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Jan. 5, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 5, 2015, Monday, Hour #2
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Greetings, welcome back folks.
Rushlin Bob, the most talked about media figure in America today.
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And actually, it isn't reviled.
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All right, let me, let me now, without any interruptions.
Well, I can't say that because this stuff fires synapses in my fertile gray cells.
And we're off and running.
But I'll do my best here to stay focused and finish the highlights of the Pat Caddell supervised poll, the People's Poll, conducted by EMC Research.
We left off with 23% of Republican voters are confident that future generations of Americans will have a higher standard of living and better lives than we do today.
That's an incredibly low number.
That's as low as I've ever seen it.
That does not constitute, hey, we're in a good mood out here, when only 23% of Republicans think that their kids and anybody's kids are going to do better than people are doing today.
That used to be the essence of the American dream, that your kids would do better.
It was part of the uniqueness of this country.
People believed it, and therefore they made it happen.
And when you don't believe it, then you don't live it.
It's not good.
19% of Republicans say the government's working for the best interest of the people.
That's probably at an all-time low, too.
That means 71% think the government is not working for the best interest of the people.
And clearly, what's happened here, the government today is not the government of when I was growing up.
The government today has become, I want to say combination, but it's actually more than that.
But the government's not the government anymore.
The government is an association of the powerful in finance, in industry, and in politics.
And they are all working to benefit each other.
And that's why you get a number.
19% of Republicans say the government's working for the best interest of the people.
It isn't.
It's working for the best interest of itself.
Stands to reason.
It's where all the money gets collected.
It's where all the money is.
It's where you go if you want to get your fist in the pile.
And the way you get your fist in the pile of money in Washington is to buddy up with whoever is running the show, Republican or Democrat.
Sell your soul for a piece of the action.
And the political parties today have much more allegiance to those arrangements than they do their voters.
Really isn't any more complicated than that.
You call it corporate cronyism, crony socialism, crony capitalism, whatever you want to call it.
The powerful have gotten together and have basically taken over Washington and are using the power that is Washington to take care of themselves.
And then every year, when it's every two or four years, when it's time to campaign, and the voters are told, hey, we're looking out for you.
Hey, we love you.
Hey, we're going to do this and this and that and that.
And it creates landslides like we just had.
And then immediately after a landslide victory like we just had, the winners began sounding just like the people they beat.
It's interesting.
On leadership, only one in four Republican voters want both Boehner and McConnell to be re-elected as top leaders.
Only 16% want both Boehner and McConnell as leaders.
This is a poll of Republican voters.
This is not Republicans in the House and Senate.
This is a poll of Republicans outside Washington.
53% of these voters want an entirely new leadership team.
60% of Republican voters want Boehner replaced as Speaker.
Boehner's favorable rating among Republican voters, 43%.
A full 64% of Republican voters think that Boehner has been ineffective in fighting Obama's agenda.
And the reason they think that is that nobody's fighting Obama's agenda.
They're giving lip service to it, but nobody's fighting Obama's agenda.
That's my point.
Obama's agenda is not just Obama's.
Obama's agenda is the agenda of Wall Street, of the Chamber of Commerce, to constituencies people have always assumed to be Republican, at least mostly.
The Obama agenda, when you have somebody like Obama, it works this way.
When you have somebody like Obama, liberal Democrat, who despises capitalism and gets elected, the people in industry, media, finance look at the situation, say, you know, it's not worth fighting the guy.
We better get on board with where he's going so we can stay viable and stay rich, stay whatever, successful.
And that's the difference.
There isn't anybody fighting this agenda in Washington.
Nobody.
They give lip service to it, but nobody's really fighting it.
Look, there are exceptions.
I mean, you've got, I'm not trying to diminish the importance of people like the conservatives in the House who are fighting it, or Ted Cruz.
I mean, but they're still a minority.
The point is that there is no political party in opposition to Obama's agenda.
And this is now inarguably clear.
Both parties seek the same thing on immigration reform.
Both parties seek the same thing on Obamacare.
One party tells its voters they're going to repeal and replace, but they never really do anything.
