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March 2, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 2, 2015, Monday, Hour #3
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Okay, take it for what it's worth, but I just got an email from somebody who just came out of a meeting with some staffers to Republican congressmen.
And the reason that the House did not pursue defunding those three small areas of Homeland Security to prevent Obama having money to implement his amnesty was criticism from the media for shutting down the government.
It's almost becoming a bit too pat, if you ask me, but it's believable at the same time.
This is the excuse that this person was in a meeting with some Hill staffers at the other, just scared to death of the media criticizing him for shutting down government.
You know, it is amazing what have become the formative events in the modern Republican Party.
There are two of them.
The nomination and election of Ronald Reagan counts for nothing.
Instead, the Republican establishment, when confronted with the possibility of a conservative nominee, thinks Goldwater.
They equate conservatism with landslide defeats.
They do not equate conservatism with Reagan and two landslide wins.
The second thing is this.
The government shutdown in 1995, I'm telling you, it's become more obvious that that is one of the single most formative events in the Republican Party's life, recent life.
The shellacking they got, school lunch program, shutting down the government, has paralyzed them ever since.
They do not, they are living in abject fear of having that said about them again.
It's just mind-boggling.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back.
Great to have you here, Il Rushbo, behind the golden EIB microphone.
The telephone number, you ought to be on the programs 800-282-2882 and the email address ilrushbow at eibnet.com.
Benjamin Netanyahu is in town.
He appeared before AIPAC today in a prelude to his appearance before joint session of Congress tomorrow.
There's been all this talk about the Democrats boycotting.
It's a slap in the face of President Obama that President Obama did not participate in the invitation and that this is a snub that how dare Netanyahu make this joint appearance before Congress in speech when Obama doesn't want him to.
And it's clear the reason why they don't want Netanyahu speaking.
He's going to illustrate that Obama has got a deal with Iran for nuclear weapons down the road that is not a good deal.
And in fact, we have learned, we learned last week that the, and John Kerry's running around very braggadocious about this, that we have a deal with Iran.
Get this, that they are limited in finally producing nuclear weapons for 10 years.
And then after that, they can do it.
That's it in a nutshell.
That for 10 years they can't, but after that they can.
And the predicate for it is, as I've said, this administration is populated with people who do not think we have the right to tell any other nation what they can and can't do.
If the Iranians are running around saying they need nuclear weaponry to protect themselves, then our administration says, well, who are we to tell them what steps they can't take to defend themselves?
We have the new, I mean, why can't they?
Who are we to tell them?
And that's what they believe.
There are no good guys and bad guys.
And to the extent that there are good guys and bad guys, we are and have been the bad guys.
And I am not saying that just to get noticed.
It would be outrageous.
I'm saying that because that's what these people believe.
So anyway, Netanyahu shows up, and he was very conciliatory today and grateful and appreciative, thankful for his country's relationship with the United States.
It's hard to imagine boycotting somebody like Netanyahu, who speaks so warmly and passionately of his love for America.
He's a prime minister who never uses hyperbole to explain the existential threats that his country faces in the Middle East.
He's a prime minister who values and respects the relationship that Israel has earned with America.
He really does.
He's a prime minister who speaks graciously of President Obama.
Some of you might cynically say, L.A.'s got no choice.
He has to.
We have the purse strings.
There's undeniable truth in that.
But he wouldn't have to speak as graciously as he did.
I mean, anybody listening to Netanyahu who was not aware of Obama's hostility toward him would be shocked to later learn of Obama's anger.
And that may have been calculated brilliance on the part of Netanyahu.
But really, what's the dislike?
Who wouldn't want to stop the number one exporter of terrorism in the world, Iran?
Who wouldn't want to prevent a nation from getting a nuclear weapon when this nation, Iran, has not talked about defensive postures at all?
Iran's been very open.
They want to wipe Israel off the earth.
And that's part and parcel of their belief in the 12th Imam, the apocalypse.
They believe nuclear weaponry is part of that prophecy.
They've been open about their intention for it.
How can you dislike somebody who wants to stop that?
What reasonable person would not want to prevent Iran from ever obtaining nuclear weapons?
But Obama and the Democrats have been, ever since this speech was announced, it was Boehner extending the invitation, Netanyahu accepted it.
Obama and his buddies have been trying to essentially poison the jury pool like they did in Fergus.
Oh, speaking of which, the Department of Justice did announce that they're going to stick it to Ferguson today.
