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I was watching some videotape of the inaugural.
And we've since had George W. Bush was interviewed on the Today Show.
And he's got a new book.
He's promoting a new book.
And of course, Matt Wauer is asking him questions about the current political strife and circumstance.
And he said, well, I wish our immigration policy was a little more welcoming.
And he made it clear that Trump's not his cup of tea.
And it reminded me of the inaugural ceremony.
And what I happen to know, I'm going to address this in the first hour, and I've tried to convey it in such a way, because I think it's a really meaningful, it's profound in its scope and in the ability that knowing this has to explain all these things that are happening.
That is that the Washington establishment, both parties, doesn't matter, they can't believe Trump won.
They have no desire that Trump succeed.
They don't want any reforming of government in any way, shape, man.
They don't want any budget reform.
They don't want anything.
They don't want anything upsetting the little world that they have built for themselves and they occupy.
And Trump poses a genuine and legitimate threat to it.
And they are flabbergasted.
They literally are in still a state of disbelief that this has happened.
As I say, there's a guy in the New Yorker who said the only explanation for this is that we are indeed a computer simulation and it aliens.
We just like the matrix.
We just exist in somebody's computer game and they're programming us and they're bored with the way the game's been going.
So they decided to input a whole bunch of crazy things just to sit back and be entertained by our reaction to them.
Because this can't be real.
What happened to the Oscars can't be real.
It can't be real if the Falcons blew it in second half Super Bowl.
It just can't be.
This stuff doesn't happen.
You don't get the wrong envelope.
And you don't have somebody who talks like Trump ever get elected.
It just doesn't happen.
So they're in a state of constant panic because everything that they have thought and predicted would happen since Trump announced has backfired on them.
And they still are saying the same thing.
Trump's still going to implode.
He's still going to destroy himself.
Trump is still going to expose himself as a fraud, and this isn't real.
And Trump's going to be gone long before anybody even, they cannot deal with any other possibility.
So I was watching the audio, the videotape of the inaugural ceremony, and Trump is the only guy up there.
Well, Pence, but Trump's the only guy up there on his side.
That whole stage was made up of the people that I'm talking about.
I was watching it again last night, trying to imagine what was going through their minds.
Just being there behind him, and there he is, giving his inaugural speech.
Just that alone maybe required a bunch of them to have on some depends or something.
And then when he actually started into his speech, these people, I think it's hard to describe what they have actually been experiencing.
And I think it's part of the reason there's some delays legislatively.
Obviously, there are.
But there seems to be movement on some of these things, particularly in Obamacare.
Paul Ryan at a press conference today made it clear to, hey, no, no, no, no, no, no, we've been working on a replace bill for a long time.
We're ready to go with this, baby.
So every time Ryan does a press conference, the things he says are direct contraventions of what's in the media.
Because what's in the media is Republicans don't have a replacement bill.
They don't want to do a replacement bill.
They really don't want to repeal or replace Obama.
They really don't want to do tax.
They really don't want to do any of this stuff.
And then the Republican leadership goes out and does a press conference and they say the exact opposite.
Not only want to replace it, we're well on the way.
We got our repeal bill.
We have our replacement bill.
We are marching full speed ahead.
Tax reform, we got our stuff all lined up and ready to go.
And it's interesting because the things that they say are the exact opposite of what's reported about them.
And this is not a comment on the media.
I'm just pointing out the tremendous contradiction.
I don't know who to believe on it.
At some point, the way to answer the curiosity here is just take a look at what's actually happening.
Is there actually movement on any of these things?
And if there isn't, then we have to conclude that what they're saying is not necessarily representative of the truth, and the media may be right.
So time will tell.
I really think that much of this is going to require the personal attention, energies, salesmanship, and whatever other characteristics Trump has, because I think he's going to have to bring all these things home precisely because when you get right down to it, the people that he's working with on Capitol Hill don't want what he wants.
And it's not just Republicans versus Democrats.
It's not just a disagreement on policy.
This is the fact that they cannot let this outsider succeed.
If this guy, already the damage done may be insurmountable.
The guy won the election, and he's got an army of people out there.
And people in Washington know that that army would just as soon overthrow inside the beltway at the ballot box.
Now that Trump's making moves on his agenda, it's panic time.
