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"The Lurch could not make the oceans boil.
The Lurch couldn't cause a ripple in a bathtub, even getting in it."
"If all it took was two weeks for liberals to revert to who they are after 9/11, what in the world
makes anybody think that the Scott Brown victory is going to cause a permanent change?"
"You notice how fast the rats are deserting the ship after one election?
After one election, everybody's running away from this bill faster than I've seen anybody run away from a bill at all."
"This is the way the Democrats operate.
They love you when you elect them, but when you don't see the light,
when you haven't done the right thing, you become their enemy."
"Obama did not lose touch with the American people.
He just exposed himself to be somebody he was not in terms of who they had voted for."
"It wasn't anger at George Bush that elected Scott Brown.
Scott Brown is a Republican!"
"A third party on our side would only guarantee Democrat victory.
It's just a bad idea, especially upon reflection after this election on Tuesday of Scott Brown.
He did not win as a third-party candidate.
He did not disavow being a Republican.
He did not disavow being a conservative."
"We say take over the Republican Party.
How do we do it?
This is how you do it.
You get candidates who can articulate conservatism, who understand what they're running against.
In Brown's case he was running against elitism, he was running against the machine."
"Do not listen to a single conservative pundit living or breathing in the New York/Boston/Washington
corridor who tells you that the American people want more government, that the era of tax cuts,
that's over, the era of Reagan, that's over.
One election has shown this."
"Way to go, President Obama, way to go.
He jumps all over the banks today and Citicorp stock is down 6%.
Six percent.
Not six points."
"Dingy Harry was treating the Senate-elect white guy from Massachusetts a lot
better than the dark-skinned brother from the hood in Chicago, Roland Burris.
It was an inescapable observation.
I mean you woulda thought the same thing had you seen it and had you the memory that I have."
"Scott Brown winning in Massachusetts by a big number, the Ted Kennedy seat, as the Democrats thought of it.
This is like somebody winning the queen's throne.
This is like some janitor in Great Britain beating the queen in an election if there was one.
Not to put down janitors.
I'm just saying the disparity between station in life here."
"Chuck-U Schumer knows that for all of these years there have been no limits on what the unions can spend.
Zip, zero, nada.
The unions have been able to confiscate the dues of their members and spend and spend
lavishly on the election of Democrat after Democrat after socialist after socialist.
And now things will be equal because American corporations can do the same."
"Republicans didn't set up as many 527s as did the Democrats.
So Chuck-U is beside himself because the Democrats have to cheat.
The Democrats have to have an advantage.
They have to have an unlevel playing field and the playing field today was just leveled by the Supreme Court."
"Well, the economy 'unexpectedly' continues to go to hell.
They have to be doing it to tweak me.
This is a full year of 'unexpectedly' jobless claims going up, or 'surprisingly' or what have you."
"The House has unanimously passed a bill to accelerate tax deductions for Haiti relief.
So they know if you want more of a good thing like donations to Haiti, you lower the taxes on it."
"The Supreme Court decision on campaign financing is a defeat, ladies and gentlemen,
for the fascists and the statists who seek to control our property, our bodies, and our speech."
"Chuck-U doesn't like the Constitution and he's livid over this Supreme Court decision on free speech.
Only his endless speeches are worthy of protection."
"Speech is speech.
There's the First Amendment.
It doesn't matter how much money you have or how big you are, there is no restriction permitted on it."
"What you have seen this year with Democrat super majorities everywhere is who they are.
Pay no attention to their attempt to change their skins today."
"There was only one person who dared treat this president as any other president is treated:
As a political figure."
"I was raised properly with a great set of core values, and one of those is to not brag."
"If you have a job in America, you have a bull's-eye on your back because the Democrat Party
is targeting your corporation, your company, your small business."
"There's no Republican that's exactly like Obama.
There's not one.
No."
"Kerry is now the senior senator from Massachusetts, even though he is on crutches.
He's hobbling around -- metaphorically representing the Obama administration and
the Democrat Party, by the way, who are on crutches."
"Do you realize that Scott Brown's vote would be irrelevant if the Republicans had not held rock steady,
rock firm in the Senate including Snowe and including Collins?"
"People have devoted their whole lives this past year to creating this result,
to beating back the socialist takeover of the American health care system.
It is worth celebrating."
"'Standing up for working people' in the Democrat Party means unions, and anyplace that's not unionized be damned."
"If we had term limits, we wouldn't have Barney Frank to laugh at.
We wouldn't have John Kerry as a buffoon.
We wouldn't have Pelosi running around."
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RUSH: Freedom is awaking from its coma today because of a huge, huge, huge Supreme Court decision -- huge. I cannot tell you how big this is. It's a 5-4 decision. The decision was written by Justice Kennedy. And what it does, it removes limits on independent expenditures that are not coordinated with candidate's campaigns. Meaning corporations and not-for-profits can spend any amount of money they want running ads and there's no limit as to when those ads can be run.
So McCain-Feingold takes a huge hit today. Now, the question of campaign contributions directly to candidates was not part of this decision because it was not before the court. So the issue was issue advocacy ads by nonprofit corporations, the Citizens United in this case, but it covers all nonprofits and all for-profit corporations. I'm going to go through it here pretty much line by line just to show you how profound this decision is.
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RUSH: Now, I want you to hear this from Jeff Toobin. He is the legal analyst at CNN. The left is just agog, they are beside themselves that freedom is coming out of its coma today, is awakening from its coma with this Supreme Court decision, which I'm going to get into after the break. But I want to show you how upset that Toobin is and the left really are. Toobin is in crisis here.
TOOBIN: It's really not just the 20-year-old ruling from 1990, it's more like a hundred years of regulation of the way corporations are prohibited from being involved in the political process. It's really bigger than 20 years, it's more like a hundred years of precedent being overturned. It basically says money is speech and corporations are people, both of which are debatable propositions but both of which seem to be, you know, popular at the Supreme Court at the moment.
RUSH: What's debatable about corporations are people and money is speech? Those two things are inarguable, that's what the court said by 5-4 with Kennedy, who is the swing vote. He wrote the opinion here. That is significant. He's right, by the way. This turns over 100 years of precedent. You know how anti-corporatist the left is; you know how they hate corporations. This, folks, is causing ulcers. I can't tell you what this decision is doing today to these leftists who just a year ago, they had such high hopes that they're going to have every CEO in jail and every soldier in jail and it's just in one year, because the people of this country are not socialists. The people of this country still have roots to freedom and entrepreneurism and liberty, and nothing -- the left, Obama -- nothing can snuff that out.
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RUSH: The Supreme Court decision is a defeat. I'll tell you, it's a defeat, ladies and gentlemen, for the fascists, the statists who seek to control our property, our bodies, and our speech. It is a defeat for Senator McCain. The muzzle is off the American people now because they, in fact, can spend the money on advocacy ads prior to the general and primary elections. It is a 100-year-old precedent that has been overturned. It is solid in that respect.
Citizens United produced an advocacy commercial about Hillary Clinton, which they wanted to run before the primaries. The question was whether it violated McCain-Feingold's ban as some kind of a political commercial. The Supreme Court said such advocacy by Citizens United and other groups is protected constitutional speech, but the opinion addresses more than that. The court says, "The law provides an outright ban backed by criminal and civil sanctions, including nonprofit corporations to either expressly advocate the election or defeat of candidates or to broadcast electioneering communications within 30 days of a primary, 60 days of a general election." These would be felonies and the court struck these down. The court struck down all the limits on where you can advertise, when you can advertise, and how much you can spend on this advertisement.
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RUSH: More analysis here of the SCOTUS decision today on campaign finance reform. The court says that the McCain-Feingold law provides "an outright ban, backed by criminal [and civil] sanctions ... including nonprofit advocacy corporations -- either to expressly advocate the election or defeat of candidates or to broadcast electioneering communications within 30 days of a primary election and 60 days of a general election." These would be felonies. The court struck it down. "Laws prohibiting speech, even via corporations, are subject to the highest scrutiny, which is strict scrutiny. It's not enough to broadly claim that a certain form of speech is corrupt. Government may not impose restrictions on certain disfavored speakers based on the wealth or lack thereof of the speakers." Do you realize...?
You gotta understand, folks. See, I know liberals -- I know these cockroaches -- and I'm telling you, this just has them boiling today. You add the fact that everything's falling apart and going wrong for Obama. I mean, you go back one year ago almost to the day. Hell, it is one year ago to the day. No, it's one year plus a day. Nevertheless, they thought they were in power in perpetuity. Forever. They had their messiah and it was going to change this country forever -- and now the American people have said: No way. They've learned what this was all about and they're saying: No way. This court decision has these people fuming. "The government may not impose restrictions on certain disfavored speakers based on the wealth or lack thereof of speakers. The public has the right..." The court said, "The public has the right to obtain all kinds of information from the widest number of sources."
