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Okay, I just give you an example of De Blas and it's Uber business.
I'm telling you this just a forerunner, just a little tease, because you've got city governments all over this country trying to shut Uber down, and they're all liberal government.
And I want to quote de Blasio.
This is the new mayor of New York City, and this guy has unwittingly just in his own words explained why liberalism is at odds with the U.S. Constitution.
Ready?
The people, this is what he said.
The people of our cities do not like the notion of those who are particularly wealthy and powerful dictating the terms to a government elected by the people.
As a multi-billion dollar company, Uber thinks it can dictate to government.
He's got it 180 degrees out of phase.
Uber is American citizens.
Uber is a couple of entrepreneurs who thought they had a new way of beating what happened to be taxi cartels in major cities.
And they came up with a way to provide people a better way of getting around in automobiles at much less money.
And so the mayor of New York comes along and says the people of our cities don't like the notion.
those who are particularly wealthy and powerful dictating the terms to a government elected by the people.
The United States Constitution does not limit Uber.
The United States Constitution limits Bill de Blasio.
The U.S. Constitution is written specifically to limit the power of government over people.
And this guy is making it patently obvious why liberals are at odds with the U.S. Constitution.
And this is what's the teachable moment.
For young millennials and low information voters who happen to love Uber.
They make they think Uber is a progressive company because they use smartphones and high tech to do their business.
They just naturally assume that Uber is a bunch of leftists.
And personally they may be.
I have no idea.
But they're being targeted to be put out of business by liberal city governments.
And once this is explained to them, they you can see the light go off.
I've had a bunch of people tell me who they teach college kids, and they explain this Uber situation to them.
They love Uber.
A lot of people love Uber.
That's where de Blasio is wrong.
Because the problem is what people don't like when they find out it's happening, is politicians taking things away from them that they like and are voting for with their pocketbooks and forcing them to spend more money than necessary to satisfy some cabal that exists between government, in this case a taxi cartel in New York City.
Anyway, that's just the forerunner of it.
Um I I think it's it's it's just it's it's classic.
If if young people can be made to understand that it is government that is supposed to be limited government reach, it's what the U.S. Constitution is all about, and that's not taught.
You know what's taught about the U.S. Constitution today.
You know what's taught about it's taught that it doesn't go far enough.
It's taught that the Constitution needs to be changed, amended, reanalyzed, because it doesn't grant government enough power.
And this Uber example is a way of illustrating the folly and the fallacy of that.
Now, Angela Kodvia and and Trump.
As you know, Mr. Kodvilla is a renowned academic and has served as special advisor to various Senate committees, Has uh written a piece, actually became a book, on the ruling class, his term to describe the Washington establishment, but not limited to Washington.
It really is the political establishment that comprises members of both parties.
And instead of calling them the establishment, he called them the ruling class and or the political class.
Uh and it was so well written, I read the whole thing on this program in it uh it would appear in the American Spectator, and he turned it into a book.
So I was reading Power Line today, and I saw a post by Stephen Hayward, where he says he had gotten a hold of Mr. Codvilla to ask him what he thinks of Trump.
And Angelo Codvilla sent back something he had written about it and parallel and published it.
This is it.
In the land of the blind, so goes the saying, the one-eyed man is king.
Donald Trump leapt atop other contenders for the Republican presidential nomination when he acted on the primordial fact in American public life today from which most of the others hide their eyes.
Namely, most Americans distrust, fear, are sick and tired of the elected, appointed, and bureaucratic officials who rule over us, as well as their cronies in the corporate media and academic world.
Trump's attraction lies less in his words grace or even his words precision than in the extent to which Americans are searching for someone, anyone to lead them against this ruling class that's making America less prosperous, less free, and more dangerous, which goes exactly into the questions I was asking in the opening monologue of the program today.
And trying to explain why what has happened to the Republican opposition, there's nobody that can say what Obama's doing in immigration is making America better.
Nobody can say what Obama's economic policies are doing is making America better.
Life is not better in America the last five and a half, six years.
And they don't even claim that it is.
They tell us that we must manage the decline.
This is the new normal.
Whatever.
We must lower our expectations.
