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Dec. 30, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 30, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Welcome back.
It is Eric Erikson filling in for Rush Limbaugh.
One day more as editor of redstate.com.
I've been there eleven years.
I one day more I'm the editor at Red State.
And I've been there eleven years and moved to the resurgent.com on Tuesday as tying my radio show together.
One of the other reasons for doing this is I've got a book coming out in February.
I coined a phrase some time ago, you will be made to care.
And it's been picked up now.
A lot of people Rush has mentioned it in others.
He will be made to care.
And what I've meant by that is that the secular left in this country is going to make you care about things you you don't care about, or you care in the wrong way.
And if you care in the wrong way, they're going to drive you out of society.
Coming up after the next break, Betsy McCauley is going to join me about the story out of the New York Post, where in New York City there's so much outrage over Asian students excelling because of parental involvement that they essentially want to stack the deck against them now.
They want to make them care.
They want to make their parents care and conform to what all the other parents are doing, which is not being invested in their kids.
And in out in Oregon State, my buddy Daniel Horowitz, writing over the Conservative Review, has an update about Melissa and Aaron Klein.
They own sweet cakes by Melissa out there.
And this is a in my book, I'm calling it You Will Be Made to Care.
Go order it at You Will Be Made To Care dot com.
It is it's a story that's appalling and it's happening around the country.
And I think many people don't know that it's happening around the country.
But Aaron and Melissa Klein are being made to care by the state of Oregon.
They had a lesbian couple come to their bakery and asked them to bake a cake for their wedding.
Aaron and Melissa Klein are practicing Christian evangelicals, and they declined to use their property at their business and their time to bake a wedding cake for a wedding that they don't believe is is legitimately a marriage because of their Christian faith.
And the angry lesbians went to the Bureau of Labor and Industry in Oregon, and Melissa and Aaron Klein have been held liable for 136,927 and seven cents for refusing to bake a cake.
For refusing to bake a cake for a religious ceremony, and they are Christians and they disagreed with it, and they are now being made to care.
I the last time I filled in for Rush back in June mentioned the story at the time, and at the time they were also told that they weren't allowed to tell anybody what was going on.
And the state of Oregon walked that back after public outrage that they weren't allowed to tell anyone what was going on.
But they've now been fine.
And they're not alone.
Baron El Stutzman, uh, also on the West Coast, I believe in in Washington, we've uh got her in You Will Be Made to Care, the book.
She had a longtime customers who she provided flowers for in her flower shop.
And they came to her one day, a gay couple, and asked her if they would if she would provide the flowers for their wedding, and she hugged them and told them no she was sorry and gave them recommendations on florists she knew could accommodate their requests, but she was an evangelical Christian and she didn't believe that she should do this.
And they walked away friends.
Well uh one of the men put it on his Facebook page that this had happened.
They never filed a complaint against Baronel Studzman.
The the state decided on its own initiative to go after her, uh causing her business in jeopardy, uh causing her home to be in jeopardy, even her 401k to be in jeopardy.
Down in Atlanta, Georgia, the the chief of the fire department, Kelvin Cochran.
This is actually the very first chapter in in my book, You Will Be Made to Care, cover his story.
He was a fire chief, had worked for the Obama administration, was one of the top fired officials in the nation, moved back to Atlanta to become the fire chief of the city.
And he wrote a book for a Sunday school class, and in the book he quotes the Bible, and he quoted the f the passage in Corinthians on homosexuality.
Well, a retiring lesbian fire captain apparently complained to someone a year, more than a year after he had written the book.
He had gotten oral confirmation he could write the book.
He had given the mayor of the city a copy of his book.
No one had complained until after a year later, and he lost his job because of it.
The left in this country, whether it's over your faith and values, you name it, they will make you care.
Snerdley, actually, during the break, he sent me an article from the Associated Press of polling.
Most Americans, an overwhelming majority of Americans, want people's religious convictions honored.
And it's very funny how they did the story.