Now, these are not direct quotes, but these are my summations. This is what the court is saying: Simply because speech has taken on a corporate form does not give it any less protection under the First Amendment. "All speakers who communicate via broadcasting and other outlets amass funds from the economic marketplace to fund their speech." So the idea that money somehow does not equal speech, the court is saying, "Look, everybody who communicates via broadcasting and other outlets amass funds from the economic marketplace to fund their speech." There can be no dispute of that, but it's now the law of the land. "Under the government's reasoning on corporate restrictions, wealthy media corporations would have their voices diminished to put them on par with other media entities." There's no precedent for this. It's not constitutional.
Liberalism itself has just been struck down, this whole notion of "fairness" based on who has more than somebody else or who has less than somebody else, who's bigger than somebody else. There is no precedent for advantaging certain corporations and disadvantaging others respecting speech. Speech is speech. There's the First Amendment. It doesn't matter how much money you have or how big you are, there is no restriction permitted on it. They are really hammering away here, folks. This is pretty sweeping. This is landmark, I would call it. "The law's purpose and effect is to prevent small and large corporations, for profit and not-for-profit, from presenting facts and opinions to the public. There is no constitutional support for this." Struck down. "The law's purpose..." This is McCain-Feingold they're talking about.
McCain-Feingold's "purpose and effect as to prevent small and large corporations, for profit and not-for-profit, from presenting facts and opinions to the public. There is no constitutional support for this." You know, I think back. One of the things that Senator McCain always said was, "You know, money corrupts the system. These good people come to Washington and money corrupts them." We have perhaps the most corrupt presidential administration I've seen in a long time. What does money have to do with it? Is it not their ideas? Is it not their desires that are corrupting them? Is it not who they are that's corrupt? By the way, another reason you know this is a great, great piece of Supreme Court reasoning is that Chuck-U Schumer is livid. Chuck-U is beside himself over this. Chuck-U doesn't like the Constitution. Only his endless speeches are worthy of protection.
Here's a quote from the opinion: "When government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he may or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought. This is unlawful." Excellent point, justices -- and it applies equally to talk radio. Let me read this again to you. "When government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he or she may not hear..." That means Fairness Doctrine. "You can't listen to Limbaugh! He's controversial. He's got a monopoly, and you can't trust him. The Supreme Court says, "You can't censor anybody on that basis. It's unlawful." They struck it down.
There's a lot more to this, ladies and gentlemen. But the important thing here is it's a 5-4 decision, and Anthony Kennedy wrote the opinion for the majority, which is significant. It's as good a decision as anybody could have hoped for. It's sweeping, and it is landmark.
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RUSH: You gotta hear this. Chuck-U Schumer is livid, livid over the Supreme Court decision which takes away all the bans on whatever amount of money corporations want to spend on advertising in political campaigns. He just hates it.
SCHUMER: The Supreme Court has just predetermined the winners of next November's elections. It won't be Republicans; it won't be Democrats. It will be corporate America. Our system of government's the best in the world due to the ability of average citizens to participate and engage their elected officials without the belief that there are corrupting influences at play. I have not seen a decision that more undermines campaign finance and is probably one of the three or four decisions in the history of the Supreme Court that most undermines democracy. We will regret the day that this decision has been issued.
RUSH: Quite the contrary, Chuck-U. Freedom is awakening from its coma today. This does not "undermine democracy." It strengthens it. It gets away from all these other liberal ideas that everything must be equal to be fair. "The big corporation can't donate any more than a little corporation. There have to be limits on all. One hundred years of precedent has been tossed overboard." It is such a great decision, and you know it's a great decision when you see Chuck-U Schumer is this angry. And again, did you hear him? I've told you for the past couple of days: If you have a job in America, you have a bull's-eye on your back because the Democrat Party is targeting your corporation, your company, your small business. Look at their enemies list. Big Oil. Big Pharmaceutical. Big Hospital. Big Insurance. Big Retailer. Any of these people. If you work for one, you've got a bull's-eye on your back because your employer does as well. "It will be corporate America that wins the next election." What he really means here is, "We Democrats will regret the day this decision was made because now corporations can fight back. Now corporations can fight back against us." I can't wait to see what the banks do with their advertising since Obama has tried to put the screws to them two or three times, the latest time just today.
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RUSH: So Chuck-U is all concerned. By the way, I thought we weren't supposed to criticize the court. I thought the court was independent. Remember Chuck-U saying we're not supposed to criticize the Supreme Court. He just did. Chuck-U, let me tell you something. I would much prefer corporations winning and running elections than I would unions, much prefer it.
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RUSH: Chuck Schumer is announcing that he's going to hold hearings on the impact of the Supreme Court decision today within a couple of weeks. The sheer arrogance! He's calling the Supreme Court decision "un-American." We have an independent judiciary, I thought, Senator Schumer. We're not supposed to criticize judges and justices. You can't change a decision of the Supreme Court. You have to write a new law, which I wouldn't put past them. This is laughable.
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But here's Paul Krugman: "He Wasn’t The One We’ve Been Waiting For -- Health care reform -- which is crucial for millions of Americans -- hangs in the balance. Progressives are desperately in need of leadership; more specifically, House Democrats need to be told to pass the Senate bill, which isn’t what they wanted but is vastly better than nothing. And what we get from the great progressive hope, the man who was offering hope and change, is this:" He quotes Obama. "I would advise that we try to move quickly to coalesce around those elements of the package that people agree on," basically Obama giving up saying, well, whatever we can get we'll take. Krugman says, "'Run away, run away!' Maybe House Democrats can pull this out, even with a gaping hole in White House leadership. Barney Frank seems to have thought better of his initial defeatism. But I have to say, I’m pretty close to giving up on Mr. Obama, who seems determined to confirm every doubt I and others ever had about whether he was ready to fight for what his supporters believed in." He is not the one we've been waiting for.
And we have Mort Zuckerman who owns the New York Daily News and US News & World Report: "He's Done Everything Wrong." Mort Zuckerman saying Obama has failed. "Obama punted on the economy and reversed the fortunes of the Democrats in 365 days. He’s misjudged the character of the country in his whole approach. There’s the saying, 'It’s the economy, stupid.' He didn’t get it. He was determined somehow or other to adopt a whole new agenda. He didn’t address the main issue." Mort, he did. What do you think the slush fund stimulus bill is? They did. They didn't do it over a long period of time, they rammed it down in two weeks but he thought he dealt with it and he's had jobs summits. When are you going to figure this out? When are you going to start listening to me? You leftists who are unhappy with Obama, I predicted all this. And now everybody joining in line, everybody joining the chorus, he's not the one we were waiting for, Obama's failed, they're all disappointed.
Here's more from Mort Zuckerman: "This health-care plan is going to be a fiscal disaster for the country. Most of the country wanted to deal with costs, not expansion of coverage. This is going to raise costs dramatically." Mort, he doesn't care about the health care bill. He doesn't care about health care. He doesn't care about health insurance. He cares about control, Mort. He wants to socialize one-sixth of the economy. Mort, you coulda written this a year ago, you knew it. Instinctively you knew it but your hopes and dreams and your cultlike devotion forced reason out of your cranium.
"In the campaign, he said he would change politics as usual. He did change them. It’s now worse than it was. I’ve now seen the kind of buying off of politicians that I’ve never seen before. It’s politically corrupt and it’s starting at the top. It’s revolting. Five states got deals on health care -- one of them was Harry Reid’s. It is disgusting, just disgusting. I’ve never seen anything like it. The unions just got them to drop the tax on Cadillac plans in the health-care bill. It was pure union politics." Daniel Henninger has a great piece on just that today in the Wall Street Journal.
"Even that is not the worst part. He could have said, 'I know. I promised these things, but let me try to do them one at a time.' You want to deal with health care? Fine. Issue No. 1 with health care was the cost. You know I think it was 37 percent or 33 who were worried about coverage. Fine, I wrote an editorial to this effect. Focus on cost-containment first. But he’s trying to boil the ocean, trying to do too much. This is not leadership. … I don’t consider it a triumph. I consider it a disaster. … I can’t predict things two years from now, but if he continues on the downward spiral he is on, he won’t be reelected. In the meantime, the Democrats have recreated the Republican Party. And when I say Democrats, I mean the Obama administration. In the generic vote, the Democrats were ahead something like 52 to 30. They are now behind the Republicans 48 to 44 in the last poll. Nobody has ever seen anything that dramatic."
Mort Zuckerman is livid. Paul Krugman is lived. They're all over the place on the leftist blogs, they are livid, especially that health care's gone down the tubes. And yet here's Obama out announcing today that he's really gonna get tougher on the banks, he's not gonna put up with this anymore, he's not going to put up with them using depositors' money to make financial risky investments like hedge funds and so forth and so on. They gotta stick to the business of banking and he's going to see to it that they do that. So he's still trying to capitalize on what he thinks is a universal hatred for bankers and banking, just like he proceeds on the belief that there's a universal hatred of insurance companies and Big Oil and Big Pharmaceutical.
