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Aug. 24, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 24, 2015, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your EIB anchor baby, Mark Stein sitting in.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever coming to you direct from far northern New Hampshire, hard by the Canadian border.
That's where we need the border wall.
I don't know why there isn't a whole great big impenetrable wall along the 49th parallel already.
These Canadians are sneaking.
There's a Canadian actress called uh w what was her name again, Mr. Snardley?
What's the name of this Canadian?
Uh somebody page.
Ellen Page.
Ellen Ellen Page.
Uh and um and uh she's uh world famous all over Canada, as they used to say.
I don't actually even know if that's true.
She's on she's in movies down here.
She snuck across she snuck across uh the the uh unguarded uh northern frontier, and she uh and she working down here in Motion Pictures and she accosted Ted Cruz, another Canadian who snuck across that northern border.
They're all doing it now.
Uh and she had a big argument about with him at the Iowa State Fair about gays, and he cleaned her clock.
It was uh it was a thing of beauty.
It was a thing of beauty.
Don't take it from don't take it from these people.
Push back, push back uh as hard as he can.
Punch back twice as hard as uh the blogger Instapundit likes to say.
And Ted and Ted Cruz did.
Uh and uh they had a bit little bit of a big ding dong while he was grilling pork at the Iowa State Fair, and she came and accosted him this uh household name, Ellen Page, uh and uh he he uh he pushed back.
Well we'll we'll get into that because it's uh actually what more uh uh these candidates uh should be uh doing.
Rush is away for a couple of days, taking a bit of well-deserved personal time, but he'll return on Wednesday for authentic full strength all American excellence in broadcasting.
One eight hundred-28282 is the number to call as we begin.
Another dramatic week in the fortunes of the Republic.
As I speak, markets around the world are reacting to the news that Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren have hammered out an agreement to run as a presidential dream ticket.
Uh the Dow opened a thousand points down on the news, London five percent down, Shanghai eight percent down.
And uh that's that's just before they've officially launched the campaign.
So we should be in complete total economic collapse by the time they absolutely run.
This is the genius of Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Four months ago, Joe Biden was a laughing stock.
After four months of the Hillary campaign, he's now the calm, steady, dignified elder statesman everyone's been pining for all along.
Wesley Pruden in the Washington Times writes, quote, the lady has been saying for weeks that nothing on her email server was classified.
Recently she revised and extended that to, quote, nothing was classified at the time it was put on the server.
Now she revises and extends still further, arguing that the sick security classifications are confusing and subject to interpretation.
Quote, she was at worst a passive recipient of unwitting information that subsequently became classified, a spokesman explains.
This may be the first time in her life that Hillary, who has been called many things, has been called passive.
Yes, in uh usually uh in the Clinton life, it's Bill's other women who are just the passive recipients.
Actually, actually uh her husband's argument during all that uh business with Monica, uh, when he claimed to have not reciprocated, as the Star Report said, he said he never had sex with Monica.
Um and essentially his position was he was at worst a passive recipient of unwitting sex from Monica.
And Monica's dress was just a passive recipient of unwitting DNA material.
Um Hillary says uh she was at worst a passive recipient of unwitting information that subsequently became classified.
Just as when Monica brought Bill a pizza that first time, Bill was merely a passive recipient of unwitting pizza uh that subsequently became sexified.
This is how it is with the Clintons now and forever, now and forever.
On the Republican side, uh a new poll from Reuters and uh uh via Ipsos, the polling organ.
I think they're a Canadian polling organization, Canadian actresses, Canadian presidential candidates, Canadian pollsters.
The whole thing, you don't you get the feeling sometimes this whole presidential election is just some kind of Canadian racket being played out south of the border?
Trump is at 32% in this poll.
Bush, 16%.
Carson, 8%.
Huckabee, 7%.
And Walker 5%.
And this this poll I assume taken at the end of last week.
And we heard all this stuff that the winners, the big winners in the debate, people said, were Marco Rubio.
He had performed terrifically in that debate.
He gave a marvelous debate performance.
Absolutely magnificent debate performance.
Didn't put a foot wrong.
