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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	Buck Sexton here.
	Delighted and privileged to be joining you on this New Year's Eve.
	Thank you so much for your time.
	As was just mentioned, I'm formerly a CIA analyst of the NYPD Intelligence Division, which will, I think, come up a bit later in the show, and I'm with the Blaze now.
	You can learn more about me at facebook.com slash BuckSexton or theblaze.com slash BuckSexton.
	I would ask that you, when you get a chance, please do so.
	Interesting that at this time of year, I think the assumption would be that things would have slowed down dramatically in the news cycle.
	And there's been something of a slowdown, but what's interesting is that because of where President Obama is now in his cycle going into the last couple of years here, and because it's also a time when you can get some stuff through, you can actually push through some things without much attention being paid to them because, hey, most of the mainstream is on vacation right now.
	And so even if they were going to cover it, which is, of course, an open question, I'm not sure they would.
	Now's a time when you can push through some things.
	And President Obama, as we know, in fact, this goes back to when his staff was referring to the president as the bear, and they were saying the bear is loose, essentially.
	Now he is doing what he wants to do, what he's always wanted to do.
	Now you're really starting to see it.
	And today is no exception.
	Just announced that Obama has released five more Gitmo prisoners, five more Guantanamo Bay detainees, and he is sending them for the first time, because I guess we're sort of, you know, we're spreading the wealth around, so to speak.
	For the first time, we're sending them to Kazakhstan.
	Kazakhstan, because the terrorists will be strong on the plow, like Borat.
	So, I know, and you're going to get a lot of people making Borat references because Kazakhstan.
	Nonetheless, you've got five Gitmo prisoners who are on their way to Kazakhstan, which I hear is lovely this time of year, not that I know.
	But these detainees that have been released, they bring the total number held right now when you take away this five to 127.
	So they've moved these five.
	Now you've got 127.
	The administration overall at this point.
	Now, remember, Obama came into office, because we can do some looking back as well as looking forward today.
	I think that's going to be sort of the general theme of the show.
	That he came into office.
	He said he was going to close Gitmo, and then it was, wait a minute, Gitmo's kind of useful.
	Well, it's kind of hard to close it down.
	So we're going to slow roll this thing.
	So he went a little slow on it.
	And now we see that he's not, because he's not facing the electorate again, of course.
	And don't forget that's an essential component of all of this.
	That he's going to go alone, go alone.
	And he's doing that.
	So we've got five Gitmo detainees being released in addition to the others already.
	This administration has released 111, 28 of them this year.
	And the Congress has already been told, by the way, that there will be more of these releases coming up.
	So while everyone's getting ready and stocking up on last-minute champagne and crude detail or, I don't know, perhaps Blue Ribbon and Bologna, whatever it is that however it is you choose to celebrate New Year's Eve, or if you're like me, you just plan on cozying up to some Netflix and some frozen macaroni and cheese, which I will unfreeze in the microwave, of course.
	I'm not going to eat it frozen.
	I'm a civilized man.
	But that's really where you see all of this, I think, very clearly and very much going.
	So he's decided he's going to do this while everyone's not paying attention.
	He's decided that this is a good time.
	And also they've let the Congress know that there will be more transfers coming up.
	59 have been approved for release.
	Now, keep in mind that overall, this facility held 700 detainees.
	And whereas until basically now, the line that you would hear is, oh, well, you have to understand, we're just reviewing them case by, it's case by case.
	Come on, it's case by case.
	We're not just slowly emptying this thing out to the point where it will no longer be possible to keep it open.
	That was the story.
	But as I said, we're preparing for New Year's Eve.
	And what's come out today is that they're open about this is now the beginning of the end for Gitmo.
	Or I guess the beginning of the end has been coming for some time.
	And now we're getting to the end of the end.
	They are planning to shut the whole thing down.
	But they won't do it.
	The administration won't do it, of course, with just the stroke of a pen, you know, pen and a phone.