They tried to make it a Christian versus Muslim that most people think Christian religious values should be protected, but Muslims not so much.
And they tried to quote someone, but the person's quote was that unless Muslims are trying to harm people, their religious values should be protected as much as Christians.
And of course, that was that was bigoted code for all Muslims or terrorists.
That's not what the guy said.
But the associated press tried to make that story about it.
There are more and more and more of these situations.
Oh yes.
A buddy of mine listening right now just texted me, yes, the the state of Oregon with sweet cakes by Melissa.
They wanted to re-educate.
The state of Oregon wanted to re-educate these people and make their entire staff go through re-education, despite being Christians.
You will be made to care by the secular left.
They will force you to do things you don't want to do.
And it ties in across the board.
You had a situation in Missouri, a case that actually went to the Supreme Court, where the Obama administration said there was no freedom of religious practice in this country.
They actually argued that in court.
Even the ACLU said the Obama administration was wrong.
The Obama administration said it's just a freedom of worship.
What you do from 11 to 12 on a Sunday is fine, but once you get out the door, you're not allowed to have your opinion.
You're not allowed to share these things.
You're not allowed to talk about them.
You're not allowed to offend people.
Of course, they'll get into internet shaming if you do.
They'll shame you on Twitter, they'll smear you.
My buddy Ryan Anderson, who works at the Heritage Foundation, is a very good scholar on these issues, on marriage issues.
The attacks that he suffers, he has a had a book come out on Amazon before it was even out.
He had people giving it one star on Amazon, telling people not to read it, it was terrible.
The book wasn't even out yet.
They had never even read it.
They just didn't like him.
Because he supports traditional marriage.
And his book explained why.
They will make you care.
They will silence you if you don't care.
They will drive you from the town square.
And then in education, the same thing is happening in schools.
Well, you know, in New York City now, if you call Bruce Jinner, Bruce Jinner now, they can find you in your business.
If if if a boy decides he wants to be a girl and goes in and you call him a boy, well, you're in a heap of trouble in New York City.
Or in education.
If you want to give your kids a good education, and kids of particular demographics get ahead of other kids.
Well, we've got to we've got to suppress that.
We've got to get rid of testing because they're able to do it.
Asian students in New York City do exceedingly well.
They get top slots at a lot of the public schools there that are considered prestigious.
Their parents work all day in it's in case some cases hard manual labor jobs, but they come home at night, they spend time with their kids practicing, they they go work extra jobs to raise money to give their kids tutors to make sure that they are academically advantaged as best they possibly can.
And so New York City says, nope, can't do this anymore.
They're tired of Asian kids doing so well in school, and therefore taking all the scholarships.
They've got to do something.
They're going to make the parents, the hardworking parents of these hardworking kids care.
That because their kids are just doing too well, they've got to be punished now.
Because they're getting ahead of everyone else.
That is that is socialism in a nutshell.
Pile everyone up onto the social safety net and shoot anyone who dares to get off of it.
Anyone who dares to excel, punish them.
Take from them so they can't get off the social safety net.
Here are a class of people who are excelling in life.
And they have to be punished because of it.
The left will make you care.
And if you don't care the right way, they will shut you up or shut you down.
Eric Erickson in for Rush Limbaugh.
We'll be back with Betsy McCaulay, who wrote the story at the New York Post on this what's happening in New York City.
Welcome back.
It is Eric Erikson in for Rush Limbaugh, the phone number 800 to 822 882, Bucks Exton in tomorrow.
I mentioned this story in uh the New York Post.
Uh it's just it blew my mind when I read it.
Uh the the war on Asian success.
Betsy McCoy wrote it and she's joining me now.
Betsy, thanks so much for taking time to join me.
Well, you're quite welcome.
I'm so glad you're giving this attention because this is the biggest civil rights outrage in our country, and the liberals are just closing their eyes to this as if it's okay to discriminate against people who are Asian.
Now, in your story, uh you write the Asian Americans make up thirteen percent of students in New York City, but they win more than half of the places each year at the city's selective uh public high schools, and so now city leaders want to stop that.
