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Rush In A Hurry -- Rush: 33 Percent Approval, Zero Pandering
RushLimbaugh.com ^ | 03-11-09 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 03/11/2009 2:57:58 PM PDT by GOP_Lady

On Today's Show...
 
"My 33% approval rating in the latest McClatchy poll is higher than that of Congress, lawyers, or Hollywood -- and I have achieved it without pandering to anybody and without giving away your money.  Can you imagine what my approval number would be if I had the power to take your money and give it away to other people?  Why, I'd be over 50%, too!" -Rush Limbaugh
 

President Obama Signs the Earmarkulus Bill (Rush 24/7 Members:  Listen)

The New Democrat Mantra is that this is a "war" for the economy, and we all have to support "General" Obama. Rush quotes Harry Reid's "This war is lost" on Iraq, and Chris Matthews -- who doesn't have any memory past last week -- fails to get the brilliant illustration of absurdity.
 
Business Leaders Can't Let Go of Emotional Investment in Obama. Jack Welch, Andy Grove, Barton Biggs, Cramer, and Buffett say they don't want Obama to fail, but they know he is failing.
 
» Parody:   Obama's Market Message (Impressions by Paul Shanklin)
 
"So many people -- big business people, supposed titans of industry -- are scared of people like Barney Frank and John Kerry.  That tells me Congress has way too much power, and they're wielding it to intimidate citizens.  This is not how the Constitution was set up or how the Framers envisioned this country. Citizens were not supposed to write sheepish letters begging -- begging! -- for relief from the paymasters in Washington." -Rush Limbaugh (Rush 24/7 Members:  Listen)
Rush Thanks the League of Conservation Voters for Their Ad Spreading His Message:
Manmade global warming is a hoax, an excuse to raise your taxes and grow government.
 
" Jason Whitlock is aghast that the media blindly accepts whatever comes out of the Kansas City Chiefs front office.  He wants the media to dig into what they're hiding.  He's writing this about a football team, which cannot raise your taxes or take away your freedom. Meanwhile, the media laid down and checked its professionalism at the door with Barack Obama!" -Rush Limbaugh
  
EIB Revenue and Listenership Are Up, Up, Up Thanks to You (Rush 24/7 Members:  Listen)
 
A caller who was a kid in '94, asks how the GOP won back Congress. (Hint: Conservatism)
 
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"I am not the Republican Party and I didn't say what I said for the benefit of that party.  I said what I said because I love America and our people, and I want everyone to succeed." -Rush Limbaugh
 
Rush's Stack of Stuff Quick Hits Page...
» Dems Kill GOP Bid to Extend DC Vouchers » Hope? 53% Think We're Entering Depression
» Stimulus 2: Coming Sooner Than Summer » Pelosi Demands Military Aircraft for Private Use
» PB Post Obsessed with Rush Billboard, Stimulus » Banks, Citing Strings, Want to Return $
 
Program Note: On Thursday & Friday, Our EIB Guest Hosts Will Replay Rush's Landmark Monologue from Tuesday:  The Founders Wanted Presidents to Fail If They Deserved to Fail
 
 
All that and more when we update RushLimbaugh.com!
 
 

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McClatchy Poll: El Rushbo is One of the Most Popular People in the Country
March 11, 2009

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, and my fellow citizens, according to the latest polling data from the McClatchy news organization, you are listening to one of the most popular Americans in the country. Rush Limbaugh, host of the most listened to radio talk show in America, heard right here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. It’s great to have you with us. The telephone number if you’d like to join us, as always, is 800-282-2882.

Speaking of that, Open Line Friday on Wednesday today. I’m out tomorrow and Friday on a long-scheduled charity outing. Open Line Friday on Wednesday means that when we go to the phones, you can talk about whatever you want to talk about, not what I demand be discussed here. And, by the way, that demand comes from the fact that I’m a benevolent dictator. I just don’t want to talk about things that bore me because nobody is going to want to listen to that, but on Fridays I take a great risk, for those of you new to the program, and turn over the programming content here to lovable and adorable, but nevertheless rank amateurs. I am the highly trained broadcast specialist, steering this program through the currents, but on Friday we let the deckhands have at it and it’s always fun. So we’re going to do that on Wednesday. Again, 800-282-2882, and e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com.

The McClatchy Company, it’s just hilarious. I used to work for them, by the way. The radio station in Sacramento that still carries my program, KFBK AM 1530 is owned by McClatchy, they own the Sacramento Bee. The newspaper hated me when I was there. But they have done a poll, they have done a national poll, and they have found that about a third of the American people have a highly favorable opinion of me. Ladies and gentlemen, that makes me one of the most popular Americans in the country. Yeah, they’re the ones that found me. McClatchy is the one, you’d have to say, that gave me my big break. But if I have an approval rating above a third, that makes me higher than Congress, that makes me higher than lawyers, that puts me with a higher approval rate than Hollywood, and also, my approval number of 33% is higher than Obama’s numbers are going to be when his presidency is over in 2012. And my approval number, 33%, that’s higher than Vice President Biden’s IQ. So this is fabulous news.

The Rasmussen poll is out today and the daily tracking poll, the president’s approval numbers at 56%. They are not climbing. The presidential approval numbers and plus the presidential approval index, that’s the difference between strongly approve and strongly disapprove, is now just plus six. And those two lines, it started out, when he was inaugurated, at plus 30. So he’s gone from around plus 30, presidential approval index, to plus six. He lost 24 points. That’s big. Now, those two lines — there’s a graph here on the Rasmussen website — when those two lines intersect and get to zero, it’s going to be big problems. We’ve had another American titan, business titan admit that he voted for Obama, but now says it’s time for The Messiah to get rid of the chaos, to stop the chaos. This is Andy Grove, retired now, but chairman emeritus I think at Intel Corporation, and it’s right out of the page of Jack Welch yesterday and Warren Buffett yesterday and Barton Biggs yesterday. “Oh, we love the guy. Ho, have you seen the family? They just look so great in the pictures there on the cover of People magazine, we just love the guy. His policies are destroying the country and there’s chaos out there, but we love the guy, we voted for the guy.”