I mean, what is this?
What stack did I put?
I have to find this.
I don't want to.
They're going to do something to Ferguson.
Not the cop, but Eric Holder to DOJ are going to do something to Ferguson.
It's on the top of my head.
I'll get to it here in just a second.
But he tried to poison the jury pool before Netanyahu's speech, just like they tried to do that in Fergus with the grand jury.
They tried to poison that grand jury pool there, too.
And just like they did with Trayvon Martin in Florida, just like they did in New York with Eric Garner.
I find it despicable what this regime is trying to do with Netanyahu, but it makes sense.
I know who they are.
They don't like Netanyahu.
This administration, foreign policy apparatus, Israel's the problem.
Just like in the rest of the world, the United States is and has been.
The fact is, Obama is a footnote in history if the media hasn't continually lied for him.
Bill Clinton once said back when he was having drinks with some guy that he thought Obama should be serving him.
Ted Kennedy.
He was having drinks.
Ted Kennedy.
That's right.
It was during the 208 presidential campaign.
He was in South Carolina with Ted Kennedy.
And he said to Ted Kennedy, you know, Ted, it wasn't that long ago, this guy, Obama, he'd be serving us our coffee.
You know that, Ted.
And he said, Obama's a fairy tale.
None of this is real.
And you look at how Obama has treated and does treat Netanyahu, you would think that Netanyahu was a white policeman from Ferguson, Missouri.
And that's the conclusion that you would come to.
Or that he was one of the cops that choked Eric Garner.
Or he was one of the jurors, the Trayvon Martin case.
So let's go to the audio soundbites.
This is Netanyahu this morning at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference.
We have three bites.
And then a bonus.
We're going to let you hear Samantha Power.
She's from the regime.
She is their United Nations ambassador.
She is the wife of Cass Sunstein, who is the legal wizard who concluded that the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties because it doesn't permit government to do enough.
That's just who she is.
Here's the first of three from Netanyahu.
And I also bring to you news that you may not have heard.
See, I'll be speaking in Congress tomorrow.
You know, never has so much been written about a speech that hasn't been given.
By the way, we edited the applause.
It was robust and prolonged, and we edited it simply because of the time.
We wanted to compress it as much as we could.
Here's the next bite.
I'd love to clarify what is not the purpose of that speech.
My speech is not intended to show any disrespect to President Obama or the esteemed office that he holds.
I have great respect for both.
Which he does.
And the reason he's saying that is because the powers that be and the drive-by media have already characterized his speech.
It's going to be anti-Obama.
He's going to show Obama up.
He's going to try to humiliate Obama.
He's going to try to embarrass Obama.
And that's why he's saying, never has so much been written about a speech that hasn't been given.
But they're poisoning the jury pool on this.
It's exactly what they're doing.
They're trying to gin up hatred for Netanyahu before he even speaks.
And what they're really trying to do is convince people, you know, you don't even need to watch this speech because here's what he's going to say.
That's what the media is doing.
They're trying to drive down the audience.
They're trying to keep people from watching it by telling them what he's going to do.
And what he's going to say, he's going to really be disrespectful to our dear president.
He's going to be disrespectful to the United States.
That's what they're trying to set up.
And then in the final bite, he got down to it.
As Prime Minister of Israel, I have a moral obligation to speak up in the face of these dangers while there's still time to avert them.
For 2,000 years, my people, the Jewish people, were stateless, defenseless, voiceless.
We were utterly powerless against our enemies who swore to destroy us.
We suffered relentless persecution and horrific attacks.
We could never speak in our own behalf, and we could not defend ourselves.
Well, no more.
No more.
The days when the Jewish people are passive in the face of threats to annihilate us, those days are over.
Right.
And there was thunderous applause for that.
Dianne Feinstein was on one of the Sunday shows yesterday, and she made a point to say, hey, look, this guy, Netanyahu, he doesn't speak for all the Jews.
So don't think this guy's speaking for all of us.
What is there to oppose in this?
You have a state, a state that is the leading exporter of terrorism, which has sworn to obliterate Israel off the map.
That's why they want a nuclear weapon.
Netanyahu's responsibility to defend and protect the people of his country.
Doesn't want them to have a nuclear weapon.
They have announced their intention.
They're not one of the good guys.
And yet people disagree.
More senselessness in a senseless world.
Now, Samantha Power, she is the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
She has a constant frown on her face.
