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Dec. 30, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 30, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Welcome, thank you, Eric Erikson in for Rush, the phone number 800 28282.
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I want to get into this news percolating around Washington, and let me start here.
Something a little bit repetitive briefly from what I said in the last hour.
I just don't think it's a coincidence.
I don't.
There's a stories last night and today circulating about Steve Scalise, the number three Republican in the House representative from Louisiana.
I'm a native of Louisiana and I know Steve Scalise.
Look, let me get this out of the way up front.
The guy is not a racist.
He's actually a very nice guy by all accounts.
I've met him before.
He's come to one of my red state gatherings.
He's a very nice guy.
You you've got black members of the House representatives who are Democrats defending him, saying he's not a racist.
There are a couple points though that I think need to be made.
First of all, again, I don't think it's a coincidence that when the media latched on to the story about the bold in the beauty soap opera producer who was becoming Obama's ambassador to Hungary and had no idea about the relationship between Hungary and the United States.
In fact, Hungary is descending into totalitarianism, and we're sending a soap opera producer to be the ambassador who doesn't even know the first thing about the country.
When the media started asking questions about it, immediately someone somewhere from the left from the White House trickled out a story about a congressional staffer for a member of Congress no one had heard of from Tennessee, and the media completely ignored the story about the soap opera producer turned ambassador and went after this girl and destroyed her career, drove her from her job, ruined her.
The Washington Post sent foreign journalists to camp out in front of her parents' home.
The news media was camped out in front of her home.
For a post on her own Facebook page about the way the president's daughters acted and dressed, not respectful enough for her in her mind, uh, when the president was pardoning those turkeys at Thanksgiving.
The media immediately were directed away from the ambassador story.
In the same way yesterday, the media started focusing on the president disrupting that golf game.
Stories started circulating.
Now again, if it was George W. Bush, that story would have been the lead story, ABC, CBS, and NBC, and above the fold for five straight days on the front page of the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the LA Times.
And the president, this is another story of his bad optics playing golf, and suddenly a story comes out about Steve Scalice, the Republican whip in the House of Representatives, and the media has a heyday over it.
Instead of focusing on what the president did with golf.
I just don't find that to be a coincidence.
And here's the thing.
I do not think Republicans need to go along with a double standard.
The Democrats put a former member of the KKK in as third in line to the president, and that was in the the early 2000s, the late nineties.
Robert Byrd of West Virginia was a ranking member of the KKK, a Democrat who in the nineties used the N-word on national television.
And the Democrats not only embraced him, they made him the number three guy to secede to the presidency.
Should something happen, or number four, behind the president, vice president, and speaker.
There's the president pro tim of the Senate.
The Democrats did that.
Barack Obama can sit for twenty years in Jeremiah Wright's church, and the media gives him a complete password.
Well, I wasn't there those days.
Okay, whatever.
You were there for twenty years.
You held fundraisers in the home of the terrorist Bill Ayers, who supposedly might have written Dreams of My Father, your book.
The media has elevated I mean, L Comcast has given Al Sharpton a TV show on MSNBC.
Look at him and police.
Oh, and of course Al Sharp is now the irony knows no bounds.
He's coming after Scalese.
I do not think Republicans need to be beholden to the double standard of the media and the Democrats.
The party of slavery who put a member of the KKK in as the number three spot should have no bearing on the party of Lincoln and its members.
That is not the double standard we need to pay attention to.
But there is a double standard that I think is relevant here.
You know, Scalise is more conservative than Kevin McCarthy, who's now taking Eric Canner's place as the number two guy in the House, the majority leader.
Boehner, a speaker doesn't vote.
Scalise as the only scorecard in my mind that ever matters is the Heritage Action scorecard.
I pay attention to it, and he's got a 70 plus percent rating compared to McCarthy, which has a who has a pathetic rating.
He's from California.
But Scalise was the head of the Republican study committee, which is the group of conservatives in the House of Representatives.
And Scalise was part of a leadership coup of that conservative group.
That conservative group put up someone to be the member, and the leadership of the House Republicans flooded the Republican study committee with more moderate members, and they booted out the conservative and they put Scalise in his place, and Scalise then promptly fired a number of conservative staffers, some of whom are friends of mine, and fired them for collaborating with conservative groups to undermine the speaker.
