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Tuesday Quotes: Leader of the OppositionOctober 27, 2009
"I don't want anything to ever happen to Barack Obama, but especially because Joe Biden is number two."
"If you want to know who Barney Frank is, he is Enron, AIG, WorldCom, Global Crossing, and all the rest wrapped up in one -- and worse.
Barney Frank is an example of what is wrong with Soviet-style industrial policy."
"People are saying, 'Rush, we need third party.' No, we don't. We need to retake the Republican Party.
I mean, the liberals didn't go out and form a third party -- they just took over the Democrat Party."
"Obama is out there saying to the troops, 'I will not risk your lives until it's absolutely necessary.'
When is it going to be necessary?
Are we waiting on General 'Swifty' Kerry to tell us when it's okay?"
"A Gallup poll says that 40% of Americans now say they are conservative, 20% say liberal, 36% say moderate.
And of those three groups, which one is being attacked by the Republican Party? The conservatives!
The Republican Party has a death wish!"
"If you want to be a moderate or a liberal, be a Democrat.
If you want to be a Republican and you want to win, be a conservative."
"President Obama, the troops already are in harm's way, and you are not backing them to the hilt.
You are dithering, and their morale is plummeting.
Everybody involved does not understand why, Mr. President, you are not committed to the strategy that you announced in March."
"When the Democrats get into trouble, they think all they have to do is mention Bush.
Well, it isn't going to be long before a whole lot of people start saying, 'Gosh, I wish Bush was running this.'"
"Forty percent of Americans call themselves conservative, 36% describe themselves as moderates, and 20% are liberals
And yet everybody seems obsessed with these moderates!"
"Do you realize what a statement this is? For a sitting senator to come out and say that Obama is deliberately killing American jobs?
That's big, and it's true, and I no longer feel like I'm on the plank by myself on this."
"If any of you think that you're going to have to an option to get out of the public option, forget it -- there's going to be nowhere to go.
Private insurance is going to be regulated out of business."
"Folks, it's common sense: the only reason they're 'reforming' health care is to put the government in charge of it.
You have to ignore all of this talk about opting out of the public option."
"The CBO (which I don't trust for a moment) just said that 12 million people would sign up for the public option.
More like 83 million will be forced into the public option!"
"Anybody see double standards here? Bob Griese suspended for a week over a racial slur, yet I'm history at ESPN over a comment about the media.
I'm not crying about it, folks, I'm just pointing out how this all works."
"Obama will only take credit for things that go well. If you fail, it's your fault.
He'll throw you under the bus as fast as you can kick a paper cup under the bus."
"If the Democrats don't get this public option, it's going to be an even bigger monument to failure than Bill Clinton had.
Clinton could have blamed it on his wife; Obama cannot blame it on anybody."
"Anderson Cooper's show is in fourth place; it's even losing to reruns on Headline News.
So they had Barney Frank on there last night, which is a great way to get the numbers up, isn't it?"
"These Democrats want to try to take risk out of everything, but as I said last week, this is a nation built on risk-taking.
That's what entrepreneurism is."
"Do you people running this show in New York actually think that Doug Hoffman is not going to vote with the Republicans in the House when he gets there?
What in the world are you thinking? Scozzafava will vote with the Democrats just like Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins do!"
"It's well within the realm of possibility that Doug Hoffman can win this thing; Scozzafava has no base to bring her back.
So this is a conservative versus a liberal Democrat in New York-23, and it's going to be fascinating to watch this play out."
"Reagan would not have gotten the nomination in 1980 without the primaries, because the Republican Party did not want Ronald Reagan in 1980.
People have forgotten this. I have not."
"The Vietcong's favorite senator, John Kerry, is back to undermine another war.
He undermined Vietnam, he undermined Iraq, and now he's undermining Afghanistan.
Ah, isn't it wonderful how history repeats itself?"
"So here's the headline from a story in the New York Times on Sunday: 'Democrats See a Positive in a Bad Economy.' Duh!"
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RUSH: You know, I can't go away for one day without all hell breaking loose. Giant mess, have to come in here and clean up but I'm up to the task, folks, I'm up to the job. I got in last night at 5:30, I got a little show prep, I got to bed at 6:30 so I'm here on an hour and a half. You have been warned. Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. The airport was closed again. The airport was closed from 12:30 to 5 a.m., runway construction, it was supposed to end Sunday so had to go to an alternate destination, drive home. At any rate, it doesn't matter, folks, everything's cool, not complaining. I don't whine like Obama does. I don't look tired? Well, I've done this so many times it's almost second nature. Here's the telephone number if you want to be on the program: 1-800-282-2882. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com.
Lots popping today. Dingy Harry with his opt-out public option, which is the biggest scam, folks, he just ended up losing Olympia Snowe's vote in the process here, but I need to explain this to you. There is no opt-out, even if states vote to opt out, you will not opt out. I will explain all of this. This is so much smoke and mirrors. These people are targeting their own country. The Democrat Party and Barack Obama are targeting their own country. I've got a story here from the Sunday edition of the New York Times. I remember when I first said this, you know, when Rahm Emanuel came out and said a crisis is a terrible thing to waste, a crisis helps you get things done, that's when I started saying all of this destruction of the private sector is being done on purpose and everybody said -- well, not everybody but a lot of people -- "Rush, I know you think that, but you gotta tone it down a little bit if you want people to believe it." I am not going to tone it down. The truth is the truth, stark as it might be, and alarming as it might be, the truth is the truth.
So here's the headline from a story by Robert Pear, the New York Times on Sunday: "Democrats See a Positive in a Bad Economy." Duh! Here it is in the New York Times, and the New York Times is all happy about this. They had an editorial saying we need a second stimulus, and we need to stimulate government even more than we have. "'Democrats See a Positive in a Bad Economy' -- The bad economy is good for President Obama and Democrats as they try to reinvent the health care system with scant Republican support. That is the conclusion of many Congressional Democrats, who say that economic insecurity and high unemployment stoke public support for their proposals to guarantee insurance for millions of Americans."
I remember people getting mad at me for pointing this out. I said, "Look, if your number one objective is health care, and health care in this country is not portable, you can't take it with you when you lose a job, when everybody is scared to death of dying because everything is going to kill you, what's the greatest asset you could have if you're Barack Obama? High unemployment, lots of people without health insurance. Folks, they are purposely destroying this country and they love the calamity. It's good for them and it's nothing new. I remember back sometime in the nineties, it might have been the early 2000s when Little Dick Gephardt was in the House and the stock market was plunging, I think it was the tech bubble burst, and he said, "For every hundred point drop in the stock market, we pick up a seat in the House." They were all happy about it. People are just going to have to come to grips with it at some point.
We'll have some conversation on this Doug Hoffman situation in NY-23. You know, I was minding my own business and I was happy, I took the occasion of the weekend to get away from all this, but I couldn't. I happened to go by a television set and I saw the story that the Republican Party was running ads against Doug Hoffman. I don't mean to keep saying this, folks, I really don't, but I said I hope people remember what I said about the Republican Party and conservatism and how they are trying to drum conservatives out of the party. It's interesting, too, because the Gallup survey, Gallup poll that was released yesterday shows the public's conservatism is at a high water mark. Forty percent of Americans call themselves conservative. Thirty-six percent self-describe themselves as moderates, and 20% are liberals, and yet everybody seems obsessed with these moderates.
Everybody seems obsessed with going out and getting moderates and independents and so forth. You look what happens in NY-23, and, by the way, there are people mischaracterizing this, something I've gotta spend some time on today. This is not a third-party type race. People are looking at this saying, "Rush, we need third party, Doug Hoffman's proving it." No, we don't. We need to retake the Republican Party. That's what has to happen. The liberals didn't go out and form a third party, they just took over the Democrat Party and we need to take over the Republican Party. The third party's a guaranteed loss, no two ways about it.
