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"Whatever Obama's going to say is what the teleprompter tells him to say and whoever is writing what's on the teleprompter.
And my guess is they'll try to get back to the soaring rhetoric of the campaign.
That's what they did when they sent him out to Elyria, Ohio, last week.
That was a campaign stop and that's the magic."
"When it comes to health care I think most people are much more than casually involved.
But it seems that one of the reasons the Democrats are in big trouble is that what people
really want is for the people that don't have insurance to have it.
And then they want costs to come down and they think it's not that complicated."
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RUSH: Mike in Fairfield, California, great to have you on the program. You're up first today.
CALLER: Maha Rusty Limbaugh mmm, mmm, mmm.
RUSH: Mmm, mmm, mmm.
CALLER: Greetings from California.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: People's Republic of. Rush, Mr. Obama, after the detonation in Massachusetts, seems to be giving a little head fake towards this triangulation, after hearing his comments about how he didn't make any backroom deals. It appears to me he's trying to put a little space between him and Aunt Nancy and Uncle Harry.
RUSH: There are a lot of people who see that exact thing. Triangulate, like Clinton did, put himself above conservatives and Republicans and put himself above Democrats. And there are a lot of people on the left who are telling him, "Don't do that." Most of the people on the left, most of the people in his base want him to come out ripping a new one. They want him to be angry as hell. They want him to continue to bash the Republicans, they want him to talk about jobs and blame Wall Street for everything that's going wrong. They want Obama fit to be tied just as they are. They are fit to be tied over his spending freeze. They actually think that that matters, that it's some big deal, which it of course is not. But the people live on growing government and bigger government, government spending, and the left is frosted. It's just one year, just one year, the failure of Obama and the failure of liberalism on display, and all it took was one election, one election. The Ted Kennedy seat held by Ted Kennedy for 47 years, now gone, held by a Republican.
Waterbury, Connecticut, Mark. Great to have you on the program. Nice to have you with us.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Appreciate your taking my call.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: This so-called stimulus package is going up by $75 billion from $787 billion to $862 billion.
RUSH: Yes.
CALLER: And this is to pay for unemployment benefits. Now, as sorry as I am for the unemployed, I have a question, and that question is, "How is that stimulus?" I mean, to me, a true stimulus would be allowing businesses to keep their money so they can hire more people.
RUSH: Exactly right.
CALLER: Now, Caterpillar laid off 20,000 people, and this is the very business that, you know, Obama was using as an example to how the stimulus was working.
RUSH: Exactly right.
CALLER: I hate to say this about our own president but I now think he's a fool. I'm sorry.
RUSH: Dangerous fool. Dangerous fool. What he has stimulated is government. The $787 billion stimulus was actually closer to one trillion. Don't forget, my friends, that he had to do a bunch of stuff like they did in the Senate to get people to vote for this, to get his own Democrats to vote for this. So the $787 was actually closer to a trillion when you add the pork in there, but Mark here is right. It is $75 billion more expensive than estimated, now $862 billion because it didn't work. If it had, revenues would have picked up. But what has happened is it's cost more because of the extension of unemployment benefits. I mean this is laughable if it weren't so serious. It has stimulated nothing but government, which is what Obama wanted to do. And this whole speech tonight, State of Obama, is designed to convince you he's changing, sees the light, while he continues these same policies. Make no mistake, this is what he wants to happen. If they were willing to totally ram a health care bill down everybody's throat that nobody wanted, they will not stop with any of the rest of their agenda. They'll just proceed to the parts of it they think they can get done. I wouldn't be fooled by any new attitude, policy shifts, focus change, any of that.
Joe in Ventura, California, you're next. Thanks for calling.
CALLER: Hey, Rush. Two quick comments. First, you had mentioned earlier about him firing all of his czars. I would assume premiere Obama tonight will announce that he's going to have a Medicare fraud czar. I'd like to see him implement that.
RUSH: Are you serious?
CALLER: (laughing.)
RUSH: Medicare fraud?
CALLER: You know, I mean in this health care plan they were going to attack all the fraud in Medicare.
RUSH: That's right. That's where they're going to get the savings to --
CALLER: That's right, that's right.
RUSH: -- make it revenue neutral.
CALLER: Yeah. And the other thing real quick is Limbaugh's folly where we buy Mexico on the condition that after Obama's first term, him and Reid and Pelosi and Schumer and Frank, it's mandated that they go down there and run it, all the liberals have to run Mexico.
RUSH: (laughing) The Mexican government might have something to say about that. But the Medicare fraud, speaking of which, I've heard some people on the Democrat side say we want to scale back our health care proposal and go for it in smaller increments which I have no doubt they'll try at some point. I hope they do. I hope they bring it back, and I hope that it continues to roil people all the way through the summer, and they're just obstinate enough to try it. Don't forget, I've been talking to a lot of people out here, and it's interesting to hear the opinions of people who are casually involved. Of course, when it comes to health care, I think most people are much more than casually involved. But it seems that one of the reasons the Democrats are in big trouble is that what people really want is for the people that don't have insurance to have it. And then they want costs to come down and they think it's not that complicated. They don't understand what's so complicated about insuring the people that don't have insurance except when it boils down to the fact that everybody who does have insurance is going to have to pay for it, and they don't like that of course but they think it's just not humane in America that people would be so uninsured and they want to get costs under control and the Democrats addressed none of that, that was not going to happen in either of those two events.