That's right.
They've been actually trying to stop it for several years.
Uh Mayor Bill De Blasio uh wants to approach this admissions issue holistically.
That's the same euphemism that colleges like Harvard already use to impose rigid quotas on Asians and turn down Asian applicants with perfect scores, perfect test scores, and extremely good grades, and admit, for example, African American students whose scores are maybe two hundred points lower because they claim it's for diversity.
Uh it's it's really shocking to see how many young Asian people lose opportunities simply because they have slanted eyes or darker skin than somebody else.
And and better scores.
It's amazing that they're punishing success.
I mean, if their name is Wong or Liu instead of Luciano or or some other ethnic group, they're automatically put in a separate category with real quotas.
That you know, it it amazes me that in the twenty-first century in the United States of America, they're doing this in the name of diversity, and the diversity they want is skin color diversity, they don't want uh intellectual diversity.
Oh, no, not at all.
In fact, d uh young people are turned down who play the violin, who have extremely good computer knowledge, who have traveled the world, or in some cases, in the cases of many of these Asian students in New York who have worked their way through school with with their parents, working in laundromats and restaurants.
I mean, these are poor kids.
They're on subsidized lunch programs.
They are the poorest of the poor, and yet they've made it to the top academically through hard work and the participation of their parents.
And really, American parents ought to take a page out of the Asian playbook.
When you see how successful, how extraordinarily successful these kids are, even from the most disadvantaged backgrounds, it's because their parents oversee their homework and demand that they get good grades and instill in them that old American lesson that the ticket to success is hard work.
Well, and I'm glad you that you mentioned the income issue because uh oftentimes uh Asian parents in this country get stereotyped as as being uh more wealthy than the median income or or what have you, and it w this isn't who we're talking about at all.
Not at all.
When you look at New York City, we have millions of uh Asian families who are recent immigrants or first generation born here, who are still in poverty, they're working their way up, and they're doing everything they can to help their kids.
They're working second jobs, third jobs to save up the money to get them tutors for these competitive exams, and the kids are working through their summer vacations and all weekends studying for these exams, sometimes studying two years to take an exam, knowing that that admissions to a competitive high school will make the whole difference in their life.
So uh what what's the response going to be?
I mean, does the city have the ability to to punish these hard workers?
Unfortunately, it's the state legislature that has the power and they have repudiated Mayor Bill de Blasio's wacky idea that uh that these kids should not be admitted and that there should be a holistic approach that produces more racial diversity.
You know, in New York you can get racial diversity anywhere, take a subway, take a bus, go to a movie, walk down the street, but in these competitive high schools, the kind of diversity you have is an enormous assortment of talent among people who have worked hard from all over the world to make it to that chair in that classroom where they know they will have the best learning in America.
It seems that the more de Blasio tries to transform New York City, it just spirals more and more out of control.
Yes.
But it's not just New York City.
What's really troubling is to see this happening all over the country.
The University of Texas, which is before the Supreme Court now trying to defend its quote holistic approach to college admissions, also discriminates against Asians.
And Harvard is one of the biggest culprits of all.
You apply to Harvard as an Asian, you're put in a separate pile competing only against Asians, and your scores have to be far higher than white or black applicants.
Good grief.
You know it it's funny you should use the word holistic 'cause I I used to be on a city council and any time that that a Democrat wanted to do something wild and novel, it was always holistic and for the children.
Oh yeah you know what holistic means?
Wholly unfairly rigged wholly subjective right?
Wholly for the benefit of the politicians.
That's what holistic means.
It really isn't it's such naked pandering pitting people against people class of citizen against class of citizen and demographics against demographics.
Right.
But in addition to this crime against Asians that's being perpetrated all across the country there is a really sobering lesson here for us parents and I'm a parent I'm a grandparent now and I know that when I spent time with my kids at night looking at their homework with them, holding account them accountable for their gr grades and telling them how important it was to work hard in school they did well.
