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Do you remember that? By virtue of executive order, Franklin Delano Roosevelt confiscated American gold. He made it illegal for anybody to have any, by executive order. Now, there wasn't a constitutional amendment allowing gold or the use of gold in the Constitution, but still. "I'm sorry, an American president would never do that Rush. American presidents don't have this kind of authority, no, no, just rounding up guns in Houston now. No, American presidents don't have that kind of authority, never happen. This is the kind of thing that happens in Venezuela, Rush, it's too extreme. You're going off the deep end here."
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I did just say it. You want me to go back and say it again? Okay, Michael Jackson's a weirdo. As such he was a supreme individual. I mean, he defined individuality. Not a group member. He reached a level of success that may never be equaled. He flourished under Reagan, languished under Clinton and Bush, and died under Obama. I mean facts are facts, the timeline is the timeline, let's hope the parallel doesn't continue.
Now, I meant to get into this yesterday, ladies and gentlemen. This is from State-Run Associated Press. By the way, you know something I've noticed? You should look for this, folks. You might have trouble finding it. You have to trust me. More and more -- (interruption) what do you mean you can't believe I said it? I said it twice. What about it is not true? What about what I said is not true? He flourished under Reagan, languished under Clinton and Bush, that's bipartisan, got a Republican and Democrat in there, and died under Obama. Michael Jackson died during the era of the first black president. You want me to say it that way? Now, don't interrupt me anymore. I'm doing a program here. This is the problem when the host and the boss, I, give access to the staff members to me via IFB intercom that you can't hear.
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So they basically... They bought her off with $3.5 billion, folks. One vote! It cost $3.5 billion for her to turn her back on her state, in exchange for a pile of money that she can lead in handing out, which is going to guarantee her reelection for all of this mythical new energy technology. Now, here's the bottom line. We talked about this earlier in this week. If there were profit in any of these alternative "green" energy things, they'd be done right now. See, energy is... It's hard to lose in the energy business unless you go into "green." There's no market for it, it doesn't work, and it's too expensive. There is profit in energy because everybody needs it. Everybody needs gasoline. Everybody needs an air-conditioned or heated house. Everybody needs it. Every business needs it. Everybody needs it.
You cannot lose money in the energy business. So if the people who are in the private sector, the energy business... I mean, they want to make a profit, they want to serve customers and so forth. If there were a way to do it with all of this childish "green" windmill solar stuff, it would be there, folks, and it isn't. So how is it going to get into the market? It's going to get in the market this way: they give Marcy Kaptur in Ohio $3.5 billion for her vote, and then she gets to pass out the cash. Let me read it to you again: "$3.5 billion in taxpayer money available for lending to renewable energy and economic development projects in Ohio and other Midwestern states." So, if Fred J. Schlub claims that he's got a brilliant idea on doing some new thing with a windmill or solar power, all he's gotta do is call up Marcy Kaptur and say, "I want some of the $3.5 billion."
That's not how inventions occur. That is not how innovation takes place. There's not one innovation! I take it back. I take it back. Maybe I could name two or three innovations off top of my head that were government mandated. One, of course, is the nuclear bomb. The other is going to the moon. But essentially, the government does not sit there and decree, "Okay, you invent high-definition TV. You invent a car that does 70 miles an hour and it costs the same as a car..." That's not how it happens. So if they pay $3.5 billion for one vote from Marcy Kaptur, how much did it cost to get other recalcitrant members of Congress to go along with this? Henry Waxman included the Kaptur project -- $3.5 billion that she can pass out to a bunch of schlubs who are going to be gaming the system, which is how the whole global warming thing got started, by the way. "You want a grant to study the whole science? Fine. You have to agree that man is causing the placenta to warm."
Any time you take money from somebody -- I don't care if you borrow it or you accept it as a gift. Any time somebody gives you something, they're going to want something for it. This is why when people say, "Rush, why don't you run for office?" I say, "I couldn't do it, folks." I could not do it. I could not. I don't want to be that obligated to people who make campaign contributions because they're gonna want a payback somehow. They're going to want an ambassadorship, or they're gonna want to have dinner 14 nights a week. They're going to want to do this and that. Or they're going to demand something in policy or whatever. They're gonna demand it be back. We saw this happen: these eight Republicans who voted for this abomination.
Why? 'Cause they got a lot of campaign money from environmentalist wacko groups that traditionally give money to liberal Democrats. Money is the mother's milk of politics. They were given huge donations from the environmentalist community and they had to pay it back with the vote. It's maddeningly frustrating. So Waxman includes this Kaptur project, a 310-page amendment to the legislation that was dumped on everybody at three o'clock in the morning on Friday, which was just hours before the thing was scheduled to be voted on. And there were a bunch of other vote-getting provisions, large and small, that had been sought by dozens of wavering Democrats. So in a place of legislation that, again, we're told we can't do without...
