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Feb. 7, 2017 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 7, 2017, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Having more fun than the human being should be allowed to have, Rush Limboy, your guiding light, America's real anchorman, America's truth detector, and the doctor of democracy and the doctor of the republic here behind the golden EIB microphone in one harmless, lovable little fuzzball bundle, a telephone number if you want to be on the program.
800-282-2882.
Okay, the caller from Asheville, North Carolina, may be the only conservative in that city.
I mean, that city and Chapel Hill, I mean, are in North Carolina.
I mean, they run a close second and all left all the time.
I should have made mention of the fact to the guy so he could have commented on it because there aren't very many people that think like he does in Asheville, North Carolina.
At any rate, he said that he has a year and a half old and a three and a half year old, their grandchildren, and he has already started reading them books from the Rush Revere Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans series.
And he wants to know if I think reading to them that early will imprint their minds, much the same way classical music in the womb is supposed to.
I must be honest, I have no idea about that.
I don't have children, so I've never engaged in that kind of behavior.
I only know what I've read about this.
And as opposed to imprintation, I think repetition is probably what makes a greater impact.
And not just on infants and crumb crunchers, young adults and adults.
It's all people.
I think the repetition of things, because of time, memory spans being short and the onslaught of information that people can access, it's tough to cut through.
I'll just answer, to our young caller from Asheville, North County.
It can't hurt.
I think you're doing a great thing.
It can't hurt just from your relationship with them standpoint.
And if there's any icing on the cake with the historical facts and lessons taught in the Rush Revere series, I'd give it a shot.
I'm honored that you want to try.
I really appreciate it.
Here's this story.
By the way, let me expand on something.
We've had a bunch of callers today.
It's just eventually because I asked a question.
What do you think could derail the Trump agenda?
And I don't mean a question to be negative.
I understand how you would interpret the question to be negative because the derailment of the Trump agenda is obviously something we don't want to contemplate.
But I bring it up because people are trying.
I mean, the effort is under, there's a full assault underway to stop the Trump.
Here comes his executive order on vetting people coming into the country, and the leftist judiciary just shuts it down and says it's not constitutional.
And I don't know if Trump is surprised by this.
I don't know if they were caught by surprise that this was going to happen.
I kind of think they were.
And so now it may not survive.
It may not survive.
Now, interestingly, Mr. Kelly, the new Secretary of Homeland and Human, the Department of Homeland Security, testified before Congress today, and he pretty much said that they are going to be as vigilant,
if not more so, in trying to figure out who's coming in, what their intentions are, where they're from, all these things, with the objective being to keep the country safe.
And I think if you look so far, DeVos, I think, is the seventh cabinet secretary to be confirmed.
There are still sessions is still not over at the Department of Justice yet.
Rex Tillerson just shows up at the State Department last week.
I think when Trump's cabinet gets in place, I think you're going to start to see things humming.
I actually think that Trump's cabinet is going to be a more actively involved cabinet than most presidential cabinets are.
And it's just a sense that I have.
These are all people that are doers, and they've already made their mark in the world.
They don't need fame.
They don't need money.
They don't need any of the things that attach to these jobs.
They have demonstrated success in their chosen fields.
They are at the pinnacle in their chosen fields.
Therefore, they've made their money, their fortunes or what have you.
And they have all the fame in the world that they want.
So the pursuits that others would have here are long ago decided.
These people are there to roll up their sleeves and actually accomplish things and do things.
And they're all of the same mindset.
President Trump is that there are things drastically wrong in this country and have been going wrong for a long time that need to be reversed and turned around.
And I think once this cabinet is fully installed and Trump starts having cabinet meetings with all of them, I think you're going to see this agenda actually take off.
The agenda as it relates to what happens up on Capitol Hill, like our caller from Asheville was singing the praises of Mitch McConnell.
Fine and dandy, I like that, in terms of McConnell not caving and reinstituting the filibuster that Dingy Harry blew up.
But at the same time, we had a story yesterday.
Mitch McConnell goes public in opposition to various Trump stances.
Well, what's that?
Well, we know what it is.
And part of it is just the way Trump speaks and some of the things that Trump is doing.
