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Oct. 28, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 28, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
So what's it going to be tonight?
Going to be the debate are going to be the World Series.
Have to mix business and pleasure.
Have to choose between one or the other.
I obviously have to choose business.
Watching the debate tonight because a bunch of people are promising fireworks tonight in debate.
John Kasich has had it.
He's fed up with it all.
He doesn't understand what's happened to his party or conservatism.
Guess he hasn't looked in the mirror.
And Jeb Bush says that he's loaded for bear.
He's finally figured out what he wants to do, and it's this debate tonight.
And all of the Republicans are fighting over the green rooms that they were assigned tonight at the debate.
Trump, of course, got the biggest one with the big flat screen and the big chairs.
And Chris Christie got a green room where the most predominant object in it is the toilet.
His campaign guys were in it.
They've put us in a bathroom for crying out loud.
I'd say, if you guys are focusing on the green room, how much time are you going to be in the green room?
I mean, the green room, big whoop.
If you're focusing on that, it kind of gives an indication of where the head's at.
Not too good.
Also, ladies and gentlemen, by the way, greetings.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh here behind the golden EIB microphone at 800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program today.
This budget deal, and every time this subject comes up, I have to point out that, well, even 25 years ago when this program started, to discuss something like the federal budget was one of the biggest mistakes you could make in terms of programming content.
I mean, it was so esoteric and so boring, and it contained its own language that did not relate to people.
It was instant death.
You just didn't talk about the budget.
My how things have changed.
This budget deal, and we first alerted it to you on Monday, saw a little flash news blurb from Bloomberg detailing what the House Republicans were doing, getting ready to do.
And they've done it.
They have crafted a budget that essentially gives nobody any reason not to vote for Hillary Clinton.
It is astounding what they have done, particularly when you balance it against what they've promised us they would do.
They have reneged on every promise, written and oral, that they have made.
Beginning back in 2010, when it comes to what they would do vis-a-vis the budget, government spending overall, and how they would behave in battle with the Democrats.
They've tossed it all aside.
Everything Obama wants and then some is in this budget.
Raising the debt limit over $1 trillion, which takes it off the table as an issue all the way through next year.
The budget is also a two-year budget, which takes it out of the presidential campaign, which makes whoever the next president is and the next Congress, they're saddled with this budget.
I mean, every budget is technically a one-year budget.
I know this, and they can make 10-year projections, five-year projections.
What they've actually done here is try to craft a two-year budget.
And when I went through it last night and looked at it, and I went back and with the assistance of a column written by my buddy Andy McCarthy at pjmedia.com, I started boiling.
I was literally infuriated.
And I have to tell you, folks, I am beyond able to understand the political thinking now of the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives, particularly as it relates to the presidential race.
I can't figure it out.
What they are doing makes literally an absolutely no sense.
It makes no sense in dollars and cents.
It makes no sense budgetary.
Budgetarily.
It makes no sense politically.
They're not even an opposition party.
They're not even pretending anymore to be an opposition party.
When you look at what they've done with this budget, we'll get into some details.
Basically, all you need to know is whatever Obama wants, he's got.
Whatever Hillary wants, she's got.
Whatever you thought you were voting for in 2010 and 2014, you've been lied to.
In terms of how your representatives were going to fight the Democrats, fight spending, fight this constant bloat, we can now officially claim that the Republicans are responsible for $5 trillion additional new dollars added to the national debt.
Spending bills originate in the Congress.
The president can ask and demand and do whatever, but he can't write the bills.
He can't write the laws.
All he can do is sign them or veto them.
We turned over the writing of the budget to Obama and the Democrats, essentially.
It wouldn't be much different if they had started the whole process and completed it.
So I don't know how this helps them.
I don't know how they think it helps them.
I don't know why it's happening.
Is this all because of the demands made by donors?
I mean, that's the latest excuse we're given for everything they're doing.
Well, the donor class, you know, they're demanding this.
Donor class demanding amnesty.
Donor class demanding a nuke deal with Iran.
Donor class.
Is that what explains this budget deal?