And what that gets you in this latest Reuters Ipsos poll is uh the Marco Rubio is four percent.
John Kasich.
John Kasich, he was another man who was said to have had a brilliant performance.
He gave this all uh answer on gay marriage.
Everybody liked everybody loved it, magnificent performance.
John Kasich is now uh at 2%, according to this poll.
In a three-way match of the three front runners in the Republican uh primary, Trump beats Bush and Carson.
Trump forty-four percent, Bush 29%, Carson 25%.
Uh uh every time I switch on the television, you got these Republican consultants saying that Bush has a ceiling.
This ceiling is actually rising higher than the lobby of Trump Tower now.
Uh the ceiling was originally supposed to be 20%, then the ceiling was 25%, then the ceiling was 30%.
Now in a three-way matchup, Trump 44%, Bush 29%, Carson 25%.
That's where that's the current highest bid on Trump's ceiling.
And uh this is like Sotherby's on acid.
Where do you bet it's gonna be uh once uh once we're a couple more polls down down the road?
The Trump ceiling keeps getting keeps getting higher and higher.
I saw some um Meet the Press had uh this guy, Charlie Black.
Do you know do you know Charlie Black, Mr. Snerdley?
He's he's he's he's like oh qu Mr. Snorley professes not to know Charlie Black.
He's an he's a he's a com he's a fantastic expert.
He was an advisor to the McCain and Romney campaigns.
And he says that's the qualification, expertise, experience, the track record he brings to the table.
He's yes, he's a great expert at loosing, uh, which is what, which is what the Republican establishment likes.
And so he was an expert uh consultant to the uh to the McCain and Romney campaigns, which is why he probably has a beach house in Malibu and a place in the Bahamas by now, and ski place uh uh up in uh Colorado.
Uh it's worked out great for him.
Uh didn't work out so well for McCain and Romney, but he he showed great insight in picking the guys who give the best concession speech, and that's really what we're looking for in a Republican primary process.
And he's and he said, he said, Jeb is the front runner.
He actually said this.
He said, Jeb is the front runner.
Uh not and then he quite realized it might sound a bit odd, so he said, Well, no, not not not the front runner in terms of actually, you know, leaning in the polls or anything like this.
He's got uh, you know, but Jeb basically is the dream candidate.
He's got everything he needs except votes, uh, but he's perfect, this guy.
I mean, this is how the Republican consultant class talk, and this is why they lose.
It's a world unto itself.
Is there like an alternative bizarro universe, Mount Rushmore, uh, and uh and uh this guy Charlie Black and Rick Wilson and all these other uh genius Republican consultants, they live at the foot of this alternate bizarro Mount Rushmore, and uh up on top of it you've got Mitt and you've got uh John McCain and you've got Wendell Wilkie.
I mean, did uh did uh did this guy Charlie Black work on the uh Wilkie campaign?
Was he uh was he a consultant to the 1932 Herbert Hoover campaign?
That's really a model of how to run a perfect presidential campaign.
And these guys, these are the people uh that uh these guys turn to uh for insight into why uh Donald Trump is a disaster to the Republican Party.
Jeb is in some ways the front runner, said Charlie Black on Meet the P The Press.
And then he realized people might think he's like holding the graph upside down, so he says, although uh not really in the polls right now.
No, he's not.
In this latest poll, Trump beats Bush 44% to Jeb Bush's 29%.
Things are moving uh in uh and changing fast in the Republican Party.
But this idea that uh and again, this is a classic, by the way, this is a classic Republican establishment position.
It's why they fail to roll anything back.
Uh it's like they were going to g uh you remember they were gonna destroy Obamacare.
Uh uh and then they decided that they couldn't destroy Obamacare, but they were gonna leave it to the Supreme Court, because the Supreme Court was bound to strike down Obamacare as unconstitutional.
And of course they didn't, so Obamacare is there.
And they've applied the same argument to Trump.
Oh, Trump is going to implode.
Trump's got a ceiling.
Trump's not gonna make it.
Uh everything they said about Trump, essentially, they said about Obamacare and Amnesty, uh promising to defund Amnesty, and that the it's the same lesson, whether you're talking about Obamacare, the same lesson for the Republican establishment.