And the Republican study committee has just gone down the drain ever since.
I mean, it's just someone needs to start a new conservative group in the House that's actually conservative.
Scalise did that and then was rewarded becoming the whip in the House of Representatives after undermining this conservative group.
Go to the Chris McDaniel race in Mississippi.
Chris McDaniel against Thad Cochrane in the Republican primary.
Chris McDaniel had spoken to a Sons of Confederate Veterans group in Mississippi now.
Truth be told, every politician in Mississippi does that.
Pretty much any politician in Mississippi speaks to the Sons of Confederate veterans.
Thad Cochrane did, and the Republican leadership was okay with that, but they couldn't abide Chris McDaniel, and that's what they used.
They couldn't have a Republican running for that race because the entire Republican Party would be tarred and feathered in the national press as racist.
And so they opposed Chris McDaniel and wanted to hang on to Thad Cochran, who himself had spoken at Sons of Confederate Veterans meetings.
Scalise is a nice guy.
Scalese is not racist.
In fact, again, Charles Johnson, doing the work the media won't do at Got News, found video of Scalise from 2004 calling David Duke an embarrassment whose message of hate only serves to divide us.
Now I gotta tell you personally, I'm from Louisiana.
And by 2002, everybody knew that David Duke wasn't really the penitent person he claimed to be.
And so I personally have a hard time believing that Scalise didn't know that the group was connected to David Duke.
And to be fair to him, he was only talking about tax issues.
He only spoke for a few minutes.
He wasn't speaking about anything that group was relevant with.
He was a state representative.
He was trying to get local support for a tax issue.
No one wanted to support him, so he was speaking to any group that would give him an invitation, including this one.
But then that's the problem here in my mind, is that the Republican leaders have a habit of putting election above principle.
They put the expediency of the here and now above the long term.
They tell conservatives all the time, we we can't do this because it'll hurt us in the next election.
Ted Cruz, we can't fight President Obama on spending and risk shutting down the government because we won't take the Senate in 2014.
How'd that work out for him?
That's the double standard that matters to me.
Now the the left is using my words against Scalice.
The left is saying, and look, I stand by my words.
I'm a native of Louisiana by 2002, Everybody knew David Duke wasn't the penitent soul, and they knew about his groups.
And I'm trying to be charitable to Scalise because I do know him and I know he's not a racist.
And I know he's not a bad guy.
And as Charles Johnson pointed out, there is in 2004 a statement from Scalise clearly denouncing David Duke.
But what of the double standard of the Republican leaders in Congress?
I'm more interested in that double standard.
I'm not interested in what the media says.
The media is never gonna like him.
If you were to replace Steve Scalise tomorrow with a more liberal Republican, the media would attack that guy as being a racist.
They they would.
It's what the media does.
But there's a larger issue here, and that goes to John Boehner.
You see, Boehner, and and this some people are speculating here, this may be a leadership thing, actually, not an Obama thing.
It may be leadership because I hear pretty credibly the Republicans needed 30 people to oust John Boehner, a speaker, with Michael Grimm, the scandalized Republican from New York, resigning this week.
They only need 29 votes to replace the speaker.
I hear very credibly they've got twenty-five of the twenty-nine.
They need four more to go.
And could it be that the speaker is redirecting people to to take out Scalise and and put their anger and focus on him who's more conservative than Boehner and McCarthy?
Maybe that's it.
I I don't know.
I I have no idea.
All I know is it it just there are too many non coincidences of of the president redirecting the press to attack Republicans.
What I do know is that Republicans in Congress, if Steve Scalise were a Ted Cruz conservative, were he a Mike Lee conservative, were he a Jim Breidenstein, were he a Tim Hulescamp, were he a conservative of the conservative mold and not someone who had been firing conservative staffers for collaborating with conservatives, you would have John Boehner in front of the camera today demanding he be fired.
That's the double standard conservatives need to worry about.
And that's when these conservatives head to Washington next week.
Many of these guys ran saying I oppose John Boehner.
Are they actually going to stand up now and say they still oppose John Boehner?