It’s going to be a while before these people actually have — see, they’re all saying privately, we know what they’re saying publicly, they’re saying publicly, “Hey, you gotta stop the chaos. Hey, these policies are not working, they won’t work, Mr. President, you gotta do this. Love the guy. Is it wrong for a man to love another man?” But you have to imagine what they’re saying in private about this now. I guarantee you, the people who know what they’re doing in business, regardless of their political persuasion, have got to be concerned, especially, did you hear the president’s press conference today? Sorry. He doesn’t do press conferences. Excuse me. President Obama does teleprompter conferences. Have you noticed by the way, that President Obama is now doing all of his appearances either before this program or after this program? Do you know why? Want to know why? Because the White House is convinced, despite this latest poll from McClatchy, the White House is convinced that they have driven my polls. I’m a radio guy. Now, admittedly, my friends, I understand where I am now. I understand what’s happening.

I have transcended media now. I have transcended mere broadcasting. Still I’m a radio guy. They think that they have so successfully driven down my numbers that they’re perfectly content for the president not to conflict with me now. They believe that the more people who hear me, the better it will be for the president. Now, I know there were no polls when Paul Revere began his ride, but I’ll bet his numbers weren’t very high. Don’t worry, folks, I live in the world of principle, I don’t live in the world of polls, and I shall not be deterred in standing up for what I think is right, and for my country, plain and simple. Have no fear. My brother, God love him, my little brother David, noted columnist, attorney, broadcast agent, audio-video expert, sent me a little note last night and said, “Are you okay? How are you holding up?” I said, “Well, what?” because it was about 9:30. He said, “All this demonization.” I said, “What demonization, I haven’t seen any tonight.” “Oh, it’s all over the place.” “Well, I haven’t had the television on. I’ve been doing other things.” I wrote back, “The thing that people don’t understand is that this is not new. This demonization has been going on for 18 years.”

I am not burdened. This is very, very key. For those of you — and I love you, and you know who you are — for those of you who are worried about me, please don’t be. I am not burdened with the hope of expectations that those in the media and the Democrat Party are all of a sudden going to love me. And as such, I’m never disappointed. I’m never surprised. It’s like I’ve told you, don’t look to the media to determine whether or not conservatism is winning the day. You’re looking to the wrong places for validation. I’m not burdened with the expectations of validation for places I know it’s not going to come. I know what I’m into, and it is what it is. I appreciate everybody’s concern, but I’m actually having more fun here than I’ve had in years. This is exciting each and every day ‘cause I’ll tell you what I see, and it’s plain as day. A lot of other people see it but they won’t admit it, but there are huge problems inside the White House. There are huge problems with the White House relationship with the world. There are huge problems among the intelligent people, business people that voted for this man. There is a lot of concern out there over this ain’t the way to go.

We can beat this back. Do you understand, folks, that if the Republicans can get their act together and somehow win back a significant number of seats in the House and Senate, we can stop and prevent a lot of the first stimulus package from going into play because it doesn’t go into play ‘til 2011 and 2010. And now, by the way, did I tell you? Stimulus 2. The only thing I was wrong about, they’re not waiting ‘til the summer to talk about it. We need a new stimulus. Washington Post has it right here: “Congress May Need to Fund Another Stimulus.” Economists don’t see the three-and-a-half million jobs being saved by the $1.6 trillion spent so far. It’s too small. This was always in the cards. There is no job being saved or created because there’s no stimulus in the first bill. This was nothing more than a head-fake trick to get all of these liberal pet projects into law, and now supposed stimulus will come, and then there will be TARP 2.

There’s no mystery what’s happening here. It’s just that people, like we were discussing yesterday, people are reluctant to admit what they really know about liberals and about liberalism even though it’s been in front of their faces for years. They have to see it happening at the moment. This is going to wake a lot of people up. I’m encouraged, I’m optimistic about this. I see an administration on the run here. I see a president who won’t take questions from the press.

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RUSH: Here’s another thing. In addition to McClatchy determining that I am one of the most popular Americans in the country today with a personal approval rating of 33%, do you realize that I have achieved this 33% approval rating without pandering to anybody and without giving away your money to other people? Can you imagine what my approval number would be if I had the ability to give away your money to other people? Why, I’d be over 50%, too! But I, my friends, don’t live in the world of polls. I live in the world of principle.

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3 posted on 03/11/2009 2:59:25 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
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To: GOP_Lady
What a guy, that Limbaugh!
4 posted on 03/11/2009 2:59:37 PM PDT by humblegunner (Where my PIE at, fool?)
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Flashback: On the Morning of 9/11, James Carville Wanted Bush to Fail
March 11, 2009

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RUSH: Okay. It’s finally been posted. I’ve been waiting for this. When I got in here to our broadcast complex this morning, there was an e-mail from Bill Sammon at Fox News. He’s the DC bureau chief there, and he said, “Rush, I’m working on a piece here, I hope to have it ready by the time your show starts, and here it is.” And I read this, and I just smiled, mouth fell open a little bit, and I just smiled. And then Bill Sammon asked me for any input. “Would you like to reply to what I learned?” So I sent him a note back, and the story has been posted at FoxNews.com. It’s also linked, by the way, at the Drudge Report. The headline: “Flashback: Carville Wanted Bush to Fail,” but that is only half the story. “The press never reported that Democratic strategist James Carville said he wanted President Bush to fail before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. But a feeding frenzy ensued when radio host Rush Limbaugh recently said he wanted Obama’s,” policies to fail. Here you go, folks. Listen to this.