The donors are demanding all of this?
Or have the Republican leadership just become a bunch of pathological, actual left-wingers in the last couple of years?
I don't see the difference.
In the current Republican House leadership, when it comes to government spending, the whole philosophy behind government spending, big government, I don't see any difference between the Republican leadership and the Democrat leadership.
When I look on the Democrat side, I see Pelosi and Reid.
They've been cheering the budget.
Are they still scared to death of Obama?
They still think that they have to show that they can work with Obama, be cooperative, and let Obama have everything he wants, otherwise the media is going to call him racist.
We've got a year to go for crying out loud.
Just one more year of this.
And they are going to put it on paper that we get two more years of this.
It's the most confounding thing.
We've got one year Obama left, but the Republican leadership in the House has passed a budget or is about to that will essentially give us another year of Obama in terms of philosophy on government size and spending.
Are they doing this to prove that they can be bipartisan?
Do they think that's going to help them in the presidential race?
Are they doing this to show they can cooperate?
Are they doing this to show that they love and support entitlements and nobody should think Republicans are going to take anything away from them?
Are they that defensive?
Are they that scared?
Are they that convinced the media can define them and there's nothing they can do about it, so they may as well do everything the media is demanding of them so that the media will shut up and not be mean to them anymore?
Is that what's going on here?
Are they hell-bent on showing their ability to cooperate across the aisle?
They think that's helping the presidential field by doing this.
Are they ambivalent?
Are they unfeeling in any way about, folks?
The blatant lies that Republicans in the House have told their voters during campaigns that all the documents, the contracts, the pledges that they wrote and signed, that none of this would happen, that virtually everything they pledged not to do, they are doing in this budget deal.
Are they unconcerned about destroying the economy?
Are they so secure in their own existence that they don't care what happens outside their own lives?
Are they set now for the rest of their lives because of the votes that they have secured for big donors?
Are they happy the places they live?
There isn't any unemployment.
There isn't any real difficulty managing the cost of living.
Are they unconcerned about destroying our culture?
You have any idea what this budget's going to do to our culture?
This culture is creating more dependence and more dependence.
It's practically designed to put people on the welfare rolls.
It's practically designed to tell people to stop relying on themselves and look to government for whatever you need or whatever you want.
That's not who we are.
That's what this budget deal does.
The spending caps that they negotiated with Obama, they've blown those up.
The one thing that they won, spending caps.
They got rid of them themselves in this deal.
I'm trying to understand.
Are they totally in debt to K-Street?
They all have jobs waiting for them on K-Street?
It doesn't compute here.
Who are these people in the House Republican leadership?
What are they?
I'll tell you what I've concluded.
And it's something that I have forecast before, mentioned it before.
We've even discussed it on this program.
I think what's going on in Washington right now, and it isn't new, it's just more visible than it's ever been.
I think there's all kinds of bipartisanship going on in Washington.
I think there's all kinds of cooperation going on in Washington.
I think that it's kumbaya time.
I think they're linked arm in arm.
I think the bipartisan project is to destroy conservatism.
I think they would be happy.
They would prefer.
I'm talking about the Republican leadership, not the whole membership, but the Republican leadership.
I have the idea they would be happier with Hillary Clinton as president than Ted Cruz.
And that's not a feeling.
I know that almost for a fact.
I know that with almost ontological certitude.
They, as members of the Inside the Beltway establishment, no way, no how do they want anybody like Ted Cruz in the White House.
They would much prefer Hillary.
The only thing that explains this, looked at in any kind of prism of common sense, is that there is a combined bipartisan effort to finally render conservatives and conservatism as irrelevant as a pockmark.
The only thing that explains this, this is not good budgeting.
This is not, not only is it not conservative, it's not even Republican.
Even modern Republican.
This is rubber stamp liberal Democrat budgetary philosophy.
This violates every pledge and promise that they've made in election campaigns going back to 2010, repeated in 2012 during the presidential race, and repeated again in 2014.
And I shall remind you word by word of some of the pledges they've made, the contracts they wrote, reminiscent of the contract with America.