You know, McConnell wanted to be on the record that he's not up to speed with this stuff.
He's not happy with some of these things that Trump is doing and the way Trump is saying them.
And I think it is a potential minefield out there.
We've got a guy that's outside the political system, and he's coming in.
It's like a bull of the China shop here, folks.
And these people are all in the China shop.
And in their minds, they own the China and they own the shop.
And here comes this guy roaring through, not caring what gets broken in the process of fixing things.
And they're just the pace that he wants to use, they're not accustomed to, the direct confrontation with the media.
Believe me, Republicans don't want any part of that.
They're not on board for any of that.
So I'm not being trying to be pessimistic, but I just, these are things that Trump's even going to have to be aware of as he attempts to advance the agenda.
Let me grab a call because it's right in line with what we're talking about.
It's Rita in Jacksonville, Florida.
How are you doing, Rita?
I'm glad you called.
Okay, yes.
Thank you for taking my call.
I'm still involved.
Yes.
Yeah, I have an old-fashioned flip phone, and I was trying to get through to you for weeks, so I thought it was impossible.
But it was worth it because I really enjoy listening to your show.
I've been listening for five years now.
Thank you.
And yes, and I have an A-Hero brother.
He is a big fan of your books.
But what I wanted to ask you was: why did it take so long to appeal Obamacare?
Well, let me tell you, Sean Spicer is doing the press briefing right now at the White House.
And he was asked variation on that question.
An Infobabe in the Press Corps said, Are you happy with the president saying that it might not be 2018 or might be 2018 before we can actually do anything meaningful on the repeal of Obamacare?
Because the president did say that.
And Spicer said, look, we have not changed our minds on repeal and replace, but that is a monstrous piece of legislation.
It's over 2,000 pages.
The Democrats spent their lives writing it.
We weren't even allowed to see what it is, what it was, until it was passed.
He reminded people, Pelosi said, we have to pass it to find out what's in it.
And so he was saying that dismantling this is going to be a huge project.
You can't just, it's not like a building that needs to be destroyed.
You go in and dynamite the thing and raise it.
This has to be unwound and unraveled.
And here's the sticking point, Rita.
This is their sticking point.
Their sticking point.
What is being said about this?
Well, now, wait a minute.
There are 20 million Americans who have insurance through Obamacare, and you can't just take it away from them.
What is going to happen if you just go in there and blow it up and take away their health insurance?
There are 20 million Americans who didn't have health insurance before Obamacare and now they do.
Now, I don't even know whether the number is accurate, but the point of the question is asked of Republicans.
The question is basically, how can you be so heartless?
How could you be so cruel?
How could you take these poor people to have nothing until we give them Obamacare?
And now you just want to go in and take it away like you Republicans always do.
You just want to take away everything people have.
Why?
That's the question.
That's what that question means.
Yeah, because I'm just so sick of the left attacking our president.
They just need to step aside and give him a chance.
Not going to happen.
He's going to have to force them aside.
They are not going to willingly step aside.
They can't take the chance, as far as they're concerned, that Trump's agenda would succeed, because if it does, it will blow their agenda to Smithereens.
If Trump's agenda succeeds, he will have just proven the Democrat Party is unnecessary.
He will prove that the Democrat Party is not needed.
He will prove that their agenda all these years has actually been a drag on this country.
They've got every incentive in the world to see that Trump fails, and they're going to do everything they can to make it happen.
That's why Trump needs all the allies he can get.
He needs all the people standing behind him, reassuring him, giving him confidence to keep his confidence.
He needs fellow warriors who want to make this country great again by eliminating all of the dastardly liberalism that's found itself woven into the fabric of our country.
It's got to be obliterated.
And he's hell-bent on doing it.
But he's not going to be able to do it alone.
And I guarantee you this, Pam, if they can ever come up with a poll that's accurate, that shows his approval numbers around 40 or 42 or 45 that you watch, that's blood in the water.
And the sharks are going to start circling.
And whenever that poll, if it ever happens, they're going to say Trump's already failed.
He's lost his voters.
He's lost his base.
And they're going to say that poll means the American people no longer want what Trump is offering and what he was offering in the campaign.
I mean, this is all what they have planned.
