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Oct. 26, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 26, 2015, Monday, Hour #3
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What do you mean take it personally?
Not taking any personally.
Look.
If I may get personal for a second, I have been very proud.
I've I've considered it one heck of a career achievement to have been involved in busting up the mainstream media monopoly.
I think that is one heck of a thing to have happened.
And I'm I'm very honored and excited to have been part of it.
And for the longest time, I've thought that that would have been beneficial to my side.
I have been under the naive impression that all of this was considered a very positive development in this country.
That 25, 28 years ago, a process began which finally blew up a media monopoly comprised of people that routinely try to destroy what we believe in, destroy our candidates through whatever means they can employ.
Lies, cheating, you name it, innuendo, not reporting certain certain news.
I have been under the impression that people on my team would have been excited about this and would have welcomed it.
And to find out that the Republican establishment considers it to be one of their biggest obstacles.
No, I don't take any of it personally.
I don't think any of it's meant personally.
This is all professional.
But the dichotomy for me is on one side to have been proud to have been part of this movement, if you want to call it that, and then to later find out that the people I thought whose team I was on, whose side I was on who would benefit from this are out there cussing it.
But as I said, it's not it's not personal.
And I don't think it's personal with them, although it may be.
This is all strictly business and professional.
Anyway, uh folks, greetings and welcome back.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh here on the fastest three hours in media, 800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program.
I think that there is a dark horse in this entire thing.
I think there is one candidate who is positioned here.
Now I know it's getting late.
Trump has had the lead for a hundred days here or more.
Well, he's been in the lead ever since he got in, and they're now fewer days to Iowa than he has been in the lead.
I mean, he's over the hump in that regard.
But there's still a long way to go.
There's all it's politics.
Any number of unforeseen unpredictable events are potentially out there.
And there has been somebody trucking along here, steady Eddie, that has continued to be who he is and continues to lay down foundational markers for himself, and that's Ted Cruz.
And I think Ted Cruz is positioned, I wouldn't say ideally.
I mean, I'm sure Cruz would love to be in the top two, top three here.
But uh of all the others in the race, you take Trump and Carson here and there at number one and two, Carson's pulled ahead of Trump, even in Iowa now, in uh in two polls, but overall Trump leads and he is lead continues to expand.
But what if it doesn't?
What if something happens?
We're not shut out here.
We still have somebody in our roster who opposes every bit of the Democrat agenda, perhaps more than anybody else in the race, and that's Cruz.
I mean, Cruz does not have in his record any statement like Trump does of having supported certain things that Democrats have done.
Cruz is inarguably thoroughbred conservative.
And I think uh the more I read about the millennials, by the way, and I've got some stuff about them in the stack today, the more I read about millennials and where they are attitudinally, politically, socially, economically.
Cruz is somebody I think that has a great opportunity to connect with them.
In fact, let me, before we get to the Trump summites, let me find this uh little thing on the millennials.
I put it hopeful, Yeah, here it is.
Survey millennials around the world worry most about economic inequality.
Now, this is typical of young people, uh, young generations.
Uh they see injustice and unfairness and inequality out there, and they want to write it.
They want to correct it.
And there's all kinds when you have half of the country making this is unbelievable.
51% of the country making under $30,000 a year.
That that just cannot stand.
You will we will not have a standard economy with that kind of reality.
We just won't.
The uh website here's USA Today, and the survey comes from the World Economic Forum.
They released it yesterday.
Millennials around the world worry most about social and economic equality.
They remain skeptical of government and the media, and they think that Elon Musk of Tesla is their hero.
He's one of their heroes.
This survey of more than 1,000 young people between 20 and 30 from 125 countries who are all active in the World Economic Forum Global Shapers Community.
It's a left-wing bunch here, the World Economic Forum is an establishment left-wing bunch.
Understand.
But they still went out and they talked to these millennials all over the uh world, 125 different countries.
The average age was 28.
