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RUSH: President Obama, you gotta hear this, folks. He had a little press conference at the White House. Actually was meeting with his Economic Recovery Advisory Board and they let cameras in there. We have four sound bites. Here's the first. It's starting at 28 here, Mike. This is what Obama said today.
OBAMA: (camera shutters throughout) Need for us to make up a whole lot of job loss is going to require, I think, some bold, innovative action on our part and on Congress' part and on the private sector's part.
RUSH: Stop this a second! What the hell was the stimulus? Some bold, innovative action on our part, on Congress' part, on the private sector's part? Mr. President, you told us the stimulus would make sure that unemployment did not rise above 8%. What "bold, innovative action" are you talking about?
OBAMA: (camera shutters throughout) It's also gonna require that we look at new models for where future job growth is going to come from. Because one of the, I think, key understandings coming out of this past financial crisis is that a lot of our growth was debt driven -- credit cards maxed out, home equity loans being taken out to finance, uh, a lot of purchases. Businesses are going to be more cautious in terms of how they approach taking on a lot of debt. The government is going to have to get serious about reducing our debt levels.
RUSH: I... This is unbelievable. It's too late! It's too late! We've got a $1.42 trillion deficit for the budget year just finished. He says that growth was debt driven? Well, the GDP growth was certainly debt driven. It wasn't driven by any measurable activity on the consumer side or the business investment side. But this is just... This is remarkable. "We're going to need a new model. It's going to require we look at a new model." Mr. President, we have a model that works. It's the past 200 years. We have a model that works. Your "bold, innovative actions" are what is destroying the country. You're not building anything. You're not creating anything. You're not saving anything, Mr. President. You are destroying it -- and you are going to continue this destruction as you abandon 200-plus years of capitalism, freedom, and growth; and replace it with your whatever you want to call it.
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RUSH: Hi. Welcome back. Rush Limbaugh, off to a rousing start here at the EIB Network. I want to take you back to, when was this? This was -- in January. This is from the Washington Post. Michael Fletcher. "President-elect Barack Obama, seeking to quiet concerns that his economic stimulus package would lead to an unsustainable expansion of the public workforce, said today that 90 percent of the 3 to 4 million jobs created or saved by his [stimulus] would be in the private sector. In his weekly radio address, Obama said that nearly a half-million of the new jobs would be created by investing in clean energy, while another 400,000 would be created by repairing schools, roads, bridges and other infrastructure. 'The jobs we create will be in businesses large and small across a wide range of industries,' Obama said. 'And they'll be the kind of jobs that won't just put people to work in the short term, but position our economy to lead the world in the long term.' ... Obama cited the report in underscoring the urgency of enacting a stimulus package. 'These numbers are a stark reminder that we simply cannot continue on our current path,' the president-elect said. 'If nothing is done, economists from across the spectrum tell us that this recession could linger for years and the unemployment rate could reach double digits.'" None of this has happened. None of it! Let's now go back to the audio sound bite. Here's the second clip we have of Obama this morning at the White House with his Economic Recovery Advisory Board.
OBAMA: (camera shutters throughout) How do we get what I call a post-bubble growth model, uh, one that is sustainable? That's what, uh, we're going to be discussing here today. Uh, as I said, we got experts from, uh, a wide range of business sectors, and what we're going to talk about is, are there mechanisms that we can, uh, start putting in place where, uhh, we -- we see the kind of growth that used to characterize the US economy --
RUSH: This is unbelievable.
OBAMA: -- export-driven growth, manufacturing growth, uh, growth that pays high wages, and provides, uhhhh, high living standards for a broad-based middle class.
RUSH: Well, then don't do anything. Cancel the stimulus, cut some taxes, and get out of the way. Incentivize growth. You are disincentivizing everything. This is unbelievable. Go back... Here again, this is from January: "President-elect Barack Obama, seeking to quiet concerns that his economic stimulus package would lead to an unsustainable expansion of the public workforce, said today [in January] that 90 percent of the 3 to 4 million jobs created or saved by his [stimulus] would be in the private sector. In his weekly radio address, Obama said that nearly a half-million of the new jobs would be created by investing in clean energy, while another 400,000 would be created by repairing schools, roads, bridges and other infrastructure. 'The jobs we create will be in businesses large and small..." He's clueless! He's dangerously in over his head. Nothing has worked. I actually submit that it has worked. I think they're getting exactly what they want out of this. They got more chaos, they got more angst, and now they have an excuse for saying, "Oh, we gotta do more! Oh, we gotta do more. So we gotta convene the Economic Recovery Advisory Board. We gotta go out there, we gotta do more." Here's another sound bite. Get this.
OBAMA: (camera shutters throughout) We're also in a era of fiscal constraint, which means that we gotta start finding some more creative, new approaches to, uh, financing, uh, these projects. So those are the discussions we're going to be having, uh, not just today, but, uh, in the weeks and months to come. This is my administration's overriding focus. Having, uh, brought the economy back from the brink, the question is: How are we gonna make sure that people are getting back to work, uh, and able to support their families? It's not going to happen overnight, but we will not rest until, uh, we are succeeding in generating the jobs that this economy needs.
RUSH: It's like Steve Wynn said: The government does not create jobs. The entire purpose of the stimulus bill was to create enough jobs in the private sector so that the $1 trillion would be paid back from the exploding private sector job base. That was sold as an "investment" in the private sector, an investment that would wipe out the deficit, not multiply it. How's that hope and change working for you, folks? This is just stunning. He said we're in a postbubble growth model and that we have fiscal constraint? Discussions we're going to be having not just today but in the weeks and months to come, as my administration's overriding focus, having brought the economy back from the brink. The question is how are we going to make sure the people getting back to work? Brought the economy back from the brink? The media is saying the recession is over, and yet you're convening the Economic Recovery Advisory Board to figure out how in the hell you're going to get people back to work? Breathtakingly dangerous, is what this is. And here, get this last one.
OBAMA: (camera shutters throughout) If somebody can show me, uh, a strategy that's gonna work, uh, then we are happy to, uh, consider it. And, uh --
RUSH: This is --
OBAMA: -- I want to end by saying this. We anticipate that we're going to continue to see some job losses in the weeks and months to come. Uh, as I said before, there is a -- always a lag, uh, of several months between businesses starting to make profits again and investing again and them actually rehiring again.
RUSH: He promises unemployment is going to continue to rise, but he's opened to ideas. "Oh, yeah! If somebody can show me a strategy that's going to work, we're happy to consider it." I thought you had all the answers! I thought you "won." I thought you had all the answers. You don't listen to anybody else's ideas. Your too bloated of an ego will not allow anybody's ideas inside your skull. This is insulting. He tells us unemployment is going to continue to rise while saying the economy has been brought back from the brink and that the recession is over and we're going to head north on unemployment, past 10% -- and he's open to new ideas. We don't need any new ideas. We have an idea that has worked better than any idea in world history, Mr. President. It is called capitalism. It just so happens he doesn't believe in it. He doesn't like capitalism. Capitalism allows for too much freedom, my friends.