Afghanistan, it is just amazing. Obama was at Jacksonville yesterday at a Navy base saying, "I won't risk your lives unless it is absolutely necessary." What the hell? I can't remember a more irresponsible, ridiculous statement from anyone, much less a commander-in-chief, in my life. I won't risk your lives unless it's absolutely necessary, and if it is necessary, we'll back you up to the hilt? When is it going to be necessary? Are we waiting on General Swifty Kerry to come over and tell us when it's okay? We've already had a prominent military man resign over our lack of direction and focus and even a strategy in Afghanistan. In the real world it's over for a president who makes this kind of statement. We have parents and spouses of those people serving in the military. Can you imagine a family member of somebody serving in Afghanistan and the commander-in-chief says, "I won't risk your lives unless it is absolutely necessary"? Whose lives are being risked now, and for what they are being asked.
The highest casualty toll in Afghanistan today and we've gotta wait for health care. We've gotta wait for General John Swifty Kerry, who served in Vietnam, to tell us when the time is right. Where's Hillary Clinton, by the way? How come all these people are going over there doing foreign policy? We got Biden over there making a mess of things on the missile thing. You know, I shouldn't say it, I really shouldn't. Joe Biden is the single -- I don't think I should say it. I'll tell you, I'll say it and then you guys tell me -- we got 40 seconds to bleep it, right? We got 40 seconds to bleep it if you judge it's a little too far, all right? Everybody on board with me here? Here we go. Joe Biden is the -- (laughing) let me put it this way. I don't want anything to ever happen to Barack Obama, but especially because Biden is number two. How is that? Is that okay? Is that okay? Mike, I need to hear from you on this. Okay, that passes. So we don't need to bleep that.
"I won't risk your lives unless it is absolutely necessary. And if it's necessary we'll back you up to the hilt"? Well, he's not backing the people who are already there to the hilt. You remember all the garbage Bush got for the Humvees that weren't properly armored up and all this? Good gosh, folks, it's just an absolute mess. Eight US troops die in Afghan blast, October now, the deadliest month for American forces in the eight-year war. Also from New York Times: "NATO backs McChrystal on Afghanistan, endorsement comes as Obama weighs whether to add more troops." Obama's dithering. He's played more golf in nine months than Bush played in three years. And the media, there's a story today how happy they are he finally went out and played golf with a woman. So he's broken down the sex barrier or some such thing, great, great progress, president's gone out and played golf with a woman.
He coordinates his attack on Fox News. He tries to recruit private businesses to ambush the Chamber of Commerce. Have you heard about this? Valerie Jarrett was sent out there to a bunch of businesses and said you guys gotta pressure the Chamber on this, and the Chamber came back and said, look, you think we're going away just because a couple shots have been fired? It's time to put on the helmets and get in gear. People are finally standing up to this little boy, this little man-child president whose primary job, if you will, in life has been leisure. This guy is practiced at leisure more than anything else. So he's out there ambushing the chamber, he's nuking doctors, but he has no time for Afghanistan, no time for Afghanistan whatsoever but, boy, I won't risk your lives until it's absolutely necessary, if it is necessary we'll back you to the hilt. He's golfing; he's attacking private businesses here at home. NATO has had plenty of time to figure out that McChrystal has the right plan for Afghanistan. Oh, and the global warming news, folks, it is absurd.
Here's another thing I saw. I guess this was Saturday. I was out in Las Vegas, and it was Saturday, and I took a quick peek at the Drudge page, and there's this thing, I don't even remember, some global warming link, and I clicked on the link, and I got to that story. It was the UK Daily Express and there's a story there with the headline, two people have written a book about how dogs do more damage to the environment than an SUV. So I clicked on that link, I ignored the Drudge link. I clicked on it, and said, "What in tarnation is this?" And I have details of that coming up. And then this Lord Stern is out there saying stop eating beef, the only way to save the planet. I mean the extremism of these people is on full display everywhere. Now, there's a story here that the Copenhagen people, the UN people are very depressed now that they might not get any kind of a significant deal in December because the US Congress is dithering and members of the US Congress, "Yeah, we're not even going to get to this this year, the climate change cap and tax." Now, before we go to the break -- no, I'll do it after the break. Crap and tax, whatever it is.
Now, I have to tell you, this thing that happened Friday on this program with Obama's thesis, it has been hilarious to watch the media cover this. I got two sound bites as an example. It is stunning to me how closed-minded, narrow their world is, how absolutely ignorant they are. I'm not questioning their intelligence, but that's next. They're just ignorant. And they still have no sense of humor. Wait 'til you hear these two sound bites. One is from 1010WINS in New York, the all-news station, and the other is from this blubbering, blathering, increasingly idiotic Chris Matthews.
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RUSH: Okay, as always, it is up to me to provide context for the people who claim to be professional journalists and are aware of everything. Now, the setup for this, of course, is that I was libeled and slandered by countless members of the media, fabricated quotes, made-up quotes I never stated, never uttered, never wrote, nothing, were repeated all over this country by sportswriters, television cable hosts and so forth. After we proved to them that I didn't do it they retracted it a week later, after the damage, and many of them said, "It still doesn't matter, we know Limbaugh thinks it anyway."
So last Friday, I get a note from a friend who says, "You ought to see what's on this blog." I looked at it, and it was Obama, his thesis from Columbia, "so-called Founders," didn't like what they did with the Constitution, there wasn't enough talk about distribution of wealth and so forth. I said, "Well, this has a ring of truth to it," because we've got Obama on radio from Chicago 2001 complaining about the Supreme Court not doing enough about redistribution. So we ran with it, made a big deal out of it in the first hour. In the second hour, I got a note saying, "Hey, Rush, we looked at this, we can't back this up, we can't find any actual sourcing for this." So at that point I warned the audience that it may not be true, that we are still checking it.
Shortly thereafter I learned that the whole thing was made up, it was a satire piece on an obscure website. Then I said, "Okay, folks, I have to tell you, it's satire, there's no evidence that Obama ever wrote this, but, Media Tweak of the Day, I don't care, I know he thinks it anyway because I've got audio of Obama saying it, talking about the Supreme Court." And we all got a great laugh about it because I corrected it immediately, I explained that it was a hoax, or was satire and then to tweak the media I said, "But I don't care, I'm sticking with it because I know he thinks it anyway." So I dished out to Obama what the whole media did to me and I dished it back at the media as well. And Koko at the website called me on Friday here, e-mailed me, said, "Look, you want me to leave this thing up?" I said "Yes, leave it on the website as is, so these idiot media people who want to find out what actually happened can go in and take the time to read it and see it. And leave the original piece up where I got the first information that this was something he had written in his thesis." So here is yesterday morning, Monday morning, 1010 WINS in New York, a montage of correspondent Alice Stockton-Rossini's report about this.
ROSSINI: When Rush Limbaugh discovers a hoax, he corrects it immediately. So what he spent a good part of his Friday broadcast gloating over an Internet story about how a TIME Magazine reporter got a hold of the president's college thesis, and in it he disses the Constitution? So what the story was fake? When Limbaugh realized the report was fake he didn't say sorry, not even oops. He insisted the fabricated theses is still in line with what the president thinks. How does he know? Because, says Limbaugh, he's heard Obama say it. A transcript of the Friday broadcast is still at the top of Limbaugh's Web page. The headline: "Obama's Disdain for the Constitution. We know he thinks it, don't we?" But being Rush Limbaugh means never having to say you're sorry. When Limbaugh realized the story was satire, he admitted the report was a fake, then added, "For good comedy to be comedy, it must contain an element of truth."
RUSH: I continue to be amazed, and I marvel at how easy it is to make these people look like fools. She even says she went to my website. All of this 'cause I didn't say I'm sorry. I don't know that I've gotten one apology from anybody in the media about using fabricated quotes attributed to me. They live in such a narrow world; they are so unaware of what is really going on. I continue to be marveling at the fact that they don't really know what happens in our world, folks, but we know everything about their world because we study 'em and we research 'em, and we don't read fake websites quoting what media said. We listen to them. It pains us, it's frustrating as hell, but we do it. Here's Chris Matthews last night on Hardball.
MATTHEWS: Rush didn't realize that it was a joke and broadcast the thesis story Friday as evidence that the president is, quote, anti-constitutionalist. Later in that same show Rushbo was told that the story was a hoax. Did he correct the record? Not exactly.
