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Oct. 21, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 21, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #2
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No, I like Paul Ryan.
This is the problem with this.
You get to know these people.
I'm you know I first met Paul Ryan.
No, it was at Bill Bennett and Jack Kemp's thing in power America.
And and it was uh this is way, way back in the uh early mid-90s, and he was there as almost an intern working for Bennett and and Jack Kemp at uh Empower America.
I had in Washington for, I think it was a birthday party, might have been a Bennett birthday party or something, and I I met Bennett at the airport and went to his office, had to pick some stuff up on the way to where we were going, and that's where I met Paul Ryan.
And I it didn't remember, he reminded me of that some years later.
Uh there were a lot of people in there that that I met.
And I've I've gotten to know him more casually than anything.
I mean, not a talk to him every day kind of friend, but these kind of things, when you get to know these people, it becomes tough.
Here he is speaker of the house, but some of the demands that he's put forth, uh, I I guess if if you're in a position where a lot of people want you, and you're not crazy about it, then you're gonna put forth a list of demands, okay.
If you want me to do this, here's what it's gonna be.
But these demands unanimous vote by the Republican caucus.
He won't do it if anybody votes against him.
He is demanding, you know, the the very reason this is all happening is that there's a provision in the House rules to recall the speaker, essentially.
And it was used by the uh House Conservative Republicans.
He wants that eliminated so that that can't be used to get rid of him.
But he does not want to have to tell anybody what the agenda is going to be beforehand.
So what are we to do with this?
I mean, we uh we we also have to take note that that Harry Reid, very happy about it, has endorsed him.
I'm sorry, it makes me nervous.
So I'm not interested in bipartisanship and crossing the aisle with these people.
I I don't happen to believe that's the future.
The future's defeating these people, not working with them.
We have tried working with them, and they're not interested.
And they're not worth it anyway.
These people for seven years have engaged in policy after policy after policy that is fundamentally destroying this nation is founded.
Why in the world compromise with these people?
The idea that they want to compromise with us is bogus anyway.
And then you add to it that Paul Ryan has publicly stated his support for comprehensive immigration reform, which includes amnesty.
So it uh becomes problematic.
And now you look at the the conservative caucus in the House, led by Jim Jordan.
I saw him on TV today.
He would not uh so what are you gonna do?
You're gonna say yes or no?
Well, we're gonna have a conversation, Mr. Ryan, later today, and I'll get back to you after we do that.
I'm thinking these guys can't buckle on this.
They wouldn't buckle on this, would they?
On all these things.
We don't know.
We don't know until any of this happens.
Um remember the debate, the vice presidential debate, Biden and Paul Ryan in 2012.
Well, uh these are things we just can't pretend didn't happen.
So it's Paul Ryan's a great guy.
He's a good guy.
His uh just uh uh you know, excellent family man, is his value base is impeccable.
There's uh in terms of the character and and morality, but so many of these Republicans have been What I think effectively is poisoned by the inside the beltway mode of thinking, which is it's the establishment versus everybody else in the country.
And it seems so out of step, the establishment does, with the rest of the country, and the Republicans particularly seem to be hellbent on this idea that their only hope for winning anything is to openly cooperate with the Democrats and to be seen as openly cooperating.
Because what that means is they really believe the American people are blaming them for everything that's gone on in the last seven years, and their fingerprints aren't on anything, sadly.
We'd like to see some Republican fingerprints on legitimate opposition to some of this stuff, but we don't even have that.
So it's a combination of, gosh, the media is going to kill us, they're going to call us racist, they're going to war on womenists and all this stuff, and that's how we get to oh, we can't criticize Obama.
We can't have a government shutdown, we can't do it because media's going to blame us, the independents are going to leave us in droves.
And I just don't understand why they continue to fall for this.
Anyway, we have the Biden sound bites, and we have three of them, and you'll get an idea here when you listen to this.
Keep in mind this a guy who called a press conference for the Rose Garden.
He is the vice president.
The Rose Garden, President Obama standing by his side.
Everybody thinks before he opens his mouth that all of this pomp and circumstance is to accompany an announcement that he is running for president.
But he's not.
He gave a speech that anybody announcing for president would really be envious of.
