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June 12, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 12, 2015, Friday, Hour #3
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Thank you very much and welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program, rushed back on Fri on Monday, rather.
This is Friday.
I don't know, now that I'm semi-retired, every day is Saturday, but I you know I'm trying to cope with this.
Okay, so this is Friday, Russia's back on Monday.
Oh, and the confusion on the votes.
Let's go back over what just happened in the House of Representatives, because this is more interesting even than I thought it was.
The Senate had already passed all of this trade stuff, the trade uh promotion authority, the trade adjustment authority, which would provide assistance to displaced American workers as a result of free trade.
Um, and the s the House then was taking it up.
And the way this works is if the the House does not concur with some part of this, then it would have to go back to the Senate.
Well, the Senate is not going to release TAA.
They they want the trade adjustment, they want the aid for American workers, because they know what's going to happen in these so called free trade agreements.
A lot of American workers are going to be displaced.
And we've seen that happen.
We talked about the Disney issue, we talked about Southern California Edison and the American workers being forced to retrain to train rather uh their uh from India replacements.
So the vote was overwhelmingly in the House against, 302 against the uh the trade adjustment authority.
And the Democrats had thought in the House, okay, the Republicans and the Democrats are going to join here, oppose the TAA, even after Obama came up to Capitol Hill and urged them to vote yes, oppose the TAA, and then they would have uh a handle on making this a better deal because the labor unions were all over.
Well, the Republicans, after voting no on this thing, sprung a little surprise, all voted yes on the trade promotion authority.
Now the TPA is the framework that allows Obama and the next president, because that's the deadline date, to bring up trade agreements on a yes or no up or down vote basis in Congress.
So now we've got a situation in which this thing is a is a stunning blow to Obama because he personally came and personally met with the leader of his party, Nancy Pelosi, in the House, and she looked at him and said, I'm voting no.
And so did the rest of the leadership.
And then according to DeFazio, the Congressman from uh Oregon, he uh he laid a guilt trip on us and then impued our and impugned our integrity.
So again, we're back to this point, at least as we know it now.
And I don't know that we know more about this than we know about the two escaped killers in upstate New York.
I mean, this is kind of conjecture on it.
But uh except that one of them apparently has ties to the Mexican cartel.
Boy, that's a surprise, huh?
Sure.
So here's um where we are now.
What is the media gonna do?
Because now to jump ahead to tomorrow's headlines.
What is tomorrow's head because it was George Bush, tomorrow's headline is lame duck president uh screwed by Congress, or some more polite way of saying that.
Lame duck, irrelevant president loses key vote.
Because that's the way they would play it.
Now they've been protecting Barack Obama for six and a half years.
Was it longer than that?
Maybe seven years?
It seems like fifty years, but seven years.
Um they've been protecting it for six and a half years.
So what do they do now?
This was the cornerstone of his entire presidency.
He wanted to transform America into the cornerstone, as Germany is of the European Union, of the cornerstone of a Pacific Union, a kind of a European Union for the Pacific, excluding China, but including, you know, Australia and India and Chile and um Philippines and Japan and South Korea and all the rest of them.
So that you'd have a free trade zone, and we call it that, but it would really be a protectionist zone.
Within this zone, we would have free trade.
Um then the kinds of other issues.
I mean, if it's 800 pages and 29 chapters long, and one of the chapters is immigration, and suddenly we can get visas in thirty days.
How many more companies are going to, and many, many more companies are already doing it?
I I cite, I'm sorry to pick out, pick on uh Disney Orlando and uh and the Southern California Edison, but you know, those are the two examples that are used uh most often in the press.
There are hundreds of American companies who are displacing their IT workers right now, older Americans, who are displacing being displaced, and if they want to get a severance package, forced to re to train their replacements who are foreign workers in an abomination of the of the uh H-1B process,
which was only supposed to be, for uh situations in which American companies could not find any American to do this job than they were going to bring in someone from another country.
Just amazing.
Now, here's okay, so here's an early indication of how the media is going to cover this.
Out of Washington AP reporting, quote.
