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February 11, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #3

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	Hi folks, it's great to have you here, Rush Lindboy, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
	You know why?
	Because I, ladies and gentlemen, am fortunate.
	I'm lucky.
	I am blessed.
	I was doing what I was born to do.
	It was Karen Tummelty.
	Snerdley, you're not going to believe this.
	You weren't in there.
	You had left right as the previous hour.
	Somebody sent me a tweet.
	Somebody sent me a note saying they'd seen a tweet that Stewart leaving was the equivalent of the Beatles breaking up.
	You know who it was?
	Karen Tumulty of the Washington Post and formerly Time Magazine.
	And she tweeted, for people under 30, John Stewart leaving the Daily Show is the equivalent of the, where did it go?
	Is the equivalent of the Beatles breaking up?
	Now, she's old enough to know better.
	This is exactly, folks, what you're seeing here.
	I knew this was going to happen.
	You're going to have these lib media types falling all over themselves, trying to come up with the most syrupy, sickeningly sweet, almost obituaries.
	And again, it's everybody being the same.
	Everybody thinking the same thing.
	Everybody trying to say the same thing in the most creative and beautiful way.
	There's not a single, there's not a single person trying to distinguish themselves in this.
	They're all trying to be a way to put it.
	They're all trying to remain qualified and eligible to remain in the big click.
	And this is what happens.
	You have to have a certain mindset in order to be accepted.
	You have to have a certain mindset in order to be admitted and granted the qualifications necessary to be a member in good standing of the liberal media or whatever the click, whatever you want to be.
	The cake, though, is this Baltimore Sun TV critic saying Stuart taught us to think about politics in a different way for crying out.
	There isn't anybody in the liberal media who's taught anybody how to think about politics in a different way in my lifetime.
	They are all teaching everybody to think about politics identically.
	They are teaching, they are instructing, propagandizing whatever they're telling everybody in their audiences how to think exactly alike.
	And to have that be called, to be called, he taught us to think differently about politics.
	Tell me, Mr. TV critic of the Baltimore Sun, how does the way you think differ from the way the TV critic of the New York Daily News?
	How does the way you think differ from anybody else in entertainment media or mainstream news media?
	You guys are cookie cutters.
	It's amazing.
	But Karen Tummelty, she's old enough to know better.
	I mean, to compare.
	How many writers did the Beatles have?
	Never mind.
	I don't even want to go there.
	I don't even want to go there.
	Beatles wrote their own stuff, right?
	Harrison, sometimes it was Lennon and McCartney, right?
	They wrote their own stuff, right?
	Did they have a staff of 30 or 40 people writing their tunes and so forth?
	No, they didn't, did they?
	Oh, well.
	Anyway, there are other things happening out there, but I knew this was going to, I should have warned everybody when the program started, it's going to get worse as the day goes on because these libs are going to be in a quiet, friendly competition with each other to come up with the most unique obituary or the most unique, syrupy, sickeningly sweet, meaningful analysis of what it all means.
	Can anybody, no, I don't, I have a question, but I see, if I start talking about this in grave detail, they're just going to accuse me of having opinions and thoughts about this that I don't.
	So I'm unfortunately tongue-tied in being able to talk about it.
	I mean, I could, but I don't want to deal with the fallout over something like this.
	I'll save the fallout for stuff that matters.
	And let's get on to stuff that matters.
	Not that this doesn't.
	I mean, it is a liberal media implosion taking place out there, looked at in one way.
	But here's a couple stories on the same thing.
	From Breitbart McConnell, Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate.
	Department of Homeland Security funding stuck in the Senate.
	It's up to the House.
	Now, if you've been following what's going on with this, you see that headline, then you know that the Republicans are all set to squander it again.
	With the version of a bill passed in the House, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Bill.
	And remember now, let's go back to the Cromnibus bill back in December.
	This totally unnecessary Republican agreement with the Democrats to fund the government for the rest of this fiscal year, giving up their power to shape the budget for the next nine months.
	They went ahead and gave the Democrats everything they wanted, except one thing.
	They withheld funding for the Department of Homeland Security.
	The Republicans did.
	Now, the reason that they withheld funding for DHS, they told us, was they were going to make a stand on Obama's executive amnesty.
	They were going to eliminate Obama's ability to do it by denying him the money to implement it.
	And that's what they told us, and they wanted applause, and they wanted kudos and they wanted appreciation from us.