	Remember that?
	They're not going to do it that way.
	They're going to rely on the costs of the detainees.
	Right now, they say it costs in the millions of dollars per detainee.
	And when you lower the number of detainees at the facility, of course, the costs go up.
	Finally, the Obama administration paying attention to costs.
	This is one of the only issues.
	They certainly didn't with Obamacare.
	We'll talk about that later on today in the show.
	But they figure if they make Guantanamo expensive enough, then maybe they'll get more buy-in to just shut the whole thing down.
	Now, why would anyone object to this, of course?
	This is where we have to go now.
	Why do we object to what's happening here with the Obama administration?
	Well, we're not trying to operate a catch and release program for terrorists.
	That's a bad idea.
	Never mind the fact that we have U.S. citizens who are serving for decades, decades-long sentences in prison for trafficking marijuana.
	And whether you agree or disagree with the marijuana laws, it's not really clear what they are anymore.
	You've got a couple of states that just openly flout them, and the federal government is saying, well, in those states, I guess it's okay.
	But we still have people who are languishing in federal prison for decades on that.
	But the Gitmo detainees, if you were al-Qaeda back in the day, you've reformed.
	You've probably really cleaned up your act.
	It's time for you to be a model citizen in Kazakhstan or, I guess, Uruguay, I think is where the other most recent batch.
	Or just go, oh, go join ISIS.
	Very important point there because that is happening.
	And they accept that that's happening.
	The estimate for recidivism, for returning to the battle, right?
	Going back to this catch and release program.
	And oh, yeah, that's right.
	Good point.
	Because there is a caliphate right now that is calling for fighters from all over the world.
	And what they're getting for the most part, they're getting young recruits from everywhere, including America, including Canada, including Europe, Australia.
	Never mind, of course, from across the Middle East, that we would expect.
	But they want senior leaders.
	They need people that have the ability and even more importantly, perhaps the credibility within the jihadist community to be at the top of the terrorism pyramid, to be the guys that are planning and executing operations, who have connections to what we used to call at the agency, and it's called this, I think, more broadly, to AQ Central, senior al-Qaeda leadership in Afghanistan-Pakistan area.
	We know that some of the detainees who have been released just over the past year did have those kinds of connections.
	And we also know, by the way, apart from the seniority of some of these terrorists, we know that about 30% of them suppose overall, 30% of Gitmo detainees returned to the battle.
	What I love about this now, what I mean love about this, I mean the response that you're getting from the administration and those involved in the process is that, well, we shouldn't worry about this because the 30% figure is a, quote, combination of those who are confirmed and those only suspected of returning to hostile activities.
	Well, in that case, I guess we have nothing to worry about because if we just suspect it, and by the way, that means that they're probably running a Twitter account, you know, number one global jihadist, at number one global jihadist or something, and saying, you know, death to America.
	And we're just assuming that that's just, they're making that up or they're not really serious about that.
	And so we hear that the 30% figure is this combination.
	We also hear, by the way, and this is from people in the administration making these decisions, that, quote, even among those confirmed, this is from NBC News today, even among those who are confirmed to have returned to the fight, many of those have been killed or captured.
	So the good news is that, yeah, we're replenishing the ranks of the jihadists.
	Okay, fair enough.
	We're putting back some senior leadership into place.
	And why, other than for President Obama's legacy and for the promise that he made coming into office, why this promise is sacred, by the way?
	So many other promises broken.
	If you like our plan, you could keep it.
	No, you can't, but we're going to shut down Gitmo.
	And that has to be, that is sacred.
	That is a sacred promise from the commander-in-chief to the American people.
	At least that's how he seems to be treating it.
	And so now we're told, okay, well, yeah, some of them are going to go back and fight.
	We know they're going back and fighting.
	We have the most sophisticated, well-funded, and territorially expansive terrorist outfit in the modern era of jihad with the Islamic State, with ISIS or ISIL or Daesh, if you want to say it like the cool kids, because that's the Arabic acronym.