The results were released at the beginning of a three-day World Economic Forum conference in Abu Dhabi, which is the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
It's right down the road from Dubai.
The survey showed that 65% of the millennials said that one of their top three goals in selecting a job was to make a difference in society, their city or country.
Well, yeah, I mean Yeah, of course they want it.
And they want to right wrongs.
They they want to correct social injustice wherever they see it.
And when Ted Cruz gets going, that's ultimately what he's all about.
He's he's he's all about everybody being the best they can be using their natural media's conservative top to bottom through and through, no matter how you slice it left, right, up, down.
They are looking for an opportunity to learn, followed by career advancement.
More than nine out of ten said they'd be willing to relocate to advance their career.
That is the number one obstacle most people put in their own way.
Their unwillingness to move.
That's why I've always said that most of the obstacles people face in life are self-imposed.
And the number one obstacle is the unwillingness to move.
If you live in a place, let's say you want to be a brain surgeon and you live in a place where there's not a hospital, you're gonna have to move.
If you if you uh if if you want to get big in media and you live in Peoria, you're gonna have to move.
And a lot of people don't want to move.
They the comfort level of being at home, friends, family, all that, it's a big obstacle.
But people get past that, and if nine out of these ten millennials say that they would be willing to relocate in order to advance their career.
That's a that's a big deal.
Anyway, it's a long way to uh to to go here.
And the Republican establishment has made it clear they are not interested in a conservative nominee.
The Republican establishment has made it clear that the role of conservatives in this primary is to once again split the vote and split the money.
It was the money, don't forget, it was the money that was gonna save Jeb.
Or, if not Jeb, the next chosen establishment candidate.
And the money, the ads, are not working.
The ads simply are not overcoming.
And they always have the opposition to some of these candidates.
They're sheer panic out there now.
Now we go to the audio sound bites just to provide contrast here with you know Mitt Romney lamenting the old days, longing for the days of the legacy media, the three networks and the two newspapers and everybody getting the same facts, and gee, it was so much easier then.
Compromise and collaboration, working with the other side was so much easier.
We the contrast of that in the Republican primaries is three people Trump, Carson, and Cruz.
Maybe Ruby will throw Rubio in there.
But but some of the others, it's uh Christie, some of these others, it's it's clear that the guiding principle for them is to win the nomination by showing they can compromise with the Democrats and work with the left.
Now the Today Show today did uh televised at Trump Town Hall in New Hampshire.
And Matt Wauer was permitted to intrude on this town hall by interviewing Trump and asking Trump some questions.
So Matt Wauer, in our first soundbite, said to Trump, did you see 60 minutes over the weekend, Joe Biden was on.
He said this about you.
He said he's disappointed in you.
He said, You're you know what else he said, by the way?
Folks, you know what else Biden said?
Keep an eye on Biden.
I Joe Biden said that that story that Maureen Dowd wrote about, that Bo Biden on his deathbed begged his dad to run for president.
Biden said he's never said that.
That's not true.
He didn't tell Maureen Dowd that that that whole story of the deathbed plea.
Dad, you gotta do it, you gotta run it, never happened.
Folks, about Biden, let me tell you, I'm I that speech that he gave in the Rose Garden last week when he announced he wasn't gonna run, that was a speech you give when you are running.
And I'm just telling you that I don't think Biden's out of this.
I still think that there are all kinds of things in files somewhere about Hillary and about Obama, and it wouldn't take much to leak them.
I wouldn't let me just put it this way.
As the fall turns to winter, I would not be among those surprised if Joe Biden reverses field.
He's got that speech, he can hearken back to it, laid out his agenda.
It laid out what he would do and what his campaign would be if he did run.
It didn't, it didn't jibe with somebody announcing he wasn't going to run, was going to get out of what he wasn't into in the first place.
It it sounded exactly like somebody who is running.
So we'll see.
But anyway, back to this soundbite.
