memorial after they had all spent money to go on a big trip to visit the thing because Obama shut it down.
	It was his discretion.
	They shut down White House tours, even though Secret Service was fully staffed.
	Obama shut down things that would inconvenience people so that they would think there's been a big shutdown and then blame the Republicans for it.
	And the Republicans therefore get properly scared.
	Oh my god, no!
	Oh no, we can't do their government shutdown.
	You see that?
	We get blamed for it again.
	Okay, we can't shut down the government.
	That means Obama's not stopped.
	The Republicans want you to feel sympathetic, see, because they get blamed.
	It's just so unfair.
	Every time Obama shuts down the government, they get blamed for it, and they're not going to do it anymore.
	They're just not gonna have to sit there with 74% disapproval that polls.
	You might say, but wait, they shut down the government, they got blamed for it, and they want a landslide.
	No, no, they're not supposed to remember that.
	You're supposed to focus on the polling data that shows they got blamed.
	You're not supposed to know, you're not supposed to associate the fact that the Republicans a year ago got blamed for this mythical government shutdown, and ten months later, the Democrats are the ones that lost a huge shillaging landslide.
	In the first elections after the shutdown for which the Republicans were blamed, the Republicans win in a landslide.
	You're not supposed to remember that.
	So here we have the first in a series of votes.
	And what's the House doing?
	They're really telling Obama, oh yeah.
	They're lowering the hammer with words.
	And they're expressing their disgust, and they're expressing their opposition, and they're even going so far as to say Obama's acting outside the Constitution.
	He can't do that.
	And the White House, right on cue, is dutifully playing their role by acting mad about it and disagreeing and talking about a bunch of reprobates of Republicans are, and it's inside the beltway charade.
	When the truth of the matter is that the end game way down the road there is full comprehensive immigration reform.
	It's just that both parties know they have to take different winding roads to get there.
	The Republicans have to get there by making it look like there's no way they can avoid it.
	The Republicans have to get to Amnesty all the while making you think they're trying to stop it, but that they really can't because they're gonna get blamed if they shut down the government.
	Obama's gonna get there by using the full force of his ability to violate the law to get there.
	The Republicans are gonna get there by claiming they can't stop him because if they tried, the media would cream them.
	So that's what this story is.
	You You doubt me on this?
	You do doubt me.
	No, you oh, you got me.
	Okay, I was asking if you doubted me.
	Okay.
	So that's that's what I think is going on today with this vote.
	I mean, I'm don't misunderstand.
	I'm not trying to stir anything up here.
	And I I'm not trying to get quoted later in the media.
	That's I don't I really don't care about that.
	I'm just analyzing this as I see it, and I'm listening to what people say.
	And I've I've I've I've heard enough Republicans, and I know what the Chamber of Commerce has said.
	We know that there are members of the Republican establishment that want comprehensive emigration reform.
	Whether they call it amnesty or not, we know that they want it.
	And the most recent prominent voice suggesting that we all swallow hard and do it was Mitt Romney.
	And Jeb Bush is going to seek a Republican nomination, running against the party's base.
	So that's that.
	No.
	No, so I mentioned you were screening calls and you didn't hear you.
	You missed a brilliant monologue on this.
	It's really tough for Snerdly.
	By the folks, have you ever just explain how things work?
	Have you heard me wax eloquent here?
	Make a brilliant point, go to the phones, and a caller is repeating exactly what I said as though the caller didn't hear it.
	And you're saying, what in the world is it?
	It's because Snerdley can't listen to the program and screen at the same time.
	So if a caller calls in with a brilliant point, then I'm in the middle of making Snerdley may not mock it.
	No, especially if the caller is claiming credit for it.
	Now they're supposed to be, here guy, this is where I stirred up supposed to be people telling Snerdley, hey, he's talking about that right now.
	Broom the call, but nobody's giving Snerdley that advice.
	And I can't do it because I can't know what he's talking about.
	So Snerdley's swimming alone in a big ocean in there.
	So that's why he's asking me or repeating to me what I just said that he didn't hear.
	And that was a monologue an hour ago.
	Now, what was a now it's even the oh it has not been done.
	The whole point that I made was that the natural way you run for office, you secure your base, and then you move away from them moderately so to get the independence.