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RUSH ARCHIVE: But as we stand here now, Obama doesn't have a way into the Ford Motor Company that he has with the others 'cause they didn't take any bailout money. So if I'm Ford, if I'm Mr. Mulally, what I do is I look at what Obama -- and you can find it in his book, you can find what he thinks of the auto industry in his book, you can find his hatred for the SUV. You can find in his book in 2006, I think, you can find exactly what kind of cars he thinks Detroit ought to build, the cars that are going to have to be forced on people, the cars that people are not buying en masse of their own volition. So if I run Ford, I see what General Motors and Chrysler are going to be forced to manufacture and I go the other way, as far as I can, anyway, within the bounds of these stupid CAFE standards.
RUSH: I don't know if that's what Ford did, but certainly it would have been a brilliant competitive move to go the opposite way of the Obama motor companies. AP story: "Ford Reports Surprise $1 Billion Profit. Automaker now expects to be solidly profitable in 2011." But then you get halfway down the story: "But Ford still faces obstacles in its turnaround. Last week workers overwhelmingly rejected an agreement with the United Auto Workers that would have brought Ford's labor costs in line with rivals General Motors and Chrysler. Workers objected to clauses limiting their right to strike and freezing entry-level wages and felt the company was healthy enough and didn't need further concessions." So this headline, "Ford Reports Surprise $1 Billion Profit" needs to be rewritten: "Ford Surprises by Having a Profit. Angry unions vow to redouble efforts to sink the automaker."
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RUSH: One thing about Ford. I made a joke here, rewriting the headline on the Ford story. Let me tell you something. I'm dead serious. This union is intent on bankrupting Ford so that the government takes it over, too. Make no mistake. Ford reporting profitability. that's a giant bull's-eye that they've painted on itself. And I would be remiss if I didn't make an observation. You know, it's all well and good to say what Ford did in the competitive market against Chrysler and General Motors. But in truth, it's more about what the American consumer did. The American consumer rejected with their dollars the Obama auto management team. It was another example of Americans voting with their feet, just as it is in New York 23. People did. They said, "Okay, you get two bailed out companies there run by Obama? I'm going to go buy something else." I think this is a large part of what is happening.
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| • AP: Ford Reports Surprise $1 Billion 3Q Profit |
GUPTA: There seems to be two reasons people don't want to get the vaccine. One is that, you know, is it safe? Two is there's a lot of people out there who still don't think this is a big deal, this whole H1N1. I think that may have been something that Rush Limbaugh has talked about as well. I did give them to my kids, and I say it that way only because I think at the end of the day that's what people want to know. I looked at a lot of papers, I looked at the studies. That's the decision I made.
RUSH: So we've got a hysteria out there. It's been fanned by the media. And what happens when you make people hysterical about something? This is a story from El Dorado Hills, California. A couple, seasoned citizen couple suing their neighbors over cigarette smoke. "Conflict with neighbors was the last thing Donna and Richard Ganguet expected to encounter when they moved into a gated community for people age 55 and older. 'In a senior community, you think we'll all be compatible and have the same values,' said Richard Ganguet, a retired El Dorado County sheriff's deputy. But three years after settling into their single-family home in El Dorado Hills' Four Seasons development, the Ganguets are suing their next-door neighbor over cigar and cigarette smoke they say wafts into their backyard and house.
"Because of the smoke, the couple say, they no longer sit on their patio. They also try to sandwich in swims in the side-yard lap pool between their neighbors' smoking sessions. Doug Smith, attorney for the neighboring homeowner, Florence Solone, said the issue is a trivial one that should be resolved by neighbors talking with each other, not with a lawsuit in El Dorado Superior Court. But disputes between neighbors over secondhand smoke are increasingly making their way into courtrooms and city council chambers." This is what happens when you make people hysterical about something. And hysteria is what informs people about the dangers of secondhand smoke. It's not dangerous. You may not like it but it does not kill you. But everybody thinks it does.
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So the Hutch's piece is there and it's smoking hot. So he got it done. Thanks to Thomas Lifson and the people at American Thinker for publishing it.
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| • American Thinker: The Vilification of Rush - Kenneth L. Hutcherson |
To betray her party, Dede Scozzafava at this point in time when conservatives have been sounding the alarm about the dangers of RINOs, is a gift. For Dede Scozzafava to endorse the Democrat in NY-23, I know a lot of people got mad about it and so forth, no, folks, it's great! Dede Scozzafava is showing everybody who Republicans-in-name-only are. Dede Scozzafava is illustrating precisely what moderate Republicans will do and who moderate Republicans are. She has just put an exclamation point on the problem with RINOs. They eventually end up exactly where most liberals do. They're just a little slower in getting there. But they end up where liberals are. Scozzafava has screwed every RINO in the country. We could say she's guilty of widespread bestiality. She has screwed every RINO in the country. Everyone can see just how phony and dangerous they are.
You know, 2010 might be a nightmare for PETA, two animals may become extinct, RINOs and Blue Dog Democrats. Pelosi's going to kill off the Blue Dogs, and conservatives are gonna finally get rid of RINOs. The American people have had enough. They want government out of their lives. They want disposable income, they want a burgeoning, growing economy with opportunity; they want their own doctors; they want cars not made by bureaucrats and public servants.
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RUSH: You know, it is hilarious to look at the pictures coming out of New Jersey with these signs at Corzine rallies: "Obama-Corzine." Obama's name on top, top billing! Obama-Corzine. Now, Chris Christie has got a slight lead, but, folks, these polls, I don't even... In New Jersey, in Virginia, New York 23: Vote. The bottom line is: Show up and vote. You need to understand that you need to vote tomorrow. These polls are all well and good but now is not the time to assume victory. And in New Jersey, I mean, ACORN and the boys are just getting started on the fraud going on there. I mean, it's going to be bad. If Christie pulls this out, it is going to be amazing. If Corzine wins, if he wins by not much... There's a lot up for grabs tomorrow and it's important to get out there and vote. Even if...
Well, even if the other side is going to try to vote twice, have dead people vote, their dogs vote, or what have you. New York 23 is about the United States of America. There is money coming into that race from all over the country. We are all New York 23. And what Dede Scozzafava has done is, like I tell you, a godsend, Because now, more than ever, everybody can identify just who RINO Republicans are.
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RUSH: Bill, Pensacola, I'm glad you called, sir. What's up?
CALLER: Mr. Limbaugh, thanks for taking my call. I just want to go back to Vice President Biden's speech there. He's contradicting himself because the part where he said you're not sure what he means about can Hoffman ever go against anything you say, what he's trying to imply there is you're his puppet master and Mr. Hoffman is just one of your puppets. But at the same time in the same speech he's saying you're nothing but an entertainer so really he's just falling all over himself.