Matt Wauer asked Trump.
You see, 60 minutes over the weekend, Joe Biden was on.
He said he's disappointed in you.
He said your attacks on immigrants are unhealthy and beneath this country.
And he says that he hopes you don't believe your own words.
How would you respond to that?
When it comes to illegal immigration, we have to stop it.
Our country, people are pouring across our borders, and if you don't have borders, you don't have a country.
We have to stop illegal immigration.
In addition to bringing drugs and bringing lots of problems, tremendous amounts of crime, whether it's Cade in San Francisco or Jamil in Los Angeles, or the woman the other day that just got raped by an illegal immigrant, a 66-year-old veteran, raped, sodomized, and killed.
But I just, Matt, we have to stop illegal immigration.
By the way, also in my stack today, you would not believe the stories out of Europe and the refugee migrants there.
This, this, Europe is being conquered.
Europe is being overrun.
Right now.
And very few in governing positions in Europe are doing anything to stop it.
And some are now beginning to get panicked over what they now see happening.
You've got able-bodied men from desert climates standing in line, freezing to death in rain, wind, and snow to get into these countries.
In one little hamlet in Germany of sixty people, 1,500 migrants are going to be housed in some no longer used building.
So right there, that town has been already overtaken.
That town, whatever it is in Germany has been conquered.
Sixty people live there, 1,500 migrants are being housed in one building There soon to be taking it over.
And that story is repeating itself over and over again, country after country in Europe.
So Trump's right about this.
Next, Matt Wauer said, Well, I went back and I read from your famous book, The Art of the Deal.
You wrote this.
I play to people's fantasies.
I call it truthful hyperbole.
In an innocent form, it's an innocent form of exaggeration, a very effective form of promotion.
Would it be fair to say that that describes your campaign so far, Trump?
Look, I'm just telling the facts.
The facts are we have a country that's going bad.
We have a hundred million people that are in a workforce that can't work.
Our real unemployment numbers probably 22 to 30 percent.
We have nothing but a problems.
We make incompetent deals with Iran.
That deal is the most incompetent deal I've ever seen.
I'm not just talking about between countries.
I've never seen a dumber contract in my life.
Obamacare is a disaster.
People's premiums are going up 55 percent.
Their deductibles are so high that nobody's ever going to get to use it.
We have a country that is in serious trouble, and I think that's why I'm leading in every poll, because I will solve the problem.
Right.
Uh there's a maturation here occurring with Trump.
In the past, months ago with these two questions, he would have insulted uh Matt Wauer and you know, told him to get on a train to Mexico or something, and to stop wasting his time with silly questions, and you can't even read a book.
What do you mean, telling me that my campaign's what I said, but can't you read?
Can't you watch what I'm doing?
But instead, he uh restrains himself and just continues to say and articulate his message regardless of the inane question that he got.
There's more too, and we'll get to it when we get back.
Don't go away.
All right, look at this.
This is exactly what I've been talking about all day.
Right here, this is from Bloomberg.
It's a Bloomberg government website.
And the headline, lawmakers said near deal on two-year budget with debt limit lift.
You want the sad details of this?
White House and Senate and House of Representatives leaders, so the White House, Senate, and House Leaders are trying to seal an agreement.
The Republicans run the House and the Senate.
Okay.
Keep that in mind.
White House, Senate, and House Leaders are trying to seal an agreement on a two-year spending deal that would extend the government's borrowing authority, the debt limit beyond the 2016 presidential election.
Thereby removing the debt limit and the whole concept of government spending from the campaign.
Rather than the Republicans use it as an arrow in their quiver, they are conceding.
They are compromising.
They are crossing the aisle.
They are cooperating.
They are working together with the Democrats to extend and expand the debt limit beyond the 2016 presidential election.
Under the plan, spending caps for domestic discretionary spending for defense and nondefense programs would be raised during the two-year period.
Text of the bill may be filed as early as tonight.