Even the opponents of Obama, the so-called opponents, do not ever attack any of these things being done by Obama, the ruling class, whoever you want to call them, because they're not making life as immigration policy, making life better in America.
It isn't.
Is it making the country better?
It isn't.
So Codvilla here says that Trump's attraction lies in the extent to which Americans are searching for someone, anyone to lead against this ruling class that's making America less prosperous, less free, and more dangerous.
Trump's rise reminds the ruling class members that they sit atop a rumbling volcano of rejection.
Republicans and Democrats hope to exercise its explosion by telling the public that Trump's remarks on immigration and on the character of John McCain place him outside the boundaries of their polite society.
Well, now what?
The continued rise in Trump's poll numbers reminds all that Ross Perot outdistanced both Bush 41 and Bill Clinton before he self-destructed.
And all Perot did was speak ill of both parties before he self-destructed.
So what he's saying here is that the ruling class, the Washington established, they know they're governing against the will of the people, and they don't care.
And especially they don't care when there's no opposition to them.
Hello, Republican Party going silent.
But now somebody, like Perot, is out attacking them and doing so under the basis of attacking both parties, and it's resonating.
Therefore, the ruling class knows that they are the minority governing against the will of the majority, and they're sitting atop an explosion waiting to happen.
Mr. Codvilla writes that Republicans have the greater reason to fear.
Three-fifths of Democrat voters approve the conduct of their officials, but only one-fifth of Republican voters approve of what the Republican Party is doing.
If Americans in General are primed for revolt.
Republican and independent voters are thirsting for it.
Trump's barest hints about what he opposes, never mind proposes, what he opposes, regarding just a few items on the public agenda have had such an effect because they accord with what the public has already concluded about them.
In other words, Trump is simply validating what a lot of other people already think and feel.
He just happens to be the only one in public, running for office, saying it.
For example, Trump remarked off the cuff that Mexico does not send us its best.
Well, the public had long ago decided that our ruling class's handling of immigration, not just from Mexico, has done us harm.
The ruling class, officials, corporations, etc., booed with generalities, but did not try to argue they had improved America by their handling of immigration.
There it is again.
They don't even try to tell us that what they're doing is making America better.
And it isn't, and everybody paying attention knows it.
Our ruling class was sure that Trump had discredited himself by saying that McCain, who the ruling class treats as an icon, is not an optimal personification of heroism, regardless of what suffering he endured in captivity.
But the ruling class was mistaken.
Trump did not discredit himself.
Because Americans are sick of celebrating the victims of defeat.
Americans are naturally eager to once again enjoy the kind of peace that only victories can bring.
The American people are sick of celebrating the victims of defeat.
And naturally eager to enjoy the kind of peace that only victories can bring.
Trump's expressed preference for heroes who don't get captured resonated with the American people who want victory.
Not celebrate defeat.
Trump may or may not know any of the unsavory details about McCain's actions as a POW and as a public official in regard to POWs and MIAs, but it doesn't take much research to find out why nobody will defend McCain other than by trying to prevent discussion of those details.
And that is McCain closing off debate and exploration and investigation of missing POWs, MIAs, finding them and bringing them home, which was one of Trump uh for his big causes, by the way.
So Codvilla here is saying Trump may or may not know all these unsavory details about McCain's actions as a public official in regard to POWs and MIAs, but it doesn't take much research to find out why nobody will defend McCain other than by trying to prevent discussion of his details.
Surely Carl Rove, who organized South Carolina's military vote against McCain in the 2000 primary, knows them.
The families of Vietnam POWs and MIAs pour onto anyone who will listen to their bitterness at McCain's role in denying the existence of abandoned POWs and sealing information about them.
Moreover, Americans are becoming increasingly skeptical about their celebrities' integrity.
McCain is just a minor example of a phenomenon that characterizes our ruling class, reputations built on lies and cover-ups.
Lives of myth, protected by mutual forbearance, by complicitist journalists, or by records deep sixed, including in government archives.
You ever wonder, Mr. Codvia writes, you ever wonder, for example, why the establishment of Martin Luther King as a national icon superior to George Washington?
The only American with his own national holiday was accompanied by sealing government records about him for 75 years.
Because those records reflect well on him and his partisans, meaning Martin Luther King, no.
