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"Imagine, ladies and gentlemen, a new business asking a bank for a loan and
submitting a plan without a budget that extends at least three years out.
A banker would throw you out of his office, especially now.
Obama has submitted talking points.
He's calling these talking points a plan."
"You talk about costing a whole lot of money and really endangering people, where are the hearings on climate change fraud?"
"We could assign a single reporter to virtually every cabinet department and every czar in this administration
to follow them every day, and we still could not keep up with their efforts to corrupt this country."
"If Obama cannot control bank bonuses with a direct liaison to the industry called the pay czar,
if he cannot control bank bonuses going up, when he set up an office to do just that,
why do we assume that his health care reform proposal will reduce costs or do anything that he says it's going to do?
We shouldn't."
"I predicted this was going to happen.
I had a little hope that it was gonna take a little longer for Scott Brown to succumb to
Potomac fever and all this bipartisan talk and so forth, but I predicted as much."
"There is a conservative ascendancy out there and it is happening within the Republican Party,
and that's where it ought to remain, and that's where the ascendancy should continue to grow."
"I want people to remember it took Ronald Reagan three times to get the Republican nomination.
It took him three times, and over eight years to do it.
These kinds of things do not happen overnight, and they don't happen just because there is a fervent, strong desire for it to happen."
"I'm not going to sit here and preside over a bunch of people committing suicide
on our side after one year of profound advancement and success."
"We're in the first inning here, gang, or we're in the first quarter if you prefer a football analogy.
We don't have the umpires in either game on our side. I'm talking about the media.
It's the World Series. Obama's the one getting shelled and we're going to start firing on ourselves too soon if we're not careful."
"I hate to say this, 'cause I know it's going to make people tell me I suck, but the Republicans are not the problem right now.
The Republicans are not trying to take over the country and make it the Soviet Union west! The Democrats are."
"It will never be possible to tax our way to deficit reduction.
The money will be spent faster than the Bam gang could ever hope to have it come in,
and what's even more sick is they know this and they just lie and lie and lie about it."
"The Republicans are not trying to take over any portion of the US private sector and
run it and make sure that people over 70 don't get medical care. The Democrats are."
"This Professor Green at Hofstra is the same kind of guy, folks,
that would blame Stalin and Castro for not doing enough for communism."
"Secret Service, just a little tip here, you might want to check to see if this
Professor Green at Hofstra owns an airplane or has a pilot's license.
Well, you know, history comes back and bites you if you don't remember it, particularly recent history."
"We love illustrating the absolute incompetence, bias, phoniness, whatever you want to call it of the State-Controlled Media."
"I have a policy here, and I've always had a policy, that I do not comment on other people that do this.
I do not believe in media feuds."
"I do not understand what Mitt Romney is doing by endorsing McCain.
The era of McCain is over!"
"My little take here from little old me is I think that Mitt Romney made a grave, grave error endorsing McCain.
That's not the future. I don't know why he did it."
"I think Scott Brown made a mistake voting for the jobs bill. But it is what it is."
"I don't know how you can think America is headed in the right direction unless you're feeding off your neighbors."
"I am so sick and tired of negative people. Like my friend Roger Ailes says,
'Negative people make healthy people sick,' and I am a healthy person, and I don't want to be sick."
"You sit out there and say everybody else sucks, and tell me I suck because I don't realize everybody else sucks.
Okay. So you go show those of us who do suck how not to suck.
Do it. Make your third party and show us how to win. You have all the answers, right?"
"I understand all the pent-up rage and anger out there, but you know the best way to deal with that is action --
and I'm not talking about fingers-on-a-keyboard kind of action."
"Remember to put your faith in ideas and not people.
People will always, always disappoint you! I'm one of the few who will never disappoint you."
"Maybe you guys on the far right or whoever you are that want to break off and form a third party
need to call this guy at Hofstra and join forces, since you both think everybody sucks."
"Folks, it's becoming clear: You are going to find public sector unions behind
every debt and liquidity problem in any state, city, or town in this country.
Nine out of ten times, anyway."
"Obama campaigned in such a way that nobody that voted for him thought they were going to get this.
They thought they were going to get the exact opposite."
"The 'tea party' candidate for Senate in Nevada is not a tea party guy.
His lawyer's name is Barry Levinson.
He's a former Obama supporter and the former attorney for John Wayne Bobbitt.
It is a Harry Reid trick. It won't work. Don't sweat it."
"I just remembered Obama was a state senator in Illinois for eight years.
So somebody tell me how in the hell the state can possibly be in a 'doomsday scenario'
when the Messiah did his internship at their state senate! Uh-oh."
Continually repeat ...
It's not about me.
I'm the President.
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Now, if Obama cannot control bank bonuses with a direct liaison to the industry called the pay czar, if he cannot control bank bonuses going up, when he set up an office to do just that, why do we assume that his health care reform proposal will reduce costs or do anything that he says it's going to do? We shouldn't. By the way, about the health care bill -- well, I gotta take a break here. But we got a lot to say on this. There are three provisions in this thing to fund abortions in Obama's health care bill, three different ways, spending even more money on it than in the original Senate bill. The CBO is refusing to score it because there is not enough information. Obama's out there saying, yep, yep, yep, just under a trillion dollars is the cost of my bill. CBO said I don't know about that. This is not a piece of legislation. It is simply a campaign document, a campaign statement, and they're out there saying, no, no, no, no, this is just a starter, this is our starting position here with the Republicans on Thursday at our bug summit. And even David "Rodham" Gergen is laughing about that. It's not a starter.
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RUSH: We're gonna go back to the audio sound bites. We're gonna go back. We go to two of these here from July 1st of 2009 and June 30th of 2009, both from CNN. One is from anchor Melissa Long with the Wall Street correspondent Susan Lisovicz and the anchor Betty Nguyen speaking with Your Money host Christine Romans. And the thing I wanted to hear them reacting to is not that... Well, here's the news today: "The number of mass layoffs by US employers edged up in January as manufacturers stepped up job cuts." Mass layoffs edged up in January! They don't even say they're shocked. They don't even say they're surprised. They're just now reporting it: Mass layoffs. Yet just last summer we were hearing this on CNN...
LONG: Nearly half a million jobs lost during the month of June, but is it possible to find a silver lining in all this? We want a silver lining. Susan Lisovicz at the floor of the New York Stock Exchange with more. Is there one?
ROMANS: The silver lining, if you will, is that May was revised -- uh, the previous month, I should say, uh, was revised lower -- and that was May. Also we have a separate report from Challenger Gray & Christmas, which shows the planned job cuts, the announcements slowed, and that is the fifth straight month, so that is encouraging. What is also high -- and this is also silver lining -- is the first day of July starting off on a positive note, the Dow is up 128 points, the NASDAQ is up 25. Good start. Tough act to follow, though, the second quarter rally that we saw.
RUSH: CNN infobabes giddy over the economy last July. Remember: Mass layoffs edged up he would not up in January. Consumer confidence is at an all-time low not seen since 1983. Here's the next CNN example last summer.
ROMANS: (giddy) We've seen a spring stock market rally that has been quite incredible! Job losses are slowing! Consumer confidence is improving! People are feeling a little better. They're feeling better because they're spending less. They're saving more money. They're getting back to basics. There's a new frugality that's --
RUSH: Hold it a minute! Stop the tape. Do you remember this? This was at a time that everybody was loving the fact that they were outta work, loving the fact that they were able to "get closer to their families" and "renew their relationships with people" and learn "frugality." Oh, it was all so wonderful last summer!
LONG: There's a new frugality that's making them feel better. There was a hu-u-uuge rally in the stock market in the second quarter. The stock market [is] telling us that it thinks things are going to get better eventually, and you're going to see that rally. If you are still invested in stocks -- if you had faith and you were buying stocks along the way this spring, you're buying them at cheap prices -- you're going to see that rally when you open up your 401(k) statement.