You know, government, folks, is a strange thing.
There's not much ambition there other than from the true believer activists that are appointed by Obama and his cabinet heads or some of the embeds in the deep state, the regulators that are eager to advance the agenda.
But for the most part, government's a slow and plodding place, and there's nothing that goes on there that's really merit-based.
You don't get raises in government based on your work.
There's no merit consideration.
You might get promoted, but an actual raise, those are related to time and political favors and a number of other things.
It's a far different beast than the way things happen in the private sector from where Trump comes.
And so he's up against a leviathan that doesn't like to move very fast and certainly not out in the open.
All of these environmental regulations, we wake up one day and there they are.
We never ever see the sausage being made because there never ever is any.
There never is any debate.
It doesn't show up as a piece of legislation on Capitol Hill.
You just wake up one day and find out that you've lost control of your backyard.
Or you wake up one day and find out, no, you can't expand your small business because some snail darter or some other little animal out there that you didn't know existed.
So nobody ever sees this.
Nobody debates this.
Nobody ever sees the real punitive things.
We don't see things like we saw with Lois Lerner in the IRS.
We normally don't see how the government retards activity where it doesn't want it to take place and promotes activity where it wants it to happen.
And Trump's coming, he's got a giant floodlights exposing all of this with the intention to reform it.
And one of the real kickoffs for this will be tonight with his quasi-state of the union speech.
Now, I mentioned right before the top of the hour break that Trump was on Fox and Friends today and said that, what do you mean, 600 jobs that are open?
I may not fill them.
We don't need them.
You should have snerdly looked at me like the look on your face was, Trump's an idiot.
Is that what you think?
You think he should fill the jobs?
It's what he said he was going to do.
You even gave me a story.
It's in politico.
Trump is delivering on his promises.
Why is anybody surprised by any of this?
Trump was open as any politician's ever been about his agenda.
Five times a day.
He's making speeches at rallies, and he's telling anybody who will listen to what he's going to do.
And as he's arrived in Washington, he started doing it.
And once a week, we get a story like the one in the Politico today.
Well, this guy's keeping his promises.
That's another thing.
That does not happen.
Promises, and what really happens, the promises are understood to be come ons, never to be acted on.
What does this guy think he's doing?
Acting on these things?
This is bad for all of us.
They can't permit this to work.
Some people think Trump's blowing it.
These are appointed positions, meaning Trump could put his own deep state people in there for the rest of their lives and that he ought to fill the jobs.
There's 600 of these appointed positions at various places in government.
Go ahead and put your own acolytes in there.
Put your own Trump activists in there to do your work after you're gone.
That's what some people think.
But here's what happened.
This is what it was: Brian Kilmead said, you have 600 open jobs that you could appoint.
What's going on, Mr. President?
Well, a lot of those jobs I don't want to appoint because they're unnecessary to have.
You know, we have so many people in government.
Even me, I look at some of the jobs, and it's people over people over people.
I say, what do all these people do?
You don't need all those jobs.
No idea that you didn't want to fill it.
Oh, many of those jobs I don't want to fill.
There are hundreds and hundreds of jobs that are totally unnecessary jobs.
And instead of being credited with that, bad messaging, they say, oh, you have to fill hundreds of jobs.
I say, isn't that a good thing?
That's not a bad thing.
That's a good thing.
We're running a very good, efficient government.
That's exactly.
I'm sorry, folks.
This is my sentiments exactly.
The government's the one thing that's not supposed to grow.
The U.S. economy is supposed to grow.
The two things can't really happen together.
For government to grow, it's got to take money from our economy to grow or print it or what have you.
The idea that government should be there when it's needed, but not be Santa Claus and mom and dad and grandma and grandpa and all that.
I love this.
600 jobs.
What are they going to do that isn't already being done?
What do you mean, people over people over?
That's Trump speak for, my God, they've got 15 people all doing the same thing at this department, at that department.
Why do we need any more people doing the same thing?
People over people is the way Trump speaks of redundancy.
By the way, I should point out here in that soundbite, Fox and friends asking Trump.
Trump says, no, I'm not going to replace the 600 jobs.
Brian Kilmead, even Kilmead, couldn't believe the answer.
The idea of government having everything it does funded and all of its people there and we could ever shut it down.
