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RUSH: Last night and today, we finally have an issue, an issue that represents a goal for the United States of America: energy independence, drilling for our own oil and our own natural gas. Finally, the president of the United States is willing to lead the charge on this. I know you can say, ‘Yeah, where has he been the last seven years?\u2019 He actually has proposed drilling in ANWR. He hasn\u2019t gone all the way, but he finally has now. Don\u2019t look a gift horse in the mouth and say, ‘Yeah, where\u2019s this been?\u2019 We finally have, ladies and gentlemen, an issue that can rally people — a simple issue that\u2019s easy to understand. This is easy to understand as the House Bank scandal was easy to understand. We don\u2019t have to explain the falling dollar, or why it\u2019s happening and how to get the dollar back up We don\u2019t have to explain. <\/p>\n

All we have to do is say: ‘Four dollar gasoline, $4.10 gasoline, $135 per barrel of oil, supply and demand.\u2019 Everybody knows that we are not bringing up as much as we have and if we brought more of our own up, the very people that are demanding energy independence are standing in the way of it… It\u2019s easy to understand. Case has been made. This is the time, just like it was during the illegal immigration debate, for elected officials in Washington to hear from you about what you think. We already have the Gallup showing 67% of the American people want to start drilling. Last night, the brilliant Barack Obama said there is no way offshore drilling will lower prices right now. The Democrat Party is digging in and they are going to oppose this. They\u2019re going to oppose energy independence; they\u2019re going to oppose advancing technology. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re going to oppose the economic growth of the country. They\u2019re going to oppose your prosperity. They\u2019re going to oppose all of that by standing in the way of this. Now, let\u2019s take this statement made by Obama: No way offshore drilling will lower prices right now. Wow, praise the sky! What brilliance! The messiah has spoken. Delivered with the authority of a great leader: There\u2019s no way offshore drilling will lower prices right now. A tingle goes up the leg of the Drive-By Media. But wait a second, wait a second. You know what, folks? There\u2019s no way alternative energy will lower prices ‘right now.\u2019 There\u2019s no way CAFE standards on automobile mileage will lower prices ‘right now.\u2019 There\u2019s no way an excess profit tax on oil companies will lower prices ‘right now.\u2019 Does he even know what he\u2019s talking about? Who\u2019s putting the words in this puppet\u2019s mouth?<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here\u2019s the president from the Rose Garden this morning announcing his change of heart on offshore drilling.<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: In the short run, the American economy will continue to rely largely on oil, and that means we need to increase supply, especially here at home. So my administration has repeatedly called on Congress to expand domestic oil production. Unfortunately, Democrats on Capitol Hill have rejected virtually every proposal, and now Americans are paying the price at the pump for this obstruction. Congress must face a hard reality: Unless members are willing to accept gas prices at today\u2019s painful levels or even higher, our nation must produce more oil, and we must start now.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He nailed it. This is exactly what the Democrats are going to do. Congress is willing to accept gas prices at today\u2019s painful levels. They are more than happy to accept gas prices at today\u2019s painful levels. And it\u2019s two reasons. One, pure politics. And I\u2019m not prioritizing these in any order. Pure politics. I mean, the angrier the voting population is over the price of gasoline and the related economic fallout, the greater the odds the Democrats think that they can get elected president. So it goes back to what we\u2019ve always said: What\u2019s bad for America is great for the Democrats. What\u2019s great for America is bad for the Democrats. So they\u2019re going to dig in, they\u2019ve already started to dig in to oppose this. They want you in pain, \u2019cause they want your anger directed at the administration, therefore you\u2019ll want change, which is the Democrats. Here\u2019s another sound bite from the president.<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: First, we should expand American oil production by increasing access to the Outer Continental Shelf, or OCS. Second, we should expand oil production by tapping into the extraordinary potential of oil shale. Third, we should expand oil production by permitting exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or ANWR. And finally, we need to expand and enhance our refining capacity. Refineries are the critical link between crude oil and the gasoline and diesel fuel that drivers put in their tanks.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See how easy this is? There are people like me and you, ladies and gentlemen, who have been desperately wanting this to become not only our movement\u2019s policy, but our country\u2019s policy for years. Every time we have heard Democrats whine and moan about energy dependence, every time prices of gasoline have spiked and they do hearings on windfall profits of Big Oil, there\u2019s a solution to this. Then we hear Obama say, ‘No drilling for oil, why, that\u2019s just sticking to the failed policies of the past.\u2019 The failed policies of the past! What? The discovery and the drilling and the extraction, refining, and the distribution of petroleum products is a failed policy of the past? What, pray tell, is his new policy of the future? Nothing that\u2019s going to pay off any time soon. He sits there and says, ‘Well, drilling ain\u2019t going to reduce prices any time soon, not right now.\u2019 Nothing that these people are proposing will, either. <\/p>\n

