Rush Limbaugh Program - February 28, 2017, Tuesday, Hour #3

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February 28, 2017, Tuesday, Hour #3

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	Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, look at this.
	It's one of these famous breaking news alerts.
	From the Wall Street Journal.
	Are you ready for the headline?
	White House proposes cutting State Department budget by 37%.
	The Trump administration proposing to cut spending by 37% for the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development Budget.
	That's AID, AID, this according to a person, a person unnamed, one person familiar with the budget deliberations.
	Trump is developing a federal budget that officials said would add more than 50 billion to the base defense budget, which McCain says isn't enough.
	The increase to be made possible by significant cuts elsewhere, particularly the State Department and its foreign aid division.
	The budget for the State Department U.S. aid this year is approximately 50 billion.
	So 37% cut.
	Well, we're up to 19 20 billion dollars?
	$15, $20 billion.
	That's gonna cause some stuck pig squealing.
	Just on whether it's true or not.
	What a thing to leak seven hours before the uh before the speech begins.
	And then of course, whatever happens with the with the EPA.
	And remember now, the injurious thing as far as the left is concerned is that all of these cuts, when you cut 37% of the State Department, can I tell you what that if if this is true, can I tell you what that is?
	That's getting rid of the Obama appointed career people in there.
	The leakers, for one thing.
	U.S. aid, that's by the way, you know, it in order for for me to do a troop visit to Afghanistan, I had to go through the State Department, the Bush State Department, and uh specifically the umbrella was under the uh aid for international development.
	It's and by the way, it's erroneous to say that that's the focal point of American foreign aid, and it's some of it, but not all of it's contained in that budget.
	But I can tell you, folks, I can there were people in that department that didn't want me anywhere near that trip.
	I mean, there were people that had no professional desire to do anything positive for George W. Bush.
	It was an eye-opener for me.
	Now, I ended up winning some of them over, but that's because I'm a naturally charming and unoffensive person.
	And they quick quickly realized that all of these wild concoctions of me that they had were incorrect.
	And it ended up being a truly enjoyable trip.
	But it was an eye-opening thing for me.
	I mean, there's some people staring me daggers, somebody the orientation we got to cobble and get off the plane and cobble and and and walk in and immediately uh get in the in the security detail.
	It was Blackwater was the security detail.
	We're in all these SUVs and zigzagging through town to get to the private location.
	And it was time for everybody on the trip to introduce themselves and explain what they were doing there and what uh how we could work mutually together to get things done.
	And I was there just to coordinate what whatever they were doing with troop visits where they went.
	That's the only way I could get a troop visit done.
	And uh it was it was it was fascinating.
	I mean, they were doing a lot of good work too.
	At this point, there was a uh major project in Kabul was an all-girls school that had Barbara Bush's name on it.
	She was behind, and it was designed to elevate the status of Islamic women.
	Uh, and and many of whom are not allowed to be educated, many of whom are not allowed to go to school.
	And it was eye-opening in uh in a lot of ways.
	But anyways, Trumpster's gonna take 37%.
	Take a knife and whack 307% of the money out.
	Now to the EPA.
	This comes from the Daily Caller, so we don't think this is fake news.
	Daily Caller is the website started by Tucker Carlson.
	He's now on official leave there while he's bashing libs and embarrassing them on five.
	Well, I've not retired to Chatsworth name.
	I even I interviewed him for the newsletter.
	I said, Hey Chatsworth, how are you doing?
	He just chuckled.
	Anyway.
	President Trump will ask Congress to cut the EPA budget 24%, or nearly $2 billion, according to sources familiar with plans.
	The White House sent draft budget plans to agency heads yesterday detailing billions of dollars in cuts to a wide range of federal programs, cuts to EPA and other agencies will fund a $54 billion increase in defense spending.
	You know what I like about this is all of these years, folks.
	Everybody said stuff like this wasn't possible.
	You just couldn't do this.
	You can't cut the federal budget because over half of it is entitlements.
	Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SSI, and you can't cut that stuff and live.