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George in East Hartford, Connecticut, nice to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Yeah, Rush, what I'm most hopeful out of the Scott Brown victory is the following and that is that my biggest fear in the 2010 elections were going to be the third party candidates, these tea party folks that I line up with because it's a very conservative message, whether it's the war on terror or the deficit or this health care debate, and Scott Brown mirrored that message perfectly. So now the message swings both days. The Democrats are ignoring the message of Scott Brown. The Republicans do need to take heed. All they have to do to keep these third-party candidates out, which I think favors the Republicans, is to march on the same blueprint that he did, conservatism, like you say, wins all the time. They take that message and run with it, Rush, we could take the third-party out.
RUSH: Okay, two things on this. And you know, I'm, again, grounded in reality here. I am Mr. Literal. And do not doubt me. The Republican Party is kind of like the libs in a way. Not nearly as bad, but they're out there crowing about how happy they are, too. But believe me, the people in the party who consider themselves Rockefeller Republicans or liberal Republicans, they don't want guys winning in pickup trucks. They dislike Sarah Palin for the same reason. Now, the Republican Party right now is going to embrace, and I hope the embrace continues, but my history with the Republican Party is that they're not happy with conservatives. They really didn't like Reagan. Of course they loved winning, and they put up with it but Reagan, to the northeastern country club, blue-blood types Reagan was not the answer.
Now, this is why I spent so much time yesterday kicking back at these people. They're the ones, it was Republicans -- I played the sound bites of Chris Shays and Colin Powell. These are the people I'm talking about, the people that liberals think ought to be the leaders of our party 'cause they'll take it down to the sewer. They'll take it so low we will never win anything. We going to be a regional party, we're only going to attract the votes of white Southerners. We'll never elect anybody from New England. All of that's out the window now with a basically conservative message.
Now, the third party people. Yeah, this probably puts a damper on third party stuff because Scott Brown won big-time as a Republican. He did not win as a third-party candidate. He did not disavow being a Republican. He did not disavow being a conservative. And so to the extent that people want a third party, Scott Brown has got a little bit in the way. It will be interesting to see their reaction to it if there is one. A third party on our side would only guarantee Democrat victory. It's just a bad idea, especially upon reflection after this election on Tuesday of Scott Brown. We say take over the Republican Party. How do we do it? This is how you do it. You get candidates who can articulate conservatism, who understand what they're running against. In Brown's case he was running against elitism, he was running against the machine. Now, what is the machine?
Well, let's go to Daniel Henninger's piece because you have to hear this. Wall Street Journal today, it's entitled: "The Fall of the House of Kennedy -- The battle over who defines the work and institutions that make a nation thrive and grow. Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts will not endure unless Republicans clearly understand the meaning of 'the machine' that he ran against and defeated. Yes, it is about a general revulsion at government spending, what is sometimes called 'the blob.' But blobs are shapeless things, and in the days ahead we will see the Obama White House work hard to reshape the blob into a deficit hawk. Unless the facade is ripped away, the machine will survive. The revolt against the machine began with voters' 2006 ouster of the Republican majority in Congress for making a mockery of fiscal rectitude. An angry electorate then swept Barack Obama into office. Now Mr. Obama is saying voters elected him on the same wave of anger that elected Scott Brown. Sorry, but Messrs. Obama and Brown are not surfing in the same political ocean."
As an aside, except for what he said on spending, Scott Brown is George W. Bush. I believe George Bush would beat Obama today if the election were today, knowing what we know now. But back to Henninger: "The central battle in our time is over political primacy. It is a competition between the public sector and the private sector over who defines the work and the institutions that make a nation thrive and grow. In 1962, President John F. Kennedy planted the seeds that grew the modern Democratic Party. That year, JFK signed executive order 10988 allowing the unionization of the federal work force. This changed everything in the American political system. Kennedy's order swung open the door for the inexorable rise of a unionized public work force in many states and cities. This in turn led to the fantastic growth in membership of the public employee unions -- The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the teachers' National Education Association.
"They broke the public's bank. More than that, they entrenched a system of taking money from members' dues and spending it on political campaigns. Over time, this transformed the Democratic Party into a public-sector dependency. They became different than the party of FDR, Truman, Meany and Reuther. That party was allied with the fading industrial unions, which in turn were tethered to a real world of profit and loss. The states in the North and on the coasts turned blue because blue is the color of the public-sector unions. This tax-and-spend milieu became the training ground for their politicians. Until the Obama exception, the only recent Democrats electable into the presidency had to be centrist Southerners little known to the country. Every post-Kennedy liberal who tried, failed, including Teddy.
What an irony it is that in the same week the Kennedy labor legacy hit the wall in Massachusetts, the NEA approved a $1 million donation from the union's contingency fund to the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate. It is this Kennedy legacy, the public union tax and spend machine, that drove blue Massachusetts into revolt Tuesday."
That is the machine. That is the machine. The public union tax and spend machine. "Yes, health care was ground zero, but Massachusetts -- like New Jersey, like California, like New York -- has been building toward this explosion for years. According to a study done for the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth, spending in specific public categories there skyrocketed the past 20 years (1987 to 2007). Public safety: up 139%; social services, 130%; education, 44%. And of course Medicaid Madness, up 163%, before MassCare kicked in more Medicaid obligations.
But here's the party's self-destroying kicker: Feeding the public unions' wage demands starved other government responsibilities. It ruined our ability to have a useful debate about any other public functions. Massachusetts' spending fell for mental health, the environment, housing and higher education. The physical infrastructure in blue states is literally falling apart. But look at those public wage and pension-related outlays. Ever upward.
"Enter the Obama administration, the first one born and raised inside this public bubble, with zero private-sector Cabinet members. Act one: a $787 billion stimulus bill, which they brag mainly saved state and local jobs. Then came the six-month odyssey for Obama's $1 trillion health-care bill, dripping with taxes. Independent voters felt like everything was being sucked into a public-sector vortex. This is why New Jersey's Chris Christie won running on nothing. It's why in California Carly Fiorina is within three points of Sen. Barbara Boxer. It's why the party JFK enabled, 'the machine,' is hitting the wall. There's no way out for these Democrats. They made a Faustian bargain 40 years ago with the public unions. For the outlays alone, they'll get some version of the Obama health-care bill. They'll also go to the same old 'populist anger' well. Scott Brown's victory has given the GOP a rare, narrow chance to align itself with an electorate that understands its anger. Now the GOP has to find a way to disconnect from a political legacy that smothered governments at all levels and is now smothering the Democratic Party."
In other words, the machine is all of the growth of the public sector: government, state, city, federal, growing, with public employee unions growing and wages growing, sucking money out of the private sector. This is why every one of these so-called conservative pundits who are the new intelligentsia who say we gotta get rid of Reagan, who say we have to realize the public wants more government, we have to realize the public understands that more government's good, they want spending, we've gotta do it better, do not listen to them. They could not be more wrong. Scott Brown showed them how wrong they are. The machine is all of these people in Washington whose lives are oriented around the government growing and being involved in as much of everything as policy, from policy to infrastructure to whatever.
That's the machine. The Republicans have got to get outta town. This is what being an outsider means. Being an outsider means you're simply not a member of a union. You're not a member of a public employees union, you live in the country, and you want the private sector to be the place where economic opportunity is. You don't want it to be in government. You don't want it to be in the public sector. You don't want unions to be growing while everybody else is unemployed and starving. That's the machine. Do not listen to a single conservative pundit living or breathing in the New York/Boston/Washington corridor who tells you that the American people want more government, that the era of tax cuts, that's over, the era of Reagan, that's over. One election has shown this.
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RUSH: Folks, it's all going wrong for The One. Everything is all falling apart on Obama. Try this headline from the Jerusalem Post: "Obama: Our Expectations of Mideast Progress were 'Too High.'" M'yeah-heh-heh-hah!
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, I am Rush Limbaugh, serving humanity, having more fun than a human being... Wait just a second. This microphone sagging. Just a second. There it is. Okay. We're back. 800-282-2882. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com.
A hearty welcome to those of you watching the Dittocam today in high definition. It's cool. If you haven't seen the Dittocam in high definition, the only way you can is to become a member at Rush 24/7 and it's the sweetest deal you'll ever find anywhere joining any website based on the encyclopedic, voluminous information accessed easily by you. Okay. Get this. It's from Jerusalem Post: "Getting the Israelis and Palestinians to agree to negotiate, or even to agree to the framework in which negotiations will take place, 'is just really hard,' US President Barack Obama said in an interview with Time magazine published Thursday, as the president was completing his first year in office," and that "is really hard" is in quotes. It's just really hard! (crying) "It's just hard" is how you have to interpret that. You talk about crash and burn all in one week? "Obama admitted that the administration 'overestimated our ability to persuade (both sides) to (negotiate) when their politics ran contrary to that." So he "overestimated [his own] ability to persuade." Imagine that!