They can produce that poll anytime they want to.
Understand?
Right.
Not legitimately, but they can, fake news, fake poll, they can create that poll anytime they want.
Trump needs insurance policies.
He needs backup and support for when these kinds of things happen because the Democrats are never going to give him a chance.
They're never going to stand aside.
They're never going to say, okay, man, let's see if your ideas work.
They're never going to give him the chance because they know they will.
The Democrats know that Trump's ideas are going to work.
They may not like it.
They may not, you know, Trump is a nationalist and a populist, and he wants to get America out of the world.
And of course, they're just the opposite.
They want America shrunken to become part of the world and nothing special in the world.
Trump wants us to be exceptional and great again and leading the world.
They don't want any part of that.
But he doesn't have the support group that Obama had.
Obama had the media.
Obama had, you know, academia, Hollywood, pop culture loving him, supporting him.
Exactly.
Trump's got none.
He's got nothing but you who voted for him.
Right.
And himself.
And it's a great thing he believes in himself.
And it's a good thing that he likes himself.
And it's a good thing that he's undeterred by any of this so far.
That I happen to know.
But to answer your question, Obamacare, the 20 million who have insurance, supposedly.
I mean, the truth about Obamacare, it's a disaster.
It is unraveling before our very eyes anyway.
It will implode on its own weight, as it was designed to do.
Rita, Obamacare's ostensible purpose was to fail with Democrats in charge so that they can say, hey, we tried all these free market reforms.
Hey, we tried letting the insurance companies run the show.
Hey, we tried this.
Obviously, it doesn't work.
We need single payer run by the federal government, which in that scenario would mean the Democrats.
That's what was on agenda.
So Obamacare is failing as it is designed to do.
I mean, the number of enrollees is way below what the projections were.
The number of people that signed up, this 20 million people that have insurance that didn't, I mean, they pull that number out of thin air, and it's designed to make everybody stop.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
And the weapon here is this message that the Republicans want to take away health insurance.
The Republicans want to take away health care.
The Republicans want to deny it.
They've got theirs, but they don't want you to have yours.
And the Republicans don't want that message out there.
The Republicans don't want to get into a fight about the message because in their minds, they can't lose.
They can't win fights in the media.
I've heard a couple people say today that Trump is showing the Republicans how to behave.
Yes, that was what I considered the great benefit of the Trump campaign.
When it all started, the greatest thing about it to me was that Trump was showing you don't have to fear political correctness.
You don't have to fear any of these so-called restrictions that the left has put on people.
You don't have to avoid attacking the media.
You don't have to avoid attacking the president.
You can tell the truth and triumph.
And I was hoping that it would bleed over and influence the way Republicans began to behave.
Because I thought that was one of the real values of what Trump was demonstrating.
And I am convinced that that's one of the primary reasons he has so much support.
And why, as long as he keeps doing that, his support's not going to vanish.
But in terms of the Republicans learning it, there's some signs, some evidence, but not a lot.
I appreciate the call, Rita.
I hope that helps.
Be right back, folks.
New CBS poll shows that a majority of Democrats consider Christianity as violent as Islam.
66% of Democrats believe when it comes to other religions, such as Christianity, Judaism, Mormonism, et al., they are responsible for just as much violence as Islam.
Only 14% believe that Islam is more violent, which totals out to one out of seven Democrats.
Meanwhile, Republicans have few qualms calling Islam a more violent religion than the others, a majority of 63%.
Now, keep it, the Democrat is a regional party now.
It is a regional political party.
You ought to see a map of this.
Stunning.
It's a greater illustration.
It's called vividmaps.com.
We've already posted them at rushlimbo.com.
It's literally parts of the left coast, parts of Texas, parts of Mississippi, South Florida, and then up the East Coast, and a little circle there in Chicago.
And that's it.
Something like 300,000 square miles of this country is Trump country.
I'm getting them confused with the counties.
It's just massive.
They are a regional party now, and they're located in liberal enclaves on the coasts.
But this idea that Christians are more violent or as violent as Islam, where does that come from?
Where do these Democrats hear that, do you think?
All right, here are the numbers.
Trumpland areas of the country voted for Trump 3 million square miles, which is 85%.