RUSH: (laughing) There's "a new frugality" that is back. This is from last summer. What we do here is love illustrating the absolute incompetence, bias -- whatever you want to call it, phoniness -- of the State-Controlled Media. Now, I got a note from a friend of mine today: "Rush, does it ever get old being right?" I want to be honest with you, my friends: It never does. I play golf a lot with some PGA Tour pros, and I say, "Does it ever get boring every shot going where you want it to go?" They smile and they say, "Never." Well, my friends, I never, ever get bored being right. The reason I was asked the question was because of a series of headlines in the news today. "FDIC Says Number of Problem Banks Jumped 27%." "Consumer Confidence Falls to a Ten-Month Low in February." "Home Prices Fall in December, But Annual Slide Slows." From CNBC: "Stocks Likely to Double-Dip After May," and from Bloomberg: "Harvard's Rogoff Sees 'Bunch' of Sovereign Defaults?." I've got every one of these stories in the stack, every one of them, if you want the down-and-dirty details. I've also got a story by a political scientist from some Ivy League school, and I'll tell you: The Secret Service better get on this guy. He is an admitted liberal and this guy is as livid at Obama and the Democrat media as I've seen anybody.
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RUSH: I have this in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers from the Communist Party USA's people's world, formerly the Daily Worker. Columbus, Ohio: "'I'm tired of rallies. I want to fight!' So said Tim Burga, operations director of the Ohio AFL-CIO, addressing the hundreds who had braved the cold Feb. 20 to attend a 'Pass It Now' rally for health care reform at the SEIU Local 1199 hall here." In other words, Obama's number one supporters showed up, these union thugs, and they said: "We want to fight! We don't want any more rallies, we don't want any more speeches, we want to fight."
"There was a sense of real urgency in the hall, as speaker after speaker pounded on the point that, as Brian Rothenberg of Progress Ohio stated, 'We now have 6 weeks to win the fight our people have been fighting since the Truman administration: health care for all!'" Exactly what I told you yesterday. It's the Lord of the Rings being played out right before our very eyes. "Becky Williams, president of SEIU, 1199, was interrupted by loud cheers as she led off the rally, telling the crowd, 'We have three things to tell the administration and the majority in congress. One -- we worked for and voted for change last year. That means actually changing what was there when you got there. Two -- we need for you to lead with courage, not be intimidated by Fox News and Teabaggers. Three, don't be fooled by lies!' she said. 'If you do these things we'll be with you, and the 66% of Americans who, according to polls are demanding that health care reform be passed.'" That's a wrong number, union thugs.
But look where we get the information, from the Communist Party USA. You don't get this from the State-Controlled Media. You get this from the Communist Party USA, and they're out there. Let me check something. Grab audio sound bite number 13. More union thug stuff here. This is last Friday in Los Angeles at the SEIU offices, Service Employees International Union, the same bunch of thugs demanding a fight, no more rallies in Ohio on the 20th of February. This is the Reform Immigration for America rally, Representative Xavier Becerra, Democrat, California, is in attendance, and an unidentified man, unidentified female rally leader have this exchange about how to start the meeting.
MAN: Can we start this meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance? (laughing) No, I'm serious, congressman, shouldn't we say the Pledge of Allegiance if we all want to be citizens? Wouldn't that be appropriate to say the Pledge of Allegiance?
WOMAN: Sure, of course.
MAN: Okay, let's do that. Can everybody stand? I'm happy to lead the Pledge of Allegiance.
WOMAN: Okay, let's go for it.
RUSH: If you see this, the room breaks out in laughter. And this congressman, Xavier Becerra, is laughing along with the rest of the crowd at the thought of reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. They then say okay and they do it
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RUSH: Okay, here's that David "Rodham" Gergen sound bite I was looking for, and the reason I didn't find it is because I looked -- now, never mind. It's a labeling thing. Anyway, this is on CNN's Situation Room last night, and Wolf Blitzer is talking to Gloria Borger and David "Rodham" Gergen about Obama's health reform bill, and Blitzer says, "It's unlikely to get the 60 votes to break a filibuster. They may not even be able to get 51 votes on this so-called reconciliation procedure. What are you hearing, Gloria from your sources?" which are just other people in the media.
BORGER: Everybody feels like their back is to the wall. We have no choice but to get this done. I'm told the president is going to refer to this as a, quote, starting document so that he can invite Republicans to join in and change the legislation.
BLITZER: David, you're smiling. Why are you smiling?
GERGEN: Because it's not a starting document. As the -- they're putting it forward as the bill itself and you guys can come and make a few amendments, and the Republicans are saying, "Nonsense," you know, "If you're serious about this, let's start over." The president may have trouble getting this through the House if he --
BORGER: Right.
GERGEN: -- goes to the reconciliation process. Rounding up the votes in the House is not going to be an easy task.
RUSH: David "Rodham" Gergen is right about that. Everybody is looking at the Senate here, and that's not the place to look anymore, because they likely can get 51 votes if they go reconciliation. I still think they're bluffing about that, but they might not be. But the House is where they're going to have real problems. That's where they're going to have problems. You got people like Heath Shuler, who, on a normal day has an IQ a little bit north of a pencil eraser, saying, why are they bringing it back? Can't we just let this die? These Blue Dogs don't want any part of this. And Newt had a good idea. Yes, Newt had a good idea. He said Obama says this is bipartisan, fine, Republicans ought to say you take three hours of this six-hour thing on Thursday and you give us three hours to run it ourselves, you run three and we'll run three. Of course Obama will reject that and out the door will go the notion of bipartisanship, which doesn't exist anyway.
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RUSH: Just in from TheHill.com: "House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) told his colleagues on Tuesday that Republicans plan to attend the president's high-profile healthcare summit this week in order to 'crash the party.' According to a House GOP leadership aide familiar with [Boehner]'s remarks at the weekly closed-door conference meeting, Boehner appealed to skeptical Republican lawmakers, saying, 'We shouldn't let the White House have a six-hour taxpayer-funded infomercial on ObamaCare. We need to show up. We need to crash the party.' ... Boehner explained that leaders are waiting for a response from White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to a letter they sent earlier this month that asked a series of questions on the bipartisan summit. 'It's our intent to be there on Thursday. We're waiting on a response and we're hopeful that we'll receive one soon,' Boehner explained." I remember that letter. It was all about, "Sounds to me like you guys already have your minds made up here, that this is just a trick. Many of your own people, Rahm, are saying it's just a trick just to get us up there. Is this true?" They also sent the letter to Harry Reid and Pelosi.
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RUSH: The Heritage Foundation has weighed in on Obama's latest health care plan and the health care summit this Thursday. Now, you heard me yesterday if you were listening, you heard me give my idea of a health care plan on this program and you heard Stacy, our insurance woman from Georgia immediately review the Obama plan, she's the insurance guru here. Heritage calls this meeting on Thursday a press stunt, which it is. They said if it's truly a sham of a meeting conservatives ought to boycott the event and call it for what it is. But if they're going to go, if they're going to attend and the liberals are serious about bipartisan reform ideas, then Heritage has a whole bunch of them, and of course they always say that we never offer any ideas. Well, how about allowing Americans to buy health insurance anywhere in the country? How about opening up state insurance markets and forcing the nation's health insurance companies, 1300 of them out there, to compete directly for consumers' dollars without a bunch of state mandates getting in the way? That's what Heritage is thinking, and they got 101 other ideas all related to this press event on Thursday, good ideas for Americans, and they're born at Heritage every day.