I actually think, and you know the Democrats want to get rid of conservatives.
They want to get rid of all opposition.
That's their modus operandi.
The thing here is the Republican leadership, House and Senate, I think, wants to do the same thing.
I think we're a burr on their butts.
I think we're a pain in the rear to them.
I think they much more resent us than they do liberal Democrats.
Romney gave it all away the other day.
He gave it all away when he came out.
And you noticed how there hasn't been any reaction to that anywhere.
I have been studiously observing.
Mitt Romney comes out and laments, longs for the good old days when we all get the same facts.
There were only three different places you could get news in America, ABC, CBS, and NBC.
Those were the good old days.
Those were the good old days when everybody got the same news.
Everybody got the same facts.
And it is easy to collaborate.
Democrats and Republicans could work together.
But now we have these insurgent, extremist right-wingers in this new media confusing everybody with different facts.
And he also did give some lip service to saying the left has their own version, but he's not concerned about them because the extremists on the left still have the same facts that the Democrat Party has.
However, us, we extremists on the right, we seem to be operating with a totally different set of facts and the mainstream doesn't want to deal with it and the establishment doesn't want to deal with it.
So Romney comes out and sides with the people who called him a liar about paying his taxes, who told everybody he hated women and hated employees and allowed them to get cancer and didn't care, and put the dog on the roof of the station wagon and much more incendiary stuff designed to destroy his career and his reputation.
And that's who he thinks his friends are.
So Romney let it out of the bag with this idea that the good old days, you have to go back 25, 27, 28 years to find them.
Yeah.
Everybody got the same news, everybody, the same facts.
There were any controversy day to day over what was what we could collaborate and get along and everything was fine and dandy and hooky dory.
Yeah.
Now we can't do it.
There hasn't been a stab.
I haven't found any reaction to that anywhere.
Have you, Mr. Snerdley?
Have you seen it?
Not a peep.
And to me, it was the biggest news because it confirmed long-held suspicions.
But there hasn't been a repeat of that.
There hasn't been a retweet.
There hasn't been anybody coming.
I have not seen it other than where it originally appeared on Breitbart.
So anyway, that sets the table just a bit.
How many of you were able to stay up for the entire 14 innings of the World Series game last night?
That game ended about a half hour before I go to bed anyway, so I was in no sweat.
I had no trouble whatsoever.
But it was just a great game.
The Kansas City Royals are just an amazing transformation over what they were just five years ago.
And there's a reason.
There's an absolute reason why the Royals have done a 180 and bounced back and become a real baseball team again.
His name is Dayton Moore, the general manager of the Royals that came over from the Atlanta Braves, was working with John Scherholtz, who used to work with the Royals back in the days.
I used to be in charge of ceremonial first pitches there.
Anyway, I got to take a break here.
I'm way long.
You sit tight, my friend.
And national anthem singers, too.
That big.
Ditto Cam is not on right now because I've got it zoomed in.
I'm going to show you something here.
It's coming up.
And I got an email.
What do you mean this budget deal elects Hillary?
Folks, I'll explain that in the first thing in the next segment.
And once I explain it, it's going to infuriate you.
But this budget deal essentially paves the way for Hillary Clinton to become president.
Now, Rush Revere and the Star-Spangled Banner hit the shelves yesterday and is roaring off the shelves at a rapid rate.
We'd have four Rush Revere books in the top 100 at Amazon.
Two years, four books in the top 100.
You people are doing it.
And I'm always talking about the great pictures we are sent and the emails from parents and kids and so on.
I want to show you one.
We got one, I guess it was last night, a young man and his daughter had received their book delivered yesterday from Amazon.
His name is Mooney, and he said, here's the reaction of my six and a half year old daughter when we got home from work school to find Rush Revere and the Star-Spangled Banner earlier.
They included a video, which they referenced.
Videos even better.
Thank you for making this such a captivating story and makes getting history-loving daddy, makes her history-loving daddy smile.
Six and a half-year-old little girl loves reading about history, and her father thinks it's crucially important.