Are they going to find a scapegoat so they don't have to vote against the speaker, or are they actually going to vote against the speaker?
They need four more.
They may very well get them.
I think this could undermine the leadership, and I think that's a good thing.
Look, people, I don't want to sound like a broken record and I don't want to beat a dead horse, but this point needs to be made over and over and over and over.
These Republican leaders in the House of Representatives campaigned against stopping Barack Obama.
They campaigned against stopping his executive amnesty.
They campaigned against stopping Obamacare.
And what did they do their first thing after the election when they came back to Congress?
What did they do?
They funded every one of those things.
Every one of them.
If conservatives aren't willing to stand up to Republican leaders in the House of Representatives now, they're never going to stand up to Republican leaders.
And when those Republican leaders continue to refuse to stand up to Barack Obama and instead fund his agenda, well, it's really hard to fix America, which was the mandate Republicans just got.
Eric Erickson in for Rush Limbaugh.
you Welcome back, Eric Erikson in for Rush Limbaugh today, 800-28282 is the number Weston in Philly.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Eric, how are you today?
I'm good.
How are you?
Good.
Well, you know, it bothers me when I hear a story, you know, uh about things like the Scalise story.
My reaction is who cares?
Big deal.
Yeah, I think most conservatives are reacting to that when you got Al Sharpton and Louis Farrakhan and the rest of them out there.
Exactly.
I mean, okay, so uh the this group loosely connected to David Grup, uh David Duke.
But but what what is their purpose?
Um, you know, this group, their interest is is in their community and helping their community, helping their state, helping helping their country.
Um we've got you know a le a party, the Democratic Party that has been taken over entirely uh by hard leftists, strident leftists, whose interest is to transform the country by any means necessary, who lie routinely, day after day, uh, to the media and to the American people and get away with it.
Who are you knowing?
Let me tell you this, as a as a native of Louisiana, I I wouldn't go along with your characterization of of that particular group, but your description of the Democratic Party, yes, and and that I think is the point here.
I don't think Republicans need to be held hostage by Democrats uh saying who they can and cannot have in their leadership.
I I don't think we should.
What I think Republicans need to do is fit to their own standards.
And if they would throw a conservative out for doing something like this, then maybe that needs to happen to Scillise.
If the Republicans have their own standards.
The media standard is the Democrat standard, obviously, and the Republicans will never be able to meet that.
We all fall short of the glory of God.
Republicans will always fall short of the glory of the Democratic Party unless they go full on socialist.
But the Republicans need to fit to their standards.
And look what they did to Chris McDaniel in Mississippi for just going to speak to a constituent group, just like Steve Scalise did.
And it happened to be the Sons of Confederate veterans versus a David Duke affiliated group.
And we can't have Chris McDaniel in in the Congress.
Oh, he'll the media will attack us for having Chris McDaniel in the U.S. in it.
We we can't have that guy.
We got to rally around Thad Cochran and all the lobbyists to gay street.
I mean, the crony capitalists of the Republican and the Democratic Party protect themselves and throw the conservatives under the bus all the time.
They are routine for setting standards within the party that they expect conservatives to fall short of.
They will sabotage.
I mean, look at the hit jobs by conservatives like Ted Cruz and Mike Lee in the Politico and elsewhere.
I mean, you you've got Mitch McConnell's stenographer in The Politico has gone out and done a piece on Mike Lee, one of the finest men in the U.S. Senate, uh, just savaging him as being some sort of right-wing kook.
And when you see this sort of piece by that reporter of the politico, you know behind the scenes it's the Republican establishment organizing that to oust conservatives.
When do conservatives get to oust Republican leaders?
When do conservatives get to say this far and no further?
When do conservatives get to say we are the base of this party and we want to say in it?
We we don't want K Street and Wall Street to be the ones controlling the party.
I mean, look, Republicans.
Breitbard.com has a story out that the multimillionaires of the world are giving all their money to the Democratic Party.
Does that mean, like with Hispanic voters, Republicans are gonna say, oh, well, we gotta cater to the multimillionaires.
Forget Main Street, forget the middle class, we gotta get them back.
I mean, that's the genesis of their immigration theory.