Except he gave it as somebody saying he's not going to run.
I when I listened to this, my one of my initial thoughts was, you know, he was going to do this.
He was actually going to run, and this was the speech, and it's somebody has told him no, you're not.
And he went out and gave the speech he wanted to give anyway, because it's incongruent.
Here, you can get a flavor for it in the three sound bites that we have.
Here's the first.
I know you in the press love to call me middle class Joe, and I know in Washington that's not usually meant as a compliment.
It means you're not that sophisticated.
But it is about the middle class.
It isn't just a matter of fairness or economic growth.
It's a matter of social stability for this nation.
We cannot sustain the current levels of inequality that exists in this country.
I believe the huge sums of unlimited and often secret money pouring into our politics is a fundamental threat to our democracy.
Well, then why are you not running?
But you see, the country is still totally unfair.
The rich are too rich, and they're getting richer.
When you are minding the store, Joe, you're the guy that's going to manage the stimulus and made sure that wasn't corrupted, and you were put in charge of middle class job recovery, and that didn't happen and isn't happening.
And now at the end, he throws in secret money pouring into our politics.
These people just can't get over Citizens United.
That's Supreme Court decision.
They can't get over it.
There is no secret money coming in other than to Hillary Clinton for crying out loud.
You want to talk about secret money, find out who's donating to her and that foundation of hers and her husband's.
And then ask yourself why.
They're not particularly likable.
We're talking about people giving tens of millions of dollars to a foundation.
Secret?
You think it's not going to end up being used to influence policy or maybe help get her elected?
Secret money.
You people on the Democrat side, half of your money, if not more, is coming from the wealthiest people in this country, and in Hollywood and Wall Street.
So this is what I mean.
It's like seven years and they haven't been here.
They just landed from Mars, and they just finished their survey of the circumstances in the country, and this is their report.
Here is the next bite.
Now, Was it who was it that won that?
It was John Edwards.
Remember John Edwards, it was maybe a campaign appearance speech, or maybe it was his acceptance speech as VP for Kerry in 2004 when he said that if he and Kerry were elected, Christopher Reeve would walk again.
But if they weren't elected, Christopher Reeve wouldn't walk again.
Remember that?
Well, I can't tell you how mad that's made.
That's just insulting as it could be.
And to use poor Christopher Reeve that way?
You like John Kerry and me, and Christopher Reeve will get out of that wheelchair and walk again.
But if you don't, ha.
Well, that's what he meant.
I was kind of reminded of that with this.
There are so many breakthroughs just on the horizon in science and medicine.
The things that are just about to happen.
And we can uh we can make them real with an absolute national commitment to end cancer, as we know it today.
And I'm going to spend the next 15 months in this office pushing as hard as I can to accomplish this.
Right.
So he's going to go cure cancer instead of run for president.
And nobody's been working on that, see.
That's something that, again, has been forgotten.
He's going to pick up the ball on it, and then there's this.
We need to keep moving forward in the arc of this nation toward justice.
The rights of the LGBT community, immigration reform, equal pay for women and protecting their safety from violence, rooting out institutional racism.
At their core, every one of these things, every one of these things is about the same thing.
It's about equality.
It's about fairness.
It's about respect.
As my dad used to say, it's about affording every single person dignity.
Right, right.
Okay, so well, you mean none of that stuff has been happening here the last seven years?
Hadn't been any progress on any of that?
Actually, hasn't, folks.
We've been moving backwards on all this, but it's amazing.
Even after in power seven years, their complaints about the country never change.
Even after they've been in office seven years, they don't have a list of achievements to point to.
All they can do is whine and moan and point to all the things you are making go wrong.
Because of your bigotry, because of your racism, because of your lack of compassion.
Everything's your fault.
They've been in our office for seven years now.
And all of this work still needs to be done.
Why?
Because you are imperfect.
You are not about fairness.
You are not about equality.
You are not about dignity.
You are not about respect, and that's why they need to stay in office.
To force you to not be a bigot, to force you not to be a racist, to force you to open your arms and accept the LGBT community and whoever else.
One armed Martians at Fourth and Wabash in Louisville.
Who knows who else they think is aggrieved?
Joe Biden.
