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February 11, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #3

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	Hi folks, it's great to have you here, Rush Linboy, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have it.
	You know why?
	Because I, ladies and gentlemen, am fortunate.
	I am uh I'm lucky I am blessed.
	I was doing what I was born to do.
	It was it was Karen Tumulty.
	Schnerdley, you're not gonna believe this.
	You weren't in there.
	You had left right as the previous hour is I somebody sent me a tweet.
	Somebody sent me a note saying it'd seen a tweet that Stuart breaking the Stuart leaving was the equivalent of the Beatles breaking up.
	You know who it was?
	Karen Tummulty of the of the Washington Post and formerly Time Magazine.
	And she tweeted, for people under 30, Jon 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 this is this is exactly folks.
	What you're seeing here.
	This is I knew this was gonna happen.
	You're gonna have these libmedia 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 this to be a uh the way to put the they're all trying to remain qualified and eligible to remain in the big 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 in order to be admitted and and granted the the qualifications necessary to be a member in good standing of uh of the liberal media or whatever the click, whatever you want to be.
	But in the the the cake, though, is this Baltimore 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 Son, 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 it's amazing.
	But Karen Tummulty, uh, she's she's old enough to 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 I don't even want to go there.
	Beatles wrote their own stuff, right?
	At uh Harrison uh sometimes when it was Lennon 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 gonna I should have I should have warned everybody when the program started, it's gonna get worse as the day goes on, because these libs are gonna 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 d see if if I start talking about this in grave detail, they're just gonna 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.
	I mean, I could, but I don't want to deal with the fall out 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's it is a liberal media implosion taking place out there, looked at in one way.
	But if here's a couple stories on the same thing.
	Uh 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 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 um we're not going to be able to pass this bill here in the Senate because the uh the Democrats are continuing to uh, 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 Baehner 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 uh 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.
	Uh we can't offer amendments to the bill, and then 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 gonna really work on this.
	Another piece, and this uh let's see, where did I find this?
	I mean, the second page to find this.
	Uh and as I didn't print a second page, I think this is hot air.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 fiat.
	Republican leadership in the Senate 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 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 John 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 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.
	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 what they 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 hellbent, as you know, the Republicans, because of polling data and whatever, they are hellbent.
	They are 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.
	The 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 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 Reed wouldn't let us do anything.
	But now they run the Senate.
	They can't hide behind Harry Reed now, but they're hiding behind something.
	Back to the phones, Fairfield, Iowa.
	This is uh 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 on the Rush Revere Facebook page.
	I have to tell you, people people like you are sending in some of the most meaningful comments that I can I can uh uh imagine.
	It would just thank everybody so much.
	And and you too.
	Yeah, I I read them and I just really like them a lot, and and I'm gonna start my daughter down the right track with her education with your books.
	Um, but my question for you today is where is Joe Biden's role gonna be in the upcoming election?
	Um, because you're just saying basically saying that Hillary Hillary Hillary's got it, but he's just not gonna sit by and say, okay, I'm just gonna be president, I'm just gonna be going on and it's a good question.
	It's a good night.
	Traditionally uh in circumstances like this, the sitting administration would not get involved.
	Especially in their own party's primary.
	Uh but this bunch doesn't believe in any tradition.
	This this bunch would 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 gonna be battling Hillary.
	If he decides not to run uh the 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 and how they involve themselves in the next Democrat.
	I think they will.
	I think Obama is gonna be involved as much as he can because he wants to maintain this legacy.
	And I I there there was a story the other day about where he's gonna live.
	It was a story that Axelrod was on TV talking to somebody, and they asked him where Obama's gonna live, and actually he ought to live in Chicago.
	He's gonna 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 gonna 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 he if he runs, he's gonna be competing against Hillary.
	Does that help?
	Yeah, that does, but you don't think he's gonna step aside and let Hillary do it, or is he gonna be a asset to the Republican Party by getting more dirt out about the Clintons and h her relationship with Obama.
	Uh I don't Biden uh I don't know.
	If 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, Russ, how you doing?
	Hello?
	Hi, I'm good.
	Hi, Russ.
	It's really an honor to speak with you.
	Uh um I'm uh an a fairly new listener to your show.
	I've been listening for a few months, and um uh I I really uh the my real me reason for calling in today was just to thank you and say um that listening to your show has really opened my eyes to the truth and what's really going on in the world around me.
	Um since listening to your show, I've registered to vote.
	I've uh started paying attention to what's going on.
	I've stopped listening to uh a lot of the of the uh liberal biased news and media, and um I'm starting to really think and understand about w uh uh 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 program.
	Absolutely.
	Yes, sir, that's absolutely right.
	God bless you.
	Yeah.
	God bless you.
	Um I when I first started uh listening to your show, you were talking about uh Lois Lerner and Eric Holder quite a bit, and uh and it it seems to me like it's all it's all the same.