RUSH ARCHIVE: I shout from the mountaintops, "It was satire." But we know he thinks it. Good comedy, to be comedy, must contain an element of truth, and we know how he feels about distribution of wealth so we stand by the fabricated quote because we know Obama thinks it anyway.
MATTHEWS: You can't beat that, did you hear that? Rush stands by the hoax because he told his dittoheads a hoax contains truth. Well, it takes a true Dittohead to register on that one.
RUSH: These people! He has no clue that I'm parodying what happened to me, that he participated in. I don't think I've gotten an apology from Matthews on this. So we stand by the fabricated quote? (laughing) I don't know, folks. It's fun. Did he correct the record? I shout from the mountaintops, element of truth, we know how he feels about distribution -- We do know how he feels about it, so we stand by the fabricated quote. (laughing) Which is exactly what happened to me. I'm out of words to describe the insular world and the utter, utter lack of a sense of humor that these people have, particularly where Obama is concerned.
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RUSH: All right, here is Dingy Harry yesterday afternoon at a press conference in Washington.
REID: The best way to move forward is to include a public option with the opt-out provision to states. Under this concept, states will be able to determine whether the public option works well for them and will have the ability to opt out if they so choose. Believe that a public option can achieve the goal of bringing meaningful reform to our broken system, will protect consumers, keep insurers honest and ensure competition and that's why we intend to include it in the bill we submitted and will be submitted to the Senate.
RUSH: All right, now, he's provided nothing specific. This is typical. He's come up with a theory on this public option state opt-out, and he sent it over to the CBO to have it scored. I don't trust the CBO, for one thing, but that's not the point about this. I want to reiterate again that there will no way be any possibility you can opt out of a public option and there's no way your governor or your state legislature or assembly will be able to opt out of it, either, and I'm going to explain why. As a side illustration, do you recall when Jimmy Carter declared a national speed limit of 55 miles an hour and states could opt -- you don't remember that? Okay, I'll tell you. That's when the 55-mile-an-hour speed limit got started, Jimmy Carter declared it, and there was a state opt-out. Now, the catch-22 was that if states opted out, they lost all federal highway funds, they lost any participation, but that's a side point. This is much more than that.
Here's the truth. The citizens of this country, regardless of what state they live in, will have to pay for, that is, subsidize through taxes and higher private insurance policy costs that the public option the government will set up. No citizen will be able to opt out of that whether you are an employer or an employee or on your own. It's an illusion. You're gonna pay for it no matter what. Furthermore, the government's imposition of bankrupting regulations on private insurance companies are gonna put 'em out of business. We now know that contrary to what Obama and his people are running around saying, that the insurance companies are making obscene profits, the usual attacks on the business of the day, we now learn that the profits of private health insurers, two to three percent. Even the AP reported that. They are not flush with money. They are not among the most profitable business in the nation. They're nowhere near it. What's going to happen, what everybody seems to forget, you know, Pelosi's out there saying, (paraphrasing) "Public option, that's a bad word, we need to change the term. We need to call it competitive option."
That's even worse. Because the objective of the public option is to drive private health care insurance out of business. There are a number of ways that will happen and Dingy Harry's latest sleight of hand is one of them. Here's how it's going to work. These regulations that will bankrupt insurance companies, that will be imposed on them, will consist of compelling private companies to take all comers. Private insurance companies will have to insure everybody, including those who are going to have a heart attack tomorrow and die. They're going to have to take 'em when they have not purchased insurance earlier, only when they need a major operation or an expensive drug. Now, by compelling these companies to do that, they are going to destroy the ability of any private entity to protect its other customers who have acted responsibly and purchased insurance when they were not sick. So the people who again play by the rules, follow what they're supposed to do, are going to be paying for the insurance policies of people who sign up at the first sign they got a big operation or need an expensive drug or what have you, the government will set benefit requirements for the insurance agency, they will set price limits.
All of this is in the legislation. There are five bills, and all of this is in the five bills that are being discussed. The government's going to set benefit requirements, price limits, meaning they're going to tell the insurance companies how much they cannot charge for this, basically do whatever it wants to with private insurers. The purpose is to destroy them. Obama, Chuck-U Schumer have all but said so with their support for single payer and government-run plans. Obama has said it over the years. We've had it on tape. We've aired it a number of times. Public option, single payer, that's his objective, that's what he tells his buddies. It may take five, ten years to get there, but that's what his objective is. Schumer said the same thing. Barney Frank's out there saying, "We want a bigger role for government in virtually everything." We have this sound bite coming up.
If any of you think that you're going to have to an option to get out of the public option, forget it, there's going to be nowhere to go. Private insurance is going to be put out of business. It is going to be regulated out of business. The profit margin is two to three percent and these new regulations that are going to be imposed on them, it's all designed to run 'em out of business and force everybody over to the public option, meaning the government. So the plan, the plan is to force citizens of states who do not participate in the government option to subsidize those who do, making it nearly impossible for any governor to say, "I will not allow my citizens to participate in the federal insurance program," and to eliminate private insurers in a few years' time which makes the government option the only option available in the end. This is a single, sinister, duplicitous scam and it's happening not because of the Republicans, it's happening because the Democrats are losing their far left-wing base by saying there isn't going to be a public option. So now they're trying to make it sound like, "Okay, we'll put a public option in but you can opt out."
You can't opt out. You're going to be paying for it one way or the other, and eventually there is gonna only be the public option, meaning the government. That's why they're doing it. Folks, common sense. The only reason they're reforming health care is to put the government in charge of it ultimately. You have to ignore all of this talk about opting out of the public option. You have to ignore the sales technique, "Well, the public option, Mr. Limbaugh, it's just there to add to competition." It is to eliminate competition. You cannot, you will not be able to opt out of paying higher premiums and taxes to subsidize the government plan. You can only opt out of making the government plan available to your state citizens. And by wiping out private insurance, who's going to opt out in the end? Look, even conservative governors will have no choice. They'll have to relent because of the elimination of private alternatives in their states by the federal government.
So any so-called moderate Democrat who votes for this is voting for a single-payer government run health care system while cynically pretending to their constituents that they are not, and I say again to you Blue Dog Democrats, you better pay attention to what's happening here because you can't vote for this, any form of it, and go back to your districts next November and say, "I'm fiscally conservative, I voted to opt out of the public option." You vote for this, you are voting for single payer national health care and a further bankrupted country. Meanwhile, predictably, the dunces in the liberal media are reporting this as a grand compromise offered by the great compromiser himself, Dingy Harry. So they continue to carry the left's water on this. So much for that.
By the way, Newsweek, in a blog today say Reid's public option not exactly a shoo-in. There will be no opting out. These people are just, I don't know. Sometimes it does get to me. You know, one of the things that is the most frustrating to me is stupidity, ignorance, among intelligent people, the lack of critical thinking, lapdog sycophants, brownnosers, apple polishers. Now, Betsy McCaughey who did yeoman work in destroying HillaryCare, has been paying a lot of attention to this, and she has a piece today in the New York Post: "'Treating Seniors as "Clunkers."' --
Everyone knows that if you don't pay to maintain and repair your car, you limit its life. The same is true as human beings age. We need medical care to avoid becoming clunkers -- disabled, worn out, parked in wheelchairs or nursing homes. For nearly a half century, Medicare has enabled seniors to get that care. But ObamaCare is about to change that, by limiting what doctors can provide their aging patients."
Are you sitting down? "The Senate Finance Committee health bill," the Baucus bill, "released last week controls doctors by cutting their pay if they give older patients more care than the government deems appropriate." Can you say death panels? It's right there, "Section 3003(b) (p. 683) punishes doctors who land in the 90th percentile or above on what they provide for seniors on Medicare by withholding 5 percent of their compensation." So the government is going to determine how much care older patients can get. If a doctor exceeds that, he gets his compensation cut 5% and I assume it won't end there. "This withhold provision forces doctors to choose between treating their patients and avoiding government penalties. HMOs used the same cost-cutting device in the early '90s until it was deemed dangerous to patients and outlawed. Now, lawmakers want to use it against the most vulnerable patients, the elderly."