Now let's go to this Politico story: "Obama's First Year: What Went Wrong." "Specifically, it was wrong on three major counts: Obama and his team believed that the 2008 election represented something seismic -- in other words, something fundamental and long-lasting," just like the Republicans made the same mistake in 1994 when they won the House. The second thing that went wrong: "Obama believed that early success would be self-reinforcing, building a powerful momentum for bold government action. This belief was the essence of the White House's theory of the 'big bang'..." You get the Porkulus slush fund passed, and that provides the impetus and the momentum for everything else to follow. So this tells us they were in a panic for much of this year, particularly when we got to August when the tea parties started. Well, the tea parties started before August.
It was the town meetings. They started hustling trying to get health care done before the August recess. The third: "Most devoutly of all, the Obama team believed that there was something singular about the president's appeal and ability to inspire." Now, this is in The Politico, and these are the first three things that went wrong. So they believed he was The Messiah, that the Porkulus bill was gonna presage the passage of everything else, and that America had undergone a seismic change. But there's actually a fourth, ladies and gentlemen. Now, you know that I have manners. I was raised properly with a great set of core values, and one of those is to not brag. And, of course, it ain't bragging if you've done it. It ain't bragging if you can do it. I think it was Babe Ruth who said that. But as you know, I do not like talking about myself. I'm very uncomfortable with that.
I'm very uncomfortable with me being the issue, but I have been a lot of this year -- and this is one of those things that if I don't say it, it won't be said, and this one is fundamentally true. There are four things that went wrong. The first one: Five days before he was immaculated, I said, "I hope he fails." That burst this messianic, celebutard bubble that Obama was in. Up until that time, everybody -- every Republican, every Democrat, everybody in the political class -- had censored themselves and were talking about the historic nature and how "We must drop all partisanship. We must all work together to help this historic president succeed in his job," and there came one voice. It belonged to me, El Rushbo: The all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling Maha Rushie. I simply said, "I don't like his policies. They are going to destroy the country as we know it. I hope he fails," and that took away all of the gilding.
That took away all of the stars. That took away all of the celebrity that forced him into a political bubble, even before he was immaculated. Had that not been said the rest of these three things might not have gone wrong. Had I joined the fray and had I come before you on this program and behind this microphone and had I said, "Folks, we've got stand down. This is too important for the country. This is too historic. We cannot afford for this president to fail," not only would I have lost over half of you forever, but we probably would have health care today. We probably would have cap and trade by now. Maybe not on cap and trade because of the ClimateGate thing, and you never know. I mean, the tea party people and the town hall people might have been able to stop health care on their own. I'm not going to say I was a singular player here, but there was only one person who dared treat this president as any other president is treated: As a political figure.
They said conservatism was dead. They said the era of Reagan was over. They said we could no longer win anywhere but the South with white people. They said that we were dead in New England. All of that conventional wisdom was wrong, and all of it did not scare me into silence. It did not motivate me into changing course so I could be accepted by certain numbers of people. There is another story here in the Washington Post: "Obama Blames the Massachusetts Senate Loss on the Middle Class Economic Pain." "'We were so busy just getting stuff done...'" Obama will explain to us why his policies that were rejected are good for us. He's going to have to do that. He's going to have to tell us why we misunderstand. "What the president needs to do is go explain to the people exactly why what has been done is going to get us on a better path for the future," said former Obama White House communications director, the Mao-loving Anita Dunn.
This guy will have to tell us what we don't understand. So the arrogance and the conceit are still there, and this story in the Washington Post says this election of Scott Brown had nothing to do with health care. It had nothing to do with Obama. Obama was not rejected and it was not that. Yet the New York Times lead editorial "The Massachusetts Election" is about Obama. He has "lost touch." He "has not said or done the right thing often enough." Mr. Obama "seems to have lost touch with two core issues for Americans: their jobs and their homes. Mr. Obama's challenge is that most Americans are not seeing a recovery. ... Mr. Obama has not said or done the right thing often enough when it comes to job creation and housing. ... Mr. Obama has three years to show the kind of vision and leadership on the economy that got him elected..."
There wasn't any such "vision" that got him elected. What got his elected was cult-like speeches. We were going to make the sea levels fall! Obama's given it his best shot, New York Times. He only knows to do what he did. There's a story in the stack, by the way: House Democrats, some of them have asked the White House to extend the Bush tax cuts because of this economic recovery being so bad. The White House said, "No way. We're not doing it," but some House Democrats asked for the Bush tax cuts to be extended. New York Times: "Obama Trying to Turn Around His Presidency." They're "reeling from the Republican victory in Massachusetts," and "Inside the White House, a debate ensued..." This is the Times version of this, not the Politico version. "[W]hat lessons to draw: Did the president try to enact too much change or not enough? Was he too liberal or too close to financial institutions? Should he tack to the center or more aggressively push a progressive agenda? ... Mr. Obama has often confronted moments of challenge with a major speech... With the State of the Union now scheduled for Wednesday, he has another such opportunity. Aides said he will use it to reframe his record and aspirations." A speech! Which is all he does. This is a speech. He gonna try to change it with a speech. Well, the luster is gone from the speeches. So they have not learned anything.
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RUSH: I have to hit this again, ladies and gentlemen. I touched on it but I have to hit it again. "Obama Says Too Optimistic on 'Intractable' Mideast -- U.S. President Barack Obama said in an interview published on Thursday he had underestimated the difficulty of resolving the Middle East conflict and had set his expectations too high in his first year. ... '[I]we had anticipated some of these political problems on both sides earlier, we might not have raised expectations as high.'" Who...? (sigh) This idiot who is the president wasn't quite sure how tough this would be before he was elected? That is scary! We all knew how tough it would be. (interrupition) No, everybody thought Bush was an idiot but nobody's ever gotten Middle East peace. I think what he's really surprised at is how intractable the Palestinians are. I think that's what he's found out.
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RUSH: Nancy Pelosi says she does not have the votes to pass health care reform in the House of Representatives. She made that announcement not long ago. House Dems do not have the votes to pass the Senate bill. Don't have the votes. It's amazing. It's an amazing thing what one election can do, just one election. I have always said that elections have consequences.
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RUSH: You gotta hear this. Scott Brown shows up in Washington today, folks. This is hilarious. It's hilarious and predictable. I told Cookie, I want a montage of the questions, the initial questions that he was asked.
REPORTER: We who have covered Senator McCain for a while have heard him say that a lot. Is there any sort of tips, Senator McCain, perhaps you'll be giving him on how to be a maverick here?
REPORTER: Democrats have historically relied on New England Republicans to negotiate on various issues, that New England Republicans have generally been the most amenable to deals on various issues. Where do you see potential for common ground with Democrats in the majority?
REPORTER: Now that the Republicans have 41 seats and a legitimate seat at the table, how would you like to move forward on legislation working with the Democrats perhaps better than the two parties have so far this year?
RUSH: Those are the first questions Scott Brown was asked today. And, by the way, you get any sort of tips, Senator McCain, giving him on being a maverick? If anybody needs to give somebody tips on being a maverick it's Scott Brown telling McCain how to do it. There's the real maverick if you want to talk about it. The real maverick is Scott Brown. But you see, all these media people, I can boil it all down: "What are you going to do to help the Democrats? What are you going to do to work with the Democrats?" And, by the way, every one of those questions came from -- dadelut dadelut dadelut -- you heard it, a female. The chickification of the news. Every one of them. "What are you going to do to work with Democrats? How are you gonna make the Democrats succeed? How are you going to cross the aisle? New England Republicans have always helped Democrats. How are you going to do that?" Here are just a few of Scott Brown's answers on working with the Democrats.
BROWN: I have 85% of the delegation in Massachusetts are Democrats. I actually voted for a health care bill in Massachusetts, and it was a great bipartisan effort, so it's clear that I wanted coverage for everybody in Massachusetts. And we have 98% of the people insured there. The bill that was being pushed in Washington was not good for Massachusetts. I'm open to looking at every single bill on its merits and making a decision based on that, and my first interest is going to look -- as whether it's good for my state, then obviously if it's good for the country.
RUSH: Now, he says we have real problems like the economy and Al-Qaeda trying to kill us, but, Scott, a personal aside, the Democrats do not want to work with you on either of those. They do not want to work with you on the economy. They want you working with them.
BROWN: People want good government, they want transparency. We've got Al-Qaeda, who are trying to kill us. We've got very serious tax-and-spend problems. We've got some real fiscal issues and job questions. And we're not solving them. We're talking about things that are really irrelevant. And that's what I'm hopeful that, you know, based on the messages I've heard from all the delegations, whether they be Republican or Democrat, and I think they get it, and I'm hopeful they get it, and I'm going to try to remind everybody that we can do better.