	And the consultant, and that's a big trick that's been played on the Republicans, because the end result of that is that you got a Republican presidential campaign aimed at 20% of the voting population.
	Because you assume you're gonna get your base.
	So then a Republican running for office sounds like a moderate Democrat in order to get independence.
	And the Democrats, in the meantime, are not falling prey to the trick because it is their trick.
	Republican consultants end up telling Canada, hey, yeah, hit the base, they're gonna vote for you, but I'm the guy that can get you the independence.
	And what happened last time is four million Republican-based voters didn't vote.
	They stayed home.
	Romney won a big majority of the independents, and it didn't matter.
	Anyway, there's a big movement in the UK that suggests maternity leave is not enough to handle the daily stresses and pressures of being a woman.
	The effort is underway now to secure paid menstrual cycle leave every month for female workers in the UK.
	Details coming up.
	So during the break, they all said, Well, did some man come up with the idea for the paid menstrual cycle leave every month?
	I said, I don't know.
	I'll just wait and we will discover this together.
	All I read was the headline.
	And the headline is forget maternity Leave women should get paid menstrual cycle leave every month.
	UK Daily Mail, women who suffer from period pains and feel under the weather every month should get paid leave, a leading doctor has suggested.
	Gedis Grudzinskus, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology believes that menstrual leave would boost women's motivation and productivity when they are in the workplace.
	He even goes as far as to suggest that if a woman were to accidentally become pregnant, should her employer pay for the termination.
	Although concedes that society is unlikely to be ready for that.
	Mr. Grudzinskis, formerly of St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London, who now practices in Harley Street, is a leading international figure in the field of reproductive medicine, surgery, and obstetrics.
	Explaining his reasoning, he said some women feel really grotty when menstruating.
	Coming into work is a struggle, and they feel lousy.
	And when you feel like that, it says here, it's harder to take pride in your work, and it's harder to perform well.
	And men don't have to go through this.
	It isn't fair.
	So the women need a few days off every month because they're not like men.
	This doesn't get into the area of PMS.
	It may assume it, I don't know.
	Um, but it doesn't mention PMS, it just mentions the monthly cycle.
	Geddis Grudzinskis, professor of obstetrics, believes that menstrual leave would boost women's motivation and productivity.
	The leave would also be to uh separate to a woman's sickness entitlement.
	So this would this would be above and beyond sick leave.
	It would be above and beyond maternity leave, says of men who will complain of the ideal, it's not men who have to get pregnant.
	It's not men who have to go through IVF and childbirth.
	Men will just have to understand.
	So as usual, men will just have to suck it up and pick up the slack when the women are out on their menstrual cycle leave.
	That's what the guy says here.
	Menstrual cycle leave is already legal in countries like Japan and Indonesia, which I didn't know.
	And it is also being discussed in Canada.
	However, Putin threw it out.
	The Mr. Testosterone.
	Vladimir Putin threw it out of the Russian Parliament.
	Now I didn't intend there's a companion story to this.
	Oh, here's that story.
	Hillary Clinton has lost that new car smell.
	That's actually Dana Milbank in the Washington Post.
	And there's a new Gruber video that's going to kill him at the Supreme Court if there is still – if the court hasn't been corrupted, it will kill the Obamacare case there.
	But that's – just a second.
	Here we go.
	Here we go.
	There's a huge, huge it prints to six or seven pages, I only printed three.
	Huge story at Breitbart.
	It's called The Sexidus, Part One.
	The men giving up on women and checking out of society.
	And there's some I'm telling you, there's some good stuff in this article.
	It is a long story, and it sadly, ladies and gentlemen, it validates a bunch of things that I have been saying and predicting would happen as a result of militant feminism going all the way back to the late seven, late sixties, early seventies.
	It Predicted a bunch of things would happen culturally and societally if militant feminism began to take over and thrive, and that's what this series attempts to document.
	Give you a pull quote, just to give an example.
	Never before in history have relations between the sexes been so fraught with anxiety, animosity, and misunderstanding.
	To radical feminists who have been driving the driving force behind many tectonic societal shifts in recent decades.
	This anxiety and animosity is all sign of success.
	They want to tear down the institutions and power structures that underpin society.
	Never mind the fallout.