	The recipients will find you and kill you.
	And there's not enough left in discretionary spending to seriously cut the budget.
	This is what the establishment people told us all these years that it was a pipe dream to ever think the government could get smaller.
	So this is the kind of stuff I mean that's just totally discombobulating and turning these people upside down.
	Here comes Trump.
	Can you imagine when he announces this tonight?
	And the Democrat half, or the whatever it is, the 40% of the chamber that's Democrats, can you imagine how they're going to react to this?
	And by the way, I'm sure Trump is fully prepared for whatever heckling or negative reaction he gets from Democrats if there is.
	Oh, you don't think there'll be any heckling?
	Well, I asked this earlier.
	I said, what kind of breaches and violations and decorum can we expect tonight?
	Well, uh, Elliot Engel, who is a nobody, I'll turn him into a somebody here.
	Let me put if I can find the Elliott Engel is a uh a congressman from New York, looks like an eagle.
	Bald eagle.
	And he was uh speaking on the House floor one-minute speeches just this afternoon.
	I have deep respect for the presidency, and I will attend the joint session.
	But that respect between branches must be mutual.
	He's cosied up to Vladimir Putin, the strong man who attacks our democracy.
	He's moved to gut the affordable care act.
	And look the other way when threats against the Jewish community have increased in recent years.
	This isn't part of our normal political discourse.
	This goes beyond ideological and political differences.
	The president needs to work with all people.
	And therefore I will listen to what he has to say today, but I will not greet him and shake his hand.
	Well, okay, cool.
	You're gonna listen and you're gonna shake his hand, meaning he's not gonna be standing in line at the aisle there for an autograph or a photo up.
	Maxine not I'm not surprised.
	Max A. Waters is not going.
	Well, that means who else won't go.
	Oh, who are her partners?
	Um, actually a lot of them are not there anymore.
	Like Diane, what was her name from Diane from Los Angeles?
	She's not there.
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
	This is a local LA politician.
	What?
	No.
	Uh can't remember her name, and then there's Barbara Lee from from uh Oakland.
	She'll probably not show up as well.
	Um I'll remember this in the Die Watson.
	Diane Watson.
	And she and and uh did I ever tell you by the time I met Maxine Waters.
	Super Bowl was in Atlanta.
	1994 season, 1995 game.
	And it was the year they had announced, this doesn't is not relevant to the story, but just to give you historical calendar link.
	This was the year they'd announced Carolina and Jacksonville as two new expansion teams.
	And at One of the big parties, this is a Thursday night party.
	It was not the Commissioner's Party, it was the night before that.
	And I met Gene Upshaw.
	Turned out he was a big fan.
	Upshaw number 63 for the Oakland.
	No, that might have been art show.
	At any rate, he was one of great offensive linemen for the Raiders.
	He was the player, had that ran the players' union.
	And this is back when the NFL liked me, you know, and and I like them.
	And Maxine was there.
	Now, this was the this was the Buffalo Bulls and the Cowboys were playing in the game.
	Maxine was there with her husband Sidney.
	And Maxine came up to me.
	What do you mean?
	I don't like capitalism.
	What do you mean by that?
	I said sitting here minding my own business in an NFL party, and here's Maxine Waters.
	I said, Congresswoman, it's nice to meet.
	Don't give me that.
	What do you mean I don't like capitalism?
	I said, well, I'm sorry that I started recounting for her things that I'd heard her say.
	And she pointed out, look at my husband Sidney here.
	Sydney has a Mercedes dealership.
	Sydney is a some car dealership.
	And he thrives and survives in a capitalist system.
	What do you mean I would?
	And she started giving me examples of what she thought capitalism was, which were really they were lame examples.
	They were the examples of somebody who really doesn't know what it is, but they don't like it.
	It was just, she was nice.
	I don't mean to portray that she was in my face, but she was, but she was in a challenging way, not any kind of uh she wasn't bullying or threatening or anything.
	I was just shocked of all the people you expect to stop you at a Super Bowl party, the last one in my book would be Maxine Waters.