RUSH: I know. They're just trying to get my name out there. I think you're right, Biden is saying that Hoffman is in lockstep with me, that I'm actually pulling the strings up there. In light of that listen to Axelrod again. We played this sound bite earlier in the show and it escaped me part of what he said.
AXELROD: I don't know. That's for the Republican Party to decide. I think we've seen an interesting development over this weekend in a special election up in upstate New York in a congressional district, the Republican candidate withdrew because of the strong third-party movement behind a very right-wing conservative, and certainly Mr. Limbaugh and others were behind that.
RUSH: Stop the tape! Stop the tape! So now I handpicked Hoffman and now I'm giving Hoffman his marching orders. I'm just an entertainer but I also forced Scozzafava out of the race. I, El Rushbo. I was playing golf when Scozzafava -- I didn't know it, I got home and everybody is calling me wanting a comment. The Politico wanted a comment, I sent a comment over to Kathryn Lopez at National Review Online. I'll tell you what my comment is -- (interruption) no, no, no, when I got home from the golf course, Saturday afternoon. I don't take the cell phone on the golf course. So Scozzafava, she splits, I learn today that I had a role in it, I had something to do with it. My reaction to that was, hmm, I thought the era of Reagan was over. Who was it that told us that? Oh, yeah, the smart people on our side told us that the era of Reagan was over. And in fact one of the smart people is none other than -- dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut -- audio sound bite number 12 here, David Brooks of the New York Times. He was on PBS The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and he's the conservative -- ahem -- with Mark "Maxi" Shields, who is the liberal, and they agree on practically everything, and so Brooks and Shields have this little exchange about the race in New York 23.
SHIELDS: We've got a moderate Republican, Dede Scozzafava who is running against, really, a conservative tea party guy named Doug Hoffman.
BROOKS: Yeah.
SHIELDS: A lot of Republicans like Rush Limbaugh and even Tim Pawlenty from Minnesota have gone off for Hoffman.
BROOKS: Sarah Palin.
SHIELDS: I think Sarah Palin, I think it's the suicide pact for the Republican Party, essentially taking a moderate Republican, dead center in American politics, and saying, sorry, you're too liberal. That's crazy.
RUSH: And the next day, I managed to get her to resign the race. Making Brooks look even more foolish than he looked Friday night. Dead center moderate Republican, Mr. Brooks? Come on. The woman is pro-choice, massive tax increaser. She is nowhere near moderate, she has more liberal than the Democrat, and now she has endorsed the Democrat. And the era of Reagan is over? We've got a moderate Republican running against a really conservative tea party guy? Folks, I'm being given a lot of credit here that I don't deserve for this and I have to step in here. I have been listening to the sound bites of yesterday, and I've been seeing some things on television today that I put Hoffman over the top, that I am the energy behind Doug Hoffman, that he's in the race because of me, that I single-handedly -- well, not single-handedly, but with the sheer force of my existence, forced Dede Scozzafava out of the race. And, my friends, I throw up my hands in humility and honesty here, I didn't have anything to do with it. No, no, no. As best I can tell, Laura Ingraham and Joe Scarborough handpicked Doug Hoffman.
ANNOUNCER: The eyes of the nation are on the north country. What we decide on Tuesday will echo from Albany to Washington. Whose side are you on? The Pelosi-Paterson tax and spend train wreck, or do you believe in Republican, conservative values like, like thrift, personal responsibility and family? Let's tell the liberals enough is enough, no more bailouts, taxes, and budget-busting spending. It's time to create jobs with proven conservative ideas like lower taxes. Let your voice be heard. Join the movement to bring real conservative change. Tell the politicians, "No more, we won't let you bankrupt America." We need conservative leaders who stand up for our values. Fight back. Vote conservative. It matters like never before.
RUSH: Now, who do you think ran that ad? Who do you think, Mr. Snerdley? That is an ad that is running in New York 23 for Doug Hoffman. No, that's a RNC ad. That was an RNC ad urging people to vote conservative. Now, after working against the conservative, now the RNC is trying to help him, but they still don't mention his name in the ad. This is the bunch that endorsed Dede Scozzafava. And this is the bunch that was running ads against -- well, that might have been the Congressional Campaign Committee in the House, but some Republican group was running ads against Hoffman. Now Scozzafava pulls out and endorses the Democrat. Folks, I'm telling you she is done one of the biggest favors for us any RINO can do. She has purposefully, openly illustrated exactly who RINOs are, that's Republicans-in-name-only. David Brooks loves these moderates. Who is she really? She is a turncoat liberal Democrat. She was going to change parties. There was talk that she was gonna change parties after this election if she won.
We have some of the stupidest smart people on our side that I have ever recalled being surrounded by. So now they're running this ad. Listen to it again. This is an RNC -- I sprung it on you, this is an RNC ad for Doug Hoffman. They don't mention his name. If they can run this ad in New York 23, why can't this ad become the basis for their entire existence and the reason they want anybody to vote for a Republican? If they can do it in New York 23, why not make this their national identity? Listen again.
ANNOUNCER: The eyes of the nation are on the north country. What we decide on Tuesday will echo from Albany to Washington. Whose side are you on? The Pelosi-Paterson tax and spend train wreck, or do you believe in Republican, conservative values like, like thrift, personal responsibility and family? Let's tell the liberals enough is enough, no more bailouts, taxes, and budget-busting spending. It's time to create jobs with proven conservative ideas like lower taxes. Let your voice be heard. Join the movement to bring real conservative change. Tell the politicians, "No more, we won't let you bankrupt America." We need conservative leaders who stand up for our values. Fight back. Vote conservative. It matters like never before.
RUSH: Who in the hell wrote this at the RNC, and do they still have a job? Where has this been? Obviously this message is in the building. Somebody at the RNC actually thinks this stuff because they're running an ad. That's an ad for Doug Hoffman. They don't mention his name 'cause he's on the Conservative Party line, so that's why they're saying vote the conservative. But it wouldn't have hurt to put his name in there, would it?
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RUSH: Looks like Janelle in Lakeland, Florida. It's great to have you on the program. Hi.
CALLER: Hi! Good afternoon. I really think that you are highlighting a huge issue that is going on in the party today, and that is possibly another crisis of leadership that we have desperately needed since 2008. I mean you have Michael Steele who said that he will do anything to get an R in office. He defended his Scozzafava endorsement by saying that which is ridiculous. And even here, which should be near and dear to you. Here in Florida you have party leaders who already seem to, even preprimary, have picked out their Senate candidates, and their governor candidates. I mean, when you say the AP is already saying that we have a "fracture," do you think we have a fracture, or are we getting a revamp that we really need?
RUSH: Well, it's tough to say. I think... Are you talking specifically about Florida?
CALLER: Well, Florida. Well, you get New York 23. Florida you have... I think this is going to be something that's larger where you still have some of the leadership that is out of touch.