The House has delivered a stinging blow to President Barack Obama that leaves his ambitious trade agenda in doubt.
Second paragraph.
A bipartisan majority rejected a jobs retraining program Friday that was part of a Senate-approved trade package pursued by Obama.
302 to only 126 in favor.
302 no.
Very interesting.
Very interesting.
How is AP doing it?
Well, here now is AP updated their story within the last ten seconds.
Here's their updated story.
Quote.
Now remember the other story.
Stinging rebuke.
Here's the way they now phrase it.
The House sidetracked a high-profile White House-backed trade bill on Friday, a humiliating defeat for President Barack Obama, inflicted by Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi and dozens of rank and file lawmakers from his own party.
Uh-oh.
Let me bring in another factor.
Are you aware?
Have you seen, have you heard Hillary Clinton's stand on this trade situation?
Well what could that possibly be?
I'm I'm not uh it was it one of the email that they couldn't recover from the server?
I I'm afraid I don't I I didn't get that.
Uh am I am I lost again here?
I'm I've been confused before on this program.
Unbelievable.
The Democratic nominee in 2016, and the rest of it is sideshow.
Bernie Sanders is a clown car.
The Democratic nominee.
Hillary Rodham Clinton would not take a position on this trade thing.
Would not take a position.
Now the gamble of the Obama left is that we don't need private organized labor.
We don't need them as much as we need public sector government union people and their money.
And the ones we do need in the private sector, they're not affected by trade.
So the uh S uh SEI SEIC, okay, all those guys, remember the that were his big supporters.
They're not affected by this.
So when Trump comes up and says, hey, you can't, you can't we are the Democratic Party.
We're your backbone.
You can't you can't mess with us, you can't do this.
And Obama says, yeah, we're gonna do this.
Well, they went and confronted Congress and Nancy Pelosi.
I don't know, how many times has this happened?
Nancy Pelosi in a private meeting with the President who comes up to the Capitol to see her about this vote, looks at him and says, No.
I don't think it's ever happened before.
So let's see how they let's see how they do it.
Um this is a going to be an interesting um going to be an interesting way.
This is AP now, it's more of their update.
Um this is uh Nancy Pelosi, quote, uh slow down the fast track to get a better deal for the American people.
Um so she is responding to the labor unions and saying this isn't a good enough deal.
Well, again, uh they don't know of the three, by the way, of the three agreements we've talked about now, the three agreements.
There's a Trans-Pacific one, there's the services one that covers the world, and there's a new one with Europe.
Only the Trans-Pacific one has even been this is even in the secret room.
The other two aren't even disclosed in any way, shape, or form whatsoever, even in the secret room.
With the no recording and no taking notes and no quoting from it and no telling talking to anybody.
They they won't even give you give Congress the secret room on the other two.
Who knows?
No one has any idea what's in that one.
800 282-2882.
Good day, bad day for America.
Trans-Pacific Partnership looks at this moment to be dead.
Good day or bad day.
800-282-2882.
And then believe me, there are Republicans and Democrats on both sides.
We've been talking as well about immigration.
I want to get back to this because there was a moment in time when there was sanity in this immigration debate, when there was reasonableness, when there was dialogue, when there was factual debate.
No, no, no.
I've been looking at this for 30 years.
There's never been any fact.
You know, there's two sides of this, and that's no, no.
Let me go back before that.
Um Barbara Jordan, Barbara Jordan, an African American Texas Congresswoman, civil rights activists, an iconic figure in those years in the 70s and 80s within the Democratic Party.
She was selected by Bill Clinton to head up the what became known as the Jordan Commission.
It's the U.S. Commission on Immigration.
Five Democrats, four Republicans.
They worked for five years, fifteen round tables with experts and scholars, all public, all transparent, all open, eighteen research papers, seven site visits, eight public hearings on top of that, an exhaustive process.
And they came out with a bipartisan recommendation, unanimous vote.
Number one, dry up, here's their recommendations.
Number one, dry up the employment magnet.
Use e-verify.
You're either legally in the country and you can vote you can work, or you're not and you can't.
Ensure that illegal here's number two.