Countless other figures, need one mention Barack Obama live by images sustained by denigrating questions about their factual bases while restricting access to those bases, and they lord it over us.
They live lives that cannot stand scrutiny.
All these ruling class people cover up and hide every detriment about themselves and each other.
Create myths that everybody is supposed to celebrate, even to the point of burying facts and burying records.
The point here is simple.
The ruling class has succeeded in ruling not by reason, not by persuasion, never mind integrity, but rather by occupying society's commanding heights, academia, media, pop culture, by imposing itself and its ever changing appetites on the rest of us.
It has co-opted or intimidated potential opponents by denying the legitimacy of opposition.
Donald Trump, haplessness and clownishness notwithstanding, has shown how easily the ruling class can be threatened just by refusing to be intimidated.
That's all he's had to do.
Having failed to destroy Trump, Republicans and Democrats are left to hope that he'll self-destruct, as Perot did.
The fact is that Trump has hardly even scratched the surface, may not be able to do more than that.
Yet our rulers know that the list of things that divide them from the American people is long.
They want to avoid like the plague any and all arguments on the substance of those things.
They fear, ruling class.
They fear the rise of an unintimidated leader who's more graceful and more precise than Trump.
Someone whose vision is fuller, but who is even more passionate in championing the many resentments?
The voicing of just a few channels so much support to Trump.
Here's some examples.
Justice Kennedy's majority opinion in Windsor and Oberfell preemptively accused anyone who opposed redefining marriage to include homosexuals of being offensive and hateful.
Refusal to honor homosexual unions, he wrote, is not explicable by anything except animus.
And it was in a Supreme Court decision.
A justice claiming that opposition had to be rooted in hate.
Well, what if a statesman speaking for the American people were to ask what precisely is so honorable about animal incourse intercourse that those who refuse to honor it should be so stigmatized as haters?
Before 1961, all 50 states criminalized anal intercourse, heterosexual or homosexual, didn't matter.
Why were they wrong in doing so?
By what right does anyone place such questions out of bounds now?
And why is it that anybody who opposes this in a Supreme Court ruling is stigmatized as a hater?
Code Via is saying if somebody, anybody eloquently, could stand up and just point out opposition to all this, there'd be an army of support.
Not just about that, but everything that's happening.
Got to take a break here, we'll conclude this when we get back.
Don't go away.
Welcome back.
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After a video showing officials of federally funded planned parenthood taking orders for body parts of babies to be custom slaughtered for that purpose.
House Speaker John Baehner deflected demands for legislation to stop this by saying he needed more information.
An unintimidated statesman might ask, do you not know that each of these little ones' DNA shows him or her to be an individual son or daughter of an individual mother and father?
What more information do you need?
Like Lincoln, this unintimidated statesman would argue that no one has the right to exclude any other human from the human race and would demand that Boehner answer why he continues to sanction this effort to dispose of millions of little sons and daughters.
Republicans and Democrats profit personally and through their corporate cronies by a welter of legislation and regulation by which they command what we must eat, how to shower, what medical care is proper and what's not, mandating that a third of the U.S. corn crop be turned into ethanol, which ruins engines, destroys gas mileage.
It's another classic example of the ruling class dipping into the Federal Treasury for its own benefit and everyone else be damned.
They justify these predatory intrusions into our lives by claiming a peculiar knowledge of science, unavailable to others.
They refuse to justify their scientific conclusions with the rest of us.
They simply say a consensus of scientists agrees, shut up.
An unintimidated statesman reiterating that science is reason, public reason, not pretense, would throw the notion that science or us right back into their faces and tell them to shut up.
At increasing speed, our ruling class has created protected classes of Americans, defined by race, sex, age, disability, origin, religion, and now homosexuality, whose members have privileges that outsiders don't.
And by so doing, they have shattered the principle of equality while demanding equality, while talking about it, while preaching it, they are destroying equality, which is the bedrock of the rule of law.
Ruling class insiders use these officious classifications to harass their sociopolitical opponents.
And that's pretty much it.
Be back here in just a second.
Now I should uh I should mention here that uh at the end of the piece, Angelo Codvia concludes this way.
