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Jan. 9, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 9, 2015, Friday, Hour #3
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It's great to have you with us, my friends, Rush Limbaugh, serving humanity simply by showing up on the EIB network.
It is Friday, live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open live Friday.
That's right, my friends.
One busy, busy broadcast hour remains.
And then we head in to the best weekend of the season for NFL fans.
Well, it rivals the opening weekend.
That's pretty cool, too.
But this one, four games, divisional championship, this is it.
Any of these eight teams could go all the way.
Theoretically.
Only one of them will, obviously, go all the way.
800-282-2882, the email address at lrushmoebnet.com.
So I've checked the email, and sure, and I knew this was going to happen.
I knew it was going to, Rush, what do you mean our tax refunds are going to be appropriate to the IRS to pay whatever we haven't purchased properly for Obamacare?
I haven't heard that.
What are you just making this stuff up?
Nope, nope, folks.
I don't make things up.
That does not happen here.
I remember back in 2009, 2010, when this whole thing was being debated, and we were becoming acquainted with how the financials of this were going to be enforced.
And there's only one agency can do it, it's the IRS.
Why do you think that Obamacare requires how many new IRS agents was it?
50,000 or something?
You know, a huge number of brand new IRS agents.
Why do you think it was necessary?
The IRS is the agency that has been charged with collecting the money Obamacare legally mandates that we spend on this.
Washington Examiner with the story.
The complicated process of signing up for Obamacare is now being matched by IRS instructions to help Americans figure out how much in healthcare taxes they owe Uncle Sam.
The IRS has issued 21 pages of instructions complete with links to at least three long forms and nine tip sheets.
And who is this geared to?
It is geared to those who have Obamacare or who owe a fine, which is dubbed the shared responsibility payment in IRS lingo.
The fines that people owe if they choose not to buy insurance are called shared responsibility payments.
And that's right out of the socialist dictionary, folks.
Shared responsibility.
The convoluted theory behind Obamacare is if everybody pays a little, then everybody will be covered.
But we're not going to allow people not to be covered.
Health insurance is going to be required by law.
And if you don't buy it, if you're not mandated it by your employer, you pay a fine.
And that's called the shared responsibility payment.
But what if you can't pay it?
The IRS just can't make you write them a check.
That has to be part of an audit or what have you.
But with the new regulations, they can abscond with your tax refund or whatever portion of it they need for you to meet your shared responsibility payments right here in the Washington Examiner.
I'm not making it up.
You know, I know these people writing me these emails are leftists, thinking I'm disparaging their guy.
They am poisoning people's minds.
I don't really get no point in doing that.
No purpose is served by lying.
It's bad enough telling the truth about this stuff.
There's two figures out there.
One's $12,000, one's $16,000.
This is the aggregated cost that it's going to average out.
Every American is going to end up having to pay at some point once this thing all fully implements.
It is geared to those who have Obamacare, all these tips and long forms, or who owe a fine called the shared responsibility payment for refusing to get health insurance.
The IRS has just put out a 21-page instruction form to tell you how to comply.
And much of it's devoted to what you have to do if you refuse to get health insurance.
The IRS warned that everybody must have health insurance or pay the shared responsibility payment.
And I'm telling you, you don't have to believe me.
You don't have to believe.
You don't want to, but they're going to get it from your refund.
Try it.
Try not buying a policy.
Opt to pay the shared responsibility, opt to pay the fine.
Where do you go to pay the fine?
You can't go anywhere and pay it.
You're going to find out it's going to be taken or added to your taxes.
One way or another, when you file your taxes, is where that shared responsibility payment is going to be made.
They're either going to charge you an additional amount that you haven't had withheld, or they're going to take it from your refund.
I'm not making this up, much as you leftists would like to believe that I am.
And this dovetails nicely with the story we've had all week from Harvard.
You heard about this.
The Harvard faculty is outraged.
Now, this needs to be put in perspective.
The Harvard faculty was one of the early organizations to unanimously sign on in support of Obamacare.
And they just didn't sign on to support it.
They became evangelists for it.
Now, it so happens that the faculty at Harvard has one of the best employee benefit health plans going.
Even after, even with Obamacare, the maximum deductible that a member of the Harvard faculty has is $250 for an individual and $500 for a faculty member as part of a family.
And you may not believe that because your deductible is in the thousands.
Your out-of-pocket expenses have gone up to in the thousands.
Your deductible is so high that you may not even incur enough health care expense over the year to invoke it.
And yet, you're hearing that the Harvard faculty has a deductible $250.
Well, you know what's next?
The Harvard faculty is outraged.
The Harvard faculty is livid that they have this high a deductible.