Now, as I read this, I'm just speculating here, it sounds like the government's very sensitive here to this death panel stuff so the Finance Committee is going to make the doctors the death panel, even though the government is actually inspiring this kind of behavior.
I gotta take a quick break here, folks.
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RUSH: Jeff in Austin, Texas. Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hey, Rush. It's an honor. It's actually Jeff from Wimberley, Texas, just working in the liberal mecca here on the weekdays. In your first hour you were talking about the states opt out and what a farce that is. This is a dangerous farce because if the governors elect to opt out of this, what does it do to the unemployment in their state and the business in their state, where my business operates in this state and produces in this state, if Texas, which I hope they do opt out of this if it gets that far, my business is going to move to a state that does not opt out because when they can abscond from their responsibilities to their employees either pay for their benefits --
RUSH: No, but, well, wait. Again, conservative governors won't be able to opt out of this --
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: -- because there's going to be no place to opt out to.
CALLER: Yes, sir.
RUSH: This is the thing that I must continue to hammer home with the anvil that is my tongue, and that is there isn't going to be a place, and even if for a while -- you know, this stuff's not going to happen overnight -- even if there is a temporary place to opt out, the taxes of the people in that state and whatever else, charges they're going to face going private to subsidize the people who have not bought insurance, it's going to cost everybody. It's all a smoke screen. There is no opting out if this thing goes through. All this is is Dingy Harry and the Democrats realizing they're in trouble. When Pelosi says, (paraphrasing) "We need a competitive option, we need to call it a competitive option, it's not a public option," they know they're in trouble on this. There is a big poll today in the public option, well, that's a smoke screen, too. That's going to be the second fraudulent poll with no doubt a rigged sample that the public wants a public option.
I'd like to know what public, who they are, where they're asking them, and in what state of sobriety they're in when they are contacted. And whether they have health insurance or not because I guarantee you, to a lot of people, public option means free. Public option's associated with government, and people think what they get from the government is free, the kind of people we're talking about. Oh, yeah, your food stamps come in, you didn't pay for them, yeah, government gave them to me, Obama's stash, the poor people in Detroit. "Uh, Obama giving me the money. Obama from reserve funds or from his stash." You can find people like that, you say, "You support the public option." "Is it free?" "Yeah." "Fine. Count me in." And then some reputable polling organization puts the news out there.
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RUSH: Here's Pelosi. This is back to health care, by the way. We got two sound bites. This is yesterday in Sunrise, Florida, Nancy Pelosi.
PELOSI: I do think that when people think of it as their option, their consumer option, because public is being misrepresented as being something that is paid for by taxpayer dollars. Which it is not.
RUSH: See, Snerdley, you pooh-poohed me. I didn't even know she had said this. You tell me there was some stupid poll out there that the majority of people support the public option and, yeah, you run around and tell people it's free, of course they're going to support it. You can find the right bunch of people that will believe that. By the way, Lieberman just said he'll join the filibuster unless Dingy Harry pulls his public option out. Olympia Snowe is sayonara, she's outta there. Blanche Lincoln in trouble on this. Ben Nelson, Nebraska, in trouble on this. If they don't get this, folks, if they don't get this, this is going to be a bigger monument to failure than even Bill Clinton when he failed health care because at least he could blame it on his wife. Obama cannot blame it on anybody. He can't blame it on the Republicans, although they'll try. Now, this afternoon on the Live Desk, Trace Gallagher was talking to Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, and Trace Gallagher said, "Speaker Pelosi says the public option is just a competitive option, not government-run health care, but it would be government-run option because it would be funded by the government. Where would the money come from?"
SCHULTZ: No, it wouldn't be funded by the government, Trace --
GALLAGHER: The government right.
SCHULTZ: -- which would be fully paid back and --
GALLAGHER: We hope it would be fully paid back, but right now the numbers don't square like that. I mean what you're saying --
SCHULTZ: Well, they sure do.
GALLAGHER: Okay. Go ahead.
SCHULTZ: No, with all do respect they do square, that's why CBO has scored our bill at less than the $900 billion threshold that President Obama has called for that we are going to make sure that it doesn't add to the deficit one dime. And we make sure that by using a competitive option, we provide for more competition and choice with the other private choices because otherwise you'll continue to have the private insurers basically give substandard policies --
RUSH: Yeah, they're showing a profit of two to three percent. Do you know that Hershey's candy makes a bigger profit than the insurance business? It won't be funded by the government. The public option, competitive option won't be funded by the government. It's going to be free. It's not going to use taxpayer dollars, it's all going to be paid for, it won't add a dime to the deficit. People are loony. I know the House plan is still over a trillion dollars, they're hiding money, hat's why they came in with this revised figure of 800 and some odd, 63 billion. It's all smoke and mirrors. This is going to cost $2 trillion.
How this movement can have any sane people still involved in it is beyond me.
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GRIESE: First time we saw Jeff Gordon up there in the top five isn't it?
PASCH: Where's Juan Pablo Montoya?
GRIESE: He's out having a taco.
RUSH: That was Bob Griese. Now, it's interesting. I'm looking at people's facial expressions here who have not heard that. Dawn had not heard it, Brian had not heard it. Snerdley had heard it, and it's interesting, Dawn is (gasping) "How can he say that? oh, no!" Brian's in there yucking it up. Snerdley is in there yucking it up. Bob Griese then later on during the broadcast they hurried up in there and they made him apologize.
GRIESE: Earlier today on our game I made an offensive comment regarding Juan Pablo Montoya as part of a NASCAR promo. It was regrettable and I should not have said it. I really enjoy NASCAR and I follow it closely and would like to take this opportunity to apologize to Juan, NASCAR, and everyone else who heard my comment.
RUSH: All right, and now ESPN has announced that Bob Griese has been suspended for a week. Bob Griese has been suspended for a week over a racial slur. I mean, he's out there probably having a taco. A racial slur. Fine. Before we get to NY-23 here, let's see, last week on the syndicated TMZ, unidentified reporter had this exchange with hip-hop producer Dr. Dre.
TMZ REPORTER: What do you think about Rush Limbaugh trying to buy the Rams?
DR. DRE: (Bleep) Rush Limbaugh.
TMZ REPORTER: You know what I'm saying? (laughing)
RUSH: That was the F-bomb in there that was bleeped. Now, that's the hip-hop culture the NFL lovingly embraces, as epitomized there by Dr. Dre on TMZ. Does anybody see the double standards here? Griese suspended for a week over a racial slur, I'm history over a comment about the media on ESPN. At any rate, I'm not crying about it, folks, I'm just pointing out how this all works.
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RUSH: In NY-23, Real Clear Politics: "Doug Hoffman, plus five." Doug Hoffman may in fact win this with nowhere near the amount of money the two Democrats have. I know there's a Democrat called a Republican, but we actually have two liberal Obama Democrats, one calling herself a Republican, and you've got the Reagan conservative Hoffman in there. Tim Pawlenty threw in with him today, by the way, so you have Sarah Palin, Fred Thompson, Rick Santorum, who else? (interruption) Sue Collins endorsed -- so? Is that a surprise? That's going to sway a lot of votes. Susan Collins from Maine -- who? Endorsed Scozzafava? You know, the Republican Party, I really do not know what Newt Gingrich was thinking. Maybe he hasn't gotten over the budget battle of 1995. I don't know, but this is stunning. I ruined two hours of my day when I saw that the Republican Party was running ads against Hoffman. They have a death wish. The Republican Party has a death wish. Gallup: 40% of Americans now say they are conservative, 20% say they're liberal, 36% say they're moderates. And of those three groups, which one is being ignored -- not just ignored -- which one is being attacked by the Republican Party? The conservatives!
It's worse than I thought. I thought this was just based on elitism and Northeast moderate liberalism, and embarrassment of the people that the social issues attract to the party. But now it's just plain stupidity. The Republican Party, as constituted is as dangerous to this country as the Democrat Party is. "But, Rush, party loyalty is party loyalty, and the local Republican committee up there has endorsed Scozzafava." So? I'm saying the two parties are the same. I guess I need to amend it a little bit, but, man, when I saw that they were running ads, as I say, ruined two hours of my day.