The years I didn't do that so much, oh let them just do their best you know let them be well rounded don't be too hard on them.
They didn't do as well.
And if we want our kids to compete globally to get good jobs to compete with the kids from around the world we've got to make sure we're more demanding parents, more involved parents, not slackers.
Oh I agree I've got a a uh ten year old and a seven year old and trying to make sure they do their homework which my that that's more my wife's burden because I'm typically on the radio in Atlanta in the evening when she's doing homework with them and it's just uh it seems like it would be common sense to spend time with your kids helping them and and so many people now want to pass them off to the state to be babysitters during the day and ignore them at night.
Exactly and I I learned that myself if you just send your kids to school and expect that educated kids will come home at the end of the day no it's not how it works.
Exactly well listen Betsy we're short on time here.
Thank you so much for joining me on this it's such an important story and needs a lot of attention.
Well thank you thank you so much and happy new year.
Happy New Year to you too folks I'm gonna put this story out on my Twitter feed and Facebook at E.W. Ericsson here in a minute so you can read this.
It's an unbelievable story of what's going on and it it's going on around the nation.
Uh why affirmative action is so wrong because it is being used and and a point Betsy and I raised that affirmative action is used by the left not for diversity of ideas, not for diversity of thought.
Just diversity of s skin color.
It's a superficial diversity that the left wants they want everybody to think the same.
They want everyone to act the same they want everyone to have the same ideas and the same values of secular godless values uh but they're okay with skin color.
My buddy Tripp texted me just a little while ago when I was talking to men etlas shrugged this is all atlas shrugged I mean people are getting fed up with this nonsense from the left and I mean look at the the protests around the country now the black lives matters protests.
There is a kernel when we get back I I I want to explore this for just a minute there is a kernel of substance within the Black Lives Matters protests that I think we should spend a little bit of time noting and it is a protest although they don't realize it they don't say it but it is a protest against the big government policies of Democrats.
It is black Democrats protesting democratic policies essentially that's what it is these are policies that that are done in the name of holistic fairness for the children that don't result in fairness.
It results in more division more bitterness.
The President of the United States got elected in two thousand eight promising that the oceans would recede, the world would heal itself, we were the change we were hoping for, we would be more united than ever.
We are more at each other's throats as a nation.
He has pitted class of people against class of people, rich against poor, black versus white.
And now it's coming back to bite him.
We'll be back.
Okay, I I I've done it by listener demand on Twitter and Facebook.
I I have put out on Twitter and Facebook at E.W. Erickson, E. W. E. R. I C K S O N my Gumbo recipe that Gene brought up earlier.
So pe people are tw actually tweeting and emailing and put it on Facebook.
I want that recipe, not the New York Times one with the potatoes.
But my I I put it out there for you.
Go have at it.
Just just make sure you get a six pack of beer to drink with it, because when you make the rue, that's the old method is your rue's not ready until you've consumed at least three.
So there you go.
Okay.
Let's go to the phones.
Let's go to John calling from North Dakota.
John, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Well, thank you.
I'm glad you were able to put me on.
Absolutely.
The main problem with our country right now is our teachers are indoctrinating the students instead of teaching them.
The conservatives gotta take the schools back.
Yes.
You know, culture is upstream from politics, they say, meaning what happens in culture eventually flows down into politics.
And the left, I think has waged a very long war against traditional American values and and what have you in public schools, government run schools.
And there are a lot of people who they can't afford to send their kid to a private school, a private Christian school, a private secular school.
They've got to go to the public schools.
And the left knows this.
They oppose charter schools and oppose uh voucher programs and whatnot to get kids into schools their parents would prefer so that they can ensure that people are ablely indoctrinated.
They have put the indoctrination ahead of the education.
They are much more interested.
Yes.
John, listen, thanks very much for the phone call.
And conservatives can't just focus on the presidential race or the congressional race or the Senate race.
It is the town council race, it is the school board race.
These things matter at it at a local level.
Look in Texas.