RUSH: Yeah. Well, good luck. But there he's playing it straight down the middle which is a very smart and wise thing to do. John Kerry, just a couple of weeks ago who, by the way, serves in Vietnam who is 71 years old -- no, his wife is 71. I don't know how old The Lurch is. All I know is The Lurch could not make the oceans boil. I mean The Lurch couldn't cause a ripple in a bathtub, even getting in it. Just a couple weeks ago carry was out there saying (imitating Lurch) "We're going to pass this bill before he's seated, we're going to delay --" he was all part of that chorus that was going to delay Scott Brown being seated. Now he's done a total 180 in just two weeks. And after Brown met with McCain, he went and met with other Senators, including Senator Kerry, who said this.
KERRY: We have to work across the aisle here to make things happen. Americans don't just elect Democrats and Republicans. They elect people to be responsible with the people's business.
RUSH: Isn't it amazing what one election does? Just one election. Reporters this morning asked if Democrats are courting Scott Brown. Unidentified reporter said, "You feel you're being courted by Democrats as a possible swing voter?"
BROWN: I've always had great respect for Senator Kerry, always. We have worked together on other issues. I know we're going to work together on issues in the future. I have a great relationship with the delegation because of my years at the statehouse. If I see a bill that is good for my state, I'm going to vote for it. And that's my first priority. And I look at the bills first, determine how much they cost, if they're going to benefit my district and the state, and, you know, I'll take it that way and continue to be the same type of voter I've always been.
RUSH: So, again, playing it down the middle here, being noncommittal and certainly non-provocative. He realizes he's dealing with loaded questions, he's not gonna give them the meat that they want. They're a bunch of sharks circling out there and he's not going to bleed for them.
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RUSH: Now, I want to alert you to something happening out there going back to Paul Krugman and going back to Mort Zuckerman who both say, "This guy's not the one we've been waiting for, it turns out. Why, he's..." Now, they're genuinely upset here. But you heard Kerry two weeks ago. John Kerry (who served in Vietnam) wanted to delay the seating of Scott Brown so that health care would pass. Now, two weeks later, why, he's the voice of the middle of the road. All these Democrats are. This is what I want to talk about, because I could see this starting to happen in Kerry's comments that I played moments ago. The Democrats... In fact grab sound bite number four so that people will be able to hear immediately what I am referencing. This is Kerry talking about how Senators have to "work across the aisle." The last thing they want is to cross the aisle. They want us crossing the aisle, but they don't want to cross the aisle, and they never do.
KERRY: We have to work across the aisle here to make things happen. Americans don't just elect Democrats and Republicans. They elect people to be responsible with the people's business.
RUSH: Okay. Now, the Democrats, folks, are really, really good at changing their skin to fit the current environment. They are gifted chameleons. Their insides do not change. Their core liberalism, statism, socialism does not change, but their external appearance and their manner of speaking and the contents of their speech does change. They are faking it. Do not fall for any of this middle-of-the-road stuff that you're going to get from Harry Reid (who met with Scott Brown) or Lurch or any of these people that you know are liberals. They have not changed. They'll fake it. They'll do whatever they have to do even if it's take a couple steps back to move another step forward. They will say anything they have to say to assuage the voters and to assuage people like Krugman and Zuckerman. Now, Krugman and Zuckerman are genuinely angry.
So the Democrats (John Kerry or somebody) will call them up and say, "You know, you're right, and we've seen the errors of our ways." Remember the 2002 midterms after the Wellstone memorial? Those 2002 midterms were big for the Republicans. Remember the Values Voters in the exit polls came out of the woodwork, and Democrats said, "Oh, yeah!" For two weeks after that election they said, "Oh, yeah, we're going to have to do better with Values Voters. We're going to have to be reaching out here, and we have to be willing to talk about this stuff on the stump," and that's fakery, too. It just went on for two weeks and then they forgot about it, hoping that people would remember the original position that they had stated after the election. But we know exactly what happens when they have power. We are seeing it now, just how we saw it in the past with LBJ.
What you're seeing -- what you have seen this year with Democrat super majorities everywhere -- is who they are. Pay no attention to their attempt to change their skins today. They lie. They hide. They try to make you think that there are things that all information and history proves that they are not. They want you to believe and look at them in a certain way. They don't want you to see their radicalism. That's the mistake they've made in their arrogance and conceit. We've seen it on display for a year. Now they're going to try to tell you that what you saw wasn't true. That what you saw wasn't real. They're going to bank on the fact that you will swoon over their new attitude of complacency and niceness and congeniality and smiles and so forth. You gotta be on the watch for this, folks, because they are seductive, and they have the press to amplify that effort to seduce. "We all want to get along. We all want to work across the aisle." Well, we do want to get along. They want statist type of power.
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RUSH: I check the e-mail during the break, "Rush, how do you know the Democrats don't mean it this time? They really have gotten the scare of their life." Folks, look, if liberals only changed for two weeks after 9/11, all it took was two weeks for them to revert to who they are, what in the world makes anybody think that the Scott Brown victory is going to cause a permanent change? I can't believe, folks, don't doubt me on this. You gotta be aware of what's happening here, just that simple. This is from the Associated Press: "Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she lacks the votes to quickly move the Senate's sweeping health overhaul bill through the house, a potentially devastating blow to President Obama's signature issue." A potentially devastating? Here is how the speaker said it.
PELOSI: I don't see the votes for it at this time. The members have been very clear in our caucus about the fact that they didn't like it before it had the Nebraska provision and some of the other provisions that are unpalatable to them. But there is a recognition that there's a foundation in that bill that is important, so one way or another those areas of agreement that we have will have to be advanced.
RUSH: Let me tell you the way I see this. The way I see this is that nobody who stands for reelection really wanted to sign this bill, really wanted to vote for it. Pelosi exempted. But you notice how fast the rats are deserting the ship after one election? After one election, everybody's running away from this bill faster than I've seen anybody run away from a bill at all. I guarantee you, this is worse than you and I even know because it's going to be impossible to put this whole thing back together as it was. They've got their out now. Nelson never wanted to vote this thing and he never wanted to take that stupid deal, same thing with Landrieu. They had to take it because they're scared of Obama. They got Rahm Emanuel leaning on them talking about this is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to get what FDR wanted, we gotta do this for Obama, we gotta build a monument, this is the greatest thing for our party, if you don't do this you're going to lose reelection. But none of them wanted to do it, or clearly not a whole lot of them wanted to do it.
The way it manifested itself, as big as this thing got, I guarantee you, folks, I'm not saying the Democrats aren't who they are, and I'm not saying that they're not huge statists, but for Pelosi, it was just yesterday or maybe Tuesday where Pelosi said by hook or by crook we're going to get this done. There will be health care reform. She was defiant as she could be. And all these Democrats before Brown actually won the election, "Oh, yeah, if we have to do whatever we have to do, in fact, delay certifying his election, delay seating him, Senate rules in charge, whatever we have to do to push this thing through," and then yesterday Obama comes out and says, "We're not going to jam this through until Scott Brown is seated," meaning they're going to jam it through at some point. But all these rats are deserting the ship so fast that it tells me, at least the ones publicly deserting wanted no part of this at any time and are really happy to be freed from the shackles.
Snerdley just asked me if this takes the albatross off them and strengthens their hand, meaning since this has fallen apart, that health care will not be something dragging them down, a shackle around their ankles. Let me tell you something. People are not going to forget this 'cause it's not just health care, Snerdley, it is the arrogance. It is the willful ignoring of the will of the people. It is all of this spending; it is all of this debt, and the people of this country know that the Democrats own all of it. It is not the Republicans. The Democrats own this. So, no, hell, they just asked to raise the debt limit another $1.9 trillion yesterday. The debt limit is over $14 trillion now.
Now, this is a Politico story: "Sour Swing Voters Desert Democrats -- As they did in the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial contests last fall, sour swing voters overwhelmingly supported the Republican." Note now you swing voters, you moderates, you independents, now that you supported a Republican, now listen to the way they talk about you. They don't have this reverence for you as they always used to. They loved you when you moderates were voting Democrat but now you're sour, now they come up with all of these horrible words to describe you. The words I've seen to describe these independents are angry, sullen, sour, negated, dissatisfied, racist, hicks. You know how I would describe the independents and you moderates? Here's how I would describe you: Energized, informed, frustrated, motivated, freedom loving, forceful, tireless, engaged. That's what you are. And Mr. Snerdley, have no fear, that will not change, because the Democrats will soon revert to being who they are, within weeks, if not days.
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RUSH: We'll start in Jacksonville, Florida, with George. Great to have you on the program today, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Hey, Rush, it's an honor to be speaking with you.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: I will tell you after monumental events like the election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts, I sometimes wonder "what if." And I remember when Senator Kennedy, on his death bed, sent a letter to Deval Patrick and said, (paraphrasing) "No, no, no, can't follow the law, let's change the law and immediately appoint somebody because health care is that important." My teenaged daughter sometimes says, "Karma is a witch." And I'm wondering whether if that had not changed, whether today Martha Coakley might be the new Senator from Massachusetts.