You could put all those stupid compact fluorescent lightbulbs you can find in your house, it\u2019s not going to produce any more energy and it\u2019s not going to reduce the price of gasoline. And you can unplug your cell phone charger and your toaster and computer and whatever else. You could put solar panels on your lawn mower. You could put solar panels on your house. You could put solar panels on the roof of your hybrid; it isn\u2019t going to make gasoline any cheaper. You can put windmills wherever you don\u2019t want them. It ain\u2019t going to make gasoline any cheaper. There is no substitute for oil, and there isn\u2019t going to be any time soon. So this whole notion that we\u2019re not going to be able to lower the price any time soon by drilling, not gonna get lower prices right now, nothing else that the people are proposing will do so, either. One more from the president and then Senator McCain will chime in.<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: I know the Democratic leaders have opposed some of these policies in the past.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Some?<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: Now that their opposition has helped drive gas prices to record levels, I asked them to reconsider their positions.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ha.<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: If congressional leaders leave for their Fourth of July recess without taking action, they will need to explain why four-dollar-a-gallon gasoline is not enough incentive for them to act. Americans will rightly ask how high gas prices have to rise before the Democrat-controlled Congress will do something about it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Whatever the price is on January 20th next year, when Obama is elected president is when they\u2019ll start caring about it, or inaugurated, if he is. The Democrats have already dug in. They do have a reply to this. They\u2019ve got their talking points and they\u2019re lying through their teeth about it. And you may have heard it. Bill Nelson of Florida, one of, ahem, my senators, is out there saying that, (paraphrasing) ‘Hey, the federal government\u2019s already leased a whole bunch of land to the big oil companies; they\u2019re not even using it.\u2019 It\u2019s such a smoke screen, the number of years left on these leases is very few, and the whole thing is a lie anyway. I have the figures to prove it. We\u2019ll get to this as it all unfolds here before your very eyes and ears. Yesterday in Houston, McCain went down to talk to Big Oil execs. He gave a speech on energy and conservation. Here is the first of two portions.<\/p>\n

MCCAIN: We have proven oil reserves of at least 21 billion barrels in the United States, but a broad federal moratorium stands in the way of energy exploration and production, and I believe it is time for the federal government to lift these restrictions and put our own reserves to use. (cheers and applause) <\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, all right, all right, drill here, drill now, pay less. Drill here. Drill now. Pay less. Folks, this is the issue. It\u2019s not the equivalent of going to the moon, but it is close. This is a goal, a national goal, to become energy independent. We have the crude. We have the supply. We have it. We just have to go get it. And you don\u2019t get it by sitting around waiting. You gotta take the first step. In building anything, it takes time. So this is something to rally the people behind. We\u2019ve got the tipping point here, four dollar a gallon gasoline, and it\u2019s going to be great because the Democrats are going to oppose this. They\u2019re going to stand in the way of it. They\u2019re going to be easy to caricature. It will be easy to explain to people. This is not a complicated issue at all. Here\u2019s the second McCain bite.<\/p>\n

MCCAIN: He wants a windfall profits tax on oil. (crowd booing) To go along with the new taxes he also plans for coal and natural gas. (crowd booing) My friends, if the plan sounds familiar, it\u2019s because that was President Jimmy Carter\u2019s big idea, too. (crowd booing) And a lot of good it did us.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s right about that. He\u2019s ripping off my Jimmy Carter line. I don\u2019t care. It\u2019s accurate, it\u2019s correct, and he\u2019s telling the truth about Obama. He wants to raise taxes on all these things. The more you tax an activity, the less of that activity you get. It\u2019s just that simple, proven by years and years and years of human existence. Here is Obama. This is aboard his campaign plane, he\u2019s trying to paint McCain here as a flip-flopper while he has on his staff the original flip-flopper, John Kerry, who served in Vietnam. Here\u2019s Obama, first of two.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: This is yet another reversal by John McCain in terms of his earlier positions, and I think we could set up an interesting debate between John McCain 2000 and John McCain 2008.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me help out here, Senator Obama. If you say no to offshore drilling or drilling in ANWR when oil is at $20 or $30 a barrel, and then you change your mind and say yes to offshore drilling when oil is $140 a barrel, sir, that\u2019s not a flip-flop. That\u2019s just common sense. It\u2019s like John Maynard Keynes, the famous economist, was asked, ‘Sir, how come you\u2019ve changed your mind?\u2019 He said, ‘Sir, when the facts change, I change my mind.\u2019 The facts have changed here. Oil is no longer $30 a barrel, it\u2019s $140. It\u2019s now profitable to get the shale oil the president was talking about. This is not a flip-flop. What we have here, the ‘No-Drill Democrats\u2019 — and that\u2019s a good name for these, the No-Drill Democrats, unless a waitress is involved — are on a crash course not to meet our energy needs. They are in a full-court press to cover their rear ends. This is almost, not quite, but similar to what\u2019s happening in Iraq. Last year at this time and the year before that, the Democrats were openly embracing defeat, saying our troops couldn\u2019t win, they had no chance, we were fighting an unjust war, we need pull out, we need to lose, and Harry Reid was saying we already have lost. <\/p>\n