	We have that going on, and yet we're still deciding that this war is over.
	This is a recurring theme, and it's sort of a teaser of stuff we'll be talking about more today.
	The president thinks that he can declare a war over and then it's over.
	That his merely speaking about it somehow changes the reality, puts us in a different place.
	So he's shutting down Gitmo.
	It's actually happening now.
	To those who would say, oh, Gitmo is a blight on the American character or whatever it is that they say.
	The MSNBC watchers, however, they want to couch this thing.
	I would ask, why now from the president?
	If this was such a moral imperative, if it was so essential that we let loose people that took up arms and did so, of course, out of uniform in violation of Geneva Convention's law of war at a different time, if you're captured in this situation, you would have just been executed.
	But now we take care of you and put you in Gitmo and all the rest of it.
	Why now?
	Why not when he came into office?
	Why has it been so slow?
	And why not just release them all at once?
	This sort of reminds me of the old and oft-used boiling frog analogy.
	Just do it slowly over time and nobody really notices.
	And by the time it's actually at a boil, oh, it's too late to do anything about it.
	By the time we realize that the president has allowed for the replenishment of terrorist ranks by opening up Gitmo, by changing the regulations under which people are released and heading them to countries that we're supposed to trust, well, guess what?
	Gitmo will already effectively be all done and over with, but the president won't have had to pay any political consequences for it.
	And when Schrillery Clinton comes into office, as they think will happen, hopefully not, won't be on her, man, because when she was Secretary of State, this didn't happen.
	Wow, it wasn't my fault.
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	Now, look, the president's had a bad year, even by Obama's standards, which, as president, you know, those standards, that's been a sliding scale, to be sure.
	The president has not had a good one, whether you're looking at the Bo Bergdahl fiasco.
	You know, I got an idea.
	Let's throw this guy who's a deserter, a giant party in the Rose Garden, calling the Islamic State a JV terrorist group before it made its way more or less to the outskirts of Baghdad and still controls territory that has a few million people living in it and is now a self-funding terrorist organization that operates as a state.
	But whatever.
	It's JV.
	It's not real.
	It's not Kofi.
	There's been a bunch of things that happened.
	Of course, also giving the solemn speech about a recent beheading and then deciding that he's going to go and hit the links just a few minutes afterwards.
	It's been a bad year for the president from the optics and on policy, from what we've actually seen as a result of the decision-making within the administration, to be sure.
	But what you have to keep in mind, and what I'm trying to keep in mind as I talk to you here today, is the president flatly, fundamentally, does not care.
	Doesn't care what you think about that, doesn't care about the optics, doesn't care about the policy.
	Now, you're getting to see more of what he's wanted to do the whole time, and he's completely unapologetic for it.
	In fact, in a moment of dictatorial impulse, even for a presidency that's got a really strong authoritarian streak in the first place, the president, after the shellacking in the most recent midterm elections, basically said, well, the people who didn't vote, those are the ones that I'm representing.
	Oh, okay, so the non-voting majority is the one that's giving you the majority.
	That's good to know.
	You're just going to assume the people who don't vote are giving you a mandate.
	I love this logic.
	But that's actually how he views all this stuff.
	And that's actually now when people, his own staff was saying, you know, the bear is loose.
	Like, now he's going to get it all done and he's going to do what he's always wanted to do.
	You're seeing that happen.
	You've got the Gitmo release today.
	You have the recent essentially just caving on Cuba.
	There was no, we didn't get anything out of that.
	And it's a surrender to a dictatorial regime that I think the president has an affinity for.
	There's no question.
	Now we hear more about what the plan is for Iran.
	And by the way, that's not going to turn out well.
	Oh, he's looking to set up an embassy in the relatively near future.
	He wants to restore relations.
	He thinks they can get right with the international community.