You have fake votes, faux votes.
At the end of the process, Obamacare gets fully enacted, fully funded, and they even capitulate on the budget.
They had a chance here to write their own budget for this remainder of the fiscal year.
They punted that.
They let the Democrats write it in a lame duck.
They let the losers write the budget because they fundamentally don't disagree with the government getting bigger.
They fundamentally don't disagree with the government spending more money.
I don't know when it happened.
It certainly was in my lifetime.
I don't know when it happened, but the traditional private sector opponents of this kind of thing gave up and threw in and abandoned all pretense at ideological disagreement or difference.
And now everybody, not everybody, but the vast majority of what is called the establishment inside the Beltway is all on the same page.
Business, for example, has found it's easier to let government wipe out your competitors than it is in direct competition.
If you're, say, a major big box retailer and you are swimming in money and the leader comes along and wants to raise the minimum wage, and you, in your gut and your mind, and your heart, you know it's wrong, you know it's bad, you know it doesn't create jobs, you know that it does not lift people up economically.
But what if supporting it will put your competitor out of business because he can't afford it?
You just join the whole process and you punt what you believe on the minimum wage.
You throw in with the guys that want to raise it because your big box competitors go by the wayside.
Ditto supporting Obamacare.
In the old days, there's no way private sector businesses would turn all of this over, the regulatory, the funding everything to government.
But at some point, they decided it's not worth the fight, that they were going to lose it.
And so, if it will help put your competitors out of business, you throw in with the powers that be and you sign up supporting government-run health care.
It's a faster way of putting your competitors out of business than actually building a better product, providing a better service.
And this is what happened.
I think it coincides with the election of Obama, frankly, and it might even predate that with Clinton.
But all it took was a genuine socialist big government liberal winning the day, and everybody threw in with him.
Remember O'Sullivan's law.
Any organization that is not actively conservative will become liberal.
And conservatism has been so demonized by the media.
What is conservatism?
Racism, it's bigotry, it's sexism, it's homophobia.
Why fight that?
If you run major corporation C, why sign on to be a conservative and have to deal with that crap?
Just throw in with the other side.
It's easier.
Pay off Al Sharpton.
Leave me alone.
That way you don't have to worry about your company being called racist or whatever.
You have to worry about Al Sharpton protesting or arranging protests.
And that's what's happened, folks.
The conservatives sat around and let themselves be demonized without fighting back to the point that many people think, you know, it's not worth fighting to try to reject all this.
We'll just join the enemy here and be rid of the strife.
We'll have a frictionless life and so forth.
It'll all come back to bite them someday.
It always does.
Because eventually, Obama's ideas are going to destroy everything, even the people that threw in with it.
But until such time as that, we're left to fight it ourselves.
64%, again, of Republican voters think that Boehner has been ineffective in fighting Obama's agenda.
Only 44% of Republican voters think that Boehner puts the best interests of the public above special interests.
That's what we've been talking about.
48% of Republican voters want McConnell replaced.
60% want Boehner replaced.
Most Republican voters, and don't forget what McConnell says.
McConnell said that the main goal for the Republican Party in the new Senate is to not scare anybody.
What do you think that means?
That means throwing in with the Democrats.
That means not opposing the Democrats.
That's all that means.
We don't want to be scary.
We don't want to be seen as extremist kooks.
Remember, all you have to do to be seen as an extremist kook is oppose Obama.
Pure and simple.
No matter how principled your opposition is, no matter how factual it is, it doesn't matter.
It's easier to think, hands up, don't shoot, happened, than to try to tell people the truth that it didn't.
It's no more complicated than that.
It's easier to fall in with Eric Garner was killed by a chokehold rather than died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital of a heart attack.
It's just easier.
It's just easier not to oppose these guys.
It's just easier to throw in with them.
And you get some goodies thrown back your way.
Why people voted Republican in the last election?
81% said they voted to stop Obamacare.
81%.
75% said they voted Republican to stop amnesty for illegals.
71% say they voted Republican to stop all of Obama's agenda.
Exactly what I thought.
Exactly.
This poll has confirmed precisely how I read the election results.