Because prior to this, they didn't have one.
The university paid it all for them.
It was all inclusive.
They had a health care benefit plan that very few ever had.
But because of Obamacare, the university cannot simply afford to pay all of it for all the faculty anymore.
So the faculty, for one of the first times ever, is having to chip in and pay a portion of its own Obamacare in the form of a $250 or depending on family, $500 deductible.
And they are outraged.
They're livid.
And people have been having a little Shad and Freuda moment all week because the Harvard faculty was out there telling everybody that this is the greatest thing since sliced bread Obamacare was.
And they were urging everybody to support it.
Everybody sign up for it.
And they, like most people doing that, had no idea what was in it.
They've only learned because we have arrived now at real-world circumstance affecting them.
They show you out of touch the Harvard faculty is, they are livid that their deductible has gone up to 250.
Your deductible may be 5,000.
But I'm just saying that the IRS has a 21-page tip sheet and a bunch of forms telling you how to comply with your shared responsibility payment, i.e. fine, if you don't have an insurance policy.
And they're going to get it from you.
You cannot escape this unless you don't file a tax return.
And even if you do that, they're going to catch you at some point.
So if you're opting to pay the fine, it's going to come out of your taxes one way or the other.
You're either going to be charged when you file your return, your preparer HR block, or you're going to figure that out whoever does it for you, you know, you owe an additional X for Obamacare.
What do you mean?
I've had all withhold.
No, no, no, I don't have it.
My withholding is no, no, it's the Obamacare fine.
You don't have a policy, so you owe X.
And you're prepared.
I said, but don't worry about it.
You've got a $1,200 refund coming, but they'll take $900 of it as your fine payment, so your refund is reduced to $300.
That's what's going to happen to a lot of people.
Don't know it yet.
And many of those people think they're getting a free ride because they qualified for subsidies.
I'm telling you, folks, it's going to be an explosion out there.
Now, New York Post paid six today.
Headline, Hillary Furious over Bill's part in latest Epstein sex scandal.
Here we go again.
Hillary Clinton, once again, supposedly shocked, supposedly surprised, supposedly outraged that her horndog sex addict husband is still a horn dog sex addict, always was, and news of it has surfaced again.
And we are to believe that Mrs. Clinton is the average, ordinary, aggrieved wife who has given this big lug chance after chance after chance.
And he's promised her 15, 20 times it won't happen again, and here it is again.
And Mrs. Clinton's beside herself.
I am warning you, do not fall for this portrayal of this couple on this story or anything to do with Clinton's womanizing, because there's not an aspect of it that Hillary does not know.
She was in charge of the bimbo eruptions unit.
She was in charge of destroying the women who came forward or tried to to derail her husband's electoral campaigns back in Texas or Arkansas when he was governor and then on to the White House.
But I'll read the story anyway, or a portion of it, because it's funny.
Okay, the average deductible for an individual enrolled in a bronze Obamacare plan in 2015 will be $5,181.
$5,181.
And after that, after that deductible, Obamacare only pays 60% of the medical costs.
And Harvard here has ticked off the faculty at a deductible of $250.
The 12,000 to 16,000, that's the number of new IRS agents hired to deal with.
This is why they are the collection agency.
Now, the pull quote from this story.
See, folks, there is no such thing as coincidence with the Clintons.
Everything the Clintons do in public is staged, including Hillary's reaction to supposedly shocking news that Clinton was flying all over the world with a pedophile.
That's not news.
Everybody already has known that Clinton was flying around with Jeffrey Epstein on Epstein 727.
Clinton Foundation, whoever it is, the Clinton Global Initiative.
Epstein flying him all over the world to raise money in a 727 to Africa.
A whole bunch of Hollywood people.
Kevin Spacey, Epstein was everywhere with these people.
This is not a surprise to her.
She's acting like it.
The pool quote talk in Washington is that Hillary is furious with Bill about all of this new information on Jeffrey.
It's not new information.
Now, a lot of it was sealed in court documents, and somebody's unsealed some of it, but Epstein was running a little, he copped to it.
He was running a little operation in his homes.
Underage girls were supposedly giving massages to Epstein's friends.
It turns out Epstein was charging them.
And Epstein had an executive assistant named Ghelane Maxwell.
This woman's been named by one of the girls, 17 years old at the time, now 30.
So the woman that now has been responsible for making all this public this go-around is calling Ghelane Maxwell Jeffrey Epstein's pimp or madam.
I don't know what.
But when this did hit a number of years ago, that's when Clinton stopped flying around with Epstein.
He did.
It was made a total break.
And Ron Burkle made a total break with Clinton at about the same time when the Epstein story hit.