"We can't delay this. It's too important!" Just like TARP, just like the Porkulus bill, "It's too important. We can't delay it." It's nothing but earmarks. Think of it as nothing but a collection of millions of earmarks. That's what these pieces of legislation are being, or ending up being -- which is business as usual, by the way. The difference this time is nobody's reading the legislation. They don't care what's in it. The aspects of the legislation that deal with the so-called issue at hand, in this case stimulus or global warming, are irrelevant. It's the givebacks. It's the earmarks. It's the pork that secured the votes for all this. That's why your phone calls weren't listened to. That's why outrage from constituents over this bill was ignored. Because it wasn't about global climate change in the end.
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RUSH: Moments ago, I described to you, watching just as you would watch television, there are many things that you and I do that we do the same way. Although many of you doubt that, it's true. I watch TV the way everybody else does, and Obama was having a town hall meeting in Annandale, just outside Washington, right? He finally took, what, a G5 to fly there. At any rate, normally at these things, at these Obama town meetings, you've got these young, vivacious, excited, young cultists. They're out there and they're all jazzed, and they're all excited; why, he has arrived. This crowd looked dead. They looked like this was the last place they wanted to be. They did not look excited. They had long faces. They were frowning. And then I was told that there was sort of a dust up at the Robert Gibbs briefing at the White House. And it was. We have two sound bites, press secretary Robert Gibbs did the daily press briefing and during the Q&A Chip Reid of CBS said, "This town hall meeting that the president's doing later this afternoon, this is very tightly controlled. I mean the concept of a town hall is to have an open public forum and this sounds like a very tightly controlled audience and list of questions. Why do it that way?"
GIBBS: How about we do this? How about you can ask me that question tomorrow based on what questions were asked rather than preselecting your question based on something that may or may not come through.
REID: Why preselect? Why not just open it up to people and allow any question to come in?
GIBBS: Well, Chip, I think if you get on your computer from your e-mail address --
REID: I have, I have.
GIBBS: Have you sent in your question?
REID: I think that would it be inappropriate. This was for the public.
GIBBS: Well, I'm sorry. I'm confused. Are you not a member of the public?
RUSH: Ooh, ice, ice is forming in the Gibbs White House briefing room. This was a tightly controlled -- I wish I could give you the names here. Well, let me get to the second sound bite. I don't want to lose the context here. Next up Helen Thomas, and she's not digging any of this, either.
THOMAS: I'm amazed at you people who call for openness and transparency and--
GIBBS: You haven't even heard the questions!
REID: It doesn't matter. It's the process.
THOMAS: You have left--
REID: Even if there's a tough question, it's a question coming from somebody who was invited or who was screened or the question was screened.
GIBBS: Chip, let's have this discussion at the conclusion of the town hall meeting. How about that?
THOMAS: It's a pattern of controlling the press.
GIBBS: How so? Is there any evidence currently going on that I'm controlling the press? Poorly, I might add. (Laughter)
THOMAS: Your formal engagements are prepackaged.
GIBBS: How so?
REID: Well, in controlling the public--
THOMAS: By calling reporters the night before and telling them they're going to be called on. That is shocking.
GIBBS: I -- we've had this discussion ad nauseam.
THOMAS: Of course you would, because you don't have any answers.
RUSH: Whoa, Helen and Chip Reid having a cow at the Robert Gibbs press briefing. Now, what they're talking about, what's obviously outraged them here is the HuffPo guy got into the last formal press conference with a staged question, he was told the night before you gonna get in there on a temporary pass, a visitor pass and here's the question that we want you to ask and the guy was more than happy to do it. The question he asked was, "Mr. President, we're in contact with people inside Iran, Iranian citizens, and they are saying X, X, X." The whole thing was staged, and the press, see, they're outraged here that Gibbs would stage this. So what this means is, they know everything else has been staged. How did they know this town meeting was staged? They only know it because everything is. Folks, that ABC thing, that infomercial was staged. It was a filibuster. He got 60% of the time. And the questions were largely known. ABC didn't want anybody in there who didn't agree with the whole premise of socialized medicine, nationalized health care. So they know. They know.
The reason they're really mad is not the stuff is staged or they'd have blown up about it long before this, they're mad that an interloper got in amongst them at a serious press conference, the HuffPo. It's nothing more than an in-debt blog. It's nothing more than an in-debt blog, and these people, they are serious practitioners of the art of journalism, and to have an interloper thrown in there, they're as mad as when Al Sharpton discovered that a Jewish guy opened a clothing store in Harlem. Had to get that interloper out. Same thing here. But, regardless, it's fun to listen to them. And Gibbs didn't know what to do; he didn't know what to say. And when you watch this, if you do see any tape of this, you just take a look at the crowd, there was nothing they could do to hide the fact that this crowd was dead. It looked like, in fact, this crowd had been rounded up, that they were going to be doing something else like going to a movie or maybe half of them were going to the welfare office to get the check and they'd been interrupted, said, "Before you go get the check you're going in here to go listen to the president." Sat there, the sullen looks on their faces. It was amazing to see.