Whether you're talking about Obamacare, whether you're talking about amnesty, whether you're talking about Donald Trump.
You can't just sit around on talk shows saying the thing's gonna implode.
You have to destroy it.
If you wanna if you want Trump not to be there, you're gonna have to take that guy out.
Just as if you don't want Obamacare to be there, you're gonna have to take it out.
And if you don't want Amnesty to be there, you're gonna have to take it out.
And the Republican Party, the do nothing Republican Party establishment that hasn't taken Obamacare out and hasn't taken amnesty out, is now saying, Oh, don't worry about Trump.
We don't need to take him out.
He's just gonna implode anyway.
It's i i i this is about the Republican establishment.
This is about the genius expert.
There was a poll, what was it, that politico story.
Seven in ten Republicans say they've heard more than enough about Trump's plan.
You think, what's that?
Seven in ten Republicans, they don't want to hear any more about Trump yaking on about immigration and uh ending birthright citizenship.
This is a politico story.
Seven in ten Republicans say they've heard more than enough about Trump's plans.
Time for him to shut up.
Headline, geo, and then and then you look at it.
Look at look at it.
And it turns out to be seven out of ten uh Republican insiders in early states say they want him to shut up.
You know, the guys who pick the losing candidate, the guys who pick the fellows who give the fabulous concession speeches, the guys who give you John McCain and Mitt Romney and Bob Dole.
Nobody makes a concession speech on a Tuesday night in November like a mainstream Republican establishment candidate.
And these guys are the ones uh who are now telling us uh Trump's Trump's hit his ceiling.
Ah, 20%, that's his ceiling.
Twenty-five percent, that's his ceiling.
Thirty-two percent, that's his ceiling.
Or in this poll forty-four percent.
That's that's his ceiling.
And he's peaked too early.
That's the other line they say.
He's peaked too early.
I love that line.
You know, you say what you like about Bit Romney, John McCain, Bob Dole.
They didn't peak too early.
You know, they left it instead of peaking on whatever it is the first uh second Tuesday and first Tuesday after the third first Tuesday after the second Sunday in November or whatever it is, uh they uh they left it, they left it to inauguration day, uh day after inauguration to peak.
Mitt Romney didn't peak too early.
Bob Dolden peaked too early, John McCain didn't peek too early, but Trump's peaked too early.
Uh nonsense from Republican establishment.
We'll talk about that, we'll talk about Hillary, and we'll talk about the rest of the week's news as stock markets around the world plummet in expectation of Joe Biden's entry into the presidential race.
Mark Stein in for Rush, more straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
Uh from the Associated Press, topless protesters marched through Manhattan in call for equality.
Uh they took to the streets of Midtown, they're actually parading down the Great White Way itself, uh uh a great parade of topless women demanding equality.
I th I thought at first it was the swimsuit round for uh Donald Trump's vice presidential uh uh selection, but it uh if it turns out it's about equality.
They want I think these naked women uh want there to be federal regulation so that all breasts are the same size or something like that.
But they were they were marching down the streets of Broadway uh through midtown Manhattan uh yesterday.
Uh the weak says, sorry, Donald Trump.
America needs birthright citizenship.
The uh which one's the which one's a CNN says sorry, Jeb, anchor babies is a slur.
Uh if you remember uh uh Jeb used the term anchor babies.
And uh th th this is you should always listen very carefully when the media are telling you what they don't want you to talk about.
And that's what's going on since Trump brought up uh birthright citizenship.
By the by the way, this is what candidates are meant to do.
You know, candidates are not meant to react to uh subjects and discuss them within the left's framework.
That's another reason uh why uh the right always lose, even when they win, because they never win uh on a right uh wing platform.
They never win on a conservative platform.
They equivocate and say, Well, we won't be going, oh, don't worry, we won't do anything about abortion uh and we won't do anything about that, and we we we'll just keep everything within the left's framing of the issues.
And now all of a sudden uh presidential candidates Scott Walker has had three positions on anchor babies, birthright citizenship, in the last seven days, according to CNN, because it's entered the political discussion.
