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RUSH: So, ladies and gentlemen, for 232, 233 years on July 4th, America celebrated Independence Day. And now people rightly ask, ‘Are we headed to Dependence Day?\u2019 Not if I have anything to say about it. ‘When in the course of human events…\u2019 Seven words that started the Declaration of Independence and begot the United States of America: ‘When in the course of human events…\u2019 Independence — a single word, a glorious idea, a word that guided us and governed us for 233 years or whatever it is. Independence, liberty, freedom, independence are that which made us different from everyone else. But on this July 4th we have to give pause as we drive our RVs and go to our dog parties and eat hot dogs and hamburgers and ask ourselves, ‘Are we celebrating Independence Day or a new Dependence Day?\u2019 Dependence on government for our health, for our wealth. Ah, there won\u2019t be any wealth if you depend on anybody for it. So your meager subsistence and your well-being, dependence on government for that — and to solve our problems. General Powell said people want government to solve our problems. So we depend on government for that. <\/p>\n

Independence or dependence? <\/p>\n

The answer is written in the polls. Scary. Thirty-five, maybe 45% want dependence. It\u2019s our job — yours, mine, ours — to do everything we can to resist the false promises of dependence and to cherish the virtues of independence. And it shouldn\u2019t be that hard. We have 232 years of evidence — and as Lanny Davis would say, of ‘poof\u2019 — that independence works far better than dependence does. It\u2019s better for the individual — and as our founders foresaw, better for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But now with the unemployment numbers at nine-and-a-half percent (and no end in sight) to the plunge in the number of people working and our economic growth in negative numbers, it is safe to say that the United States is or is on the verge of becoming a banana republic. We have a president who sides with dictators in their own banana republics against people who want freedom such as in Honduras. <\/p>\n

We have a president apologizing for the supposed evils and ills of the United States of America, apologizing to the enemies of this country. We\u2019ve got the Norks firing off test missiles. We have the ChiComs suggesting that we need to do get rid of the dollar. We need a new world currency. And they are our banker. We have to listen to what the ChiComs say. So, ladies and gentlemen, on this day — the day prior to what may become Dependence Day — I ask you to stand. All of those except of you who are driving your RVs and other vehicles, I ask you to please stand for the new national anthem of the Banana Republic of the United States of America… <\/p>\n

(playing of Day-O by Harry Belafonte) <\/p>\n

From the vault of never-before-heard-nor-discovered Michael Jackson music. I wonder how many people listening to this song who never have heard it are wondering, ‘What the heck is this?\u2019 That\u2019s Harry Belafonte — best friends, I might say, with fellow dictator Hugo Chavez. In fact we have picture on our website of Belafonte with Hugo Chavez — and we also have a picture of President Obama in his youthful days with the Panama hat smoking a cigarette — to go along with the new banana republic and Day-O as our official new national anthem. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Back to the phones to College Station, Texas. Rick, I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. Mega orthodox Catholic conservative retired Texas state trooper dittos from the great state of Texas where there are more Ronaldo (sic) Magnus supporters here than his own state of California.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Probably true today, yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, before I get to my point, I learned from listening to you that if you don\u2019t ask for something, you\u2019ll never get what you want. And when I was a Texas trooper patrolling the rural roads in Texas, always listening to your program, you kept me in great company. We usually work without a partner. And I always wished and dreamt that I\u2019d have an autographed Rush Limbaugh necktie. Any chance?<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know what, I\u2019ll have to check and see if I have any. Those things haven\u2019t been in production in I don\u2019t know how many moons. I think I still have some that I wear occasionally. I saw Orrin Hatch wearing one the other day on TV, but Snerdley will get your name and address when we hang up here on the call and if I have one I\u2019ll send one to you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey thanks, Rush. Great. Hey, Rush, my question is this: As a conservative first and Republican second, there\u2019s much discussion about the so-called Republicans — such as Colin Powell, Tom Ridge, et cetera — about the need for the Republican Party to be more ‘inclusive\u2019 and to be more big tent. Rush, sincerely, how do we grow our conservative Republican base without compromising our core moral beliefs and values such as being pro-life, traditional marriage, and against reverse discrimination? What are your honest thoughts on that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think it\u2019s very easy. I don\u2019t think this is hard at all. It\u2019s the answer to how you get the Hispanic vote, or enough of it to upset the Democrats. It\u2019s the answer to how you get enough of every group. If you want to segregate voters into groups — which I think is a mistake but of course I\u2019m not a ‘professional politician.\u2019 My job is not to win elections. These people tell you, ‘No, you\u2019ve gotta identify! You\u2019ve gotta get this group and a percentage of that group voting for you, and you gotta do it with this policy,\u2019 or what have you. This is the big argument going on in the Republican Party. I know how much it irritates Democrats and a lot of Republicans to mention Reagan, so I mention Reagan often because I like irritating people — and I know why they get irritated. The blueprint for Republican Party success is all the way back in the 1980s and in 1994. It\u2019s very simple: two or three solid ideas that are understandable that can be communicated to the American people without benefit of translation from the media. <\/p>\n