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RUSH: Rush Limbaugh, remember, as long as I'm here, it doesn't matter where "here" is, although we are in a super-secret location, no one could possibly find us. We are somewhere near Las Vegas. As you know I'm out here judging the Miss America Pageant, 2010, and it's been a blast. It is a tremendous amount of work. Sunday afternoon for about six or eight hours we got an orientation. On Monday, 12 hours of interviews, nine-and-a-half minutes with 38 of the contestants and we finished it up Monday morning. And last night, Tuesday night was the first of the preliminaries over at the Planet Hollywood Theater. That goes on for the next three nights, the big televised finals on Saturday.
And, you know, these interviews are kind of interesting. I've talked to some of these young women who know more than elected people that I've interviewed here on the radio. It's fun to see this up close. The people at the Miss America Foundation are just the best I've encountered. They are straight down the middle solid people and they take this very seriously. It is a scholarship program. They award millions and millions and millions of dollars to women in college scholarships throughout the year. It's just a very wholesome, whole-hearted great program, and it's an honor for me to be part of it. I can't discuss any details of the contest, of course, because of conflict of interest and so forth. I cannot reveal a thing about any specifics. But it is a fun thing. It's televised on Saturday night from eight to ten Eastern on the TLC cable network.
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RUSH: We are deep in the bowels of a super-secret, heavily secured and fortified location here in Las Vegas. As you know I'm here judging the 2010 Miss America Pageant and it has been a tremendous amount of work, six to eight hours on Sunday afternoon, orientation, interviews with all the contestants started on Monday, and that was 12 hours straight. We finished the remaining interviews on Tuesday up 'til two o'clock, and then the preliminary competition started last night at the Planet Hollywood Theater and the contestants all rotate, swimsuit, on-stage question, talent, and evening gown. And it will take three nights to go through all 53 contestants doing that.
Nobody is eliminated this week. The eliminations start on Saturday. It's been a fascinating experience, and the people at the Miss America organization, you would love them. They're just salt of the earth people, wholesome. These are the kind of people that you'd love living next door to; you'd love to have them as your friends. They deeply believe in what they're doing. It's basically a scholarship foundation. They offer more scholarships to more women than any organization in the country. And the contestants, I can't talk about any of them specifically, any impressions, but they are all bright. As I said in the first hour, some of them know more about politics and current affairs than elected officials that I have interviewed. It's been fun. It really has, despite the heavy workload.
Fellow judges Vivica A. Fox, noted actress, Shawn Johnson, noted Olympic gymnast, Dave Koz, noted jazz saxophonist, Katie Harman, who is a former Miss America 2002. Brooke White, who was a finalist for American Idol I think recently. So there are six of us, it's a good group. I, of course, am representing the field of communications. That is my area of expertise and there are other areas of expertise that the other judges use. One of the things I said to them -- we met the contestants about halfway through the Sunday afternoon orientation. We were taken over to the Planet Hollywood Theater which is where the telecast is Saturday night from eight to ten Eastern. We were taken over there to meet all the contestants, not individually, they were seated up in the crowd in stands and we were introduced to them, and all of us, you know, had a few comments for them. And I said to them, "I have learned here in the past three hours how seriously everybody takes this." Not that I was surprised but I have seen it now, and I asked some of the organizers, "As seriously as you take this, why do you leave the judging up to rank amateurs, people who have not done it before?" And they said, "Because you're all experts in a certain area, certain field, you're all experts and very accomplished, and we don't think it's ever failed."
So I told all the contestants, "Look, I know that you realize that we're just a bunch of rank amateurs here and you have donated long periods of your life to this moment. And I just want you to know we take it as seriously as you do." As they were reading my bio to the contestants it was mentioned that I was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Very thorough, the research here on the part of the Miss America organization was very thorough, I was noted as a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, and when I had my turn to speak I went up and said, "Yeah, I was nominated and I got screwed by Algore." And they all busted up laughing. So it's been fun, and I'm getting along great with all of the judges. It's just a great experience. I'm glad that I did it. So tonight preliminaries continue, then tomorrow night. Friday is a day off, although I will be here serving humanity on the EIB Network's Open Line Friday edition of the program. And then Saturday morning we go through a final orientation, a production meeting for the telecast on Saturday night, and that's again at eight o'clock eastern, five o'clock out here for the finals. So that's the schedule, and that's the report of what I have been doing.
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Repeal Executive Order 10988 he will which gives federal workers the right to join unions and bargain collectively. Reserve constitutional rights for Americans: Treat terrorists as enemy combatants and not common criminals and US citizens, and return the right to interrogate those that attack us to the FBI and the CIA. And last, but not least, keep Guantanamo Bay open for business because we're going to need it. It's very simple. Those are my suggestions if you want to fix what Obama's done wrong. I know it's a pipe dream and it isn't gonna happen. Make no mistake. That's just my way of illustrating in another clever way what's wrong with what Obama has done.
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RUSH: I think what's going on here is the liberals are "hiding the decline" in all of these surveys they're taking. Seventy-five percent say the stimulus is not working for the middle class (it's not working for anybody) and they report it as "25% say it is working." And they say "seven-out-of-ten" think it's good the Democrats lost their supermajority, rather than say 70%. They're hiding the decline just like they did in the global warming hoax, which now has been doubled down on. Have you heard about the guy at the IPCC? Pachauri, I think, is his name. They've been totally exposed again on the melting glaciers of the Himalayas -- totally, totally exposed. The whole thing is just an outright, and always has been, hoax. It's always been a political movement. Just like everything the liberals do, it is designed to tug your heartstrings, to make you feel guilty, to get you to go along with tax increase.