The aim is to agree on a set of top-line spending numbers for fiscal year 16 and to guide appropriations process for fiscal year 17.
In other words, get it in the can before the next president is inaugurated and has anything to say about it.
The deal would call for cuts in spending on Medicare and Social Security benefits, reports the New York Times, citing officials briefed on the talks.
White House spokesman Josh Ernest tells reporters that White House has been involved in the talks, says the deal hasn't been reached yet across all issues.
The Treasury Department said the debt limit must be raised by November 3rd.
Government funding expires December 11th.
And of course, of course, of course, of course we cannot have a government shutdown.
Oh no, oh my God, we can't do a government.
Oh, if there's a government shutdown over there, oh my God, we're never going to win anything.
Oh no.
So we have to agree with the Democrats to raise the debt limit.
Except this time we're going to do it for two years and take it off the table as a presidential campaign issue and take it off the table of whoever is president when immaculated in January of 2017.
And you know what?
They're able to do this even without their legacy media.
They didn't even need the old-fashioned media to get this done.
They were able to do this despite us insurgents out there.
There you go.
Oh, boy.
And into the trash can goes the story.
But that's just an example.
Now I realize the debt limit's not sexy as an issue, it's not a big deal, but that story contains the equivalent of showing Dracula the cross.
And that is risking a government shutdown.
Yes.
Because if the Republicans don't agree, that means the government will be shut down.
It will not have the ability to borrow.
It will not have the ability to pay its de its debts.
That's BS, by the way, anyway.
Won't have money to pay its debts.
There's always that.
But we can't do it.
We don't get blamed.
I predict on Fox News you'll even be hearing about this tonight.
You'll even hear tonight.
Can't afford, we can't risk the government shutdown.
This is what the conservative media always wants, and we can't do it.
We'll never win if we do it.
Well, you gotta have courage.
You need the courage to believe the truth if you are going to listen to this program.
Welcome back, my good friend, Zell Rushball behind the Golden EIB microphone, meeting and surpassing all audience expectations.
This debt limit business.
Now, look, I know it is not an exciting.
In fact, it's a it's what I call a button push issue.
And by that I mean you're driving around on your car, you hear the word debt limit, you hit the button to change station.
I know that's what it is.
But I know also you're intrigued enough by what I think about it to hang in there.
You're willing to give it a chance, even though it's not sex now.
I'm gonna tell you what this is about.
In addition to getting it done, in it in addition to growing the size of government, expanding the debt limit, and increasing the uh opportunity to legally spend this country into oblivion.
There's another reason to doing this early now, and that is to get it done before anybody starts paying attention to it.
As part of the presidential campaign, because if it remains undone, it will become become part of the campaign.
And we run out of spending authority soon.
And by December, what is it that I just said?
December 11th, 10th, uh.
Yeah, happens to be my brother's birthday, by the way.
Uh, then we're shut down and we can't supposedly pay our debts, and that's all bogus.
And of course, that that this is when the Republican establishment gets into gear, starting worrying and fretting about a government shutdown, and you, you pressuring representatives in Washington to screw this, we gotta stop spending, enforce the debt limit.
There's a debt, it's a limit for a reason.
And then they will, we can't.
It will result in a government shutdown.
Obama would be the government will shut down, and we'll automatically lose the presidential race right there when we shut down the government, because they want you to believe that 90% of the American people cannot get through the day without government owned uh up and running and operating.
And that the government shutdown is the equivalent of an asteroid hitting the planet and making us all go extinct.
That's how they position a government shutdown.
We're all dinosaurs obliterated by an asteroid strike.
And we can't do it.
And they think most people think of it that way.
So the Republicans are always gonna get blamed, therefore we can't do it.
They don't want you to have any say in it, which is why they're trying to hustle and get it done now.
The public doesn't have much of a chance uh Of being heard on something like this anyway, but if they can wipe it off the books before the campaign gets gets going in earnest, then it's all to the better.