Ensure that illegal aliens do not receive public benefits except emergency medical care.
Well, Jordan, who's now passed on, would be shocked at the honeypot of benefits illegal aliens have today.
Improve the border security, build the fence, build, as uh McCain famously said, build the dang fence.
This is a Democrat.
Can I go back to the Jordan Commission?
Can we start there with the common sense way to secure the border?
You know, before ISIS or MS-13 or whoever makes a mess of a bunch of American kids somewhere, or a bunch of teenagers in a mall, or blows up a church, or any of the things they're now threatening to do, and we know perfectly well they have a capability to do.
Is it just a matter of time?
800-282-2882.
Roger Hedgecock in for rush.
Rush back on Friday.
We'll be back.
Stay with us right after this.
Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program, rush back on Monday.
I'm Roger Hedgecock here from the uh forward operating base San Diego for the EIB.
And again, to uh to recap, because there was some confusion, not only among your fill-in hosts, but among the audience as to what was going on here in the House, some confusion now in the in the press as well, in the media, uh, in the House today, because very important vote on the Obama legacy.
It now and let me just back up.
Here's here's the background.
It now turns out that maybe it wasn't Obamacare, which was his big legacy.
Maybe it wasn't the unilateral uh dictatorship of immigration changes.
Maybe it was this.
Maybe it was the last six years, it now turns out, that the administration has been privately and secretly negotiating three huge trade agreements, covering a couple of dozen countries in two in two situations, and more than that in the third.
One covering all the Pacific Basin nations, or most of them, in a trans-Pacific partnership designed to exclude China And to increase trade among everybody else but another one with Europe to update our situation with Europe in trade, and another one in services that would cover both areas and would focus on services because that's such a big part of our export business.
All of them with huge questions.
Why do we need these international organizations who now will be able to tell America what laws we can have and what laws we can't have?
How long we can uh process visa applications and all kinds of other details that have come out now.
Thank you, Jeff Sessions of Alabama.
So today, the vote, with that background in mind, the vote today was on the package of the that passed in the Senate.
The Senate did pass, 67, I think it was, yes, votes, uh the uh fast track authority to bring for the President to bring these agreements to Congress for an up or down vote.
And they passed along with that something called the TAA, which was the uh the assistance authority for displaced American workers, retraining money.
Now that so there's two halves.
It goes to the House.
The House says we'll take the assistance authority first.
Traditionally Republicans opposed it, Democrats favored it.
Both parties turned it down because the Democrats said, if we turn this down, then we turn down the whole thing because Democrats are not going to vote for a Trans-Pacific partnership that doesn't have retraining for American workers.
Well, it turns out they did in a kind of symbolic vote.
After they turned down the uh uh the retraining money, and therefore everything would have to go back to the Senate, so the whole thing is thrown into limbo, they did vote for a uh the Trans Pacific uh the the uh the fast track authority, rather.
They did vote for that fast track authority so they could take these treaties up or down, but it was symbolic because having not voted on the first part of it, it still has to go back to the Senate.
So this is the way the AP puts it.
Quote, a second roll call followed on the trade negotiating powers themselves.
The House approved that measure 219 to 211.
But under the rules in effect, the overall legislation previously approved by the Senate could not advance to the White House unless both halves were agreed to.
That made votes something less than a permanent rejection of the legislation.
So they're now giving the President a little bit of an out.
And the Republicans who are going along with them as well, Paul Ryan, uh Boehner, McConnell, the rest of them in the establishment saying, well, maybe next Tuesday we'll hold another vote.
Can we try to lobby this thing between now and then?
Even Nancy Pelosi said the bill was stuck in the station, suggesting, says A.P. that changes could get it moving again.
What changes are not immediately disclosed.
But it was it was disclosed that Pelosi and the leadership of the minority Democrats in the House of Representatives were very unhappy today about the approach Obama took when he came up to Capitol Hill and met with them about this issue and tried to get their yes votes on the uh TAA and on the Fast Track Authority, the two halves of the Senate bill.
Because they said afterwards, one of the members who was there, well, he he gave us a guilt trip and then impugned our integrity.