RUSH: A bunch of people doing postmortems on this would agree with you that if they had just followed the law and gone ahead with their special election and not changed the law so that the governor could appoint somebody, then they would probably have still held onto the 60th seat. There's no question about that in fact.
CALLER: You know, those who live by political chicanery die by political chicanery.
RUSH: Yeah. I love that phrase, too. It's absolutely right. Thanks, George. Appreciate it.
Where we going next? Detroit. Ken. Nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Yeah, hello, Rush.
RUSH: Hi.
CALLER: I wanted to comment on how not only Obama and the Democrats have responded to the election in Massachusetts, but what we've seen from it. First of all, when we look at their behavior, their total rejection of it, it shows that they're not living in the real world, Rush, they're living in the world of fantasy. Now, the vote clearly showed that those of us who love freedom, who love this country, who embrace the Constitution, we have said that we reject the statist socialist agenda that Barack Obama and the Democrats are trying to force on us, Rush. I mean that's pretty clear, that the American people, this is how we feel. This is what we're getting out of this --
RUSH: Yeah. Look, I know what you're saying. That they've heard us, they see, they have received a clear message. Don't think it's going to change them.
CALLER: No. Not at all.
RUSH: They're gonna dislike us and hold us in contempt even more. They're going to think we're even stupider than they thought and they're going to get even with us. This is the way the Democrats operate. They love you when you elect them, but when you don't see the light, when you haven't done the right thing, you become their enemy. Look, they were governing against the will of the American people to begin with, and they're going to double down on that. They're going to go through a two-week or three-week show here, as I said, trying to convince people they have changed their minds and they have seen the light, that they now understand that they were out of touch with the American people, like this story here. This is ABC News, an exclusive interview that Obama did with Stephanopoulos: "We Lost Touch with American People Last Year -- Obama said today that he believes he lost a direct connection to the American people in his first year in office because he focused too heavily on policymaking. 'If there's one thing that I regret this year is that we were so busy just getting stuff done and dealing with the immediate crises that were in front of us that I think we lost some of that sense of speaking directly to the American people about what their core values are and why we have to make sure those institutions are matching up with those values.'"
He doesn't know what the core values are. He wants to impose new ones. This is so much poppycock. "The president said he made a mistake in assuming that if he focused on policy decisions, the American people would understand the reasoning behind them." My God, this guy made more speeches than anybody his first six months. He did not lose touch with the American people. He just exposed himself to be somebody he was not in terms of who they had voted for. "'That I do think is a mistake of mine,' Obama said. 'I think the assumption was if I just focus on policy, if I just focus on this provision or that law or if we're making a good rational decision here, then people will get it.'" They got it. They didn't like what you were focusing on. They didn't like what you weren't focusing on. They didn't think you were making rational decisions.
And listen to this. This is the piece de resistance. Folks, do not fall for this "we've seen the light; we have received your message; we know we overstepped; we know that we were out of touch; we know we tried to grab too much; we know we were governing against your --" none of that is true. And the president's quote here in an interview with Stephanopoulos illustrates it. "Here's my assessment of not just the vote in Massachusetts but the mood around the country: The same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office. People are angry and they are frustrated. Not just because of what's happened in the last year or two years but what's happened over the last eight years."
So he is still like a spoiled rotten little man-child blaming George W. Bush. Now, he's either delusional or he is trying to move public opinion in this direction. He's trying to tell people that the reason they're mad is not the reason they're mad. They're mad at him, they're mad at health care, they're mad at spending, they're mad at this out of control socialist agenda. It wasn't anger at George Bush that elected Scott Brown. Scott Brown is a Republican! They are not, folks, going to change who they are. They have heard and received the clear message. Behind closed doors they are shouting obscenities aimed at us. Don't doubt me.
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DOOCY: Yesterday on his show Rush Limbaugh was talking about Hillary. I know you're a friend of Hillary's. He said with what happened in Massachusetts and with Obama's numbers going down, he said, "Hillary, get ready. You're well positioned to springboard back into the race in 2012." What do you think about that idea?
DAVIS: You know, I respect Rush Limbaugh as a very smart man. He's a great entertainer. I actually love listening to him because he gets me so mad.
DOOCY: (chuckling)
DAVIS: But I don't take him serious. I don't take him seriously. He's a provocateur. He has fun provoking. He doesn't mean that. He doesn't like Hillary. He's just a good entertainer and I respect that he has great ratings.
DOOCY: Oh, I don't know. I think he means it.
RUSH: Well, I did mean it. I honest to goodness did. Lanny, if you're listening, I honest to God do think that she's considering it. I mean, you have the perfect storm brewing here. This is an ideal time for somebody to move in. She's parked over there at State. She's doing her loyal, dutiful duty but that can't be too thrilling. Besides, they send czars everywhere that she would really like to go. They send her to the sticks while other people get the glamour posts, and you know she's thinking this, especially now with everybody seeing how they got scammed by Obama. Lanny, I'm telling you. I think I know the Clintons, and I think you know that I know them, too -- and I think you know that I know that I know I'm right. And you know that I'm right when I say, "They're plotting it, at least sketching it out, at least talking about it amongst themselves."
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RUSH: Okay, Chuck-U Schumer. Chuck-U Schumer calls for hearings on this un-American court decision. This week has been the perfect storm. Look at what has happened. You had Scott Brown winning in Massachusetts by a big number, the Ted Kennedy seat, as the Democrats thought of it, the Ted Kennedy seat. This is like somebody winning the queen's throne. This is like some janitor in Great Britain beating the queen in an election if there was one. Not to put down janitors. I'm just saying the disparity between station in life here. So that was just huge. They're rocking and rolling, they cannot center themselves. They're off balance on that. That one election, health care as we know it at this moment is dead. Pelosi said there's no way she can get the votes to get this through or the Senate bill through the House, and the Senate doesn't have the votes to get the Senate bill through the Senate.
Now, on top of all that, Obama has come out and said, yeah, we lost touch with the American people, they just weren't smart enough. I thought they'd figure out with all these speeches and all this time on policy I figured they knew what I was doing but they didn't so we're going to have to spend more time on it. By the way, he just made a speech. He was on TV in the last half hour saying that his budget is not going to throw money at what doesn't work, he is not going to do that. And in the next breath, literally the next breath, he reiterated his commitment to environmental sustainability. All those billions of dollars thrown at green jobs were not a waste, even though there aren't any green jobs. He hasn't learned anything. So we got this moron in office that everybody is saying, "Well, we thought he was a messiah, and we thought he was something special. And we thought there had been a sea change in the thinking of the direction of the people of the country. And we thought that the passage of our slush fund meant the public would pass everything." They misjudged everything, first and foremost who Obama is. And they didn't know that I would say I hope he fails, which changed the whole dynamic.
Then on top of all that, Obama comes out today and says, (paraphrasing) "You know what? Getting these two sides, the Israelis and the Palestinians to talk to each other is really hard. Our expectations were too high. I don't think we're going to be able to get anything done on that." And then this morning, out of the clear blue, the Supreme Court lifts 100 years of bans on the spending in political races, campaigns by corporations, profit and nonprofit. They did not address how much a candidate can be given, but there is now no limit on how much they can spend running advertising or on when they can run it. A big chunk of McCain-Feingold down the tubes and Chuck-U Schumer is beside himself. He said we're going to have hearings in his committee on the un-American nature of this decision. Now, Chuck-U Schumer, he's in charge of the reelect there in the Senate. I think he's still the Senate campaign coordinator. And, remember, he's the guy that went and found the credit report records or had one of his staff, on Michael Steele. Un-American, Senator Chuck-U?
This is a perfect storm, because these Democrats for the entirety of my life, and we've talked about it this week a lot, the enemies list, Big Corporation. I don't care which one, Big Military Industrial, Big Oil, Big Pharmaceutical, Big Farm, Big Agriculture, Big Retail, Big Tobacco, I mean you know they have just had these corporations in their crosshairs, and they have been pummeling them, and they have demonized them and they have made them villains in eyes of their own voters and constituents. And now, as I rub my hands together in delight simulating what's going on in corporate boardrooms ever since this morning, they're licking their chops because it's payback time, mama. Payback time. Mr. and Mrs. CEO at big whatever now have no limits in what they can say and how much they can spend saying it about people like Chuck-U Schumer and about people like Barack Obama. And attention California corporation CEOs. Barbara Boxer is only ahead of Carly Fiorina by the margin of error, three measly percentage points.