	I haven't seen her since.
	But uh so anyway, uh we get massive EPA cuts.
	They say you can't do this, but he's gonna propose it.
	Now, the politics of this is going to be fascinating, because I'm gonna tell you this.
	People have voted for Trump, this is exactly what they were talking about.
	And added bonus, this is Trump focusing on the domestic agenda and straightening out and fixing, trying to, what is wrong with the country.
	What is wrong in the direction the Democrats are taking?
	Expanding, growing government, further detachment from the people, a government that often governs against the will of the people, wasting money, resulting in a middle class that is no longer getting raises and uh accruing and acquiring wealth.
	Their wages have been stagnant for 15 years.
	This is exactly, exactly what they had in mind.
	And by the way, the people that voted for Trump never bought this argument that you couldn't cut the budget.
	They just thought that was BS from a bunch of people that didn't want to cut Washington, didn't want to get have Washington get any smaller.
	So here's Trump.
	I mean, launching with both barrels, and this is just what's leaked.
	Trump also gave himself a C minus on Fox today for his communication skills in the first weeks of the administration.
	His messaging gave himself a C or a C plus, and primarily because he botched the rollout of the executive order on Travel Band.
	And they've got to redo that.
	So he took the hit for that and says he's got to do, but overall, of course, uh he got an uh an A plus.
	Also from the Daily Caller, the initial GOP proposal to replace Obamacare that was leaked last week is already receiving harsh criticism from some on the right for leaving out policies favored by conservatives while keeping liberal provisions like subsidies.
	The draft legislation initially obtained by the politico makes a number of changes to Obamacare policies, but doesn't go far enough for some Republicans.
	The draft is two weeks old, likely to change before congressional leaders are satisfied with it.
	One major Republican-favored Policy, notably absent from the draft of the Obamacare repeal, is allowing the sale of health insurance across state lines.
	That's something that Trump touted all the time in his rallies.
	That if you want to make health care, health insurance, if you want to make the prices competitive, and if you want to bring the prices down, allow insurance companies to compete state to state.
	So I'm curious why that would be left out.
	That's the one thing Trump has always touted in his Obamacare plan.
	And it's hard to see why anybody would oppose it, except for the insurance companies.
	If you tell the insurance company, nope, you can only sell in Mississippi.
	Well, that means nobody else can sell in Mississippi.
	So they can pretty much do what the market will bear.
	And uh and then some.
	Trump seeks historic U.S. military spending boost.
	We have heard something like uh $54 billion increase.
	They proposed rise in the Pentagon budget, that would take it to $63 billion, comes as the U.S. has wound down major wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
	Uh it's a 10% budget increase for the Defense Department.
	And I think I saw McCain on TV.
	They said it's not enough.
	I have to double check that.
	Uh anyway, let me take a brief time out.
	We'll come back and continue with your calls.
	People have been patiently waiting, and we always try to reward that.
	So no, it's called just like I treat you.
	Folks, I'm I'm I've I've found a new tune.
	You know, I you know how I discovered this?
	Apple Music.
	And I subscribe to Apple Music, and every Friday they release uh uh new music mix that is ostensibly tailored to you based on what you listen to in iTunes and Apple's music.
	And it's 25 songs, it's every Friday, and this is about a month ago.
	There was a song with the Stones.
	And I Stones, I said, okay, I know the Stones, so I listened to it, and damned if it didn't sound like it was from the 60s and 70s when the Stones were the Stones.
	And so I started listening to it.
	You know, new music for me is really, really tough.
	I've had to ask Mr. Snerdley to come here and tell me what instruments I'm hearing so that I can associate.
	Like I thought something was a calliope and it's piano.
	So now I know it's a piano, it makes more sense.
	Anyway, I'm liking it more and more as I listen to it.
	I like to do demographic research.
	So Sunday I went out and played golf at one of my favorite clubs, and I got there earlier than usual.
	So I went to the bar.