Now, here's the story. I can't mention any names, but, as you know, President Obama has many roundtables made up of private American citizens from various industries. He's got an economic roundtable; he has a banking roundtable, and all these other things. And at one of these meetings -- I'm not going to tell you which roundtable it was, but don't doubt me on this -- at one of these meetings they were all given questions to ask, televised around noon right when this program starts, this is back in the days when they had the work groups and the study groups, dispatch them out there to solve the problem in an afternoon. And they gave the participants in this particular roundtable the questions to ask. And so this guy in the roundtable asked the question that he was given, and President Obama botched it to smithereens. After the meeting, a key White House official approached this man and said, "How dare you embarrass the president this way." And this guy, "Okay, I see what's going on here." So he apologized, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I you know, you're right." They're scared to death of these people.
The guy gets back to where he lives and gets a call from a White House official, "This isn't over. I'm coming out and we're going to have lunch. You don't embarrass the president this way." I mean this is the Mayor Daley way, this is the Chicago thug way, and these people in the press know that all this stuff is staged. I mean how do they know today's was staged? Give me a wild guess? How did they know today's was staged? Did somebody leak it? It is my contention that all of them are staged, all these things are staged and they have been through the campaign. Somebody as preprogrammed as Obama is not going to -- the only time he takes a flier is with a press conference and that's when he gives people the evil eye. You know, the Hawaii stink eye, it's when he gives the stink eye. So there you have it. I was told it was good, and it turned out to be.
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RUSH: I gotta deal with something here. August 1st will be 21 years. And for about 20 of these -- maybe 21 of the 21 and-a-half years, there hasn't been a day go by that I haven't been asked, "Rush, why are liberals the way they are?" Now, you take a look at the Supreme Court decision on the Ricci case, the firefighters in New Haven, four human beings, four Americans saw no discrimination against the white firefighters in the case when it was obvious. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, writing for the minority, said, "While the firefighters deserve our sympathy --" no, they don't. They deserve justice and equality before the law, Madam Justice. How could four human beings look at the details of that case and not find it outrageously un-American wrong? But they did, four of them, four of the nine. F. Scott Fitzgerald said, "The rich are different." That needs to be updated. Liberals are different. We do not know how they think. We attach our own rationality and common sense to our analysis of what they do and we continually are befuddled.
I think it's time to ask the question, just as many people have puzzled over the origins of homosexuality, people have been puzzling over this. The question is still asked, "Do these people choose that or are they born this way?" I think we need to ask the same question of liberals. Are they born that way, or do they choose it? Because there's no rational explanation for it other than it's easy. All you gotta do is see some suffering and say that you care and think other people should do something about it and you are liberal. And it gets even worse when you start telling other people how to live their lives. Part and parcel of liberalism is having elements of this country that you just despise, you think are unjust and immoral, have to be changed. But mostly you don't have to think, you just have to feel, we all feel, except certain men. (interruption) You can't believe I said what? See, you just want me to ask it again, that's all you're doing. Snerdley is expressing mock shock that I would ask the question like he could not have heard it the first time. All right, in case the people at Media Matters and MSNBC missed it, here it is again. We need to ask a very important question about liberals. Were they born that way, or do they choose it?
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RUSH: James in Indianapolis. Let's go back to the phones. Thank you for calling, sir. It's nice to have you here on the EIB Network.
CALLER: It's a pleasure, Rush. Nice to be with you.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: First-time caller.
RUSH: Welcome here. Great to have you with us.
CALLER: I'm basically wanted to comment on the question you posed: "Is liberalism a born or is it a learned trait?"
RUSH: Chosen.
CALLER: Chosen, yeah.
RUSH: Born versus chosen.
CALLER: Yeah. I'm on the from-birth side, and the reason, I guess, I am is because it's kind of like your -- and pardon the example, but -- religious choices pass down from family member to family member due to what you're taught as a young child.
RUSH: I understand your thinking on this. But when I say "born with it," I mean --
CALLER: I totally get what you mean...
RUSH: -- genetic.
CALLER: Like totally born with unchanged?
RUSH: You were not born innocent and your parents pollute you one way or the other. You're born with it, genetic. I have to ask myself: "Why in the hell would people choose to be liberals?"