RUSH: There's a special election in the Bay Area going on and nobody's covering it. I think it's California 10. Nobody's talking about that but it has the same potential as New York 23. A Republican could win that race. You do have this thing in Atlanta with the "white mayor," maybe being a first time in a long time, which is news. You have in Maine they've got a same-sex marriage up there and they're thinking of banning it and there's massive support for banning gay marriage. So Massachusetts is sending a brigade of gay activists in there to get out the gay vote in Maine tomorrow. I mean there's a lot going on. New Jersey, Virginia.
You call it a revamp, I think the political scientists talking about this in terms of the word "realignment," but that's not actually an accurate way to describe what's going on. I think what is happening -- and we gotta be careful that we don't extrapolate too much from what happens tomorrow. New York 23 is big, and... (interruption) Well, yeah. Maybe we can't overdo it. I think... Like I said on the Fox News show yesterday and on this radio show last week: I think there's a revolt brewing out there, and revolts in this country take place on election days. They take place at the ballot box. And I think, you know, in terms of Florida, you've got a down-the-line Reagan conservative in Marco Rubio; and you've got Charlie Crist who is the sitting governor, who David Brooks would say is a moderate. Charlie Crist embraced Obama when Obama first came here to push the stimulus.
When Obama was last here in Jacksonville last week, Charlie Crist was not there. And they got hold of Charlie Crist, "Why weren't you there?" He said, "Why, I didn't know Obama was even in the state." This Creigh Deeds guy did not want Obama helping him out. Independents are fleeing the Democrat Party in these elections because of health care. Creigh Deeds said he didn't want Obama, so Obama threw Creigh Deeds under the bus two Fridays ago on the front page of the Washington Post, basically blaming him two weeks before the election for blowing it by not using Obama enough. Now, Obama, that's one thing. But New Jersey? You know, that one's too close to call if the polls are right. New Jersey is New Jersey. You know, every time we thought... The Torch pulls out, "Ah, the Republican's gonna win."
Nah, the state Supreme Court there says, "To hell with our constitution! The people aren't being fairly represented, since The Torch pulled out. So yep you can go ahead and pick a Democrat to run." So the Democrat Party in the state picked retired Frank Lautenberg, The Lout, and he's now the senator, one of the senators from New Jersey to go along with Robert Menendez. So I think that there is something brewing out there, Janelle, I do. But it's going to show itself in, eh, different ways tomorrow. There's no nationwide effort or result that will be shown up because there's just a precious few elections tomorrow.
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RUSH: Dale in Baltimore, you're next on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Greetings from the People's Republic of Maryland.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: Before I get to my point, you were talking about David Brooks before. When I first heard about David Brooks and they said he was a conservative -- or he said he was a conservative -- and I saw him on these shows, I thought maybe there were two David Brooks, because he certainly isn't. So I want to know: Who declared David Brooks a conservative? David Brooks?
RUSH: Well, New York Times hired him as their conservative columnist, and he's also the conservative contributor on The Newshour with Jim Lehrer. Yeah, he used to work at the Weekly Standard. He actually used to write conservative stuff.
CALLER: It's hard to believe. I mean, you know, he becomes the one they can comfortably have on. You have him on, say he's a conservative and know that he won't say anything conservative. Anyway, I called to talk about the Republicans and Dede Scozzafava and what Michael Steele had to say on Saturday, and that was that when she resigned from the race, of course, the RNC came out and endorsed Doug Hoffman and Michael Steele said, "Well, you know, we endorse Doug Hoffman but we're a diverse party," and I'm getting so tired of the RNC feeling the need to say that we're a diverse party, and we have a big tent and all this nonsense. The liberals don't say it. The Democrats never feel the need to say it. And it bothers me that the Republicans always -- the Republican leadership, at least the RNC leadership under Michael Steele -- feels this need to constantly almost appease the media by saying --
RUSH: Yep.
CALLER: -- we're a big tent.
RUSH: Yep.
CALLER: My feeling is, let's just say, "We're Americans. We're conservatives," and this party should have no difficulty fighting the greatest challenge that we face in the history of this nation right now.
RUSH: That is so, so right on the money. We have the radical leftist regime ever. There is no better time than now to define ourselves and to contrast ourselves with this radicalness. But you have nailed it because it is appeasement. It is fear. It's what happens when you live and work in New York or Washington too long. The liberals dominate both places, politically, socially, culturally. When Axelrod goes on TV and says, "Oh, the Republicans, they're throwing away valued moderates, their big tent philosophy," they're trying to pick our candidates, because they want us to continue to pick losers! The last thing we ought to be doing is listening to them tell us what they think we ought to be.
They got enough problems being who they are. They are the real danger. We are a big-tent party. Our "tent" is the United States of America. We want everybody in this country in our party -- and we do not look at people and see skin color, sexual orientation, or gender or ethnicity. We see Americans. We have a message that appeals to Americans. It's very simple. It's easy to explain. We don't have to talk about, "We're moderates here, we got some independents over there. We're a big-tent party." Al of that is language created by liberals and the media. All of those are premises created by the left to try to pick not only our candidates, but to pick our spokesmen and our leaders. Do you remember shortly after Obama, maybe it was...
I don't know if he'd been immaculated yet or not, but remember when he went to George Will's house and had dinner with a whole bunch of different conservative commentators. (interruption) That was preimmaculation. All right. He was going to be a moderate. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's right. And David Brooks was in the group. I happened to not be in the group. In fact, I was at the White House that day having lunch with the president. And that dinner was going to happen I think later in the week or may have been that night or something, and I'm on the airplane flying home from Washington, I get e-mails, "Are you going to this thing tonight?" I did not know anything about it. I wasn't invited to it. And when I saw who was, I understood exactly why.
What Obama was trying to do was pick our official Washington spokesmen, our conservative columnists and commentators. They were the ones blessed by Obama. He and his team felt with a couple of exceptions, I don't think they were ever going to really turn Larry Kudlow and I don't think they were going to turn George Will, and I knew they weren't going to turn Krauthammer, who was there. But Brooks, Brooks appears to be a lapdog now, after that. I think he was there. Pretty soon he was. So it's no different. They come up with these terms, "You gotta be a big-tent party." Look at the way they're talking about this New York 23 race. We're imploding! We're imploding. We kicked a veritable, perfect, wonderful moderate out for this right-wing extreme wacko is the way they're casting it, 'cause they're scared, folks. They're scared of an ascending conservatism. They know it's the biggest threat they've got, and they react to it that way. I wish they would treat the Taliban the way they treat us. I wish they would look at Iran the way they look at conservatives. I mean, "Conservatives Rebellion Kicks GOP Stalwart Out of Party" is a headline. Conservative rebellion? Damn right it is! "Conservatives are just angry." Damn right we are! Anybody with half a brain would be mad at what's going on in this country. Anybody with a brain would be mad as hell at what's being done to this country. But anger? "Oh, that's not to be productive! Oh, those Republicans and conservatives running around mad." They damn well ought to be mad.