Because Texas is such has such a large school system, the politics and the Texas school board races, because they get to help set curriculum that affects schools nationwide, uh California and Texas buy more school books than the other school districts in the country, and therefore elections for those school boards are deeply, deeply influential because of the curriculum standards.
And conservatives have done a very good job shaping curriculum in Texas that focuses on education and not indoctrination.
John, thanks very much for that phone call.
Hey, I want to mention something real quick.
We had a caller.
Say, what about the Savannah Guthrie thing?
And I'm sorry, I I got onto this and and knew I was going to talk to Betsy.
Say, you know, God bless Donald Trump.
He and I, we may have our differences, but I mean, between his his statements on um immigration with with Muslims and securing the border and what he did to Savannah Guthrie, I mean, the guy is a genius that not only attracted attention, but fighting the media.
And yeah, so he was on with Savannah Guthrie on NBC, and sh folks, she actually called Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky an alleged affair.
He allegedly had an affair with Monica Lewinsky.
God bless him.
Donald Trump gave her no room, made her walk it back, made her admit it w actually happened, uh, that it wasn't alleged that it actually happened, and he concludes it by telling Savannah Guthrie, Savannah.
If it actually happened, you don't have to use the word alleged.
It was fantastic.
I guess it was the Today Show yesterday.
Absolutely spot on.
Uh it is that is one despite differences he and I may have, it is refreshing to see him make the media scramble.
It is refreshing to see him come out and make a bold statement on Islamic immigration into this country, and everyone in the media is like, oh, this is gonna do him in no.
Turns out people agree with him.
We we don't want people coming into this country who want to kill us.
And if you ever read the art of the deal, you would understand what Donald Trump does.
He stakes a position out there and walks it back, which is the exact opposite, by the way, of what Republicans in Congress do.
Time and time again, Republicans and their first effort at negotiation throw out their final offer, what they actually want.
Well, and then they get into negotiations with the Democrats and they have to scale it back to what they don't want.
I mean they put everything they wanted on the table in a reasonable position, and then when they get into negotiations with the Democrats, they move it back.
They move it back well away from anything the Republicans wanted.
What Donald Trump does is he stakes out a position well ahead of what he wants.
And then he walks back to what he wants.
And that's what he's done here.
And he's had to all these Republicans who opposed him immediately, they ran out on the campaign trail and aligned themselves with Barack Obama and exposed them all as not serious on immigration, as not serious on keeping the country safe.
Very few of them understood what Donald Trump.
All they had to do was read the art of the deal.
The first business book I ever read back in the 80s, I still have my original copy of it.
Back in the I was I was in seventh grade when it came out.
I'm dating myself, forgive me.
It's an excellent book.
And it's yes, uh, buddy of mine just actually, Republicans use the French war method.
Surrender first and then fight.
Not Trump.
And and God bless him for doing that on all these issues, and with Savannah Guthrie.
Making her concede that Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky actually did have an affair.
It was not alleged.
Uh just it was it was a great move.
Let's get back to the phones.
I do want to get into Black Lives Matters and and uh make a point there, but first I want to go to Ginny who's calling from New Hartford, New York.
Welcome.
Hi, Eric.
How are you?
I'm good.
How are you?
I'm good.
I want to I'm A plus.
And uh I used to smell older people too when I was a kid.
I really didn't expect to be talking about this today.
Neither did I. But anyway, I'd like to say I'd like to know, okay, we smell.
Now what do we do about it?
I I have I did not read that far in the Time Magazine article.
I don't know that there's anything that that can be done.
It's just the product of age.
It happens.
You you you get you get wiser and it finally your kids have to start helping you instead of you having to coddle your kids all the time, and and it it's wonderful, but that that's one of the byproducts, I guess.
I'm not there yet.
I just turned 40.
The other thing I wanted to bring up was about Carly running for office.
Yes, ma'am.
I think she's tremendous.
Uh I wouldn't I'm not for her right now because she's so far behind, but why do you think she is so far behind?