	But for the rest of us, the site of society breaking down, an ordinary men and women being driven into separate but equal misery thanks to a small but highly organized group of agitator feminists is distressing.
	Particularly because as increasing numbers of social observers are noticing an entire generation of young people, mostly men, are being left behind in the wreckage of this social engineering project.
	And they talk about the declining enrollment of men in college and the declining marriage rates and men wanting nothing to do because they don't know what their role is anymore.
	That was easily predictable.
	Anyway, there's more to this, as you could imagine.
	We'll be back.
	Don't go away.
	And I was just watching the mayor of New York City, Bill DeBlasio, and he said it.
	He just admitted it.
	It's finally out there.
	I don't know whether he meant to or not, but he just chalked all of what's happened.
	This is not a New York City problem, what happened to Eric Gardner.
	It's not a New York.
	This is an American problem because a flaw in our country that dates to the founding of this republic.
	And our generation must finally solve it.
	So now we got guys in these Democrat Party talking about founding flaws.
	Going all the way back to the founding.
	I'm telling you, that is w.
	That's Obama in a nutshell.
	He's just admitted why liberals are liberals.
	He's just put it out there.
	They've got a chip on their shoulder about this country is flawed, and it doesn't matter what has been done to rectify this flaw.
	It doesn't matter.
	The Civil Rights Act of 64 doesn't matter.
	Didn't make a difference.
	Nothing is made.
	Great society, war on poverty, nothing.
	We have to solve it.
	And this is how this works.
	Nothing ever works, nothing ever solves it, nothing's ever enough.
	And every new Democrat is the one we're all waiting for.
	This is the guy, don't forget, Bill DeBlasio.
	This is the same guy who just a month ago was arguing that chokeholds should not be made illegal.
	And now he's out there demanding that the New York PD, the NYPD go through all kinds of new training now.
	And it's all because of the serious flaw dating back to the founding of this republic.
	And this generation must solve it.
	Keith and Phoenix, I'm glad you called.
	Welcome to the program, sir.
	Hello.
	Hey, Russ, how's it going?
	It's truly an honor to talk to the man that single-handedly helped change my life.
	Wow.
	Thank you very much.
	I hope that's for the better.
	Oh, yes, I was going to say, and it's for the better.
	Um, I was calling because I am currently 31, and I am a product of the progressive way of thinking.
	My mother.
	I grew up in California.
	My mother was on disability.
	So when I turned 28, uh, my girlfriend got pregnant.
	And I instantly went straight to the DES, which is the Department of Economic Security, and I signed up for the entitlement.
	Well, about a year later it was getting old, so I moved out here to Arizona and I started out at the bottom making only ten dollars an hour.
	But I really started to appreciate what I was getting, and now I slowly work my way up to where I'm making a decent amount.
	I don't need the entitlement.
	And you know, like the problem with everybody is they're all entitled.
	So everybody runs around like a bunch of Baruch assaults screaming, I want it now, instead of going out and working for it.
	And then we have the president going out there and you know, just telling everybody that you're gonna get entitled.
	And if you can't hope and dream and wait, well then just go ahead and take it.
	He does play that up.
	He he that that is what hope and change is that he does promote that kind of entitlement thing.
	He does it on the basis that you've been screwed, the fa the powerful forces, whatever have shafted you, and it's time you got yours back.
	And he does create this sense of entitlement in as many people as he can.
	I don't I think you're exactly right.
	How do you how did you ever how did you overcome this, did you say?
	Um I started listening to you guys when I discovered KFYI when I moved out here, and at first, you know, I was on the left, like always bashing um the right and always defending Obama, but then being out here I was able to talk to enough people that pretty much opened my eyes to everything.
	And now I just see that with hard work, people r will reward you more so than just sitting on your butt.
	They'll certainly have more respect for you.
	Yeah, that's true.
	And and you know, and also I wanted to thank you for the Rush Revere books because I've been reading that to my four year old daughter, and though she seems like she's not paying attention, just this last weekend I went into the room and she's playing with her My Little Ponies, and lo and behold, she changed her uh favorite My Little Pony from uh Rainbow Dash to now she calls them Liberty.
	Is that right?
	That is so cute.
	And I and here I thought she wasn't paying attention and it was just me and her mother enjoying the books, but here, you know, that four she's still actually connecting with it.
	Well, you know that she's four years old, did you say?