"You're destroying the planet!" and this is how you get your mind right. This is how you say you're sorry. You let people go ahead and grow governments around the world and tax you and roll back your lifestyle, all for the purposes of empowering them. I mean, this has been an incredible 12 months, just an incredible 12 months -- and here, from the disappointed Associated Press: "With his prospects for another term brightening, Ben Bernanke will lead the Federal Reserve this year in pulling back the stimulus money it pumped out to fight the financial crisis that erupted in his first term. The challenge will be how and when to do so. At their first meeting of the year, Fed policymakers are likely weighing such matters, including which tools to use. The officials began meeting Tuesday and will issue a policy statement Wednesday. It's not known whether they will signal their timing and strategy to reverse course. ...
"With the worst of the financial crisis over..." Not according to my stack! Foreclosures continue. New home starts are down. Three different foreclosure programs designed to help people are failing. In (I think it's Kentucky or Tennessee) the unemployment bottleneck is so bad that people cannot get on the phone, can't connect with a human being to renew their unemployment benefits. Everybody is just swamped, and we've got a guy who's totally enamored of process. You know who else loved process? Michael Dukakis. I remember him discussing that in the presidential campaign of 1988, the year this program de-buted ("debuted," for those of you in Rio Linda). Duakis said, "I love policy. I love the process. I love the process of making policy." Obama does, too, and Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter loved process, and this is turning into Jimmy Carter 2. It's his second term, only worse. So the Fed is considering "stimulus exit strategy."
I don't know what stimulus this is, but... "With the worst of the financial crisis over, the Fed is gradually moving to remove some of the stimulus money before it can trigger inflation. Some analysts think the Fed might bump up the rate it charges banks for emergency loans." Now, remember the Fed loaned $2 trillion to people and still hasn't told us who got it. Is that the money they're talking about or are they talking about Obama's stimulus? In any case: If it's Obama's stimulus, does it mean it failed? If they're worried about it causing inflation, does it mean that it failed? Look, I don't mean to depress you here, folks, but you have to know the reality of Obama's policies. You have to know what liberalism will do. You have to know what it will do every time it's tried so you never give it a chance again at the ballot box.
"Sales of New Homes Sink 7.6% Last Month, Worse than Expected -- December results in the weakest year on record." How can this be? How can the wizards of smart at AP be shocked again? Did they really believe all the government involvement was going to help the housing market? The answer is: Yes, because these people place all of their hope and all of their faith in government. They really do. "New home sales unexpectedly fell 7.6 percent last month, capping the industry's weakest year on record. ... The results were the weakest since March and indicated demand remains sluggish despite newly expanded tax incentives to spur sales. ... Only 374,000 homes were sold last year, down 23 percent from a year earlier and the weakest year on records dating back to 1963," and staying on the same basic line here, this is the MSNBC.com:
"Flaws Plague Foreclosure Relief Program." Do you realize nothing, nothing he has done is working? Nothing! Now, from his standpoint, it might be working. I still firmly believe that all of this was to create this kind of chaos and to create the demand for more government. It's backfired on him. I think what he really wanted to do here was just totally get as many people on the welfare rolls as possible (Cloward-Piven) and empower himself at the Democrat Party, empower in perpetuity, but it's backfired because he's misread the American people. The American people do not want to be wards of the state and they don't want their country to be a failure, and they don't want to be having their president run around the world and apologize for things we've done. They don't want terrorists being given Miranda rights.
They don't want terrorists being given US constitutional rights the same as if they were US citizens. They don't want show trials of terrorists beating up their own country at a cost security alone of $200 million a year. They do not want what Obama is. They do not want anything to do with his ideology or his policies, and the things that... If I ran the Republican Party, what I would be having them do is say, "Look, Obama's no different than Barney Frank, no different than Harry Reid, no different than Nancy Pelosi, no different than John Kerry, no different than Algore, no different than Clinton. It doesn't matter which one of these people you elect. Obama may be the most radical of all of them but they all are liberals and liberalism is this! Liberalism is failure of capitalism; it is failure of freedom. Liberalism is outright failure of prosperity." It's right there for everybody to see now, as clear as it's ever been, and the Republican Party ought to be pointing this out. But I'm sure that that would be a little too controversial, a little too mean-spirited. I'm sure that moderates in our party wouldn't appreciate that kind of criticism. In fact, ladies and gentlemen -- sound bites four and five, Mike -- this is last Sunday afternoon, CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS. During the panel discussion he had this exchange with the New York Times book review editor and the author Sam Tanenhaus about conservatism.
ZAKARIA: Even though there's a political rival of conservatism, you don't quite see an intellectual reliever. There are... you know, the Williams Buckleys and Irvin Kristols of the world have yielded to the Rush Limbaughs.
TANENHAUS: There were a number of books about a possible Republican and conservative revival. David Frum wrote one, [and] Ross Douthat, and Michael Gerson wrote one. And they all accepted that there was a major role for government to play. They were kind of accepting what seemed to be the shift in the inevitable interrelation between government and society. Those ideas have not been picked up --
ZAKARIA: Mmm-hmm.
TANENHAUS: -- at all, as far as I can tell, by the movement on the right.
ZAKARIA: Right.
RUSH: Yeah, damn right, and they won't be! What do you think the hell is failing here, Mr. Tanenhaus? How many people read Frum and Brooks' books? You could probably count 'em on one hand. This is absurd. Last week, maybe the week prior, I spent a lot of time on this program excoriating these people. Remember, these were the people that said Reagan's era was over and that we had to go get moderates to win. This is in the aftermath of Scott Brown's election. "Yeah, the American people want higher taxes. They want a bigger government. They want a government more involved in their lives." And Tanenhaus says, "I don't see the right picking this up." Why should we pick it up? It's failing to the max as the Democrats try it! Let's go ahead and play number five. Fareed Zakaria next talks to Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street who said this about conservatism and recent elections...