Oh, my God.
Even something like Brian Kilmead gets sucked into the idea that nothing can ever make the government smaller.
Oh, my God, Panic City.
You're not going to fill the jobs.
600, by the way, 600 jobs.
That's not even statistical in terms of the number of jobs that need to be cut.
Wait till you see what Trump has planned for the EPA.
And I'll tell you, our buddy Ajit Pai at the FCC, oh man, is this guy is really, really rolling back all this silly regulatory stuff.
He's getting rid of net neutrality.
And he's turning the FCC into the actual commission on communications and broadcasting and dealing with the spectrum and making sure it's properly assigned, meaning frequencies that are used for every form of communication out there.
But the FCC has been involving itself in your life in ways that are traditionally not constitutional.
The FCC just appropriates for itself the power to regulate the internet.
Who the hell do I think they are?
So he's rolling that kind of stuff back.
Oh, my millennial tech bloggers hate it.
They love government.
They love regulation.
They love control.
They love that silly little.
Okay, we have a guy on the phone here from San Luis, Obispo, California.
He claims to be one of the paid activists that is making trouble at places like Trump and Republican town halls and public ceremonies.
And he's called to talk to us about this.
His name is Bob.
Bob, Mr. Snerdley swears that you're on the level here, that you're not trying to play a mean trick on the host.
So welcome to the program.
I'll tell you up front, it's great to have you here.
What can you tell us about what you do and why do you want to reveal this?
Well, I'm not really anti-Trump.
I'm working for workers.
i'm a troublemaker though that's my and uh...
i was a troublemaker for many years they from sixty seven to eighty nine But since then, I haven't been in demand.
And now that Trump is president, I'm suddenly in demand again.
What do you mean troublemaker?
Define troublemaker.
Public protester slash rioter?
Well, no, I wouldn't say troublemaker.
You know, I organize, like, for instance, demonstrations, maybe sick outs.
Right, you mean like showing up at a George Allen event and making sure he calls you maca.
Something like that.
No, no, I don't really deal with political stuff.
I deal with public, mainly public employee unions or private unions.
Okay.
Now, the SEIU is one of the primary organizers and paymasters of all of these town hall protesters.
So when you say unions, I think you're on the list.
Yeah, I've worked for SEIU in the past, but that is I worked on the Stanford Hospital Unionization Project in Stanford, California.
I mean, in Palo Alto, California.
Right, Stanford University.
Right.
And my last good job was for United Teachers of Los Angeles in 1989.
Since then, I've been basically, I've had to, like, work, try to make trouble at places where I actually worked versus somebody paying me.
Bob, there was all kinds of troublemaking going on during the eight years of George W. Bush.
You couldn't find a troublemaker.
No, there was nothing for me.
Nothing, nothing.
Nothing.
I couldn't, you know.
Yeah, I shouldn't, you know, there was a few, but it was like, you know, I helped with some things.
But basically.
Okay, let me see if I understand.
You're doing this just to do it.
You don't really, you're not invested emotionally in one side or the other.
You're just hired to show up and make trouble, and you say, okay, fine, I'll do it.
No, no, I'm a worker.
You know, I work for workers, so to speak.
I mean, I don't just do it to do it.
It's my okay, if somebody hired you to go protest a Democrat town hall, would you go and do it?
No, I don't think so.
Well, I mean, I work for a living, but basically, no, I'm not, that isn't my job.
I don't.
But you will show up at a Republican town hall and make trouble there.
No, I'm not a town hall guy.
I work outside.
You know, I work for workers and workers' organizations.
I don't work for the Democratic Party.
I don't work for, I mean, maybe sometimes, for instance, I don't know if you know it, but that Adam Schipp used to work for UTLA.
He was working for them in, I believe, 1989.
I'm not sure exactly.
I don't remember him being very active in the strike, but I know he was there soon after the strike or anyway, before he was elected as a congressman.
He worked for the United Teachers of Los Angeles.
I know.
I know.
I'm well aware of his biography.
Yeah, well, so anyway, that's the kind of work I do is, like I said, I go door to door.
I make picket signs or buy tickets, buy buttons, things like that.
Yeah, but who are the targets?
You have one specific group like Republicans or conservatives, or is it wherever they send you?