But it's actually not a frown.
She looks like she is in constant, if this makes sense, joyful pain.
And I came to this conclusion watching her in the audience at one of the State of the Union shows.
Obama's going on and on about the latest liberal utopia and idea.
And she's in the audience.
He's almost on the verge of tears.
He's so happy.
Oh, she's squinting.
He's like, oh, my God.
Oh, it's a wonderful hog.
Oh, my God.
It's sort of like a suppressed orgasm.
Oh, my God.
And she's constantly in that state on her facial expression.
Joyful painfulness.
Because liberals are always in pain.
They're always troubled.
They're always bothered.
They're always miserable and unhappy.
Not something.
So that's who she is.
She's also the wife of Cass Sunstein, who I just explained.
And we have two sound bites here.
If I can handle both of them.
A few of you may have heard the Prime Minister of Israel is in town.
Rumor has it that he may be giving a couple speeches.
You may also have heard lately of tension in the relationship between the United States and Israel.
Let me today separate out a few different issues.
Politics, policy, and what the United States does each and every day to combat anti-Semitism around the world and to fight attacks against Israel at the United Nations.
We believe firmly that Israel's security and the U.S.-Israel partnership transcends politics, and it always will.
Okay, so she starts out by joking about Netanyahu's upcoming speech, kind of making fun of the controversy and the showing up.
This is what she had to say about Iran.
The United States of America will not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon, period.
Well, no, no, no.
We believe diplomacy is the preferred route to secure our shared aim.
But if diplomacy should fail, we know the stakes of a nuclear-armed Iran, as well as everyone here.
We will not let it happen.
That's not, no.
Honestly, that's not right.
That's not what John Kerry has been bragging about.
But John Kerry's been bragging about, you know, they don't get one for 10 years, but after that, if they're there, they can develop it.
Kerry's bragging, and we held him off for 10 years.
Kerry's out there bragging.
We put pressure on him.
This is smart power, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
They're not going to do it for 10 years.
And of course, we believe them.
So this, I mean, everybody knows they're going to let Iran have nuclear, but Kerry's out there saying so.
He's also standing by his statement that the world is safer than ever.
I have a break here before we get back to the sound bites and more of your phone calls.
Sit tight, my friends.
El Rushbo and the EIB network roll right on.
So Samantha Power says U.S.-Israeli relations transcend politics.
You just heard her say it.
So why are the Democrats boycotting Netanyahu's speech?
Hmm?
Why are the Democrats not going to show up if our relationship transcends politics?
And the AP had a story on February 25th.
Obama aid calls Netanyahu visit to address Congress destructive to U.S.-Israel relationship.
Why?
I thought our relationship transcended politics.
These people are just full of smoke.
Here's Kerry, who served in Vietnam, by the way, John Forbes Kerry, the haughty Secretary of State, wanted a job because he speaks French and likes going to Switzerland.
He's on this week's Sunday.
Martha Rabbits, you said this week to Congress that we're living in a period of less daily threat to Americans with fewer violent deaths than any time in the last 100 years.
Can you understand why the American people just aren't feeling that?
I still stand by what I said, which is in large terms compared to the last century, there are, in fact, fewer people dying of the means that you look at, Broy, state war, violence, health, etc.
But that's not what's important.
What's important right now is what James Clapper said.
There is an uptick in the level of terrorism and specific incidents of people being killed, and that threat is very, very real.
Okay, so yeah, we're safer than we've ever been, but there's more terrorism and we're at danger.
You figure it out.
Yeah, I stand by what I said.
It's safer than ever out there.
But then Clapper had a great point, too.
This uptick in terrorism, pretty bad out there.
That's our Secretary of State.
So Martha Rabbits at ABC's this week said, okay, well, does Benjamin Netanyahu's action coming here to give a speech, does it actually help Iran?
Our hope is diplomacy can work.
And I believe, given our success on the interim agreement, I believe we deserve the benefit of the doubt to find out whether or not we can get a similarly good agreement with respect to the future.
All right.
Would somebody, this is where my patience is gone.
And incredulity has taken over.
Folks, I don't understand.
Would somebody tell me, give me an example, where diplomacy in the Middle East has resolved anything other than some temporary skirmish and we get a 10-day ceasefire that isn't really, but the fundamental arguments have not changed.
We've done nothing but diplomacy.
I don't see it ever working.
But again, you have to understand, one of the objectives of the diplomat is to never really solve a problem.