NOONAN: Purism took a hit in New Jersey and Virginia, in Massachusetts. They voted for Republicans who are conservative economically but are very non-snarling, who are not guys who you can look at and say, "That is an ideologue." I interviewed Scott Brown -- the senator-elect, I guess, from Massachusetts -- two days ago. The first thing he did was compliment Obama. Something new is going on. It is a certain... It's a growing pragmatism among the tea party people who voted in Jersey, Virginia, and Massachusetts for guys they were not 100% on the page with.
RUSH: You hear that, the "non-snarling Republicans"? There's "something new ... going on" out there? Scott Brown actually complimented Obama? The "growing pragmatism among the tea party people who voted in Jersey, Virginia, Massachusetts for guys they were not 100% on the page with"? Yeah, well, they're 100% on the page opposing Obama -- 150% on page opposing Obama -- and all they had to hear from Brown was he's the 41st vote against health care. I mean, that's ball game, Peggy. That's the end of this country as we know it if that debacle had passed. So at the end of his program Zakaria makes a commentary, and it's to us Republicans, and he warns us to forget Massachusetts.
ZAKARIA: The Tanenhaus premise is compelling is not so easy to refute. Today's conservative movement, he says, is dying because it is harshly ideological; very different from the grounded, philosophical movement of the past in which there were great thinkers like William F. Buckley, Irvin Crystal, those were the people who personified the right. Today, Rush Limbaugh speaks for the movement. Tanenhaus argues that right now, conservatism serves as a kind of movement of obstruction, recrimination that does not offer a thought-out set of ideas; nothing voters will hold onto in the long run. So despite the Massachusetts message, I think it's a, uh, interesting book to read.
RUSH: And there you have elitism and out-of-touchness unmasked and on parade. No ideas on this program. No ideas from Mark Levin's book. No ideas in any of the movement conservative people here. We're too ideological. We're dying? There is an ascendancy going on, and it's "harshly ideological." Of course the left, you see, is not "harshly ideological." "No, no, no! Obama is not ideological." This is the point. Obama is. They all are. Liberalism is ideological. It is governed by it; it is propelled by it. That's all it is. It's not pragmatism; it's not compassion. It's not love and tolerance and all that. It is a destroyer of freedom.
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RUSH: Now, these clips from Fareed Zakaria and Peggy Noonan, they're hilarious, they're actually hilarious. You have elitism on parade, you have a bunch of strident ideologues who, because of their manner of speaking, think that they are not, and they convince you that they are not and that they are pragmatic and practical and thoughtful and very, very, very intellectual, smarter than the rest. And of course we Neanderthals on the right, no ideas here. How can you speak of ideas, as I do, and not be an ideologue? An ideologue for liberty is an ideologue for free society. That's a good ideologue. I, we, are great ideologues. It doesn't mean we agree with all details on all points. It doesn't mean we're closed-minded. It doesn't mean that we're narrow-minded, but it means we agree in the natural rights of man, and an ideologue on the left means promoting one or more forms of tyranny. It's the opposite of promoting liberty. And so it's an ideology to be rejected and detested, and it's on parade, unfettered right now. In fact, they're starting with the State of Obama speech tonight, they're going to do their best to say that they're moving in a different direction, going to be populist now, going to bash the banks.
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RUSH: I have some hilarious pieces. I've got my own State of Obama stack in the monologue segment of the next hour. I'm going to show you and illustrate for you the various pieces of advice Obama is getting on what he should do. For example, somebody at the Politico staff: "Democrats Differ on Advice for Speech. They asked Democrats on Capitol Hill and in statehouses around the country what they want to hear from Obama Wednesday. Here is what they said. Number one: Show your anger. Number two: talk about jobs. Number three: make a decision on health care. Number four: bash Wall Street. And number five: keep blaming Republicans." Now, that is the recipe of a bunch of anti-liberty ideologies, ladies and gentlemen, blame Republicans, show your anger. My God, you people have done the best job of showing your anger of any political party I have ever witnessed. Talk about jobs? Well, he's had job summits, he's had the stimulus package; what more do you want? Bash Wall Street. He doesn't need advice to do that. He's doing it. And keep blaming Republicans? It's part of Obama's natural existence, blame Bush. These people are getting exactly what they want and they're still not happy.
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RUSH: Well, well, well! Evan Thomas is pretending to be surprised that Obama is a liar. Remember Obama was "godlike"? He's godlike! In fact, let's play number 18 first. This is November 5th of 2008 on the Charlie Rose Show, and this is Evan Thomas having an exchange with the managing editor Jon Meacham about the election and President-elect Obama.
MEACHAM: He's very elusive, Obama, which is fascinating for a man who's written two memoirs. At Grant Park he walks out with the family, and then they go away.
ROSE: Mmm. Mmm-hmm.
MEACHAM: Biden's back, you know, locked in the bar or something.
ROSE: (haughty chuckle)
MEACHAM: You know, they don't let him out. And have you ever seen a victory speech where there was no one else on stage?
ROSE: Mmm.
MEACHAM: No adoring wife, no cute kid. He is the messenger.
THOMAS: There is a slightly creepy cult of personality about all this. I mean, he's such an admirable --
ROSE: Slightly. Creepy. Cult of personality.
THOMAS: Yes.
ROSE: What's "slightly creepy" about it?
THOMAS: It -- it -- it just makes me a little uneasy that he's so singular. He's clearly managing his own spectacle. He's a deeply manipulative guy.
RUSH: That's Evan Thomas, and he also called him "godlike" at one point. So Sunday morning local Washington TV on the program Inside Washington, Evan Thomas had this to say a little over a year later about Obama.