But prior to that, Epstein was who he was and doing what he was doing at the time Clinton was hanging around with him.
Now, nobody has suggested, but that doesn't mean that all you need is the news that here's Epstein and what he was doing.
And at the same time, he was buddy-buddy with Bill Clinton, who we know, Monica Lewinsky.
And so people are putting two and two together and getting 69.
And supposedly, Mrs. Clinton is shocked and outraged, just like she was with Monica Lewinsky.
She was so shocked and outraged that she went on TV and blamed a vast right-wing conspiracy for that, not her own husband.
We are led to believe that when Clinton walked into one of the rooms of the White House and wagged that crooked finger at us and said, I never had sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky, not a single time.
I never asked anybody to lie.
Not a single time.
We're led to believe that Hillary believed that.
We're led to believe that when the blue dress was found with the steaming stain, that Hillary was living and outraged and felt betrayed.
And after 18 or 20 hours of privacy in the White House, the next time we saw them was Hillary and Bill and Chelsea walking arm in arm, White House lawn, helicopter, to board it, to fly to Martha's Vineyard for the traditional family vacation, as though everything was fine.
Wow, they put it.
Oh, in those hours, the Reverend Jackson was summoned to the White House where he and Bill Clinton prayed over Bill's lapses.
And so now, the same thing.
And we're supposed to believe that Hillary is just this poor woman.
My God, look what she's had to put up with.
My God, this woman gave up everything for this.
Look, she gave up.
She gave up her law firm.
She gave up living in New York.
She moved to Arkansas with Hay Pig Suey.
She had to give up all that to put up with Jennifer Flowers and all that.
And damn it, if Clinton is don't do it, poor woman.
And it's all part of building up Hillary.
Is this a greed victim?
Oh, my God.
How tough is she?
Oh, create sympathy.
And I'm telling you, folks, this is another stage of Clinton crap that we're being treated to here.
Judging from my email, some of you are misinterpreting my opinion.
I didn't really give you my opinion.
But you're not thinking the way I am on this quote from the anonymous GOP leadership aid.
We don't need these fringe guys as much as we did anymore.
I'll explain my take on this because it differs from what I'm saying in the email in mere moments.
But first, this is Suzanne in Shaftsburg, Michigan.
It's great to have you, and I appreciate your patience as well.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
How are you doing today?
I'm great.
Thank you very much.
I just thought I'd call and share a cute little story with you.
I bought your books for my Sunday school class this Christmas.
And after church, one of the little girls, Kaylee, came up to me and she looked disappointed, and she showed me the book.
And I said, you are going to love this book.
And she just looked at me and I said, this is history, but it's done in a fun way.
The history of our country.
Now, wait a minute.
I'm just, you bought the books for your, oh, I thought you said you.
Right, I bought two of the pilgrims.
I'm sorry, I thought you, I'm sorry.
I thought you said you said you bought them for your son, not Sunday school class.
I bought Sunday school class.
Okay, okay.
So she flipped the book over and she said, I don't even know who this guy is.
And I said, well, he's the gentleman that wrote the book.
And she said, oh, so, you know, they went home on winter break and they came back and she couldn't stop talking about Liberty.
You know, she was quoting statements that he had made in the book.
So I was real happy that she was happy with the book.
That is, I can't tell you how great a story that is.
So if I understand, you teach Sunday school class and you got the books, you bought the books for the class, and you let one girl take one home or two.
No, I gave a book to each of my kids.
Oh, to your two kids.
Okay.
Okay.
He got the second one that came out because I could only find two of the Brave Pilgrim books.
And I looked at all the stores around our area.
Too late to order it.
So I got her the Patriots.
This is your daughter, not somebody in the Sunday school class.
No, this is my Sunday school kids.
She's eight years old.
Okay, can you hang on through the break?
I got totally discombobulated.
I'm sorry.
No, it's not your, it's my hearing.
I thought you said your son, and then I thought you said your daughter.
Hang on.
Don't go away.
Okay, we're back with Suzanne now in Shaftsburg, Michigan.
I'll tell you the problems.
Problem number one is my hearing.
And number two, I visualize stories.
It's part of the way I try to enhance my hearing.
And I heard you say son when you said Sunday school.
And then you said my kids.
I thought you meant your daughter in addition to the students at the Sunday school.
So that's where I got off track.
I'm sorry.
No, no, no.
It's my problem.
So you started to start the beginning.
You bought the Sunday school class.
I know the young girl, Haley, didn't know who I was.
What the hell is this, Ms. Suzanne?
And turned out she took it home and read it, and she loves the character Liberty.
Yes, she does.