What a salesman this guy is.
Uh anyway, so that's where we're left, just to hopefully clarify uh that point.
Now, one of the points that conservatives have been unhappy about, even the conservatives who are happy about free trade in general, is obviously if you're trusting Obama on these still secret contents of these trade agreements, then what about what he's already done?
I mean, forget about what he might be doing.
Look what he's already done.
Hundreds of Cubans, illegally in this country, who are detained for eC for deportation back to Cuba because they've committed crimes, they've served their time, now they're detained for deportation, have not been detained have not been deported, they have been released because into the United States, because Cuba has refused just last year to take back eight hundred and seventy-eight criminals.
Eight hundred and seventy-eight criminals, and the first five months of this m of this year, four hundred more.
We're not taking back criminals.
You guys can have our criminals.
And so the Obama administration said, oh, okay.
And released them into the United States.
That's the immigration policy of this administration, and we're supposed to trust them in the trade agreement.
Not me.
How about you?
I'm Roger Hitchcock.
We'll be back.
Stay with us after this.
And welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Roger Hitchcock here from San Diego from the left coast from America's finest city.
Oh boy.
And I love the I love the climate here, but I'll tell you what, California, a constant challenge.
A constant challenge.
I didn't think this was still happening.
I I thought we had ridiculed this point so much that nobody would ever dare do this again.
But it's happened again.
Liberals never give up.
They just never give up.
Here's a story of Andrea and Zoe Green.
Okay.
They are sisters.
They are respectively, ages seven and eight.
And they wanted to buy their father a Father's Day gift.
So they uh went out and said, we have to earn some money to buy our father a Father's Day gift.
And that Father's Day gift, whatever it's going to be, oh yeah, we're gonna go we're taking we're gonna take them to the amusement park because they like to go to the amusement park.
I understand completely.
I mean, if you have kids, you know what's going on here.
So they're gonna take them to the water park.
Um for Father's Day.
So what did they do?
They set up a lemonade stand, and you know what you know what happened next.
The local um police and the you know zoning inspector showed up.
This is um in Overton, Texas.
In Texas, no less, showed up to tell them they didn't have a permit.
They didn't have a permit to operate a lemonade stand within the city of Overton, Texas.
I thought we had ridiculed, I mean, this has gone on what we've done this a dozen times over the years.
And I thought finally it probably got out that this is just taking it a bit too far.
Even the most mushy-headed, politically correct and or disconnected uh, etc.
Uh, American would really Well what?
Girls can't do a lemonade stand.
Now, hats off and a shout out to the residents, the we the people of Overton, Texas, who immediately heard about this, and immediately someone advised these girls.
Well, there's a way around the ordinance, number one, and that is you give away the lemonade for free, and you accept donations.
And of course, now their mother, uh, Mrs. Green, uh, is a little concerned in the article I was reading because she says that they're going to set it up this weekend that there's going to be so much reaction that she doesn't know whether they have enough lemonade.
Uh the girls are ecstatic because the water park already gave them the two ticket the three tickets to go to the to go to the water park.
They already heard about this too, and they said, no, no, we'll give you the tickets.
And so now they're going to be this the subject of all of this attention at 200 uh Garden Club Lane in Overton, uh, Texas.
In case you're out there, drop by and say hello to Andrea and Zoe, our latest martyrs in the battle to protect and preserve our liberties.
Dave in Malibu, California is next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Dave, welcome.
Hello, Roger.
Hi there.
So I've had a revelation while listening to you today.
I'm I've actually realized that I'm transnational.
I'm of white European descent living in Southern California, but I just realized that I'm Mexican.
I travel extensively in Mexico.
I can't live without Mexican food or Mexican beer.
I uh gravitated into the construction trades.
Um I just realized I'm Mexican.
And I have to fast track my transition though in order to participate in the California economy as a minority.
Well Dave, first of all, let me just congratulate you on your courage in recognizing who you really are and the ability you've had to I mean overcome the obvious reluctance to share with a whole national audience that despite you know your outward appearance, your DNA, those are those are only factors in the issue of who we really are.