But I just want you to remember some history.
Senator Barack Hussein O voted against raising the debt limit twice under George W. Bush.
He said it would be irresponsible.
He used all the arguments I used, in fact.
Why have a debt limit?
If we're just gonna keep blowing it up, why even have it?
There's a debt limit for a reason.
We must stay within our means.
We can't, this is what Obama said as senator in voting against it twice.
First time was March in 2006.
He did it again, September 2007.
And he was joined by Joe Biden, Harry Reed, other top Democrats who all voted against raising the debt limit.
Now they had a political reason for it back then.
They were trying to ensure George W. Bush would lose the Iraq war.
And they thought that stopping the debt limit from being raised would limit Bush's ability to spend money on the war, which would then lead to us losing.
And the Democrats would be more than happy for America to lose a war when a Republican is in the White House.
My question is, why do we need to raise a debt limit?
I thought Obama's out there saying he's cut the deficit.
Obama's bragging about cutting the deficit.
Obama's bragging about reducing national debt.
Obama's bragging about how much he has saved and how much less is spent now.
So why do we even need to raise the debt limit if we're reducing spending?
Why do we need to borrow anymore if we're actually making cuts?
We ought to be able to lower borrowing if we've cut the deficit.
Okay, that's the end of that.
Done deal.
I just wanted to remind you that every one of these Democrats you hear out there saying it'd be morally irresponsible to not raise a debt limit.
They have all voted to not raise it twice in George Bush's second term.
Here's Kevin and Elkhart, Indiana.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Your next hello.
Hi, Rush.
It's an honor.
Thank you.
In the first hour, you had a uh story about insurance premiums going up.
Yes, I did.
And there's an article that reminded me of an article on the our local newspaper's website.
And it reads, Elklerk teachers face a double-digit hike in health insurance premium.
And if I could read you the first paragraph, because it explains it all.
As Elkar community schools teachers continue to ask for better pay, they could soon see a double-digit increase in health insurance premiums.
Yep.
Just like try this story right here, major teamsters pension fund to slash recipients' benefits.
The Teamsters Pension Funds in trouble?
With the Democrats in power for seven years?
How can that be?
The Teamsters who have had their dues siphoned for decades to the Democrat Party are now facing benefits slashes, benefits cuts in their pension plan.
And now teachers are discovering their health care insurance premiums are skyrocketing, and they all thought Obamacare meant free health care for them.
AP.
Obama administration unveils health care premiums for 2016.
This story does not give numbers in terms of percentages of how much the premiums are going up.
They use this number of uh average 9% of uh Americans are still uninsured.
How can there be anybody uninsured?
That was the whole point of Obamacare.
How in the hell can there still be the uninsured out there?
Insurance premium increase of 85% a stunner in Santa Cruz.
This is the story the caller's referring to.
The owners of the sock shop and shoe company face a stunning 85% increase in the cost of group health insurance for their employees.
Eric Gill, co-owner, said when you're doubling the cost, it's threatening.
His wife said one choice is the nuclear option.
Don't offer insurance.
That's not what they expect.
says right here.
This is the Santa Cruz Sentinel, left-wing newspaper.
That's not what they expected from the Affordable Care Act.
Notice they still don't call it Obamacare in the left-wing media.
That's not what they expected from Obamacare.
They thought rates might go up 10 to 12%.
And they hope that as more people got coverage, the costs would come down, but that isn't happening.
They're looking at 85% increases.
November 1 starts the new season of signups for Obamacare.
Like it's just a week away.
85%.
By the way, that's by design.
These people have no choice.
They have to offload everything to the government.
They can't stay in business, doubling the premiums for their employees.
They just can't.
And Trump made a point the other day when he said, yeah, the premiums are one thing.
The deductibles are so high that people aren't even going to be able to use them.
There's no escape.
The whole point of Obamacare is single-payer health insurance in a few years.
