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Oct. 28, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 28, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #3
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And here's another thing.
Another thing I'm sick and tired of hearing about is the dysfunction in Washington.
I'm sick and tired of hearing about how Washington is not working together.
The hell they're not.
The two parties in Washington work together all the time.
They work together.
The only thing they're not working together on and didn't is Obamacare.
I could spend them I could spend the next half hour going through all the pledges and promises the Republicans made in the campaign in 2011 to give them back the House.
All the pledges that have just been blown to smithereens in just one deal.
This budget deal that they did.
This budget deal, the way to look at this is Barack Obama just got his ninth year.
If you want to know what this budget deal is, that's how you look at it.
We have a two-year budget deal that blows through every spending cap that we had previously won.
It gives the Democrats and Hillary and Obama every spending measure they want.
It raises a debt limit, a trillion dollars.
So we're looking at a $20 trillion national debt in the next couple of years.
It's a two-year budget that takes the budgeting process out of play and out of no work on it for two years because it's a done deal.
That's how we get the ninth year of Barack Obama.
And he didn't have to do a damn thing for it, other than be there, which apparently scares the Republicans to death.
Like I said earlier, I can't I can't explain what the Republicans are doing.
There is no common sensical, common sensible explanation for what they are doing politically.
What they're doing is not helping their presidential campaign.
What they're doing is furthering the election of Democrats, either Hillary or whoever.
And just to repeat this again.
The reason this greases the skids for Hillary is because over half of the reason to oppose her we've just agreed to.
Government spending and government growth as far as the eye can see.
We can't campaign for the presidency on how we're going to be in favor of reduced government.
How we're going to make it smaller, how we're going to be responsible, we're going to reduce the debt, the deficit, what have we can't say any of that with credibility because our party just engineered a two-year budget that blows the smithereens out of any kind of spending discipline whatsoever.
And it gives Barack Obama philosophically his ninth year.
The first whoever is president starting in 2017 is going to be saddled with an Obama budget.
You tell me the parties aren't working together?
You tell me they're not crossing the aisle?
Governor Bush, we don't need any more of that.
Governor Christie, we don't need any more crossing the aisle.
Senator McCain, stop.
We've got enough of it.
That's not the dysfunction in Washington.
The dysfunction in Washington is they're acting like there's no constitution.
And it's not just Obama.
Because when Obama violates the Constitution and nobody holds into account, it must be nobody cares.
I know what they're all saying.
You remember the budget battle in 95 Rush?
Remember what happened to us.
We took it, we tried to fight Clinton back then.
Look what happened.
We can't.
Yeah, that's I know.
I know exactly why.
The conservatives that won the House in 1994 immediately stopped teaching conservatism.
They stopped explaining it as they went.
They did not respond to the Democrat media efforts to tarnish them, to trash them because they figured nobody's going to believe this stuff.
And so now all you have to do is ask Mitt Romney about contraception, and it what do you mean, George?
But war on women is what we get next.
Oh yeah!
That's another thing.
Mitt Romney, responsible for the war on women, and these are the people he wants to work with.
The war on women, the war on women, and the war on women.
I'm ti I'm I'm tired of so much of it.
I'm tired of my intelligence being insulted.
This business of I need to be the guy you elect because I can work with the other side.
No, we already have plenty of people doing that.
The party lines have been sufficiently blurred inside the beltway.
All right, well, here.
Let me read to you the pledge, the part of the pledge.
Republicans in their campaign in 2011.
This is the leadership now.
This is the people who put this together.
This is part of the pledge that they gave us.
They actually said this.
I'm not, I mean, I'm reading it verbatim.
You probably not going to believe it, but here it is.
Washington's out of control spending spree needs no introduction.
Our debt is now on track to exceed the size of our economy in the next two years.
The lack of a credible plan to pay this debt back causes anxiety among consumers and uncertainty for investors and employers.
It isn't just that we need to stop spending so much.
We need to stop spending so irrationally.
The spending process in Washington is designed to make it easy to increase spending and raise taxes and difficult to cut spending and lower taxes.
The debt is stacked against limited government and fiscal responsibilities.
This must stop.
Four years ago they wrote this, folks.
Four years ago they promised to do just this.
Over the past three years, nonsecurity discretionary spending, the spending that's approved each year by Congress outside the Department of Defense and Homeland Security has increased a staggering 88%.
Discretionary spending, 88%.
Everything but defense and Homeland Security, basically.
As a result, they wrote, we now borrow 41 cents of every dollar we spend, much of it from foreign countries, including the ChICOMs.
And we leave the bill to our kids and grandkids.
We have what do we just we have just raised the debt.