Habitually our ruling class tries to intimidate its opponents by calling them haters, racists, whatever.
A statesman worthy of the title statesman would respond that calling people such names is the very opposite of civility, the civility they claim to champion.
Such a leader would trump our rulers.
Codvilla says Trump is not the person that we need to pull this off.
That's his bottom line conclusion.
He believed that Trump is represents vessel that the words Trump is using what's resonating, but he's not convinced that Trump's actually the guy.
That's debatable.
What is obviously clear is that the Trump campaign has unnerved whatever you call it, the ruling class, the establishment.
And they really expected that he would implode by now.
They really expected that with the McCain incident that would be the end of him.
And they tried to bring that about.
And now they are panicking because they can't bring it about.
Now they're panicking.
None of the rules seem to work here.
None of the old techniques.
They can't buy Trump.
They can't buy him off, meaning they can't promise him something big if he toes the line.
They can't promise him five bucks a year lobbying, five million dollars a year lobbying after he quits.
They can't apparently blackmail him.
I mean, after all, the NSA knows everything, right?
How does Obama get elected to office?
Obama, when he was a state senator, somehow benefited from private divorce records of his opponent being released.
And his opponent had to quit, and that's happened a couple times with Obama.
Obama's operating strategies, modus operandi is no opposition.
Not defeating the opposition, but just getting rid of any.
And whatever.
It's apparent that the ruling class doesn't know what to do with Trump.
They're waiting for him to implode.
You can watch him on TV.
And you'll hear them say, I think John Sununu was on Fox.
By the way, Sununu has I've been me I've been mentioning to read the uh intending to mention the books that I'm reading lately, because people ask.
All I have to do is mention one book, and I get inundated with email, people asking me what else.
I'm reading a bunch right now.
Philip Bondy, The Pine Tar Game.
Philip Bondi is a reporter for the New York Daily News, and he has written an entire book about one incident that took place twenty four years ago, some such thing, 29 years, whatever it was, that the Pintar game, the Kansas C Royals and the Yankees at Yankee Stadium.
George Brett hits a top of the ninth, ultimately game-winning home run off goose gosage.
And Billy Martin jumps out of the dugout, grabs Bratt's bat, and starts pointing to the umpire Tim McClellan.
Look, the Pintar's way higher than it should be.
And they they took the home run off the scoreboard, threw the bat out through Brett, and Brett erupted, and I knew it was going to happen.
I can I was watching, I wasn't there, I was watching, I was watching on TV, and I'm watching what's going on at home plate, and they cut to the Royals dugout, and they're oblivious.
If they're paying attention, you can't tell it.
And I'm saying this meeting at home plate's going on way too long.
I mean, if they were going to tell Martin to go to hell, they'd have done it five minutes ago.
And I saw I wasn't surprised.
And the the Royals dugout erupted.
Brett led a mad dash out to home plate, had to be restrained by who knows how many numbers of people.
Anyway, Philip Bondi has written an entire book about this incident.
And it resonates with me.
I worked for the Royals at the time, and it talks about the Yankees Royals' rivalry of the day.
And uh he actually everybody in that era, everybody on both teams.
Gossage was great, Brett was great, but it was it was those were fascinating years.
And that just but to write an entire book about a single event.
Uh it's really it's really good.
I he I full disclosure, Bondi talked to me uh uh about my experiences with it, even though I was not there.
But I was, of course, the official director of uh marketing and sales special events, and I was in charge of ceremonial first pitches of national anthem singers.
There was nobody better than me.
So I saw the bat, he brought the bat home, and it even started autographing bats.
I mean, had fun with it.
Brett did.
You know, get back off that road trip, and people started asking Brett for autograph bats, not balls.
So he had Hillary and Bradsley make a bunch of bats.
He used a Marv Thronberry bat, the New York Mets, and he would draw a line where his Parn tar was when they threw the bat out and sign it.
And it'd give those away to people that wanted uh, I mean, not everybody wanted one, got one, but anyway, but I full disclosure, Bondy has a small chapter in this book on on me and my recollections of the event called The Employee.
And so anyway, reading that, it's fascinating.
Uh just to get a full book out of one incident, and in none of it's boring.
I mean, it is all really cool.