	But a number of us were suspicious of this because we had become aware of negotiations between Republicans and the White House to go ahead and make executive amnesty a reality after going through all of this, this supposed defunding, simply as a show to placate us.
	So what happened is the House passes a bill that does not authorize funding for the Department of Homeland Security in this budget that is now in place for the next nine months.
	But that bill has to pass the Senate.
	And if it does pass the Senate, then Obama doesn't have the money to implement his executive amnesty.
	And Mitch McConnell is saying, well, we're kind of stuck here.
	We're not going to be able to pass this bill here in the Senate because the Democrats are continuing to, well, they're filibustering the thing and they're obstructing it.
	And we're just not going to be able to get it done.
	And so McConnell has sent word to Boehner that it's up to you, bud.
	You've got to come up with a new version of this bill that the Democrats will support.
	And there is no such thing.
	There's no such thing as a bill that the Democrats are going to support that does not fund the Department of Homeland Security.
	McConnell told reporters yesterday, I think it's clear that we can't go forward in the Senate unless you all have heard something I haven't.
	And so the next move obviously is up to the House.
	We've had a week on it.
	We've had three cloture votes, all of which have not succeeded.
	It's clear that we can't get on the bill.
	We can't offer amendments to the bill.
	And I think it'd be pretty safe to say that we're stuck because of Democrat obstruction on the Senate side.
	Now, how many weeks did the Senate Democrats spend ramming through Obamacare illegally via budget reconciliation?
	So how come the Republicans give up so quickly?
	Why don't they just use budget reconciliation in this case?
	I mean, they tell us that they're serious about opposing Obama's executive amnesty, but they're not.
	See, that's what it all comes down to.
	They really, this is the sad thing.
	I hate saying it, too.
	They don't want to stop Obama's executive amnesty.
	And so that's why they're not going to really work on this.
	Another piece, and this, let's see, where did I find this?
	Let me the second page to find this.
	And as I didn't print the second page, I think this is hotair.com or powerline.
	I'm sorry if I get it wrong, but the headline: Are Senate Republicans hanging the house out to dry?
	House of Representatives passed legislation that fully funds the Department of Homeland Security, except it withholds money to implement Obama's illegal and unconstitutional immigration fiats.
	Republican leadership in the Senate has tried to bring the House measure up to a vote three times, but each time the Democrats have filibustered it.
	So the Department of Homeland Security is funded through February 27th.
	At that point, the money begins to run out.
	The Republicans hold the cards here.
	It is close to inconceivable that the Democrats would shut down the Department of Homeland Security by continuing to filibuster this appropriation.
	Yet there's a story in the National Journal, and if it's right, Senate Republicans may be preparing to fold a winning hand, and that's what the previous headline is.
	McConnell, DHS funding stuck in the Senate up to the House.
	Even the National Journal, which they're probably in tears too over Jon Stewart leaving, even they say the Republicans have a winning hand that they're about to squander.
	That the House came up with a good plan.
	That it's up to the Senate Republicans to stick to it.
	You want to know what's really happened here?
	This is going to make you sick.
	You want to know what's really happened here on the Senate side?
	I'll tell you exactly what's happened here.
	And Ted Cruz, you can find a video by Ted Cruz, and he spells this all out.
	It was recorded this past weekend.
	And he says that the Cromnibus Bill, this lame duck session thing signed in December, set all of this up.
	Here was the idea.
	The idea was that rather than risk a wider government shutdown over Obama's amnesty, Republicans would focus on the Department of Homeland Security funding, and they would risk a limited shutdown of that department and that department only if Obama and the Democrats refused to scale back his amnesty intentions.
	But when it came down to the final counting, the Republicans were never really willing to shut down DHS either.
	And They made no secret of the fact the Republicans were bluffing and they admitted they were bluffing.
	It's no different than when the Republicans told Obama and the media and everybody else that there would never be any impeachment hearings.
	Well, that's just a signal to Obama that the Republicans aren't going to stop him.
	They did the same thing here.
	All along, they have led everybody to believe that they're willing to shut down DHS.
	Not the whole government, but they're willing to shut down Department of Homeland Security in order to stop Obama's executive amnesty.
	But then they let it be known that they wouldn't shut down Department of Homeland Security.
	So the Democrats have no reason to support the Republican bill.
	The whole thing is an out-and-out joke, folks.
	The House passed an amendment to the Department of Homeland Security bill that not only would have blocked Obama's mega amnesty, but also the smaller DREAMer amnesty that he imposed in 2012.