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RUSH: Get this from State-Controlled Associated Press: "Outlook No Brighter for Obama's New Health Plan -- Starting over on health care, President Barack Obama knows his chances aren't looking much more promising. A year after he called for a far-reaching overhaul, Obama unveiled his most detailed plan yet on Monday. Realistically, he's just hoping to win a big enough slice to silence the talk of a failing presidency." Yeah, it's from State-Controlled Associated Press. And then Steny Hoyer is out there saying -- how many times you going to hear this? -- "Public option on healthcare likely dead." Those union thugs who want to fight out there in Ohio are not going to be happy to hear about these two stories, my friends. And yet. Never mind. I'm not going to say it again.
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RUSH: Douglas Elmendorf, who runs the CBO, said that they can't score Obama's health care plan, there aren't enough details. "This morning the Obama Administration released a description of its health care proposal, and CBO has already received several requests to provide a cost estimate for that proposal. We had not previously received the proposal, and we have just begun the process of reviewing it -- a process that will take some time, given the complexity of the issues involved," blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. "Therefore, CBO cannot provide a cost estimate for the proposal without additional detail, and, even if such detail were provided, analyzing the proposal would be a time-consuming process that could not be completed this week." Certainly not by Thursday and the summit. So they can't score it, yet Obama is out there, "Oh, yeah, it won't even cost a trillion. It's not going to add to the deficit." The CBO guy is taking a big risk here by authoring this himself.
Now, the dirty little secret is, my friends, that it's not an accident that Obama's plan does not provide the CBO either the detail or the time to give a cost estimate. See, that way Obama can continue to pretend that his $1 trillion plan doesn't raise the deficit. (laughing) I can't believe I said that. After all, remember, Obama promised during his address to a joint session of Congress back in September, "I won't sign any health care legislation if it adds one dime to the deficit now or in the future." That's the same speech during which Congressman Joe Wilson got into so much trouble for blurting out "You lie." And yet the president continues to do just that. I mean this is not even a plan. It's just another phony promise, typical Obama, still out there hustling hope and change.
Imagine this. Imagine, ladies and gentlemen, a new business asking a bank for a loan and submitting a plan without a budget that extends at least three years out. A banker would throw you out of his office, especially now. Obama has submitted talking points. He's calling these talking points a plan. The private sector would never stand for this, couldn't get away with it. The president wanted to say he had a plan like all the other guys wearing big boy pants and there was one guy out there saying, "Mr. President, where is your plan?" He doesn't have a plan. So I think it's safe to say I can take blame for Obama presenting this thing. There's nothing to discuss. Obama has once again embarrassed himself. I don't know who's advising this guy. He's an agitator without experience or a compass. He's not grounded in reality and he doesn't have a plan, specifically. We know what the objective is. It's to take over the economy, health care particularly, for all of the reasons that we've stated, time in and time out.
Now, here from CNNmoney.com is a story about how Obama wants to pay for health reform and basically it's tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax. I was going through this, picking out certain really offensive nuggets, but I gave up because the bottom line in this entire approach is sick, and I mean in a twisted, hubristic way of a special sickness. This comes at the health insurance question from the perspective of refusing to recognize the sovereignty of the individual vis-a-vis the state. And what's worse, none of this is gonna work. It will never be possible to tax our way to deficit reduction. The money will be spent faster than the Bam gang could ever hope to have it come in, and what's even more sick is they know this and they stand there and they just lie and lie and lie about it. If Obama gets his way, a freely born American cannot even refuse the government's help without being taxed.
I'll share with you as far as I got excerpting this. Headline: "How Obama Wants to Pay for Health Reform -- Many of the changes the proposal calls for aren't free. Obama proposes to pay for the additional burden on the federal coffers in several ways. Among those that would have a direct bearing on individuals and businesses, he would: Tax high-cost medical plans ... Increase Medicare tax on high-income households ... Require insurance coverage. He would impose a financial penalty on most Americans who don't buy health insurance. ... Require employers to pay if they don't provide coverage. ... Impose new fees on the health industry. ... Trim various health-related tax breaks." I mean, it's a tax bill, what he's proposed here, and it always has been.
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INHOFE: One of the largest newspapers over there said this is the most significant scientific scandal of our generation. Yet global warming alarmism has been sold on the very notion that man-made greenhouse gases are causing environmental catastrophes, Himalayan glaciers melting and all that stuff. But now we know there's no objective basis for these claims that I've just talked about. The Obama administration then is moving ahead with a massive job killing tax for no good reason. The minority report shows the world's leading climate scientists acting like political scientists.
RUSH: We got a problem up there? Everybody sounds like they're underwater with our sound bites, or are we just doing this on purpose today to cause more attention to be focused on the sound bites? I haven't gotten an answer on this yet. We'll just keep playing 'em. (interruption) Okay, oh, it's not our equipment, it's a lousy copy, I'm told. Well, I don't need another copy here. I'm very tuned to the way people sound and I know that the Senate's not doing this hearing underwater with scuba tanks. All right, here's Boxer now, a portion of her remarks.
BOXER: In my opening statement, I didn't quote one international scientist or IPCC. I quoted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, I quoted NASA. I think they know what they're talking about. And the AAA, in this case the American Association of the Advancement of Science, we've been keeping records for 130 years, and we've had the warmest decade in that time. And we can track the ice. So two things I wanted to dispel. We are quoting the American scientific community here and we are talking about facts on the ground, what's been observed over the last decade because climate change is about decade to decade, not day to day.
RUSH: Right. And there's been a decade and a half of no warming since 1995. NOAA is as corrupt as the IPCC is. NOAA is as corrupt and James Hansen at NASA is as corrupt as Phil Jones. It's a worldwide cabal. So this is their out now, this is their out. (imitating Boxer) "No, we're not relying on those frauds over there in Great Britain, no, no, no, we're relying on the American frauds because they're our frauds and we're going to go patriotic on this. Our fraud scientists are Americans, so that's who we're listening to, we're not listening to the other guys." Let's go back, October 29th, 2007, Boxer using day-to-day observations to say global warming was happening.
BOXER: He also remarked that the most optimistic climate models for the second half of this century suggest that 30 to 70% of the snow pack will disappear. Now, no wonder we have people visiting our offices who are just already hurting from the recreation industry in this nation. They see what's happening, they see the handwriting on the wall. We have to act.
RUSH: Yeah. So there she is using day-to-day activity to cite global warming as something that is happening. And March 19th of last year, here she is quoting this fraudulent, corrupt UN group, the IPCC.
BOXER: Looking at the United States of America, the IPCC clearly warned that unchecked global warming will lead to reduced snow pack in the western mountains, critically reducing access to water, which is our lifeblood.
RUSH: Okay, so last year the IPCC was gold, that was the gold standard. Now screw the IPCC. No, no, no, no, we're not relying on them, we're relying on Americans. Inhofe's got 'em here by the shorts, folks, but they're not going to give this up. This is a political issue to them every bit as important as so-called health care reform is. By the way, one more on this. This is this morning at the same Senate committee, the Environment and Public Works Committee -- and, by the way, I didn't notice Boxer sounding underwater in those two bites, but the bites that are coming from today clearly show Boxer and Inhofe and we'll find out here in a second, Lisa Jackson, if she's underwater. We're in so much debt, hell, everybody's underwater, underwater in their houses, Washington's underwater in their jobs, their job performance. Anyway here's the EPA director, Lisa Jackson, and she's a far left-wing fringe activist, and Inhofe says to her, "One of your quotes was that the EPA's view that, 'the scientific assessments of the IPCC represent the best reference material for determining the general state of knowledge on the scientific and technical issues of climate science.' Do you still agree with that?"
JACKSON: I think it's out of context, Senator. The IPCC is certainly important. It represents multiple lines of evidence and much data.
INHOFE: Okay. Do you still believe, as you've stated before, that the IPCC is the gold standard for climate change science?
JACKSON: The primary focus of the endangerment finding was on climate threat risk in this country. The information on the glaciers and other things doesn't weaken or undermine the science that EPA reviewed to look at the endangerment to human health and welfare.