Here is a picture of her opening the book that he sent us.
And these are the kind of things, folks, that are rolling in in droves, and we post a lot of them.
I'll tell you where you can go see all of this, or quite a lot of it.
They send in stills, they send in videos.
It's the Facebook page that we have for Rush Revere.
www.facebook.com slash Rush Revere.
Because the notes that are coming in will melt your heart.
And they will give you hope.
And they will turn you into an optimist.
We posted some great ones there for everybody to see.
Just so we can share the passion we have and the readers have for this with you.
That had to be more like 15.
But anyway, folks, go ahead.
Admit it.
You are addicted.
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When we get back to the phones, or we get to them to begin with, which we will.
Okay, so how does the budget deal pave the way for Hillary Clinton?
Folks, it's real simple.
Over half of any Republican candidate's campaign arsenal has just been neutered.
The Republican Party cannot campaign by running around blaming the Democrats for destroying the budget, for overspending, for threatening the very fabric economically of the country.
They can't do it.
This is the Republican budget deal that Barack Obama cannot wait to sign.
So the idea that the Democrat Party and their nominee, most likely Hillary Clinton, pose a grave threat to this country's future because of their runaway spending, their expansion of the welfare state, the expansion of the entitlement state, the creation of more and more dependent.
We can't say that anymore.
A Republican presidential candidate cannot say that anymore.
All the Democrats are going to have to do is say, wait, whoa, whoa, you're accusing us of doing what?
And they just have to go back and cite this budget deal, which is coming up for a vote today.
That's how over the top this is.
It's how far the Republican Party has abandoned its own principles in putting together this budget.
And the fact that they make it a two-year budget takes it out of the presidential campaign as having any relevance.
And if the Republicans happen to win the presidency, the new president already has his first fiscal year budget signed into law by Barack Obama.
Now, these things can be open because budgets are actually one-year deals.
I understand all that.
But the effort here is to take this off the table for two years so there will be no fights on the debt limit, therefore no potential government shutdowns.
In other words, the Republicans are looking at it as though they are taking themselves totally out of any political risk circumstance.
And that may be, but the way they did it was to essentially act like Democrats in putting together this budget.
When you can't go after the Democrat presidential nominee for who she is and what she will do and why you don't want that to happen because you've already made sure it will happen, what in the world are you going to campaign against her on?
That she's incompetent?
Ben Ghazi, Secretary of State, Huma Abidin.
What were you going to do?
Bill Clinton?
What's going to be the primary campaign message when all of this is off the table?
So I will be eager to see.
This just argues more and more for a presidential candidate that's not part of this apparatus.
And eventually it may even happen tonight if there's some bright-eyed, bushy-tailed debate moderator tonight.
Can I see a show of hands of candidates who agree with the Republican budget and support it?
That's a sitting duck.
That's just waiting to happen tonight.
And why are you Trumpsters?
What do you think of that?
By the way, Trump, let me backtrack a couple things here on the Donald.
I read a couple things today from places I'm not familiar with, so I'm not going to quote them to you.
Websites I've not heard of doesn't mean anything.
I just haven't heard of them.
And since I haven't, I'm not going to give them a rubber stamp.
But there are a couple places that are dubious of the polling data that shows Carson leading Trump big in Iowa.
And they are dubious because it's the only place that Trump is losing.
Everywhere you go, North Carolina, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Trump is running away with this, except in Iowa.
So some people are suspicious, and of course, attaching to it the prediction that what really is going on here is an effort to take Trump out and make Carson the leader.
I mean, some people really think that the Democrats and the media would love for Ben Carson to become the leader at this stage of the Republican primary process.
Because for all of those in the establishment who think Trump was going to bomb out, implode at some point, there isn't a single person in the Republican or Democrat administrations or establishments who think that Ben Carson has an IOTA's chance of being president or even the nominee.
So they would equate, say, Ben Carson with Herman Cain.
You get rid of Trump.
This is a meme.
You get rid of Trump, take him out.
And Audio Soundbi say, drive-bys think it's happened, folks.
Drive-bys think it's happened.