Then you don't need a diplomat.
The purpose of diplomacy is to be able to continue to manage the problem.
And military action tends to end the problem one way or the other.
You either win or you lose.
We can't have that.
So the ongoing diplomacy is supposed to get all the gold stars and so forth.
Never does accomplish anything at root level and for any length of time.
Okay, standby on audio soundbite number 25, Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, just moments ago, proving one of my many points today.
Okay, now listen.
This is Earnest Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary.
Don't you know Obama's livid at the House for this silly seven-day extension of the Department OF Homeland Security funding bill?
Just livid.
I mean, it was Obama who arranged it.
It was Obama and the Democrats who arranged this seven-day thing.
When you get down to it right now because what this is going to permit, you mark my words.
Let's see if i'm not right about this.
The end of seven days before this seven days is up.
The next time this is voted on, the House is going to be voting on the Senate bill.
The seven-day extension takes care of one bill.
Now they're going to go back and they got to do it all over again.
Right, and here will come a clean Senate bill.
And if the House Democrats, Pelosi sent them a note friday night, Pelosi sent the House Democrats a note for urging them to sign the seven-day extension, because doing that would permit a brand new full Senate bill clean Senate bill to come back to the House after seven days and on that one they think it'll just be rammed through because the Republicans will be finished trying to please and appease their base.
So here's Earnest, going through the motions of explaining how livid Obama is and how unfortunate all this was and how cheap it makes the Republican leadership look.
The president certainly was disappointed to have to sign that one-week extension.
That's bad policy and it reflected a bad choice by the Republican leadership in the House OF Representatives.
The fact that the president had to sign a seven-day extension doesn't just reflect a bad decision made by the Republican leadership in the House.
It reflects the failed leadership of the Republican leadership in the House.
See, and we are hopeful that uh Republican leaders will do what they should have done last week, which is allow the House OF Representatives to vote on a clean full-year funding bill for the Department OF Homeland Security and voila, that's exactly what's going to happen when the seven days expire.
A brand new Senate bill could be the same thing, but it's clean, no carve outs, no defunding of these three little areas to fund amnesty.
A fully funded bill will come back and this time the House will have a chance to vote on the whole thing, and they'll do it because they've demonstrated their effort to stop this.
They failed, but they gave it everything to appease.
You know it's not.
You mark and mark my words and see if this isn't what the grand design has been.
And all of this orchestrated with the Democrats.
Everything's a Boehner pull a rabbit out of his head on this is Democrat idea to get the Senate bill ultimately passed in the House.
We will see.
Now let's see what do we have?
Oh, this is fascinating, somewhat fascinating.
This is friday night on the FIVE on the FOX NEWS Channel, Kimberly Gilfoyle speaking with co-host Juan Williams about Jeb Bush's appearance at CPAC, and Kimberly Guilfoyle said, Juan what, what do you think?
Uh, Jeb's performance there today what, what stood out to you?
What's interesting to me is, before Jeb Bush gets on stage there's, you know, Rush Limbaugh yesterday was saying, oh basically, Obama and Jeb could share, share the same worldview.
Right, that America's imperfect.
It needs to be fixed.
They do listen, see they?
I did say that.
And I said it about Jeb and Hillary, too.
That's, by the way, all over the place now.
That must have been, what, a month ago that I made that statement?
No, you remember it was a month ago that I suggest, maybe even longer than that.
I said I examined the top three issues, immigration, Obamacare, and something else.
And Jeb and Hillary, yes, over a month.
And Jeb and Hillary agree on all three of these things.
And I said the ideal ticket would be Jeb and Hillary, and they could figure out who's on top of the ticket, of the ticket, of the ticket, of the ticket.
And that's all over the place now.
So I added Obama to it last week in talking about worldview.
And when it comes to America's imperfect, it needs to be fixed and perfected.
And immigration, Jeb Bush and Obama, they are close in certain areas.
Now, the review of what went on at CPAC over the weekend, you know, everybody's got their two cents on this.
And I just think it's way too early to start making any judgments based on polling data.
What's really important right now is his raising money.
Sad to say.
The race right now, that factor is as big as anything else because that's staying power.
And that allows you time to stay if you make mistakes to fix it to dwarf opponents.
But the Republican feel, just on paper, is really good.
There are plenty of good options here.