“On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, just minutes before learning of the terrorist attacks on America, Democratic strategist James Carville was hoping for President Bush to fail, telling a group of Washington reporters: ‘I certainly hope he doesn’t succeed.’ Carville was joined by Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg, who seemed encouraged by a survey he had just completed that revealed public misgivings about the newly minted president. ‘We rush into these focus groups with these doubts that people have about him, and I’m wanting them to turn against him,’ Greenberg admitted.” Greenberg wanted to do a poll that would cause the American people to turn against Bush on the morning of 9/11. You see, the dirty little secret is that an honest utterance by me, purely uttered for the sake of my country is turned into a scandal, and last week it was the number two news item in this country according to some media group. Economy was number one. I was the number two item. Yet it is standard operating procedure for the Democrat Party to not do things in the best interests of the country, but rather in the best interests of their party.

I am not the Republican Party and I didn’t say what I said for the benefit of the Republican Party. I said what I said because I love America and our people, and I want everyone to succeed. After Greenberg said, “’We rush into these focus groups with these doubts that people have about him, and I’m wanting them to turn against him,” Greenberg then said with a chuckle, “They don’t want him to fail. I mean, they think it matters if the president of the United States fails.” So the people in the focus groups did not want Bush to fail, but they turned around and ginned up, or were prepared to gin up a bunch of research designed to convince the American people that Bush should fail, and they did, you have to admit it. “Minutes later, as news of the terrorist attacks reached the hotel conference room where the Democrats were having breakfast with the reporters, Carville announced: ‘Disregard everything we just said! This changes everything!’”

What did they change it for, three weeks? What was it, three or four weeks, the Democrats, Bush isn’t doing anything, Bush isn’t responding. Three weeks and they were back on the case of Bush this and Bush that. “The press followed Carville’s orders, never reporting his or Greenberg’s desire for Bush to fail. ... That omission stands in stark contrast to the feeding frenzy that ensued when radio host Rush Limbaugh recently said he wanted President Obama to fail.” Here’s what I told Bill Sammon in the piece. I said, “The difference between Carville and his ilk and me is that I care about what happens to my country. I am not saying what I say for political advantage. I oppose actions, such as Obama’s socialist agenda, that hurt my country. I deal in principles, not polls. Carville and people like him live and breathe political exploitation. This is all a game to them. It’s not a game to me. I am concerned about the well-being and survival of our nation. When has Carville ever advocated anything that would benefit the country at the expense of his party?” That’s what I told Bill Sammon. That’s in the story.

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5 posted on 03/11/2009 2:59:58 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
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New Democrat Mantra: It’s War!
March 11, 2009

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RUSH: So here’s the long-ago promised analysis of the Democrats’ latest strategery to portray ourselves in a war with the US economy. By the way, from JP Morgan Chase, I have some astounding numbers here, worldwide market cap losses according to certain dates. Here are the values of the WCAU World Market Cap Index on requested dates. The market cap index on the day Obama was nominated was $47.3 trillion, which means the total market cap of industrialized countries around the world was $47.3 trillion. On Election Day it had dropped to $34.4 trillion. On Inauguration Day, World Market Cap Index was $29.5 trillion. Today, the World Market Cap Index is $25.6 trillion. The world market cap, the wealth of the world has dropped by $22 trillion since Barack Obama was nominated. That’s how much Barack Obama has cost the world, about $22 trillion in market cap, and it’s continuing to plunge.

All right, Thomas Friedman, the highly respected, almost godlike columnist on foreign policy in the New York Times has a very funny, naive, and sophomoric piece today on the economy in the New York Times. The headline: “This Is Not a Test. This Is Not a Test.” That’s a takeoff on the old EBS warning, “This is not a test. This is a real warning. We’re at war. Get under your desks. The Russian nukes are on the way.” Remember that when you were in school? “It’s always great to see the stock market come back from the dead, but I’m deeply worried,” writes Professor Friedman, “that our political system doesn’t grasp how much our financial crisis can still undermine everything we want to be as a country.” Mr. Friedman, the political system knows exactly what’s happening here, and they sit by and watch it. I could stop after every sentence of this piece, but I’d be here the whole hour doing it, so I will use discipline and only reply to the most sophomoric aspects of this piece.

He writes, “Friends, this is not a test. Economically, this is the big one. This is August 1914. This is the morning after Pearl Harbor. This is 9/12. Yet, in too many ways, we seem to be playing politics as usual. Our country has congestive heart failure. Our heart, our banking system that pumps blood to our industrial muscles, is clogged and functioning far below capacity. Nothing else remotely compares in importance to the urgent need to heal our banks. Yet I read that we’re actually holding up dozens of key appointments at the Treasury Department because we are worried whether someone paid Social Security taxes on a nanny hired 20 years ago at $5 an hour.” That’s not why, Mr. Friedman, but even if it were, so here comes the excuse to get all kinds of tax cheats who might be brilliant — anybody want to make the case for Geithner to me anymore? Can somebody explain to me why we had to have a tax cheat? He’s the only guy that could deal with the banking crisis? He’s incompetent! “Dozens of key appointments at the Treasury department ‘cause we’re worried —” I think we can’t fill spots there ‘cause nobody wants to work there, Mr. Friedman.

“Meanwhile,” writes Mr. Friedman, “the Republican Party behaves as if it would rather see the country fail than Barack Obama succeed. Rush Limbaugh, the de facto G.O.P. boss, said so explicitly, prompting John McCain to declare about President Obama to Politico: ‘I don’t want him to fail in his mission of restoring our economy.’” Now, this is the result of Mr. Friedman being ignorant, naive. He knows damn well — well, maybe he doesn’t. You know, I remember at the CPAC speech, when I mentioned John Kerry, and I pause and I said, who, by the way, served in Vietnam, and there was laughter from the audience. And then later when I read a review of the speech, some liberals were just aghast that conservatives would laugh at someone’s service to their country. And I said, “We live in two worlds.” I said John Kerry, who served in Vietnam because he tells us every time he opens his mouth, particularly during the campaign, that he served in Vietnam. I was lampooning Kerry, not public service or military service.