	I mean, he refers to Iran like it's a couple months behind on its mortgage payments.
	It's a little more than that.
	It's not just about taking care of some paperwork here or there.
	I mean, this is a country.
	We refer to the terrorism that Iran's been engaged in.
	And I think that sometimes for people, it just doesn't have the resonance, you know, because some of it was then, and maybe it's changed.
	The Iranian regime was sending Shia militants into Iraq to kill U.S. soldiers inside of that country just a few years ago.
	And would do the same thing today if they felt that it was in their interest to do so.
	And we don't have troops fighting.
	Otherwise, they probably would be in the crosshairs of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and all the rest of it.
	Oh, yeah, but he wants a normalization with Iran.
	That's the latest thing.
	He is now checking off all the boxes.
	All the stuff that for years we were led to believe he did, for years rather, we were led to believe, oh, no, it's not true, but many of us knew it was true.
	Now we see he's doing what he wants to do.
	So that's the plan.
	That's the plan that's being outlined here.
	An embassy in Tehran, an embassy in Havana, making a lot of overtures to rogue states and enemy regimes.
	And I still would, I would ask any of you to tell me, what is the trade-off for us?
	What do we get in response to this?
	Yeah, right.
	World peace.
	Everyone's going to love us.
	We're going to be pals.
	It's going to be great.
	We're going to be buddies.
	I don't think you're going to see Obama and the Ayatollah playing golf anytime soon because I don't know if the Ayatollah golfs.
	He does, however, tweet troll the United States.
	I'm not sure if all of you are familiar with this.
	The Ayatollah, the supreme leader in Iran.
	And I always picture him sitting there with maybe some Taylor Swift in the background.
	And, of course, he's got MSNBC on mute because that's his favorite channel because, you know, more anti-American than Al Jazeera.
	So I think he sits there and in a robe.
	Let's be honest.
	He's probably always in a robe.
	And he sits there and he's tweeting out stuff about how he hates America.
	Also, by the way, he's also a Ferguson devotee.
	He tweets out stuff to sort of troll us all the time.
	And he even says stuff like, this was just two days ago.
	This is from the supreme leader of Iran, the country that we're supposed to reestablish relations with.
	This is the guy that calls the shots, really the Guardian Council in Iran calls the shots.
	He's a part of it, but, you know, nonetheless, he tweets out stuff like, look at the arrogant crimes against Native Americans.
	It is one of the dark points in the history of modern America.
	Now, I'm not sure it's modern America really that he's referring to there, but still you can see this is the guy that we're supposed to be buddies with now.
	And really, he's probably not Taylor Swift.
	He's probably more of an Ariana Grande fan.
	But still, he also tweets out stuff like, what was this one?
	Oh, yes.
	He says, the Almighty God ordered the human beings to struggle against tyranny, corruption, backwardness, and poverty.
	Hashtag Solidarity Day.
	Hashtag Ferguson.
	So the Ayatollah is Ferguson tweeting.
	He's deciding to let us know what he thinks about all of that.
	But yeah, that's the plan.
	Remember, there was an NPR interview.
	They held it for 10 days.
	Like I said, this is sort of just slipping in stuff at the end of the year.
	Right now, where we are is a giant version of the Friday 5 p.m. news dump.
	It's the end of the year.
	People are on vacation, and they're just letting stuff go.
	Buck Sexton here in for Rush Limbaugh.
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	Indeed, sir.
	It is Buck Sexton in for Rush today.
	You can send me messages on Twitter and Facebook at BuckSexton on Twitter, facebook.com slash BuckSexton.
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	And you know me from, hopefully, maybe some of you might know me from The Blaze or from Fox News or sometimes other things.
	All right, let's take some calls.
	800-282-2882 is our number.
	We have Steve calling in from Denver.
	You are on the Rush Limbaugh show.
	You are speaking to Buck.
	Hey, Buck.