She came into Sunday school class the following week, and she was quoting from Liberty all of these.
I wish they could learn scripture verses that easily, but she.
Well, that's an idea.
Yeah, she was just delighted.
And so do you have children?
I have two sons, but they're grown and out of four years.
Okay, how many are in your Sunday school class?
There are four.
And you said you weren't able to buy all books because you were.
Well, I wanted to get your very first book so I could build them a library, you know, with birthdays and things.
But you couldn't find Brave Pilgrims.
I couldn't.
I only found two copies, so I had to buy your second book for the other kids.
Well, wait a minute.
You only found two copies of what?
Of the Brave Pilgrims.
The bookstores were sold out.
Oh, see, I thought you didn't have any Brave Pilgrims.
No, I bought two of those, and then I bought in the Sunday school class again?
There are four.
Four in the class.
So you wanted to buy one of each for so you wanted to buy four copies of each for the kids?
Is that what you're saying?
No, I was going to buy four copies of your first book.
Ah, and you couldn't find it, so you can't.
I waited too long to buy them, and they were sold out.
Okay, see another.
When I hear Sunday school class, I think 15, 20, 30.
But I'm trying to figure out how two books go around that way.
I get it now.
I get it now.
But anyway, that's diversion.
The main point is you had little Haley.
You asked her to read it.
Who is this guy?
I don't know who this guy is.
I don't even know who this man is.
Right.
And it came back.
And did she like the rest of the book or just like Hillary?
Or Liberty.
Liberty.
Well, she hadn't finished it.
She was still reading the book.
And then we had to close church Sunday because of the weather.
So I haven't seen them for about a week.
What weather?
Why did you say?
The roads were really bad out here.
We live in the country.
We had a lot of blowing snow and icy roads.
Well, I'll tell you what I need to do.
I need you to stay on hold, and I need to take care of all this.
I need to send you enough copies of all three books so that you can be fair with distribution in your Sunday school class.
That would be crazy.
We'll do that.
I would love that.
Thank you so much.
And there's some other stuff, too.
A whole little package of stuff that we will send for everybody, including young Haley.
Her name is Kaylee.
Kaylee.
Kaylee.
This has not been my call.
I can say this.
All right.
Hang on.
It is Suzanne, right?
And she.
Yes, it is Suzanne.
Thank you.
Okay.
So you hang on, Mr. Snerder to be back with you.
And even though it's in the country, you need a FedEx address.
Okay.
Okay.
Thank you so much.
Thank you, Suzanne.
I appreciate it.
Now, let me go back before we get too far away of Beaten Path.
I want to go back to this quote, my little pop quiz quote.
We don't need these fringe guys as much as we did anymore, said a GOP leadership aide, speaking on condition of anonymity.
We can let a walk on certain bills, and it just won't matter.
This gives us breathing room.
Now, this is in the Politico.
The Politico, by the way, has become the go-to source for the Republican leadership.
Everybody in Washington leaks.
Everybody has anonymous sources.
And the Republicans have obviously, the leadership has decided Politico is going to get their news when they want to put something out, such as this.
So I happen to know, folks, as you probably do, there is still, In fact, I don't even think it's abated much.
The anger at the Republican leadership in Washington is still palpable.
And the phones in Washington, let me guarantee, the leadership is shocked at how much attention you all are still giving them.
They were blown away by the number of phone calls before the speaker election, and those phones are continuing to ring.
What's happening is that people, Republicans all over this country have not stopped calling Washington and telling the Republicans how ticked off they are.
They're not happy with the way the vote went.
Some of them think they were toyed with up to that 28 votes when you just needed 29.
I think Boehner was toying with them, or others do.
But the point is the anger has not subsided with the election of Boehner.
The people that elected Republicans in this massive landslide actually are still ticked off because they think that they're being used and taken for granted and they're going to be ignored.
And they're still living about it.
And I will guarantee you that people in elective office in Washington are shocked at this.
They're shocked at two things.
They are really surprised you care this much about a speaker election.
Nobody's ever cared about somebody.
That's so inside baseball.
And they're also really in a state of disbelief that even after the election, you're still calling to register your anger.
Now, what this guy, whoever this is, this nameless GOP leadership aide, when he says we don't need these fringe guys as much as we do, this is an insult, not just the Tea Party members of the House of Representatives.
We don't need these fringe guys.
They're talking about you.
The fringe guys?
Who elected the fringe guys?
You other fringe freaks?
And what they think now, what this quote is meant to represent is that the Republican leadership, now that Boehner survived, they can care about you, Tea Party people.
We don't need these fringe guys anymore.
We don't even need them on legislation.