I'm not sure that – I'm just not sure how Jeb was ultimately perceived as CPAC because he bust in so many supporters to counterbalance what they knew was going to be a predisposition to oppose him at CPAC.
And, well, I know the liberal media loves Jeb Bush.
A lot of them do.
Well, why wouldn't they?
Why wouldn't they?
Now, Matthew Dowd is a former Republican strategerist, has roots going back to the Reagan years, I'm told.
But he's done a 180, and he fled the coupe long ago, and he's now joined the left wing of the media.
And he was on this week, their roundtable on Sunday.
Matthew Dowd, still, oh, says they're still calling him a Republican strategist?
Maybe he still is, but he's just a leftist now.
I don't know.
Also, Jonathan Carl and Koki Roberts, and they had this little chit-chat back and forth.
What would happen if a candidate showed up that had liberalized abortion laws, that had the largest tax increase in history, that had given weapons to Iran, that had tripled the national debt, that had given amnesty to 3 million immigrants?
Stop talking about Ronald Reagan now.
What would happen if Ronald Reagan, with that record, had shown up at this conference?
He would have been booed.
Absolutely.
But this is a different Republican Party.
Oh, yeah, so Dowd's point was that CPAC is so far gone, that conservatism is so radical that Reagan would have been booed if he were alive and showed up at CPAC this year.
Largest tax increase in history, weapons to Iran, tripled the national debt.
That, Well, I don't have time to go through all three of those things, but he's wrong on his interpretation of all three.
Here's Jonathan Carl.
One more bite, again from Good Morning America Today, in his review of CPAC.
No surprise that Rand Paul won that.
He's won now three years in a row.
His father, Ron Paul, won two of the previous three years.
But, George, what's significant there is Scott Walker has really broken through.
You see a very close second, the governor of Wisconsin quickly becoming a favorite of conservatives, and Jeb Bush in fifth place in single digits.
Another reminder that he is going to have a very hard time convincing conservatives in the Republican Party to vote for him.
And I got to take a break, folks.
I must do it right now.
Back in a second.
Okay, here is what I was looking for.
The Justice Department, this is me, Holder.
Justice Department has nearly completed a critical report accusing the police department, Ferguson, Missouri, of making discriminatory traffic stops of African Americans.
That's it.
They had everybody believing they were going to go after civil rights violations of the cop.
They were going to get the cop, and they ended up with nothing.
And Holder says, man, it's just too hard to prove civil rights cases.
You know, we need to be able to do this without any proof moving forward.
That's what he meant.
But now they're not getting out of Ferguson with nothing.
They have accused the Ferguson Police Department of racial bias in traffic stops.
We just love that.
Here's Jehuda in Queens as we wrap up on the phones today.
Hi, how are you doing?
Thank you.
Rush, how are you today?
Very well.
Thank you.
I thought you'd find interesting.
I had a conversation with Representative Meeks' office.
He's the 5th District of Queens, New York, regarding Mr. Meeks not attending, or tomorrow will not attend Netanyahu's speech.
And I asked their office, why are they not attending?
And they said to me that it basically was a protocol issue that he was not following protocol.
So I challenged him.
I said, but the Speaker of the House invited Netanyahu to speak.
I said, why wouldn't you be there as part of your job?
I said, you represent my district.
And I says, as a representative of my district, you have an obligation to be there.
So they said to me, and this is what I found astounding.
He said, well, he also has an obligation to the commander-in-chief of this country.
So I corrected him and I said, excuse me.
I said, he may be the commander-in-chief of the military.
I said, but he's not commander-in-chief of the Congress.
I said, he may want to be commander-in-chief of the Congress.
I said, but you are co-equal branch.
Is this Kendrick Meeks?
Is that who this is?
It's the 5th District of New York.
Correct.
He represents Jamaica and far rock away that is.
That should answer everybody's question.
It's Kendrick Meeks.
What do you expect?
And I challenged him.
I said, you know, I said, I just want you to know that.
I said, there is a very large Jewish contingency that lives in this area.
And I said, That's right.
And he's just, I hate, I don't mean to be interruptive, but I'm out of time.
He's just his loyalties to Obama, not the House of Representatives.
He's a Democrat, pure and simple, solidarity.
And that's it.
The EPA has told, the judge, federal judge, has told the EPA essentially to stop discriminating against conservatives.
This is a huge case.
And I will have some details for you tomorrow.
Just heard about this.
Sit tight, my friends.
We'll be back here in 21 hours.
Don't.
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