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RUSH: Along the lines of what we were just talking about, the story here in the Politico today: "Conservatives Take Aim at Leaders, Crist, Other Races.' -- 'If you look at other bellwether races, we’re still going to be on opposing sides,' said Adam Brandon, a spokesman for FreedomWorks, an organization that helped gin up the tea party protests and town hall flare-ups." No. Those happened on their own. Nobody ginned those up. That's what everybody misunderstands. "'If you look at other bellwether races, we’re still going to be on opposing sides,' said Brandon, who pointed to the Florida Senate race, where a conservative former state House speaker is taking on GOP-establishment-backed Gov. Charlie Crist as the next major conservative electoral stand. 'There are going to be other conflicts,' said Brandon. 'We have a lot of work to do. The [Doug] Hoffman campaign was the beginning. It was not the climax.'" And that's exactly right.
"Tom Davis, former head of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said this rage against the GOP machine might feel good for disgruntled conservatives, but it could also land Republicans deep in the minority for years to come." Where are you now, Mr. Davis? Where are you now? When was the last time you won and had power in Congress? Was it not on a conservative formula, and you lost when, Mr. Davis? When you gradually abandoned that platform. You are looking at a very minority status for decades if you stay constituted as you are in the Republican Party.
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RUSH: It's Suzanne in North Hills, California. It's great to have you on the EIB Network.
CALLER: Rush Limbaugh. Mmm, mmm, mmm.
RUSH: (laughing)
CALLER: You look great on TV, by the way, but I wanted to comment on what that boob Axelrod had to say.
RUSH: Hey, before you do that, let's play what Axelrod said.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: People may have missed it because he was on CBS and nobody watches that show.
CALLER: Of course.
RUSH: So we've got... Let's see. I've got three or four of them here. Here's the first question. Bob Schieffer says, "Last week, casualties Afghanistan hit a new high. Obama went to Dover Air Force Base. This morning on Fox News, Limbaugh said it's a photo-op. What is your reaction to what Limbaugh said?"
AXELROD: My reaction is that I think that the president of the United States went to Dover to represent the American people and pay his respect[s] to the families who had made, uh, so much of a sacrifice to those brave uhh, uhh, service people who made the ultimate sacrifice. It was the appropriate thing to do, and I think most Americans, uhh, appreciate that.
RUSH: I don't think most Americans bought it as genuine and sincere.
CALLER: I don't.
RUSH: It was a photo-op. What did you think it was?
CALLER: A photo-op. It was a perfect opportunity to fat face on camera again. If he spent as much time doing his job as he does trying to get his face on television.
RUSH: Wait a minute, Suzanne.
CALLER: Yeah?
RUSH: He's not fat.
CALLER: (chuckles)
RUSH: In fact the Drudge Report has a picture of Obama coming out of a gym, and everybody's worried at how thin he's gotten, how skinny he's gotten. The White House says, "No, he's not chain smoking. This is a result of rigorous workout this morning."
CALLER: No, it's stress and fear. That makes you lose weight every time.
RUSH: Well, I've never tried that way, stress and fear.
CALLER: No, but see you're not an entertainer to them, you're a threat. That's the problem.
RUSH: It's the entertainer comment? That's what bothers you?
CALLER: Oh, sure. Well, the fact that you're not an entertainer, although I find you highly entertaining, and Snerdley is one of my favorites. But you're an absolute threat. Everything you say is true. They have no way to rebuke or rebut what you say. So they all sit there and agree like you speak for the rest of us and it's like, "I think the American people would be happy..." Don't you open your mouth and talk for me.
RUSH: (laughs)
CALLER: That jackass, does he even know the name of the family he went to see?
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: Probably not.
RUSH: No, I think he did because he had to get permission and only one family did it.
CALLER: Exactly, and I wonder how much that cost. I'm sure there was a donation made in order for that family to say, "Yeah, okay."
RUSH: What are you referring to? Like what kind of a donation, Suzanne?
CALLER: Monetary donation to the family or monetary donation to a charity that the son... "Oh, give it to the Marines or to the widows fund or to something but we'll make a nice little quiet, under the table donation."
RUSH: Ah, no
CALLER: Some thing.
RUSH: No, no, no.
CALLER: How much you wanna bet?
RUSH: Suzanne, now you're going too far. He might have offered them an autographed picture of himself in the Oval Office.
CALLER: Ew.
RUSH: But I don't think they would actually run the risk of offering money.
CALLER: Oh, no, he might not have. That doesn't mean his people didn't.
RUSH: Well, you may have a point. Look, hang on, there's some more Axelrod bites and you're on a roll here. I'll get your reaction to them. I gotta take a commercial time-out. Can you hang on?
CALLER: Sure.
RUSH: Fine and dandy.
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RUSH: Now, there has been a development in NY-23. Joe Biden is up there campaigning for the Democrat and has come out against me. "Former Vice President Joe Biden --" does this say former vice president? It does! This is from CNN. Former Vice President Joe Biden -- what? Did they really call him the former? What do they know that we don't? Anyway, Biden is up there at a rally for Owens and he elicited boos from the crowd when he mentioned Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, and Dick Armey. "'The idea that Rush Limbaugh would handpick [the] successor is kind of unusual,' Biden said of the popular conservative radio host who has heavily backed Hoffman over the national party's choice of Scozzafava. 'I would have thought the last person I would bring up to the North Country is Dick Armey,' Biden continued, pointing to the former Texas congressman and current chairman of the conservative group FreedomWorks. 'He's a decent guy, but he represents a view so alien it seems to me to the pragmatism to the North Country. Sarah Palin, a former governor - her views are real and consistent with Armey's and Limbaugh's and Dick Cheney's.'
"'This is a different ideology,' Biden continued. 'This is different than anything I've known in my 45 years of being familiar with this district. You know, they may have any room for moderate views in the Republican Party upstate anymore, but let me assure you, we have room.'" You can have them, Joe, you can have every damn Republican moderate there is. As an entertainer and the head of the Republican Party, Mr. Former vice president, according to CNN, I'm going to see to it that every moderate Republican ends up becoming a Democrat and just make it official. You're granting me all this -- yeah, I'll kick 'em out of the party I'll kick 'em out of the inn, damn right no room at our inn. You know, how lucky am I, folks, how lucky am I to be attacked by Joe Biden. I mean former Vice President Joe Biden. That's about the most unfair fight I can think of. It's Christmas every day for me. Every morning is Christmas morning. That's how my life is.
Joe Biden. I don't know if people write this stuff for him or if he thinks it up himself, but as for conservatism being absolutism, why don't you grow up and reacquaint yourself with our Constitution, Mr. Former vice president? I'll bet he thinks the Founding Fathers were absolutists. I'll bet he thinks the American Revolution was unnecessary, that instead the columnists shoulda negotiated some deal with the king. You see, Joe, you seem to think that liberty and private property and capitalism are extremist views. You've been in public office since you were in your mid-twenties, you've never had to earn an honest living, you've never participated in the market system, you don't understand what makes this nation work, and that's why you pose a great threat.