And that's that's something else you should be looking for in a candidate.
Guys who get issues uh in there.
And I don't want to get into the Constitution thing on if you want to talk about birthright citizenship, I'm happy to talk about it with you.
I don't really want to get into the Constitution thing, and I'll tell you I'll tell you why, because the the United States constitution has been tortured into complete meaninglessness.
The United States Constitution, whatever the Fourteenth Amendment meant, according to the Senator who uh drafted it, it's been tortured into a whole other set of words uh by uh various judges over the years.
Uh and the the United States Constitution means whatever Anthony Kennedy wants it to mean when he wakes up in the morning.
Uh so it didn't mean that a man the Fourteenth Amendment didn't mean that a man could marry a man or a woman uh could marry a woman until uh a week ago last Tuesday.
And then one morning Anthony Kennedy woke up and wrote that Hallmark greeting card uh to the profound mystical uh uh effusions of gay love uh and how it would commit a lonely gay man to live in the well of loneliness if he couldn't marry and that's none of that's in the Fourteenth Amendment.
Uh but Anthony Kennedy just woke up in the morning, looked at himself in the shaving mirror, and decided to read it into the Fourteenth Amendment.
And why don't useless Conservatives uh and useless Republicans learn from big gay?
Big gay in Nothing Flat, which barely existed twenty years ago, has gotten everything it wants because they fight for it, they mean it, and they want it.
Uh and Anthony Kennedy's effusions on the profound fluffiness of gay love, uh there's nothing jurisprudential about that.
As I said, it's a Hallmark greeting card.
But he wrote it because uh they had sufficiently changed the culture uh that he brought the Constitution into a line with it.
So don't give me this stuff about how the Fourteenth Amendment means uh anchor babies are US citizens.
What do you want?
What do you want for your country?
There's not as Rush was talking about last week, uh there's hardly anywhere else on the planet, uh in any country you'd actually want to live in that has birthright citizenship.
Because if you have birthright citizenship, eventually it becomes a country you don't want to live in.
Uh in uh not not a single European country has birthright citizenship.
In in Australia, uh one uh parent has to be an Australian citizen or a legal resident uh for a baby there to be Australian.
Uh same thing in New Zealand.
Uh in France, one parent has to be born in France.
In Ireland, a uh your parent has to be uh either a an Irish or UK citizen uh or you have to be a uh a permanent legal resident.
They're only uh basically only Canada and the United States have unqualified birthright citizenship.
And Canada, frankly, only has it because you guys have it.
Otherwise they wouldn't bother with it, too.
Uh and the and the and the fact is it's imposing far less strain on Canada uh than it is on the United States.
So start from that basis.
Do you really want to be at odds with Sweden, Norway, Germany, France, Italy?
If in other words, if this position is too left wing, even for left-wing Scandinavian social democracies, too left wing even for the French, uh, too left wing for the Irish.
Why is the United States so determined?
Uh there's there's nothing uh exceptional about American exceptionalism if it just means you're exceptionally suicidal.
And that's ultimately what birthright citizenship means.
And Donald Trump put that into the political conversation.
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Uh uh whenever you say anything about Donald Trump since this whole thing started, people accuse you of being a Trump supporter, so I might as well just lay out where I am at the moment.
I'm enjoying the show.
Um and uh I don't mind that he's not playing by the rules.
I like the way he's blowing up the rules because the rules don't work for the Republican Party.
Basically, you have you have a uh a political system in the United States uh that is institutionally frozen.
So there's only two parties.
There's a Canadian general election going on right now.
Uh it's it's twice as long as it usually is for some reason.
It's an eleven-week campaign.
Normally it's a six-week campaign.
That's it, soup to nuts, six weeks, over, boom, done.
There's five uh there's four national parties and one uh Quebec Separatist Party.
Uh so if you're like in Montreal, there's five parties on the ticket, and the chances are that one of them roughly aligns where you are.
Uh here there are two parties institutionally frozen since the civil war.
There's no equivalent to that anywhere else in the developed world where parties come and go.
They have their time, they outlive their usefulness, they're replaced by something else.