And this was all stated by a guy who called this event today to say he wasn't running for president to do anything about any of this.
Nope.
All this stuff needs to be done because of you.
Because of us.
We're the ones that make all these problems real.
Because we're not dignified and we're racist and we're bigots, and they haven't been able to change enough minds of us.
So they need even more time to do it.
Now the UK Guardian story.
Wealth therapy is tackling the problems of the rich.
Because it's really isolating today to have a lot of money.
UK Garden Guardian.
It's a rainy Wednesday morning, and Clay Cockrell is sitting in his office at Columbus Circle across the street from one Central Park West, which houses Trump International Hotel and Tower.
In front of the tower is Central Park, where Cockerel holds his popular walk and talk therapy sessions.
Dressed in comfortable pants and a flannel shirt, Cockerel, a former Wall Street worker turned therapist, spends large parts of his day walking through Central Park or the Battery Park in downtown Manhattan near Wall Street as a confident and counselor to some of the richest people in New York.
Yeah, you know, I shifted toward it naturally, he said, becoming a wealth therapist.
We're we're we're trained to have empathy, no judgment, and so many of the uber wealthy, the one percent of the one percent, they feel that their problems are really not problems.
They're not allowed to have the problems, but they are.
A lot of therapists do not give enough weight to the problems of the rich.
As they walk through Manhattan, what issues are the rich struggling with?
Well, there's guilt over being rich in the first place, he said.
There is the feeling that they have to hide the fact that they're rich.
And then there's the isolation.
Being in the 1% is very lonely.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was right.
The very rich are different from you and me, especially in 2015.
If you're rich, you don't have any friends.
If you're rich, you don't have anybody have anything in common with.
It's really, really hard to be rich because everybody's gunning for you.
Everybody wants what you have.
Nobody appreciates how you got it.
Nobody has any respect for the effort you put into to get it.
All they want is what you've got, and then if you don't give it to them, you're the one mean and miserly.
It's a lonely existence.
The Occupy Wall Street movement was a good one and had some important things to say about income inequality, but it singled out the 1%, painted them globally as something negative.
It's an ism, said Jamie Traeger Mooney, a wealth psychologist and founder of the Wealth Legacy Group.
I'm not necessarily comparing it to what people of color have to go through, but it really is making value judgment about a particular group of people as a whole.
Wow, did you ever, ever think that somebody would get close to comparing the uber wealthy to minorities discriminated against because of their race?
Right here in the UK Guardian, the rich are becoming more and more isolated.
They're not allowed to talk about their money.
It's not polite to talk about it.
They can't brag about their achievements.
They're not given credit for what they've pulled off.
There's nobody that can relate to them.
All anybody wants from them is money.
It's much more socially acceptable to say I'm broke, things are hard.
You can't say I have a ton of money and have people leave you alone.
Back in a moment.
The left was putting out stories about how guilt-ridden people were over having a lot of money.
And that's what happens.
This is, I'm convinced why a lot of wealthy people end up talking liberalism is because it keeps people off their backs, and some of them do have legitimate guilt.
See, I wish more people had as much money as I do.
I would be more fun.
I feel kind of odd.
I wouldn't and so they become liberal or they talking liberalism as a means of keeping critics off their back or assuaging their own guilt.
Here's uh Daniel Fresno, California, back to the phones we go.
Great to have you, sir.
Hi.
Hey, Russell, thanks for taking my call.
Um today was talking about the inability of America to lead uh in the world uh and how we shouldn't lead alone.
And then later in his speech, he talked about how we've never been more positioned better to lead.
Uh and if the whole thing was a dichotomy of uh the Russian boss theorem they don't take responsibility for anything that has happened.
Uh, and it's all double speak, and they get away with it.
It's gonna be called a great speech when he just contradicted himself and why the whole time.
Well, I'm I'm sorry, I'm I'm losing the ability to understand you.
You sound like you're in a barrel and an echo chamber.
Um but any anyway, I I get your point.
He he's at the beginning of the speech, which we didn't have here for the beginning of the speech.
Uh he talks of we can't be in America alone.
We we we can't be in the country in the world alone.
And this is the old saw that it's Not healthy to be the only superpower.
It's destabilizing.
These people actually believe it's destabilizing for us to be the lone superpower.