RUSH: Of course not. Why should it? Why should news that's proven to be fraud have any effect on what we're doing here? The Himalayas, screw the Himalayas, the Himalayas aren't here. And so we don't care about the Himalayas now.
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CALLER: Aloha, Rush. You've often said your parents would not believe your life.
RUSH: That's true.
CALLER: And if my parents were alive, they would not believe that I'm talking to you. And just to put this in perspective, let me be clear. My brother Jim told me about you in 1991, and I've been EIB positive ever since. My mom died from cancer in 1994, and in the last two weeks of her life she couldn't get out of bed, and she asked us to bring the radio into her bedroom so she could still listen to you. Long ago we made you an honorary member of the Miles Brothers Corp. and my brother John gives me Rush 24/7 each year for Christmas which is the ultimate gift. My best friend and wife Brenna and I have a son named Reagan James, who is named after my dad and President Reagan. And Reagan James has been listening to you since he was three days old, so I'm very proud to say Reagan is a Rush Baby.
RUSH: Well, thank you, sir, very, very much.
CALLER: On behalf of all those people, I just want to say that we love you and thank you, Rush.
RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much. I can't tell you how much I appreciate that.
CALLER: Well, thanks. And I just very quickly wanted to give you a heads-up on a clean and articulate conservative, Drew Wrigley, who served as US attorney along with Chris Christie, and I believe Drew Wrigley will be a legendary governor of North Dakota in the future. But getting back to all that anger on the left that you mentioned earlier, since the libs have been so angry about man-made global warming for so long, I'm curious about the link between global warming and Iran. It seems like a nuclear weapon is the ultimate example of man-made global warming. So why aren't President Obama and all the other Nobel Peace Prize winners who believe in man-made global warming, why aren't they stopping Iran from getting nuclear weapons to help save the environment?
RUSH: Well, let me ask you if you can answer the question yourself. I generally find if people can come up with the question that they almost, if not all the time, can get close to the answer. What do you think is the reason why there's no concern about Iran getting a nuke, but global warming is horrible, it's going to kill us.
CALLER: Well, in my 19 years of training from you at the EIB Institute, I should probably be able to figure out the answer but the best I can come up with is, like on most issues, they're hypocritical, and they're irrational, but beyond that I guess I don't really get it.
RUSH: Okay, well then try this. Whether it's man-made global warming or any other ill that the world faces, the people that you are describing blame the United States for it all. They blame terrorism on the United States. If we didn't support Israel or if we hadn't put our military people in Saudi Arabia, if we weren't stealing all of the oil from the people who really own it, and if we weren't building ourselves up into a rich superpower while keeping the rest of the world poor, then they wouldn't hate us and they wouldn't blow us up and our buildings and so forth. So these people believe that we deserve it, that we're responsible, we've got to understand their rage. By the same token, they understand, hey, we've got a nuke, who are we to say Iran shouldn't have a nuke? Who are we to say? Maybe Iran should have a nuke and we shouldn't 'cause we're the bad guys.
When it comes to global warming, who are the number one perpetrators of the destruction of the planet? Guess who? Americans. So these people you're asking about look at life through a prism of genuine hatred for this country, if not hatred, then suspicion. And so when you have the mullahs in Iran nuking up, these people say, "Well, yeah, who can blame them, really. I mean they've gotta protect themselves against us, people like Bush and Cheney. I mean if we can have one, why can't they? If the Russians can have one, why can't the Iranians? If the Israelis can have one..." These people get caught up in all this fairness that's predicated on the fact that we are ultimately unfair as Americans, and therefore we are to blame for all this, and there's your answer and it's no more complicated than that.
CALLER: Well, thank you, Rush. And just as a bonus thank you. I just can't say how much it means to me how you've defended President Reagan through the years against all those same angry libs, and recently you've been talking about, instead of all of us worrying about who's the smartest and all that stuff, we just need to advance the conservative agenda. And when President Reagan passed on that title to you as the leading voice of conservatism, it reminded me of a famous Reagan quote that the way you've lived your life and I just have to say, too, you feel like a third big brother to me, so I can't believe I'm talking to you. Even though we've never talked before you've had such a huge impact, so thanks again. But the Reagan quote is that there's no limit to what you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
RUSH: Exactly. Exactly right. Scott, you have made my day. Thank you very much. I can't tell you how much I appreciate that. Seriously.
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RUSH: To the phones. We go to Chicago. This is Ed. Nice to have you with us, sir, hello.
CALLER: Hi how you doing, Rush?
RUSH: Very well thank you.
CALLER: I just called to make a quick comment about Glenn Beck. The way he's always talking about Republicans and Democrats are exactly the same just kind of really irritates me. But yesterday he changed his tune a little. He talked about how you got DeMint in there and Mike Pence and, you know, there are some good Republicans in there. But I just got tired of hearing him saying it and saying it. It seemed like yesterday he changed his story a little bit. You know, kind of like what you're saying, that they're not all the same. They're not the same, and I agree with you, but I just got tired of listening to it. Finally yesterday he just... You know, I don't know why he did it but he did.
RUSH: Well, you --
CALLER: And Arnold Schwarzenegger, too. He irritated me, too, when he said about Republicans being the party of "no."
RUSH: Well, look --
CALLER: Like you, I like it., I like saying "no" to this garbage.
RUSH: I have no clue about Arnold Schwarzenegger anymore. I saw his little appearance there on Meet the Depressed. (impression) "Republicans need to support the president on dee health care reform." Here's a guy with 27% approval.
CALLER: Yep. He's on his way out.
RUSH: No wonder Meet the Press wants him on TV. He's a prototypical Republican. What they all want Republicans to be, is Arnold. You give me a dilemma about Glenn Beck, however, because I have a policy here, and I've always had a policy, that I do not comment on other people that do this. I do not believe in media feuds. I don't believe in doing that kind of thing. Everybody in this business has their own objective, I think I understand what people's objective in this business are from person to person to person. I know what they want. I know what they're trying to accomplish. But I don't feel comfortable commenting on it. It's just a policy thing here. I really don't want to get into internecine battles with people on my side of things. I'd rather keep my powder dry, focus on people I think are the real problems, and that's liberals and Republicans in Name Only.
CALLER: Okay, Rush.
RUSH: What?
CALLER: No, I just wanted to say. I understand. Like I said, every time I hear him say that, it just makes my blood boil.
RUSH: Yeah. Well... (clearing throat)
CALLER: I understand your point.
RUSH: Well, a lot of people are not gonna understand the point. A lot of people are going to think I'm copping out here and so forth, which I'm not doing. Look, I know everybody talks about me and how I do it. There's a reason for that, and I have to be mindful of the position I occupy here, and I start commenting on other people that do this... You people have listened for a long time know I don't do it. They all comment about me but I don't want to get distracted by those kinds of things. But I will tell you something. This day, when I got up and saw some things that happened and said, "Okay, yesterday, Obama committing suicide with his health care proposal," this is suicide Tuesday. I do not understand what Mitt Romney is doing, endorsing McCain. The era of McCain is over! And Scott Brown s voting for the jobs bill, this meager little $15 billion jobs bill? (sigh)
Folks, I hate to tell you this, but if you'll go back and if you will review the tapes, the transcripts of this program, you will see. You will not find me being a giant, big-time, pedal-to-the-metal supporter of Scott Brown. We're talking about a Massachusetts Republican. Now, I know he's opposed health care, and we gotta continue to support him on that, and he's opposed to cap and trade, and he hasn't changed his mind. In fact there's a story: "Scott Brown Fumes Over the New Health Care Plan." He wants no part of it. But he did go along with this jobs bill, and he did say, "I hope my vote today is a strong step towards restoring bipartisanship in Washington." I must tell you, I'm not surprised by this. It's going to be a waste of energy if you get all bent out of shape and angry about it. Feel free to do it if you want to, but this is not that big a surprise. Especially when you look. There are five other Republicans that join this thing, the usual suspects. You had Susan Collins voting for it and you had Olympia Snowe, because it says "jobs" on it. It's not a jobs bill on it but it says "jobs" on it and everybody wants jobs. There's not enough "laser-like focus" on jobs. The problem is, this isn't going to create any jobs but it's gonna give all kinds of politicians the cover to say they support efforts to create jobs. The only thing I would ask Scott Brown is: How do you say this, that he said at CPAC?