Here there are two parties.
It's a two-party one party state, basically.
Washington is a two-party one party state.
And actually, if you think about it, the Soviets uh might have lasted longer if they'd had a sort of if they'd had the Communist Party and the mildly less communist party and you had a choice between them.
It would have had the simulacrum of a genuine give and take uh rough and tough uh electoral politics.
So we have this frozen two-party one party state, which works beautifully in terms of delivering big government and big bureaucracy uh to one party supporters.
When they say this line, Rand Paul, who should know better, because Rand Paul is a smart guy, and he uses this line, Washington is broken.
Excuse me?
If you're if you're a liberal, Washington works great.
Just this one guy, this this this this fellow who's been in for the last uh eight years and uh for six of those years with the supposedly hostile Congress has has managed to give you Obamacare, he's managed to give you uh suspend the immigration laws and give you amnesty and the Dreamer Act,
he's uh managed uh to give you gay marriage, he's managed to end Bush's wars, he's managed to massively expand food stamps to fifty million people, EPA regulations up the wazoo.
Washington isn't broken if you're a liberal, it's actually a very effective vehicle for delivering the world you want to live in.
And for a conservative, unfortunately, uh the two-party one party state has not been as effective at delivering the world you want to live in.
Uh when uh th the the difference I often say is that Democrats are in power and Republicans are in office.
When Democrats are in power, on day one, they start figuring out how to bring about uh amnesty and gay marriage and uh oh Obamacare and all the rest of it.
Day one.
Don't care.
Scott Brown gets elected uh and in the uh and and in the twenty minutes before he takes his seat uh Obama takes a great big wooden mallet and hammers Obamacare down the throats of an America that didn't want it because oh Obama made a bet.
He bet on the mainstream Republicans uh that that they would not, even if they won the next electoral cycle that they would not repeal Obamacare.
He bet on that.
In in December 2010 he bet the Republicans would not have the guts to do any in the end to do anything about Obamacare.
Now here we are five years later and I leave it to I I'll leave it to you guys to decide whether that was a good bet.
If you're a Democrat betting on the inertia of the Republican Party whether that's a good way to bet.
And so what we have now is a situation where one guy who may or may not be a conservative or a Republican or anything.
He's basically a Trumpian you know he he he has like a lot of people he's got a set of not terribly coherent political views some of which are in tune with a uh a Republican way of looking at things some of which are not but he's but he what he is is a businessman and he's figured that the Republican Party is ripe for a hostile takeover.
And so far he's not wrong on that.
So Trump Enterprises Worldwide Inc is making a a hostile takeover bid for the Republican Party.
And to beat him to beat him you got to come up with something better.
It's not a it's not enough just to say oh he's going too far he's going to implode it's ridiculous it's he's just going to collapse it's n it's not serious.
Pay no attention to it as he wafts higher and higher up to forty-four percent.
Why is Hillary in trouble?
It's the same thing on on Hillary's look let's but I'll say one more thing on Trump.
As I said, I'm not endorsing Trump, not supporting Trump, and I entirely agree that he is not a philosophical conservative in the way that George Will is but you watched um uh the split screen they had when they were both in New Hampshire a couple of days ago and there's Trump at a at some venue I think it was was it a high school or was it a sports stadium?
He's at some place in Southern New Hampshire absolutely packed.
At the same time Jeb is speaking to some audience at some other high school somewhere else in Southern New Hampshire at the same time.
And Trump is going on about how Jeb is inert.
He's got no energy.
He's a low energy kind of guy do you really think this guy is going to do anything?
And the news the cable news teams are showing Trump talking they're showing the split screen and they're on the other side of the screen they're actually showing the Jeb Bush event live as it's happening and everyone's Jeb is like all slouched and hunched and low energy and people behind him are kind of starting to doze off looking bored, staring glassy eyed.
Trump did this live he didn't know it was going to be like that.
It's the sort of amusing John Stewart visual joke that he and his sixty seven gag writers would have required three weeks to edit into that sharp shape and Donald Trump just got up on TV and did it live and you're not going to beat you you know Jeb is gonna have to Jeb is gonna have to show that he wants this thing.