So there's a lot of guilt about that.
And then later on, he did say we are uniquely positioned to lead.
So forth.
It was it was a lot of it was contradictory.
Um and it was that contradiction is rooted in the fact that he gave a speech of somebody running for president, except he said that he wasn't.
Yeah, that's I there's something strange here, folks, with this Biden speech.
And I'm not trying to generate a bunch of conspiracy thinking here.
It's just it's a speech given by somebody that's going to run.
I there's there's part of me that thinks that he was going to, and whatever, whoever uh said no, Joe, you're not.
Uh you can give the speech, probably be your last big speech, Joe.
I mean, you are the vape, after all.
Go ahead.
Use the Rose Garden, make your points, but you're not running.
Remember who we're dealing with here.
I mean, even Mark Noller, the White House correspondent for CBS, and they all are.
They're all tweeting things such as Biden's speech could easily have been used for launching a presidential campaign.
Believe me, it was that type of speech.
Except he said he's not.
There is more to this than meets the eye.
Not that it matters to anything other than was this the dark forces of Hillary Clinton working their way into the Obama White House and saying he better not run.
If he runs, you fill in the blank.
We may never know.
In the meantime, back to the phones.
I really appreciate all of you on hold waiting.
Marty in uh bowling green, Kentucky.
It's great to have you here.
Hello, sir.
Thank you, Rosh.
And uh Didddo's from the small conservative town of Clevius Springs, right outside Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Um I do want to fill in the blank, and I'd like you to get your thoughts on that.
Um there's a reason Biden couldn't run.
Because had he run, he would have been the only candidate running against Hillary with the insider information to know what happened with Benghazi, um, and and who knows how many other scandals, but um, you know, he would have had the insider information, the cold heart fact to not only take her down,
but uh I believe Obama could not risk that happening for his future job prospects or you know, possibly something that would even still lead to his impeachment because you think about when Benghazi occurred leading up to his last election.
Um I'm convinced that there's definitely uh a cover-up that would involve both Hillary and and Obama.
Well, you know, a lot of people are speculating that this drip-drip drip drip drip-drip-drip-drip-drip has been orchestrated by Obama, and its purpose has been to warn Hillary, and maybe even in a in a hands-off indirect way, damage her ability, but but uh her even her polling numbers don't matter.
I mean, she's it.
She's gonna be the nominee, no matter if Biden got in or not.
And and many people have suspected that this email server, or they've theorized this email server, she may not be the only one who did this.
There may be others in the regime, including Obama had their own private things, and nobody wants uh that to be known.
So your basic premise is one shared by a lot of people that she's got goods.
The Clintons collect the goods on everybody.
Remember the 900 FBI files.
I mean, they've always got insurance policies.
There are no coincidences out there.
So we'll never know.
But let's not make too much of this because even if Biden had decided to run, he wasn't going to get the nomination.
She's just it now.
There's nobody.
Bernie Sanders isn't gonna get it.
I I know I g it's and I can't I don't have any evidence for this.
This is just my instincts.
That's the whole the caller's point is this Biden not running means she's not gonna be indicted.
If she were indicted, Biden would run because Bernie's not gonna get the nomination.
And what's his name?
Webb dropped out.
And Link Chafee, don't make me laugh.
And who else was up there?
O'Malley.
If Biden had decided to go, that would have signaled that maybe something was coming down with Hillary.
But now that Biden's not going, do you think let me put it to you this way?
Knowing what you know about Obama, and knowing what you know about the Democrat Party, do they want to sabotage their presidential campaign in 2016?
Regardless who the nominee is.
Do you think Obama wants the Republicans to win?
No.
Even if he doesn't want Hillary to be elected, I don't think that means that he's ambivalent about the Republicans winning it.
So I think we just we have to be mature and responsible about this and understand that whatever subterfuge there is here is no more or no less than what always exists in politics, and that Hillary Clinton's gonna be the nominee.
She always has been going to be the nominee.
And the evidence for that is there isn't anybody else viable, and there hasn't been in this entire cycle.
The closest that she has to a legitimate opponent is Bernie Sanders.
And that's not happening.
I know people think that that's crazy because they look at the crowds he's drawing and they look at the uh polling data, which is conflicting.
