{"id":29673,"date":"2008-06-25T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:40:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T03:40:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:40:26","slug":"who_do_democrats_care_about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/06\/25\/who_do_democrats_care_about\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Do Democrats Care About?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: I know who\u2019s driving up fuel prices, and it\u2019s not speculators, and it\u2019s not Big Oil, and it\u2019s not OPEC. Folks, there\u2019s one group of people that\u2019s very happy about these prices being high. Do you know who they are? The American left, the Democrat Party. They\u2019re very happy about this. And their candidate, Obama, doesn\u2019t have any interest in lowering these prices. Anything that comes up, any suggestion that\u2019s made, ‘Ah, that won\u2019t work soon enough. The gas tax suspension? No, no, no, no. That\u2019s a silly idea. Drilling for more oil? No, that\u2019s not going to solve the price today. No, no, no.\u2019 Whatever is proposed, ‘No, no, no! We can\u2019t do it.\u2019 The Democrat Party is actively opposed to prices coming down. Therefore, it is they driving them up. <\/p>\n

It is they who are taking steps to make sure these prices remain high. You know, they\u2019ve always wanted high gasoline prices, if you think about it. They\u2019ve always been touting mass transit. They\u2019re just into control. They are anti-capitalist for the most part. The leftists in the Democrat Party are. They\u2019re anti-liberty. They want as much control over society as possible. That\u2019s their power. So what are they accomplishing here? Well, they\u2019re driving up fuel prices. They\u2019ve always wanted to drive up fuel prices as a way of creating dissatisfaction in the suburbs and rural areas of the country. I look at this. You look at a map of the states that are designated with red states and blue states. You look at the red states and you look at the blue states, and you\u2019ll find out very quickly that the vast majority of Democrat voters live in big cities. They already have mass transit. They\u2019re not that concerned with individual gas prices. <\/p>\n

Some, yes, but when you get into these red state areas, you look at some of these cities and you\u2019ll find mass transit is not that big a deal. Most people are using their cars. These are largely Republican areas of the country. Look at the map. It\u2019s where most of the middle- and upper middle-class live in this country, in suburbs. And I am convinced that the Democrats and Obama and the leftists want as many people upset with capitalism and upset with American business and corporate life as possible. I think they want you — and I do mean you in this audience — I think they\u2019re trying to frustrate you all to hell. I think they want you demanding government to fix this. I think they want you so fit to be tied at the usual suspects, be it Big Oil, the speculators, the commodities market, some massive unseen corporate entity that nobody can control. They want us coming to them. They want you — Barack and his gang want you — crawling on your hands and knees to them to fix this. <\/p>\n

They want you upset with capitalism. They want you upset with Big Business. They want you demanding more government. This is a direct assault on the Republican heartland. Now, everybody pays higher fuel prices, I understand. But in the cities, there is far less reliance on automobiles, obviously. I\u2019m not being conspiratorial here. But you have to believe, if the Democrat constituency, which is made up of largely of two economic extremes… The Democrat constituency is made up of the very wealthy and mostly poor people. That\u2019s the Democrat constituency: very wealthy and mostly poor people. If those people were whining and moaning and so forth, you can damn well believe something will be done about it. But when the Democrats view that most of the suffering is being done in Republican, suburban red state areas, they are more than happy for you to continue suffering in Republican red state areas because they want you mad at your own party. <\/p>\n

They want you mad at capitalism. They want you mad at conservatism. They want you asking government for help. I mean these people jump to spend $150 billion on a so-called economic stimulus, which heavily favors the poor. They jump to spend $300 billion on a mortgage plan that mostly helps their constituency. Not exclusively, but largely. So here comes the stimulus plan. That\u2019s to help the poor, their $300 billion mortgage bailout, that helps the rich and their constituency. They will spend endlessly for the poor and the wealthy, but they love sticking it to the middle class, because the middle class is paying for all of this, having to deal with the consequence of liberal policies. And yes, I know there\u2019s some Democrats in the middle class. You people better wake up and understand: You are paying the freight for your party leaders to really salve the grease on the hands of the very poor and the very rich, because that\u2019s who they really care about — while pretending, of course, to love you. <\/p>\n

They extend unemployment insurance frequently, but most Americans are actually working. A large number of them live in the suburbs, and it is they who are being targeted by these policies; targeted to pay more taxes, targeted to pay higher fuel prices because of their reliance on the car. They are targeted to change their lifestyles with global warming. It is about control. It is about dispiriting largely suburban voters who are Republican. Let me be blunt. If I haven\u2019t been blunt enough, let me be blunt here. The Democrats and liberals are targeting the red states of this country, suburbs and rural areas for the most part by transferring more and more of their wealth to the blue areas; the cities, the inner suburbs; inner cities, if you will. These people are very, very serious about their intentions, and the Republicans and the pseudo-conservative intelligentsia have no idea what\u2019s going on or how to even battle this. They\u2019re just clueless as to what\u2019s happening. They\u2019re dancing around the edges while the liberals and Democrats are going for our throats. We\u2019ve got Nancy Pelosi now openly advocating the Fairness Doctrine in a meeting with Human Events yesterday and some other reporters. <\/p>\n