	So what they promised, they promised to use the power of the purse to stop Obama's executive overreach.
	And then they also vowed to show American voters looking at 2016 that the Republicans would never shut down the government.
	They're hell-bent.
	As you know, the Republicans, because of polling data and whatever, they are hell-bent.
	They want people to know that no matter what, if there's ever a government shutdown, it isn't them.
	They're not doing it.
	And so the House passes a bill that would defund the Department of Homeland Security and deny Obama the money to implement executive amnesty.
	The Senate, from the day one, agreed to go along with it.
	And then when it came time to actually go along with it, the Senate Republicans said, sorry, we can't get the bill passed to Democrats because they had telegraphed to the Democrats that they really weren't going to shut down the Department of Homeland Security because they had said, we don't ever want to be accused of shutting down the government.
	They don't want to go into the 2016 presidential campaign year with any government shutdown in anybody's recent memory.
	So, just like with Obama, there's no real Republican effort to stop Obama's executive amnesty.
	And I want you to remember, back in December, when they started debating this stupid budget bill, it was a mistake to go ahead and let the Democrats essentially authorize a budget for the balance of this fiscal year because that gave the Democrats the power to spend the money as they wanted it spent for the next nine months, even though the Republicans are going to be controlling Congress for those nine months.
	The Republicans trying to mollify us.
	So, don't worry, we're not going to fund Department of Homeland Security.
	We're going to hold out money from there so Obama can't do his amnesty.
	So now February has arrived when it's time to withhold money from DHS.
	And the Senate Republicans are saying, sorry, but we can't do it.
	And that's where we are.
	And the conservative media, the conservative blogosphere, pulling their hair out, trying to figure out what the hell is going on.
	Why are the Senate Republicans so go-nedless?
	What is it?
	It's sadly, it was predictable.
	But anyway, that's it.
	If you've heard about it, if you've been seeing little Bits and pieces about it.
	That's what the bottom line is.
	As it stands now, there is not going to be, because the Senate is saying, Boehner, it's up to you to come up with a new bill that the Democrats over here will support.
	And Boehner is saying, sorry, we've already done the bill.
	It's your turn.
	The House Republicans, say what you want about them, but they are miffed that the Senate Republicans have not done one thing to help them in the past couple of years.
	And the Senate Republicans' excuse has been Harry Reid wouldn't let us do anything.
	But now they run the Senate.
	They can't hide behind Harry Reid now, but they're hiding behind something.
	Back to the phones, Fairfield, Iowa.
	This is Craig.
	Welcome, sir, to the Rush Limbaugh program.
	Hello.
	Hello.
	Thank you very much for getting me on your show today.
	I've been listening to you since the late 90s while I was in college.
	It helped form my political views and becoming more conservative in my ways.
	Well, so you have actually been taught to think about politics in a different way then.
	Yes, you have.
	You have been listening to this program.
	Way to go.
	Congratulations, and I'm glad you're out there.
	Well, thank you very much.
	And I also like to thank you on your children's books.
	I got a set for my nephew.
	I'd like to plan on getting a set for my daughter here very shortly because I think that is a ring of truth in history that our schools are lacking in.
	I'll tell you, we've got some of the greatest comments that are coming into us on the Rush Revere Facebook page.
	I have to tell you, people like you are sending in some of the most meaningful comments that I can imagine.
	I thank everybody so much.
	And you too.
	Yeah, I read them and I just really liked them a lot.
	And I'm going to start my daughter down the right track with her education, with your books.
	But my question for you today is, where is Joe Biden's role going to be in the upcoming election?
	Because you're just basically saying that Hillary, Hillary, Hillary's got it.
	But he's just not going to sit by and say, okay, I'm just not going to be president.
	I'm just going to be going on and...
	Well, that's a good question.
	It's a good...
	Traditionally, in circumstances like this, the sitting administration would not get involved, especially in their own party's primary.
	But this bunch doesn't believe in any tradition.
	This bunch will blow everything out of the water.
	So it's hard to say.
	Now, Biden is toying with the idea of running.
	So if he decides to run for the Democrat nomination, and he's going to be battling Hillary, if he decides not to run, by the order of tradition, he won't be endorsing anybody or getting involved in it.
	But as I say, this bunch doesn't owe much to tradition.
	So they could break new ground in how they involve themselves in the next Democrat Party.
	I think they will.
	I think Obama is going to be involved as much as he can because he wants to maintain this legacy.
	And there was a story the other day about where he's going to live.
	It was a story that Axelrod was on TV talking to somebody.