BROWN: My name is Scott Brown, and I'm the newly elected Republican senator from Massachusetts! (cheers and applause) Let me just say that one more time: I am the Republican Senator from Massachusetts. (cheers and applause)
BROWN: One Democrat said that, and I quote, there was "no way in hell a Republican was going to get elected to the seat once held by Ted Kennedy." Well, here I am.
BROWN: For the big-government spenders I'm sure my election does not make them feel good at all, but for those who are interested in restoring the real checks and balances in Washington and bringing accountability and transparency back to our government, it feels wonderful.
RUSH: Now, he said that last Thursday. Yesterday he votes for the jobs bill and starts talking about wanting to restore "bipartisanship" in Washington. That's not what got him elected. And he's going to sit there and say at CPAC, "All the big government spenders, I'm sure my election doesn't make 'em feel good." I think they'll feeling pretty good right now on the jobs bill vote that he made. But again, I'm not spruced by it. He's from Massachusetts. Folks, he is not a down-the-line conservative, and nobody ever said that he was. He's a far sight better than Ted Kennedy. He's a far sight better than having a Democrat in there. And he's still makes a point here, this Boston Herald story: "Scott Brown Fumes Over Health Plan. ... 'If the Democrats try to ram their health-care bill through Congress using reconciliation, they are sending a dangerous signal to the American people that they will stop at nothing to raise our taxes, increase premiums and slash Medicare,' said Brown spokesman Colin Reed in a statement.
"'Using the nuclear option damages the concept of representative leadership and represents more of the politics-as-usual that voters have repeatedly rejected.' While Brown's office didn't specifically reject Obama's latest bill, there was no doubt Brown views the proposal as similar to earlier health-care plans backed by Democrats," and then you have Mitt Romney endorsing McCain. Now, my little take here from little old me, is I think that Mitt Romney made a grave, grave error endorsing McCain. That's not the future. I don't know why he did it. (sigh) You know, after all, it was McCain joining forces with Huckabee that screwed Mitt in West Virginia and then later on down in Florida with Charlie Crist. So I think that was not wise. It was an error. I think Scott Brown made a mistake voting for the jobs bill. But, it is what it is. And this is why, folks, I don't get close to these people. That's why I don't want 'em. They're going to come and go, and I'm going to be here, so are all of us long after they come and go.
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RUSH: All right, Mike, let's head back here to the top of the audio sound bites. As I say, get my roster in order here. There we go.
All right, now, Scott Brown, folks, look, I predicted that this was going to happen, I predicted as much. I had a little hope that it was gonna take a little longer for Scott Brown to succumb to Potomac fever and all this bipartisan talk and so forth, but I tell you, I like Mitt Romney, but I think he's risking his career over a guy, endorsing McCain, who is so out of step with what's going on right now. McCain's always conservative when he's running for reelection in Arizona. The tea parties have produced a wave of conservatism that have swept Republicans-in-name-only aside. I understand Palin endorsing McCain. She's got no choice. Loyalty, plus if she doesn't the media will cream her, "Oh, he's good enough to be president but you won't endorse him to be Senator?" And it's understandable Romney would endorse Brown, but I don't understand Romney endorsing McCain. I just don't think it's going to fly. These endorsements are unnecessary. What is there to gain by this? Look, it's unfortunate, but people are weeding themselves out of the process all the while engaging in this kind of behavior. So in one sense it has a cleansing aspect to it.
Bob in Hollywood, great to have you on the program, sir. Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh show.
CALLER: Yeah, hey, Rush. I'm a little upset. This Romney thing is news to me but the thing I was going to call about before, you know, this cloture vote, it's a reminder that we cannot get too excited about the seats simply changes letters from D's to R's in November. You know, the GOP succumbing to any degree of what I would call McCainsian regressive syndrome is just poisoning to a conservative renaissance. Now, Scott Brown's election may have driven this runaway truck into the gravel for the time being, but, buddy, we've gotta do an 18-point turn here, and it's a long road back.
RUSH: That's an excellent point, and I want to remind people of something. There is a conservative ascendancy out there and it is happening within the Republican Party, and that's where it ought to remain, and that's where the ascendancy should continue to grow. I want people to remember it took Ronald Reagan three times to get the Republican nomination. It took him three times, and over eight years to do it. Now, these kinds of things do not happen overnight, and they don't happen just because there is a fervent, strong desire for it to happen. It has to happen because a bunch of people with the same principles and objectives aligning within the structure of, say, this Republican Party and taking it over, and if that doesn't happen, all the rest of it is academic.
CALLER: Right, and look at the retiring RINOs, let's start there in the Senate: Brown, Bond, Gregg, Voinovich, and then the other guys that are up, who's going to step up and challenge a Vitter or a Shelby or an Isakson or a Murkowski or a Grassley? I'm afraid, Rush, that we're not going to get the kind of politicians up there on Capitol Hill that can wear your sack, if you will, you know, with that document of negative liberties in hand, you know, that document that appears radical only to these DC compassionates and their red carpet --
RUSH: Okay, let me --
CALLER: -- circle jerk media appendages, only because we have gone so far off course for so long. I just don't know if they're going to be able to do it, man.
RUSH: Let me ask you a penetrating host question. If they can't do it who's going to do it?
CALLER: Well, that's just it. I mean, you know, we're kinda at the mercy of this next round of GOP folks who get in there. You know, we can't clone you and have you take over all, you know, however many seats we need.
RUSH: No, but all this is not going to happen in one election.
CALLER: Of course not. But I mean this is key right here. I mean, God, this Romney supporting McCain now --
RUSH: Hey!
CALLER: You know, where's this going?
RUSH: Hey, it's 2010. It's good that it happened, right? Okay, here's somebody else weeding themselves out.
CALLER: Yeah?
RUSH: These kinds of things --
CALLER: He has no chance in 2012 now. In fact, I'm really pushing Bachmann and Tom McClintock out here in California.
RUSH: Oh, yeah. Of course Ron Paul won the CPAC straw poll.
CALLER: Yeah, Ron Paul.
RUSH: Yeah.
RUSH: Don't give up out there. Look, nobody's ever gonna get perfection. Look at the Democrats, for crying out loud, now. Up until Scott Brown they had 60 votes in the Senate and they still couldn't come to an agreement on the big stuff that they all want. They couldn't come to agreement on health care; they couldn't come to an agreement on cap and trade; they couldn't come to an agreement on all of the big agenda items. They got the stimulus, which was, you know, early on with Obama. And his cabinet level people and the czars are doing a lot of things to advance their radicalness behind the scenes outside the legislative process. But even them, so many people look at the Democrats as invincible, they never make a mistake, they always win, they've got the media on their side and look at them. They are a collection of laughingstocks right now over this. As I say, even David "Rodham" Gergen is laughing at them on this latest attempt at a health care bill. Let me find that sound bite. It's coming up very soon. I've got it here. Where is it? Where the hell is it? I can't find it. Don't tell me it's on the last freaking page. I'm not going to find it in time. Well, now I can't find it period, but I know I just read it here on the sound bite roster.