Uh mentioned uh Daniel Silva and the uh the English spy.
Uh now this always happens.
I didn't.
Oh, so new Sununu has, well, let me first say what I said.
Sununu was on today on Fox talking about he thinks Trump's gonna implode by the time school starts.
And the ruling class established whatever, I know that they're hoping for this to happen.
Trump, believe me, Code Villa is right.
The ruling class know that they're sitting atop a potential volcanic explosion.
And those things have happened.
The House Bank, the House Bank scandal back in the late 80s resulted in the in the Republicans winning the House for the first time in 40 years.
So these things happen from time to time.
And but it's it's worse now than it's ever been.
This ruling class is so unified.
It's my point in the first hour opening monologue.
There isn't even fake opposition from the Republicans now.
They don't even go through the motions of trying to placate the base with fake opposition to whatever's happening.
They appear just to have signed on to all of it.
And my point was, and still is, it's just too weird.
These people haven't changed their ideological theories and beliefs and policy beliefs in five years.
There's something besides that that has to explain all this.
And the rise of Trump is what focused my thinking on it, because Obviously the Republicans have been gotten to.
Can we admit this without too much argument?
I mean, what is it?
Do you really think that Boehner and McConnell in the last five years have become liberals?
I mean, I don't.
And I know some of you do.
Some of you might think they always have been, but not to this extent.
No, not even any statements of outrage over what we've learned about Planned Parenthood from the Republican Party with a base of 24 million voters waiting to be talked to about this.
Say what you want about the Tea Party or call it Christian Wright or what have you, there's 24 million people out there ready to show up and vote against every Democrat on a ballot if they're given reason to believe the vote's gonna matter.
And they're not even making an effort to get those 24 million.
But this doesn't make sense.
If you look at this within a prism of issues, it makes no sense.
But if you look at it in other ways, like follow the money, uh bribery, blackmail, I don't know, folks, I'm fishing, but I'm just you know, I'm I'm imbued as the mayor of Realville with an abundance of common sense, and this doesn't make any.
And it hasn't made any.
And furthermore, trying to explain it within the standard operating procedure of policy differences between the two parties, that doesn't make sense either.
But if you look at it from the standpoint, well, there is a unified powerful group of people within Washington, made up of people of both parties.
What is it that unites them?
It has to be money.
The Treasury is there, easiest access, K Street, the lobbyists, everybody's going for the money.
We now have, we call it crony corporatism or crony socialism.
It's not, it's just cronyism, period.
Like we discussed with Ted Cruz, what in the world is Boeing, the export import bank is a classic example.
The New Deal thing, it needs to go the way of the Edsel, but all it is is corporate welfare.
Let me try this on you.
The term corporate welfare, you know, I first heard that when liberals used it, speaking of it with hatred and derision.
And now guess what?
Corporate welfare is something that Republicans, conservatives are railing against because they find their own elected officials engaging in it.
Corporate welfare used to be just a standard rant from the left against capitalism.
Corporate welfare was one of the ways they attempted to denigrate capitalism.
Cronyism and this kind of is not part of capitalism.
This is big government itis.
It's just been decided that big business CEOs have found an easier route to money by getting in bed with powerful Washington government people rather than competing in the open market.
It isn't capitalism doing this.
There is no unfettered or any other kind of capitalism going on here when you talk about cronyism.
When you have take your pick of any big corporation, getting in bed with Obama, be it the insurance business and Obamacare, be it big pharmaceutical and Obamacare, uh, be it the doctors or nurses associate with Obamacare, we all can see what happens here.
People are being bought.
They're being promised exemptions from the hardest, most punishing aspects of the legislation, if they'll support it.
This kind of crony, as Cruz pointed out, Boeing, I mean, they've already been granted all kinds of concessions with labor strain and so forth, being allowed to open factories in South Carolina non union states.
What do they need with what is a corporation with guaranteed loans?
Well, when you realize there's an old adage, use everybody's money but your own whenever you can.
And then it all makes sense.
And the biggest collection of money in the country is not the Cook brothers, and it's not Warren Buffett.
It's not Bill Gates.
It's the United States Treasury.
That's the biggest pile of money in the country.