THOMAS: The chance Obama missed... He really had a chance. A lot of people (are) saying, "Okay, you're going to change government." He was not fundamentally honest. What caught him up I think was his dishonesty. He didn't level with the American people. Even those who are not politically engaged smelled dishonesty and a rat, and their reaction to it is to go two parties and, you know, vote for Brown.
RUSH: Oh, "he wasn't fundamentally honest"? How come all of us conservatives could see that from day one even in the middle of the campaign and these people do not see it until it's a year too late?
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RUSH: Now, advice for Obama and the State of Obama speech tonight: Here's former labor secretary Robert B. Reichhhh-uh! He was on MSNBC this afternoon, and he's advising the exact opposite of what you just heard me suggest. The infobabe Chris Jansing spoke with Secretary Reich and said, "You suggest the president should propose a WPA-style jobs program. But the American people suggested they don't want maybe the government taking control of everything. There are concerns about the growing deficit. So how much can the government really do? How far can the step into the fray?"
REICH: Government in terms of the economy ask and can do quite a lot, Chris, I mean the Federal Reserve Board in its policies over the last year has done more than the Fed has done in living memory. Look, we are in a society. I mean, we can't turn against government; that's like turning against society. People may not like "bureaucrats," as they call them, people may not like complicated red tape. But in the last resort we're all in this together and so the president's gotta make a very strong argument for why, in a time of stress, we do need to come together and government is what we have and what we need.
RUSH: I so hope he listeners to foreman Labor Secretary Reichhhh. I really do. More government. That's what we need, more government. And let's just continue on this theme. This is a montage of media people, Chris Matthews; Bob Shrum; F. Chuck Todd; Michael Crowley from the New Republic; and again, Labor Secretary Robert B. Reichhhh-uh.
MATTHEWS: Does President Obama go left (sic) like Bill Clinton did after losing the House back in 1994?
SHRUM: If we elect him to be a third term of Bill Clinton.
TODD: They're not going to do what they believe Bill Clinton did, which is do a complete 180.
CROWLEY: We're seeing the first term of the Clinton presidency being replayed.
REICH: I worked for Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama is no Bill Clinton.
RUSH: Ooh! Oooh! There's conflicting advice there. Some say we are going to get Clinton and some say that we aren't. And here's the Ragin' Cajun, James Carville.
CARVILLE: You have to put things in context, George. The president has to explain what he took over and what happened. The war in Afghanistan has to be explained, that there was a failure to capture Bin Laden when they had a chance to. President Reagan, if you go back to 1980 in his original State of the Union address, blasted Jimmy Carter (garbled) said before you can ever know what you're going to do in the future you have to understand the past. Explain what it is that he inherited and to put into context what his program is.
RUSH: He can't. He can't put into context what his program is because people really wouldn't accept it -- and he's been bashing Bush! Like a spoiled little kid he's been bashing Bush, and here is a montage. Obama is announcing a staff shakeup. He's putting David Plouffe back in there and a bunch of liberals say, "It's a brilliant move! Oh, this is a brilliant, brilliant move." Here's a montage of people.
JOHN BERMAN: The President is reassembling the vaunted political team that helped him win the White House and he's ordered a review of the Democratic Party's entire political operation.
DAVID KERLEY: (b-roll) They wanted the best player on the field, and after a lousy week, this is good news for Democrats.
STEVE MCMAHON: He's bringing the commander of the ship back for a repeat performance in 2010.
TAMRON HALL: The White House shakes up the political team.
LESTER HOLT: (b-roll) President Obama is calling on the team that helped put him in the White House.
MIKE VIQUEIRA: (b-roll) Mr. Obama is now turning to a proven winner.
KATE SNOW: He's shaking things up. Bringing back the team that helped him win the White House.
RACHEL MARTIN: They've recruited a familiar face to get them back on track.
E.J. DIONNE: The Democrats should have seen this coming and didn't. That's why I think they bring back David Plouffe.
JOHN HARWOOD: It will take all of David Plouffe's skill to mitigate Democratic losses and keep the Democrats in control of the House and the Senate.
RUSH: David Plouffe is coming back and they're excited. They're excited. But let's go back, March 28th, 2006. We have a montage of media people reacting to the news that Andy Card was leaving his post at the White House as chief of staff.
JON SCOTT: Is this a shakeup or is this just rearranging the deck chairs?
ED HENRY: Like rearranging the deck chairs, not really a major shakeup.
NORAH O'DONNELL: Simply rearranging the deck chairs.
STEVE DOOCY: The president of the United States needed to rearrange the chairs.
JIM VANDEHEI: You're basically just moving the chairs in different directions.
RUSH: Is it not uncanny? All of them, every one of them! We have many more than that, we just don't play them all in the interests of time. They get these faxes and they get these phrases. With Bush it was "rearranging the chairs" on the Titanic. With Obama, "It's a brilliant shakeup! It's a brilliant thing! It's right on time," blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. By the way, can anybody tell me if those great thinkers at Obama's jobs forum in December have reported back? Remember that jobs summit at the White House with the work groups and he had a suck-up session there with Thomas Friedman, the foreign policy correspondent for the New York Times? I thought, "What does this guy know about job creation?" Anyway, have they reported back yet? Did they ever report back or are they still in their work groups coming up with plans? Because we haven't heard any new ideas from Obama about creating jobs, and we sure aren't going to hear any new ideas tonight. We're not going to hear anything that would genuinely create jobs. It isn't going to happen.
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RUSH: Joe, Columbus, Ohio. Thank you for waiting, sir. You are on the EIB Network.
CALLER: Thanks, Rush. Been with you since day one and it just keeps getting better.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: Hey, with the significant change in direction that Obama's taking right now, will his demeanor tonight change as much as say like Algore's did during the election when the polls told him that he needed to find his alpha male and he started using his big boy voice during all the speeches?