At any rate, my point in all of this is, there's a way to do this that is positive, uplifting, inspiring, as opposed to negative, dividing, tearing down, and so forth. I just don't think that running around with a bunch of pitchforks, essentially, is the way this is going to happen in a successful way. But, look, I realize, my friends, I hear from you. I hear from about ten of you 50 times a day. The Republicans suck, the Democrats suck, everybody sucks, and I'm starting to suck because I don't see that everybody sucks. Ten of you people write me 50 times a day. I know how you feel about it, but I'm not going to sit here and say that you suck because you are in my audience. You do represent a challenge. But instead of sitting there and writing everybody sucks and sitting there and saying everybody's wrong and do this, why don't you people go do something? Why do you go do something? Back away from your computer screen and telling everybody else sucks and go show us how it's done.
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RUSH: Folks, it has been just one year. I'm not going to sit here and preside over a bunch of people committing suicide on our side after one year of profound advancement and success. We're in the first inning here, gang, or we're in the first quarter if you prefer a football analogy. And we don't have the umpires in either game on our side. I'm talking about the media. We're in the first inning here. It's the World Series. Obama's the one getting shelled, and we're going to start firing on ourselves too soon if we're not careful.
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RUSH: I understand all the pent-up rage and anger out there, but you know the best way to deal with that is action -- and I'm not talking about fingers-on-a-keyboard kind of action.
And there's another piece of advice that I'd like to give everybody here, and I've said this countless, countless times. Remember to put your faith in ideas and not people. People will always, always disappoint you! I'm one of the few who will never disappoint you. You will never, ever, as long as I am alive, detect me changing a core belief. It will never, ever happen. But others do because they have different motivations than I do. The ideas are what matter to me, and the people who have those ideas at the moment are worth supporting. But you don't get involved in supporting personalities. That's how we got Obama, and that's how we're stuck with it. Now, this takes time. Where were we a year ago? Look at the hopelessness every felt a year ago. We thought we'd lost the country a year ago, and now it's Obama who's getting shelled every day.
Now, I probably am correct when I say that the Republican Party right now is not trying to harness the fervor behind the tea party and the town halls. They're not there yet. We know this. We know the Republican Party. We've talked about it. It's run by a bunch of country club, blue-blood Rockefeller liberal types, and I've told you exactly why: They don't like abortion. You think that's too simplified, but it's not. It's exactly what it's about. This is why the country club, blue-blooders do not want any part of any tea party or any town hall stuff, or any people who believe that social issues are a matter. The only reason social matters are a matter is because the government has made them issues. We haven't voted on all these things. Supreme Court dictated abortion, all these kinds of other things, and cultural rot. They ought not be political issues but we had no choice.
We didn't make 'em political issues, they did, and so we have to fight 'em. It's the nature of the game! The Republican Party is not yet there trying to harness the fervor behind the tea party in the town halls. For any non-conservative they're trying desperately not to get run over by the tea parties right now. They're trying to hold onto what they think is their right -- their birthright, in fact -- which is leadership of the Republican Party. A lot of them have left. Others are facing serious conservative challenges. They're trying to hang on. This is the first inning of the first game of the World Series. A year ago, it didn't even look like we had a chance to make the World Series. So here we are in the midst of what anybody with any kind of objective view and a memory of at least one year's worth of history would have to proclaim is an amazing success story.
We all thought that by last August they would have health care. We all thought they'd have cap and trade. We all thought that we were going to be witnessing the actual makeover of this country from capitalist to socialist. And after a year we've held it off, but it's an every day thing. There's no rest. There's no respite from it. Now, if you happen to think a third party is the best way to go, then go out there and form it. You think a third party is needed? You go form it. You people who think everybody sucks, go show us how not to suck! You form a third party! Find your candidate, name your party. Go out there and name your congressional candidates and your Senate candidates. Show me how you're going to put together a third party governing force. Show me. You sit out there and saying everybody else sucks, then you say that I suck because I don't realize everybody else sucks.
Okay. So if you're the only ones that don't suck then you go show us who do suck how not to. Do it! You got all the answers. You're making all the success. You're in such a powerful mode here. I guess you can all call me and write me and tell me what you've done to bring about this massive success in this past year. Yeah, I want to me hear about it. I want to hear about it. I want to hear who your third-party leaders are. Who are you going to run for president in the third party? Who is it? Tell me who it is! "Well, I can't come up with one buh, buh, buh, buh (mumbling)." Well, then why are you so insistent the Republicans name one today? If you can't come up with somebody in a third party, if you've got somebody out there, call and tell me, and we'll discuss it. Ideas, my friends, and not personalities are what matter.
Let's go to the audio sound bites. I gotta get some of these things out of the way here. One of the reasons I waited, ladies and gentlemen, to discuss Scott Brown voting for the jobs bill... One more thought on that. You have to realize that Scott Brown is a Republican in Massachusetts and he's gotta vote, at some point, this way. He's got to if he wants to get reelected. He's up in a couple years. It's a chump change little bill, $15 billion instead of $85 billion. Now, his voice e-mail box is fill and a lot of people mad at him and he does have some explaining to do, but he's going to do this a couple or three more times, but he's going to hold fast on health care and he's going to hold fast on cap and trade. And he's out there making that point again today in the local media and the Boston Herald. The reason I waited for almost an entire hour to go by to weigh in on it was because of this sound bite from last night on MSNBC.
CHRIS HAYES: At this point the chances look good, although, God! You do not want to be manning the phones in Scott Brown's office tomorrow morning. I mean (snickers) if you look on the Internet now or on Twitter the Scott Brown hash tag, I mean i-i-i-it's unbelievable the backlash that's going to be pouring in tomorrow. I mean, there's -- there's just going to be tremendous denunciations. Rush Limbaugh and everyone is going to be going down the line.
RUSH: And I knew, because of that sound bite, that all these Drive-Bys going to be tuning in here at 12:06 Eastern Time to hear me denounce Scott Brown. So I wanted them to have to wait for an hour to hear it and say some other things more important before I got to that. Diane Sawyer was practically having an orgasm over this.
SAWYER: And speaking of bipartisanship, one fresh sign of it tonight: Newly elected Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown was among a handful of Republicans joining Democrats to clear the way for the passage of the president's $15 billion job-creation bill. And majority leader Harry Reid praised Brown saying, "I hope this is the beginning of a new day, at least in the US Senate."
RUSH: What a laugher. (laughing) So we've got gridlock, the Democrats can't get anything done with the supermajority, then here comes a Republican voting with them. "Ah, maybe now we're going to get some things done here." So we find out that gridlock is simply Democrats unable to get their agenda through. But now that Brown and a couple other Republicans voted for it, I guess Washington is not broken anymore! It's a beautiful thing! My God, yesterday and Sunday, "Oh, it was a horrible thing! Washington's broken. Oh, no, can we ever put it back together? It's like Humpty-Dumpty." Today, last night, "Ah, Washington is not broken anymore. Scott Brown voted with the Democrats.
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RUSH: To the phones in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this is Karen. I'm glad you called. Welcome to the program.
CALLER: Hi, Rush.
RUSH: Hi.
CALLER: I am so pissed off at Mitt Romney. I mean I just couldn't be more pissed off. I was upset when Sarah Palin --
RUSH: Did you say pissed off?
CALLER: -- does he not have the guts to --
RUSH: Yeah, okay.
CALLER: -- just back away, but then this that I heard today about Mitt Romney, you know, I was pissed off when we didn't get to vote in the primary election here, but it was already decided in June of, you know, in the last election. Because we wanted to vote for Mitt Romney. But I am so pissed off at him, don't they get it? Do they not get it? We are so mad. We have had it. We want Republicans to act like conservatives.