See, Chuck-U Schumer knows that for all of these years there have been no limits on what the unions can spend. Zip, zero, nada. The unions have been able to confiscate the dues of their members and spend and spend lavishly on the election of Democrat after Democrat after socialist after socialist. And now things will be equal because American corporations can do the same. Yes. MoveOn.org and George Soros and the 527s now have some competition. Republicans didn't set up as many 527s as did the Democrats. So Chuck-U is beside himself because the Democrats have to cheat. The Democrats have to have an advantage. They have to have an unlevel playing field and the playing field today was just leveled by the Supreme Court, an institution the Democrat Party thinks is rightfully theirs, that they should own and dictate to. So perfect, folks, I can't tell you. And I'm thinking here of trying to call John Boehner, the speaker of the House and Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader. This is such a wonderful, wonderful week, a perfect political storm has hit with one election, and one Supreme Court decision. (laughing) I just love it!
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RUSH: Mary in Baltimore. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. How are you?
RUSH: Just fine. Thank yewww.
CALLER: Good. You are my hero. I'm going to go right to the point, though, but I wanted to let you know that you give me the courage to stand by my conservative convictions. Thank you. The reason I'm calling is that I love Scott Brown. I really was rooting for him. I'm so glad he won. But I'm so afraid that he is going to buckle.
RUSH: Why?
CALLER: Because I'm afraid that Obama is going to offer him some kind of big thing for his state of Massachusetts, and it's going to be just like Mary Landrieu or Ben Nelson.
RUSH: He doesn't have to offer it to Brown. He can offer it to Kerry. If he offers Brown big stuff he angers Kerry. Kerry is now the senior senator from Massachusetts, even though he is on crutches.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: He's hobbling around -- metaphorically representing the Obama administration and the Democrat Party, by the way.
CALLER: (giggling)
RUSH: Now, look, I understand why you think this. A lot of Republicans, a lot of conservatives have been burned. Look, one of the big reasons why the Republicans were voted out in 2006 is Republicans did not vote for them because they ceased to govern as they had promised to. They ceased being conservative. They became part of Washington power structure. So it's natural that psychologically and realistically he would think, "Oh, God I hope he doesn't become a sellout."
CALLER: So afraid. I'm just like, "Please, please, stand by what you say. Stand by what you say."
RUSH: Well, yeah. Look. I don't know Scott Brown so I can't predict his movements. I can just say that if after this he does what you're afraid of, he's toast.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: He cannot be that silly. After running "against the machine" with those words, he cannot possibly run the risk of becoming part of it. That isn't going to happen.
CALLER: He would be just like Obama if he did that.
RUSH: No.
CALLER: He would be exactly like Obama.
RUSH: No.
CALLER: Well, close.
RUSH: No. No. No. There's no Republican that's exactly like Obama.
CALLER: (giggling)
RUSH: No. No. No. But nevertheless I wouldn't worry about it right now. It's not under your control anyway so don't let it worry you.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: Just keep a sharp eye. We'll tell you when it's time to panic but I don't think we're going to be pushing the panic button on this.
CALLER: Good.
RUSH: All right.
CALLER: Thank you.
RUSH: You may be confident, and don't worry about anything until I tell you to. Let's see. Roger in Kingwood, Texas, welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Hi. Hi, Rush. I've been listening so long I don't know how long I've been listening.
RUSH: (laughing)
CALLER: (laughing)
RUSH: I like that.
CALLER: On this election, I am as happy and as giddy as anybody. I went to bed with a smile and woke up with a smile off of Massachusetts. But being somewhat realistic and following Republican politics as long as I have, I would caution a little bit. I don't want to take the bloom off the rose.
RUSH: No, of course not.
CALLER: But as happy as I am that the people of Massachusetts --
RUSH: But.
CALLER: -- one time voted this guy in he is --
RUSH: But.
CALLER: Yeah, and it's a small "but." He is still a New England Republican.
RUSH: Ah.
CALLER: He's talking conservative.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: I want to see where the votes come down and when he pushes that button in the Senate before I get too ecstatic because we don't need three of them up there in that neck of the woods. I just hope that he's all he's talking about.
RUSH: What do you mean? Three of who?
CALLER: Well, we got the two up in Maine. We don't need another one in Massachusetts.
RUSH: Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah. Well, you know what, though? Let me tell you something. I made a point of this yesterday. His vote would be irrelevant if the Republicans had not held rock steady, rock firm in the Senate including Snowe and including Collins. Do you realize that?
CALLER: It's a shock, Rush.
RUSH: Yeah, but it's no mean feat for that to happen.
CALLER: Absolutely.
RUSH: As much public pressure as there was: "Health care, health care, health care," and as popular as Obama was at one point. So, yeah. Look, I understand. I totally understand people being cautious about this and wanting to temper the extremes on the celebration side.
CALLER: Well, yeah. Let's have our excitement but, you know, let's see where it goes. Let's not be as giddy as the Democrats wrongfully were about President Obama. And just an aside: Would we, as a group of Republicans, be as excited as we are today with the potential of doing a '94 redo if McCain had won? I don't think so.
RUSH: No. Of course not, but this is --
CALLER: Absolutely not even close.
RUSH: Let me tell you: This is bigger than '94.
CALLER: Absolutely.
RUSH: Let me tell you something. I understand what you're saying about tempering the extremes of celebration, but what has happened this week is huge. The Democrats have a supermajority in the Senate, a big majority in the House. They have a Democrat architect of health care in the White House, and it has been defeated. And it's the people of this country who defeated it. The machine was defeated, and now you've got this Supreme Court decision. There is a legitimate reason for people to be happy. People have devoted their whole lives this past year to creating this result, to beating back the socialist takeover of the American health care system. It is worth celebrating. It's also imperative to remember that the same kind of enthusiasm must continue all the way through November.
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RUSH: Patrick in Glenview, Illinois, welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you here.
CALLER: Hi, Rush.
RUSH: Yes?
CALLER: Thanks for taking my call.
RUSH: You bet, sir.
CALLER: Mega dittos. I wanted to... You know, the Democrats had a supermajority, they could have passed anything they wanted, and the only thing that kept it from being passed was their infighting, and that was due to the people's voices being heard.
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: And I wonder what would have happened if we'd... You know, people have been calling for term limits. I would say if we'd had term limits in place, we'd be looking at health care already. Everything would have gotten passed because they woulda said, "You know what? I'm outta here anyhow. I'm voting along party lines and the party is going to take care of me." The system worked the way it was supposed to. I used to be a proponent for term limits, and I'm thinking, "No, because these guys..." The only reason nothing went through is they were scared to death of their jobs, and that's why they were fighting amongst themselves.
RUSH: Well...
CALLER: Just a thought, you know?
RUSH: Yeah. (sigh) If Scott Brown had lost, we would have health care. It's not just a term limits thing.
CALLER: No, no. I know that, too, but I'm just wondering. You know, I'm just thinking how lucky we are that we didn't have term limits. Because the people's voice, I think, would have gotten lost.
RUSH: Well, I know what you're saying, but what you're saying at rock bottom is: If we had term limits, we wouldn't have Barney Frank to laugh at. We wouldn't have John Kerry as a buffoon. We wouldn't have Pelosi running around. They would be gone and people who are probably less likable or more likable would be in position. So, yeah, but "What-if?" questions are an academic exercise for me anyway. I understand what you're saying but I'm a literalist. I deal with what happened and what is, and term limits aren't going to happen any time soon.
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GERGEN: He was embraced by the social conservatives. He wants to put a lot of restrictions on the way abortions are done, he's very much against gay marriage, he's against a lot of other things. He was also very much against deficit spending. He was very much against the health care bill. But along with his sort of, you know, populism and his real authenticity he reminds me a lot of Sarah Palin in some ways. I don't think he's Sarah Palin in pants but I do think he has some of that same charismatic quality.
RUSH: Ohhhh. That means they're worried about him because they're scared to death of Sarah Palin. Next on the panel discussion was John Avlon, who is a columnist at Arianna's place, Stassinopoulos Post. And this is what he said.
AVLON: Independents voted for Barack Obama because he promised to transcend all the old politics of left versus right, black versus white. Independents are angry. And liberal House leadership I think did misread the 2008 election as a liberal ideological mandate. Put Republicans shouldn't get too far ahead of themselves, either. If you look at the conservative populism that's out there and look at the heroes of conservative populism, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh -- independents don't like them. Scott Brown was able to win independents in a state that's 51% independent. That is what's happening, that's what Republicans and Democrats need to do to survive.
RUSH: Okay, so we're back now to this. It's the independents, and the independents hate conservatives, they hate me, hate Palin, but even after Gergen says Brown is Palin, they still hate Palin, so they voted for Brown. They voted against the machine. The liberals at the Stassinopoulos Post and all these other paces will not be able to understand, it will not permeate, people do not want this kind of overreaching expansive intruding government. They just don't want it. That's the message here. That's what the machine is. The public policy unions, get 'em out of there, stop their influence. Now, the AP takes its swipe at Scott Brown today: "Brown Doesn't Always Match the Everyman Image that he put Forward -- As he campaigned for the U.S. Senate from the back of his green pickup, Scott Brown portrayed himself as an independent-minded everyman and moderate candidate fighting the Democratic 'machine.' But as a Republican in Massachusetts, Brown sometimes found himself to the right of his own party." (gasping) They're trying to say he's a right-winger now.