RUSH: Oh, yeah, Naomi Wolf started dressing him.
CALLER: It was such an obvious put on, fake, you know, will Obama's change be that obvious tonight in demeanor as well?
RUSH: It will be interesting to see. I think that they're probably still stuck on the fact that Obama is magic, and I think they'll go back to writing words for him to read off the teleprompter. Let me ask you a question. In asking you, I'm going to ask everybody. Can somebody name for me what you remember from George Bush's last State of the Union speech? Can you tell me anything you remember?
CALLER: Not really much. You know, I think, you know, the message of --
RUSH: They're not memorable. What you remember is the laundry list of giveaways, laundry list of new programs to stop cancer, to heal the environment, a laundry list of new programs, spending freezes, you know --
CALLER: Where they flashed a camera up to somebody that's sitting with somebody that's touching and they have a little back story thing.
RUSH: Yeah. These are not memorable speeches except to the sycophants who cover them --
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: -- in the State-Controlled Media. Did you see the story, by the way, goes out to this grade school and --
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: -- has a teleprompter to talk to the press that's there? A teleprompter. He had a meeting with his Middle Class Task Force, 20 people, and he had a teleprompter for that, twenty people. So whatever he's going to say is what the teleprompter tells him to say and whoever is writing what's on the teleprompter. And my guess is they'll try to get back to the soaring rhetoric of the campaign. That's what they did when they sent Obama out to Ohio, Elyria, Ohio, last week. That was a campaign stop and that's the magic. And that's probably what they're going to go back to.
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"How can you say that? How can you think that! It's just so extreme." What I've been saying all along is that if they have a chance to stop a birth and cause an abortion, they'll do it. If you have an abortion clinic very close by to a counseling place where women can go to be talked out of an abortion, the Planned Parenthood people will actually try to intercept those women and get 'em in to have the abortion. The NAGs, the National Association of Gals, have actually opposed this ad. They want CBS to not run this ad. CBS had already approved it. Their objection is, "We really think this is divisive. On a day when we all come together for the Super Bowl, why do something that will divide us?" What are they afraid of? What are they afraid of? What in the world could possibly be wrong with them telling this story? Why do they feel threatened?
"If pro-choice is pro-choice, well, the mother had a choice. She chose birth!" They should be happy. But see, this proves that pro-choice is not pro-choice. It's pro-abort. And the stories that I saw on this actually refer to these people as "pro-abortionists," and that's exactly what they are. I know this is an uncomfortable subject for people because it's so deeply personal, and it delves into people thinking that people want to tell them what to do with their bodies. It really isn't that. It's just people trying to make the case for the sanctity of life and pointing out that pro-choice is not pro-choice. I mean, when I saw that the NAGs were pressuring CBS to not run this ad after committing to it and after approving it? Why? What are they so afraid of? Ask yourself. What is so threatening to the pro-choice crowd to have this story told during the Super Bowl? It answers itself: A successful baby taken to term where an abortion was suggested threatens the political nature of their cause -- and make no mistake: Abortion is not about a woman's right to choose. Abortion is not about freedom. Abortion is not about any of these things that they use to describe it. It's liberalism, folks, and liberals lie. Abortion is about advancing liberalism. Abortion is simply taking an event in someone's life and being the people that make the decision for a woman. It is sick, and the people that are on that side are just liberals. And I know it sounds easy to say. "Rush, is everybody that's a liberal bad?" Yes, folks! I mean, it's not a gray area here. This is black and white, and the sooner a lot of people understand this, believe me, the better off this country and our future will be.
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RUSH: Here's the official story -- this from LifeNews.com on the Tim Tebow story. What I want to get is the statement from Jehmu Greene, president of the NAGs Women's Media Center. She said: "An ad that uses sports to divide rather than to unite has no place in the biggest national sports event of the year -- an event designed to bring Americans together." An ad that uses sports to divide? Would somebody explain to me what is divisive about a mother and son, who was almost aborted, but the mother decided to take the dangerous pregnancy to term? What in the world is divisive about that kind of a wonderful story? What in the world is divisive? Who are these people? Who the hell are they to oppose a message that promotes life? You understand these are the kind of people you support if you run around and tell yourself you're pro-choice. These people are not pro-choice. This proves it. Tim Tebow's mom made a choice. She took the risk against the odds given to her by doctors. She wanted to have her baby, she did, and now look, it's Tim Tebow. This bunch of people, the NAGs say this is divisive and it's being used to divide people in a day where we all come together. What do you mean where we all come together? You think Saints fans and Colts fans are coming together here on the Super Bowl? This is typical liberal crap, jargon and syntax, lexicon.
These people, I'll tell you, better understand something: Pro-choice is not pro-choice, and this proves it. I have sought to illustrate this in countless ways over the past 20 and a half years, and every time I've done it, "You're so politically incorrect, you're so insensitive. You can't tell a woman what to do with her own body." I would never. I would just try to get somebody's heart about the sanctity of life. But we do tell women what they can and can't do with their own bodies. It's called prostitution laws and a number of other things. So that specious argument you can throw out the window, too.
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RUSH: Kim in Jacksonville, Florida, welcome to the program. Great to have you here.
CALLER: Oh, my God. I am so excited to talk to you, Rush. I love you.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: I've been listening to you since I was 15 years old and I'm 35. I just adore you. Anyway, I'm sure you get that a lot. So we'll move on.
RUSH: It never gets old, believe me. It never, ever gets old.
CALLER: (giggling) I think... I really do. I just think you are so great, you're so insightful and you say this stuff that I think people need to be saying. So I just love you for that. But the reason that I'm calling is about the football player commercial. I can't remember the guy's name. It's slipped my mind.