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RUSH: All right, folks, we'll get to your phone calls in the next hour, really getting beat up in the e-mail over my third-party stance here. I'm going to try to explain to you why this is not a third-party example what's happening in NY- 23.
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RUSH: You people are beating me up here over my stance at the third-party business. I want to try to walk you through this as I see it. Now, this is from PoliticsDaily.com by Matt Lewis. "'Newt Gingrich Takes Heat From the Right, but Will It Stick?' -- A few days ago, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich irritated many movement conservatives when he endorsed liberal Republican Dede Scozzafava over Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman for the upcoming special election --" and that's key to remember here. "-- in New York's 23rd congressional district. Running in a conservative district, where the incumbent went off to be secretary of the Army, all three candidates have the distinction ... of seeing their race attract national attention and national surrogates. Hoffman had previously earned the backing of prominent conservative organizations such as the fiscally conservative Club for Growth and the socially conservative Concerned Women for America PAC. In the end, Gingrich's endorsement may not matter to the outcome of that race -- Scozzafava seems to be losing steam anyway -- but down the line it may matter to Gingrich.
"The former House speaker drew immediate fire from popular conservative blogs like RedState and MichelleMalkin.com, who cast him as an apostate. Erick Erickson of RedState.com wrote that Gingrich's endorsement of Scozzafava 'aligns Newt with ACORN, which has twice endorsed Dede [and] with Planned Parenthood and NARAL, active supporters of Dede.' ... In response, Gingrich invoked Big Tent Reaganism, saying, 'If you seek to be a perfect minority, you'll remain a minority. That's not how Reagan built his revolution, or how we won back the House in 1994.'" This revisionist history is upsetting to me. This is not how Reagan won. Reagan was not out there talking about a big tent. If I recall correctly Reagan publicly invited liberal Republicans to go their own way. His tent was a little narrow but it was crowded. His tent was just mainstream conservatism, the kind of conservatism that founded the country.
Now, this little article here says: "Make no mistake; this special election in New York is not just one mere congressional race. As Erickson himself Tweeted, for conservative activists it is 'a hill to die on.'" Now, this is a teachable moment here, and it's nuanced, gotta be careful. In New York, the rules allow for very strong third parties in certain elections. The Conservative Party in New York generally, now, only runs candidates when the Republicans are liberal. Otherwise they don't work against the Republicans to help the Democrats, but here, you have an off-year election, you have an extreme liberal Republican. This is not a RINO. This is not a Republican-in-name-only. This is an extreme liberal Republican who may as well be a Democrat. You also have a far-out, wacko, lib Democrat, and then people say this is a real chance for a third party. But this is not the same as running a third party in a national election against a Republican-in-name-only like McCain. This is a totally different circumstance.
Let me see if I can explain this. NY-23 is a special election. There was no primary. Doug Hoffman would have challenged Scozzafava in the Republican primary had there been one. He would have had the backing of New York's Conservative Party as is often the case there. You have to understand that the Conservative Party does not look at themselves as a third party. Only do they get in gear when the Republicans nominate some liberal. Ronald Reagan opposed third-party races because he believed that conservatives needed to take back the Republican Party and not surrender it to liberals. He told the liberals, "Go your own way." He didn't go his own way and form a Republican Party. It took a while. He narrowly lost to Gerald Ford in '76. He was the most popular Republican emerging from that convention, but Ford, the establishment Republican, the fix was in. Reagan didn't slink away and start a third party. He began to take over the Republican Party.
Third parties lose. Speaking personally, I am not interested in creating another Reform Party like Perot did, like Buchanan did. It's a losing proposition. I want to defeat what's going on. Now, if Hoffman loses he can run again in the GOP primary next year, a primary that did not happen this year. If there had been a primary, he would have run, and he would have had the backing of the Conservative Party. I'm sure that the Republican Party would have backed Dede Scozzafava, and then you would have ended up with a traditional two-party race against a Democrat whoever that would have been in their primary. But there wasn't one. He can run as the Republican candidate if the Democrat, the guy's name is Owens. If Owens wins he can come back and run a year from now. The Congressional Campaign Committee is out there saying there's no clear path to victory for Doug Hoffman. Now, the Club for Growth is running polls up there, and they've got Hoffman up five. Everybody watching this race admits that Dede Scozzafava has lost steam. I mean she's a pretender. It's a teachable moment here.
Forty percent of the public now, according to Gallup, identify themselves as conservative, 20% as liberal, and 36% as independent. Now, Hoffman wanted to run as a Republican. He is a Republican. He was passed over by the GOP, who picked Scozzafava instead. So he's running on the Conservative Party ticket because the GOP passed him over, but this is a wake-up call for both parties. Look what's happening in Virginia now. Last Friday the Washington Post comes out with this front-page story dumping on Creigh Deeds, Obama White House dumping on him. "It's their fault, they didn't use Obama wisely enough, didn't use Obama enough." The Democrat Party has no clue. Well, maybe they do have a clue, which is why they're trying to rush all this stuff in so quickly, but I don't think they understand just how much the people oppose what they're doing. Corzine in New Jersey is down three points. Now, that's margin of error. But this is a corrupt Democrat state. This Chris Christie guy ought to be nowhere close. And he still may not win but as close as it is, and the Democrats are already sensing a Creigh Deeds type situation in New Jersey, "Well, you can't blame this on Obama." Of course not.
Obama will not be blamed for anything. He'll only take credit for things that go well. But if you fail, it's your fault, if you fail aligning yourself with Obama's policies, it's not Obama's policy or him, it's you, and he'll throw you under the bus as fast as you would kick a paper cup under the bus as soon as pick it up and put it in the trash can. I know the temptation for a third party is tempting, but right now conservatism is on the ascendancy, it's actually good to be a conservative, and this is the time to reassert control over the Republican Party. It's not going to be easy but the Democrats, the far left didn't go out and form a third party. They took over the Democrat Party. Anyway, gotta take a break. I know a lot of you are still looking at this and seeing a third party here, but this is not the way a third-party candidacy, a third party would actually operate. It's really key to understand there was no primary here.
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RUSH: By the way, just to remind you, Sarah Palin, when she endorsed Hoffman in this race, she said it was a message to the Republican Party, not a third-party movement. And something the Republican Party needs to ask itself: do you people running this show actually think that Doug Hoffman is not going to vote with the Republicans in the House when he gets there? What in the world are you thinking? Scozzafava will vote with the Democrats just like Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins do, more often than not. She's an Obama Republican. She is such a liberal the Democrat has run ads being critical of all the tax increases she is for. This is absolutely absurd. It doesn't surprise me. It made me mad when they ran an ad against him. Running ads against a conservative? Run the ads against the Democrat for crying out loud.
Kirsten in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Great to have you. You're up first today on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. I just want to talk about Newt Gingrich and how I lost all respect for him since he endorsed Scozzafava and basically, on Fox News, implied that the rest of us who aren't from upstate New York need to butt out of it.
RUSH: I didn't hear him say that, but I have only been tuned in sporadically over the course of the past couple, three days.
CALLER: He said something about the rest of us think that we know what's best for upstate New York are wrong or something like that.
RUSH: Well, there's a little subtext here, and to me it's disappointing. Arguably the architect of the conservative revolution, the Republican revolution in the House in 1994 has drifted so far away from what it was that got him there, but if you recall the 2008 presidential election, one of the Republican Party laments was, "Oh, no, oh, no, we don't have one elected Republican from the Northeast." Christopher Shays lost in Connecticut. "Oh, no, we don't have a single Republican from the Northeast. Our constituents aren't being represented. We've gotta understand that people who live in the Northeast are liberal to moderate, and if we want our party to be strong we've gotta --" and when Newt says, I'm just guessing, but when Newt says, "We don't understand NY-23," it's a solid Republican, almost conservative district, and that's why putting Scozzafava in there is just an insult.
But lots of e-mails, like your call, from people who are just mystified by Newt who don't think he's reliable anymore. Nobody denies his intelligence, nobody denies his ability to think strategically, but this is not the first time, joining Pelosi in a global warming commercial and joining Hillary in a health care commercial or a health care appearance, people are scratching their heads over this. I remember seeing him on Hannity's show one night about six months ago or four months ago, maybe three, sometime this past summer. I forget the exact news cycle that was going on, but it was clear by now what a radical Obama was and Newt was apologizing to Hannity for not recognizing it as soon as Hannity had, which was a year-and-a-half ago. Beltwayitis, I don't know what it is, but it's something.