After years like this, with premiums doubling or more, where people just can't pay them.
They have to make alternative arrangements.
And the law requires that their employees have health insurance.
The employer or the employee, either one, is liable.
And if an individual doesn't have health insurance, is business, his company, or his personal tax return is going to face a penalty.
A fine.
And here's this in the Washington Times.
Colorado care would replace Obamacare with statewide single payer plan at a $25 billion cost.
With Colorado's shaky Obamacare Exchange in peril, we had this story last week.
Colorado's exchange is in trouble.
California, there's two or three of them near bankrupt.
With Colorado's shaky Obamacare Exchange in peril, some health care advocates are calling for voters to just scrap Obamacare and replace it in Colorado with state-run single payer.
Now I don't know how they can scrap Obamacare.
It's the law of the land.
It's therefore untouchable.
How can a state, I mean, if if Arizona cannot concoct its own immigration law without being sued by Obama, how can Colorado get rid of Obamacare?
Well, the answer is, well, waivers, of course.
If the waiver permits single payer, why wouldn't Obama?
That's the ultimate objective.
If we want single payer, if that's what Obamacare's real objective is and Colorado wants to go there, hell's bells, we'll give them a waiver.
Just guessing, I mean, I don't know how this is going to turn out, but but this is what they're facing.
They can't afford Obamacare.
They think they're going to be able to afford single payer.
People are nuts.
They're just economic illiterates.
Single payer to these people equals free government pay for it.
Where's the government going to get the money for it?
How many people do you really?
How many people do you think thought that Obamacare meant their health care was going to be free?
Their insurance was just going to be provided, and their deductible was going to handle 80% of their treatment.
I would lay dollars to donuts that most people that eagerly supported and signed up for this thought they were signing up for an entitlement, something that was essentially a freebie.
Now many of them are Democrats.
Logic would tell you they're going to be mad at Obama.
And going to be mad at the Democrats and think, no, no, that's not the way that's going to shake out.
Don't forget the limbaugh theorem.
It's not working because of the Republicans.
The Republicans are not cooperating.
The Republicans are not being bipartisan.
The Republicans are creating these obstacles.
Obama tried.
He's still trying.
He's working hard.
He wants everybody to have health care.
This is Republicans that don't want to.
That's the way this is going to play out.
It always does.
Why not in this example.
Wall Street Journal today, the decline of Obamacare.
Fewer enrollees, and rising loss ratios will force a rewrite in 2017.
The Wall Street Journal, I should save this for tomorrow.
It's uh op-ed, and maybe an editorial.
But they think because recruitment for 2015 was barely 70% of the projection.
And the projection for this year is half is going to be realized, what they need to keep it solvent.
In other words, they don't have nearly enough enrollees to make this thing even come close to being solvent.
So the journal's op-ed or editorial here is that in 2017, when we get a new president, they're going to have to rewrite the whole law because it's obsolete and isn't working.
And I gotta take a break.
I'm long here once again.
Sit tight, folks.
We'll be back in just.
Two things.
Rush Revere and the Star Spangled Banner, a latest children's history book, written by me.
Hits the shelves at bookstores all across America.
Rush Revere and the Star Spangled Banner is the fourth in a series of uh books, Rush Revere Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans, where readers are taken back via time travel.
Talking horse able to time travel takes them back to major moments in American history, and they live them, and they talk to founders and central figures in the founding of this country.
Francis Scott's Scott Key, Star Spangled Banner, and writing the Constitution in this book.
It's a biggie.
And the World Series kicks off tomorrow night.
Kans City Royals hosts the Gotham Mets in what is going to be a great, great, great World Series.
And it's uh it's all it's all part, you know, reviving baseball now as a uh national fevered attraction once again.
It's great.
Well, it's over, folks.
That's it for today.
Three hours, fastest three in the media, and all we've done is wet your whistle for the remainder days of the week.
Next one's up tomorrow.
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