We got enough Republicans sitting in here without the fringe guys.
We don't even have to give them any attention.
We don't even have to let them have any role in any bills that are coming up.
And what this guy doesn't understand, apparently, is this reference here to the fringe guys.
He thinks he's speaking specifically and exclusively of elected Tea Party Republicans.
I don't think he knows that he's also insulting the people that voted for him.
So what's happening here is that the Republican leadership has somebody that got hold of Politico and essentially called a lot of Republican voters fringe guys, too.
That's what I don't think they realizes here.
Now, this guy obviously just means, hey, it's okay.
All right.
We survived these challenges to Boehner.
Now we can do whatever we can do whatever we want.
We don't need the Tea Party.
We don't even have to act like we care about the fringe crew.
Bottom line is this spokesman, this leadership aide speaking anonymously has just confirmed that at least he thinks that the Republican base is a bunch of fringe kooks.
It's very unfortunate that that's the way.
By the way, the Clinton Foundation CEO has stepped down, a Clinton Global Initiative.
Eric Braverman stepping down from his post, the foundation said.
This right on the heels of Mrs. Clinton being ticked off at the latest news about Bill and Epstein.
So now the foundation's head honcho step down.
They're going to put one of Hillary's people in there, is what this means.
Hillary's going to exact a price for this.
And she's going to get one of her people in there, probably a woman, to control what happens to the slush.
The foundation money.
Probably what that means.
How many of you believe the divorce rate in the United States is 50%?
Most of you, right?
And how many of you have believed that for a real long time?
What would you think if I were to tell you that the divorce rate in America is nowhere near 50% and it never has been?
Never has been.
What would you believe if I told you the divorce rate in America is nowhere near 50% and never has been?
Would you believe it, or would you think I'm cockeyed toying with you, trying to use you, mislead you, do satire, parody, setting you up for something?
Or am telling you the truth?
I'm telling you the truth.
It's another example of conventional wisdom/slash conventional thinking that just isn't true.
And when you hear why, it'll all make perfect sense.
I mean, what if you're the Democrat Party and you divvy people up into demographics, in terms of your voters and supporters, what is one of the most important groups to you?
Single, unmarried women.
What are they?
Totally dependent on government, right?
They are victims of predatory men.
They're usually portrayed as living alone and in near poverty with a couple of kids, abandoned by a man, left to fend for themselves.
And it's an automatic, we've got to have somebody do something.
So the government becomes the guarantor of single women.
Divorced or single, but women, what do you need for the perception of that to be true?
And so that people in that perception will support big government taking care of these poor, abandoned, perhaps abused, even single women.
You need the perception that there are a lot of them.
And a fabricated divorce rate goes a long way in creating the ruse.
Sit tight.
Be right back.
You know, time got away from me.
I'm going to save this divorce rate story till Monday.
It's not enough.
I mean, but it's, it's, I'll give you the source is the American Family Association, and they've done their own polling and research on this.
And it's fascinating.
And it really blows up one of the major societal, cultural things people take for granted.
People use the divorce rate as an excuse not to get married.
Well, I'm not getting married.
You see, the divorce rate is 50%.
Why mess with it?
It isn't 50%.
But I'm not trying to tease you with it.
I just don't have enough time to be thorough with this, the limited time we have.
So, football.
Saturday, early game.
Weird early game.
I know why.
You got the Patriots hosting the Ravens.
The Ravens are the one team that can beat New England in the postseason.
in Foxborough.
They've done it two out of three times.
But that was with different teams, obviously.
This game is going to come to the Ravens are really hurting in the secondary, and that means Tom Brady could light it up.
But the Tom Brady for the Baltimore Ravens is actually number 55 on defense, Terrell Suggs, one of the ugliest guys in the league.
But man, he is the leader of this team.
And Brady even went out of his way to praise the guy, and I think that was psychological because Suggs has let it be known he's jealous of Brady in joking press conferences prior.
So I don't know.
I can see it going either way.
You got to go with Brady at home, though, in this thing in the week secondary for the Ravens.
You've got to go Seattle Saturday night.
Green Bay, Dallas.
I'm going to take Dallas on the road simply because Aaron Rodgers is going to be frozen in the pocket if they're telling the truth about his calf injury.
He's not going to be very immobile.
And Dallas is perfect on the road.
And Romo's got the best passing rating of any quarterback in the playoffs, believe it or not.
And the late game, Peyton Manning.
Got to go with Manning at home.
There you go.
A Dallas Green Bay game is the hardest one to call.
And I'm only picking Dallas because Aaron Rodgers may not be anywhere near 100%.
We just don't know.
Day to be a great weekend, though.
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