	Yes, she's she can't read it.
	You're having to read them to her, is that what you do?
	Let me send it to you.
	I read them for and I and I try to do the voices for the horse and make it really interesting.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Well, that's if you can do that, d the the Liberty voice is uh you know is kind of an arrogant, snarky, but lovable at the uh at the same time, kind of goofy, lovable.
	Uh uh modeled Liberty after one of our sheepdogs, actually.
	The attitude I think one of our sheepdogs runs around with.
	Um I tell you what I want to do.
	You hang hang on here, Keith, because I want I want to get your uh address so we can send you the actual audio CDs of all the books.
	Give you a break.
	I mean, I know you like reading tour, but it gives give you a break, and it's a different uh uh way for her to absorb them and enjoy them.
	We'll throw some other goodies in there as uh as well.
	What is your what is your um your your daughter's name?
	Oh, he's already talking to uh get get the daughter.
	Okay, oh, what is your daughter's name?
	Her name is Sydney.
	I call her Sit for short.
	Okay, cool.
	That's one of my all time top ten favorite female names, Sydney.
	Good.
	So we'll we'll take care of it.
	Just hang on, Mr. Snurdy'll get all the data we need to get the stuff out to you.
	Thank you very much, Keith, and we'll be back, folks.
	Don't go away.
	And we go to Denver next.
	This is Tia and welcome to the EIB network.
	Hello.
	Uh Rush, this is such an honor.
	Thank you for taking my call.
	You bet.
	It's great to have you here.
	Uh well, when you opened the program, you touched on the taxation that's applied to cigarettes, and I kinda perked up because I used to work for arguably the um the biggest tobacco company, and I can speak to some more finite numbers about what you cited as the percentage that goes to government.
	Okay.
	So ultimately when I was working there a couple years ago, it was about fifty-nine cents on the dollar that went to the government.
	And that's that's just an estimate.
	So if you're talking about the you the New York prices, it's probably arguably much higher.
	Right.
	And even that back then it was not enough.
	Right um, and another thing that I thought of that I shared with Snergley, I saw it all the time when I was working for the company, um, you know, ultimately the government really exploits the lower income Americans with taxation on these cigarettes, and it simultaneously they lead them to believe that tobacco companies are evil and government is good.
	And you made the point that if they wanted to just outlaw them and ban them, you know, they would certainly try to do that if they really cared about people's health.
	That has been my point.
	That that has been my point all along.
	I hear all of these liberals so concerned with people's health and so critic critical of tobacco because it kills deadly in second hand.
	And they've created a bunch of insane people out there.
	I'm t I'm telling it, liberalism has created literally deranged people, f afraid of everything.
	I mean, it makes no sense to be afraid of secondhand smoke a hundred yards away from it.
	They have created this.
	They have created this inordinate fear of ordinary everyday life.
	And then these people that get afraid start demanding all kinds of action against the perpetrators who are trying to kill them.
	And right there at the top is big tobacco.
	Even though big tobacco, if you become an addict, takes decades for it to kill you, if it does.
	But that's not the point.
	They talk about how evil it is, and they talk about how deadly it is.
	They won't ban it.
	If it's so bad, if it's so deadly, if it's so dangerous, if it's so harmful, if it's so mean, why don't they ban it?
	Just ban the product.
	Well, no, Mr. Limbo, you don't understand the tax base that uh would not what do you mean the tax base?
	I thought it was a deadly product, and I thought you cared about the little guy.
	I thought you liberals cared about people.
	But here you're perfectly content to get them addicted and then make them pay taxes through the nose and continue to pay taxes through the nose and raise their taxes.
	And then you try to make them think you care about them by running PSAs telling them how they shouldn't smoke and how they should quit and all the I mean it it's a it you're exactly right.
	If they really cared, if they really cared, they would ban the product, but they can't because the revenue from tap tobacco taxes, I'm I'm not kidding you, funds children's health care programs.
	And a number of other things as well.
	They won't do without the revenue.
	That's great, T. I'm glad you called.
	I really appreciate it.
	I know.
	I just I didn't have time to get to it.
	Uh tomorrow's open line Friday, and I'll f I'll set aside the story on all of the destruction in our culture between men and women that militant feminism is claimed to be causing in uh in this story.

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