RUSH: They don't get it. This is what I'm telling you now, I tried to say that the Republican Party is trying to fight this off right now, they're trying to fight off the tea party people. They're trying to avoid being run over by them. Nobody is willingly going to give up a position of leadership they think they hold and a lot of people, it's very difficult for people to change their core. Now, again, with Romney endorsing McCain, this is all about the future. This is Romney wanting McCain's endorsement in 2012 if he runs for president. This is all about Republicans hanging together and this is one of the things that irritates people, especially new arrivals, to what is considered to be the same old politics. It is tone deaf, it's suicidal, at least it seems to me, but at least you find out where people think things are important early on in a process like this so it's got its value even though it does make you mad.
CALLER: Yeah, but who in the hell wants McCain's support? I mean I wouldn't want his support. He's an idiot, a total idiot.
RUSH: Well, imagine -- they keep talking about the Republican Party tent, right?
CALLER: Hmm hmm.
RUSH: Okay, so imagine you got this tent, and we all know that McCain is still ticked off that he didn't win the presidency, and he's still ticked off that he had to fight so hard to win the nomination. So 2012 comes along, let's say McCain loses the Senate run, so now he's out there really ticked off, and some people just might -- just throwing this out there, I'm not trying to convince you of this. I don't even know if it's true or even accurate. But maybe they're just figuring down the road they'd rather have McCain not outside the tent throwing bombs at 'em, rather have him inside the tent doing whatever he's doing, I think either way it's irrelevant because I think you're right, the era of McCain's over.
CALLER: Yeah. And he's gonna throw bombs anyway.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: Because he's McCain.
RUSH: Okay. Now, you sound so ticked off that this is it for you and Romney?
CALLER: Well, just about. I mean he's going to have to really turn around and start making -- you know, I tell you what, I've gone to these tea party things, and I'm not alone. There are a lot of people there that are so mad at the Republican Party, and they keep saying, "Well, we need a third party," and I'm afraid for that because I think it will split the party --
RUSH: Let me ask you a question. These tea party people you're talking to, are they mad at the Democrats as well?
CALLER: Well, that goes without saying.
RUSH: Well, I don't know. See, people only have so much anger in their reservoir, and if so much of it's directed at the Republicans, I wonder if they're going to be able to channel it at the real problems we face here, and right now, I hate to say this, 'cause I know it's going to make people tell me I suck, but the Republicans are not the problem right now! The Republicans are not trying to take over the country and make it the Soviet Union west!
CALLER: You're right.
RUSH: The Democrats are. The Republicans are not trying to take over any portion of the US private sector and run it and make sure that people over 70 don't get medical care. The Democrats are.
CALLER: You're right.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: You're absolutely right.
RUSH: So all this anger focused at the Republicans?
CALLER: We just want them to act like conservatives.
RUSH: I don't believe in conspiracies out there, Karen. But the best damn thing that could happen for Obama and the Democrats is for something to cause the Republican Party to split up, because if that happens, then you can kiss the country good-bye, you can say hello to Obama, reelect him in a landslide in 2012, and it won't matter who our candidates are.
CALLER: Well, I hope people are going to remember when Clinton got in, because that idiot would never have gotten in if it hadn't been for the Republican Party splitting. And I hope people remember that.
RUSH: Depends. It depends on the level of rage. What I've often found is that the more enraged and angry people are, the less rational they are. And the rationality declines proportionately to the rage increasing. You tell me there's all this rage at the Democrats and it goes without saying, but I don't know that people have that much anger to be split around equally. If the focus is not taking power away from the Democrats first, then we're sunk. 'Cause they're the ones that pose the threat to this country like we have never faced in our lives.
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REID: I have met with some people, while I was home, dealing with domestic abuse it happen it has gotten out of hand. Why? Men don't have jobs. Women don't have jobs either but women aren't abusive, most of the time. Men, when they're outta work, tend to become abusive. Our domestic crisis shelters in Nevada are jammed. It's the way it is all over the country.
RUSH: There you have it. Harry Reid, men have become abusive because they're outta work, women not nearly as abusive, although statistics at it show it's about 50-50 in domestic abuse stories. Women instigate half of it and men the other half. I met with some people while I was home dealing with domestic abuse. "[I]t's gotten out of hand. Why? Men don't have jobs. Women don't have jobs, either, but women aren't abusive most of the time." This is your Democrat Senate majority leader. Oh, from the Savannah, Georgia, Morning News: "Pooler police say violence erupted during one couple's Valentine's Day outing, as the suitor's former lover burst into the restaurant and beat the man with her high-heel shoe." Women are rarely abusive, but it did happen. "Early Sunday morning, officers were called to the Waffle House at 1012 E. U.S. 80, finding a 'blood-covered floor and tables in a state of disarray,' according an incident report filed by Pooler police.
"A 33-year-old man had suffered cuts and scrapes on his face, marks left by the 'spiked heel from a shoe,' police reported. The victim told officers that he and his girlfriend were at a booth when a pair of sisters -- one of whom is the mother of his children -- came in and started an argument. He tried to ignore them, police reported, even as they began hitting him. A Waffle House manager told police the women also hurled sugar and salt containers through a window." But women, they're not as abusive as men, "most of the time," according to Harry Reid. (laughing) Now, okay, Senator Reid. Let's take this a step further. Democrat policies have caused massive unemployment. Have they not? Democrat policies and the election of Barack Obama led to massive unemployment, and we just saw that there were mass layoffs in June -- and they didn't even say at Reuters they were surprised this time. They didn't even say "experts" were shocked. They didn't say "experts" expected the unexpected. They didn't say "experts" were surprised. They just said: Mass layoffs were up in January. Who's running the show here? Everywhere you choose to look it's the Democrats. So Democrat policies cause massive unemployment. So according to Dingy Harry, Democrats are responsible for domestic violence increases in the country and at Waffle Houses in Georgia! The Democrat Party, according to Harry Reid, is now responsible for the perpetuation of violence against women in this country because they are the reason men are unemployed.
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RUSH: Who's next? Roger in Fallbrook, California. Hi.
CALLER: Hey, Rush. Listen. I heard a report here in the last day or so that there is someone in Nevada who has registered a new political party called, quote, The Tea Party and that they plan to run someone against Harry Reid but in fact the person that's setting this up is a lifelong Democrat, a past supporter of Harry Reid, and has no connection with the real tea party people. Is this how Reid plans to win?
RUSH: Well, I had not heard the latter part. I heard that the tea party had registered a candidate out there, and everybody's kind of alarmed by that. I had not heard that it was a Reid confidante running a sabotage scam.
CALLER: That's what it sounds like to me.
RUSH: Well, do you know it for a fact?
CALLER: Well, I think I heard this from Roger Hedgecock. Now, you know Roger Hedgecock.
RUSH: I do know Roger Hedgecock.
CALLER: And that's where I heard it from so I kind of trust what he says.
RUSH: Well, we'll endeavor to find out. I would put it past them. It's typical of something they would do.
CALLER: Yeah, and I'm afraid they might try this elsewhere, too.
RUSH: Well, if that's what they're doing, don't sweat it, 'cause it's going to blow up in their desert face.
CALLER: Well, I would hope so.
RUSH: It will. Make no mistake about it. If this guy's not a legitimate tea party guy, if he's just somebody that made off with Harry Reid in one of the land deals back in the old days, we'll find out if it's a trick. I can't reject it, "Oh they'd never do that," because it sounds exactly like something they would come up with. Roger, thanks very much, I appreciate it.
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RUSH: Okay, we've confirmed what Hedgecock said, the "tea party" guy in Nevada is not a tea party guy. His lawyer's name is Barry Levinson. He's a former Obama supporter and the former attorney for John Wayne Bobbitt. It is a Harry Reid trick. It won't work. Don't sweat it.
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This is why Rush wanted Obama to fail, so the country doesn’t go down the toilet but evidently, that’s too late.
CALLER: Yeah, I want to make a comment but I'd like to ask you a question because this is a way I can get my point across. Rush, if you put a mouse in the same box as a snake, what would you think would happen?