	They asked him where Obama's going to live.
	And Axelrod said, he ought to live in Chicago.
	He's going to have a place in Washington.
	I guarantee you, he is going to make sure whoever the next president is, especially if it's a Republican, that they do not try to unravel anything he's done.
	He's going to be on television every day with his buddies in the media, ripping whoever, Republican, Democrat, president, whoever tries to do that.
	Now, what Biden would do in that case, I don't know.
	But if he runs, he's going to be competing against Hillary.
	Does that help?
	Yeah, that does, but you don't think he's going to step aside and let Hillary do it, or is he going to be a asset to the Republican Party by digging more dirt out about the Clintons and her relationship with Obama?
	I don't.
	Biden, I don't know.
	He'll be loyal to Obama.
	That's the one thing he's shown that he is.
	Whatever Obama wants, if he doesn't run, that's what he'll do.
	Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
	Rush Limbaugh, talent on loan from God.
	Here's Olivia in Palm Springs, California.
	Hey, Olivia, great that you called.
	How are you?
	Hi, Rush.
	How are you doing?
	Hello?
	Hi, I'm good.
	Hi, Rush.
	It's really an honor to speak with you.
	I'm a fairly new listener to your show.
	I've been listening for a few months.
	And I really, my real reason for calling in today was just to thank you and say that listening to your show has really opened my eyes to the truth and what's really going on in the world around me.
	Since listening to your show, I've registered to vote.
	I've started paying attention to what's going on.
	I've stopped listening to a lot of the liberal biased news and media.
	And I'm starting to really think and understand about what's going on around me.
	And I wanted to thank you for that.
	So it could be accurately said that you have learned a new way to think about politics listening to this presentation.
	Absolutely.
	Yes, sir.
	That's absolutely right.
	God bless you.
	Yeah.
	God bless you.
	When I first started listening to your show, you were talking about Lois Lerner and Eric Holder quite a bit.
	And it seems to me like it's all the same.
	You know, I always believed for most of my life, you know, I never took time to read the Constitution or think about the law because I just sort of assumed that the people in charge would uphold it.
	Most people do.
	You have implicit trust in government.
	The people there are honorable and they're only trying to help.
	And they've got the best of intentions and yada, yada, yada, right?
	Absolutely.
	And it wasn't until I heard that, you know, when you were talking about Lois Lerner and Eric Holder, and I started to realize that was not the case.
	And I feel, Rush, a lot of times like I'm watching my future be taken away from me.
	As a 22-year-old, I see these policies that are not fiscally responsible, that are not for the best interest of our future.
	And it worries me.
	And I feel like in a world where everything I hear, the majority of what I hear is a lie, I kind of feel like I'm not sure what to do just to save my future.
	Or if there's much I can do.
	Well, you're doing it.
	You've made the first step, which is the hardest.
	And you're understanding this and thinking about it the right way.
	But Olivia, I have to ask you, because, you know, was it that long ago, three months ago, you hated everything I said?
	And what changed?
	What changed in you?
	Or what happened?
	I'm really not sure.
	Well, I'll tell you what, I grew up, my mom always listened to you, and I'm sure she's listening now, so shout out to my mom in Pennsylvania.
	But she always listened to you when I was a kid, and I'd hear what you said on the radio, and I just, I thought you were an out-of-touch extremist.
	I hated it when she would listen to you on the radio.
	And I bought into all the lies.
	I've just missed the legal age of being able to vote, but I would have voted for Obama.
	I was all for him.
	I bought into it.
	The hope, the change, the, you know, we're going to end racism, the peace, and love.
	And I totally bought into the lies.
	And I didn't realize.
	I didn't think about it.
	So you wanted it to be true.
	Sure.
	You wanted all that to be true.
	Sure.
	If you had understood who liberals are, you would have known that they can't make it true.
	They thrive on this division.
	Liberals prosper on the divisions in our culture and society.
	They win elections on a divided country and in a divided country.
	But what you said that I was, what did I say or do that made you think was so extreme?
	Well, because you were.
	I liked, well, what I liked about you now that I didn't like then is that you know what you believe when it comes to you speak the truth, and you're not afraid to speak it emphatically.
	You're not afraid to really put it out there.
	And at the time, I didn't see it as the truth, and I was really offended and bothered by it.
	And because I felt like you were everything they said you were and everything they continue to say you are.
	I didn't think for myself.
	But listening to your show has encouraged me to think for myself in a new way.