CALLER: I understand. And us liberals I guess would choose -- or say the comment, "Why would someone choose to be conservative?" Que sera. But I was telling your screener, as long as I can remember, though, as a child -- and not necessarily from all my parental guidance or things like that -- I've always felt a equal or a fairness from man to man, from gender to gender, from race to race, in terms of things like education and --
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: -- job and things like that. So as far as I can remember, it's something I've always had with me from birth.
RUSH: Yeah, I believe you.
CALLER: But, yeah. It is.
RUSH: Totally believe you. See, it doesn't matter to you that there's no such thing as equality or fairness in terms of outcomes. It's just not possible. We're all different. But that doesn't compute with you because... (interruption) No, I'm not arguing. He said that's what he believes. It's not possible for everybody to be treated fairly or equal in terms of outcomes. Before the law, yeah -- and that doesn't even happen. Ask the firefighters in New Haven. Thanks to a bunch of liberals.
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RUSH: Ever since, ever since Barack Obama was elected I have watched business and political talk shows about "the economy" as if Barack Obama was not the president and that the Democrats did not control the Senate and the House.
I have watched as all of this economic malaise gets trundled up on George W. Bush and the Republicans and deficit spending and so forth. So-called experts in the first quarter were predicting an up-tick for the economy in the spring, in the second quarter. Or they would say that unemployment was "bottoming out" or housing was "coming back." You see, it's standard operating procedure for a new president. They called it a honeymoon, and whatever happens bad, the new president is exempt from being attached to it. That's standard operating procedure, unless the president happens to be a Republican. In this case the president is Obama and it's double the insurance that a new president normally gets. So all during the first quarter -- after the stimulus was passed and after the TARP started being distributed and after we took over General Motors -- all these experts said, "Yeah, it's going to come back! We're going to get an uptick here."
We didn't. Unemployment kept getting higher; the economy kept getting slower. None of what was being implemented was working. This was said -- all of this phony upbeat news on the economy was said -- without knowing what Obama was going to do next to wreck the economy. Everybody Obama has done has served the primary purpose of wrecking the economy. He's depleting the private sector of capital. He's got a payment czar that's going to determine how much Americans can earn. He has taken over the auto companies and essentially given them to the unions. He's in charge of the mortgage industry now. He's basically in charge of the banking business -- and now he's got a fine print czar! He's in charge of the fine print that companies print on products, consumer applications for product services. This is a War on Prosperity.
It is being waged by Colonel Obama. And even at the time in the first quarter when all these cheerleaders for Obama were predicting all these upticks in economic activity and jobs is going to when we come back. "Oh, yes! We have a great president now. The world respects us and our president. Our president makes sense. He's an intelligent guy who has great policies, here. Yeah! Federal spending? Oh, we're going to hire! People are back to work! Caterpillar is going to start rehiring people." None of it happened, and these people that were making all these false, phony predictions had to go silent for a while. But they were making these predictions without knowing what Obama was going to do next. They'd say that the gross domestic product would show growth in the third quarter. Really?
Just yesterday the San Francisco president of the Federal Reserve out there said (pompous bureaucrat impression), "We're going to come out of the recession in the fourth quarter of this year. It's going to end by X, but it's going to be a very slow recovery and unemployment will lag severely." Well, that doesn't sound like much of a "recovery" to me. But how does she know? )I think the San Francisco Fed chairman is a woman._ How does she know? She doesn't. Nobody knows. We have proven that $10 trillion of deficit spending does not jump-start or spark or stimulate an economy. All it does is jump-start and stimulate government. How is that hope and change working for you? Got a job out there? We're headed to 10% unemployment. So all these experts are making these predictions and they can't possibly know. They're making these prediction based on their belief that government's good and all this injection of spending, at some point, is going to pay off.
We've been doing this almost a year. We're coming up on a year of all these bailouts and TARP stuff that started in the late summer of 2008. We're coming up on a year of this. I think we learned six months ago that the political solution to a bottomed-out economy isn't working, and it's now time for a practical business solution. Of course that will never happen with this administration. So the GDP is going to start showing growth in the third quarter? Now the GDP is going to start showing growth in the fourth quarter! Employment is going to still be a problem. It's going to lag. All the charts and graphs I saw in the newspapers, all these television shows -- the charts and graphs going back to the twenties -- are null and void.
They're irrelevant. They mean nothing! Obama was not the president 10:20 or 30 years ago. Nancy Pelosi wasn't running the House. These people are making economic projections -- this is my point -- are not taking into account the destructive wrecking ball on the private sector being waged by today's Democrat Party from Obama on down. How in the world can any sane, credible economist or financial analyst predict an economic recovery with cap and trade lurking to be passed and nationalized health care about to be passed? Folks, there will be no such thing as a private sector economic recovery if either or one of these two pieces of legislation gets signed into law. How in the world these people can start predicting all this wonderful uptick stuff....