The Republicans in Washington look at the data and say, Oh, Hispanics, they're supporting the Democrats.
We've got to do open borders and amnesty because we need those votes.
Are they now in this situation with this report from Breitbart gonna look at this situation and say the multimillionaires, they're going with the Democrats.
We've got to do something to cater to the multimillion.
They're already doing it with K Street.
Friends, I look there is a main street and a middle class in this country, and it is deeply rooted in traditionalism.
It is deeply rooted in conservatism, and it has no relationship anymore to the main leadership of the Republican Party in Congress, who is flying around on their private jets going to Washington.
Nothing wrong with private jets, nothing wrong with Wall Street, nothing wrong with lobbyists, except those are the only people they're listening to.
It is a lot easier for a Fortune 500 company in this country to hire a bunch of lobbyists to go carve out loopholes in Washington to do the tax code than it is to actually innovate against a competitor on Main Street.
They can shut that competitor down on Main Street instead of having to innovate.
And those lobbyists know they can go to Republican leaders and Democratic leaders and write them fat checks.
And if somebody like Ted Cruz or Mike Lee stands up to him or Jim Bridenstein or Tim Mulescamp or or uh Congressman Yoho or so many of the other conservatives who stand up to these things and call them out on it, well, they just go to the Washington Post or the New York Times or politico and do a hit job on the conservative.
When do the Republican leaders have to honor and uphold the standards they set for the conservatives in Congress?
That's what I want to know.
And I don't know that John Boehner can answer that.
And that's why I hope they get four more votes and boot him out of speaker.
I think conservatives need to stand up and show that they are in charge of the party, That they are the majority of the party, that they are the base of the party, that they are the intellectual, honest brokers of the party.
And the only visible way they're going to do that is by booting Boehner and making a show of force of it.
Because the Republicans don't treat conservatives seriously anymore.
They think they beat them in the primaries.
They can hold Chris McDaniel to a standard they're not going to hold Steve Scalise to.
They'll get all the bad press over Scalise.
But these standards, they won't hold themselves to them, and that bothers me greatly.
That conservatives get them elected, give them money, support them, and then they get to Washington and they don't want to be even be in the same room with us.
They'd rather write a hit job about them.
Well, guess what?
Someone's turned it around on them.
There's a hit job about a Republican leader.
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Let's go back to the phones to John in Burlington, North Carolina.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Oh, yes.
I I have a question for you.
We I hear so much talk about the different parties.
Aren't we all Americans and shouldn't we be there working for the good of all America?
Yeah, I think we should.
The question is what works for all Americans.
Okay, you know, my point is that I'm African American, I'm independent.
Oh, I got tired of the party system, and and I hear all the things appointing.
Why don't we get up there and try to do something about taking care of the problems rather than always complaining about?
Well, here's the problem, John, with the it's the way Washington works in general now.
Everett Dirksen apocryphally, I don't think it was actually him, uh, but he's the one who gets the credit for it.
He has a great line.
Uh back in the day, he was the Republican leader in the Senate, uh, back I think in the 50s, and he said there are two parties in Washington.
There's the stupid party and the evil party.
And every once in a while they get together and they do something that's both stupid and evil, and the press hails it as a bipartisan accomplishment.
And that's basically what we see in Washington these days.
Uh someone from Meet the Press tweeted out the other day that uh the 113th Congress or whatever it was, that this past Congress that's just winding up, it was the second least productive, and it's deeply unpopular.
And I looked at that story and I thought, this is a good thing that they were unproductive.
Whenever Congress, particularly a bipartisan Congress, gets things done, it's just bohica.
I mean, you here they come again.
You you gotta you gotta uh that it's not a good thing when Republicans and Democrats collaborate together more often than not.
And here's the reason why, John, and this is the frustration, frankly, this is the frustration of a lot of liberals and conservatives, is that the leadership of both parties in Washington is much more interested in awarding and rewarding the people who write them big checks.
Now, the difference between the Occupy movement and the Tea Party movement is that the Occupy movement, well, it it largely hates the American ideals of freedom and liberty and free enterprise, and then the Tea Party loves those.
So they approach all of the problems and they've got a lot of the same problems.