But basically all you have to do — and I don\u2019t mean to make this sound simple, because it\u2019s not a simple task to achieve. But the methodology is simple. Just espouse the terms of the founding. Talk about basic humanity, freedom, liberty, pursuit of happiness, all these things. Talk about how this is what we want for every American. We want the best for every American. We don\u2019t look at you and see you as victims. We don\u2019t look at you and see you as a problem. We don\u2019t look at you with contempt as the other side does. We look at you as part of the greatest collection of human beings that\u2019s ever existed in one country, and the reason that we are exceptional is not because our DNA is different. The reason we are exceptional is precisely because we have liberty and freedom, the pursuit of happiness, enshrined in our founding documents. We had independence. We had the ability to be the best we could be as human beings — or to try to be. If we wanted to be the worst we could be, we had that freedom, too. But people had the freedom, and when you have that kind of disparity, you are going to have different outcomes. <\/p>\n

Some people are going to do better than others. That gives rise to the modern left. ‘That\u2019s just not right! That\u2019s just that\u2019s not fair. It doesn\u2019t matter how it happens, nobody should have more than anybody else. Nobody should be better than anybody else. Nobody should get more advantages than anybody else.\u2019 So the left rises up in their quest for sameness and equality, and rather than elevate people at the bottom to say, ‘Hey, you know, you can be great, too. You can be better than you think you can,\u2019 they affirm people at the lower levels as incompetent victims and so forth. They attack the people at the upper levels to try to bring them down. So they try to equalize society by making everybody equally miserable. But I believe in the basic American human instincts, even though they\u2019re not that taught anymore. I believe a full-fledged approach to the American people with somebody that has a likable personality (that\u2019s the TV age), that espouses the beauty of America, the wonderment of America, the important role that every citizen plays in it, and that everybody can be better than they can be, than they think they can be. I don\u2019t think this is difficult at all. <\/p>\n

Human beings are human beings. I don\u2019t believe, for example — it may be that way now because the Democrats have led us to this. But I don\u2019t believe that Hispanic-Americans have to be talked to in a different way than Chinese-Americans. If they\u2019re Americans, they\u2019re Americans, and they understand what it is to be an American. Now, some people may be coming here for get-rich-quick schemes and so forth. But I believe — with the decency and goodness that is the approach to this country and the belief in its citizens — that we can bring the best out of everybody. We want the best for everybody, and we don\u2019t have to appeal to people as groups. We don\u2019t have to acknowledge, ‘Well, you know, there\u2019s this middle class out there that we\u2019re ignoring and these people do want big government, and we\u2019ve gotta figure out a way to make sure that we can convince them that we\u2019re going to use the government the best way to help them.\u2019 <\/p>\n

The best way you help people deal with government is get it out of their lives! ‘But, Rush! But, Rush! What about people who need it?\u2019 That is a problem because more and more people have become dependent on government because of the efforts of the Democrat Party and the American left. But it\u2019s gotta change. If we have any hopes of changing this, we cannot accept any status quo. But so many conservatives now, so many Republicans, want to accept certain status quos as inalienable bits of evolution. ‘We can\u2019t roll back what people think about government, Rush! They want big government to help.\u2019 No. It\u2019s not good for them. It doesn\u2019t help anybody but government. <\/p>\n

Why would we want to amplify and support policies that are not good for people? We want the best for people. I don\u2019t think this would be that hard a sell, but a traditional politician with a pollster may not be able to pull it off. Anyway, this whole notion of ‘inclusive\u2019? How much more ‘inclusive\u2019 can you be, as a party, when you tell people, ‘We are for your freedom and your liberty and we want you to be the best you can be. We want you to acquire what you want. We need it. This country needs you pursuing excellence. This country needs you trying to be the best you can be. Be innovative. Be imaginative. Dream! We need this from our people.\u2019 <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how you can get more inclusive. What these people mean by ‘inclusive,\u2019 is, ‘Okay, we\u2019re talking about special message. We gotta peel off 10% of the blacks, so we gotta have a special message for them and the Hispanics. We got a special message.\u2019 So how do we do it? We stand for amnesty? Whatever ‘inclusiveness\u2019 we have we throw out the window when we compromise our own beliefs, and that\u2019s what\u2019s happening now, though it needn\u2019t happen. It\u2019s not that hard. Trust me. Don\u2019t doubt me.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Rasmussen has a poll out today that 74% of the American people agree with the assertion that ‘all men are created equal.\u2019 Only 23% disagree with that. I\u2019ll tell you, the way the left has distorted views in this country, that\u2019s astronomically high. That\u2019s great news, that 74% believe in the assertion ‘all men are created equal.\u2019 ‘Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness,\u2019 89% agree with that. Only 7% disagree on that premise. There are building blocks possible out there, folks, is the point. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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