At any rate, “the Republican Party believes and behaves as if it would rather see the country fail than Barack Obama succeed.” Mr. Friedman, what we know is that the country cannot succeed if Obama succeeds with his policies. And that’s what you’re writing about. You’re writing about the failure of the economic banking system. Obama’s in charge of it, and you’re blaming me and you’re blaming Republicans. Obama’s in charge of it, Geithner’s in charge of it. They’re ignoring the banking bailout, they’re ignoring the banking business, they’re ramming liberal socialist policies down our throats while everybody’s distracted by this other thing and being distracted by this attack on me, in which you are now participating. We don’t want the country to fail, and we have never said it. It is the exact opposite. We want everybody to succeed. We just know that Obama’s policies will not bring that about.

“As for President Obama,” writes Mr. Friedman, “I like his coolness under fire, yet sometimes it feels as if he is deliberately keeping his distance from the banking crisis, while pressing ahead on other popular initiatives.” Thomas, I call this the Buffett-Welch, Barton Biggs head fake. He just has a paragraph about me and the Republicans wanting the country to fail, which is a lie and then turns around and scratches his head, “I love Obama’s coolness under fire, but it feels like he’s deliberately keeping his distance from the banking crisis. I understand that he doesn’t want his presidency to be held hostage to the ups and downs of bank stocks, but a hostage he is. We all are.” Mr. Friedman, you know what, you ought to write a column dedicated to Obama and just try and convince him to ask his buddy George Soros to fix all this. Tell George Soros he can stop shorting the US economy.

“First,” writes Mr. Freedom, “to get out of a crisis like this you need to let markets clear. You need to let failed companies, or homeowners, go bankrupt, unlock their dead capital and reapply it to thriving entities.” Mr. Friedman, this is why I characterized your piece today as sad, naive, and sophomoric. What is it I have been saying for two months? Let the failed companies fail! Don’t bail out homeowners who can’t pay the loans in the first place. Don’t make the rest of us who are affording our mortgages, barely in some cases, pay for somebody else’s, including their second loan. You are parroting me. How do we fix this? This is what I suggested that we do. People like you just made me a straw man. I want Obama to fail ‘cause he’s doing the opposite of what you’re suggesting. Obama’s bailing out losers. Obama’s bailing out losing companies. Obama’s bailing out losing homeowners. You say they should fail. I say they should fail. The market needs to cleanse itself. I’m getting blamed.

Anyway, it goes on. “President Obama announced today that he had invited the country’s 20 leading bankers, 20 leading industrialists, 20 top market economists and the Democratic and Republican leaders in the House and Senate to join him and his team at Camp David.” Tom, when you are you going to realize that Obama has a checklist, and on the checklist is something like “banking problem.” So what he does, he’ll convene these 60 or so people at Camp David for a couple days, he’ll give them a lecture, they’ll go have their little sessions and come out after their breakout groups, they’ll report back. Nothing will change and he’ll check the box off, “I’ve dealt with the banking problem.” Because his purpose Mr. Friedman is not to deal with anything, it’s just to keep that approval number up. He wants people like you and others who voted for him to think he’s dealing with it or has dealt with it, or that he’s paying attention to it, while it never gets fixed. So he’s just got a series of checklists. He defines his success by how many of the checklist he gets through every day, bam, bam, bam, got that, got that, got that, got that, yeah, had the women’s summit, yeah, had the health care summit, yeah, had the mortgage summit, yeah, going to have the bank summit up at Camp David, yep, yep, yep, what a good day’s work, problem solved. Now let’s go to the Wednesday night cocktail party with hundred-dollar wagyu beef and whatever else the taxpayers are paying for before I hop on one of my two private jets for a dinner party weekend in Chicago.

Mr. Friedman, you gotta realize this is how he operates. He doesn’t fix anything. He just wants people to think he cares about it, is working on it, and maybe has dealt with it. That’s what got him elected. He’s never fixed anything in his life, Mr. Friedman. He’s never been an executive of anything. He’s never solved a problem. He’s simply taking advantage of them, Mr. Friedman, and you are right in there offering guidance and support along of the rest of the naive and hapless who have invested so much emotionally here that you’ve checked your intellect at the door before you went in to vote.

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RUSH: I just heard Thomas Friedman lament that we can’t get good people to help poor old Geithner because of the nanny tax problem. Well, this afternoon on Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, she talked to Barney “Fwank,” and she asked him what Friedman said. Is there really a problem here? And here’s what Barney “Fwank” said.

FRANK: The media is the problem here, in part. It is the over-focus on the part of people in media to relatively minor infractions that cause this. I guarantee you my colleagues would not, on their own, be doing this.

MITCHELL: I take your point, Mr. Chairman. You’re right, and, ummm, we plead guilty.

FRANK: The people that — who may be bringing us out of this are the average citizens. They are so now focused on real problems that I have found encouragingly they are much less interested in the gossip and in the trivia and even the — the — the minor infractions than they are in — Are you gonna get credit for me? Am I going to get a job? What will happen to my health care if I lose my job? Adversity does seem to be concentrating mind, uh, in a very good way.