Now we\u2019ve done a 180 and all of a sudden the news out of Iraq is good, but Democrats don\u2019t dare admit it. Same thing\u2019s happening here with the price of oil, energy independence. They continually are on the wrong side of every major issue facing this country and its growth and its future. So the no-drill Democrats are doing everything they can to cover their rears here, not meet our energy needs. As the law of supply and demand jacks up prices, as more voters realize they\u2019re paying the price for liberal special interests, as the polls swing in favor of more drilling, which they are doing, the last refuge of liberals is always Barbra Streisand, BS. They pop up on television, they smile, they say drilling will not lower prices now. Nothing will right now. There\u2019s not one thing we could do to lower prices right now. ANWR alone won\u2019t make us energy independent for more than six months. Nobody ever said that it would. But I\u2019ll tell you what, just this announcement, just the announcement of this initiative, I\u2019m going to be curious to see what goes on in the speculation market, in the futures market, I\u2019m going to be interested to see how it affects the overall market. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ll guarantee you that if the Democrats ever got wise and went along with this and we lift the executive order that prohibits offshore drilling, you watch what happens to the price of oil, once the world knows that the United States of America is going to go get it, because the rest of the world knows we\u2019re the ones who did it; we\u2019re the ones who know how; that with the right leadership, the United States of America is the country on this planet that can do anything it wants for the good of the rest of the people who live on this planet. They know it, they resent it, and they fear it, as do the Democrats. Democrats don\u2019t like us being this big. They don\u2019t like us being a superpower. They think it creates victims in the rest of the world; we need to be cut down to size. This issue fits perfectly. So actually I\u2019d like to amend. We could probably have a fairly immediate effect on price just by announcing our intention to start drilling. Democrats are saying that there are drilling leases out there. Is it, what, millions of acres? Well, the leases are too short-term to allow for EPA rules and test drilling. So then they blame it on Big Oil or Big Speculators or Big Bush or Big Cheney. They blame it on everything but themselves, and their no-drill, no-refine, no-nuclear-plant policies, and that\u2019s exactly who they are: the no-drill, no-refine, no-nuclear-plant Democrats. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Barack Obama and the Democrat Party are out there suggesting that drilling for oil off the coastline of the United States and at ANWR is nothing more than ‘the failed policies of the past.\u2019 Can I be honest with you and tell you what the failed policies of the past are? In 1988, New York governor Mario Cuomo shut down a nuclear plant. That is a failed policy of the past. In 1996, the delightful, the wonderful, the roguish Bill Clinton vetoed exploration and drilling in ANWR. That is a failed policy of the past. Both of those are failed policies of the past. Changing from these failed policies of the past would be to un-fail the failures, to dis-fail the failures. Building nuclear plants, opening ANWR — and then we could sue Cuomo and Clinton for malpractice, political malpractice, for gumming up the works. I\u2019ll tell you something else. How many times have you heard, ladies and gentlemen, that immigrants made us great? We\u2019ve heard that a lot in the last two years, right? <\/p>\n