The people who wrote this just orchestrated a $1 trillion increase in the debt limit.
And in their minds, this program's the problem.
And Fox News is a problem.
And everything that's not the old three networks.
Everybody in the new media's problem.
Because we point this stuff out.
You're not supposed to remember this pledge.
They gotta get this done before Ryan sworn in his speaker, so his fingerprints aren't on it.
That's the leadership's gift to him.
They give him this budget deal, so he won't have to get his hands wet doing a budget for a couple of years.
He's already got it done, but he didn't have anything to do with it.
The pledge goes on.
Economists have warned that all of this borrowing runs the risk of causing a damaging spike in interest rates, which would cripple job creation.
If our economy remains debt-driven, it will not be in a position to support a lasting economic recovery.
Right, so let's add another trillion dollars to it.
Why not?
This pledge is actually 2010.
And that was the election year.
And that was the election year.
In that pledge, they promised to cut government spending to pre-stimulus pre-bailout levels.
And then a paragraph of how they're going to do it.
They promised to establish a hard cap on new discretionary spending, and then a paragraph on how they're going to do it.
They promised to root out government waste and sunset outdated and duplicative programs, and a paragraph to explain how they're going to do it.
And they pledge to reform the budget process to focus on long-term challenges.
They said we will make the decisions that are necessary to protect our entitlement programs for today's seniors and future generations.
That means requiring a full accounting of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, setting benchmarks for these programs, reviewing them regularly, and preventing the expansion of unfunded liabilities.
I guess that stopped being operative some time ago.
So what happened after the voters read this pledge and believed it, and trusted the Republicans to do what they said they were going to do and elected them to run the House.
What happened?
Upon taking control of the House in 2011, Republicans approved a budget with 1.3 trillion dollars in deficit spending.
This in 2011, four years ago, pushed the national debt to 14.7 trillion dollars.
And 14.7 trillion, this is the officially recognized debt that does not account for all of the unfunded liabilities that are out there, which are in the 50 to 60 trillion dollar range.
Today, after four years of Republican control of the House, during the last 10 months of which Republicans have also controlled the Senate, the national debt stands at $18 trillion.
It was 14.7 when they took over 2011.
Now wait, I know some of you might be shouting at me, Obama, Obama.
Remember that they didn't follow through on stopping Obama.
Oh, yeah, we got some spending caps, but they took care of that.
And the sequester, yeah, we took care of that.
Those obstacles are out of the way.
Obama hated them anyway, and they're gone now.
During the last 10 months, Republicans have control the Senate.
The debt stands now at $18 trillion, up from 14.7 in 2011.
In his last official act, Speaker Boehner, along with Senate Leader Mitch McConnell, will accede to Obama's demand to push the debt limit up to 19.5 trillion dollars in the next two years,
which is an attempt to remove the threat posed by deficit spending as a 2016 election issue, and this is how the road has been paved for the Democrats to win the White House again.
We have removed the threat posed by deficit spending, which is what Democrats traditionally have been known for.
We cannot run a campaign for president now accusing the Democrats of deficit spending, big spending, dangerous spending, destructive spending.
We've done it.
That's half the arsenal against your Democrat presidential campaign every four years.
And we just took the arrows out of the quiver.
So five trillion dollars nearly added to the national debt since the 2010 pledge to end out-of-control borrowing and spending.
And it's not because we're not crossing the aisle and working with Democrats.
It's not because of dysfunction in Washington.
Well, there's dysfunction, but the dysfunction is not that we aren't working with the Democrats.
That's one of the biggest smokescreens.
That's one of the biggest insults they fire at us.
As though somehow it's our fault, by the way.
We, you and I, we've elected people that won't cooperate.
We've elected people.
And we want to elect people.
They want to fight these people.
We need to work with these people, we're told.
Seems to me that's exactly what's been happening.
And for all of this to happen, something has to take a big, big hit, and that is the Constitution of the United States.
Now, in the 2016 campaign, I I fully expect the Republicans are going to try to blame all of this on Obama and the Democrats.
And they're going to continue to hope that you don't realize the spending that's contained in this budget deal.
They're going to have their friends and allies in the media tell you it's a great budget deal.
That we beat Obama at his own game, and we got a two-year budget, and we've taken a government shutdown off the table.
And that's the biggest threat to our winning the White House.
And that's what they honestly think.
So that's what they're going to tell you.
We beat Obama.
We got a two-year deal.
We forced our discipline on this country and on Obama, and we've eliminated the threat of a government shutdown.
And then I'm going to go out and start trying to blame Hillary for the spending she wants to do.
the destruction that will happen if she gets to do it.