Stop Obama.
That's what this vote was about.
That's why the Republicans didn't run on an agenda, so it can't be said they were elected to do X, Y, and Z. Individual Republican candidates ran, particularly Senate candidates ran on opposing Obamacare, and they won big.
But the Republican Party had a strategy, and that was to shut up and not say anything.
And they still won.
The only conclusion can be this election had a singular meaning.
Stop what Obama's doing.
But it's easier to throw in with Obama.
His race, by the way, is a clear factor in this.
Let's not kid ourselves.
It's much easier to throw in with the first African-American president than to oppose him because you know what's going to come.
Even if you pay off Al Sharpton, you still might face allegations of racism and that you don't want people walking the aisles by in the tide.
You don't want people making racism when they see the laundry detergent.
So to avoid that, you throw in with them.
It's gutless, but that's where we are.
Tea Party support in this poll.
57% of Republican voters support the Tea Party.
Well, that was surprising to you.
Now, Snerdley is claiming that that number surprised him because we keep hearing that how the Tea Party is a bunch of ragtag, militia-type seeds, hayseeds, and hicks.
And they're really just a bunch of just a minority of malcontents out there.
And we do hear that.
I mean, the Republicans talk about them that way.
The media certainly does.
The Democrats do.
But the way that it needs to be looked at, the Democrats will always tell you what they fear by attacking it, by trying to destroy it.
I mean, if the Tea Party were really as impotent and irrelevant as the media and the Democrats, they wouldn't even be thinking about it, much less talking about it, much less trying to destroy it.
But the fact they're trying to impugn the Tea Party, destroy the Tea Party, is all the evidence you need.
They fear it.
62% of those who described as strong Republicans support the Tea Party.
48% of those described as weak Republicans support the Tea Party.
And 56% of those described as lean toward being Republicans, but they're not yet support the Tea Party.
He's the independents.
Support the Tea Party.
In three out of four categories, you have a minimum 56% support of the Tea Party in the Republican Party.
And if you think it's just the Democrat Party trying to eliminate the Tea Party, you are mistaken.
The Republican Party is right in on that effort, too.
I figure I better start on the telephones because if I don't, I'm never going to get to them today.
I mean, I am still that loaded.
I haven't even touched a stack yet.
Well, I mean, some of the things I've talked about are in the stack.
That's not exactly totally true.
No, I haven't gotten the soundbites yet either.
There's no way.
I'm not going to get to 5% of what I have prepped here today.
Well, maybe a little bit more than that.
It just depends.
Anyway, we've got to start in the phones at least to get some of those in because we invite people who have been on hold for a long time.
Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
Paul, great to have you, sir.
Thank you for waiting and hello.
Yeah, great to speak with you, too, Rush.
Most Republicans agree that Boehner has to go.
He not only voted for the Cromnobus that funded Obama's illegal activities until next October, he also negotiated behind closed doors and then threw it on the clerk's desk 48 hours before the vote, so nobody else had a chance to see what was in it.
So he's disgraced himself.
He's got to go.
The question is, who should replace him?
And two men have stepped forward to contend for the job, Louis Gilmer of Texas and Ted Yoho from my state of Florida.
And I'd like to say that based on their voting records, Louis Gohmer is the best choice.
And the reason I say that is if you look at how the vote went in the last speakership election, when there was an attempt to oust Boehner at that time, you'll recall.
And there were 21 members who signed on as being willing to vote for someone other than Boehner.
And then a lot of insider pressure caused a lot of them to drop out.
But finally, the vote took place, and there were nine people out of the 21 who stood up for their principles.
Louis Gormert was one of them, and he voted for Alan West, which was certainly a brave thing to do because Boehner had done a number on West, you'll recall, by Jerry Manning his district and not funding his reelection campaign.
But more illuminating was who Ted Yoho voted for.
He didn't vote for Boehner.
He was one of the nine.
He didn't vote for Boehner, but he voted for Eric Cadder.
Eric Cadder, who voted for TARP, who supported Amnesty.
He was minority whip under Boehner for two or three years, then became majority member.
He was an insider rhino.