The area of the country that voted for Hillary, 530 square miles, or 15% of the country.
When you go to counties, Trump carried 2,623 out of 3,112, 84% of all counties Trump carried.
So 85% of the square miles and 84% of the counties.
And I'm telling you, the areas here, you can barely see it when you look at it at a distance, the places that voted for Hillary and the Democrats.
And they really are a minority party.
And Trump keeps winning.
And Betsy DeVos, she's confirmed.
I mean, the Democrats threw everything they had and they couldn't stop her.
They're going to try to make her life miserable, but they could not stop her.
This, you know, Sessions and all these other people, DeVos is who they really wanted stopped because of their control over the education system.
And this now stands to be upended.
And Trump just keeps winning.
No matter how it looks, no matter what the reporting, Donald Trump keeps winning.
His cabinet nominees are being confirmed.
He's going to get Gorsuch confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
We're only on day 17 here.
And at some point, folks, the Democrats can't continue this illusion that they're winning here.
They're losing their shirts.
They're losing to Trump.
They're losing elections.
In their minds, they still run the show.
They're still the dominant party.
They still control most of the thinking.
They don't.
They're living an illusional lie.
And at some point, it's going to hit home.
It's not going to be pretty when that happens.
They're in utter denial right now.
And all of this unrest and all these protests are designed, well, there's many purposes, but one of them is for them to teach or to show themselves that nothing's gone wrong, that they still are the majority of thinking, that they still control events, and that they can still get what they want and they can deny others what they want, and they're living a lie.
They are living a delusional lie, a bunch of them.
I had a story yesterday I didn't get to that we are going to explore in our upcoming morning update that'll air tomorrow.
It's from the Daily Caller, and it's from three days ago.
House Intelligence Foreign Affairs Committee members comprised by rogue IT staff.
And here's the thrust of this.
Three brothers who managed office information technology for members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Do you realize this is the committee meets behind closed doors?
Nothing ever happens in public.
No testimony.
Nothing happens in public at the Select Committee on Intelligence.
Three brothers who manage the Office IT for members of that committee and other lawmakers were abruptly relieved of their duties on suspicion they had accessed congressional computers without permission.
The brothers are named Abid, Imran, and Jamal.
The last name is Awan.
They were barred from computer networks at the House of Representatives last Thursday.
Three members of the Intelligence Committee, five members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs were among the dozens of members who employed the suspects on a shared basis.
The two committees deal with many of the nation's most sensitive issues and documents, including those related to the war on terrorism.
Among those whose computer systems may have been compromised, Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz, man, this woman, she needs to do something because whatever computer she's got, everybody's getting into it.
The brothers are suspected of serious violations, including accessing members' computer networks without their knowledge and stealing equipment from Congress.
Jamal Awan handled IT for Representative Joaquin Kestro, Texas Democrat, serves on both the intelligence and foreign affairs committees.
As of February 2nd, his employment with our office has been terminated, said Joaquin Kestro's spokeswoman.
Imran Awan worked for Andre Carson, Indiana Democrat, Jackie Speyer, California Democrat, both are members of the Intelligence Committee.
The three men are shared employees, meaning they're hired by multiple offices, which split their salaries.
They use them as needed for IT service.
A criminal investigation into five unnamed people began late last year related to serious, potentially illegal violations of House IT policies.
Okay.
The questions are somewhat obvious here.
Do I really need to ask the question?
No, I don't.
I don't need to ask the question.
This question just is shouting itself.
I mean, we've got hackers here.
They're hacking intelligence committee data and computers.
And who knows what they're doing with it?
Anybody remember the raid in Yemen that took place last week that resulted in the death of a Navy SEAL of member SEAL Tim 6?
Do you remember, we talked about it here on the program.
Do you know what one of the most noteworthy things about that raid was?
They knew we were coming.
We had literally no surprise.
They were all in a house.
Women, Islamic women, supposedly kept far and away, but were firing weapons at our assault team.
They were dressed, the terrorists were dressed as women and children, but they knew we were coming.
Now, the original explanation for this was, well, they heard our drones.
These people in Yemen and hotspots in the Middle East, they have learned to recognize the sound of drones.