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RUSH: I'm going to tell you who the real entertainers are, folks, the real entertainers are the people at the White House. Here you've got Axelrod going on TV, and what does he do? He speaks for Obama, he says what Obama means to say, what Obama meant to say, what he thinks, what he wants to do. I mean Axelrod appears to be the puppeteer and Obama appears to be the puppet. You know, we're watching a marionette show. These are the entertainers, except nobody's laughing. We're all crying.
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RUSH: We now have audio of former Vice President Biden, at least as he was referred to by CNN. He's up at a rally in Watertown, New York, NY-23, for Bill Owens. By the way, I got a question. They keep calling Dede Scozzafava a moderate Republican. What is it going to take, what is it gonna take for any of these networks to define a candidate as liberal? Are there any liberal Republicans, or are they all moderates and centrists when they trash conservatives and conservatism? For crying out loud, she has endorsed the liberal Democrat. And she was more liberal than the Democrat. There was nothing moderate about Dede Scozzafava. I think when the media looks at Republicans, they automatically, if a Republican is pro-choice, i.e., for abortion, that's what makes them moderates. Anything else is ignored. Whatever else they do, they can be for tax cuts, oh, but if they are pro-abortion the media loves them and calls them moderates and it's just infuriating. Dede Scozzafava is as left-wing radical as Obama and his crowd. Moderate Republican. Anyway, here is Biden. He's on a cheap microphone, it figures, in this rally up there for Owens. We have two sound bites.
BIDEN: The views that he's embracing, or at least the views of the people who have embraced him and made him the poster boy for. In fact, imagine him being able to, if he were to win this election, take issue with any position Rush Limbaugh took, or take issue -- I'm being serious about this. I'm being deadly honest about it.
RUSH: What is he saying? Does anybody have any idea what he's saying? Let me read it here. "The views that he's embracing --" he's talking about Hoffman here "- or at least the views of the people who have embraced him and made him the poster boy for. In fact, imagine him being able to, if he were to win this election, take issue with any position Rush Limbaugh took." Does that mean disagree with me? When you take issue with somebody, you usually disagree with them. Is that what he means? Or is he trying to say he's a sycophant of Limbaugh, he's going to give us what Limbaugh believes? I think that's what he meant to say but it just didn't come out right. Or take issue. I'm being serious about -- that means he lost his train of thought. He had no idea what he was saying, we had no idea what he was saying. And when that happens to Biden, he always goes with the, "I'm serious about this, I'm being deadly serious and honest about it," 'cause he's lost his train of thought, has no idea what he's talking about, just had to get my name out there because he thinks my name will rally pro-Democrat turnout. And he wasn't finished.
BIDEN: I like her, I really do. Not a joke, this is not -- this is not a cheap shot. The fact of the matter is, Sarah Palin thinks the answer to energy was drill, baby, drill. No. It's a lot more complicated, Sarah, than drill, baby, drill. What chance do we have? Well, look. Let me quote -- let me make this point. I know what these guys are against. I know what Bill's opponents are against. I know what Rush Limbaugh is against. I know what Dick Armey is against. I know what all these folks are against. I'm not being a wise guy. But I don't know what they're for.
RUSH: Ah, Joe, you know it's amazing how devoid of any substance these people are. They know exactly what we're for and they oppose it to the hilt. We are for liberty and freedom, a colorblind society, we are for economic growth, we are for tax cuts, smaller government. He knows exactly what we're for. And our agenda is based on optimism and good cheer and having a positive, loving attitude about American exceptionalism and all the people who live and work here and make this country work. These people, like Biden and his party, look down on the American people with contempt. They are not happy in their personal lives, they look out over the American landscape and they see nothing but suffering, they see nothing but soup lines, they see nothing but people being malcontents. They don't see anything uplifting. They've created this disaster that is now the United States economy.
They are stealing from it and incorporating their theft into the private sector. Pelosi's health care bill is just a giant theft of the private sector via taxation and control. Doesn't know what we are for? They damn well do know what we are for and they are scared to death of it. Because what we are for, and if we succeed, if we are ever victorious, then it means more and more people are going to be freed from the yoke of control of the Democrat Party, because we are for individual liberty, entrepreneurism, and freedom. We want people to realize their dreams, we want people to have dreams, we want people to exercise their ambition and use whatever talent and effort they want to become who and what they want to be. We don't want to put anybody down. We don't want to conclude anybody is incapable of anything. It's just the exact opposite. The differences could not be more stark. What we are against is precisely what is happening now under the guise of an agenda to rebuild the United States economy.
RUSH: All right, to the phones, as promised. To Ames, Iowa. Troy, you're up. I'm glad you waited. Appreciate your patience.
CALLER: No worries, Rush. Glad, to be on. I've tried multiple times to be on the network, and this is definitely my first time on.
RUSH: I appreciate that.
CALLER: My question for you is this. I believe that the Democrat Party does really well attacking -- not attacking, but influencing my age-group using these entertainers, and I was wondering what the Republican Party can do to start influencing these young voters to get out there and vote Republican?
RUSH: Well, that's a good question. The Democrat Party, liberalism owns the entertainment culture in this country. I mean you can look at most movies, listen to most songs, particularly in the hip-hop arena, turn on the video music channels and so forth, Saturday Night Live, doesn't matter, conservatism, Republicans are routinely impugned, laughed at, made fun of, and it even happens in schools, and I would consider schools to be part of the pop culture because clearly people in school are not being educated like you and I were. So what the Republicans can do about it is an interesting thing. It's a good question. It's it's like trying to get hold of education and turn that around, getting hold of the pop culture is going to be something that's key. What, Snerdley, what? Hmm? Hm-hm. Well, Mr. Snerdley asked a question: How come so many youth listen to me? Because I'm cool. 'Cause I'm hip. Because it's a good show. And because they love learning, they love learning. So, we're doing okay on the youth front on this program. The Republican Party, you know, they're too busy trying to make sure they save candidates like Dede Scozzafava and so forth. Before the Republican Party can get their arms around the pop culture, they're going to have to figure out who they are. Appreciate the call, Troy.
This is Todd in Mesa, Arizona, you're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
CALLER: Thank you, Rush, for taking my call. Rush I donated to Joe Wilson. Newt Gingrich sends me e-mails wanting me to donate to the Republican Party. No, thank you Newt Gingrich because Newt Gingrich I'm so disappointed in you. You're not for gay rights, you're not for higher taxes, you're not for anything the lady in the 23rd District is for, and yet you came out and supported her. Am I right in disowning Mr. Newt Gingrich, sir?
RUSH: Well, that's a decision for you to make and I think a lot of people are upset. I think Newt got caught flat-footed. He was trying to be a loyal party soldier here, probably didn't know much about Scozzafava and believed the local party organization up in the district. Because if it was an informed decision it doesn't make any sense. If it was an informed decision to endorse, it doesn't -- because this woman is the antithesis of what Newt Gingrich stands for, believes in.