I'm down to 30 seconds.
Do you think it's going to happen?
It's a historic opportunity.
I'll tell you one other thing.
Yes, I think it's going to happen in short.
And another reason it's going to happen is because Boehner lied to the entire House on H.R. 5759 when he rewrote it in the middle of the night.
Yeah, but it depends on how afraid of him they remain.
I mean, if you're going to, the old stallboard, you're going to take the king out, you better succeed.
Because if you don't, and he's still around, you're gone.
Hi, welcome back, Rushlin Boy.
As usual, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Now, I want to, since I just said I'm probably not going to get to nearly nowhere near all of what I have today.
I still want to tell you what I got.
I just want you to know what's on tap here.
And at some point, I'm going to get to these things if it takes me all week to do.
All right?
Just to give you headlines.
This is what I'm sitting on here as we talk about this other stuff.
There's a leading doctor who claims that cancer is two things.
Cancer is simply a biological function.
It is a genetic thing, and it's a waste of money to try to cure it.
There's no way we're ever going to cure it.
It's not behavioral.
It's not whether you smoke, drink, or it's just your genes.
And furthermore, this doctor says, cancer is the best way to die because it allows people time to say goodbye.
We should stop spending billions of dollars on it.
We should stop trying to cure it.
It's never going to happen.
And use it as an opportunity.
And his name's Dr. Richard Smith.
He is, it's a UK Daily Mail story.
Ain't prominent in his field.
There's more to the story, but that's the essence of it.
Another story.
Does white wine really make women crazy?
From tears to tantrums.
From tears to tantrums, the UK Daily Mail has investigated why white wine causes such carnage.
Many women say they can no longer drink it.
They say it makes them upset, aggressive, and accident-prone.
Some experts suggest the speed at which white wine is consumed is the culprit.
Others blame the alcohol level in it.
More these are doctors saying this stuff, not that's one of the things.
I'm just telling you the headline: Does white wine really make women crazy?
There's an assumption there that women are crazy, and so everybody's looking for why.
And this guy's come up with white wine.
It's just in the stack.
Seven things the middle class can no longer afford, even though everybody's in a great mood, and even though we got great economic recovery going on and economic growth, seven things the middle class can no longer afford.
Cossetted children growing up unable to cope with failure.
Parents are being too protective of their children, according to research.
Dr. Thomas Sowell, Are Facts Obsolete?
This great piece.
The rise of men who don't work and what they do instead.
New York Times.
The rise of men who don't work and what they do instead, as though it's perfectly fine.
It's perfectly normal.
And let's take a look at this societal change that's taking place.
Men aren't working.
What are they doing?
It's fine.
It's perfectly fine.
It's a sociological study of why men aren't worried.
There's nothing in there about the economy, nothing in there about Obama and unemployment.
Men aren't working.
Men aren't going to college.
What are they doing instead?
More moms staying home, reversing decades-long decline.
Subhead feminism on its last legs.
That's why I put the two stories together.
If the moms are staying home and the dad isn't working, then what the hell's going on?
It's called big government.
That's exactly why I put those two stories together.
The New York Times, Why Men Aren't Working and What They're Doing, and most women are choosing to stay home and raise the children.
Now, here's a I mentioned earlier that I had a story on, and it was done in England by the British government about their generation.
Why the millennials, today's youth, are less trusting of their neighbors, less supportive of the welfare state, and less likely to vote.
Today's youth feel that people should stand on their own two feet.
They are less likely to vote or say they are religious, they're more likely to start a business, and they are increasingly relying on the bank of mom and dad.
Now, this is the piece that I mentioned earlier in the program where young people today, college graduates and so forth, face a much different world than I was facing when I got out of, or when I was that age.
And it is different.
There's no question about it.
So, that's this Americans' dissatisfaction with government tops concerns, Gallup says.
There's so much conflicting stuff out there, yet we're all in a good mood, and we're so happy with economic growth.
Here's Gallup: Americans' dissatisfaction with the government tops every concern they have.
This next one, this was in the Wall Street Journal on December 30th.