They will hope that you don't remember any of this and realize that they promised to stop it.
And not only caved in stopping it, They joined and worked with and crossed the aisle to make it happen.
We will probably continue to hear if you'll just turn out and vote for us.
We're not going to do business the way the Democrats have been doing it for the eight years of Obama.
So just my two cents.
But folks, all of this, these monologues here in the past hour, all of this is why.
The idea of writing these uh books for children was so appealing to me.
Young people to learn the truth of how this country was founded at some point.
The people of this country are going to have to become learned enough, educated enough on how this country works and how prosper how prosperity happens, how growth happens, how freedom is maintained.
People are going to have to understand this.
They're not being taught in schools.
They're not being taught of the greatness of this country.
They're not being taught the Constitution.
They aren't being taught the sacrifices.
Instead, they're being taught of all the racism and the bigotry and the social injustice and the immorality of the early days of this country.
And now we've got to pay the price for that.
We've that's why we have to open the borders, is because we've been so selfish.
We have stolen all the resources of other people all over the world to enrich ourselves, and those days are over.
We've got to pay it back.
This superpower status of ours, that's not legitimate.
We didn't work to Ernell.
We stole that from people.
We stole their cultures, we stole their resources, their diamonds, their minerals, their gold, whatever.
We stole it.
We've got to give it back.
We got people who've been deprived for 200 years because of the existence of the United States, finally have to be permitted to get theirs.
That's what this immigration thing, that's the compassion of this immigration thing, all wrapped up.
And it's bogus.
And so the opportunity to.
I mean, young kids are not going to listen to this show.
It does not.
When you were eight, 10, 12, 13, you didn't listen to talk show on the radio.
But I sure wish they did.
I wish they were able to comprehend.
I know their parents try to explain it as best they can, but that's why writing these kids' books was so appealing.
You know, the old make a difference thing.
And that's why the fourth one in two years is out.
Rush revered Star Spangled Banner.
Anyway, I've got to take a break.
I'm I'm way backlogged on getting your phones on the air here, and I promise after this break, we'll get started on that.
Sit tight, coming right back.
So I checked the email.
Are you going to the World Series, Rush?
I mean, you used to live in Kansas City.
No, folks, I'm too famous.
I can't.
I just can't do things like that anymore.
No, I can't.
I'm just too famous there.
I'm I'm I'm too famous.
I just, it's it's a distraction.
Take it.
No, no.
I I just have to I have to enjoy it on TV, which I do.
That's just the way it is, fact of life.
There's a controversy, by the way.
Can we change gears here for just a minute?
You'll love this.
New York Post.
They're all ticked off in the New York media, by the way, over the game last night.
The pitcher family.
They hadn't, nobody, he hadn't given up a home run since August or some such thing.
He's a designated closer.
The face of the franchise David Wright committed a throwing error.
Bobble the ground ball throwing error at third base in the late innings.
And the New York media is just vicious.
But they're also mad.
I mean, there's a soft sentimental spot for the Mets.
Because they're the also Rans in town.
And so now Royals Catcher's Mystery Shin Guard substance raises questions.
New York Post, a mini controversy appears to be brewing after Fox cameras.
Caught Royals Catcher's Salvador Perez with some kind of Brown substance on his shin guards.
Perez didn't talk to reporters after the game.
Manager Ned Yost didn't shine much light on the issue either.
Yost said it's not illegal.
I don't know what it was.
It was Brown.
It's not illegal for a catcher to have it on his shin guard.
It's illegal for a pitcher.
Kurt Schilling said that Salvador Perez has pine tar on the right shin guard.
Ha, hilarious.
That way your pitcher doesn't have to wear it.
So they're trying to say here to Mets and the New York media that the Royals may be cheating, that the catcher is seeing they get Pine Tar, some kind of foreign substance on the ball.
Royals are doing yeah, Pine Tar all over again.
First George Breton Abat, now Salvador Perez and the Shin Guard.
Okay, here is Brian, St. Augustine, Florida.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Thanks for taking a call, Rush.
I I just wanted to say for ten years, uh Harry Reid and the Democrats ran the country on continuing resolutions because they didn't want to be blamed with deficit spending.
And now the Republican Republicans go ahead and make a backdoor deal with them, a backroom deal, to do just that.
And they take the blame for it.
Let me take that.
That is a fascinating point.
We've had we haven't had budgets.
We've had continuing resolutions.
And one of the reasons for continuing resolutions is that you always get to get what you want, really at the at the point of a political gun.
And uh it's it's hard to say there's deficit spending with continuing resolutions.
And so the Democrats didn't didn't want that moniker.
They didn't want to be labeled as deficit spenders, so a continuing resolution.
