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RUSH: You know, Austan Goolsbee\u2019s out. He\u2019s quitting. He\u2019s gonna go back and teach, which is exciting. Here\u2019s a guy that\u2019s the fifth economic advisor to quit the Obama team. The only one of the originals left is Geithner. And so Goolsbee\u2019s going back to teach which is not encouraging. Here\u2019s a total screw up who has no clue what he\u2019s doing. He\u2019s gonna go back to the halls of academe and corrupt and pollute the minds, the young skulls full of mush, the youths of America. I\u2019ve been looking at what Carville had to say. Carville is predicting potential riots next summer if the unemployment situation doesn\u2019t change, making it clear that these are not good times for Obama. As I say, I will develop this later on as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears today, but at some point you Democrats are gonna have to make a decision. Do you stick with Obama or do you jump ship? Do you stick with Obama or do you do a Goolsbee and get out of there? <\/p>\n

Ask yourself this. Do you stick with Jimmy Carter or do you get out and protect yourself? The time\u2019s coming where it\u2019s going to be too late. The time is approaching for you Democrats, it\u2019s going to be too late or he is going to drag all of you down just as he did so many members of the House in the last election. That November 2010 election, a shellacking from the top of the ballot to the bottom of the ballot, and by that I mean down to state and local elections. I know that Democrats and socialists and liberals, you\u2019re loyal and all of this. But you have to have something to run. You have to have something to have power over. You have to have something that\u2019s worthwhile. And your careers are hanging in the balance. You Democrats, if you continue to have your careers tied to President Obama, you\u2019re not gonna have a career. You know, the Ragin\u2019 Cajun Carville has given us about 10% of what he really thinks. If he\u2019s saying what he\u2019s saying, there\u2019s 90% that he\u2019s thinking that he\u2019s not saying yet. He\u2019s worried. He\u2019s been there. “It\u2019s the economy, stupid,” was his phrase. That can come back and you could throw it right back at these guys now. <\/p>\n

So for you Democrats who are interested in protecting your own careers, you\u2019re gonna have to make a decision. You stay with this guy or do you run away from him as fast as possible? I say this as someone who supported Hillary against Obama in Operation Chaos. I have tried to help you before, and you ignored me. I did. I tried to save you from this guy. I didn\u2019t have much of a choice. I did not have much of a choice, Hillary or Obama, but look, that nomination was hers. She and Huma knew that it was hers. Huma was so depressed when all that happened, she married Weiner. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you, folks, particularly you Democrats out there, as one who has not only supported Hillary, but I urged this audience to support Hillary in Operation Chaos, and they did. I have tried to help you out before. I mean you\u2019re trying to pick our candidates for us, and we appreciate it. And I\u2019m trying to return the favor. But if you Democrats, and I\u2019m talking about elected officials, I understand I don\u2019t have much of a chance here persuading you but I wanted to get it on the table and let you know that I know that you are thinking about it. I know that you know that this can\u2019t go on, that you\u2019re not gonna have a career if this stewardship, if this destruction of the once great United States economy continues unabated, you\u2019re nowhere. What are you gonna have control over?<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I tell you, no matter where you look, you see news that makes you ask, “Can we really recover from this?” “The federal government…” USA Today: “The federal government\u2019s financial condition deteriorated rapidly last year, far beyond the $1.5 trillion in new debt taken on to finance the budget deficit, a USA Today analysis shows. The government added $5.3 trillion in new financial obligations in 2010, largely for retirement programs such as Medicare and Social Security. That brings to a record $61.6 trillion the total of financial promises not paid for,” unfunded liabilities. <\/p>\n

This comes to over $500,000 per American household: $61.3 trillion. In 2008, just to show you how fast this is adding up, 2008 the total of unfunded liabilities for Social Security and Medicare was $53 trillion. Today it\u2019s $62.6 trillion. This election coming up is, in fact, about liberty versus tyranny. This is about the private sector versus big government, market system versus socialism. There has never been an election more focused on the revival versus the death of a great nation than this election coming up. That\u2019s what\u2019s at stake, and that\u2019s why I\u2019m suggesting many of you Democrats, you may want to start flying the coop early.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: My friends, $61.6 trillion in unfunded liabilities! Whatever story we see about Social Security running out of money in ten years or Medicare\/Medicaid running out of money in ten years? They\u2019re outta money now: $61.6 trillion unfunded liabilities. It\u2019s a USA Today story that this news comes from — and, by the way, it\u2019s $534,000 per household. That\u2019s the sum total of the debt: $534,000 per American household. Now, that number, $534,000 is more than five times what Americans have borrowed for everything else: Mortgages, automobile loans, other debt. Five times. Unfunded liabilities: $61.6 trillion is what the people who work in this country are obligated to pay those who will retire, is the way to look at this. Nothing\u2019s real! <\/p>\n