This is a fascinating one: The Christian Heart of American Exceptionalism.
This guy, if he had published this piece sometime other than the Christmas New Year's break, would be destroyed because he's claiming that what makes American exceptionalism is Christianity,
and that more Americans are Christian and believe in Christianity than anyone would tell you that anyone would believe, and that it is the source of the values that constitute American exceptionalism.
So, that's coming up.
Let's see what else.
Christians now outnumber communists in China.
This is Brightbrow.
I'm sure the Chikoms know this, and they can't be happy about it.
Christians now outnumber communists in China.
2016, Democrats on thin ice with white working-class voters.
Now, we've known this since November of 2011 or 2012.
So, you can see, folks, there is, I mean, there's some great stuff coming up here.
Just got to get to it.
Now, back to the phones.
And this is Austin in Dallas.
Austin, great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Frank.
Pleasure to speak to you today.
I'm a millennial, and I've been listening to you since I was 19.
My comment today.
How old are you now?
I'm 25.
25, 6 years.
Yes, sir.
So I started listening when the Obamacare Act was coming to a vote.
But my comment today is that I saw a poll before the midterms by Harvard that said there was a 16-point swing in my generation from supporting Democrats to Republicans.
So, with that being said, I feel that if a true conservative is a Republican nominee in 2016, my generation would support them any day of the week over Hillary.
Now, let me tell you what's fascinating about that.
The Republican establishment, I don't know whether they really believe this, and I kind of think they don't.
But what the Republican establishment says, Austin, is that a conservative nominee will doom the Republican Party to outright defeat, no matter who the Democrat candidate is, but particularly if it is Hillary.
Now, I happen to believe, from the bottom of my heart, I happen to believe the Republican establishment knows that conservatism wins, and they don't want to win as conservatives.
They do not want to win with people whose idea is to shrink government and lower taxes and to disempower Washington.
They don't want that, and they never have.
The dirty little secret is the Republican Party has never been a conservative party.
It's been a center-right party, but it's never been conservative.
That's why Reagan and Goldwater were exceptions.
Now, the Republican establishment associates conservatism with Goldwater, which means landslide loss.
They genuinely fear it.
But I think they also think, and they'll never admit this, they believe that some Northeastern moderate someday is going to win the Republican presidency.
Someday it's going to happen.
And I think what they really know is that conservatism would win, and that's why they don't want to be part of it.
Right.
I had the opportunity to vote for a conservative in Ted Cruz, and I bounced.
You know, I took that opportunity when I could.
And I feel like someone like him or Perry or Scott Walker, you know, someone who can articulate the message like Reagan of a better tomorrow, that's the type of leader that my generation is looking for.
Even if they don't know it.
Even if they don't know it, I think they would respond to it because it's human nature.
Yes.
It's human nature to be optimistic.
It's human nature to be better angels.
It's human nature to want to grow.
It's human nature to love your country and all that stuff.
People that I work with, they're naturally conservative.
They just don't know it.
Exactly.
Oh, they probably, it probably will tell you that they're not because conservatism has been so demonized in the media.
Right.
Yeah.
They just, they feel more pro-life than my parents' generation.
And they, like you just mentioned a second ago, how we want less, bigger government.
They just need someone to articulate that message to them and the light bulb, I feel like, would go off.
I'll tell you what you're right about.
What that really means is that if the right conservative with a combination of great leadership, charisma, articulate, all that, were able to come voice what it is, you'd see a groundswell of people in this country supporting it because it would give them the confidence to overcome the fear of the media berating them because they would want to support the standard bearer for it, like they did Reagan.
Country rallied around Reagan.
Happened to be the best person that could articulate what conservatism, even though everybody knows it and lives it, but in the media where perceptions are conservatives are, you know, all the isms.
If you have somebody come along who can defeat that by living the opposite, by being the opposite, by showing all those criticisms to be false, you'd have a groundswell of people standing up supporting that candidate.
Republican establishment knows it.
And that's why they are joined at the hip of the Democrats and trying to destroy the Tea Party because that's from where said candidate will come.
I'll give you, you know, you've got your friends.
Let me tell you about one of mine, Austin.