I mean, some days he's way up and her numbers are down, and other days she's up and he's flat.
But it just not going to be Bernie Sanders.
It just isn't.
And the Democrat Party has its own rifts.
That story that we had yesterday, whatever the that I shared with you yesterday about the uh Matthew Iglesius from from Vox, who finally wrote a piece about the problems that Democrats have down ballot, how many seats they have lost in the last two midterm elections in the House, governorships, state legislatures and all that.
I mean, it's serious.
It's it's really serious.
And the Democrat Party, while it's not the party of JFK anymore, the Democrat Party is not the Democrat Party of your parents or your grandparents.
It's a radical leftist party.
Still, there are really, really radical leftist communists in this party, and there are radical leftists who are not communists in this party.
So it's not monolithic.
It's not that the whole Democrat Party equals Bernie Sanders and his brand of socialism.
There's a lot of them.
But well, I don't know.
If if Bernie does get the nomination, will I eat my hand?
I don't know.
I just I don't think it's something I'm gonna have to deal with.
I appreciate the call.
John, you're next in Effingham, Illinois.
Great to have you, sir.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Ross.
Quick question.
I'm wondering if Donald Trump gets the White House.
Will he even make it to inauguration before the Rhinos and the Democrats are calling for impeachment?
Uh how does that work?
How do you impeach a nominee?
Well, before they're even talking about it.
It's very obvious they don't want him in the White House.
Well, yeah, but there's nothing they can do.
I mean, No, I'm I'm saying if if he does win the win the White House.
Right.
Oh, if he wins the White House, not if he wins an if he wins the White House, will the Republicans impeach him?
Well, the the Rhinos and the Democrats.
Well, uh I have I have enough I I'd have to think about that.
I that hadn't even crossed my mind.
I mean, we're talking high crimes and misdemeanors.
Uh it takes some time to commit those.
You can't impeach somebody after their inaugural speech as a high crime or misdemeanor.
So no, I I think there would be suicides before that.
I I no, that's that's I uh the establishment would be beside itself.
I mean, both parties, no question about it.
Speaking of it, if back to Hillary for just a second.
Another reason, folks, why it's not going to be Bernie Sanders.
And I look at all the people.
Look at all of the foreign governments.
Look at the nameless corporations, big money people and institutions that have donated money to that Clinton crime family foundation.
There's only one reason all that money's been collected, and that is for future consideration when she becomes president.
That money is powerful.
That money speaks.
Hillary Clinton is not going to give that money back, and neither is Bill Clinton, meaning if they lose.
She's going to be the nominee.
That's one of the reasons why they have given so much money, even though it is on the cum.
These these fat cats have put way too much money into the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton apparatus and the Clinton campaign.
They are not going to give any big money.
Bernie Sanders can only dream of getting that kind of money.
It isn't going to happen.
The Fat Cats are looking at this as though they have rented Hillary or purchased Hillary, and they're not going to let that money go to waste.
There's more where that came from.
And if it begins to look close, some of that money is going to be aligned against Bernie.
If it looks like he might actually pull this off.
They've simply got too much invested in her being the nominee and eventually being uh being elected president to just let it slide.
Okay, here we are.
And apparently the um well, let's just head back to the phones then.
Matthew and Omaha, you're next, and welcome to the program, sir.
Megadito is from Omaha, Nebraska, Maha Rushi.
Thank you, sir.
Very much.
As much as it pains me to say so, I think that the Biden speech was actually a politically brilliant move, because thinking like part of the Democratic base, uh, they did a lot of they accomplished a lot of things in that speech.
Number one, they showed Obama and Biden together.
So if Biden would run in the future, he is socially presented to the public very recently with Obama.
They also let him uh enumerate all these points, uh, all the things that he feels the nation needs and that that he can do.
Uh and that um basically allows a big set of disingenuous polls to be undertaken, and everybody knows that.
Why do that wait a bit?
You you're you're setting up a set of circumstances here.
You're saying Biden announces he's not running to set up a run later on.
He's gonna run if Hillary gets indicted or if they can confiscate the polling units and come up with a bunch of polls that show Hillary bottoming out.
Exactly.