You know, instead of running as the crown prince and the heir presumptive he's gonna have to stop being the low energy guy.
He's gonna have to stop playing to Donald Trump's caricature.
It's the same thing on the Democrat side Hillary Hillary Clinton you know everyone says that this email scandal the Democrats who are kind of working their way up to criticizing her in public say that it's unfortunate.
It's unfortunate that this email scandal is getting in the way of her message it's not getting in the way of her message.
She hasn't got a message that's why the emails are the only thing to talk about.
If Hillary Clinton had proposed ending birthright citizenship people might not be asking her just about the email service.
But she's running on nothing too.
She's running on nothing.
And that gets to the that gets to the heart of the Trump message.
The Trump surge and the front runners are part of the same story.
Because Trump is appealing to people who think that America just doesn't work anymore.
That America is uh admitting millions and millions of unskilled immigrants uh that are competing for the the kind of jobs that they used to be able to do uh and and uh uh but uh but these guys come in and depress wages and all the rest of it.
And they're right.
Uh America has less social mobility now than almost any other advanced nation.
If you're born in the bottom 20% of the country, bottom 20% of the population, your chances of being stuck there, stuck there for the rest of your life, are better than in almost any other uh major Western nation.
Your chances of getting from the uh out of the bottom twenty percent and advancing up a less and less with every year and every survey.
And that's who Trump appeals to.
And what's the best proof of that?
When you've got an hereditary political class, when the wife of the previous president is running for president against uh the son and brother of the previous president.
What does that tell you about?
That's classic banana republic stuff.
That's like something out of uh tribal politics in uh in Pakistan, where the the Bhutto dynasty uh is running against the Sharif dynasty all the time.
Uh or or the uh or the Gandhys in uh India.
That's what that's about.
That's tribal politics.
And that makes Donald Trump's point that it's an ever more class stratified uh society in which if you're born in the bottom twenty percent, you don't get a fair shake anymore.
And that's why he's riding high.
Mark Stein and for Rush will take your call straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
Let us go to uh Donna, who's first up today on America's number one radio show.
Donna from uh Frederick, Maryland.
Great to have you with us on the show, Donna.
Thank you so much.
It's a pleasure to be with you.
Uh you mentioned that the left and the establishment uh Republican Party seem to think that Donald Trump will implode the reality, or the elephant in the rose, so to speak, is that the established Republicans are going to implode.
Conservatives are no longer crash test dummies for this party, and Donald Trump has set the stage for a for our true Republican party.
Uh Donna, you you're you so you're you're with Trump.
What about people who say, well, look, there are lots of real uh conservatives actually uh on the on the ticket.
That the Ted Cruz is a conservative, but he's also a senator.
Uh Rand Paul is more of a libertarian, but he's uh he's uh he's strong on that kind of stuff, and uh and he's a senator.
Uh Scott Walker's a strong conservative record and he's and he's uh a governor.
Why is it that Trump's your man as opposed to these fellows?
Um well, to be honest with you, I do support people like Ben Carson and Ted Cruz.
Uh I wish they would maybe dovetail their message to be as specific as Donald Trump has been.
The reason why Donald Trump has garnered so much attention is number one, he's telling the truth.
Number two, he he truly is a patriot.
He loves our country, he believes in capitalism.
He is, if nothing else, mowing down the opposition.
And if I could give that message to all our fellow Republicans who are running, take it and run with it.
He's stepping out.
You know, we'd like to hear more from the other um, you know, party members as to specific points that will work against this um overwhelming government that we've been saddled with.
And is is immigration the big thing for you, Donna?
Because that's what he's mainly been talking about.
One of the big things, along with Obamacare, along with what we like to call Commie Corps.
Um it's it's all of it's a nightmare.
There's nothing good that's gonna come out of it.
And finally, I hope that our um patriots on the Democrat side have gotten enough of this dose of reality that um, you know, common sense will prevail.
Okay, Donna, that's uh that's that's that's one side of the coin.
Let's go to Sam in O'Brien, Oregon.
Uh Sam, uh how do you feel about what Donna has to say?