	The 25-year-old woman is the bartender there, and I had just gotten out of the car listening to this song.
	So I thought, do you know who the Rolling Stones are?
	She's 25.
	No, what are you frowning at me for?
	Well, just stick with me on this.
	I said, I think I actually said, do you like the stones?
	Do you like the Rolex?
	No, not particularly.
	Can you name a song for me?
	No.
	And by the way, this woman's hip, do not misunderstand.
	She's got a boyfriend who's uh works at serious satellite golf broadcaster, some such thing.
	And so I began peppering her with all kinds of uh demographics.
	She's 25, I'm 66, and I'm trying to, you know, find out you know what she knows that I know that what we have in common, so for the nice.
	Well, who do you listen to?
	Who do you like?
	He said, Tom Petty.
	I said, Tom Petty.
	Tom Petty, you know Tom Petty, but the Stones are kind of an afterthought.
	Well, my dad listened to Tom Petty all the time.
	Love Tom Petty.
	I said, okay, well, that's fine.
	She loves football, hates uh soccer, basketball, not crazy about.
	Uh I told her, I said, you know, uh, when I when my dad was 66, I mean, and everybody his age was 66.
	They'd fought two world wars.
	They had lived in the Great Depression, well, Great Depression, World War II, Korea, the Soviets promising them to bury their grandkids.
	I mean, they had to grow up when they were 18 or 20.
	By the time my dad and his friends were 66, they had lived their life.
	And I said, this woman, I said, half the time I feel like I'm 18 or 20.
	You know, it's and so I I hit her with your generation and the generation, your parents' generation, and even mine.
	I said, we've had it so comparatively easy that we've had to invent our traumas.
	And I thought, how's this going to be received?
	And she agreed.
	She said, You mean like ADD?
	I said, Yes, exactly.
	Exactly like AD.
	All these other things we've had.
	And she started nodding her head.
	And it um it showed me that the demographic breach is not nearly that wide.
	Anyway, I started telling her about this Stone song, and uh that it's on a what's blue and lonesome is the name of the album.
	But these guys are 72 years old.
	The rolling freaking stones are 72 years old.
	And there's a little video of them, one-minute compilation video of in the studio recording some of the songs on this blue and lonesome album.
	And it's it's like these guys haven't changed.
	I mean, they look 72, there's no mistake, but but they still have the energy of 24, 25 year olds.
	It's just fascinating.
	There's no way.
	I guess Sinatra was still performing when he was 72.
	But it just it just proof to me that that people of our generation have not had to get old nearly as quickly as our as our parents and grandparents did.
	And we will be back.
	Don't go away.
	Are you ready for this?
	For Trump's State of the Union tonight, Republicans have been told to show up early and no photos.
	The Democrats have been told to show up and be polite.
	That was the graphic crawl I just saw on Fox News.
	And then I have this.
	Donald Trump invites widows of slain law enforcement officials to the joint address to Congress.
	In addition to the widows of slain law enforcement officials, the Trumps have also invited Jamel Shaw Sr., whose son Jamil Jr. was shot and killed by an illegal immigrant.
	So the parent of an illegal immigrant killed the parent of a of a son killed by an illegal is also going to be up there with Mrs. Trump.
	And this guy, Jamil Shaw, endorsed Trump during the campaign, praising him for vowing to deport criminal illegals.
	Many Democrat lawmakers have announced that they are inviting refugees and illegal immigrants to Trump's speech to protest his strict border enforcement measures.
	So the Democrats are going to have actual felons and misdemeanor rights in the House gallery.
	Is this not amazing?
	That the Democrats are inviting refugees and illegal immigrants in an attempt to embarrass Trump.
	Can you believe this?
	You want to talk about a people out of touch?
	I hope Trump hears about this and has ICE agents waiting right outside the chamber doors.
	Yeah, you could quote me.
	We love to have fun here.
	Okay, back to the phones.
	This is Michael in Richmond, Virginia.
	Welcome to the EIB network.
	Great to have you here.
	Well, thank you, Rush.
	I appreciate you taking my call.