It also enabled him to say the Republicans were not cooperating, it's the only way they could go.
And so now the Republicans have gone ahead.
Hey, okay, we'll take the deficit spending label ourselves.
We'll do it.
We'll do it.
We'll give you two years.
Lay it off on us.
Happily.
Big Republican debate tonight, Colorado, opposite the second game, the World Series.
Cookie just send me a note.
Do you have any predictions for the debate tonight?
No, I I I none.
No clue.
I uh I mean, not along the lines in earlier debates when I was able to predict what the media was going to do and and so I I predict that there will be a lot of uh effort on the part of the media to hammer the fact that Trump may have peaked and it could be over Cyanar and so forth.
And I fully expect the moderators to ask these various candidates if they endorse the Republican budget deal.
I mean, that's a sitting duck.
If that doesn't happen, then the fix is really in.
If that question doesn't come up tonight, if these guys are not asked about that, because that budget deal, as I'm telling you, folks, we've just taken half the arsenal out of the campaign against any Democrat nominee by assuming their role as big spenders, deficit spenders.
Here's uh here's Nathan at Weaverville, California.
Hi, Nathan.
I'm glad you waited.
Well, thank you, sir.
It's such an honor to get to talk to you today.
Thank you very much.
Um I just wanted to let you know that uh the first time I can remember listening to your show.
I believe you're still in Sacramento.
And uh every time I would get to visit my grandparents, uh my grandpa and I, we would listen to your show every time.
And it was his favorite show, and he would listen to it every day.
And since then, about six years ago, he passed away.
And for about the last three years, I've been listening to your show all the time.
And uh I just wanted to let you know that by listening to your show it reminds me of him all the time.
The nostalgia, the nostalgia grips you.
Yes, sir.
Yeah, I I I have uh I have memories of my grandfather like went to my grandfather's house, and there were certain things that that he was doing and did and was interested in that if you wanted to talk to him, you had to go along with it, too.
And and that's how you remember people.
That's that's very flattering.
I'm I'm I'm really moved by that.
Well, I'd like I'd like to thank you for that, because it's it's a nice thing to be able to remember him by, and now I see why he's really enjoyed your show so much.
Well, uh, and now and now you apparently are yourself.
Yes, sir.
Yeah, and you Weaverville now, uh I was in Sacramento from 1984 to 87.
Well, actually in the middle of 88, so um that's probably when you're really where's Weaverville?
How far is it is it near Sacramento?
It's uh near Reading.
Reading, okay, sure.
Yep.
I'm sure I've been there.
I'm sure I've been driven through it.
Well, look, I Nathan, I appreciate the call.
I'm really he's he's waited.
He's been on hold for a long time to tell me that, and I'm truly deeply moved by that.
And I hear a story like that and I visualize it.
Grandson goes to granddad's house, likes granddad.
Granddad's got this show on.
I mean, as a young kid, single-digit kid, maybe maybe 10, 12, whatever, and grows up to be an adult, and the show is still on.
Some days it reminds him of when he was at his grandfather's house.
That's cool.
Here are the uh details on the latest climate change story.
First, United Nations officials label bacon and sausage and pork as carcinogens, and now scientists are claiming that higher concentrations of carbon dioxide, CO2, are not only heating the planet, they are making people dumber.
A new study by the Harvard Scruwel of Public Health claims that CO2 has a direct and negative impact on human cognition and decision making, according to Think Progress, a left-wing advocacy website.
Former Vice President Al Gore wasted no time tweeting out the article in depth, trying to link higher CO2 levels to lower cognition in humans.
The Harvard study, here's what they did.
They exposed 24 people to office environments with varying levels of volatile organic compounds, as well as varying levels of CO2 over six days.
Six days, 24 people.
The study found that for seven of the nine cognitive function domains, average cognitive scores decreased at each higher level of CO2.
Cognitive function scores 15% lower for the moderate CO2 day, and that guy has a bunch of numbers and stats here.
Have you ever heard anything more preposterous?
You know who comes up with theories like this?
The people who have gone overboard eliminating CO2 from their lives.
They double and triple insulate their homes.
They drive around electric cars.
They do all kinds of crazy stuff to eliminate their presence of CO2.
The only CO2 that they want to expose themselves to is what they exhale.
And they're the stupid ones.
By the way, can I ask a question?
I about the electric car business.
I just I saw a story that chronicled, I forget, where chronicled how the electric car business still could not exist without federal subsidies.
There isn't a single electric car out there that could survive on its own without subsidies.
So I said, how long has this been going?
How long is these?
I mean, not hybrids, it's purely electric cars.
I went back and looked at it.