	Hey, man, I just want to say real quick before I ask a question.
	You know, I've been listening to AM Radio all the time at work, and you're definitely my favorite new guy on the radio.
	I appreciate that very much, sir.
	Thank you.
	You're doing awesome.
	I've heard you on a lot of shows.
	I wanted to ask, since you're a former agency guy, what kind of advice is the current CIA giving the president?
	And what ultimately, in all honesty, do you predict is the end game of the president in releasing known combatants back into the battlefield, back into the world?
	Well, you know, I have a lot of friends who are still on the inside at the agency, and I can tell you that, you know, and I've been out for, I've been out for a few years now, although one of my main jobs there was to write for what's called the PDB, the President's Daily Brief.
	And so that was, and I worked on Iraq, so we let's just, we were very busy because that was in the height of the Iraq War was when I was in that office.
	My friends who were inside, I'll be honest with you.
	Well, first of all, there's been the slap in the face of the Democrat torture report, which was completely partisan, and what purpose did it serve?
	And so there's still the sting of that hasn't worn off.
	But there's also, and this is not just in the CIA, I mean, this is more broadly to, again, I have friends in the community, as we call it, the intelligence community, including state and the other places.
	They just feel like the president, it's sort of amateur hour on foreign policy, and his team is amateur-ish as well.
	And you're asking about the endgame.
	The president came in with a pretty straightforward ideological position, and it is that a lot of the problems around the world that we have are the result of what America has done, bad things, because we're naughty.
	America's naughty.
	And we've done bad things around the world.
	And he's going to set those things right.
	Now, the American electorate, by and large, keeping apart from it a large portion of Democrats, don't go for that.
	So we had to temper that for the first few years.
	But Steve, now what you're seeing is the president's actual belief, his ideological positioning on America versus the rest of the world, how we should be in the world.
	He's doing it now.
	And that means emptying Gitmo.
	It means relations with Cuba after decades of totalitarian and Stalinist activity on that little island.
	And means a new relationship with Iran in which they're going to have at least nuclear breakout capability.
	And it means allies all around the world saying, well, what exactly are we supposed to think here?
	So I think, Steve, the short answer to your question is just he's doing now what he's always wanted to do, which is to humble America on the world stage and give concede ground to our enemies in the hopes that they will like us more.
	I know that's a simplistic way of saying it, but it's the accurate way, I think.
	Well, is he on the One Embassy for One program as well?
	You know, we'll go ahead and give you an embassy in Benghazi, and then we'll just go ahead and reopen one in Cuba.
	Well, I certainly hope not.
	I think that he's, and Steve, thank you for calling in from Denver and for your kind words.
	You know, he wants to open an embassy in Cuba.
	I mean, this is something that, again, if it was such a moral imperative, right, if this was the right, it's the right thing to do.
	We're going to pay our far share.
	We're going to open embassies all over the world.
	That whole thing, right?
	If that's true, why wait?
	Why now when the American people don't get to actually respond to these actions because the president is going to be leaving office before there's any referendum?
	And by the way, there was a referendum on his recent policies in the midterms.
	You had a lot of voters, I think a third of voters who came out and said specifically that they were unhappy with Obama's policies.
	And his response to that is essentially delusional.
	I mean, he's like the guy who goes on, you know, American Idol and is all, you know, I sing, I'm the best singer.
	And they all say, you're the worst, you're terrible.
	That's the worst thing I've ever heard.
	You know, Simon Cowl style.
	And he's like, I'm going to be a platinum-selling artist, sir.
	You know, he's that delusional on the foreign policy stuff now.
	He's that delusional about the election results.
	He's the guy who no one else thinks can sing, and he thinks he's, you know, going to be going to be selling millions of records.
	And in fact, he says that the people that didn't vote, those are the ones that voted for him.
	I mean, in a different context, people would start thinking that things were getting a little too crazy here.
	All right, let's take Steve in Richmond.