We haven\u2019t had this money for a long time. We don\u2019t have this money now. Now, coincidentally Social Security and Medicare are the two programs that the Democrats are dead set against changing even one iota — and the USA Today story about the $61.6 trillion in unfunded liabilities, was based on, quote, “a little-known audited financial report of the federal government.” So why is so little known? Oh, by the way, guess what we found going through an audit of the federal government here? Look at this: $61.6 trillion, unfunded liabilities! And that doesn\u2019t include all the unfunded pension plans in the states for public sector employees. This is just Social Security and Medicare. <\/p>\n

You know, this election coming up is all about the private sector versus big government, market system versus socialism. It might be accurate to say that there has never been an election more focused on objectives either going to be the revival of a great nation or the death of a great nation than this one coming up. Have you noticed many of Obama\u2019s sentences begin with “No longer can America,” blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Now, usually he delivers these sentences overseas. “No longer can America… No longer can America…” So the question that I\u2019d like I to ask to all of you liberals (and I know you\u2019re out there — you know you\u2019re here. I know you\u2019re here. You\u2019re here every day.) On what basis does Obama deserve reelection? <\/p>\n

On what basis has Obama earned your vote? On what basis? Of all the things that this regime has done, what is it that you want more of? What is it that\u2019s making everybody so ecstatically happy or supremely content that you want more of it? You know, the popular reelection slogan: “Four more years” of this? What do we want four more years of? I can\u2019t think of a single thing that we want four more years of from this administration. Maybe four more years of Anthony Weiner, but I don\u2019t know. There\u2019s nothing that would recommend reelection. This guy is “landslidable defeatable,” as I have been saying now for weeks, almost into months on this program.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Grant, Tulsa, Oklahoma. I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. You\u2019re next on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I want to know if you know of anybody — particularly somebody who isn\u2019t on the national stage in the past or whatever — that could maybe beat Obama in a primary.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hillary.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, that\u2019s what I was thinking, too. I\u2019ll tell you who I like, and I never heard his name mentioned on the national stage, and that\u2019s my former governor of Oklahoma, Brad Henry.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Brad Henry? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You think Brad Henry could beat Obama in the Democrat primary?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I don\u2019t know whether he could or not, but I liked him. He did a good job, and he did it scandal free.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Is he a Democrat?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir. For eight years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s a Democrat. Scandal free. Hmm.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, he was in just before this lady that\u2019s in now, Mary Fallin. She\u2019s a Republican. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But he did it for eight years up until this past January.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, what makes you think that Obama\u2019s gonna have a primary challenger anyway?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, that\u2019s what I\u2019m afraid of. I voted for him holding my nose, but I\u2019m not very happy about it, and I would just as soon maybe take a chance on somebody else.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You ever think about maybe voting for a Republican?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, ummm, not — not for some of the ones that have run, right? (laughing) <\/p>\n

RUSH: If you don\u2019t like Obama, you know, it doesn\u2019t matter which Democrat you get in there. Nothing\u2019s gonna change. They all believe this garbage.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Okay, it\u2019s come to this, folks. Disgruntled Democrats in Oklahoma are calling me asking me for suggestions to alternatives to Obama. Why don\u2019t you just vote Republican? Why are you worried — (laughing) — not quite ready for that. Obviously. <\/p>\n

Dennis, Shreveport, Louisiana, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I enjoy your show immensely when I get a chance to listen to it —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and you are the man. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And your detractors, as far as I\u2019m concerned, can all go to Haiti, you know what I\u2019m saying?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I do. I actually do.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The liberals I\u2019ve met in my life have the personality of a rock. They\u2019re really not even human it seems half the time.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I can understand that, plus with me, you know, you\u2019re dealing with someone who uses the voice as a work of art. It\u2019s just hard to compete with.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The point I\u2019m trying to make is Obama or President Obama — I\u2019ll show him respect even though the Democrats or liberals wouldn\u2019t show George Bush respect, or the office respect, I should say — President Obama said that the previous two months the last month they created two million jobs. Well, if unemployment is 400,000 a week for those eight weeks, that\u2019s 3.2 million, so he actually lost 1.2 million jobs. That\u2019s how I see it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. I applaud you for wasting the time to do the math on this. The idea that this regime has created two million jobs over any period of time, I mean it\u2019s an exercise in the absurd. This is pure spin. They just go out and say it \u2019cause they know the stenographers in the State-Controlled Media will report it. I think it\u2019s absurd.<\/p>\n

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