Well, I I am uh uh Cruz uh Tea Party type guy, and uh I I feel like Donald Trump is is doing a service by making all this noise, but I don't trust him one spec.
I don't believe he's a patriot.
I don't believe he gives a damn about America, I believe he gives a damn about Donald Trump.
And uh this election that's coming up is gonna pretty much tell it for us.
And if people don't choose carefully and wisely and give us another president like the one we currently have, that you know, is all over the TV and doing stuff just because he thinks he can do it, this country ain't gonna make it.
So you want people to think a little bit about what's going on in the world and in here in our country.
So you would like a president who is uh because like Obama is everywhere because he's like a celebrity president.
So you you you try to get away from politics and you switch on the tonight show or you switch on the view, and he's gassing away with the comedians and the and the fluffy celebrities.
You want you he he's everywhere, and you think the next Republican president needs to be that omnipresent, do you?
No, I don't.
I don't care about the media one spec.
I don't own a television, I don't watch it, I don't believe anything that they put on it.
I listen to you guys because you talk the truth.
But uh this country is in big trouble.
Big trouble.
And people think that talking heads on the TV and uh, you know, these disingenuous uh flyby nighters like Donald Trump and and the entire Democrat Party are gonna do anything for this country, they're insane.
Well, the the problem here, Sam, when you look at it, is you've got to be very careful about who is gonna do something for those.
Well, that's correct.
I agree with you.
Um we America is you know, Trump talks a lot about the debt.
It's like eighteen trillion, it's gonna be twenty trillion by the time uh uh Obama leaves office.
So he'll have run up more debt than the forty-three presidents before him combined.
That's he spent more money than anybody else in history.
We are the most brocastically brokey broke, brokey brokiest basket case in history.
We have to pay back twenty trillion dollars just to get back to having nothing in our wallets, just to get back to having zip zero nada.
We gotta pay back twenty trillion dollars.
And when you look when you ask anybody in Washington about that, Democrats or Republicans, you can see in their eyes that they have no serious intention of e uh not only paying down the debt, but even of uh not ramping it up.
And again, other countries do.
Uh the Canadian Liberal Party paid off uh the national debt in Canada, paid it down during the nineteen nineties.
The Canadian that's right, the Canadian Liberal Party paid off the national debt.
But you can't get American conservatives to be as fiscally conservative as Canadian Liberals.
New Zealand right now is gonna be paying off is on is on schedule to pay off uh all its crown debt, as they call it government debt uh down there in a f in a few years.
Real countries pay if they can't pay off the debt entirely, at least pay it down.
We'll have run up ten trillion dollars of debt since two thousand and eight, and how many of these guys even want to talk about it?
How many times even even people like Paul Ryan say, well, I've got a problem to I've got a plan to reduce the rate of increase in federal spending by the year 2030 or whatever.
At some point, this whole that's why this election, by the way, may well come down to Trump versus Bernie Sanders.
Uh because that's how extreme things have gotten.
That's how uh out of whack the American political process and American political life has come.
Thank you.
Thank you very much for your call, uh, Sam, and thank you too, Don.
We'll take lots more of your calls straight ahead on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Who's fault is it?
Whose fault is it that Hillary Clinton was driven to keep the confidential business of the United States government on a private server in the toilet in some guy's apartment in Colorado?
Whose fault was it when you get right down to it?
Uh the New Yorker, Steve Collin, the New Yorker, tells us who is to blame.
Quote, Hillary Clinton recounts her struggle to defend her privacy while residing in the White House.
After Bill Clinton's first inauguration, Harry and Linda Thomason, friends from Hollywood, found a jocular note under a pillow in the Lincoln bedroom.
It was from Rush Limbaugh, the conservative radio host.
How did the note get there?
Quote, I don't believe in ghosts, but we did sometimes feel that the White House was haunted by more temporal entities, unquote, says Hillary.
It was Rush who put that note under the pillow in the Lincoln bedroom.
When they ever get that server out of that guy's toilet in Colorado, they will find pinned underneath it a note from Rush Limbaugh.
Rush made Hillary do it.
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