Well, we hear it all our lives. And nobody disputes that when talking about legal immigration. But let me tell you what made us greater. You know what really made us greater? Petroleum. Oil. (interruption) Don\u2019t grimace in there, Dawn. I\u2019m not talking about greater as individuals of character. I\u2019m talking about what propelled this country. It was a number of forces coming together: the establishment of a worldwide Navy, which was not possible without petroleum. Petroleum made us greater. You don\u2019t have to be a Nostrademus — and I know it\u2019s Nostra-damus; I\u2019m saying Nostra-demus — to see that reality will get us off the dime and produce the energy we need. The only question is sooner or later? Will the left help solve this now or wait until the prices at the polls cause enough voters to throw them out of office, which is entirely possible. But I, ladies and gentlemen, don\u2019t just come here and flap the gums. I don\u2019t just come here and utter meaningless syllables. <\/p>\n

I, El Rushbo, America\u2019s Real Anchorman and Truth Detector, offer solutions, and I have a solution to this to get the Democrats on board. Have you heard of the Countrywide Six led by Chris Dodd of the banking committee and Kent Conrad, Richard Holbrooke, and a bunch of other Democrats who got sweetheart loans from Countrywide, the mortgage lender? Sometimes they paid no closing costs, lower interest rates — and, of course, they all say, ‘We had no idea!\u2019 They\u2019re now offering legislation, Dodd is, to bail out these lenders. They got a few points in their mortgage loans either for or not for their support. Here\u2019s what we do. If you want the Democrat on board the new drilling, we offer them like 50 cents for every barrel of oil from ANWR and a dime from every barrel of oil that we drill offshore. Sort of like a domestic UN oil-for-food program, we have our oil-for-our-future payola if we just give enough Democrats what they\u2019re used to, graft and bribes, of a small amount per barrel, I\u2019ll bet we can get \u2019em on board, ladies and gentlemen.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: We\u2019ve got one more audio sound bite here from Barack Obama as we conclude our little discussion here on the president\u2019s proposal today to lift the executive order prohibiting drilling and exploration off the continental shelf and in ANWR. This is Obama yesterday aboard his campaign plane.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: The most optimistic assumptions indicate that offshore drilling might reduce the overall world price of oil by a few cents. So this is not something that\u2019s going to give consumers short-term relief, and it is not a long-term solution to our problems.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The guy is an idiot! He is just an idiot. He is locked into this position because he\u2019s a leftist, radical Democrat. Have you ever noticed…? Who is it that really makes things happen in this country? It\u2019s the entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs of all stripes, all sizes, create business of all sizes. They\u2019re a wide range. And who is it that always sets out to punish them and destroy them? Liberals, the American left! Absolutely right, Brian. I could read your lips in there. Good going. What does Obama want? Barack Obama wants you to suffer. Barack Obama wants higher prices on fuel. right now. Barack Obama wants a windfall profits tax. right now. Barack Obama wants to raise your income taxes, by the way, right now. He wants to raise capital gains taxes, right now. He wants to raise Social Security taxes, right now. Obama wants you to suffer. The Democrat Party wants you in pain. They want you angry, and they are willing to block any remedy to this problem in order to keep you suffering and in pain and angry. Obama wants prices up, he wants your income down, and he wants taxes up, ladies and gentlemen. <\/p>\n

This business, ‘The most optimistic assumptions indicate that offshore drilling might reduce the overall world price by a few cents\u2019? He\u2019s getting that from Chuck Schumer, but Chuck Schumer is contradicting himself. The world\u2019s going nuts here over the fact the Saudis are going to pump an additional 800,000 barrels a day. ANWR would give us a million — and everybody is talking of 30 to 40 dollars a barrel off the market price if we could just add a million barrels. But nobody is saying cents except the Democrats. So Obama says, ‘Offshore drilling will only save a few cents; repealing the gas tax, ah, that will only save a few cents; offshore drilling, ah, it will only save a few cents; ANWR, ah, it will only save a few cents.\u2019 Everything is only a few cents. How much does changing your lightbulb save, Obama? Here\u2019s a Democrat talking point on this, a montage. This is Senator Barbara Boxer, Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Senator Bill Nelson of Florida, and Representative Peter DeFazio, a Democrat from Oregon.<\/p>\n

BOXER: Bet you didn\u2019t know that there are 31 million acres leased in the Gulf of Mexico that the oil companies have not drilled.<\/p>\n

MCCASKILL: The oil companies have 68 million acres already under lease they\u2019re not using. So why just give them more acres?<\/p>\n