	You know, when I I always believed for most of my life, you know, I never I never took time to read the Constitution or or um think about uh the law because I just sort of assumed that the people in charge would uphold it.
	Most people do.
	You you had implicit trust in government, the people there are honorable and they're only trying to help, and they got the best of intentions and yada yada yada, right?
	Absolutely.
	And it wasn't until I heard that, you know, what when you were talking about Lois Lerner and Eric Holder and and I started to realize that was not the case, and I was what I'm I'm I feel Russ, a lot of times like I'm watching my future be taken away from me.
	As a twenty-two-year-old, I I see um these policies that are not fiscally responsible that are not um for the best interest of of our future, and i and it worries me.
	I and I feel like in a world where everything I hear, the majority of what I hear uh i is a lie, I kind of feel like I'm not sure what to do to to save my future.
	Or if there's much I can't Well, you're doing it.
	You've made the first step, which is the hardest, and not your you're you're understanding this and thinking about it right way, but Olivia, I have to ask you, because you know, wasn't that long a three months ago, you hated everything I said and what what what changed?
	What made what what changed in you?
	Um what happened.
	I'm really not sure.
	Well, I'll tell you what, my I grew up uh my mom always listened to you and and I'm sure she's listening now, so shout out to my mom in Pennsylvania.
	Um but uh she she always listened to you when I was a kid and I'd hear I hear what you said on the radio and I just I thought you were an out of touch extremist.
	I just I hated it when when she would listen to you on the radio and uh and and I I bought into all the lies.
	You know, um I I've just missed the legal age of being able to vote, but I would have voted for Obama.
	I was all for him, you know.
	Um I I bought into it the hope, the change, the you know, we're gonna end racism, the peace and love, and um I totally bought into the lies and I I didn't realize I didn't think about it anyway.
	Well you wanted it to be true.
	Sure.
	You wanted all that to be true.
	Sure.
	I have to do it.
	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 they win elections on a divided country and in a divided country.
	But what you you said that um uh that I was what what what did I say or do that made you think was so extreme.
	Um well, because you were uh I I like well what I like about you now that I didn't like then is that you know what you believe when it comes to uh y you speak the truth and you're not afraid to speak it uh emphatically.
	You're not afraid to really put it out there.
	And at the time I didn't see it out of the truth, and I was really offended and bothered by it.
	And uh because I felt like you were everything they said you were and everything they continue to say you are.
	Um I didn't think for myself.
	But listening to your show has uh has encouraged me to think for myself in a new way.
	Um this is a remarkable transition you've undergone here just a few short months.
	Yes, sir.
	I mean I I I think it was it was always kind of there, you know, um as as a young American I I mean I was personally blessed with uh um I was raised in a home where where I had the I was taught uh about action and consequence, right?
	Um I was taught the significance of working to provide for myself and taking responsibility and and um 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 uh Olivia, this is a this is a genuinely inspiring call.
	It it is uh especially here on Brian Williams John Stewart Day.
	Uh to to hear this call from you is just it's uh exhilarating.
	It's it's heartwarming.
	I I'm I really thank you very much.
	Yeah, thank you, Rush.
	And you see Palm Springs, and do you do you uh do you work yet?
	Are you still in school or do you know what you want to do?
	Uh yeah, I'm actually I just started going to school.
	Um I 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 and I 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 F uh Salt Lake City, your next sir, I'm glad you waited.
	Hello.
	Hello, Rush, how are you?
	Very well, thank you much.
	Good.
	Jiddo from uh Sunny Salt Lake City.
	Um thrilled to speak with you.
	By the way, uh before I get to my point, I love your commentaries in the first hour.
	Um I th found myself thinking if I'm a liberal or uh even a low information voter listening to your points, I I find myself shaking my head like, how can you argue with that?
	Why is this making so much sense?
	Uh and in color, you know, people like Olivia uh i illustrates the point.
	But anyways, uh my point is I'm so frustrated with the Republicans but because it seems like we've given them such a mandate, we the American people in the uh midterm elections and and they're just so afraid and and I know this is a a point we've talked about before,
	you brought up before, but in light of of your earlier uh commentary, I wanted to bring it up because it feels to me like they are afraid to move forward full scheme 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 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're they got their eye on the election and they don't want to uh scare people away do you you know what I mean?
	Yeah the only thing I would tell you is I I don't I don't think that it's 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 uh 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.
	And they really really tried.
	And let's say they'd made it that 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 and all that and I I just I I don't know what else it is.
	Well there there I do.
	It there's 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.
	The money the money talks and it's in direct conflict with the election results last November and so it's it's a it's I think it's a two pronged uh effort.
	The problem is that you know when they well they campaign and get those votes and actually they in 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 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 and 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.

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