And if you can have a direct line to that by an association with the president or other powerful members of Congress, why not take it?
And if somebody establishes that the door is open and such deals and arrangements can be made as Obama has done with GE and Sylindra and any of these other industries he got in bed with.
Well, once the door is open, you can expect all kinds of people try to walk through it, too.
Remember the example I gave not long ago.
Walmart.
Everybody thinks Walmart's a big conservative Arkansas major corporation, major business.
They don't want the government involved in their business and doesn't.
Walmart all of a sudden, out of the blue, one day started supporting a Obamacare and B an increase in the minimum wage.
Listen, wait a minute now.
Terms of policy, this doesn't make any sense.
The old days, no corporation worth its salt would agree with any government that wanted to force Obamacare on it and require its minimum wage to go up.
But what Walmart decided was they've got the money to do both.
Their competitors don't.
So getting in bed with government, supporting a minimum wage, might put your competitors out of business because they can't afford it.
If you can put your competitors out of business with an alliance government instead of having to outcompete them in the market, what are you going to do?
If you can raise your stock price by getting in bed with government rather than competing in the open market, what are you going to do?
Well, that's what's happening.
I don't mean to focus on Walmart.
There's all kinds of examples of it.
But this is the one that they can't they can't get to Trump this way, is the point.
None of this.
And if emissaries of the ruling class went to Donald Trump and said, look, how about we do this?
And he's not interested.
He doesn't need their money.
He doesn't need their ex, doesn't want it, and is perfectly content to know that whenever he's in the room, he's the most powerful guy in it.
What more does he need?
He's sitting pretty right now.
So they know this.
I gotta take a break, folks.
I just saw the clock.
They're gonna start yelling at me here in a minute if I don't take the break.
So now that the Senunu book.
What I was gonna tell me, the Sununu, the title of the Sununu book is where is it?
Where is it?
Uh the title of Sunday book is uh don't tell me it's gonna uh Quiet Man, the quiet man, the indispensable presidency of George H.W. Bush.
Sununu was his chief of staff.
And it's uh I know a lot of people are angry still at Bush for breaking the no tax pledge and so forth.
But Sununu's perspective of the time uh is a as somebody obsessed with history, even recent that you think you remember, this is still a lot of insider things, and and it was it's fascinating to me.
And Sununu makes the case here that George H. W. Bush is far more conservative than anybody wants to admit right now.
Now you think of that what you want, but that's the case he tries to make.
What uh Quiet Man, the indispensable presidency of George H. W. Bush.
I mean, he talks about Bush as a uh mannered uh cultured, as opposed to what we have now is a bygone era.
So it's it's a nostalgic look back.
By the way, uh more Trump polling did it very quick.
A couple of polls have have proven now that uh Trump has not hurt the GOP with Hispanics.
His comments on Mexico, notwithstanding, he has not polls it, it's right here at this uh post-it Red State, Eric Erickson's bunch.
Polls indicate Trump does not hurt GOP with Hispanics.
I mean, every con every piece of conventional wisdom here is being stood on its head, folks.
Trump has not hurt the Republican Party with Hispanics.
If there's any damage that's been the Republican Party's already done it, people fail to understand here.
Here's Stephen in Dallas, he's an Uber driver.
Stephen, great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Wow, uh, it's an honor rush, long time listener, first-time caller, uh retired military.
I uh drive for uh Uber here in Dallas.
Um, we talk about these towns that have uh really kind of close down uh Uber, and I think it's uh it's gotta be you know uh money under the table because anybody that's used Uber uh not only swear by it, but uh do not absolutely want to go back to uh the cab companies.
I think you know the cab companies here in Dallas in particular, if they were terrible, they'd be an improvement.
Uh the service that uh I provide as an Uber driver is unmatched by any cab driver here in Dallas.
Um we have municipalities here in Texas that have closed Uber down.
San Antonio is is one of those instances, but the uh the cities that have embraced Uber um are you know creating a I know uh I know people love it and swear by it.
Uh it's it's just not I'm too famous to be able to use Uber.
I can't.
You know, it's a one of the many problems of of fame is you can't do all kinds of things that other people can do.
I just can't do it.
I'm too famous.
Okay, folks.
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