They think they did it, just as I predicted yesterday.
They're all on Twitter about this.
They're all excited.
And that's going to give them Carson.
And none of them believe Carson is real.
They think Carson is an aberration.
They can turn him into Herman Cain and get rid of him whenever they want to.
And that leaves the door wide open for Jeb Bush to make a miraculous recovery, racing right through the wide open door vacated by Carson and Trump, seated atop the white horse to ride in and save the Republican Party.
These theories are all over the place out there.
But again, there are obscure places where these, and there isn't any evidence that the polling data has been rigged.
So I'm not putting my name behind any of this, but I am sharing with you what is out there.
And if you spent as much time on the web as I do, you'd run into it yourself, too.
Now, back to the budget deal for just one or two things here.
I mentioned at the outset that the Republican leadership has violated practically every promise they made to voters 2010, 2012, 2014 about how they would behave if they were elected and what they would do to stop Obama, stop the Democrats, stop the spending.
One of the things that Boehner promised was three full days, 72 hours to read all legislation before voting on it.
Not here.
This is being rammed through.
This is going to have to happen today.
It has to happen before Paul Ryan becomes Speaker so his fingerprints are not on it.
This is supposedly Boehner's gift to Paul Ryan, a clean speakership with no budget battles in the immediate future.
The budget's done.
No arguments with the Democrats.
You can't have it.
The conservatives out in the country can't do anything to you because it's a done deal.
No threats of government shutdown.
Boehner thinks this is his present to Ryan as new speaker, a clean slate when it comes to the budget.
But to make it happen, they have to violate the promise and the pledge that Boehner and the leadership made.
If the vote happens before 11.36 p.m. tomorrow, then Boehner's pledge would be violated.
And it's 144 pages.
It raises the debt limit by a trillion dollars.
Why does it take 144 pages to do that?
But there are many more promises that were made and pledges that were signed way back when.
Let's talk about a pledge to America.
A little pamphlet the Republican leadership put out had all kinds of pictures of Boehner and Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy, other Republican leaders.
And this pledge to America began thus.
An unchecked executive, a compliant legislature, and an overreaching judiciary have combined to thwart the will of the people and overturn their votes and their values, striking down long-standing laws and institutions and scorning the deepest beliefs of the American people.
An arrogant and out-of-touch government of self-appointed elites makes decisions, issues mandates, and enacts laws without accepting or requesting the input of the many.
Rising joblessness, crushing debt, a polarizing political environment are fraying the bonds among our people and blurring our sense of national purpose.
Well, we all read that, those of us who did, we all heard that, those of us who did the, man, these guys get it.
These guys get it.
They're going to go in there and they're going to stop this stuff.
They understand all this.
Elites are implementing things with executive action.
The will of the people is being thwarted.
Spending is out of control.
We bought it.
We elected them in droves.
By the way, this pledge was made when all they had was the House.
And this pledge did not say anything about we must have the Senate before we can do any of this.
That came later.
They were making these promises when all the Republicans controlled were the House of Representatives, folks.
And when they won the House of Representatives, that's when they say, you know, we can't do it any more than we need the Senate.
But yet they made these promises when they didn't control the Senate.
The Republicans in this pledge to America promised to do a lot of things to address this crisis.
They said they had a plan to reform Congress and restore trust, quote, unquote.
They committed to change the abuses of the Democrat leadership who had consolidated authority, abused the letter and spirit of the House rules to get the outcome they desired, and ignored the voices of the American people, the minority, and even dissenters within its own party.
And they were going to make the Democrats pay for that.
That's right from the pledge to America.
When you hear that now, if you happen to read that now, how do you not snicker or get enraged when you remember all of the complex, voluminous, endless bills, great consequence that would no longer be dumped on members.
They'd be given no meaningful opportunity to read the legislation, much less propose changes.
Everything they pledged just kind of drifted away by the wayside when reality set in.
Further from the pledge, we recognize that if we are truly committed to addressing the American people's highest priorities, the House of Representatives must operate differently, differently from the way the Democrats do now, and differently from the way Republicans did in the past.