	Anytime, sir.
	Anytime.
	So yeah, during your first hour, I was uh listening to you, and uh this this question kind of formulated in my mind, and it and at least to me and my and my opinion, uh, it proves that the mainstream media does have an agenda.
	So you were talking about how when the president well, let me let me start over.
	So that every time the president or his administration talks about illegal voting, the mainstream media goes apoplectic and asks for proof.
	However, when Democrats and others ask uh or talk about Russian uh hacking, alleged Russian hacking or whatever you want to call it, the mainstream media never asked for proof.
	Uh, that is an excellent observation.
	In fact, they know there isn't any and run the story anyway.
	And they include that in there.
	They include so far officials have not been able to find any direct evidence of any linkage between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.
	It's always like in paragraph 15 or 20.
	And yet Trump comes out and says that illegals are voting.
	Prove it!
	Where's the evidence?
	That's exactly right.
	Exactly right.
	This is Ilana next in um Palo Alto, California, where Stanford is.
	Great to have you on the program.
	Hi.
	Hi, how are you?
	I'm fine, thank you.
	And hi.
	I just wanted to say I am a Jewish Republican, a conservative.
	I'm a huge Trump supporter.
	Um and I, you know, in the last since Trump was elected, I guess, there had been about five to six waves of bomb threats against Jewish community centers and Jewish day schools.
	And yesterday they were another twenty, including in power also.
	And I happened to be driving by to see little children being escorted out with their stuff pushed on carts.
	It was so sad.
	And I guess um, you know, the press is only interested when Trump is president, and the liberal Jews, you know, my left wing um co-religionists are only interested in anti Semitism while Trump is in office, right?
	Right.
	So my I guess I want to say that this is terrorism.
	It's terrorism, and you know, if it was another group, if it was another minority group, I feel like the uh media, Hollywood would be all over it.
	And I want to know, you know, I want Trump to speak out.
	I want the FBI to be investigating and find this out because it's very scary, you know, for our children and and everyone.
	And you know, I work hard as a as a Jewish conservative.
	I work hard, I'm a big activist.
	And and you know, I would love if the FBI would get involved.
	I don't you know, prosecute these people.
	You know, I one of the big mysteries for many conservatives for many many moons, and uh including me, uh was the existence of liberal Jews who who put who put liberalism before their Judaism.
	I I I didn't understand it.
	I never understood liberal Jews blaming Israel, you know, on the side supporting Palestinians.
	I've never understood it until I spoke once to a man named Norman Pedoritz, and he said to me it's a misnomer to refer to liberal Jews that way.
	They're not Jews.
	They are liberals.
	They liberalism is what is first and foremost in their identity.
	The fact that they are Jews is not paramount or prominent.
	It's secondary and in many cases even tertiary to their identity.
	Now you look at Trump.
	I you tell me something here, Ilana, why in the world do you think Trump is being blamed as an anti Semite after all he's done during the campaign and since to defend Israel to be on the good side of the prime minister of Israel to oppose the Iran nuclear deal, which is very, very bad for Israel down the road.
	Trump's done nothing but been a great friend of Israel, and yet he's being tagged with anti-Semitism here.
	It doesn't make any intellectual sense.
	Right.
	No, it doesn't.
	I am I I think most of these Jews, you're right, they're not Jews.
	Um if you if you look down the road, their grandchildren are not going to be Jews.
	Um they use it like a badge like someone saying, Hey, I can make a Jewish joke, I have a Jewish friend, you know.
	Um Trump is the biggest supporter of Israel for sure.
	I think he'll go down in history as being the biggest supporter of Israel.
	And um I think Jews think that if they stand with the left, I mean these liberal Jews, I don't even want to call them liberal Jews.
	I think they're left wing.
	Um if they stand with the left, they think that they'll be protected and and you know, they even they were the biggest advocates against this refugee ban.
	And I mean, who is a bigger target in Europe right now with all the migrants?
	What doesn't make sense?
	None of this makes any common sense.