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RUSH: Got another endorsement for Doug Hoffman, NY-23, the former chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee. This is the bunch running ads against Hoffman, but Tom Cole does not run the thing anymore. Tom Cole is a Republican from Oklahoma. He's former chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, a member of the GOP steering committee, "A deputy GOP House whip says that he will be endorsing Doug Hoffman in the New York 23 race." So a lot of prominent Republican conservatives are stepping up here and look, I want to emphasize on this third-party business again, in a functioning two-party system the primary system is the check on the worst impulse or impulses of the party bosses. That's the theme here that I think people need to understand because it's easy to understand, and it's right on the money.
If it weren't for the primaries -- let's look at Reagan, 1976 and 1980. It was the primaries where Reagan got the chance to show the strengths that he had. Reagan would not have gotten the nomination in 1980 without the primaries. The Republican Party did not want Ronald Reagan in 1980. People have forgotten this. I have not. They didn't want him in 1976. They didn't want him in 1980. If there were no primary system, and if the party bosses in the smoke-filled rooms as they used to do, picked the nominees, you'd have had some hack that the Republicans would have picked and in 2000 had there not been a primary system I guarantee you McCain would have been the nominee because the media wanted McCain. Remember the Straight Talk Express? Remember all the stuff that went on in South Carolina? All the crossover Democrats in the primaries, they were crossing over and voting for McCain because they wanted McCain 'cause they knew they could beat him, and McCain was the media's favorite candidate in 2000.
If it weren't for the primary system, Bush might not have gotten the nomination in 2000, because the media and the party bosses would have preferred McCain. When you have primaries, the rank-and-file cannot only overrule the party bosses, they can actually make the party bosses behave better. If Scozzafava had had to face a primary and the prospect of getting drubbed in the primary, people like Michael Steele and Newt might not have supported her because they don't want to be associated with a drubbing by the base. They tried to get away with one this time because there was no primary, so they sensed an opportunity to show everybody how nuanced and centrist they are so they can attract respect and love and adoration from the Beltway media and so forth. They run around, "Oh, we don't have any elected representatives in the Northeast." That's right, because they've all run as moderates and liberals and been shellacked. If you're going to be a moderate and liberal, be a Democrat. If you want to be a Republican and you want to win, be a conservative. That's the message. But these guys are all missing it.
They've been in Washington too long, and they get the sense that Washington is America 'cause it's their world. This happens to Republicans and Democrats alike. You go back to 1980, can I ask you if you remember who the number one challenger to Ronald Reagan was in 1980? That's exactly right, Snerdley, it was Bush 41, voodoo economics. Charge H.W. Bush, voodoo economics. And had there been no primary system, George Bush 41 would have been the nominee. Now, the relevance here is that there was no primary in NY-23. It's a special election. Had there been a primary, Hoffman would have run as a Republican against Scozzafava, as a Republican, and he would have shellacked her. And then the Republican Party would be supporting this guy because he had won the primary. Now, they might have still thrown in with Scozzafava because they think they have to show that they're sophisticated and not closed-minded by being able to support moderates or even liberal Republicans.
But it's a huge error, ladies and gentlemen, to think that what is happening in NY-23 is a portend of third-party success. Hoffman tried to get the Republican nomination. He is a Republican and he's going to be voting with the Republicans in the House of Representatives if he's elected there. The primary system is key here and it was not present in this race. Had it been, none of what's happening now would be happening, the party bosses woulda stood back. You'd have had two Republicans running, they woulda stood back, they wouldn't have gotten involved and endorsed one. But now Hoffman says screw it, you guys don't want me in the Republican Party, fine, there's a conservative party that gets in action when the Republican Party goes liberal. The conservative party is not active all the time. They're a stopgap in New York.
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RUSH: This is Deanna in St. Louis, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hey, Rush, great, thanks for taking my call.
RUSH: You bet.
CALLER: First of all it's an honor to speak with you. Second of all before I get to my comment I want to thank you on behalf of military moms of America for your voice and the lack of action on Obama's administration with the current situation in Afghanistan. We appreciate it, because as military families we're so frustrated. We're so frustrated because I personally have firsthand knowledge of the situation on the front lines there because I have a son and several family members and friends serving there, so I hear all of the things that are coming in from the front lines, basically. And my point is this. It's demoralizing to our troops over there that NATO can stand behind McChrystal and his strategy and our president cannot? And military families all over this country should be infuriated. We shouldn't be worried about health care right now or cap and trade or any of these. These politicians --
RUSH: Deanna, I think they all are. I think there's so much opposition to Obama and the Democrats, it just doesn't get reported. It gets mocked. Whatever opposition to Obama there is is made fun of, it is impugned, even this Doug Hoffman NY-23, no matter where you go in the Drive-By Media as they report on it, the objective, they're just dying to set up a big-time loss here. They just want Hoffman to lose 'cause they want to be able to write the story that mainstream conservatives have been so marginalized, they're just freaky now. They're out on the kook fringe, and it's the media scared to death of the conservative ascendancy. The Republican Party is scared to death of it, parts of it, and of course the Democrat Party is as well. People sense this and it's well within the realm of possibility that Doug Hoffman can win this thing. Scozzafava, she has no base to bring her back here. She has no base. So this is a conservative versus a liberal Democrat in NY-23. It's going to be fascinating to watch this play out. And this is happening all over the country.
You talk about military families ought to be upset. Remember Anthony Zinni? Anthony Zinni was one of a few generals that the Democrats all of a sudden fell in love with. The Democrats generally abhor the military. But during the Iraq war and the early days of the war on terror, whenever any general came out and ripped Bush, why, they become the Democrats' friend best friend, and one of those was Anthony Zinni. And here it is in the Wall Street Journal yesterday: "Anthony Zinni stepped up his call for the Obama administration to quit dillydallying and send more troops to Afghanistan to fight the insurgency. ... The retired Marine Corps general, who had been the top commander in the Middle East and Central Asia, said the Obama administration needs more forces in Afghanistan quickly. Zinni said his own son was among the troops waiting to be deployed, adding: 'I think that we owe them a decision. For the life of me, I can’t figure out why we’re still waiting for one.' Zinni spent considerable time working with the Pakistani and Indian governments while he headed Centcom during the Clinton administration." And it wasn't just Zinni. Remember John Kerry's favorite general was Shinseki. Deanna, I'm telling you, the people of this country are upset over a lot of what Obama is doing, and particularly leaving military personnel out to dry.
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RUSH: Here's Carol in San Francisco. Great to have you on the program, hello.
CALLER: Hello hi, Rush, thanks for having me on.
RUSH: You bet.
CALLER: I just want you to please keep the pressure on with this defense issue with Obama ignoring General McChrystal. My son is in a first class university in this area. He's in ROTC. He's going to be graduating next June, and then he's going to be commissioned. And I am just totally irate that Obama is ignoring General McChrystal, who is, I think, the world-class authority on counterterrorism, and putting all these men and women at risk. I mean these are bright, bright people who volunteered to serve their country --
RUSH: I know.
CALLER: -- and Obama and his crowd just treat 'em like trash. I am just livid, absolutely livid.
RUSH: See, what I don't understand about all this is why people are surprised. Now, I know I'm a bright guy but I don't think I'm the smartest person around.
CALLER: Well, I'm not surprised --
RUSH: You heard the Democrats during the Iraq war. You heard them guaranteeing defeat, you heard them advocating for defeat. You heard them trying to make it sound like they were supporting the troops when here comes some charge that they're raping and murdering Iraqis in Haditha. Jack Murtha, "Yep they're rapists and they're murderers." I mean the idea that Democrats have ever supported the troops I don't know where people get this. So it's not a surprise Obama would leave them like this. He doesn't care. No commander-in-chief -- grab sound bite number 16 -- no commander-in-chief would say this if he had any idea what his job was.
