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BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH:L A lot of things have me ticked off today. In fact, I've been ticked off all week. You've probably have picked up on that. I'm ticked off at things out there. I'm ticked off at FedEx, ticked off at incompetence in general. I'm really ticked off about this idea that you and me and so forth are kook fringe people, as though the Democrat Party and Barack Obama represent the center. What is the center of American politics? Obamacare? The vast majority of the American people don't want it, and more people are joining that group every...

Dingy Harry Lays Groundwork for Next Shutdown October 30, 2013 by Rush Limbaugh RUSH: The Democrats are already planning the next government shutdown. I have it right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers."President Barack Obama’s top ally on Capitol Hill sayshe won’t support any attempt this year to ease across-the-board spending cuts hitting the Pentagon and domestic agenciesif it fails to include new revenues." Translated: Dingy Harry says,"We're not doing anything with the next budget showdownunless we get a tax increase." "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made the declaration on the eve of the first official meeting of a...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Grab audio sound bite number 18. This is on Ryan Seacrest's radio show yesterday. It's Kanye West. WEST: There's no way that Kim Kardashian shouldn't be on the cover of Vogue. She's like the most intriguing woman. Right now Barbara Walters is calling her every day. Of course we're the most interesting. Nobody's looking at what Obama is wearing, nobody's -- Michelle Obama can't Instagram a pic like what my girl Instagram. RUSH: Now, we've all been sitting around waiting for the turning point here, and a lot of people think that Obama's in the middle of...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Here's Deborah in North Carolina. I'm glad you waited. Great to have you on the program. Hi. CALLER: It's an honor, Rush. RUSH: Thank you. CALLER: My question is about Obamacare, for people who have health insurance already. RUSH: Yeah. CALLER: And they already have a pre-existing condition. If dropped from their insurance company, then let's say Obamacare goes away, will they be able to get health insurance from a private company again? RUSH: Well, if I understand it, the question is what does a privately insured person with a pre-existing condition do if they're dropped and...

Rush Limbaugh: “You’ve got to make sure that when it fails, the right people get blamed, and this is what Obama can’t even do. You have to competently, in an evil mastermind kind of way, design the failure so that it looks like it’s the fault of who? The insurance companies, the hospitals, the doctors, the pharmacies, and, of course, the Republicans. Everybody EXCEPT government.”

October 24, 2013 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: For those of us who take as long as we can to pay our taxes, October 15th was the extension filing date for 2012, and I dutifully was in there. My accountant, who is almost afraid to be my accountant because he thinks he's gonna get targeted, too, just 'cause his name's on my return, he said, "Look, you may not know this, but you keep talking about these Obamacare fines if you don't buy a policy. Do you know that under the law --" and I had to go look it up. Not...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Last night on Breitbart this came in over the transom. Try this headline: "Experts Conclude: Limbaugh Plan Better than Obama's Stimulus." And I said, "My gosh, who remembers that? That's five years ago." And Joel Pollak writing in Breitbart: "In 2009, at the height of debate about President Barack Obama's stimulus plan, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh proposed a compromise in the pages of the Wall Street Journal that would have devoted half the stimulus to tax cuts. Now, a new working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) concludes that Limbaugh was right, at...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Here's Therese in Detroit. Therese, glad you called. Great to have you. Open Line Friday. Hi. CALLER: Hi. How are you? RUSH: Superb. How are you? CALLER: Well, our accountant came in today for a visit, and we always talk about Obamacare, and he told us that he got a letter from Blue Cross/Blue Shield. He lives in North Carolina, but he does business in both states, and for him and his wife and two kids, the premium went from $800 a month up to $1700 a month, and his deductible went from $3,000... RUSH: Whoa ho!...

Rush Limbaugh: GOP ‘so irrelevant’ By: Mackenzie Weinger October 16, 2013 02:25 PM EDT Rush Limbaugh on Wednesday blasted the Republican Party as “irrelevant” and responsible for “creating one of the greatest political disasters” he’s ever seen. “I was trying to think earlier today, if ever in my life I could remember any major political party being so irrelevant,” the conservative radio host said on his show, according to a transcript. “I have never seen it. I have never seen a major political party simply occupy placeholders, as the Republican Party is doing.” Limbaugh slammed the Republican Party for consistently...