CALLER: Rush, I'm a little bit disappointed in one of the right-wing talk show hosts who has a TV show has never said anything bad about Newt Gingrich on this. I know they're personal friends, but still, don't be a phony about it. It's not good.
RUSH: Well, it's one of the dangers of getting close to people that you comment on. It's why I don't go to Washington. I don't hitch my wagon to politicians. Look, they've come and gone in the 21st years, I'm still here.
CALLER: First time I ever got through, I want to thank you for taking my call again.
RUSH: You bet. Appreciate it.
David in Meadow Lake, New Mexico; is that right? Or is that Minnesota?
CALLER: No, it's Heron Lake.
RUSH: Heron Lake. I'm sorry, Heron Lake. I didn't have my glasses on.
CALLER: Yeah. I'm in northern New Mexico.
RUSH: Okay.
CALLER: I'm worried about the influence that ACORN could have on elections and will the Democrats turn them loose on the elections that are going on tomorrow. The problem with the Republican Party is they gotta get rid of these clubhouse Republicans, these people that believe that they're better than the people below them, they gotta get after these candidates, maybe have a background check on who here putting up for office.
RUSH: No, no, no. They know who they're putting up. Look, they're putting up people like them. This is why I said the Republican Party needs to be as Ronald Reagan said, retaken. This is no time for third-party movements, it really isn't. But you mentioned the election fraud. I'll tell you what, tomorrow is going to be a dry run for Democrat mischief and malfeasance, getting ready for 2010 and 2012. ACORN, SEIU, the New Black Panthers, they get their equivalent of the Super Bowl Tuesday.
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RUSH: Now, Biden, back to old Joe, Joe Biden doesn't know what I'm for. I want to read something and Obama says he'll listen to ideas. How many millions of ideas have I thrown out on this radio program? I wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed on a bipartisan stimulus plan. He's not listening to anybody else's ideas. "Somebody got a better idea, I'll listen." He's not listening to anything. He listens only to himself and Rahm Emanuel and Axelrod. But I wrote a piece October 17th, 2005, during the Harriet Miers fiasco when George W. Bush had nominated her for the US Supreme Court and those of us conservatives, "No, no, no, this is too important." At the time the media, the Democrats, were saying that there was a conservative crack-up going on, we were falling apart, conservatives were not unified because of the Harriet Miers mess.
So I wrote a piece in the Wall Street Journal and I just want to read the first paragraph to you: "I love being a conservative. We conservatives are proud of our philosophy. Unlike our liberal friends, who are constantly looking for new words to conceal their true beliefs and are in a perpetual state of reinvention, we conservatives are unapologetic about our ideals. We are confident in our principles and energetic about openly advancing them. We believe in individual liberty, limited government, capitalism, the rule of law, faith, a color-blind society and national security. We support school choice, enterprise zones, tax cuts, welfare reform, faith-based initiatives, political speech, homeowner rights and the war on terrorism. And at our core we embrace and celebrate the most magnificent governing document ever ratified by any nation--the U.S. Constitution. Along with the Declaration of Independence, which recognizes our God-given natural right to be free, it is the foundation on which our government is built and has enabled us to flourish as a people."
Secretary, vice president, former Vice President Biden says he doesn't know what we're for. He knows exactly what we're for. Scares him to death. I'm not going to read the whole piece to you. We'll put it back up at RushLimbaugh.com.
Christine in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, she's been holding a long time. Thank you for your patience. Hello.
CALLER: Hello, Rush. Mega dittos.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: I just want to say I'm honored. I was a member of your audience back in your New York TV show in 1993. Loved your show then, still love you now. Two things serious, and then one good news. The serious. I woke up the other morning to that picture op of the caskets returning home and Obama saluting them.
RUSH: Yep.
CALLER: Why didn't anyone in the media come out -- with Bush it was how many casualties, number by number, day by day. The blood of those soldiers are on his hands for not sending troops for over 60 days. I'm not a war person, but he didn't give them any help and the blood is on his hands and the media should come out to say so.
RUSH: It's not going to happen. I understand your anger, but it's not going to happen.
CALLER: My other thing is, good news, and your name gets all around, as far as someone calling in about the Republicans for the youth, what can they do, my son is a junior in high school and his advanced history teacher, his first day, said, "I make Rush Limbaugh look like a bleeding heart liberal."
RUSH: (laughing) I love it. I love it when people say that to me, that means we're making progress out there.
CALLER: So that means they're teachers out there that are teaching the right thing and guarding our children. Rush I love you so much and Wednesday is my 20th wedding anniversary, my husband Tom, and I tell him all the time that you're the only man that I would leave him for.
RUSH: (laughing) How did he feel about that?
CALLER: He's like, "How wonderful Christine, thanks a lot."
RUSH: (laughing)
CALLER: Although he does say -- 'cause I say I watch Fox News and, he goes, "I heard everything from Rush," because sometimes I can't hear you, and he goes, "He told me everything, we had our meeting on the mountain, he gets all the information from you." Keep up the good work, Rush. I love you.
RUSH: Thank you, Christine, very much. I love you, too, I appreciate the call.
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RUSH: Weekly Standard is reporting on its blog that this rally where Biden spoke, the place was only 65% full. Watertown is a town with a population of 30,000 people. The Biden event for Owens up there was open to the public. Nobody needed a ticket to get in. Two hundred and fifty people showed up, 50 of them with the media. So 200 non-media showed up for the Biden rally, which was only about 65% full. I don't think there's a whole lot of momentum up there, the vice president is sure not pulling 'em out and rallying the troops up there. Sixty-five percent full, 250 people, and 50 of them are the media? Here's Alan in Rockland, New York, great to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Rush, it's a pleasure to speak with you and I just want to tell you: I am absolutely honored to be speaking with the bravest nonmilitary man in the United States.
RUSH: Gee, thank you. Thank you very much.
CALLER: Rush, I'm trying to be brave myself, and I want to ask an important question. When is the media going to ask this question? Is Rahm Emanuel running our country, or is it President Obama? 'Cause he's always out playing golf. He's always out at a concert or at a rally with the troops being in harm's way. Rahm Emanuel, who has been working with Freddie Mac, we're not allowed to see the board meeting minutes. I mean, he mails dead fish to opponents. When will we find out who this guy is, Rahm Emanuel, and is he running our country -- and why is he so close to the president, Rush? Someone who is absolutely unstable. I mean, if you mail dead fish to somebody you'd never become a cop or a teacher or a fireman. What's going on here? Why can't we find out the board meetings?