"He once proposed an amendment which would have allowed emergency room doctors to deny emergency contraception to rape victims based on the doctor's religious beliefs, which drew the ire of fellow Republicans." This is a fallacious charge. It is so fallacious Brown has filed a criminal complaint against the Coakley supporters for making this claim in campaign fliers and advertisements. It did not happen, and the AP knows it did not happen. And if they don't know it didn't happen then they're lousy journalists -- well, we know that's the case anyway. "He has criticized the federal stimulus program as ineffective, but said he would not return the money. And in the final weeks of the campaign, Brown benefited from the financial backing of conservative groups like the Tea Party movement which pumped hundreds of thousands of dollars into television ads for him." And this runs counter to his everyman image how? The tea party is made of every man, every woman. It's okay for the unions to shower money all over the place but somehow it's not good and it paints Scott Brown a different image.
"Like former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and even Barack Obama in 2008, Brown is getting a boost from his own limited political resume, according to Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. In the absence of a strong record or public profile, voters felt free to read into the candidates whatever they want. 'There is a virtue of not being a known commodity and not having tons of experience in the national spotlight,' Zelizer said. 'With Palin, people knew nothing about her when she was introduced ... and that was an asset at first.''' Yes, you see, ladies and gentlemen, like Sarah Palin, Scott Brown might seem to be wonderful at first but once we get to know him we will loathe him as much as we loathe Sarah Palin. Obama is the king of empty suits, the king of empty resumes, 150 days experience in the Senate. All of his experience is teaching ACORN and learning from ACORN.
Back to the AP story. "Brown was able to craft his own image in the public mind in large part because of an initial lackluster response from Democrat Martha Coakley ... Only after Brown picked up momentum and polls reflected a tight race did Coakley respond, but it was too little, too late." Oh, yeah, yeah, see, if only Coakley and the Democrats and their lickspittle media had gotten their researchers on the job earlier, if we'd gotten this kind of story out earlier, we coulda taken him out. "While he's portrayed himself as an independent-minded candidate on the campaign trail, Brown's campaign has pulled in support from deep-pocketed lobbying and interests groups, from U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Tea Party movement, and the Iowa-based conservative American Future Fund."
Okay, AP, how does getting support from a truly grassroots movement not match up with Brown's image as an everyman? By everyman they're singing plain as day. "During the campaign, Brown portrayed himself as stronger on national security. He also campaigned alongside former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, but a month after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Brown was one of three Massachusetts representatives to vote against a bill that would have granted paid leave to state workers volunteering for disaster relief with the American Red Cross."
Now, this is just too much. This is hilarious. What hypocrisy. It's clear that Brown cares nothing about national security if he's against paid leave for state workers volunteering for the Red Cross? You people are going to have to do better than this. The American people have caught up with you, AP and the State-Controlled Media. "He's also positioned himself to the right of his party's 2008 presidential nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain." That would not be hard. "Brown said he doesn't believe that waterboarding is torture." To the right of McCain, doesn't consider waterboarding torture? Every complaint they have makes it sound like he's an everyman to me, folks.
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Time to get your RINO gun to keep the herd in line.
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RUSH: Last night on PMSNBC Hardball with Chris Matthews, he spoke with Howard Dean about the Massachusetts Senate race, and Matthews said, "Massachusetts voters had a choice between 'the public option' candidate and 'kill it,' and very voted kill it. How do you explain that?"
DEAN: These voters were sending a message to Washington. They asked for change --
MATTHEWS: But she said, "I want to give you the public option" and they said no to her.
DEAN: -- and they haven't gotten change.
MATTHEWS (interrupting): Governor, this is... This is... You're whistling past the graveyard here.
DEAN: I don't think so.
MATTHEWS: She ran for the public option.
DEAN: Our polling shows what it shows.
MATTHEWS: But she's for the public option and she got blown away!
DEAN: People who were for the p-poter... (stammering) voted for the public op... who are for the public option --
MATTHEWS: Why didn't they vote for the candidate of the public option, then?
DEAN: Because they wanted to send Washington the message: They want real change.
RUSH: (laughing) I love listening to this. They're shouting and talking all over each other. It continued...
MATTHEWS: Voters of Massachusetts agree with you, but they voted Republican? That makes no sense.
DEAN: Oh, it does make --
MATTHEWS: If you went in the voting booth --
DEAN: Chris?
MATTHEWS: -- would you have voted for Scott Brown?
DEAN: Chris? I -- I -- I enjoy --
MATTHEWS: Would you have done this?
DEAN: Of course not.
MATTHEWS: Oh! You rationally would not have voted for the conservative Republican because he's against health care, but you say the voters are irrational. They somehow send smoke signals in their voting. They vote for a conservative Republican who's totally against health care to tell the country they want a progressive health care program. That's crazy!
DEAN: We know what they did.
MATTHEWS: Are voters crazy?
DEAN: We actually know that they did.
MATTHEWS: Are voters crazy?
DEAN: Chris, there's only one crazy person around here, and I may hold up a mirror. You may see him in a minute here.
MATTHEWS: But you mean that voters...?
DEAN: Don't be silly.
MATTHEWS: I'm just looking at the results. I'm not cheering them; I'm looking at them. And you're not looking at them.
DEAN: We --
MATTHEWS: You're saying no matter who won... Suppose Coakley had won. You would have said that was a victory for progressive Democrats. Wouldn't it be?
DEAN: No, I woulda said --
MATTHEWS: Wouldn't you have said it if she won?
DEAN: I -- I -- I would have said, "Thank God the right person won."
MATTHEWS: Okay. In other words, if she wins, that's a victory for your side. If she loses, that's a victory for your side.
RUSH: Discombobulation. Discombobulation all over the place. And Matthews, in our final sound bite of this troika has finally had enough of Howard Dean. He says, "Why do you believe that Martha Coakley's defeat meant people wanted a progressive health care bill, Howard? I don't understand what you're talking about!"
DEAN: I think people are sending a strong message to Washington. They want strong leadership, they want real change, and they don't want to accommodate the special interests. Most of what the verdict in Massachusetts was is that we'd rather have no bill than what we've got. That's what the verdict in Massachusetts is.
MATTHEWS: Well, they did decide they wanted no bill. This guy with the barn coat that said, "I'm going to vote to kill the bill," won. I would say that the people who are against the bill won.
DEAN: I think that's true, but don't forget there are a lot of people against the bill who were Obama's core base and voted against Martha Coakley.
MATTHEWS: You want to know what? Martha Coakley was with you, and she lost.
DEAN: Yeah, well, you know... You're welcome.
MATTHEWS: She was totally with Howard Dean, and she lost.
DEAN: Well... Whether she was or wasn't, I didn't follow the campaign all that closely.
MATTHEWS: She votes exactly like you on this issue, with the progressive position --
DEAN: Yeah?
MATTHEWS: -- the public option. She said she was for that position and the voters said, "No, thank you."
RUSH: So... (laughing) Don't you love hearing this? You want to hear one more of these? Because here on the same show Matthews is fired up at his guys for blowing it. He had Axelrod on (David Axelrod, White House advisor) and they had this exchange about Massachusetts and the Senate race.
MATTHEWS: How did the Republican guy with a truck grab from you...? They grabbed Jack Kennedy from the Democrats! He's riding around in that truck with Jack Kennedy's movie saying, "I'm like Jack Kennedy." How the hell did you guys let him steal your bacon?
AXELROD: Look, I -- I -- I -- I agree with you. As I said, I think we were a little late, duhhh, to recognize, uhh, the potency of his threat, and he was a -- a very good, uh, candidate, and he tapped into, uh, a lot of things. The Republican Party is lining up with the banks.
RUSH: Here it comes...
AXELROD: They're standing with the insurance companies. So they can talk the talk, but when it comes time to walking the walk, they don't do it, and we're -- I'm -- happy to have that contest, uhh, next -- uhh, uhh -- next November if the president chooses to run in 2012, and we'll see who the real deal is when it comes to standing up for working people.
RUSH: Yeah, there you go. "Standing up for working people" means unions! "Standing up for working people" in the Democrat Party means unions, and anyplace that's not unionized be damned. That's the machine that Scott Brown ran against.
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The amazing thing about that interchange with Howard Dean and Chris Matthews is that Chris Matthews came off sounding sensible and logical. Dean is suffering from severe cognitive dissonance.
Thank you. I missed the first hour.
An awesome and uplifting show today by Rush! :-)
I agree with you on that. LOL.
I heard the whole thing. Hopefully the GOP will learn from it, but I’m not holding my breath.
I really have a feeling that they have, because we’ve seen what happened in VA, NJ and MA.
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