	This is a remarkable transition you've undergone here just a few short months.
	Yes, sir.
	I mean, I think it was always kind of there.
	You know, as a young American, I mean, I was personally blessed with I was raised in a home where I had the, I was taught about action and consequence, right?
	I was taught the significance of working to provide for myself and taking responsibility.
	And I mean, I'm fortunate enough to have had that experience.
	A lot of the people that I know have not.
	And, you know, while I strayed from that for a while, I see how that's important.
	I see how that's important now, and I see how that's important not just.
	Olivia, this is a genuinely inspiring call.
	It is, especially here on Brian Williams' Jon Stewart Day, to hear this call from you is just, it's exhilarating.
	It's heartwarming.
	I really thank you very much.
	Yeah, thank you, Rush.
	And see, Palm Springs, do you work yet?
	Are you still in school, or do you know what you want to do?
	I'm actually, I just started going to school.
	I work full-time, though, so I go to school at night.
	You work full-time and you go to school at night?
	Yes, sir.
	Fascinating.
	Well, cool.
	Well, look, I hope to hear from you again, Olivia, and I'm really gratified.
	Thank you very much for all that you've said, and I appreciate your being out there.
	Okay, thank you.
	You bet.
	Be back in just a second, folks.
	Do not go away.
	This is Jack Salt Lake City, your next, sir.
	I'm glad you waited.
	Hello.
	Hello, Rush.
	How are you?
	Very well.
	Thank you much.
	Good.
	Jitto from sunny Salt Lake City.
	Thrilled to speak with you.
	By the way, before I get to my point, I love your commentaries in the first hour.
	I found myself thinking, if I'm a liberal or even a low-information voter listening to your points, I find myself shaking my head like, how can you argue with that?
	Why is this making so much sense?
	And color, you know, people like Olivia illustrates the point.
	But anyways, my point is I'm so frustrated with the Republicans because it seems like we've given them such a mandate, we the American people, in the midterm elections, and they're just so afraid.
	And I know this is a point we've talked about before, you brought up before, but in light of your earlier commentary, I wanted to bring it up because it feels to me like they are afraid to move forward full steam for they might lose the low-information voter who might be thinking they, you know, to come over to the other side.
	But then again, I'm so frustrated because they have the will of the American people.
	It's right here in front of them, and yet they're afraid to lose it because they've got their eye on the election and they don't want to Scare people away.
	Do you know what I mean?
	Yeah.
	The only thing I would tell you is I don't think that it's fear of the low information voter, per se.
	That's where it ends.
	The fear is of the media.
	The fear is what let's say they had proceeded here.
	Let's say the Senate had gone ahead and let's say McConnell had really tried as hard as he can to get the House bill that would have defunded Obama's executive amnesty and Homeland Security passed in the Senate.
	I mean, they really, really tried.
	Let's say they'd made it.
	They had done it.
	They are deathly afraid that the media is going to write of them as racists, anti-Hispanic, you name it, and that they're going to be tarred and feathered once again with not liking people of color and only supporting the rich and only caring about the rich and all that.
	And I just don't know what else it is.
	Well, I do.
	The other possibility is that the people donating money to them don't want this.
	And let's, the donor class carries much more weight than voters at the moment.
	And I don't like, I mean, it's just what it is.
	The donor class, meaning the chamber and others raising money who want amnesty to happen.
	You know, the money talks, and it's in direct conflict with the election results last November.
	And so it's a, I think it's a two-pronged effort.
	The problem is that when they campaign and get those votes, and actually they, in this last election in November, it was an anti-Obama vote.
	This makes it even worse.
	This election did not have a Republican mandate per se other than stop Obama and the Democrat Party.
	Stop the Democrat Party, stop Obama.
	That's what this election, and that's what the one in 2010 meant.
	And the Republicans purposely did not run with a national agenda or issue platform.
	So they could say that they don't have an issue mandate, which they think would imprison them.
	But the mandate they do have is one they're ignoring, and that is stop Obama.
	And there's any number of reasons for it, as we've discussed.
	I'm out of time now, but there's subject is going to come up again out there, Jack, and I'm sure we will delve deeper into it, but just don't have time to keep going today.
	Back right after this, folks.
	You know, our last caller, Jack, spoke very favorably and highly of the first hour of this program.
	And if I don't mind saying so, he was right.
	If you missed it, you really need to go to rushlimbo.com and find the transcript or listen to the first hour, even the second.
	They were both, well, heck, folks, they're all good.

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