OBAMA: I will never hesitate to use force to protect the American people or our vital interests. I also promise you this, and this is very important as we consider our next steps in Afghanistan. I will never rush the solemn decision of sending you into harm's way. I won't risk your lives unless it is absolutely necessary. And if it is necessary, we will back you up to the hilt. Because you deserve the strategy, the clear mission, and the defined goals as well as the equipment and support that you need to get the job done. We are not going to have a situation in which you are not fully supported back here at home. That is a promise that I will always make to you.
RUSH: That is a ten on the puke scale, a full-fledged ten on the puke scale. Do you know what that is? That is a continuing campaign against George Bush and the Iraq war. That's what that is. That's not about Afghanistan. He's still running against Bush. The Democrats have nothing else they can do except Bush isn't around anymore. But that's what got 'em where they are, they think, and so they're continuing to attack Bush and that's all this statement is. I will never rush the solemn decision of sending you into harm's way like Bush did in Iraq. I won't risk your lives unless it's absolutely necessary. Iraq wasn't. And if it is necessary, we'll back you up to the hilt. Bush didn't. The truth is it was the Democrats who didn't back the troops to the hilt. It's the Democrats who aren't backing them now. It is Obama. He's acting like a candidate here, not the commander-in-chief.
They are in harm's way. You've already sent some people into Iraq or Afghanistan. They are in harm's way and you are not backing them to the hilt. You are dithering, and their morale is plummeting. Everybody involved does not understand why, Mr. President, you are not committed to the strategy that you announced in March. And then he said, "because you deserve that strategy, a clear mission, defined goals, as well as the equipment to support you." He's attacking Bush, he's attacking Iraq. He's not even talking about Afghanistan. Because while all of this is going on in Afghanistan he's pretending he's telling people about Iraq to show how he's not going to be like Bush.
In the meantime, everything he says he's going to do is not happening. He is not backing people up to the hilt. He did send people into harm's way, and he is risking their lives. Then he said "we're not going to have a situation in which you are not fully supported back here at home"? Mr. President, you are stuck on Iraq, and you are stuck in campaign mode of 2008. We do have a situation in which the troops are not fully backed here at home, by you, the commander-in-chief. "That is a promise I'll always make to you." This is insulting, it is outrageous, it is incompetent, and it's delusional.
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RUSH: It is apparent, ladies and gentlemen, that General John "Swifty" Kerry has taken over Obama foreign policy. You people who thought you were voting for Obama to change foreign policy were wrong. You know, I still can't get over that last sound bite. President Obama, there aren't Bush troops, and there aren't Obama troops. Those are American soldiers, and you've abandoned them, while claiming to these naval people in Jacksonville yesterday you never -- he's embarrassing. Worse than that, it's dangerous. We got John "Swifty" Kerry, who served in Vietnam, by the way, yesterday afternoon at the Council on Foreign Relations, said...
KERRY: In 1971 I asked the Foreign Relations Committee: "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" Thirty-eight years later, chairing the committee, I keep that question very much in mind.
RUSH: Do you guys realize that George Bush is gone? They cannot stop talking about Bush. It didn't help 'em in Virginia with Creigh Deeds, did it? It's not helping them in New Jersey with Corzine, is it? John Kerry, "Swifty" Kerry, said more.
KERRY: After eight years of neglecting Afghanistan as vice president, Dick Cheney has now come out of retirement to criticize President Obama for taking time to examine assumptions before sending troops into war. Make no mistake, because of the gross mishandling of this war by past civilian leadership there are no great options for its handling today. One American officer captured well our lack of a strategy when he said, "We haven't been fighting in Afghanistan for eight years, we've been fighting in Afghanistan for one year, eight times in a row." That is our inheritance.
RUSH: These people are absolutely shameless. They have no guts, nor do they have souls. The Bush-Cheney administration left them with a plan. Robert Gibbs was forced to admit they got the plan and implemented it, in March. You inherited a successful strategy, Senator Kerry, that this man-child president imposed. He implemented it. The gross mishandling of this war by past civilian leadership? There are no great options for its handling? Whatever happened to the concept of winning? There are no great options today? So you are dithering on troops because of Bush and Cheney? This is a party that's lost. This is a party that is dangerous to this country's future and security. These are people who are in a permanent campaign mode, and right now that campaign mode is anti-Bush, and for the simple reason they think that's what will get their irons out of the fire. They get into trouble and they think all they gotta do is mention Bush. And it isn't going to be long before a whole lot of people are saying, "Gosh, I wish Bush was running this."
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RUSH: Ah, isn't it wonderful how history repeats itself, ladies and gentlemen. The North Vietnamese and the Vietcong's favorite Senator, John Kerry, back to undermine another war. He undermined Vietnam; he undermined Iraq, and now he's undermining Afghanistan. So now he's Al-Qaeda's favorite senator, and the Taliban's favorite senator along with the North Vietnamese and Vietcong's favorite senator, and probably the favorite senator of the Khmer Rouge of Pol Pot. He trashed General McChrystal while at the Council on Foreign Relations as well.
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RUSH: I have a question. Here we have General McChrystal urging the president to send 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan to save the operation. We have NATO signing on. We have Anthony Zinni signing on. We have all kinds of people signing on, but General John "Swifty" Kerry has assumed operational control of the mission. And this is what he had to say about General McChrystal.
KERRY: His current plan reaches too far, too fast. We do not yet have the critical guarantees of governance and end of development capacity, the other two legs of counterinsurgency. And I have serious concerns about the ability to produce effective Afghan forces to partner with at the rate that we need to so that we can ensure that when our troops make heroic sacrifices, the benefits to the Afghans are actually clear and sustainable.
RUSH: Were we concerned who would run Germany after Hitler? Did we decide to wait till we figured out what the Germans would do if we get rid of Hitler? My question is this: Where is General Colin Powell on this? General Powell, of course, the ideal Republican who endorses and votes for the Democrat presidential nominee.
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RUSH: I just had the sound bites of John Kerry talking about Afghanistan and McChrystal. John Kerry, 2003, in December to the Council on Foreign Relations again: "In fact, I fear that in the run-up to the 2004 election, the administration is considering what is tantamount to a cut-and-run strategy. Their sudden embrace of accelerated Iraqification and American troop withdrawal dates, without adequate stability, is an invitation to failure. The hard work of rebuilding Iraq must not be dictated by the schedule of the next American election. ... Nowhere is the need for collective endeavor greater than in Afghanistan. We must end the Bush administration's delay in expanding NATO forces and deploying them outside of Kabul. We must accelerate the training for the Afghan army and police. The disarmament of the warlord militias and their reintegration into society must be transformed from a pilot program into a mainstream strategy." So here's John Kerry in 2003 accusing the Bush administration of thinking about cutting-and-running from Iraq and Afghanistan before the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations while we are in the midst of cutting-and-running from Afghanistan under the leadership of President Obama.
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NADER: Giving shareholders nonbinding authority on gigantic executive bonuses won't work. If you give shareholders binding authority and the shareholders should have, in these giant companies, a small staff so they could take on the executives --
FRANK: I agree.
NADER: -- but the important thing is -- and this is where I think Barney is the weakest -- in 2000 he voted for a bill that continued the deregulation of the burgeoning derivative racket. And now he's supporting a bill that has a huge loophole in terms of exempting trillions of dollars of certain categories of derivatives.
RUSH: Now, you know, Ralph Nader doesn't know how close to right he is. I don't think he actually does. Basically what Ralph Nader is saying, wait a minute, Barney, you're the one that made these banks do what they did, you sidled up to them, you enabled them to do this stuff this was irresponsible, well, you didn't enable them, you forced them to do it, and now you're taking it out on them with all this. Barney, of course, he doesn't sit still for this kind of stuff.
FRANK: Ralph gets to luxuriate in the purity of his irrelevance. We're in there fighting these things. The right wing took control of government and ruined it. They gave it a bad reputation. Now that we are trying at every front to increase the role of government in the regulatory area, we run to this public opinion that says, hey, those are the guys who screwed up Katrina. So the frustration is they're benefiting from their own incompetence.