No, it's not.
I don't target political parties.
We target, you know, like, for instance, I once worked for the Los Angeles Police Department.
This is after them and the sheriffs arrested me countless times.
Then they hired me to organize and assist in their organization to make them.
Okay.
Well, look, Bob, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
We're sadly out of time.
And we are back.
We have more Trump here from the Fox and Friends appearance today.
Let's precede this.
Grab somebody number three.
This is me back.
I want to tell you when this is.
January 7th, 2014.
Three years ago.
Three.
Are you ready?
Obama is going to stay in Washington.
Can you guess why that might be?
He's going to stay in town to make sure that whatever he accomplishes is not unwound.
I guarantee you, folks, even after he's out of office, he is going to be treated by the media as though he's still president.
Every Republic.
And this may be the case even with a Democrat president.
Whatever the next president does, the media is going to go to Obama every day.
He's going to have a satellite administration in exile in Washington.
I guarantee you.
Do not doubt me.
I know these people.
I know how he thinks.
I know who these people are.
I know that's exactly why he's going to stay there.
That's where they say he stayed.
He said he stayed the two daughters to finish Screwl at Sidwell Friends, and then they're going to go to Palm Springs, which I'm told Michelle Obama doesn't like much.
So who knows?
But it's shortly after Obama left office, we found out that organizing for America, which was his organizing group while in the White House.
And let me explain what this group did.
This group behaved as though Obama was not in the White House.
They were a consortium of acorn-like groups, and they just raised hell.
They protested Republicans.
They made it look like the nation was filled with people angry at anybody who opposed Obama.
And that was their purpose.
The purpose was to create an illusion that Obama was beloved, massively beloved and appreciated.
And anytime any Republican spoke out against Obama, disagreed with the policy, this group organizing for action, they recruited, they raised money, they went out and there weren't any riots.
Well, I take that back.
There were riots in Ferguson.
There were riots in Baltimore.
And this is the kind of thing those people did.
And their purpose was to make it look like that the country wasn't transforming quickly enough.
They were not trying to convey anger at Obama.
Very specific.
They were conveying anger at the overall culture of America still not moving fast enough.
Well, when Obama left office, the group stayed.
They just gave it a new name, organizing for action instead of organizing for America.
And within, under that umbrella, there's a new group called Indivisible.
Indivisible, and we've mentioned this a couple occasions, is directly linked to a group consisting of Obama and George Soros.
It's got fundraising links, but many of the people at these town halls, which is what I thought this previous caller is a union organizer, which he misled us and tried to make us think that he's one of these people out there being paid to show up at town halls.
But that's the kind of thing that Obama's group is doing now.
The one thing I was wrong about when it came to Obama, I thought he'd be on TV.
I thought as, and he still might be.
I mean, if the action on, say, repealing Obamacare, at some point there's going to be some action on that.
I don't know when, sooner than later, we hope.
Right now, it's just talk, and there's plenty of Democrat opposition, and the media is carrying a lot of water in opposing Trump.
But if it gets close, and if it actually is repealed, then I wouldn't rule out seeing Obama on TV trying to save it.
He's desperate to say this is one of the signature things that he's known for in his presidency.
So I think that that's what is going on out there.
But what I think, you know, big whoop, here's Trump today on Fox and Friends.
And again, it's killed me because President Obama, you said you personally get along with him.
It turns out that his organization seems to be doing a lot of the organizing, some of these protests that a lot of these Republicans are seeing around the country again.
By the way, folks, have you noticed something, if I may interrupt myself here, but never fear I never lose my place.
Have you noticed who's not doing town halls?
I don't think very many Democrats are at all.
And that's really curious because it's the Democrats in the Senate.
There are 18 Democrat seats that are really vulnerable.
Folks, it is possible that if Trump moves his agenda and his base remains with him, and that those states that voted for Trump stay tied to Trump, it's possible the Democrats could lose enough seats in 2018 that the Republicans would have 60 seats in the Senate all by themselves.
That's a distinct possibility.
That's how bad it's looking.
Now, I don't like these long-range predictions.
A lot of these political scientists are already claiming that that's going to happen because they believe politics moves at a snail's pace and that when you have a major earthquake election like this, that it's unrealistic to expect another earthquake election in reverse.