RUSH: Barney Frank blames the media for the fact that they’re focusing on too many tax cheats who otherwise would be great employees at the time Treasury department. Andrea Mitchell says, “I take your point, Mr. Chairman, you’re right, and we plead guilty.” Moving on with the war. Moving on with the... (interruption) Nah. See, he does come off like a “butt boy” there. You know, they all are. People don’t like the term, Snerdley. We have new people tuning in and they hear the term. They’re not going to understand the humor with which we intend this. I apologize, folks. I know that there are millions of you new tuning in and you’re just waiting for an excuse to tune out ‘cause you’re waiting for all these misconceptions you have to be confirmed, but call Andrea Mitchell whatever you want. For the media, she now accepts blame. Yeah, the media’s keeping good people out of Treasury because they’re focusing on tax cheats. Anyway, on Morning Joe, Scarborough today spoke with Tom Brokaw, and this is about the theme that’s been advanced here that we are in an economic war, that this is the first day of 1914, that this is the day of Pearl Harbor! This is 9/12!

BROKAW: This is the economic equivalent of war. The country is being reset in every conceivable way — economically, culturally, politically. We’ll be looking back on this period of time and saying, “That was another beginning of another chapter in the American saga,” and as I go around the country and talk to groups, I s-say, “You know, a hundred years from now the historian will judge this time not just by what Obama does but by, ‘What will we do?’”

RUSH: “A hundred years from now the historians will judge this not by just what Obama does, but by, ‘What we will...?’” Yeah. That’s damn right more than he knows, and in ways he can’t even imagine. Here is author Frank Schaffer on MSNBC Live yesterday afternoon.

SCHAFFER: Republicans have become to our war against economic collapse, what Jane Fonda was what she was in Vietnam rooting for the other side. We’re in another war now! This is an economic war, and everybody who loves this country has to stand together and back our president.

RUSH: Jeez! I don’t know who this guy is, Frank Schaffer, but now we’re Jane Fonda, and whatever the president wants to do — he’s a king! Whatever he wants to do, we have to back him. No, we don’t! We have the Constitution. We have separation of powers, and we do not have a king, Mr. Schaffer. But I’m reminded of this in Connecticut, April 28th, 2003, talking about backing our president.

HILLARY: (screeching) I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you’re not patriotic, and we should stand up and say, “WE ARE AMERICANS AND WE HAVE A RIGHT TO DEBATE AND DISAGREE WITH ANY ADMINISTRATION!”

RUSH: Pshew! Ugh! I get high blood pressure when I hear that. Doesn’t that...? For you new listeners, especially you gentlemen, doesn’t that...? That was Hillary Clinton. Doesn’t that remind you of your first, maybe your second, or both your ex-wives? “I get sick and tired of people who say...?” I mean, that will send you down to Archie Bunker’s bar faster than anything in the country, including your kid getting an F on the report card. But her point out there was, “We’re not going to just sit around and blanketly agree with George W. Bush. No, no, no, no, no!” See, it was patriotic to dissent then. Now it’s unpatriotic to dissent. You see how the left is allowed to change their definitions? All right. We’ve gotta take a brief time-out here. The next sound bite we have is with Chris Matthews and socialist California representative Barbara Lee. (laughs) Remember yesterday when I proclaimed, “Look, if Obama is the general in this war, ‘This war is lost.’” That sent poor old Chris, who normally gets leg tingles on his show, over the edge. He’s totally missing again, sense of humor and the irony, the sarcasm and the satire.

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RUSH: Here’s Matthews talking with Barbara Lee. MSNBC Hardboiled last night. Matthews is just livid, and no sense of irony. They have no... We live in two different worlds. I don’t know if they even have any memory of things that actually happen that I play off of on this program. Listen to do so.

MATTHEWS: Here’s Rush Limbaugh today with his thoughts!

RUSH ARCHIVE: It’s around nine minutes to one Eastern Time on March the 10th, and I, El Rushbo, proclaim: “This war is lost.”

MATTHEWS: He’s talking about the war on the economy, on the bad economy! Barbara! Congresswoman, um, Lee! What do you think of Rush Limbaugh saying that the Barack Obama war to save the American economy is “lost”?

LEE: Well, you know, for those who listen to Rush Limbaugh, so be it. Rush Limbaugh has no clue. The economy is not lost. The president is working very hard.

RUSH: That’s a ringing endorsement isn’t it? He’s trying hard. He’s working very hard. The economy isn’t lost. Well, we kept hearing it was lost from these people for six years during the Bush administration. Folks, see, it’s like at the CPAC speech when I said, “John Kerry — who, by the way, served in Vietnam,” and everybody laughed because we make fun of Kerry for telling us every time he opens his mouth that he served in Vietnam. Well, Chris (or whoever monitors this program for Chris) I want to take you back. We have two sound bites, both from Harry Reid in April of 2006.

REID: [T]his war is lost and that the surge is not accomplishing anything.

RUSH: And the next one...

REID: As long as we follow the president’s path in Iraq, the war is lost!

RUSH: Harry Reid twice, before the surge began, declared: “This war is lost! This war is lost!” That’s Harry Reid surrendering, Harry Reid trying to secure the defeat of American military personnel and their mission, Chris — and I’m parodying Harry Reid! If Obama is the general of this war, it’s lost. I said this date. I said, “Nine minutes to one o’clock Eastern on March 10th,” because I knew I was marking it for the media, ‘cause I knew what they were going to do! I love tweaking these people. I know how they’re going to do it. “I, El Rushbo, proclaim, ‘This war is lost.’ If Obama is our general, ‘This war is lost.’” Here, play these two Reid bites back together, April, 2006 — only two years ago, Chris. You gotta have enough of a brain left to have two years worth of memory.

REID: [T]his war is lost and that the surge is not accomplishing anything.

REID: As long as we follow the president’s path in Iraq, the war is lost!

END TRANSCRIPT


6 posted on 03/11/2009 3:01:43 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
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To: GOP_Lady
Stunning isn't it?