	Steve, this is the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	You're speaking to Buck.
	Yes.
	Good afternoon.
	Good afternoon, sir.
	You've been mentioning Cuba a few times throughout the show today.
	And one question that I have not heard answered in any of the analysis of Cuba is Cuba was listed as a terrorist state, I believe, in 1982, correct?
	Yes, sir.
	I'm not sure about the year, but it's a terrorist regime, yeah.
	What terrorism has Cuba carried out or funded against the United States?
	Well, you don't have to fund there's a few points that I would want to make here.
	One is you don't have to fund terrorism specifically against the United States to be a terrorist regime, right?
	I mean, look at Hamas, for example.
	We think of them as a terrorist regime because of what they do.
	They engage in terrorism under international law.
	It's a terrorist organization.
	And so the fact that it hasn't attacked America specifically doesn't mean one way or the other it's going to be a terrorist state.
	But, I mean, to your question also, I would say that there have been many times when Cuba has acted against U.S. national security interests, has stolen highly sensitive data.
	I mean, there are a number.
	Look, we just did a prisoner swap.
	We got a human rights worker back, basically, and they got a bunch of spies back who were stealing stuff from us.
	Some of the most egregious penetrations of the intelligence community have been Cuban agents.
	That's well documented and well understood.
	And if you want to look for terrorism, I mean, they engaged in aerial terrorism a few years ago, not a few years ago, I guess it was 96, I think, with the Brothers to the Rescue situation.
	If you're not familiar with it, I highly recommend you go and check it out.
	There were Cuban Americans who were part of those who had fled the dictatorial regime, and they were trying to prevent people from drowning or dying of dehydration or being eaten by sharks or any number of painful and horrible deaths.
	They were flying over international air, over the sea, trying to make sure they pulled people out.
	And the Cuban regime sent MiGs to shoot the planes out of the sky, and they did.
	They got two of the three of them.
	And those were U.S. citizens, by the way.
	And there was a condemnation from the U.N., but the Clinton administration, because Clinton had no backbone, he had other things going on.
	They didn't do anything.
	I mean, that's an act of terrorism right off the top of my head.
	And they've supported terrorist regimes.
	This is the real ⁇ I mean, another answer to your question, I know I'm giving you a few, is that they've supported every bad terrorist-sponsoring state on the planet can count on Cuban assistance, essentially Cuban material support, right?
	Whether it's sending them their own intel officers to train them, sending them doctors, sending them whatever it is.
	And so if you ally with terrorists, we consider you to be a terrorist state as well.
	Is that an answer to your question?
	It is, but there is a great deal that you're leaving out.
	We know, and I know this because I've seen the Well, I only have so much time on the air here.
	What am I leaving out?
	Well, the declassified CIA documents that I'm sure you've seen that have been placed online, there was a bombing of a Cuban airliner in the 70s, I believe, killed 77 people, something like that.
	That was carried out by Cuban exiles who operated with impunity in the United States.
	And we know that the CIA knew of this terrorist attack that was going to be carried out and chose to do nothing.
	So there has been at least tacit support by the U.S. government for terrorist activity carried out in Cuba.
	All right, thanks.
	It's been real, buddy.
	Yeah, the exiles are the terrorists.
	I get it.
	You know what?
	What is wrong?
	What is wrong with people these days?
	That's right.
	The exiles.
	Castro, he's imprisoning political opponents, torturing them, having them executed.
	In prisons, homosexuals.
	But, you know, the problem is the exile community.
	You know, that's what the real issue is.
	The people that.
	That's amazing.
	Michael Moore flies down there every time he's got a cold, every time he's got a sniffle.
	He's like, well, I'm going down to Cuba.
	That's where the real stuff gets done.
	So, here we go.
	I love it, too.
	He's like, you've seen the declassified CIA documents?
	Like, dude, I've seen the classified CIA documents, first of all.
	All right.
	Let's see how.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Enough of that.