Like, it's hard for them to think that in two years, the same forces that came together to elect Trump could vanish.
But I don't think that's not, I think that's entirely possible that could happen.
I think it's totally up to Trump.
Trump's all by himself on this.
He's got no support.
He's got everybody in Washington, I should say everybody, the vast majority of Washington is trying to deny Trump his agenda.
They're trying to deny Trump his success.
They want him to fail, literally want him to fail.
And if they don't repeal Obamacare, well, if they don't repeal Obamacare, that's not going to help the Democrats.
But that is going to ruin a lot of Republicans who think that they are guaranteed re-elects.
But back to the point about where we are here, the vulnerability in 2018 is not Republicans.
They are, for all intents and purposes, sitting pretty well.
The Democrats are not.
The Democrats are in the middle of a massive losing streak and a massive decline.
If anybody ought to be out there doing town halls, if anybody ought to be out there trying to shore up their base and turn them out on the election day 2008, it would be Democrats.
And they are nowhere to be found.
They are not there.
They are not doing hardly any of these town halls.
And there's a reason.
Do you know why they are not?
They are scared.
They are not.
They're scared to death of the Bernie Sanders people, number one, but they are scared to death of their own base.
Their own base, if they had a chance to take it out on these Democrats, A, for losing, B, for not stopping Trump already, C, for not impeaching Trump already, D, for not whatever.
These Democrats don't have the guts to go out there and do a town hall.
And this is studied and purposeful so that all of this so-called negative protest and rioting action, all those pictures aimed at Republicans.
But if the Democrats showed up and they did one of these in one of these risky areas, they know full well their base is ticked at them for losing in the first place.
Their base is ticked at them for not getting behind Bernie because if it had gotten behind Bernie, then Trump wouldn't have won.
There's any number of things.
Their base is loose and deranged out there.
Nowhere near doing public events where the base can get close to them.
So anyway, back to Killmead.
I know that many of you thought I'd lost my place, but I haven't because I never do.
And I don't make notes.
So Kilmead says, you said you got along with Obama, but it turns out his organization seems to be doing a lot of the organizing and some of the protests these Republicans are seeing and these protests against you.
Do you believe Obama's behind it?
And if he is, is that a violation of the so-called unstated president's code?
No, I think he is behind it.
I also think it's politics.
That's the way it is.
And look, I have a vote.
Bush wasn't going after Clinton.
Clinton was going after Bush.
Well, you never know what's exactly happening behind the scenes.
You know, you're probably right or possibly right, but you never know.
No, I think that President Obama is behind it because his people are certainly behind it.
And some of the leaks possibly come from that group.
You know, some of the leaks, which are really very serious leaks because they're very bad in terms of national security.
But I also understand that's politics.
And in terms of him being behind things, that's politics.
And it will probably continue.
Well, yeah, yeah.
I think this is Trump being trying to throw some water on this just to dampen down the flames.
Because while it's politics, it is a distinct violation of the, as Kilmead says, the unstated rules of presidential decorum.
But Obama's not publicly saying anything.
He doesn't have to.
But I think Trump's exactly right.
All of these career Obama appointees in the deep state that constitute the effort to sabotage and undermine Trump.
And believe me, that story that the Russians helped Trump beat Hillary, that's it, baby.
And that story keeps getting life breathed into it by Obamaites in the intel community and at the FBI and any number of places.
These placers are not like no other organization is.
They're not ideologically one.
You've got radical leftists and right-wingers and in every government agency.
I mean, humanity is humanity.
Law of averages is the law of averages.
And they're there.
And so I, for one, was Trump say it.
That's another thing.
This is the kind of thing, even if you believe that you're never supposed to say that.
Presidents aren't supposed to say these kinds of things.
These are things that all members of the establishment recognize go on.
They're going to go on no matter what.
And you don't open the window to it.
You don't let the cat out of the bag.
You don't let sunshine on this.
We in the establishment, even when we decide to take one of ourselves out, whoever we destroy understands, just go.
Don't fight it.
And here's Trump shining light.
And he wasn't finished.
You know, Pelosi's out there ranting and raving about impeachment.
And I'll guarantee you that over half of that is just fundraising because they've got some deranged lunatics out there that are still willing to send the Democrats money.