If something absolutely colossal that's unforeseen happens, uh then he is set up, he's set up to run in another in another way, um, since he has given the personal storyline of his family and talked about, you know, how they've been under the weather and they've grieved and so on.
Immediately, if he says, I'm gonna take one for the team, I'm gonna step up in the face of this, and I am going to get in there and I'm gonna leave this nation.
He's already set up to gain the sympathy of the base, and maybe even the nation, because he is willing to sacrifice personally so he set up.
But all of this depends on Hillary Clinton being either indicted or somebody getting hold of all the polls and concocting a bunch of fake ones showing all of her support, losing her, leaving her.
Well, it's not that the polls would necessarily show that.
It may be that she's indicted and the polls that they concoct are in order to create or further a groundswell for Biden.
But why why do all this?
Why not just run and indict her anyway?
Because they really do want Hillary, just like you said, so much is invested in her, but this is a backup because I think that that party is So willing to use people for their own ends.
They're such a juggernaut that they are willing to take him right to the edge of the cliff with all the setup, all the effort that it takes, even though he may not run.
However, they want to be prepared with the hero, the sympathetic guy who's stepping up.
And if you remember his debate with Paul Ryan, he is, he can really, he can really put a beating on somebody.
I was really surprised at that debate.
I thought, well, here's the thing.
What do you mean you were surprised?
Have you not seen the guy take out Clarence Thomas and Robert Mork and lead the way?
The guy's a mean, vicious SOB.
That's the that's a great contradiction here.
He's not the old Joe that everybody thinks this guy's one of the most partisan guys in Washington.
A speech like this today is a giant camouflage.
It's a mask.
Now I will agree with you on one thing.
This was the kind of speech that leaves the door open.
He gives a speech that anybody running would give, except he says he's not.
Now, all these other things are real long shots.
Hillary being indicted.
Does anybody really think that's gonna happen?
That's another I have never thought Biden was gonna go, and I have never believed Hillary was going to be indicted.
The Democrats run the Justice Department crying out loud.
You think Hillary Clinton doesn't have the goods on somebody to fire back if she gets indicted.
Why do you think Bill Clinton wants to play golf with Barack Obama?
You think they're out there actually playing golf?
You ever heard of Robert Torricelli?
Andrew Cuomo.
Bill Clinton told both those guys to get out of politics.
And they did for a while.
Cuomo came back.
I guarantee you, Bill Clinton are out in the golf course with Obama, and he's saying, now look, Barack, you may think this, you may think that, but I'm just telling you, something happens to her.
If something doesn't go right here, I just want you to know.
I got this and I got that.
You know, these people, Clintons are not without ammo ever.
If she gets indicted, it is going to be.
I mean, I'd love to see it.
Don't misunderstand, folks.
I would love to see it just because the Internet seen war that would erupt in the Democrat Party over it.
But anyway, take this call.
Look at look at what the Democrat Party and the way it operates.
Look at the kind of things it inspires people to think.
Here goes old Joe out there.
Great touching, heartwarming.
Oh my God, tug at the heartstrings speech.
And he did say, by the way, that one of the major reasons is the lack of time.
Okay.
So he goes out, makes speech, but what he really did was lay the groundwork for his eventual campaign that is the result of a draft.
People begging him to, after he said no, something very sad and unfortunate happens to Hillary.
Oh, nobody wants that.
But maybe it happens.
He gets indicted.
This is the way people start thinking.
And then we'll get hold of the polling units at ABC, CBS, the New York Times, and Wall Street Journal, and we'll create a bunch of polls showing Hillary's in trouble.
And people, wait a minute.
Biden.
Biden, hear that speech from a speech give Biden.
And then he is practically begged to change his mind.
This is this is how people.
This is the kind of thinking the Democrat Party and their insincerity and their lack of genuineness inspires people to concoct.
I just said somebody said this show's going by faster than ever.
You know why, Rush, you're talking faster than usual, and you're bringing up more stuff than you usually do.
We're just racing.
That's right, folks, we are, because there's so much to get through today.
We still have the Trump and the GOP primary campaign stack here.
Some um sound bites, other things associated with Paul Ryan and the Speaker of the House situation, and other items in the news that have nothing to do with either of those two things.
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