I was listening to Archbishop Fulton Sheen's rebroadcast last night of Life Is Worth Living. He was talking about communism and socialism. He said:

those that flock to communism do so because they want to abandon their own moral conscience. They don't need to follow moral laws because there aren't any. They'd rather point at collective groups and claim fault with them rather than take responsibilty for their own individual action.

7 posted on 03/11/2009 3:11:39 PM PDT by Northern Yankee (Freedom Needs A Soldier)
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To: Northern Yankee

I like Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s words. :-)


8 posted on 03/11/2009 3:15:56 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
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yes ma'am... I was really struck by that last night. It hasn't changed.

I'd love to be on your ping list.

You do great work. Thank you!

9 posted on 03/11/2009 3:22:42 PM PDT by Northern Yankee (Freedom Needs A Soldier)
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To: Northern Yankee
Stunning isn't it?

Indeed, Limbaugh's arrogance is amazing.

Stated almost any other way, the point would be salient.

10 posted on 03/11/2009 3:33:08 PM PDT by humblegunner (Where my PIE at, fool?)
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To: GOP_Lady

well, here’s the deal. Being a liberal is the most gutless thing you can be because you never say no to anyone. We’re never going to be hip and popular in Hollywood. So I’d rather be a conservative with only 50.1% approval than promise free goodies to everyone and have a 90% approval.


11 posted on 03/11/2009 3:35:42 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Hail to the Dork!)
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To: humblegunner

I’m sorry... you lost me.


12 posted on 03/11/2009 3:42:10 PM PDT by Northern Yankee (Freedom Needs A Soldier)
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To: Northern Yankee

You are added, Northern Yankee!

Thank you for your kind words, Northern Yankee, but it is Rush who does the “great work.” :-)


13 posted on 03/11/2009 4:31:18 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
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To: GOP_Lady
I despise dims... if you are one and reading this... I despise you and your party... a party of unredeeming, animalistic, statist, authoritarian dirty evil scum bags that you are!!! Holy ****... where's the Tylenol?

LLS

14 posted on 03/11/2009 4:34:18 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my President... NEVER!!!)
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To: GOP_Lady

You’re most welcome.


15 posted on 03/11/2009 4:49:38 PM PDT by Northern Yankee (Freedom Needs A Soldier)
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To: LibLieSlayer

LLS, I really believe the rats will be given a big defeat in the next election. Hang in there, bud. :-)

I know a lot of people who voted for BHO, and no one is even talking about him. That silence is deafening and has meaning.


16 posted on 03/11/2009 4:50:03 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
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To: GOP_Lady

New Democrat Mantra: It’s War!
March 11, 2009

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: So here’s the long-ago promised analysis of the Democrats’ latest strategery to portray ourselves in a war with the US economy. By the way, from JP Morgan Chase, I have some astounding numbers here, worldwide market cap losses according to certain dates. Here are the values of the WCAU World Market Cap Index on requested dates. The market cap index on the day Obama was nominated was $47.3 trillion, which means the total market cap of industrialized countries around the world was $47.3 trillion. On Election Day it had dropped to $34.4 trillion. On Inauguration Day, World Market Cap Index was $29.5 trillion. Today, the World Market Cap Index is $25.6 trillion. The world market cap, the wealth of the world has dropped by $22 trillion since Barack Obama was nominated. That’s how much Barack Obama has cost the world, about $22 trillion in market cap, and it’s continuing to plunge.

All right, Thomas Friedman, the highly respected, almost godlike columnist on foreign policy in the New York Times has a very funny, naive, and sophomoric piece today on the economy in the New York Times. The headline: “This Is Not a Test. This Is Not a Test.” That’s a takeoff on the old EBS warning, “This is not a test. This is a real warning. We’re at war. Get under your desks. The Russian nukes are on the way.” Remember that when you were in school? “It’s always great to see the stock market come back from the dead, but I’m deeply worried,” writes Professor Friedman, “that our political system doesn’t grasp how much our financial crisis can still undermine everything we want to be as a country.” Mr. Friedman, the political system knows exactly what’s happening here, and they sit by and watch it. I could stop after every sentence of this piece, but I’d be here the whole hour doing it, so I will use discipline and only reply to the most sophomoric aspects of this piece.

He writes, “Friends, this is not a test. Economically, this is the big one. This is August 1914. This is the morning after Pearl Harbor. This is 9/12. Yet, in too many ways, we seem to be playing politics as usual. Our country has congestive heart failure. Our heart, our banking system that pumps blood to our industrial muscles, is clogged and functioning far below capacity. Nothing else remotely compares in importance to the urgent need to heal our banks. Yet I read that we’re actually holding up dozens of key appointments at the Treasury Department because we are worried whether someone paid Social Security taxes on a nanny hired 20 years ago at $5 an hour.” That’s not why, Mr. Friedman, but even if it were, so here comes the excuse to get all kinds of tax cheats who might be brilliant — anybody want to make the case for Geithner to me anymore? Can somebody explain to me why we had to have a tax cheat? He’s the only guy that could deal with the banking crisis? He’s incompetent! “Dozens of key appointments at the Treasury department ‘cause we’re worried —” I think we can’t fill spots there ‘cause nobody wants to work there, Mr. Friedman.

“Meanwhile,” writes Mr. Friedman, “the Republican Party behaves as if it would rather see the country fail than Barack Obama succeed. Rush Limbaugh, the de facto G.O.P. boss, said so explicitly, prompting John McCain to declare about President Obama to Politico: ‘I don’t want him to fail in his mission of restoring our economy.’” Now, this is the result of Mr. Friedman being ignorant, naive. He knows damn well — well, maybe he doesn’t. You know, I remember at the CPAC speech, when I mentioned John Kerry, and I pause and I said, who, by the way, served in Vietnam, and there was laughter from the audience. And then later when I read a review of the speech, some liberals were just aghast that conservatives would laugh at someone’s service to their country. And I said, “We live in two worlds.” I said John Kerry, who served in Vietnam because he tells us every time he opens his mouth, particularly during the campaign, that he served in Vietnam. I was lampooning Kerry, not public service or military service.