We're 15 years into the whole electric carbon.
And it and everybody's touting it.
Oh man, it's the future.
Oh well, man, it's so cool.
Oh yeah, I'm getting increased range, faster charge times, oh man, and the cars are getting better looking.
And you couldn't survive in the market without taxpayers giving you money.
What other businesses are allowed to stay in business 15, 20 years by being subsidized?
I mean, pretty much fully.
How does a billionaire with an electric car company for 10 or 15 years remain a billionaire when he's never turned a profit?
I don't know who I'm talking about.
I don't see any of them.
I don't care.
Take your pick.
How do billionaires who have electric car companies and have never made a profit for 50, and they sell cars?
How do they stay billionaires?
Whose money are they using?
The key is they're not making a profit.
Oh, they're multi-billionaires, and therefore there are multi-billions to lose.
Oh, okay.
So they are also altruistic.
I get it.
It's all I needed to know.
Back after this.
But here's Sylvana in San Diego.
Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program today.
Hi.
Hi, uh, thank you for taking my call.
I just wanted to say that the Republican establishment is not a party of opposition anymore.
They have become a party of governance.
Um that's what they're so interested in going across the aisle and working together.
That's why they have passed uh Iran deal, the Trans-Pacific deal, the budget deal.
Um Mitch McConnell, one of the first things that he said when he took uh as a leader of the Senate was that he will make senate work and he will be passing things in the Senate.
Now I believe that if your soul focus is governance, then the bigger and the more complex the government, the more indispensable you become.
And and for me, it's such a turnoff when I hear Governor Jeb or Governor Case, they keep talking about governing and how they know how to govern and how they know how to work across the aisle.
But right now, the way I feel, and I believe a lot of other people is well, we don't want bigger and bigger government and then you governing bigger and bigger government.
What we want right now is someone actually cutting the government down to a manageable and reasonable size.
Amen, sister.
I mean, that's right on the money.
Could not, I don't have it.
The only thing I can add to it is something to buttress your point.
I'm gonna go back to 1988.
And this program started in August of 88.
We're right in the middle of the presidential campaign that year.
It was uh Michael Dukakis and George H.W. Bush who was running on on uh claiming that his was going to be Reagan's third term.
And I remember seeing a profile, but the drive-by media back, they love Dukakis.
Governor Massachusetts.
They just love the guy.
I mean, they love Dukakis, and I saw endless profiles on Dukakis.
And one of the profiles I saw was Dukakis sitting at his desk, his official governor's office desk, shuffling papers and writing things down and signing things, and then people bringing in more paper and signing that, and more aides bringing in more paper, and then he gather up all the papers and put them in a briefcase and leave the office and go to the sidewalk and walk to some other government building.
And on the walk to the other government building, being interviewed by whatever drive-by media person it was, Dukaka said, I love this.
I love the process.
And that's exactly what Silvana is talking.
The process of governing.
The process of using the government to do things, and now it's we must use the government to do things for people.
That's the purpose of the government.
To do things for people, people in pain, people in need, people surfing, people hurting, people in in harm's way.
We must do things for people.
And Dukakis could not stop talking about how much he loved the process.
And my antenna went up.
So okay, this is not the kind of guy we want in that loves the process.
We ideally want somebody who doesn't dig it, whose idea is to make it as invisible and unobtrusive as they can.
But somebody that loves it, and she's exactly right.
You listen to all these people talk.
If they don't get legislation passed, they are abject failures.
We haven't passed any bills in this quarter.
We haven't got the legislation done.
People are going to be mad at us.
We are here to get legislation.
No, you're not anymore.
We've got enough.
We got more legislation than we need.
But she's right, that's how they define their successes.
How much legislation they get done, how many bills they move, how many votes get taken?
How many closure votes are successful?
How many pieces of legislation are sent up to the White House for the signature so I can join the signing ceremony and get a pen that was used when the president signed my bill.
That's what Jazz is them.
She's exactly right.
I appreciate the call, Sylvana.
Very perceptive you are, and reached that moment in time again, folks, but we'll be back to wrap it up after this.
What's that?
You think?
Oh, Snerdley thinks I could end up being a debate question tonight.
What?
Oh, Senator So and so, do you do you hear Rush Limbaugh said earlier today that the Republicans might actually prefer Hillary to be president?
Do you Oh, I can see that, yeah.
Yeah.
Especially if they don't add the context.
You know, and don't forget I said Republicans would rather Hillary than Ted Cruz or a conservative.
Not just any Republican.
Yeah, I can see where that would happen.
Well, we'll be ready for it.
Just let me know what that happens.
I'll be watching the baseball game.
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