I can't mention any names.
I'm too famous because that would mean that I would make the people who I talk about famous and they don't want fame.
But I have a guy, I know a guy.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
There's a lot of people who don't want fame.
They happen to be over 30.
But this guy, he doesn't need fame.
He doesn't want it.
There are a lot of people who want to stay under the radar for a whole host of reasons.
But this guy was all in for Mitt Romney.
I mean, so much so that might have been an ambassador.
It was really all in.
And you know what he said to me the other day?
I was just making conversation.
I didn't, I thought, I said, hey, hey, you have to know.
Is Mitt really serious about running?
I said, people I talk to tell me he might, but you know who I really like?
And I was shocked.
I said, who?
And he named a governor.
And I'm going to tell you who he named a governor.
And he said, I'm sick and tired of Republicans who don't fight.
Now, the interesting point about this is that this was somebody who was all in.
And this is not a criticism of Romney.
I don't want anybody to misunderstand here.
This is in relationship to what Austin just said about his generation and responding to a conservative.
There's a lot of people waiting for it.
Make no bones about it.
Austin, thanks for the call.
Got to take a break.
Be back after this.
Don't go away.
Welcome back.
El Rushball would have my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
UK Daily Mail.
In what is described as a clear generational shift, those who grew up under Margaret Thatcher and John Major, and that would be the correspondent would be us under Reagan, are more individualist and appear to be more cynical and more suspicious that the benefits system is being abused.
Young people are less supportive of the welfare state than their parents.
And they're more likely to believe that people should look after themselves and less trusting of their neighbors.
This is a British government report.
The cabinet office findings indicate that individualism is the most pronounced among Generation Y, those born after 1980, the early 2000s.
Now, I don't know if it's safe to compare British Generation Y with U.S. Generation Y.
But both countries are run by the equivalent of the Labor Party, the Socialists.
And I happen, I really do believe, folks, I probably should say this more often.
I really do believe today's millennials are far more conservative than they know.
And I also know that even if they knew it, they'd be unwilling to admit it because of what would be said about them.
And the conservatism has been so demonized in the media that even people who are don't want to admit it.
Some people don't.
I, of course, have no problem, but most people don't want the aggravation.
But I'm just telling you, if and this is a big one.
I mean, I know it's a big one.
I don't mean to make it sound simple, but I'm just telling you, if the right conservative candidate came along and began to electrify and connect, then I think you'd find out what the real makeup of this country is.
Like you said, you people that you would be surprised coming out of the woodwork to support the person.
I happen to think that most people don't like the direction of this country.
And most people are afraid to say so.
Most people have been conned because of the media and pop culture into thinking they're in the minority.
Most people have been conned into believing that they've lost their country, that the country's been taken over by the ne'er-do-well class and the dumb class and the mindless.
And I don't think it's the case.
I think, you know, this, what a silent majority Nixon's term.
Whatever you want to call it, I think it's out there.
And I think you saw it in this last election.
Now, I know that wasn't a big turnout, but I don't care.
The people who cared enough to vote, we got a good cross-section of what's really on their minds.
And it isn't what's happening now.
They don't want any party.
You ought to see the rest of this Republican poll.
80% of Republicans intensely oppose unilateral amnesty executive order.
90% of Republican voters believe Obama's executive amnesty is unconstitutional.
I don't think this is just Republicans that think this.
It may just be Republicans who will say it.
An unprecedented two-thirds of Republican voters say that they are less likely to vote over this single issue.
Astonishing 10 to 1 margin, Republican voters say they are less likely to vote for a member of Congress who voted to allow taxpayer money to be spent implementing Obama's executive order.
That would be the Boehner-Reed-Obama Cromnibus deal that was passed in the lame duck section.
I mean, there's massive opposition to all this stuff.
It's just waiting to be unleashed.
Sadly, I have to interrupt myself.
Okay, my friends, out of time here for our busy second hour of the busy broadcast today.
I want you to sit tight, however, and sit tight because we're coming right back.
I'm thinking about these various things I want to get.
And the Lions Cowboys game yesterday, too.
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