That it's the big donors in Washington who are getting rewarded.
The problem comes into the solutions.
And the Occupy Wall Street people, they want to burn it down and create a communist utopia and just give poor people money and keep them poor.
It is the Tea Party movement, it is the conservatives who want to get government out of the way so people can make something of themselves.
You know, if you go back to the 40s, so Franklin Roosevelt, Roosevelt distinguished between the poor and the deserving poor.
And by that he meant that there are people who are poor because they've made bad decisions in life.
And the government doesn't need to be reinforcing their ability to make bad decisions by bailing them out of those bad decisions.
But then there are the deserving poor.
I mean, Jesus said we'll always have the poor.
FDR said there are poor people who because of their lot in life, they're poor.
It's not that they did anything wrong, it's that they are in rural Appalachia or they're they're sh former sharecroppers in the South, and the government should help them get out of that situation so they can get a move on, get a better education, and then lift themselves up.
It was only when we got to Lyndon Johnson and his war on poverty where he decided that we were a rich enough country that we didn't need any poor people, that we could bail them all out, that they got rid of this distinction between the deserving poor and all of the poor.
That if you were poor, by God the government was gonna help you.
And what do we do?
We subsidized bad choices for a lot of people.
Now we helped a lot of people, but we also subsidized bad choices for others.
And we no longer wanted to distinguish between those who deserved the government help by virtue of their station in life and the others who made bad choices.
People didn't have to work anymore.
The government could subsidize their existence.
I remember a report back during the Romney Obama campaign and the forty seven percent comment by Romney that got everybody so upset or whatever it was, you know, fifty-one, forty-nine percent.
There was a a study, it seems like I remember reading that if you're a mm single mother with multiple kids making nineteen thousand dollars a year, you needed to make well over sixty thousand dollars a year to be able to compensate from the government benefits that you're getting.
Now that in my mind is is no way to sustain our republic.
It just and the problem is that Republicans know the right thing to do.
They do.
Republican John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, they know the right things to do, but they're so timid, they're scared of their own shadow.
They don't want to fight.
I mean, look look at the election.
Immediately after the election.
That is my point.
That is my point.
Okay, the leadership needs to step up and start doing the right thing and working towards what needs to be done rather than complain.
I'm not forgiving people a handout, but give them a hand up.
If you go out and say this is wrong, this is bad, then have some solutions to help them stair step their way up rather than giving them an EDH T card and get food.
I'm totally on board with that, John, and and they don't want to fight.
They the the Republicans in Washington, look, the day after the election, what did they do?
They held Mitch McConnell said, Well, we're not gonna do anything to ever chance shutting down the government again.
Well, that was a big signal to the Democrats that they could push the Republicans into caving on anything.
So they know what's right, but they're not gonna fight for it.
I want people to go to Washington and fight.
I want them to fight against Washington.
The American people hate Washington.
For the life of me, I cannot understand why the Republican leadership isn't running a sustained fight against Washington, D.C. John, thanks very much for the phone call.
Let's go to Bill in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
We got a couple of east both sides of the state represented today.
Bill, how are you?
Good, Eric.
Um uh happy New Year.
Uh I've been listening to you, I I've agree with just about everything you've said, and w where I live here locally, I'm on a local city council, I'm a Republican committee member, and I I just don't know how much longer us uh right-wing cook wacko birds are gonna be able to take this.
Um my feeling is You filthy hobbit.
Pardon?
You filthy hobbit, at least that's what the Wall Street Journal would call you.
Right, right.
Um what bothers me is that the you know yourself and others uh, you know, make valid great points, but I think at the end of the day, we just you know, it seems like we button our lips and we get in line.
Yes, yes, thank you.
Am I am I hinting at we need to either take over the party one last time if it's possible, or start a third party because it's obvious that Mitch McConnell and John Boehner are beholden to uh Wall Street and K Street and they're too scared to ruffle anybody's feathers.
Here's the thing.
I you know, uh I waver on this whole third party stuff.
I'm just being honest here, Bill, but I was an elections lawyer for a number of years, and you're never gonna start a third party in this country.
It's vastly easier to play within the Republican Party and take it over.
