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RUSH: You know, I can\u2019t go away for one day without all hell breaking loose. Giant mess, have to come in here and clean up but I\u2019m up to the task, folks, I\u2019m up to the job. I got in last night at 5:30, I got a little show prep, I got to bed at 6:30 so I\u2019m here on an hour and a half. You have been warned. Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. The airport was closed again. The airport was closed from 12:30 to 5 a.m., runway construction, it was supposed to end Sunday so had to go to an alternate destination, drive home. At any rate, it doesn\u2019t matter, folks, everything\u2019s cool, not complaining. I don\u2019t whine like Obama does. I don\u2019t look tired? Well, I\u2019ve done this so many times it\u2019s almost second nature. Here\u2019s the telephone number if you want to be on the program: 1-800-282-2882. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. <\/p>\n

Lots popping today. Dingy Harry with his opt-out public option<\/a>, which is the biggest scam, folks, he just ended up losing Olympia Snowe\u2019s vote in the process here, but I need to explain this to you. There is no opt-out, even if states vote to opt out, you will not opt out. I will explain all of this. This is so much smoke and mirrors. These people are targeting their own country. The Democrat Party and Barack Obama are targeting their own country. I\u2019ve got a story here from the Sunday edition of the New York Times. I remember when I first said this, you know, when Rahm Emanuel came out and said a crisis is a terrible thing to waste, a crisis helps you get things done, that\u2019s when I started saying all of this destruction of the private sector is being done on purpose and everybody said — well, not everybody but a lot of people — ‘Rush, I know you think that, but you gotta tone it down a little bit if you want people to believe it.\u2019 I am not going to tone it down. The truth is the truth, stark as it might be, and alarming as it might be, the truth is the truth. <\/p>\n

So here\u2019s the headline from a story by Robert Pear, the New York Times on Sunday: ‘Democrats See a Positive in a Bad Economy.\u2019 Duh! Here it is in the New York Times, and the New York Times is all happy about this. They had an editorial saying we need a second stimulus, and we need to stimulate government even more than we have. ”Democrats See a Positive in a Bad Economy\u2019 — The bad economy is good for President Obama and Democrats as they try to reinvent the health care system with scant Republican support. That is the conclusion of many Congressional Democrats, who say that economic insecurity and high unemployment stoke public support for their proposals to guarantee insurance for millions of Americans.\u2019 <\/p>\n

I remember people getting mad at me for pointing this out. I said, ‘Look, if your number one objective is health care, and health care in this country is not portable, you can\u2019t take it with you when you lose a job, when everybody is scared to death of dying because everything is going to kill you, what\u2019s the greatest asset you could have if you\u2019re Barack Obama? High unemployment, lots of people without health insurance. Folks, they are purposely destroying this country and they love the calamity. It\u2019s good for them and it\u2019s nothing new. I remember back sometime in the nineties, it might have been the early 2000s when Little Dick Gephardt was in the House and the stock market was plunging, I think it was the tech bubble burst, and he said, ‘For every hundred point drop in the stock market, we pick up a seat in the House.\u2019 They were all happy about it. People are just going to have to come to grips with it at some point. <\/p>\n

We\u2019ll have some conversation on this Doug Hoffman situation in NY-23<\/a>. You know, I was minding my own business and I was happy, I took the occasion of the weekend to get away from all this, but I couldn\u2019t. I happened to go by a television set and I saw the story that the Republican Party was running ads against Doug Hoffman. I don\u2019t mean to keep saying this, folks, I really don\u2019t, but I said I hope people remember what I said about the Republican Party and conservatism and how they are trying to drum conservatives out of the party. It\u2019s interesting, too, because the Gallup survey, Gallup poll that was released yesterday shows the public\u2019s conservatism is at a high water mark. Forty percent of Americans call themselves conservative. Thirty-six percent self-describe themselves as moderates, and 20% are liberals, and yet everybody seems obsessed with these moderates. <\/p>\n