At any rate, “the Republican Party believes and behaves as if it would rather see the country fail than Barack Obama succeed.” Mr. Friedman, what we know is that the country cannot succeed if Obama succeeds with his policies. And that’s what you’re writing about. You’re writing about the failure of the economic banking system. Obama’s in charge of it, and you’re blaming me and you’re blaming Republicans. Obama’s in charge of it, Geithner’s in charge of it. They’re ignoring the banking bailout, they’re ignoring the banking business, they’re ramming liberal socialist policies down our throats while everybody’s distracted by this other thing and being distracted by this attack on me, in which you are now participating. We don’t want the country to fail, and we have never said it. It is the exact opposite. We want everybody to succeed. We just know that Obama’s policies will not bring that about.

“As for President Obama,” writes Mr. Friedman, “I like his coolness under fire, yet sometimes it feels as if he is deliberately keeping his distance from the banking crisis, while pressing ahead on other popular initiatives.” Thomas, I call this the Buffett-Welch, Barton Biggs head fake. He just has a paragraph about me and the Republicans wanting the country to fail, which is a lie and then turns around and scratches his head, “I love Obama’s coolness under fire, but it feels like he’s deliberately keeping his distance from the banking crisis. I understand that he doesn’t want his presidency to be held hostage to the ups and downs of bank stocks, but a hostage he is. We all are.” Mr. Friedman, you know what, you ought to write a column dedicated to Obama and just try and convince him to ask his buddy George Soros to fix all this. Tell George Soros he can stop shorting the US economy.

“First,” writes Mr. Freedom, “to get out of a crisis like this you need to let markets clear. You need to let failed companies, or homeowners, go bankrupt, unlock their dead capital and reapply it to thriving entities.” Mr. Friedman, this is why I characterized your piece today as sad, naive, and sophomoric. What is it I have been saying for two months? Let the failed companies fail! Don’t bail out homeowners who can’t pay the loans in the first place. Don’t make the rest of us who are affording our mortgages, barely in some cases, pay for somebody else’s, including their second loan. You are parroting me. How do we fix this? This is what I suggested that we do. People like you just made me a straw man. I want Obama to fail ‘cause he’s doing the opposite of what you’re suggesting. Obama’s bailing out losers. Obama’s bailing out losing companies. Obama’s bailing out losing homeowners. You say they should fail. I say they should fail. The market needs to cleanse itself. I’m getting blamed.

Anyway, it goes on. “President Obama announced today that he had invited the country’s 20 leading bankers, 20 leading industrialists, 20 top market economists and the Democratic and Republican leaders in the House and Senate to join him and his team at Camp David.” Tom, when you are you going to realize that Obama has a checklist, and on the checklist is something like “banking problem.” So what he does, he’ll convene these 60 or so people at Camp David for a couple days, he’ll give them a lecture, they’ll go have their little sessions and come out after their breakout groups, they’ll report back. Nothing will change and he’ll check the box off, “I’ve dealt with the banking problem.” Because his purpose Mr. Friedman is not to deal with anything, it’s just to keep that approval number up. He wants people like you and others who voted for him to think he’s dealing with it or has dealt with it, or that he’s paying attention to it, while it never gets fixed. So he’s just got a series of checklists. He defines his success by how many of the checklist he gets through every day, bam, bam, bam, got that, got that, got that, got that, yeah, had the women’s summit, yeah, had the health care summit, yeah, had the mortgage summit, yeah, going to have the bank summit up at Camp David, yep, yep, yep, what a good day’s work, problem solved. Now let’s go to the Wednesday night cocktail party with hundred-dollar wagyu beef and whatever else the taxpayers are paying for before I hop on one of my two private jets for a dinner party weekend in Chicago.

Mr. Friedman, you gotta realize this is how he operates. He doesn’t fix anything. He just wants people to think he cares about it, is working on it, and maybe has dealt with it. That’s what got him elected. He’s never fixed anything in his life, Mr. Friedman. He’s never been an executive of anything. He’s never solved a problem. He’s simply taking advantage of them, Mr. Friedman, and you are right in there offering guidance and support along of the rest of the naive and hapless who have invested so much emotionally here that you’ve checked your intellect at the door before you went in to vote.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: I just heard Thomas Friedman lament that we can’t get good people to help poor old Geithner because of the nanny tax problem. Well, this afternoon on Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, she talked to Barney “Fwank,” and she asked him what Friedman said. Is there really a problem here? And here’s what Barney “Fwank” said.

FRANK: The media is the problem here, in part. It is the over-focus on the part of people in media to relatively minor infractions that cause this. I guarantee you my colleagues would not, on their own, be doing this.

MITCHELL: I take your point, Mr. Chairman. You’re right, and, ummm, we plead guilty.

FRANK: The people that — who may be bringing us out of this are the average citizens. They are so now focused on real problems that I have found encouragingly they are much less interested in the gossip and in the trivia and even the — the — the minor infractions than they are in — Are you gonna get credit for me? Am I going to get a job? What will happen to my health care if I lose my job? Adversity does seem to be concentrating mind, uh, in a very good way.