She's a has a beautiful mind.
I've been really frustrated with this one, Jinny, because if you've noticed, she has these commanding debate performances, and then it's like she goes in the witness protection program.
Um no one sees her getting now it to be fair to her, she's doing events.
She's done tons of events in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, but they're small events.
She hasn't really excelled at getting free media coverage.
And you talk to some of the political consultants out there who favor her.
They say, well, Donald Trump is sucking up all the oxygen.
I don't think that's really true, because there are other candidates uh at her polling level, Jeb Bush included, who are getting more press coverage than her.
I don't think they treat her seriously, but she has on the debate stage, had very good debate performances, and then just disappears into the ether until the next debate.
I don't know.
I don't know if she's not getting good consulting or what it is.
I'm not sure.
But it actually I've got to say that when she first announced she was running for president, my initial reaction was she's really running for vice president.
But then she got out of there on the campaign trail and she's proven that that I mean she is a competent, smart, savvy person and could make a could make a good president.
But I I I don't understand what the campaign tactic is of having these stellar debate performances and then not capitalizing on them afterwards.
And I don't think I really don't think it is the the media.
I think it is something flawed within her campaign apparatus.
And and I can't put I I know some of the people working with her, and they're very good people and They're good at what they do, but it just the inability to capitalize on these debate performances after the debates just it it is kind of shocking.
Ginny, listen, thanks very much for the phone call.
I I did not expect to be talking about the old person's I really didn't.
All right.
1800-282-2882 is the phone number here at the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm going to take a quick profit center timeout and come back and discuss well the crime wave in Democratic cities.
Eric Erickson, in for Rush Limbaugh.
So I mentioned the story in in time that uh Paterico.com had flagged about the North Pole that it wasn't actually the North Pole above freezing, it was a different place named the North Pole.
Uh time has already sent it down the memory hole.
They've appended a correction without really saying what they're correcting.
Good grief.
I want to take a minute before we get out of here.
And I want to mention uh Black Lives Matters because it's becoming such an issue for Democrats, not Republicans.
I just yeah, I'm I I don't want to say I'm rooting for injuries, but I just I I'm watching with fascination as black Democrats who vote Democrat are scuttling the Democratic primary and democratic cities and causing problems for Democrats.
There is a crime wave going on you might not have heard about in Baltimore, Maryland, which is the highest murder rate now they've ever seen in New York City in Chicago, as Democrats throw the police under the bus.
It turns out the police have decided they're just going to slow walk what they're doing.
This is not to say there aren't bad police officers, but a lot of people on the left have been painting the police with a very broad brush, saying all police are like this.
No, they're not.
The overwhelming majority of police are very good, putting their lives on the line to keep us safe, and they're getting smeared.
But along the way, what I think the media is not noting, my buddy Leon Wolfe at Redstate.com pointed this out a while back.
The when you get to the actual grievance of the Black Lives Matter's crowd, though they would don't want to admit it, they don't want to recognize it.
They're reacting to big government.
In Baltimore, in Chicago, in New York, in Missouri and elsewhere.
What's going on is that these states, they know they can't raise taxes on the public, so they raise fees and fines and they send out ticket collectors.
They the Democrats have turned police in this country into revenue agents for the state.
Well, who are the revenue agents going to harass?
Not the rich people with political connections.
Not the people who can go hire lawyers.
They're going to go to the poor, particularly minorities, and they're going to shake them down for the state.
The police don't want to be in this position.
The police do not want to be revenue collectors for the state.
They don't want to nickel and dime the citizens, but they're being made to.
They've got quotas.
They lose their job if they don't meet the quotas.
Because the Leviathan has to be funded.
The Democrats can't understand that perhaps they should scale back the size and scope of government, that there are things government is doing it need not do.
They can't rationalize that.
So instead, they nickel and dime the citizens.
They send out the police to harass the citizens.
And more people wind up getting into altercations.
People get shot, people die, people get shaken down, people feel abused by the system.
