{"id":29332,"date":"2008-05-15T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:50:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T03:50:21","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:50:21","slug":"why_we_re_not_screwed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/05\/15\/why_we_re_not_screwed\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We\u2019re Not Screwed"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: I want to hit you between the eyes here. I keep hearing from people who say, &#8216;Rush, we\u2019re screwed. We are screwed, no matter what happens here. Whatever scenario you just announced, we\u2019re screwed. If McCain is the president, big-time Democrat majorities in the House and Senate, we\u2019re screwed. If Obama the president, big-time majorities in the House and Senate, we\u2019re screwed.\u2019 I don\u2019t think we\u2019re screwed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Why_We_re_Not_Screwed.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"188\" height=\"210\" class=\"alignright\"\/>If I thought we were screwed, I would retire. What would be the point here? A friend of mine runs a business. In this business he\u2019s got a lot of egos. He\u2019s got a lot of prima donnas, a lot of divas, a lot of people who think the world revolves around \u2019em and they aren\u2019t getting enough attention. He sent a memo out. &#8216;I hate negative people. Negative people make positive people sick. Don\u2019t think I\u2019m not talking about you,\u2019 he said. I don\u2019t know what the end result of that was, but I assume it shook a lot of people up. I don\u2019t like negative people, either. I used to be one. I used to look at it typical: glass half empty. When I got a massage, two minutes in I\u2019d say, &#8216;Darn it, this is going to end,\u2019 and I\u2019d spend the rest of the 58 minutes in anticipation of it ending and being disappointed, rather than sitting there and enjoying it. If I bought a new car, I\u2019d sit there, &#8216;Yeah, this is great, but someday this new car smell is not going to be here.\u2019 I used to do this. I don\u2019t anymore, for a host of reasons. <\/p>\n<p>But I can\u2019t stand being around negative people. I can\u2019t stand being around fatalists. I can\u2019t stand being around defeatists. I understand it, but at some point I lose my ability to respond to them. How many times can you say, &#8216;I\u2019m sorry you feel that way,\u2019 and what does that accomplish? I don\u2019t want to sit here, &#8216;Yeah, we\u2019re screwed. Damn it, we\u2019re really screwed! Yeah, you\u2019re right. We are so screwed. Bend over forward, backgrounds, grab the ankles. We\u2019re screwed,\u2019 and then what do you do? I\u2019ll never forget Ronald Reagan. The Soviet Union had been around since the end of World War I, and they kept asking Reagan: What are you going to do about it? He said, &#8216;If we just wait \u2019em out, they\u2019ll fail. They will collapse of their own immorality.\u2019 He gave \u2019em a little nudge, but they did collapse in their own immorality. I don\u2019t think conservatism\u2019s finished. People in the Republican Party who are not conservative running for reelection, deserve to lose. Just get rid of the dead weight and start over. Screw them!<\/p>\n<p>END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>*Note: Links to content outside RushLimbaugh.com usually become inactive over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I want to hit you between the eyes here. I keep hearing from people who say, &#8216;Rush, we\u2019re screwed. We are screwed, no matter what happens here. 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