	I've seen the classified, I mean, the declassified ones, please.
	All right.
	Let's take Lori in Pittsburgh.
	Lori, you're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
	You're speaking to Buck.
	Hi, Buck.
	My question is: I have been thinking about this that I'm worried that a lot of what's going to happen at the Castro end is: one, it makes him look better because he restored everything to Cuba, develop relations.
	But also, how is this going to help him, for lack of a better word, to destroy his paper trail of what he's done?
	Does that make sense?
	Whose paper trail?
	Castro's paper trail.
	The regime, the Cuban regime, I think, is going to be able to destroy and write the history in their own way, in a positive way, because no one's going to be able to come after Castro Dies and find all the bad things that happened and that he did.
	What you're saying, I think, is that because there won't be regime change, there won't actually be any sort of truth and reconciliation.
	There won't be any reckoning with what's actually happened to the Castro regime.
	I think that's true, although I don't think that's their prime consideration right now.
	Look, they've declared victory, and not only that, they're saying that they're victorious, and this is the Cuban regime.
	Remember, our problem is not with the Cuban people.
	The Cuban people are the victims in this.
	Our problem is with the dictatorial Castro regime.
	And they have said that they're going to continue with communism.
	That's not going to change.
	But now they're just going to be able to get more hard currency.
	They're going to be more financially solvent.
	The government will, because of the outside dollars that will come in.
	We know the embargo now is going to be weakened, and it's just a question before, a question of time, I think, before it's gone.
	And yeah, they're not going to have to have an accounting for their misdeeds, their terrorism, their human rights violations, everything from the past.
	I don't know why this was seen as, and I know, apparently, more than half of Americans think that this was, from the polling I've seen, a good idea.
	Of course, every Cuban American that I've spoken to, and I have several very good friends who are Cuban exiles, they'll tell you that this is a capitulation with nothing in response.
	What message does this send to other dictatorial states around the world?
	Just hold out and wait for an Obama-like figure to come into office, and maybe you'll get everything you want.
	All right, Lori, thank you very much for calling in.
	I've actually got to go to a break here: 800-282-2882.
	This is Buck Sexton in for Rush Limbaugh.
	Back in a minute.
	Buck Sexton here, Infra Rush Limbaugh, at Buck Sexton on Twitter and Facebook.com/slash BuckSexton.
	I am on both of those during the show today, so you can talk to me in real time when I'm on air, off-air, et cetera.
	And the number here is 800-282-2882.
	I just wanted to take a moment to tell you: if I were to sort of give you my general sense of where Obama is now in his presidency, and this is where I think a Ghostbusters reference might be apropos.
	Now, first off, for those of you who don't recall, Ghostbusters is a very conservative movie.
	The Ghostbusters themselves are entrepreneurs in the finest American tradition, right?
	They ain't afraid of no ghost.
	And they also are squaring off against one of the great movie villains of all time, the EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency.
	And if you will recall, Walter Peck, I'm Walter Peck from the EPA, not a likable character at all.
	And at one point, he decides to go into the storage protection unit in the Ghostbusters building, and he just goes in and he goes, shut this off, shut these all off.
	And he is like, I'll tell you what's hazardous.
	You are facing federal prosecution for at least a half dozen violations of the Environmental Protection Act or whatever.
	He does this whole thing, and he just starts, he has the guys like shut the, he just starts shutting down the switches, you know, and then it goes, the point here is that he's just doing it.
	He doesn't know what's going to happen after he shuts the switches, doesn't know what's actually going to be the end result of this, doesn't care.
	Obama is Walter Peck just shutting the switches at this point.
	They're telling him this is going to be bad.
	This is going to be bad.
	Don't do a deal with Iran that doesn't actually constrain and eliminate their nuclear weapons program.
	Oh, no, I'm just going to hit the switch.
	I'm going to hit the switch.