I'll tell you what it is. It's malpractice on the part of people who are supposed experts -- economic experts, finance experts -- because anybody who has just a semblance of education and an ability to critically think can look at this cap-and-trade business and see how destructive it is. It's a jobs-killing bill. You do not revive an economy by killing jobs. Net job losses are what we're going to have. I don't care how many phony baloney new jobs building windmills, solar panels, or these little whatever kind of putt-putt cars are going to be. The job losses... Look at Ohio. Marcy Kaptur has just seen to it that the coal industry is gonna head south. In fact, we knew this. This is Barack Obama. I have a couple sound bites here, February 26th, 2008, in the campaign. This is in Cleveland during a Democrat debate.
OBAMA: It's not going to be easy to have a sensible energy policy in this country. ExxonMobil made $11 billion last quarter. They are not going to give up those profits easily.
RUSH: I remember that debate. I remember when he said it. I remember coming in here and having the proverbial cow. "They are not going to give up those profits easily"? He's telling us who he was; he was telling us what he's going to do. He looks at profit as evil. Profit is unused cash to him. It's unused. It's a surplus. Profit's a surplus, and he can go grab it as the Central Planning Authority. He looks at the private sector as a golden goose that never dies. "It's not going to be easy to have a sensible energy policy in this country. ExxonMobil made $11 billion last quarter. They are not going to give up those profits easily." But he's damn certain they're going to lose 'em, if he becomes president. He told us. Get this. This is January 147th, 2008. This is during an interview with the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle. Barack Obama was asked about using alternatives in energy, including coal. This is what he said.
OBAMA: What I've said is that we would put a, uh, cap-and-trade system in place that is more -- that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else's out there. So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It's just that it will bankrupt them because they're gonna be charged a huge sum for all that, uh, greenhouse gas that's being emitted.
RUSH: So as a candidate... Dawn, do you remember us playing these sound bites during the campaign? (interruption) Yeah. During the campaign, that's January 17th, 2008. He says: "I'm going to run the coal business out of business. I'm not going to stop you from building a coal-fired plant but you're going to go broke doing it because I'm going to tax your ass something like you've never seen. So go ahead, build your coal-fired plant but you're going to get hit with so many pollution charges," (laughing) and he says it with joy. And then there is this. During the same interview with editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle talking about his energy plan.
OBAMA: When I was asked earlier about, uh, the issue of coal, uhhh, you know, under my plan, uh, of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.
RUSH: He's telling us what's going to happen, and the critics of the cap-and-trade bill have been saying, "Your energy..." Electricity, by the way, your home utility bills -- the Heritage Foundation people looked at this. It's been confirmed two or three other people have looked at this -- 90% your home utility bills are going to go up. And don't take my word for it. Listen again to audio sound bite number three. President Obama saying so.
OBAMA: When I was asked earlier about, uh, the issue of coal, uhhh, you know, under my plan, uh, of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.
RUSH: They're going to have to go up. He wants them to go up! Don't take my word for it. He is, with such ease, implementing all of these agenda items. There's nobody to stop him. There is no way to stop him.
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RUSH: My point is very simple. It's not complicated. I'm telling you pay no attention to anybody who is promising an economic recovery any time soon because they are not factoring in the passage of one or both of cap and trade and socialized medicine, nationalized health care. If one or both of those things happen, forget economic growth, forget it. These experts need to shut up and be concerned about their credibility here. There's no way anybody could predict economic growth knowing what's headed down the pike. One more Obama sound bite, ladies and gentlemen, from his interview on January 17th, 2008, with the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle.
OBAMA: Regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad, because I'm capping greenhouse gases, coal-powered plants, you know, natural gas, you name it, whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers. If you can't persuade the American people that, yes, there is going to be some increase in electricity rates on the front end --
RUSH: Ninety percent.
OBAMA: -- but that over the long term because of combinations of more efficient energy usage and changing lightbulbs and more efficient appliances, but also technology improving how we can produce clean energy, that the economy will benefit, if we can't make that argument persuasively enough, you -- you can -- you can be Lyndon Johnson, you can be the master of Washington, you're not going to get that done.
RUSH: Well, he's doing it. There's no way to stop him. He doesn't have to be persuasive. Who was it that complained about the Republicans overreaching on health care? Oh, yeah, that's right, the Puffster. Yeah, Tommy Taxes. Tom Daschle and John Podesta, they got all bent out of shape the other day over the fact that the Republicans are not joining the effort to nationalize, socialize health care and they said the Republicans are overreaching out there. Overreaching? Republicans are not reaching, period. The Republicans can't stop anything. And now that the Democrats have a 60th vote in the name of a genuine lunatic in the Senate, there's nothing that can be done to stop 'em if they stay unified. The Republicans can't do one thing. Why do you think Tommy Taxes and Podesta are so desperate to have Republicans sign onto this garbage? That's another reason why these eight Republicans made a bad, bad move on cap and trade. They want cover. They want to be able to say, "Hey, don't blame us. Republicans joined us on this thing," when it all crashes down.