	Because anti Semitism is rampant again in Europe.
	And yet the the Jewish people you're talking about here in America, the the the Jewish liberals uh it it's it's not a factor in determining, it doesn't seem to be a factor in them determining you know what side of issues they're gonna fall down on.
	I mean, I still don't get the uh uh the the ease with which so many like Hollywood uh politics can come down on Israel and rip Israel just because Netanyahu happens to be conservative.
	Uh it's it's uh it's a curious I've asked all kinds of people about it, too.
	And there there isn't Padoritz's is the is the best answer I've gotten, but it's not I don't think it's all inclusive.
	It's just um it's a mystery.
	But you do have to be careful when you start and I think they they replaced their Judaism with liberalism and and they're very passionate again about it, and it's it's ridiculous.
	But I wish I wish, you know, every day I see Facebook posts saying, oh, you see, you see this happening during Trump.
	Anti-Semitism on colleges, the BDS, and and you know, they're shouting down Israel supporters on campus.
	That's been happening all through Obama's years, and nothing's been done about it.
	And as soon as Trump's president, all of a sudden there's an anti-telling 20 days.
	If there was ever a legitimate argument, it it it was that aimed at Obama.
	And you're right.
	This is my point, this Pedoritz's point.
	The loyalty is to the ideology, not the religion.
	And that's what so many people have uh difficulty understanding.
	I know you get it.
	Look, Ivan, I'm I'm flattered that you're out there.
	Great to hear from you from Palo Alto.
	I gotta go, though.
	I'm way behind.
	We're gonna catch up here in just a second.
	Don't go away.
	You know, I just heard some people talking about Trump's budget cuts, EPA and and um State Department.
	It's not that much money.
	It's only 50 billion.
	The money is not the only point, folks.
	When you start paring down these agencies, when you make them smaller, the odds are you're going to make them less powerful.
	It's not just the money that goes to these agencies that presents the problem.
	You have all these cabinet-level departments, these bureaucracies that have all of these embeds in their career appointees issuing regulations left and right.
	That's the real problem is what they've done to take over the legislative process, to take rulemaking and lawmaking away from the people, and then they just do it willy-nilly and they issue these regulations, and everybody thinks they've got to abide by them.
	Uh and it's it's really problematic.
	It's as big a problem as the money, and cutting the money is one of the first steps in reducing the power and influence in these agencies.
	They're much bigger and much more pervasive than anybody ever imagined, except the people that actually envisioned them, and they're functioning exactly as they were intended by big government designers.
	Now, what Trump has just done while we were in the break, Trump signed an executive order just now getting rid of the EPA water rule.
	And this is basically the rule that kept landowners from doing what they wanted to do on their own land.
	For example, if a farmer would dig a hole that reached water so that his cattle could drink water from it, the EPA would come in.
	You can't do that.
	That's not your right to do that.
	You're violating land usage rules and regulations and shut them down, and and and just minor things like this, puddles and ponds turning your your backyard into something that you no longer have uh ownership over.
	It was a massive this this this water rule, clean water rule.
	It's like every other piece of legislation.
	Its name is intended to sound wonderful and compassionate.
	Who could oppose the clean water rule?
	Well, it wasn't about clean water, it was a massive government land grab.
	And the land grab primarily impacted farmers, agriculture people, and even people in your own backyard, and Trump just undid it.
	And this is another uh dramatic promise that uh that was kept.
	And they're gonna be more things like that.
	These are just these these little things appear to be little things are major, major irritants to the left who who get what they want this way without it ever having to go through Congress, without it ever having to be debated, without it ever having to actually be voted on.
	All of these cockammy things should just be reversed.
	Liberals are outraged over that photo of Kellyanne Conway sitting on the Oval Office sofa with her feet tucked up on Ace.
	They're very disrespectful.
	How dare she put her feet on a couch?
	I want you to check Rushlimbaugh.com later.
	We're going to put some pictures up of Obama with his feet on the desk in the Oval Office.
	I got nine of them right here, just at first glance.

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