You've brought up factors that should be from here on out universally acclaimed.
I mean look at the food you're eating look at your beverage of choice.
Look at look at your profession.
Look at the the way you have instinctively as you describe it adhered to the culture and and and the and the economics and so forth of uh of a Mexican this it seems to me that this is the kind of thing our society has repressed too long.
I I am in complete agreement and the ri one of the reasons that I travel in Mexico so frequently is to take advantage of their freedoms as an off-road racer that's one of the last bastions for our sport and um so that's this is something I'm truly excited about.
Well I I can only wish you the best uh Dave the only thing I I don't want you to do if you're going to make any kind of cosmetic changes please don't build the rest of us for it.
I mean just make it your own thing you know that uh don't worry about that and and I and thank you for sitting in for Rush and I think you should get a uh guest host uh at the Fraser Crane radio show.
All right.
We'll look into that.
Dave in Malibu, thank you for the call.
We were talking earlier, just in case you're just joining us and you don't know what that was all about.
We were talking earlier about this woman in Spokane, Washington, who's the head of the local police commission, advisory commission, and the oversight commission.
And she has been putting herself out there for years.
She's 37 years old as an African-American.
And while there's Indian and there's some white and there's this and that, because she's very fair skin.
And she's a professor of Africana studies, you know, at the local university, except her parents were quoted in the Spokane paper as saying, Rachel is of Czech and German and Swedish background.
She's really not black.
But see, their parents missed the point.
They missed the point.
This was the caller that Rush had, what, a week ago, more than a week ago, where this young white man came out as an African-American.
And I think this is to be applauded.
The idea that if you can come out and your plumbing says you're a guy, but you're really a girl or, you know, it seems to me we all should re-examine.
You know, re-examine what's going on with your real self.
Could lead to some very interesting conversations.
I mean, because the next thing that happened, what was that one-hand John down from Toronto?
Because he said, he said, wait a minute, my right arm, I felt my whole life.
This is how crazy this is going to get, folks.
Just listen to this.
He says, this is in the Toronto sun.
My whole life, I felt that my right arm really wasn't a part of my body.
So he devised a way to cut it off.
And to do it in a way it could not be reattached.
And to do that deliberately because he's now transabled.
You know, ladies and gentlemen, when insanity becomes the norm, and the rest of us feel like we are not the norm, what kind of world are we living in?
Well, you know, I've tried to, Snurley is urging me to, again, get into why California is the third term of Barack Obama.
already we're already over the over the craziness I mean, we're we're gone.
Let me talk about the drought.
You you've all heard about the drought in California.
Let me just tell you that, and you hear it all the time.
Agriculture, those farmers, they take 80% of the water and, you know.
Um half of the water that falls on California in terms of rain and snow washes out to sea.
Pat Brown, who put in place uh who was governor back in the 60s, who put in place these water works, you know, to bring Northern California water to Southern California water, because the water was in the north and the people were in the South, and to bring the water into the Central Valley to create the agricultural cornucopia that for the world that the Central Valley of California is, uh, envisioned a population of twenty million people in this state.
There are now nearly 40 million, and we don't have enough water because no Democrat in the that control the State Leglature, it's a one party state, have ever approved any more dams, any more canals, any more pumps, any more any more water for people.
No, no, no, no, no.
Water is now for the snail darter, which is a two-inch fish that you cannot eat, uh, that isn't good for much of anything.
I mean, it's there, and that's fine, I'm happy it is.
But is it more important than food from the Central Valley?
According to the Democrats in our state, yes, absolutely.
They have a court order now that water must be released in streams and out into the San Francisco Bay and out into the Pacific Ocean to protect the snail darter, even if it means that the farmers in the Central Valley are bulldozing their trees because they're dying,
are laying fallow the the uh the crops uh cotton and soy and and uh and rice and what have you uh in the in the Central Valley, that uh we don't need those crops because we must save the snail darter and the salmon.
Oh, yeah, you didn't know.
I mean, historically we had salmon runs here, and we should have salmon runs again.
Okay.
Um I'll buy my salmon from Alaska.