RUSH: Tim Tebow.
CALLER: Yes, him. Okay. The problem with the situation is that, you know, the liberals don't want people to be educated. They do not want people to understand that if you go out and you have an abortion, you could potentially be murdering an excellent human being. They don't want that out there.
RUSH: I know.
CALLER: They don't want you to know that the person, that the baby that you're killing could be awesome. You know?
RUSH: Let me tell you something, Kim. You've been listening for 20 years so you know. I've been trying to convince as many people as possible that the pro-choice movement is nothing to do with choice, and they're just illustrating it here.
CALLER: No. It has everything to do with the exploitation of women. This is coming... You know, I've listened to you forever but let me tell you: When it came to abortion, I was a feminazi. I totally supported abortion. Now, after looking at the science and everything else, there is no way that you can look at the science on abortion and see the life cycle of a human being and tell me that that is not a child.
RUSH: Right. You got a heartbeat very early on. You get a heartbeat and you get a brainstem very early on. It's not an unviable tissue mass. But don't discount the fact that there's a lot of money riding on this. These pro-abort people make a lot of money. Always follow the money, always factor the money into any of these kind of things and you'll find an answer. Greg in Durham, North Carolina, I have about a minute and a half here, I wanted to get to you, though.
CALLER: Brother Limbaugh, thank you and Mr. Levin for keeping me sane in the last year and a half.
RUSH: Well, you're quite welcome, sir.
CALLER: I appreciate it. Thank God for Rush and what you're doing. My job as caller is to make the host look good.
RUSH: That's exactly right.
CALLER: There are about 50 things I'd like to talk to you but let me say this: Wasn't it just a couple years ago that some feminist group said that Super Bowl Sunday was a day of violence against women? Now is that a double standard or was that divisive?
RUSH: It was false. It was a totally made up statistic. It was longer than a couple years ago, and you're exactly right. But there's a piece de resistance type of information associated with that, and I can't remember it. It was the same group that had accused me of doing something, I believe, that was also fallacious. But it's just a bogus group of people with a fax machine and a logo and they send this stuff out to their compatriots in the Drive-By Media, and it just got published because it fit a template. "Oh, yeah! Men are brutes. Men are predators. And men beat up women -- especially on Super Bowl Sunday." It was all about advancing a political cause.
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RUSH: To Karna in Naples, Florida. I am so happy that you let us call you back. You better start at the beginning. You were in Washington at a party during the Obama administration, right?
CALLER: Well, that's right. It was some weeks ago, Rush, and I was really amazed to be invited since I did work for six years in the Reagan White House. (laughing)
RUSH: Who invited you?
CALLER: Well, it actually, to explain, it was one of those evenings where they had a musical performance, and PBS does come in and, as they've been doing for all administrations, they tape these performances and then they show them later.
RUSH: Oh, yeah. Who was the musical act?
CALLER: Well, this was the Hispanic heritage evening, and the talent was great. It was Jose Feliciano.
RUSH: Was Bob Griese there?
CALLER: Pardon?
RUSH: Bob Griese there?
CALLER: No, Gloria Estefan, George Lopez, J. Lo.
RUSH: Ah, ah. Yeah, yeah.
CALLER: That group. The only reason I was there is I happened to serve on the board of the local PBS station that produces the show.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: So just a couple of us were invited. So I decided to go, course, and I'm walking around. You know, it's a nice event at the White House, so I go in there, and I'm walking around, through the East Room and during cocktails, and they had a few cabaret tables there, I thought, "Well, gee, I don't know anybody," obviously. So I thought I should be social. So I go over and I see a couple of empty chairs, so I sit down next to this very nice gentleman and lady, and I say, "What's your connection to this event?" And he says, "Well, Michelle's social secretary is my client." "Hmm. How is that?" And he said, "Well, I do her hair. Turns out he has a salon in the Upper East Side there no New York, he employs 22 stylists."
RUSH: Wait, wait. I want to understand. He does the hair of the social secretary?
CALLER: That's what he told me.
RUSH: Okay.
CALLER: Not the hair of the first lady but the --
CALLER: No, no, no, no.
RUSH: -- the hair of the secretary.
CALLER: The social secretary. So she got him on the invitation list.
RUSH: Yeah, yeah.
CALLER: So he's there, and so we get to talking about tough economic times and all of that. And I looked at him, I said, "You know, this administration could really use some people like you," and he stared at me, absolutely dumbfounded. He said, "Well, what do you mean?" And I said, "Well, look, when you look at the entire senior White House staff and the entire cabinet, there is not one person who ever ran as much as a candy store. You're a small businessman. You hire, fire, worry about profit and loss, all the rest of it." The guy's just staring at me. Well, at that point, Rush, I couldn't resist. I got into a whole contrast between Obama and Reagan's economic policies. Both inherited a bad economy and all of that. So he's looking at me, and I said, "Look, let's go back. Reagan's answer was the 25% tax cuts in marginal rates across the board and getting it with a Democratic Congress. Getting government out of our lives. You know, he cut some 40,000 pages of regulations from the Federal Register," all that sort of thing. "The result? 7.7% growth in GDP the following year, eventually 18 million new jobs, a 27% expansion of GDP. You know, and eventually, years later, the elimination of the deficit through economic expansion.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: "Now, versus Obama: The spending, the deficits, more than all presidents combined." We're going on about this and I said, "Look, if you had taken all the bailouts, the stimulus, the cash for clunkers, the 22% increase in spending for the agencies -- well, now I haven't run the numbers, but imagine if all that money had been used for across-the-board tax cuts," and as you said in an earlier segment, "a reduction in the capital gains tax and the corporate tax rate. Where would we be today?" And I asked him. I said, "You know, I'll bet in your small business, you could really use a permanent tax cut." He said, "Oh, for sure. Especially a payroll tax cut," and he said, "You know, I bet I could even hire two more stylists." So I said, "Well, why don't you put a bug in the ear of your client." (laughing)
RUSH: Well, well, I just happened to get some numbers. While you were relaying this story, we have some specifics here on the business tax break that Barry is going to propose tonight. This from Bloomberg: "Obama tonight will propose extending through 2010 a temporary tax incentive that encourages businesses to accelerate purchases of equipment. Obama will call for a renewal of the 50% so-called bonus depreciation in the state of [Obama] speech to the nation. Extending the break, which expired December 31st, would save companies that make purchases of equipment like tractors and wind turbines, solar panels and computers a total of..." (snorts) What that's going to accomplish?