Change begins at home.
This is all what they promised to win the House.
And here's the requirement to read the bill part of the pledge.
We will ensure that bills are debated and discussed in the public square by publishing the text online for at least three days before coming up for a vote in the House of Representatives.
No more hiding legislative language from the minority party opponents and the public.
Legislation should be understood by all interested parties before it's voted on.
Can't blame Republican voters for eating this up.
It's exactly what needed to be done.
It's exactly what they promised to do.
So they were elected and they gained control of the House.
And then we began to hear, oh, wait, we forgot to tell you something.
None of this can be done till we have the Senate.
But this just scratches the surface on the pledges and promises which were made.
Okay, I'm going to take a break from this.
I want to get started on the phones, but there's one more part of the pledge that you have to hear that the Republicans made back in 2011, 2010, that they promised that they would do if they won the House.
And I want to stress again, every one of these pledges said nothing about we need the Senate to.
They were talking about how they in the House would operate and behave if only they were elected to the majority.
And wait till you hear the pledge about out-of-control spending and how they were going to get it under wraps.
But let me break it up.
Head to the phones.
Overland Park, Kansas, where I used to have a shack and live.
This is Sarah and it's great.
And there aren't any shacks in Overland Park except the one that I had.
Sarah, it's great to have you here.
How are you?
Well, I'm great, Rush, and it's great to talk to you again.
I'm honored.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet.
Thank you.
And about one of my favorite subjects.
And you are showing favor to the Kansas City Royals.
And I expect you to watch tonight because we're going to do some more magic.
It's been great.
It's a great team to never give up.
And you can't count them out if it takes singles and walks.
They capitalize on every error.
I mean, it's such a marvelous turnaround that they have made.
I mean, they were the joke of baseball for so many years.
And it's a turnaround.
Starting in 2006, 2007, this team has become, with nowhere near the biggest payroll in baseball, one of the best solid quality baseball teams playing a unique kind of game that's out there today.
It's a great World Series, too.
It's going to shape up to be one.
So, yeah, I know.
Kansas City is a town.
Self-esteem in that town is defined by how well the sports teams do.
When the teams are winning, there's no place in this country better to be than Kansas City, Missouri.
That's right.
That's right.
It's glued the town together.
It's brought everybody together, and everyone's so excited about it.
It's a nice distraction from everything going on in Washington.
And I just love it that you love the Royals and talk about them.
I've been waiting for you.
I've heard you mention them a couple times this season, you know, in the postseason again.
And we're just so excited.
They're the definite underdog throughout the season.
We won the division this year, and you're right.
You're absolutely right.
Well, you go back to the beginning of the season.
The experts in sports media were predicting the Royals to barely finish fourth in their division.
It was a fluke last year.
Right.
They really weren't that good.
And all it did was motivate them.
Look, they're steady.
They're solid.
They've got, as I say, it's hard to credit one person for a team performance, but you can't leave out the role Dayton Moore has played as a serious general manager.
He came from a great baseball background with the Atlanta Braves, Sherholts.
And he's really, if you say, what's the difference?
What's new here?
What's different here from today in 2006 since prior to that?
It'd be Dayton Moore.
That's right.
You're right.
He's an honorable man.
He's just brought everybody together.
He's made trades, you know, that at the time don't necessarily people go, what?
You know, not big names.
They don't have tons of money.
But look, they put the scouting system back together.
A bunch of stuff was gutted when Mr. Kay died.
And the ownership had a whole different view of the existence and the purpose of the team.
And Dayton Moore comes in and they put the scouting department back together.
And all of the developmental things to find young players and develop them themselves.
They put that all back into process.
And it took a while for it to come to fruition, but it has.
And, Sarah, I'm out of time, but I'm glad you called.
And I know when the teams are winning in Kansas City, folks, there really is no better place to be.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Don't sweat it.
We're going to get into all that.
The Republican debate tonight.
And we're loaded here today.
I can't wait for these next two hours to unfold.
And we'll continue here, folks, and less time than you think goes by.
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