That's why the Republicans ought to not join any of this. Let the Democrats and let Obama own it. By the way, it is his economy now. We're into six months, it's his economy and the polls are showing that the American people know and think it's his economy and the more he continues as a child blaming his predecessor or predecessors, more and more people are going to start saying, "Grow up." So he's just told you here again change your lightbulbs, energy bills are going to go up, there's no question they're going to go up, we gotta make the argument persuasive. He doesn't have to make the argument, period. He can pass this stuff without ever showing up on television. Folks, it's a matter of math. The Democrats have the votes. Now, I realize that not all Democrats are unified behind Obama on some of these things, but they've got, you know, the consigliore in there, Rahm Emanuel, and they've got Pelosi and her henchmen in the House. They could whip these people into order real fast if they need 'em on things. Republicans can't overreach. They can't stop anything, so Obama is all worried about how persuasive he is, he doesn't have to be, even though some people believe that he is being.
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RUSH: Yesterday we played a sound bite of Obama, a White House ceremony praising the troops as they left the cities in Iraq and it really offended my sensibilities because Barack Obama and the Democrat Party were one huge obstacle our military had to overcome in achieving victory in Iraq. These people had to secure defeat. Joe Biden was damning the surge, these people were impugning David Petraeus, calling him a liar before he had even testified. And there's Obama up there taking credit for -- see, I told you, the Democrats are not going to saddle themselves with defeat here. They're going to claim credit for the win. A stand-up guy would have Bush there yesterday if there was going to be some celebration ceremony honoring the accomplishment of the troops in the surge, it was his policy. Of course, these people are not stand-up people. Bush wasn't there and wasn't invited. But they're not gonna saddle themselves with defeat. I told you this. Anyway, when we get back in the monologue segment of the next hour, there's some audio sound bites on this that you've got to hear, we put together in chronological order, which will make you as enraged as am I.
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RUSH: Here's President Obama. This is the sound bite we played yesterday. It's yesterday afternoon at the White House, bagging about the success of the surge in Iraq. So much about this offended me, and I'm sure will again right now when we play it.
OBAMA, JUNE 30, 2008: Those who have tried to pull Iraq into the abyss of disunion and civil war are on the wrong side of history.
RUSH: Stop the tape. Recue this. We're going to have to do start stop. I'm not going to be able to contain myself throughout this whole thing. "Those who have tried to pull Iraq into the abyss of disunion and civil war are on the wrong side of history." Um... In fact, I think it was Barack Obama who predicted a civil war if we stayed; that it was a civil war and that we had to get out for that reason. Play number five. Play sound bite number five. This is Obama, February 10th of 2007.
OBAMA FEBRUARY 10, 2007: It's time to admit that no amount of American lives with resolve the political disagreement that lies at the heart of someone else's civil war.
FOLLOWERS: Yeeeeeeeeah!
OBAMA FEBRUARY 10, 2007: That's why I have a plan that will bring our combat troops home bit March of 2008. Let the Iraqis know, letting the Iraqis know that we will not be there forever is our last best hope so pressure the Sunni and Shi'a to come to the table and find peace.
RUSH: And he was dead wrong about it all! It was the surge that brought them to the table. In fact Mookie and his boys, Muqtada al-Sadr, rubbed everybody the wrong way. The terrorists themselves united the Shi'a and the Sunni -- and had we not been there to help them there wouldn't have been nay unity and there would have been civil war! Barack Obama's policies would have given us the "abyss of civil war," and now here he is claiming credit for having avoided that. Let's go to the top of audio sound bite number seven again.
OBAMA, JUNE 30, 2008: Those who have tried to pull Iraq into the abyss of disunion and civil war are on the wrong side of history. Finally, the very fact that Iraqis are celebrating this day is a testament to the courage, the capability, and commitment of every single American who has served in Iraq.
RUSH: Stop the tape. This is Barack Obama who led from the United States Senate his party into doing everything he could to ensure the defeat of the US military. This man did not believe what General Petraeus was going to say about how the surge was working. Petraeus came up, and they accused him of lying about the success of it, being in league with President Bush to lie to the Senate and the American people and the House about this. They said there was no way they could win. Harry Reid said, "This war is lost." This war is over. No way we could win! And here is President Obama, "The very fact that Iraqis..." These are the people that were accusing our military men of rape! John Murtha was believing the charges of rape in Haditha. This party, the Democrat Party, was doing everything it could to impugn and dishonor members of the US military!