RUSH: I want to go back to the lady on the phone who says this doesn’t feel right. What’s happening here to the country just doesn’t feel right. You know what’s happened here? You know what this feels like, folks? I’ll tell you exactly what it feels like to me. You tell me if this isn’t close. It feels like we’ve lost a war to a communist country. It’s almost like there’s been a coup. There’s been a peaceful coup. The media has led this coup, and the Democrats have taken over with popular support. We’re getting policies and implementations...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill-seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plain. Rush Limbaugh and the EIB Network, and the Limbaugh Institute For Advanced Conservative Studies. Great to be with you, folks. We are coming to you today from Los Angeles. We're here all week long, came out over the weekend. It's just a nice little change of pace, a couple super secret meetings and so forth and some people to see that we haven't seen in a while. We'll be out here in our secret basement confines for the balance of the busy broadcast week....

Let's just get into this NBC/Wall Street Journal poll that just totally turned Washington upside down yesterday....The poll that shows the Republicans literally getting killed over the government shutdown... Now, keep in mind just two days ago there was an AP poll that showed Obama at 37% and we're still hearing crickets over that poll. People have looked at the internals of the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, and it's 800 people. The spread of Democrat to Republican is 43 32. So 43% in the poll are Democrats, 32% are Republicans. That's an 11 point difference there. That's not representative at...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: So Bo Snerdley walks into my compound here, broadcast facility, oh, I guess about an hour ago. And he's somewhat stuttering, trying to pay me a compliment. He says, "How did you... I mean, well, I know you know, but how did you... how did you..." I said, "What are you talking about?" "How did you know we were winning this?" He had just seen the AP story with Obama's approval rating at 37%. Grab sound bite number two. Barack Obama's approval rating at 37%. That fact is in an AP story. Would you like to hear...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: This next story comes to us from the San Jose Mercury News and there are two people in this story about whom I would like to tell you. Tom Waschura is a father of two. He is an Obama supporter and was an Obamacare supporter. And then Cindy Vinson is another. "Cindy Vinson and Tom Waschura are big believers in the Affordable Care Act. They vote independent and are proud to say they helped elect and re-elect President Barack Obama." Now folks, as I get into this, I want to mention to you that these are the...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Tim in Jefferson, South Dakota, I guess. Welcome to the program. Great to have you. CALLER: Well, thank you for taking my call, Rush. I really appreciate it. RUSH: You bet. CALLER: On this health care plan I've got a question. I make around $52,000 a year, and I will end up paying $455 a month per month for health care on the Obama plan. RUSH: Have you run that out for 12 months what that's gonna cost you a year? CALLER: Over $5,000 a year. RUSH: Yeah, and you make 52, five grand a year for...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Well, the government shutdown continues, and the media is continuing to have a field day with it all, and, as discussed yesterday, the media is really the problem here, folks. I mean, the Democrats are who they are, and we know that. Obama's who he is, and we know that. Harry Reid is who he is, and we know that. Pelosi's who she is, and we know that. And we've known this for years. There's really not a whole lot to be told anymore about them; everybody knows. Well, maybe, I mean the low-information crowd. The low-information...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Greetings, my friends, and welcome to what the Democrat Party is considering its opening move in the 2014 campaign: a government shutdown that looms in front of all of us. It's the latest, and it is the next Democrat Party campaign move. It is felt and it's being covered by the media totally in historical ways. It is not being adapted to anything really happening. If I were to tell you that I don't even know what really is happening here, I probably would be more honest than not. You know, I've been doing this for 25...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Carrie in Kalispell, Montana, it's great to have you. You're up first on the Rush Limbaugh program today. Hello. CALLER: Hi, Rush. How are you? RUSH: Well, despite the way it sounds, I'm actually pretty rotten. CALLER: (laughing) RUSH: No, I'm okay. I'm fine. I'm good. I'm good. CALLER: I'm rotten, but before I get on to that, I just want to tell you how much I appreciate you and keeping me informed. I literally crave hearing the truth, and the only way I can get it is to turn on your program. RUSH: Well, thank you...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Again this morning, the esteemed leader, Barack Obama, went out to some community college in the Washington area, somewhere in Maryland, to sell Obamacare. He went out there to tout the glories of Obamacare. Now, why? When Ted Cruz gets up, makes a speech about it, everybody says, "Come on, Ted, sit down. It's the law of the land." Well, what's Obama doing? It's the law of the land. Why is Obama out touting this? But I have an even better question, ladies and gentlemen, and it's this. Why didn't Obama tell Congress a couple of weeks...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I have received e-mails today from people who have heard about West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin. What Joe Manchin has said today is that he might break ranks from the Democrats and vote for a funding measure that delays the individual mandate. Now, the employer mandate has been delayed until 2015, but the individual mandate has not been. The employers got a one-year waiver from being required to provide insurance for their employees. But the individual citizen is still required, mandated to have insurance, or pay a fine. And Manchin has said that he is willing to...