CALLER: Rush, he's talking temporary. You know, all of this just shows such a terrific misunderstanding -- not understanding at all, as we know -- of the private sector. You know, Rush, you probably saw that great comparison that came around a while ago about the cabinets, comparing Teddy Roosevelt on through today and what percentage had private sector experience.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: Remember that? You know, Truman had 50%, Eisenhower 57%, Reagan 56%. Obama has a stunning 8%. I think it's a lawyer or something.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: And in his book, Obama -- I didn't read it but I heard about it -- reportedly refers to a few years that he had working in the private sector as feeling like he was "behind enemy lines."
RUSH: Yes, yes, I have quoted that. And he's also talked about he was motivated to get into politics by getting rid of Reagan and his minions.
CALLER: Exactly.
RUSH: So this is not accidental. This is not naivete. And this temporary tax break, this is designed to fool people he thinks are stupid who are going to think that he's changing course here. Buy equipment? Wind turbines? I got a story about wind turbines in the stack that I can't wait to get to. But all this for businesses to buy temporary equipment like hair dryers, if you have a hair salon and so forth.
CALLER: Exactly. And he's talking about a few temporary cuts for small business. Now, we just saw this morning some headlines: Verizon is cutting 130,000 jobs on Monday; Walmart Sam's Club cutting 110,000 jobs.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: Nothing he says tonight's going to help those folks.
RUSH: Yeah. Yeah.
CALLER: Really, really, Rush, it's just unbelievable. There's a disconnect, a complete tone deafness or something. He doesn't want to listen to the American people.
RUSH: Uhhhh, I don't think it's tone deafness. I think it is ideological stubbornness.
CALLER: Well, that's true but, you know, I talked about Reagan a minute ago. I remembered a great quote even from Francois Mitterrand. What he said was, "It isn't just that Reagan was a Great Communicator, though he was that, but that he is in communion with the American people." That was the difference.
RUSH: Well, that's exactly right, and Obama is at odds with the American people. All radicals are. All liberals are at odds. All liberals have to govern against the will of the people. It is the extreme leftists who imprison people in dungeons. It is the extreme left which tortures people. Hitler was a man of the left by virtue of his social policies any which way you care to measure it. The US Senate and the House, the Democrats are running against the will of the people. Learn it, love it, live it.
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RUSH: Houston. Steve, I'm glad you called, you're on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hey, Rush, it's great to talk to you.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: I've been in the back row of the institute for quite a few years now and I've never had the opportunity to raise my hand, but it seems to me at some point you said that we need to argue with the premise of an argument before we begin to argue. And you had a couple of cuts on earlier today, Reich was one of them, and he said that somehow that the government and society are intertwined --
RUSH: Yeah, you can't have a society without government.
CALLER: Well, let's say that you and I are out in the playground playing marbles and we're like-minded, and we want to accomplish the same task. And a disagreement comes up, and so what we do is, we go get the teacher, right? That's government. That's my impression. I own a small business. That's my impression of what government does. I think the two are, frankly, opposed to one another. And as you increase one you squeeze the other one out. So when Karna called, brilliant, by the way, but when she called, she talked about how Reagan was in communion with the American people. These folks in power now are out of communion completely with the --
RUSH: Not only that, they're at odds, they're governing against us.
CALLER: That's it. That's it. And so my point is that this society, or the Great Society, as Johnson might have said, does not come from government at all. We are in opposition to, we stand juxtaposed to government, not with it.
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: And so therefore when we engage in the argument somehow that society and government are the same thing, I think that we set ourselves up for failure.
RUSH: Exactly. You know, I couldn't agree with you more. In fact, one of my big pet peeves is that we too often make the mistake -- the Republican Party does -- of accepting a premise and then disagreeing with it at the margins. The premise, for example, that we need massive, meaningful health care reform. Okay, this has been advanced as something that we have to do, it just can't wait, even though the Democrats been trying to do it for, what, hundred years, 50 years. Okay, their premise is that only the government can fix it and we need legislation, gotta get a bill, we've got to get a bill. There are certainly things in the health care system that need to be reformed but the real reform that would work would be to get as much government out of it as possible. So don't accept the premise that government has to fix it. You accept the premise that government is breaking it. It's too complicated and it might anger people. Republicans look at a lot of people thinking that government is their salvation and they just don't want to take the time to teach it like Karna did with that hairstylist at the White House. Karna is a great example of when I say, "Be the smartest person in your family. Be the go-to person when somebody doesn't understand something about economics or politics, you can explain it."
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Great quotes, thanks for posting.
You’re welcome.
My pleasure. :-)
Tune out the SOTU and tune in the Superbowl!!
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Well, DUH!
I baked brownies earlier in the week:
And I'm having a Chocolate Martini as I relax after work!
Now, I'm off to catch up with RUSH! Thank you, My Dear!
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