RUSH: Let me explain something to you. I don't know how... (sigh) I'm not frustrated. I'm not mad. Please don't take this personally. But I don't know how many times I'm going to have to say, "If you are going to wait for the media to treat them like they treat us, you are forever... You're going to die dissatisfied. 'Cause it's never going to happen." Why won't the media tell us about Rahm Emanuel and if it's really running the country? They don't care. In fact, if they know that he's running the country they're in on the secret. They're not going to blow it for these guys. But there's another aspect to your question that I want to address, too. Don't believe for a moment that Obama does not have his sleeves rolled up and is in charge of all of this. These people are a team. It's Chicago. This is Chicago thug politics. Mayor Daley... If anybody's running this show, it is Mayor Daley. You got Rahm Emanuel; you've got Axelrod. They're all out of Chicago. You have Obama out of Chicago. This is Chicago machine politics brought to the national level. And they all think the same way. They all have the same agenda. It's not that Obama is an empty suit and these guys are out there as Karl Rove was said to be, the genius behind George W. Bush. He's in on it. He's in on it. He has said as much. Read what he has written. Listen to what he has said in previous media appearances over the course of his life. This is exactly what he intended to do if he ever got elected, and he's brought along people who agree with him and are along for the ride helping him get where he wants to go.
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RUSH: How about Joe Biden up there to a 65% of the place packed, 250 people, 50 of them media, "H, Sarah, hey, Sarah," meaning Sarah Palin, "Hey, Sarah, it's a little more complicated than drill, baby, drill." No, it's not, Joe, it's real simple. How do you think we get oil in the first place, Joe? Drill, baby, drill. You know, these guys, Axelrod and these people -- I used to run the Republican Party last week but now ever since Sunday I'm just an entertainer, I'm just a fulminating entertainer. Let me tell you something, folks, it's the libs who are a bunch of entertainers, although they are dangerous. Look at Barney Frank. Barney Frank reminds me of Buddy Hackett. I don't mean to demean the late Buddy Hackett. And look at Harry Reid. When Reid speaks he makes as much sense as Teller of the comedy team Penn & Teller and Teller doesn't say anything, he's the foil. Pelosi reminds me of the late Liberace, nothing against the late Liberace, but she looks like him, she sounds like him although Liberace did not want to destroy capitalism and liberty. These people are just off the charts, extreme, they're funny as hell except that they're dangerous because they have amassed so much power.
This headline, ladies and gentlemen, on the Drudge Report: "Atlanta Poised to Elect a White Mayor." That has become news? Does Eric Holder know about this? The Justice Department might find that illegal. Did somebody call Eric Holder, attorney general, Atlanta is going to elect a white mayor? How in the hell can that happen? And it's news? It's a female, by the way. I know it's been so long, but you know, I keep living in a colorblind society here. But the press is putting it: "Atlanta Poised to Elect White Mayor." And she's a woman. Why didn't they say, Atlanta poised to elect babe? Atlanta poised to elect female mayor? Atlanta, everybody there is poised, you know, they're in the starting blocks, they can't wait for the election to come charging out of those blocks, go in there and they're going to pull the lever where it says "white." I mean what is happening to us? What in the world is happening to us? It ain't good, folks. It isn't good.
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Phone calls and e-mails to members of Congress, it is said, are not having the impact they once did. Because Washington is being flooded with phone calls and e-mails against health care, and it's not making a smidgeon's bit of difference, according to Michele Bachmann and others. The Democrats are so committed on this that they don't care what anybody thinks. Now, Michele Bachmann told me in an e-mail that if they had to vote on this today, it would lose.
But they plan on voting Friday, and by then, Pelosi might have enough time to buy enough votes, however she's going to do it, from Democrats who are sitting on the fence or who are confirmed "no" votes. So this is a pretty ambitious plan. They are trying to assemble a massive, massive "human house call," they're calling it -- a giant rally as it were on the steps of the capitol this Thursday. They want people to go to Washington and actually prowl the halls of all the different congressional office buildings, run into members of Congress and look 'em in the white of their eyes and say, "No. We don't want this." She believes that it's going to take personal contact and a lot of human beings, a lot of people in Washington to convey the message; because on this issue, e-mails and phone calls and factions and letters are having no impact.
Now, she's got Jon Voight. There are going to be some people speaking at this thing she's got Jon Voight there and Mark Levin is going to show up and so forth. Her note to me says this... "Insurgency in Congress" is the subject line. "We're asking the American people to make an emergency house call on Congress at noon on the capitol steps Thursday to remind Congress what the people said at town hall and tea parties last August. If real freedom-loving Americans come to Washington and walk up and down the halls of the office buildings and the capitol tracking down congressmen, looking them in the whites of their eyes and getting them on videotape, then I think we can kill this thing. If we can kill health care this week in the House, I think we will kill it for the next ten years. We have Jon Voight and Mark Levin confirmed, also Betsy McCaughey.
"We'll have a meet-up at the Capitol steps and then the insurgency begins. It's a big task, but it's the best way to really kill the bill, which is our goal. Your support in any manner could make all the difference. Thank you, Michele Bachmann." Now, imagine if they pull that off. That would be huge. That would be huge. So I told her I... (interruption) Well, no, I'm not going. (interruption) Pardon? (interruption) Well, I have scheduling conflicts, but I've also got other reasons. But regardless, this is interesting. They're going to be pushing this and I'm sure I am not the only talk show host will be talking it up. But people have been asking, what they can do. Everybody asks me, "What can we do? How can we stop this?" This is the latest plan that the Republicans, that Michele Bachmann has come up with. And this is a very, very ambitious thing. So as I learn more about this, as the week unfolds, I'll pass it on to you. 'Cause I'll guarantee you, Sarah Palin... You know, Joe Biden's making fun of Sarah Palin and laughing at her. Sarah Palin could not keep a crowd under 10,000 if she shows up anywhere. If she shows up anywhere it's 10 to 15 to 20,000, maybe more. Biden can't get any more than 200 people in Watertown, New York. Who is laughing at who? Or who should be laughing at who?
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By now everybody should understand that a Republican will never win a close or contested vote in a state with a Democrat as secretary of state. One thing law-abiding Americans can do when they vote -- and I would suggest New York 23, New Jersey, in Virginia, what I would suggest that you do, even if you're not voting, but don't trust these polls, do vote, please understand, you gotta follow through here, you gotta finish and finishing means voting -- take your cameras. Take your cell phone cameras to polling places ready to record anything that appears suspicious, illegal, or intimidating toward voters. This is how the New Black Panthers were caught in Philadelphia intimidating voters. Somebody had a camera and they rolled on it. Not that it did any good, thanks to Eric Holder and Barack Obama. But this is their day tomorrow, and with the Democrats in trouble, dry run, dry run tomorrow for 2010 and for 2012.
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LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.
Hey, he had a better majorette outfit than I did!
He was my Grandma’s favorite entertainer...right after ‘Pretty Boy Floyd’ (wrestler).
Oh my!
Brain dead Biden’s campaign will be a pitiful attempt against Rush. Botox Biden will be begging for another paralyzing injection to numb his sagging decline into the late stages of dementia.
Joe is a ventriloquists dream.
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