And here's the thing.
So there's this this uh profile of me in in the January-February issue of The Atlantic, and and I point out it in there what I've written before, Molly Ball is the author of it, and say, you know, we as conservatives, we don't have to win every fight.
That's the beauty of the conservative insurgency right now within the Republican Party.
We don't have to win every fight.
We need to send Ted Cruz and Mike Lee and Bridenstein and Hill Scamp and Jim Jordan and the rest.
We need to send reinforcements in the House and the Senate, but we don't have to win across the board.
The leadership does.
Now, Molly, the the the author points out this is kind of like terrorism, not every bomb has to go off just some.
That that's that's her view of it.
That's how the the media sees this.
But you know what?
We don't have to win all the fights.
We can continue to fight.
I've got some uh friends here locally, Republicans, who uh told me that once we gain control next year, that we could revisit this budget we just passed and make whatever changes we want.
I I'm not an expert on that.
I don't know whether once you've passed the budget, you can go back into it later and switch.
Okay, Bill, you you can.
You can go back in and revisit it.
But here's the thing.
If you go back in and revisit it and the president vetoes it, well, you're stuck on the same budget you had before then.
I mean, they they stacked the deck against themselves to avoid a government shutdown.
That they can't uh using the president's language, uh they can't hold him hostage.
Uh they they can't do that.
They passed the budget to fund the government.
Now they say they want to go back and revisit it, and in revisiting, what do they do if the president vetoes it?
Well, they stay on the same budget they originally passed.
These guys campaigned on telling Barack Obama no, and then they have just funded everything he did.
At some point, conservatives have got to stand up and look, let me put it to you this way before we get out of here for for commercial.
If if we do not hold our own side accountable, the voters will hold us accountable.
And I would rather we as conservatives, as Republicans, I'm I was an elected Republican.
I would rather us hold our own side accountable than risk the wrath of the voters.
The voters sent Republicans to Washington to tell Barack Obama no, we probably ought to listen to the voters, unlike Barack Obama, who completely ignores them unless he gets his way.
Let's not act like Barack Obama.
Eric Erickson in for rush.
We'll be right back.
Welcome back.
Eric Ericson in for Rush Limbaugh, the phone number 800-282-2882.
Let's go to is it Dosey in Baytown, Texas?
Yes.
So is it Dosey?
Did I get that right?
Oh Dossi, all right.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
All right.
Uh uh, I've been listening to this show quite a while.
And it seems like no matter what President Obama does, there's always something negative says about it on this show.
I mean, I know you got your right to your opinion, but at least sometimes you could at least find something.
Say, for instance, about this war.
So what do you think he's done good?
Well, one thing he didn't rush into a war just because a few people got their heads cut off.
Wait, wait, wait.
I I believe that it was over two thousand people burning up in buildings after planes flew into them that caused a war.
Well, that he wasn't president at that time, okay.
Yes.
Oh, so what you're saying is that he didn't rush back to Iraq after people got their heads cut off.
But he did send 10,000 troops, he's just calling them advisors.
Okay, but look at what I'm saying.
See, you won't even You know I got a point, that's why you trying to cut me off.
Well, I'm not cutting you off on this is called a conversation.
ISIS when ISIS showed him cutting these guys' heads off.
Everybody expected President Obama could rush in and just go to blow themselves up because of that one incident.
And he did.
He waited to find out what went on and why.
No, he didn't.
He he declared a no-fly zone pretty quickly and and started blowing stuff up and he said 10,000 people.
Friends, uh uh Dosey from Baytown, Texas, I appreciate you calling in.
It's been a while since the Rush Limbaugh Show has had a high quality, low information voter to have a conversation with.
But in this conversation, beyond the war, uh name name something else you think Barack Obama has done good.
When President Obama came into office, gas was up to five dollars a gallon.
All of a sudden it's down to two dollars a gallon.
And that's the other day I didn't know.
But it wasn't five dollars a gallon when he came in.
You don't let it take my opinion.
Go go go say your opinion.
You can hate on him all you want.
That crisis was up to $5 a gallon.
All of a sudden they're down to two dollars a gallon.
But from what I heard on your radio station, it wasn't because of anything Obama did.