And when they hear drones, they know the U.S. is coming or somebody that's the enemy.
Well, how can that be?
Who was responsible for flying the drones at an altitude they could be heard?
Well, you know, Mr. Limble, there's a hum associated with these drones.
I mean, you become an expert at detecting them.
You know, they're coming.
Well, it wasn't just the drones.
They knew.
They knew we were coming.
They knew when, and they knew from where.
Now, how does that happen?
By the way, it's an Obama operation.
This was planned long before Trump took office.
It was not executed while Obama was in office because the commander, the commando director, wanted a new moon.
So there's no moonlight.
And the nearest new moon to the target date was after Trump had been inaugurated.
But it was an Obama-era plan.
And they're trying to blame Trump for this, but presidents do not come up with commando raid plans, strategies, operational details.
They just give the go order.
They say yes or no, but the commander comes up with the operational details, the plan, so to speak.
They tried to blame this on Trump.
That didn't work because it didn't make any sense.
But the fact they knew we were coming.
Now, there are people all over this government leaking, I guess, which is constant.
But I'm telling you, there's a lot of Democrat, Clinton, Obama holdovers in the bureaucracy.
These three guys, Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan, IT specialists to the House Intelligence Committee.
Let me take a brief timeout.
We will continue after this, my friends.
Do not go away.
Hell, I just saw it.
I just saw Paul Ryan on videotape saying they are going to have the repeal of Obamacare done this year.
It's going to be done.
We're going to repeal it.
The question is, when do we replace it and with what?
So he was followed by Jim Jordan from Ohio.
By the way, the conservative caucus in the House, I mean, these guys are doing great.
Do not interpret anything I say about quote-unquote Republicans to affect them.
I think Jim Jordan just said, what do you mean?
It's a bad bill.
It's falling apart.
Get rid of it.
And the info baby, well, what do we replace it?
It's bad.
Whatever ends up is going to be better than what it is, even if it's nothing.
We can come up with policies that people can actually afford.
The people that have Obamacare now need subsidies for it.
The idea that we're getting rid of something that's good is absurd.
It's falling apart.
It's a bad deal.
Repeal it.
And I have to agree with him.
All this talk about, well, but when we replace it with, you know, Susan Collins is one of her partners in crime, has got a compromise bill that will say, if you like your Obamacare, you get to keep it.
She's dead serious.
And she's proposed that as being part of any kind of a repeal and reform.
Well, you can't do that.
The bill is bad.
Obamacare is bad.
Getting rid of it would be good, which is the whole point.
There are people committed to this, and Trump is too, make no mistake.
Sean in Palm Beach Gardens, great to have you.
We got time to squeeze you in.
Welcome to the program.
Hi.
Thank you, Rush.
Thank you for taking my call.
Yes, ma'am.
I love your show.
And what I want to say is, and when I'm not working, I try to catch up, but I'm always working.
I would like to call for mainstream media to stop.
Stop covering the protesters.
We have seen the women's march, the women parading around as women's private parts.
We have seen what happened at Berkeley.
We have seen what happened at NYU.
Enough, enough.
And there was another protest after that.
The media is giving way too much attention to these people.
I think what the media needs to do, and I know most of mainstream media will not do it, but those who are conservative can stop putting the cameras on them, report the damage they've done.
And I think start focusing on the positive.
Start focusing on the fact that the Democrats are holding up our president from approving the most highly qualified cabinet, the likes this nation has ever seen, and to make America great again.
And I have had enough of protesters, and I know both Democrats and Republicans agree with me.
I certainly do.
I love you, Sean.
I think that's just fabulous.
It's a sad fact.
It's never going to happen.
But I love hearing you stick it to them.
They're doing it exactly on purpose for the exact opposite reasons that you are trying to promote these people.
They want more protests.
They want more chaos.
They want more unrest.
Anything they can do to derail Trump.
That's the purpose.
I'm so happy to hear today it's not affecting any of you.
That's so great.
Back in a second.
I'll tell you, the Patriots Parade taking place in Boston, I think people in Boston hate Goodell more than they hate Trump.
I mean, judging by all the anti-Goodell.
See you, Wendy.
All the anti-Goodell signs out there.
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