NELSON: We have 68 million acres that can be drilled.<\/p>\n

DEFAZIO (screaming): Come on, guys! They are not developing what they have now! There\u2019s 20 years\u2019 supply out there! They haven\u2019t developed it!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, even if this is true — and it isn\u2019t — could we ask all of you Democrats why? Could it be you? Could it be that there are so many ridiculous, stupid environmental obstacles in their way? Could it be that there are so many taxes weighting upon them put in place by you? Could it be that you are the ones impeding them? But I don\u2019t even accept the premise. Hear are the numbers. As you just heard, the congressional Democrats are claiming that the oil companies are sitting on millions of acres and are not tapping federal leases they own. Here are some facts for you on this, and this is from the Institute for Energy Research. Now, the Institute for Energy Research is the energy equivalent of the Heritage Foundation. Great people. <\/p>\n

The reality is that 97% of federal offshore areas are not leased. ‘Ninety-seven percent federal offshore areas are not leased. Ninety-four percent of federal onshore areas are not leased. Right now only 15% of the Outer Continental Shelf acreage is even available for leasing. With domestic oil production in the US declining since 2000 to the lowest level since 1947, it is clear that we need to tap more domestic oil.\u2019 The oil companies have paid money for the leases they own in addition to an annual fee. So it would make no sense to leave them dormant and not drill for oil or even test to determine what oil capabilities are there, particularly at a time of $130 oil. The companies have every incentive to explore, tap the existing leases that they have. It\u2019s just a series of lies and misrepresentations by the Democrats. <\/p>\n

They want you mad; they want you suffering. I\u2019m telling you, this is a great issue of contrast — Republicans versus Democrats, conservatives versus liberals, rightists versus leftists, however you want to put it — because it is clear who is on the side of the American people, who\u2019s on the side of independence, who\u2019s on the side of liberty, who\u2019s on the side of lower prices — and it ain\u2019t the party of the so-called little guy. It is not the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019ll start here with Mike in Bend, Oregon, great to have you with us, sir, hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you Mr. Limbaugh, it\u2019s an honor.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I\u2019m not a highly educated guy so maybe you can help me out with something. Didn\u2019t the threat of Star Wars technology from President Reagan and the showing of funding for that from Congress, didn\u2019t that start the dismantling of communism in Europe?<\/p>\n

RUSH: It was the final straw. It didn\u2019t start things. It was the final straw. You\u2019re exactly right, by the way, according to Lady Thatcher, you know, I\u2019ve spoken to her several times about this personally. I\u2019ve heard her give lectures on this and she said the Soviet Union knew that when we announced the Strategic Defense Initiative, Star Wars, they were a Third World country with a first-rate military. They could not keep up with us. They did not have the ingenuity, didn\u2019t have the entrepreneurism, they didn\u2019t have the freedom to create something like that, they could not keep up with us. What they tried to do, Gorbachev tried a bunch of things: glasnost and perestroika, tried to hold on to the communist infrastructure while granting a little freedom here and a little freedom there, and it fell apart on him.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And Star Wars technology may never have even existed, but the threat is what started that process.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly right, sir. <\/p>\n

CALLER: This may be apples and oranges, but wouldn\u2019t the solidarity of our country with the president and Congress that shows that we are going to drill, that we\u2019re going to go after our own oil, wouldn\u2019t that bring the price of oil down like tomorrow? I mean the last thing OPEC wants is for us to produce our own oil, and the fastest way for them to slow us down would be for them to drop the price of oil so that we would not be so interested in drilling for our own oil?<\/p>\n

RUSH: But, see, nobody\u2019s in charge of dropping the price of oil or raising it. Too many market prices that really make the price of oil what it is. But theoretically, I assume that, yeah, they would be very alarmed if there were much greater supply coming on the market, regardless where it came from because it is going to put downward pressure on the price. For those of you in Rio Linda, let me speak your language. It will lower the price rather than downward pressure. I also think that simply if we did unite and get congressional approval with the president, sign the legislation, yep, we\u2019re going to do this, I do think that it would immediately impact the oil markets in a positive way with a whole lot of confidence because it would mean more supply. <\/p>\n

You know, it\u2019s always the lack of supply, of necessity, that causes unease and sometimes panic, it causes disquiet, it causes nervousness. We\u2019re talking about a need here. You know, we\u2019re not talking here about a shortage of paper clips. We\u2019re talking about a shortage of supply, necessary supply, just to maintain current levels of use and even growth, oil. And that\u2019s going to make a lot of people nervous. If people figure out that the world\u2019s banding together one way or the other to go get more of it, it will no question have a very positive effect. But OPEC would not — in the first place they\u2019re not the cartel. OPEC is not the cartel that they were. Not every oil producing country is a member of OPEC. There is a cartel, but the problem is that the oil cartel today is not producing any. The oil cartel is people standing in the way of production. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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