It's because they wanted to make sure that the uh Russians and the Iraqis didn't have the funds to out of coming out of the oil field to develop a bomb and all of this kind of crap.
Okay, well, well, Okay.
Hey, hey, hey, Dosey, I got a question for you.
Do you know what the gas price was?
The average American gas price was in January of two thousand nine when President Obama took office.
It was it was approaching five thousand.
I I I just Googled it.
So unless the entire internet is lying to me, it was a dollar eighty-nine a gallon.
Huh?
It was a dollar eighty-nine a gallon when President Obama took office.
But oh come on.
I look you go look, there's this thing called Google.
Congressman Scalisi might need to learn how to use it.
I know we'll google this.
Okay, go go Google.
Google average gas price two thousand nine, and you'll find Dosie.
Look, I I mean you're entitled to your opinion as well, but we're not entitled to our own facts.
And and the fact is in January of 2009, when the president came into office, the average gas price was a dollar eighty-nine and it shut up during his administration.
Not only that, the president and the EPA went out of their way to stop domestic oil production on federal lands, and he's benefiting not only from massive production on private lands in the United States, he's been benefiting from extended production from Saudi Arabia as well.
I knew this was gonna happen.
So yeah, I knew it was gonna happen too.
You were gonna trot into the show, say we're hating on your man Barack Obama, and then you're gonna trot out a bunch of crap that's not true and try to say that we're lying about him when I got my computer right here.
I'm Googling the facts for you, and you're you you can't even accept the facts.
Mr. Surdley, I would like to thank you for this opportunity.
It has been an amazing opportunity to deal with low information voters.
Rush tells me all the time when I listen that that guys like Dosie exist.
I I look, I just this is this is fantastic.
You people need to know that this is what we're dealing with in in the fight to save this country.
I can Google for him that in two thousand nine, the average gas price was a dollar eighty-nine.
You can Google it yourself, and it's gone up since then.
But he is convinced that it was five dollars a gallon.
Dosie, thanks very much for the phone call from Baytown, Texas, no less.
My goodness.
You would think in an area like that they would know oil prices, but no.
No, I guess not.
This is exciting, folks.
They do exist, low information voters of this caliber.
They do.
Eric Erickson, in for Rush.
We'll be back.
Well, I was getting on the internet to see if Dosey might be in Sheila Jackson Lee's district, but apparently not.
That would have just made it all the more poetic, I think.
Welcome back.
It's Eric Erickson in for Rush Limbaugh.
If you missed the last caller, you might have saved yourself some brain cells, but that that was exciting.
That is just it makes my day to deal with low information voters.
It really does.
Let's go back to the phones.
I'm enjoying this.
Fern in Lakewood, Colorado.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Eric.
I am a TikTok voter in Colorado.
I campaigned for, contributed to our Senator Elect Gardner's campaign.
He campaigned against Obamacare.
He campaigned for less government, etc.
etc.
And then he went right back into the House because he was a representative prior and voted for that.
Chilly bill and the NDAA and so I'm ticked.
Well, you you have every right to be.
Let's be honest, though, he is a step up from the the senator he'll be replacing Mr. Udall.
Absolutely.
But my collie, I'm tired of saying, okay, this guy's not as bad as I want him to do what they say they're gonna do.
You know, so Fern, I've got a dear friend of mine.
He he's uh a judge in Middle Georgian, and one time he looked at me and he said, you know, it's not the lesser of two evils we're having to deal with, it's the evils of two lessers.
And I just I think that's just so spot on.
It is.
It's depressing.
Look, I I totally understand that.
And when it comes to elections, you know, my rule is always but even running red state.com, I always say I'm for the conservative in the primary.
And I don't do the the most conservative who can win, because generally That's the squishy liberal and the establishment rallies around them and claims that they can only win.
I'm for the conservative.
But when it gets to the general election, I'm for the Republican over the Democrat because it is an improvement, and ultimately, those are your options on the table.
So you don't need to regret your vote, but hold his feet to the fire.
There are things he said he would do, principles he would uphold.
And I just don't know that we enough hold our representatives and senators accountable.
Fern, thanks very much for the phone call.
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