So that's largely what her, but I also don't doubt that they'll do it if they think they can.
I think they're keeping files, if you will, of what they think might be potential impeachable offenses.
Remember, all they'd have to do is file the charge.
Now, they don't have the numbers in Congress to pull it off.
But can you imagine if Democrat House managers even start breathing the word seriously?
The media is going to be all over it.
The media is going to eat it up.
The media is going to be about asking Republicans, why aren't you joining the Democrats?
Don't you understand?
This is a serious movement to impeach the president.
He's doing great damage to the country.
See it all now.
So Trump asked about this.
So talk about what Nancy Pelosi said yesterday.
She said, basically, Trump's done nothing.
He's put up Wall Street.
He made America sick, and he's instilled fear in immigrants.
Those are his accomplishments.
What is your response to her, Mr. President?
Well, I've been watching Nancy's tape and said, I think she's incompetent, actually.
You know, if you look at what's going on with the Democrats and the party, it's getting smaller and smaller.
You know, in a certain way, I hate to see it because I like a two-party system.
And we're soon going to have a one-party system.
I actually think a two-party system is healthy and good, but she's done a terrible job.
So she's wrong.
Well, I don't think she's a good spokesman.
She's certainly wrong.
Certainly wrong.
And we're headed to a one-party America, the Trump party.
That's what he thinks.
And we'll be back.
Up next on the phones is Jason in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
It's an honor.
Thank you.
Do you remember after the election before the inauguration, Obama would say things like, it's a lot harder to govern when you're in this position.
You know, unraveling Obamacare is going to be way harder than you think and those sort of things.
And I think that once Trump was elected, he's like, oh, my gosh, this guy's really going to do all the things he said he's going to do, and I'm going to be left with nothing.
And so I think that maybe it was his intention, like you said in call, that he would be on TV because he loves himself and he's a narcissist, but he realized that to really, really impact and salvage his legacy, that he had to go back to doing what he does best, and that's organized and gather the troops with the people that he still has in place to really, really, really try to really salvage it.
Yeah, you know, I think that probably has always been the plan.
I probably was wrong about it simply because I saw how Obama was effectively using media on television while president.
But of course, all presidents are on TV all the time.
And I was basically commenting on the narcissism and the hyper-possessiveness that Obama has about his agenda and not allowing anything to happen to it.
But I think you raise a good point.
I think, and folks, this is part of, and I addressed it earlier, in fact, traditional politics doesn't attach any weight to campaign promises.
Those are the things you have to do to get elected, but nobody really does it.
No winning candidate really does it.
Maybe a couple of obscure things over here to be able to establish a linkage from making a promise to carrying out action.
But nobody does what Trump's doing here.
And nobody does what Reagan did when Reagan was elected.
And then he had three campaign planks.
Rebuild the military, defeat the Soviets, and reform taxes.
They never thought Reagan was serious about the Soviet stuff and taxes.
And when Reagan starts in on it, they were, they were, but weren't prepared.
And I don't think they had the slightest idea.
I think, you see, these are people that project.
They project themselves on everybody else that does what they do.
So establishment types, elected officials, they run for office, they get elected, they govern the way they govern.
They see Trump, they project on Trump exactly the way they would do it.
So he's making all these promises, maybe consistently, but he's never really going to do it.
We feel Obamacare.
Nobody's going to do that.
In Washington, nobody wants to do that or wanted to.
Then Trump shows up, and lo and behold, they are all off balance on day one because they realize he's going to do exactly what he said, and he's not going to stop till he gets it done.
So they're off balance.
And I think even Obama was a little bit, but you're right in the sense that he probably was never going to resort to TV.
It was always going to be the behind-the-scenes community organizing with no fingerprints to make it look like all of his opposition to Trump is organic and natural and made up of people who had no idea who they were really voting for.
And now they figured it out and they totally don't support any of this.
This is the mission of the Obama protest groups, to make it look like even Trump voters feel like they got tricked.
So appreciate the call, Jason.
Thanks much.
We'll be right back, folks.
Looks like President Trump tonight is going to suggest and ask Congress to cut the EPA budget 24%, nearly $2 billion, and abolish Obama's climate action plan, which is what authorizes us to participate in all these silly global warming United Nations meetings all over the world.