	Just like the guy from the EPA, who, by the way, in the movie almost destroys the world and brings about essentially the Armageddon via ghosts, which is kind of a weird deal, but it's a great movie, I think.
	I've heard they're going to make another one for years, but they haven't.
	But nonetheless, the EPA is the bad guy.
	But the point is that he's going around.
	He's shutting all the switches.
	And we have terrible stuff that happens as a result of that.
	And he doesn't care about the fact that this is going to be a dramatic, this is going to be a dramatic change, and no one knows what will happen afterwards, right?
	No one's ever shut down the storage containment system.
	Well, Obama is deciding to upend decades of foreign policy, not just foreign policy consensus and wisdom, but these are the structures that we've had in place to try to promote.
	I know this sounds maybe too pie in the sky, to promote freedom and dignity of the individual and to promote our allies.
	I mean, this is the very basics of foreign policy, right?
	It's who are your friends?
	Who are your enemies?
	Do they know the difference?
	Is there a difference?
	Well, Obama's essentially saying, no, we're just going to treat everybody kind of the same, except the friends are going to get treated worse than the enemies.
	And that's how we're going to even this all out.
	So, like I said, he's just hitting all the different switches and seeing what happens.
	He is now the federal bureaucrat who's deciding just sort of let it rip.
	He's just rolling the dice on all this stuff because what's going to happen?
	He doesn't know.
	All he knows is he wants to.
	And all he knows is that no one's going to be able to stop him.
	So that's where we are.
	I think that's a good way of thinking about Obama's current view of policy, is that he's going to come out here and start doing things that he wasn't willing to do a while ago.
	He wasn't making these moves before, but now that his hands are freed, he no longer has an election to worry about.
	He's decided to just go for it.
	So I guess also maybe part of your vacation homework now over the holiday would be to go check out Ghostbusters if you haven't, just because it's awesome.
	800-282-2882.
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	I just love, you know, I said I'm at Buck Sexton on Twitter.
	You can send me messages, and many of you are.
	Man, I'm seeing stuff.
	People are tweeting things like, how do you talk?
	I'll change this so it's, I can say it on air, smack about a revolution that gave its land back to its people, taught them to read and write, and gave them health care.
	You're right.
	Cuba's awesome.
	They're economically doing great.
	It's just gangbusters.
	It's amazing.
	Hashtag free healthcare, hashtag Michael Moore.
	Really?
	Oh, gosh.
	And, you know, I'm hearing some conspiracy theories about how it's actually the exiles that are the bad guys.
	And I'm like, I don't even know.
	I don't even know what to make of this.
	Do I have time to go or no?
	Yeah, let's take Kent in Ohio.
	Kent, this is the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	You're speaking to Buck.
	Hi, Buck.
	How are you?
	Good.
	How are you?
	I'm great.
	Hey, if we got Walter Peck there, ready to release all of the spirits that are going to be awesome.
	He's releasing all the progressive demons.
	Yes, go ahead.
	He seemed in Ghostbusters, we had Bill Murray and the guys with the packs on their backs, and they knew Walter Peck was a complete idiot and a goofus, and they fought him.
	The people now who seem to be Obama's opposition seem to want to oppose him by getting along with him.
	And I don't think getting along with Walter Peck is a good thing.
	Why is there zero opposition from our elected Republican officials?
	I never, ever hear them opposing Obama.
	Well, I think that that might change when you have the new Congress seated.
	I'm not particularly optimistic about them showing a lot of spine, and particularly if there's no, if the leadership, you know, if it's Boehner's world and we're all living in it, I don't see how it will change in the way that we'd like it to.
	But look, I mean, the good news, I guess, is that if you believe the left, they've been intransigent, they've been obstructionist.
	That's the best you can do if you're not actually a majority in the Congress, if you're not actually in power.
	And why is he winning?
	Why don't more people?
	I don't know, Kent.
	I wish.
	I don't know how people didn't see through this.

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