Even going so far, ladies and gentlemen -- you remember -- as to impugn the fact that they even joined! "Oh, yeah. They're not patriots," said a few Democrats. "They're not patriots. No, no, no. They're there 'cause they got no other options. Why, the economy stinks!" They said in 2003, 2004, "The economy stinks. They got no educational opportunities. They come from hayseed hick little towns in the South, and in the Southwest. The Army is their only option." It was all lies, but even if -- let's just say for a moment that -- it was true. Why impugn people for joining less than 1% of our population will volunteer, at time of war to join the US military? These people need to be honored. I don't care what their motivation for joining. But the Democrat Party couldn't bring itself to do that and now our president, who led that party in opposition to victory, is up there trying to claim credit for something that he has no right to. He didn't do one thing! Well, he voted for the spending. There are little contradictory things here. That's because they didn't want to be responsible for the defeat that they were trying to secure. Here's more of this bite.
OBAMA, JUNE 30, 2008: That's worth applauding. (applause) Through tour after tour of duty our troops have overcome every obstacle --
RUSH: Including you!
OBAMA, JUNE 30, 2008: -- to extend this precious opportunity to the Iraqi people. We've made important progress in supporting a sovereign, stable, and self-reliant Iraq; and everyone who served there, both in uniform as well as our civilians, uh, deserves our thanks.
RUSH: Cut five again, please. Cut five.
OBAMA, FEBRUARY 10, 2007: It's time to admit that no amount of American lives can resolve the political disagreement that lies at the heart of someone else's civil war.
RUSH: Stop the tape. So you just heard him say we've made progress, important progress in supporting "a sovereign, stable, self-reliant Iraq." You didn't support a sovereign, stable, self-reliant Iraq. You said it was impossible, Mr. President! You said it couldn't happen. You said it was a civil war. You said the surge wouldn't work! Now the piece de resistance. A flashback to April 27th, 2007, Columbia, South Carolina. At Congressman Jim Clyburn's annual fish fry, Senator Joe Biden, was mingling with audience members, an unidentified audience member says, "When he," the president, "When he kills that bill on the 1st what's going to be the next version of the bill that y'all are going to send him?"
BIDEN, APRIL 27, 2007: The first thing I'm gonna do when he vetoes that bill is I'm gonna take out that money for those MRAPS [Mine Resistant Ambush Protected], those off -- those vehicles that will save lives over there. The idea we're not... I gotta kid going over there! The idea we're not building these new Humvees with the V-shaped thing is just crap, man! Kids are dying that don't have to die. And the second thing is, we're going to shove it down his throat.
RUSH: He's talking about the surge. This was Joe Biden, April 27th, 2007. "The idea we're not building these new Humvees with the V-shaped thing is just crap, man! Kids are dying that don't have to die. And the second thing is, we're going to shove it down his throat." He was asked, "When the president kills that bill on the 1st what are...?" He was talking about the surge. "We're going to shove it down his throat." That's Joe Biden who now is the vice president of the United States as his party now tries to claim victory in Iraq. All predicted, by the way.
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RUSH: Here's Vic in San Antonio. Hey, Vic, thank you for waiting. I appreciate it. You're next.
CALLER: Rush, how are you, my friend?
RUSH: Fine and dandy. Thank you, sir.
CALLER: Rush, I want to jump on this hypocrisy of the statement about what happened in Iraq. I'm a four-combat tour vet, retired first sergeant, and I'm now the chairman and CEO of a veterans organization here in the country -- and I don't know if I can mention it or not. But I think I kind of have the authority to say what I'm about to say, and that is, "I am tired of the hypocrisy. Stop telling everybody that you're taking credit for something you kicked us in the teeth for. You beat us down." (garbled) I can't remember how many times folks have said we can't win this war. "Let's carve the country up into three sectors," I think the vice president said at one point in time.
RUSH: Yeah. Now he's denying he said it, by the way.
CALLER: Absolutely! And I want to thank you personally because I saw that yesterday and I saw that you jumped on this (garbled) and I hope the rest of the media out there jumps on this, too, because it's high time --
RUSH: Ha!
CALLER: -- that all of us who served get credit for what we did and if you want to blame President Bush for everything that's gone wrong in America for the last hundred years, at least have integrity to put integrity over politics and thank the man for the fact that the surge actually worked --
RUSH: You know what.
CALLER: -- and further, the New York Times? I'm challenging them as the chairman and CEO of a veterans organization, to come out now and publish a full page article telling General Petraeus, "We're sorry. You were right; we were wrong. Job well done."