RUSH: If I put a mouse in the same box as a snake...
CALLER: What would you take out? The snake will attack because that's his natural instinct. You have a lot of people calling your show. They applaud you, they praise you, they make you feel like you're walking on water, when actually you're sinking in quicksand. You do all this knocking about Barack Obama, holding Barack Obama to a double standard, when the man has been in office a year, and he's supposed to solve all of America's problems. And Barack Obama -- and I see America heading in the right direction. I'm not going to agree with you. I'm not going to go along with you just to get along, because this is who I am. But I will say that Barack Obama is doing a great job. It is the Republican Party that is dividing the United States of America. And I will also say that, if all these people knocking, hating, criticizing Barack Obama, if anything happens to Barack Obama, God have mercy on the United States of America. Like Jeremiah Wright said: "God damn America," and I'm for real with you.
RUSH: Ummm.
CALLER: (click)
RUSH: He hung up. Thank you. You know, there's a lot of anger out there on the left, folks. There is a tremendous lot of anger out there. I couldn't understand everything he said so I'm just now reading the transcription. "[H]ave mercy on the US like..." Oh, he said, "'God d--- America,' and I am for real with you," and he thinks the country is headed in the right direction. What is he, on welfare? Does this guy have a house he couldn't afford? Is this guy being kept in a house he can't afford? I don't know how you can think America is headed in the right direction unless you're feeding off your neighbors.
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CALLER: Yes. Hi, Rush. I'm a 15-year-old, and I have a question: Do you think that the Republicans will ever take back the Senate and the presidency and the House again?
RUSH: Well, it's tough to make a prediction of certitude right now, Anthony. But according to all the latest polling data they will win back the House.
CALLER: Yes, I know.
RUSH: In fact Charlie Cook, the estimable consultant, said yesterday that it's hard to find a scenario where the Republicans don't take back the House this year. The Senate, the worst I see -- the worst I've seen, the predictions -- is that the Democrats could lose nine, which would make it pretty much a toss-up. But if things keep going the way they're going and if Obama keeps leading the Democrats down in suicide, kamikaze path, yeah. I'm looking and it seems to me like -- I'll tell you something else, Antonio. When I heard Obama say he's rather be a successful one-term president than a mediocre two-term president...
CALLER: Yeah, my dad told me that.
RUSH: Yeah, well, you know, the right way to analyze that is, "Why...?" Let me ask you a question.
CALLER: Yes?
RUSH: Why is a president a one-term president? What usually happens? He loses, right?
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: Why does he lose? People are fed up with him! So Obama told us that his successful one-term presidency would so anger voters that he would not be reelected. So his definition of a successful presidency is one that really angers a majority of voters in this country. Now, that's kind of frightening. And it's leading a lot of people to think, "Maybe this guy does only want to work one term."
CALLER: Mmm-hmm.
RUSH: Because he's on a kamikaze mission here with his health care plan and taking his party with him, and behind closed doors. They're not happy about this. They don't like this being revived. So if the election were today, it be damn close, Antonio, very close.
CALLER: A couple more questions, too. One, do you think the Americans will ever trust the Democrats again?
RUSH: Yes.
CALLER: You do?
RUSH: Yeah. I've seen it happen too many times. It's going to be tougher to them because they've never been this blatantly obnoxious. But the Democrats have a marvelous way of packaging. Just look at Obama. I don't know if you're paying much attention during the campaign, but Obama campaigned in such a way that nobody that voted for him thought they were going to get this. They thought they were going to get the exact opposite. They're very good at packaging what they intend to do as "compassion" and "growth" and "love for country" and all that sort of stuff. They lie. They lie and they're very good at lying, and in this case the Republicans, led by our nominee, Senator McCain, simply were gutless in criticizing Obama because he was black and they were afraid they'd be called racist. So there was no criticism of Obama. There was no pressure on Obama. Obama was not challenged to be specific about anything. So he got a free ride. My hope is that we keep focusing on Democrats are liberals and never forget this and make it very difficult for them to ever win majorities again.
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CALLER: Hello, sir. Good to be with you. I'm glad Scott called. It seems like you're being inundated with negativity today and my call's the same. I wanted to offer something a little positive to you if I could.
RUSH: Fire away, sir.
CALLER: That would be me, sir. My daughter's 15 years old. About six years ago she began asking political questions. I made a pact with myself when she was born that I'd tell her nothing but the truth and let her make her own decisions. I drive a lot in my work, so I'm scanning the radio dial trying to find it, and son of a gun, it wasn't there. You and I are the same age, and, like you, I had a Remco Caravelle. My father was in broadcasting his whole life and he gave it to me.
RUSH: No kidding. You had a Remco Caravelle, too?
CALLER: Oh, yeah. The little blue thing? Yeah. I didn't go into broadcasting, went into engineering. You know, if you beef up with the output circuitry on those you can get a lot farther than 500 feet.
RUSH: Well, see, I would have loved to have done that. I didn't know how to do that.
CALLER: But because of that I remembered an archaic form of radio transmission called amplitude modulation and found you about six years ago. I've been very positive and happy ever since, and I just wanted to call and thank you for what you do and let you know that I'm raising probably what is to liberals the most dangerous life form on the planet. That is a Rush teenager.
RUSH: Thank you very much.
CALLER: And you have Antonio's phone number just pass it on. Maybe they can get a date.
RUSH: (chuckling) Thanks for the call out there, Elwood. I appreciate it. Remco Caravelle! My parents gave me one. We've got one back there in the storeroom. I ought to bring it out and show on the Dittocam. Not time enough to do it today, Ryan, but this thing, you could broadcast on any AM frequency. That's what amplitude modulation is, by the way. Voltage modulation is what amplitude is, versus FM. You modulate with the signal carrier with frequency, as opposed to voltage, AM and FM. That's what he was talking about. This thing, you could broadcast around, you know, 150 feet inside your home on any frequency you selected. And it was crude and so forth, but I'd put my record player next to the thing, had a remote microphone, and I'd hold the microphone down to the turntable speaker whenever it was time to play the music. I couldn't say anything. But played deejay, pretended to call baseball games and my mom and dad would sit down there and actually listen to do so even though it was horrible sound on the radio, but it was still fun to do.
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Obama Economy Sinks
as planned
Make sure to give Harry Reid the “boot” out there in NV.
Every time I go to Las Vegas, I discuss Harry Reid with the locals.
It looks like it could very well happen after all of these years.
We have Tenncare a form of Romney care and obamadeathcare.
Do some reading, these are articles since Jan of 2010, older articles tell of waste, fraud, illegals, and earlier cuts.
TennCare cuts threaten Nashville General hospital | tennessean.com ...
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20100204/NEWS0204/2040350/TennCare-cuts-threaten-Nashville-General-hospital
TennCare Cuts Under Way Now
http://www.memphisdailynews.com/editorial/Article.aspx?id=47622
Call it coincidence or bad timing, but many physicians in Tennessee began taking a 14 percent cut for seeing TennCare patients on the same day Gov. Phil Bredesen announced deep cuts in health care spending.
TennCare Cuts May Close Some Hospitals
http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/dpp/news/local/020710-tenncare-cuts-may-close-some-hospitals
TennCare Cuts May Close Some Hospitals
Proposed TennCare funding cuts would close The Med, hospital officials say By Toby Sells
Published Friday, January 29, 2010
http://m.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/jan/29/med-cuts-would-kill-us/
Two days in a row. :(
Thank you, GOP_Lady!
I think that these Statists figured that the economy would recover no matter what they did since it is cyclical. Might as well try to pass their agenda of cap and trade and healthcare reform while they had the opportunity.
AquaMan or Michael Phelps can’t possibly drown, right? Of course if you tie an anvil around Michael Phelps neck, even he would drown....
Not sure about AquaMan.
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