RUSH: Barney Frank blames the media for the fact that they’re focusing on too many tax cheats who otherwise would be great employees at the time Treasury department. Andrea Mitchell says, “I take your point, Mr. Chairman, you’re right, and we plead guilty.” Moving on with the war. Moving on with the... (interruption) Nah. See, he does come off like a “butt boy” there. You know, they all are. People don’t like the term, Snerdley. We have new people tuning in and they hear the term. They’re not going to understand the humor with which we intend this. I apologize, folks. I know that there are millions of you new tuning in and you’re just waiting for an excuse to tune out ‘cause you’re waiting for all these misconceptions you have to be confirmed, but call Andrea Mitchell whatever you want. For the media, she now accepts blame. Yeah, the media’s keeping good people out of Treasury because they’re focusing on tax cheats. Anyway, on Morning Joe, Scarborough today spoke with Tom Brokaw, and this is about the theme that’s been advanced here that we are in an economic war, that this is the first day of 1914, that this is the day of Pearl Harbor! This is 9/12!

BROKAW: This is the economic equivalent of war. The country is being reset in every conceivable way — economically, culturally, politically. We’ll be looking back on this period of time and saying, “That was another beginning of another chapter in the American saga,” and as I go around the country and talk to groups, I s-say, “You know, a hundred years from now the historian will judge this time not just by what Obama does but by, ‘What will we do?’”

RUSH: “A hundred years from now the historians will judge this not by just what Obama does, but by, ‘What we will...?’” Yeah. That’s damn right more than he knows, and in ways he can’t even imagine. Here is author Frank Schaffer on MSNBC Live yesterday afternoon.

SCHAFFER: Republicans have become to our war against economic collapse, what Jane Fonda was what she was in Vietnam rooting for the other side. We’re in another war now! This is an economic war, and everybody who loves this country has to stand together and back our president.

RUSH: Jeez! I don’t know who this guy is, Frank Schaffer, but now we’re Jane Fonda, and whatever the president wants to do — he’s a king! Whatever he wants to do, we have to back him. No, we don’t! We have the Constitution. We have separation of powers, and we do not have a king, Mr. Schaffer. But I’m reminded of this in Connecticut, April 28th, 2003, talking about backing our president.

HILLARY: (screeching) I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you’re not patriotic, and we should stand up and say, “WE ARE AMERICANS AND WE HAVE A RIGHT TO DEBATE AND DISAGREE WITH ANY ADMINISTRATION!”

RUSH: Pshew! Ugh! I get high blood pressure when I hear that. Doesn’t that...? For you new listeners, especially you gentlemen, doesn’t that...? That was Hillary Clinton. Doesn’t that remind you of your first, maybe your second, or both your ex-wives? “I get sick and tired of people who say...?” I mean, that will send you down to Archie Bunker’s bar faster than anything in the country, including your kid getting an F on the report card. But her point out there was, “We’re not going to just sit around and blanketly agree with George W. Bush. No, no, no, no, no!” See, it was patriotic to dissent then. Now it’s unpatriotic to dissent. You see how the left is allowed to change their definitions? All right. We’ve gotta take a brief time-out here. The next sound bite we have is with Chris Matthews and socialist California representative Barbara Lee. (laughs) Remember yesterday when I proclaimed, “Look, if Obama is the general in this war, ‘This war is lost.’” That sent poor old Chris, who normally gets leg tingles on his show, over the edge. He’s totally missing again, sense of humor and the irony, the sarcasm and the satire.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Here’s Matthews talking with Barbara Lee. MSNBC Hardboiled last night. Matthews is just livid, and no sense of irony. They have no... We live in two different worlds. I don’t know if they even have any memory of things that actually happen that I play off of on this program. Listen to do so.

MATTHEWS: Here’s Rush Limbaugh today with his thoughts!

RUSH ARCHIVE: It’s around nine minutes to one Eastern Time on March the 10th, and I, El Rushbo, proclaim: “This war is lost.”

MATTHEWS: He’s talking about the war on the economy, on the bad economy! Barbara! Congresswoman, um, Lee! What do you think of Rush Limbaugh saying that the Barack Obama war to save the American economy is “lost”?

LEE: Well, you know, for those who listen to Rush Limbaugh, so be it. Rush Limbaugh has no clue. The economy is not lost. The president is working very hard.

RUSH: That’s a ringing endorsement isn’t it? He’s trying hard. He’s working very hard. The economy isn’t lost. Well, we kept hearing it was lost from these people for six years during the Bush administration. Folks, see, it’s like at the CPAC speech when I said, “John Kerry — who, by the way, served in Vietnam,” and everybody laughed because we make fun of Kerry for telling us every time he opens his mouth that he served in Vietnam. Well, Chris (or whoever monitors this program for Chris) I want to take you back. We have two sound bites, both from Harry Reid in April of 2006.

REID: [T]his war is lost and that the surge is not accomplishing anything.

RUSH: And the next one...

REID: As long as we follow the president’s path in Iraq, the war is lost!

RUSH: Harry Reid twice, before the surge began, declared: “This war is lost! This war is lost!” That’s Harry Reid surrendering, Harry Reid trying to secure the defeat of American military personnel and their mission, Chris — and I’m parodying Harry Reid! If Obama is the general of this war, it’s lost. I said this date. I said, “Nine minutes to one o’clock Eastern on March 10th,” because I knew I was marking it for the media, ‘cause I knew what they were going to do! I love tweaking these people. I know how they’re going to do it. “I, El Rushbo, proclaim, ‘This war is lost.’ If Obama is our general, ‘This war is lost.’” Here, play these two Reid bites back together, April, 2006 — only two years ago, Chris. You gotta have enough of a brain left to have two years worth of memory.

REID: [T]his war is lost and that the surge is not accomplishing anything.

REID: As long as we follow the president’s path in Iraq, the war is lost!

END TRANSCRIPT


17 posted on 03/11/2009 4:52:29 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
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I agree with you 100%... It just feels good to say the truth about who the dims are and how I feel about them. They are truly satanic creatures of evil.

Thanks for all that you do!

LLS

18 posted on 03/11/2009 5:16:20 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my President... NEVER!!!)
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