Anyway, let me grab a couple phone calls here before we go to the break, and I really appreciate all of you waiting patiently out there. We\u2019ll start in Batavia, New York. This is Scott. Thank you, sir, and hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, what\u2019s up? Onshore dittos from the ‘Vampire State\u2019 of New York.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The ‘Vampire State,\u2019 yes, thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, they suck our blood. (laughter) <\/p>\n

RUSH: I understand.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you\u2019re hot today. I gotta say, I don\u2019t even… My original point was that the clause in the Constitution about cruel and unusual punishment —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Eighth Amendment, yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right, the Eighth Amendment. The thing that most people miss is the word ‘and.\u2019 Did you know that in France, they gave people the guillotine until 1938? Was that cruel? Yeah, it was. Was it unusual? No. That\u2019s what they did all the time. It\u2019s gotta be cruel ‘and\u2019 unusual. Not one or the other.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, it doesn\u2019t say and\/or.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, it\u2019s ‘and.\u2019 ‘And\u2019 is a word. You know, Rush, you always say words mean things.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, but to the modern-day leftist on the Supreme Court, that ‘and\u2019 can be used however they define it and however they choose to apply it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, ‘and\u2019 means ‘and,\u2019 doesn\u2019t it? And as far as the speculation market knows, have you ever seen the movie Trading Places?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: There you go. (chuckles)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. In fact, I just got that on Blu-ray.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Were they speculating on orange juice prices?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, they were speculating but the Dukes —<\/p>\n

CALLER: It got turned around on them, though.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But the Dukes —<\/p>\n

CALLER: It got turned on them.<\/line><\/a>RUSH: Yeah, but the Dukes had gone in there, and they had some undercover guy —<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — to get a copy of the government report on frozen orange juice futures.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But they got found out.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, no, what happened was that Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd switched the news on them.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They took out the spy, and they impersonated the spy to the Dukes in a dark parking lot, a la Watergate and Deep Throat.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Deep Throat.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And they gave them the exact opposite information. So the Dukes went in there. Yeah, that was —<\/p>\n

CALLER: And they got screwed.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — the commodities market. They lost everything.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. They got screwed. They lost everything they ever had. And as far as the whole drill or not drill?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Why go to school? Is that going to help you tomorrow if you\u2019re in kindergarten? Is it going to help me next month? Going to help me next year? No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why take your first job?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Why bother?<\/p>\n

RUSH: If your objective is to earn a hundred thousand dollars a year, why take the first job that pays you 20?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. Well, why go to school?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, why go to school.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Why go to college? It\u2019s not going to help you in one year and it\u2019s going to cost you money. So why bother?<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: If you\u2019re going to use that kind of logic.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, okay. So tell me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah?<\/p>\n

RUSH: What do you think the purpose is then? If anybody can see through this, what\u2019s Obama\u2019s point? What do they really want? They don\u2019t want drilling, do they? They do not.<\/p>\n

CALLER: What\u2019s his point? His point is he\u2019s bowing, obviously, to his constituency, who\u2019s giving them money. I really don\u2019t know what their point is because doesn\u2019t make any sense.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, it does.<\/p>\n

CALLER: How does not having more oil solve the problem of not having more oil?<\/p>\n

RUSH: What\u2019s the Democrat Party\u2019s problem? Their problem has nothing to do with oil right now. Their problem is they want the White House.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So, keeping the oil price up and keeping people dispirited about the fact that it might come down —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — then all that does as far as they\u2019re —<\/p>\n

CALLER: But that\u2019s lame. Why would you do that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Power.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I guess.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Get elected.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm. Well, that stinks.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m going to tell you something. I\u2019m going to tell you something else brutal out there, Scott, from the ‘Vampire State\u2019 of New York. There are some in the Democrat Party and many leftists in this country, who want this country hurting, who want this country cut down to size. They don\u2019t like this country; they don\u2019t like our superpower status. They think we\u2019ve stolen it from the rest of the world. They think we have raped and murdered and tortured and polluted the world in order to acquire our status, and we are guilty and it\u2019s not fair — and they think we need to be cut down. They think our society needs to suffer to pay the wages of the sins that we have committed in becoming so outlandishly large. And these leftist are really, really, really ticked off that we kicked the ass of the Soviets off the planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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