RUSH: So that's Barney Frank saying that Ralph gets to luxuriate in the impurity of his irrelevance. The right wing took control of government and ruined it. (laughing) So Barney insults Nader, admits the Democrats' goal is to expand government on every front, and blames Republicans and Bush for giving government a bad reputation. This is a Saturday Night Live script. And then Barney, he kept going. He was on Anderson Cooper 365 last night, which I think is garnering about 200,000 viewers a night. It's in fourth place, it is losing to reruns on Headline News, reruns on Headline News, it's losing, CNN, Anderson Cooper 365. So he had Barney Frank on there, which is a great way to get the numbers up, isn't it? I'm sorry, John King was sitting in for Anderson Cooper on Anderson Cooper 365. John King says, "You have the new plan to deal with the institutions deemed too big to --" is CNN too big to fail? We need to start asking that question. They have already failed. CNN invented cable news. I am said to have invented modern talk radio. When I started in 1988, CNN was it. Now look at my chart and my graph compared to theirs. I mean their chart looks like employment in this country, down, down, down, down, down. Well, anyway, Barney Frank was asked if a new plan to deal with the institutions deemed too big to fail, help us to understand how this works."
FRANK: There's going to be a systematic risk council. The systematic risk council will have the duty of monitoring to see in any institution or any pattern is causing a risk. If it is they will step in well before we're faced with this kind of collapse. They would have said to AIG, you may not sell any more credit to false swaps, we are going to use the bankruptcy authority of the Constitution to put these -- this regulatory body in charge of putting these people out of their misery. When the right wing started talking about death panels, they were right for the wrong reason. We are going to have to death panels, but they're going to be death panels that are going to put to death these institutions before they can cause us problems, not old people.
RUSH: This is just too much. This is great. (laughing) This is great. How do they expect anybody in the country to listen to this, to love it, buy into it, (imitating Frank) "There's going to be a systematic risk council, this systematic risk council will have the duty of monitoring to see who (blubbering) the institution, pattern is causing a risk, is coming at risk, death panel, shut it down, like that, (blubbering) the old people, it's one of these institutions like AIG, we're going to whack 'em." Somebody get me some Lysol for the Golden EIB Microphone. I wonder how many regulators Barney whacked trying to stop what was going on in the subprime mortgage stuff. By the way, these guys want to try to take risk out of everything. I made the point last week, this is a nation built on risk-taking. That's what entrepreneurism is.
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RUSH: You know, I was thinking, Barney Frank is worse, ladies and gentlemen, than any executive who has ever been a crook in the private sector. Barney Frank uses his position and the law to promote the destruction of the housing market and all that goes with it. Then he blocked efforts to correct what he and others of his ilk had unleashed. If you want to know who Barney Frank is, he is Enron, AIG, WorldCom, Global Crossing, all the rest wrapped up in one, and worse. Barney Frank is an example of what is wrong with Soviet-style industrial policy.
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The Banking Queen and Mr. Pinto speak!
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CALLER: Hey, Rush, the people in South Carolina are furious with Lindsey Graham. He's being praised by the other side, I might add for being bipartisan, for teaming up with Kerry on this climate bill.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: He is not bipartisan. He is a turncoat. He is Benedict Arnold from hell. He has totally jumped ship. And, along with Kerry, he is carrying the flag for the other side. And we have had it, Rush. If he was up for reelection right now, and I know how you feel about the third party stuff, tell me if a conservative was to run against him, that you wouldn't support a third party against this clown.
RUSH: What now? If a conservative did run against Grahamnesty in a primary?
CALLER: I'm talking if he was to -- Graham is a sitting Senator, Rush.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: It's tough to beat him in the -- you know how tough --
RUSH: I know, look, I heard before he was recently reelected I heard I can't tell you how many calls sounding just like yours, "We're fed up with Grahamnesty. He doesn't have a chance here, he's finished, he's fini."
RUSH: Well, if it comes down to it, Rush, I'd almost have to say anybody other than him, just so we know who we're up against. He's a turncoat.
RUSH: Well, it was just last year, right, he was reelected, '08?
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: So he's got five years to make up for this. He's figuring you're not going to remember this.
CALLER: I know. Well, hey, Rush --
RUSH: Hey.
CALLER: -- any updates on your not-so-secret secret scheme, and are you going to give it a name?
RUSH: (laughing) The not-so-secret secret scheme?
CALLER: I love it. It's gonna work. I can't wait.
RUSH: Yeah, we're still working on this. See, I did announce a secret scheme last week, and I asked everybody, "Don't tell anybody so the media doesn't find out." And one of these days I'm just going to come out and say, "You know, I've relooked at everything and I think Obama is right about it." The objective of the scheme will be to trick the media into abandoning Obama because the one thing they will despise more than anything is agreeing with me or having me on their side. That they will not tolerate. I'm trying to figure out a way to get the media to abandon Obama and I figure the best way is to agree with him, but I gotta spring this on people when they're not looking for it. I can't announce the scheme and then do the scheme shortly thereafter. We're working on a name for the scheme, but the name for the scheme will come up after the scheme has been flawlessly executed. We're in the brilliant conception stage of the scheme now. But, folks, it will only work if you don't tell anybody.
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CALLER: Wow, that's amazing. I'll be getting, like, $2400 from my boyfriend this year for Christmas. I figured I'd go buy one of those.
RUSH: How do you know that your boyfriend is going to give you $2400?
CALLER: Because every year we're together I get $200, and we've been together 12 years. It increases. He started it 12 years ago.
RUSH: Hmm. Now, this is interesting.
CALLER: Nice guy, huh?
SEBELIUS: When did you guys strike this deal?
CALLER: He struck it one -- Christmas Eve. The first Christmas Eve we were together.
RUSH: So he came up with the plan, $200 a year for every year you're together?
CALLER: Uh-huh.
RUSH: And that was incentive enough to get you to hang in there?
CALLER: Oh, heck, yeah! He's one hell of a guy.
RUSH: Two hundred bucks. What does he get after 12 years of bliss?
CALLER: All of me.
RUSH: You?
CALLER: Hm-hm.
RUSH: All of you?
CALLER: Hm-hm. I know what Dr. Laura says, I know how to treat a man.
RUSH: I know what Dr. Laura… Oh. All right.
CALLER: Got you stumped, huh?
RUSH: (laughing) "Treat a man." (laughing) So you're, in effect, going to be paid $2400 this Christmas --
CALLER: Not paid. Just -- because he doesn't give me flowers or cards or anything during the year, so this is my, you know, reward for what I do for him. All year.
RUSH: You get no flowers or cards during the year?
CALLER: No, but I get a whopping gift at the end of the year for Christmas.
RUSH: And this year it's 2400 bucks?
CALLER: Hm-hm.
RUSH: Well, I think it's a win-win.
CALLER: I do, too.
RUSH: You and your back pain on the Sleep Number Bed, and he gets all of you on the Sleep Number Bed, so he'll get -- it's like, it's a win-win, I'd do it.
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Why is the leader of the GOP a talk show host?
I mean, lets just gather en masse at the next meeting of the RNC and start tasering and tar and feathering all the country clubbers and replace them with street fighters, this is a joke.
Thanks! I needed a HUGE chocolate RUSH today! :)
Will that do? LOL.
Hope you had an enjoyable couple of days off and a good day today. :-)
Happy Hour. The best hour of the day! :)
thanks GOPLADY!!!
Wow! :-)
I think Rush's pic of John Kerry is hillarious! :-)
“Where’s Hillary Clinton, by the way?” (Re: Afghanistan)
That’s the question I ask EVERY day! Where IS ‘the smartest woman in the room?’ I cannot WAIT until she has a major meltdown over ‘the boys’ constantly going over ‘Madame Secretary’s” head, LOL!
Hmmmm......chocolate covered chocolate. This might be hugh!!
Indeed. As you can see, we are in a VERY SERIOUS mood this evening. ;-)
“That’s the question I ask EVERY day! Where IS ‘the smartest woman in the room?’ I cannot WAIT until she has a major meltdown over ‘the boys’ constantly going over ‘Madame Secretary’s” head, LOL!”
Didn’t she retire back in January?
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