And I'll tell you what, we ought to have the almond trees in, you know, because California is a land of fruits and nuts.
What if we don't grow any fruits and nuts?
It can't be the land of fruits and nuts if we don't grow fruits and nuts.
This place is downright crazy.
No Californian even knows, because the media here will not even talk about it, that half of the snow and water that falls on this state is allowed, allowed to flow into the now, not all of it could be recovered.
You won't you don't want to dam everything, but there are plans dating back 35, 40 years, to build more of the canals and dams that would regularly allow more of this water to be available for farmers and for urban areas in Southern California.
Now, we've started desalination, we've started lining the canals out in the Imperial Valley east of us here in San Diego.
We've started doing things to try to bring our water supplies from a variety of sources, all of that being opposed by the Democrats and by environmentalists.
No, nope, can't do that.
You can't do that, you can't do that.
They're not going to be satisfied until there's plenty of water naturally, now there's not plenty, we're in a drought, but there's water naturally, but you can't have it.
I know.
It's the third term.
I'm Roger Hedgecock in for Rush Limbaugh.
Back after this.
Roger Heshcock in for uh Rush Limbaugh Rush back on Monday.
Uh keep your eye on the Supreme Court.
This is the month the Supreme Court is going to decide on whether or not subsidies can be given for Obamacare premium payers in states that uh didn't have a state exchange, as the law actually says they should.
Interesting, huh?
The courts may well decide all of these uh heritage issues.
And by the way, what do you think went wrong?
How do you think this information could be used?
Apparently hackers, quote unquote, okay, usual suspects line up.
Hackers stole the personnel data, social security numbers of every single federal employee.
What do you think the value is of knowing the personal information of every FBI agent?
Every member of the armed forces.
Every employee of the CIA.
Every employee of the State Department.
I could go down the list.
What do you think the value of that is for uh blackmail, intimidation, retribution, etc.?
The response of the Obama administration?
Well, we're gonna do something about it.
In fact, the Office of Management and Budget has said here's what we're gonna do.
We're going to give all federal agencies a deadline to get to a cybersecurity standard, HTTP secure.
And that deadline is 19 months from now.
December 31st of 2016.
I I you just have to be dumbfounded by that kind of stuff.
Totally dumbfounded.
Now, people have asked me, by the way, who do I favor in the uh, as we're running out of time here, who do I favor in the Republican uh presidential well, you know, I'm I'm keeping a completely open mind, but I'm I'm friends with a bunch of these people, and I really like Carly Fiorina, whose latest ad, by the way, is pretty interesting.
There's disagreement about Secretary Clinton's accomplishments at stake, but no dispute about her superhuman travel schedule.
Nearly a million miles, traveled a million miles, and I traveled nearly that and went to more countries than anybody has gone to on.
Like Mrs. Clinton, I too have traveled the globe.
But unlike her, I've actually accomplished something.
Flying is not an accomplishment, it is an activity.
What was Hillary Clinton's main achievement as Secretary of State?
She was coming out with like she traveled a million miles.
This is my concrete.
Yeah, this is a bad thing.
What did she accomplish that you consider significant a Secretary of State?
What would you point to as her biggest accomplishment?
Give me a few minutes and go someplace else.
Okay, Christina, can you think of something that she accomplished from her own supporters?
I don't see any good answer or at least a solid, strong answer.
I'm Roger Hedgecock, in for Rush Limbaugh.
Rush back on Monday.
We'll be back.
Stay with us right after this.
Now I know what he means by the fastest three hours in American media.
It certainly has been.
I'm Roger Hedgecock, in for Rush Limbaugh.
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Roger Hedgecock filling in for the Rush Limbaugh program.
Thank you.
That's uh Mr. Snerdley, and we we had we had some great time putting the show together today.
It's been a blast being here, and I hope Russia's had a great week off.
And we'll uh we'll look forward to having him back on Monday.
But occasionally I'd like to bring, you know, that craziness from California, just so you have an idea that not everything where you are has gone all that bad.
Consider us in California.
I'm Roger Hedgecock, my inner self, my inner surfer coming out.
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