They feel like they can't turn to the police because the police are just going to find some way to make the citizenry shell out.
The police don't want to do it.
The citizens don't like it, but big government demands it.
Black Lives Matters is a reaction to democratic policies.
They don't want to admit it because they're Democrats.
The Democrats certainly won't admit it because they're Democrats, but it's the truth.
It is reaction to the growth of local government and state government.
It is a reaction to Washington politicians shoving mandates on the states and local governments for compliance.
And they got to find the money from somewhere, so they shake down the poor.
The people who have the least are expected to pay the most in the Democrat system.
These were not problems until the Democrats decided to grow local government at the same rate they were growing the national government.
And we should recognize that.
There are more and more stories out, including one in CBS today, about the crime wave sweeping Baltimore.
Well, if the police try to crack down, they're attacked.
And they're occupied.
They've got quotas to meet.
They've got to go out and collect parking tickets.
They got to go out and collect speeding tickets.
They got to go out and collect fines from the citizens or i round up people who didn't pay fines with subpoenas and warrants for arrest because the citizens are being nickel and dimed by the government.
They don't have time to fight the crime.
And when they do, they get attacked.
This is big government come to roost in local communities.
And the cure for it is smaller government.
The cure for it is a rational approach to government and a recognition that government cannot be all things to all people.
It never will be, never was intended to be, but Democrats expect it to be.
And their policies are failing.
It is to me a deep and rich and humorous irony that the Democrats are now consuming themselves on college campuses over outrage.
Students at some Ivy League University, I think it was, wanted to pull down a statue of Democratic President Woodrow Wilson.
Democratic policies and democratic insanity.
Let's go back to the phones.
Randy is calling from Kansas of the EIB network today.
Randy, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hi, Eric.
My point is I think Congress should actually do the budget deals like they're supposed to with each of the 13 spending bills and everything.
But if they're going to continue to do the communist type bills, they need to give them to the Democrats as clean.
They should have the spending that everyone agrees on, and then take out the things that no one agrees on, such as uh Syrian refugees, uh Planned Parenthood or whatever, and make those individual bills and make the Democrats spend their political capital to get them passed.
And if the President wants to veto a trillion dollars worth of spending because he doesn't get the Republicans behind the individual bill and make it one individual bill for just Planned Parenthood spending, one individual bill for just Syrian refugees.
You know, if it's one or ten or a hundred, make them individually fund those.
Right.
Basically do the budget process that Congress is supposed to do and has done in the past.
Randy, thanks very much for the phone call.
I I see your point in that.
One of the concerns a lot of conservatives have doing that is that it makes the appropriators more powerful again, and in making the appropriators more powerful again, it makes each individual budget bill a temptation to load up with pork, and so you actually wind up with even bigger government over time than doing even the continuing resolutions we're we're doing now.
But something's got to give up there.
The process seems broken.
And that broken process is giving rise to these outsiders.
Eric Erickson, in for Rush Limbaugh.
be back.
Well, two stories happening right now before we get out of here.
Rick Santorum is now declaring Ted Cruz isn't a real social conservative, and as I'm talking, Bill Cosby, I almost said Clinton, Bill Cosby is being arraigned for a sexual assault case in Pennsylvania.
A Million dollars in bail beans, I just I don't know what to I just I d I I I think he can probably raise that.
I I think he probably has the money.
Uh folks, listen, it's been my pleasure filling in for rush today.
I I appreciate the opportunity.
Buck Sexton is going to be in tomorrow.
And starting, I guess, on Tuesday, you can go to the resurgent.com and and you will find my new home on the internet after I leave Red State tomorrow.
It's been a 10-year journey there.
I wouldn't be behind the microphone here filling in for Rush, but for that website, I I owe it a lot.
Uh and the friendship of those guys there has been tremendous and as has Rush Limbaugh, who has guided me along the way and been a great mentor.
So it's it's a privilege and honor to be here today.
Uh Rush will be back on Monday after the new year.
In the meantime, the Tuesday, Tuesday.
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