RUSH: Oh, come on! You've don't expect any of that to happen. You don't expect the media to jump into Obama's chili over this. The media is upset because they staged a question from the HuffPo. That's all they're upset about. They're happy for Obama to take the credit on all of this. Look, ladies and gentlemen. Whether it be Iraq or any other policy, you have to understand. (sigh) We've got a guy here that has a serious, serious self-love complex. Nothing is going to stop him from doing what he intends to do. Now, you say he ought to bring George Bush in there for this ceremony yesterday. Well, of course a stand-up guy would. If the situation were different, if Bill Clinton had started the surge that led to victory in Iraq, George W. Bush would have had him in there on the day. You know, Bush is a man -- whatever else you say about him -- full of class. There's zilch, zero, nada from this bunch. And again, don't get any expectations that the press is going to get investigatory or investigative with this guy because that's not in the cards.
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CALLER: Professor Limbaugh, it's an honor to be in your classroom. My hand has been up for a long time, so I thank you for calling on me.
RUSH: Thank you. Thank you very much. I understand. I appreciate your patience.
CALLER: I have two experiences I want to share with you, and I'll be brief. First is, I'd like to tell you about the experience I had when I called my representative last Friday to urge that he vote against the carbon tax bill.
RUSH: Who was it?
CALLER: Representative Chris Van Hollen.
RUSH: Oh, yeah. He's the Democrat campaign committee in the House.
CALLER: Yes. In the leadership.
RUSH: Yeah, exactly right.
CALLER: And I asked to speak with his staff member responsible for the issue and had a rather testy exchange. The bottom line is that this gentleman insisted that the cost per family would be minimal, according to the Congressional Budget Office report. Well, I disagreed with his analysis and he asked where I got my information, and I told him the Heritage Foundation, and he laughed at me. I then said, "I would appreciate you not laughing, because Heritage is actually a premiere research organization."
So this man then asked that I go to the CBO report and read it for myself and he gave me the online link. So I did that, I read it -- and then I also reread the Heritage report, which explained in detail why the CBO report was flawed. So I was undeterred, Rush, and I called the staffer back and I explained why the CBO report was flawed and gave him the Heritage link -- and then I gave him three Wall Street Journal articles that were particularly relevant -- and I asked him, "Do you read the Wall Street Journal?" And he said, "Uh, well, not on a regular basis."
RUSH: Probably had to fight back laughter on that one, too.
CALLER: Right, right. So we're dealing with economic illiterates which is why it's so frustrating.
RUSH: No, you're not. No, you're not. I mean that may be true. You're dealing with authoritarian statists, quasi-Marxists.
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: You're dealing with... In reality that CBO number, that's just a technique to help them and lie sell this. They don't care what the CBO says. They know the CBO number is wrong. They know how destructive this is. This is about advancing a concept of growth of government. More and more power over people in the private sector, in their homes. This is about the destruction of the US capitalist system as it exists. Because these people think it's immoral. They think it's unjust. They think it's fun fair. Now, this Democratic House of Representatives is the farthest fringe radical left that this country has ever seen, particularly the majority. There have always been some of these type radicals in the House, but they've never run the thing. Now they are. And one of them is in the White House as well. This guy is no more interested in the truth... This staffer you spoke to, he's no more interested in the truth... He'll talk to you make you think he's concerned about the truth. He doesn't care. Van Hollen was going to vote yes on this no matter what. You coulda told Van Hollen that this vote will set off a nuclear detonation somewhere around the world and he'd still vote for it.
CALLER: (chuckles) Rush, can I tell you one more story related to this?
RUSH: Yeah, sure.
CALLER: Back in April I went to the tea party in Washington across from the White House and I happened to strike up a conversation with a gentleman standing near me. It turns out he's with the EPA, and I said to him, "Well, tell me what you think about carbon credits." He rolled his eyes and said he learned a long time ago to be skeptical of his own agency's modeling. And I asked him, "Well, why don't you be a whistleblower?" He said, "You know, I've seen what happens to people so I'm just going to lay low and try to keep people honest." I just wanted to share that with you.
RUSH: Yaw, well, and there has been a guy that submitted a report, what was his name, Carlin I think, it was. I have a mental block. I have the story. He's been on television. He's talking about this. I'll have to find it during the break. But he did. I wouldn't call him really a whistleblower. He said inside the agency he said, "Hey, you know, the science here is not settled."
"Shut up! And don't send your e-mail to anybody else, and stop talking about it."
Look, what you ran into with Van Hollen's staff person, it's the same thing in the EPA on cap and trade. This is going to happen. It doesn't matter what the truth is. In fact, people that have the truth that can counter this are going to be censored, silenced, and shut up. Anybody who looks at all this with a Civics 101 mind-set is missing how this ballgame is being played right now. This is not about anything but the pure, unstoppable, 100% undiluted grab for power, socialist, Marx power that these people have died for. Not literally, but they have just been salivating over it since the sixties. And now they're there. And there aren't the numbers to stop them. The first chance to stop 'em is going to be 2010.
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