Everybody seems obsessed with going out and getting moderates and independents and so forth. You look what happens in NY-23, and, by the way, there are people mischaracterizing this, something I\u2019ve gotta spend some time on today. This is not a third-party type race. People are looking at this saying, ‘Rush, we need third party, Doug Hoffman\u2019s proving it.\u2019 No, we don\u2019t. We need to retake the Republican Party. That\u2019s what has to happen. The liberals didn\u2019t go out and form a third party, they just took over the Democrat Party and we need to take over the Republican Party. The third party\u2019s a guaranteed loss, no two ways about it. <\/p>\n

Afghanistan, it is just amazing. Obama was at Jacksonville yesterday<\/a> at a Navy base saying, ‘I won\u2019t risk your lives unless it is absolutely necessary.\u2019 What the hell? I can\u2019t remember a more irresponsible, ridiculous statement from anyone, much less a commander-in-chief, in my life. I won\u2019t risk your lives unless it\u2019s absolutely necessary, and if it is necessary, we\u2019ll back you up to the hilt? When is it going to be necessary? Are we waiting on General Swifty Kerry<\/a> to come over and tell us when it\u2019s okay? We\u2019ve already had a prominent military man resign over our lack of direction and focus and even a strategy in Afghanistan. In the real world it\u2019s over for a president who makes this kind of statement. We have parents and spouses of those people serving in the military. Can you imagine a family member of somebody serving in Afghanistan and the commander-in-chief says, ‘I won\u2019t risk your lives unless it is absolutely necessary\u2019? Whose lives are being risked now, and for what they are being asked. <\/p>\n

The highest casualty toll in Afghanistan today and we\u2019ve gotta wait for health care. We\u2019ve gotta wait for General John Swifty Kerry, who served in Vietnam, to tell us when the time is right. Where\u2019s Hillary Clinton, by the way? How come all these people are going over there doing foreign policy? We got Biden over there making a mess of things on the missile thing. You know, I shouldn\u2019t say it, I really shouldn\u2019t. Joe Biden is the single — I don\u2019t think I should say it. I\u2019ll tell you, I\u2019ll say it and then you guys tell me — we got 40 seconds to bleep it, right? We got 40 seconds to bleep it if you judge it\u2019s a little too far, all right? Everybody on board with me here? Here we go. Joe Biden is the — (laughing) let me put it this way. I don\u2019t want anything to ever happen to Barack Obama, but especially because Biden is number two. How is that? Is that okay? Is that okay? Mike, I need to hear from you on this. Okay, that passes. So we don\u2019t need to bleep that. <\/p>\n

‘I won\u2019t risk your lives unless it is absolutely necessary. And if it\u2019s necessary we\u2019ll back you up to the hilt\u2019? Well, he\u2019s not backing the people who are already there to the hilt. You remember all the garbage Bush got for the Humvees that weren\u2019t properly armored up and all this? Good gosh, folks, it\u2019s just an absolute mess. Eight US troops die in Afghan blast, October now, the deadliest month for American forces in the eight-year war. Also from New York Times: ‘NATO backs McChrystal on Afghanistan, endorsement comes as Obama weighs whether to add more troops.\u2019 Obama\u2019s dithering. He\u2019s played more golf in nine months than Bush played in three years. And the media, there\u2019s a story today how happy they are he finally went out and played golf with a woman. So he\u2019s broken down the sex barrier or some such thing, great, great progress, president\u2019s gone out and played golf with a woman. <\/p>\n

He coordinates his attack on Fox News. He tries to recruit private businesses to ambush the Chamber of Commerce. Have you heard about this? Valerie Jarrett was sent out there to a bunch of businesses and said you guys gotta pressure the Chamber on this, and the Chamber came back and said, look, you think we\u2019re going away just because a couple shots have been fired? It\u2019s time to put on the helmets and get in gear. People are finally standing up to this little boy, this little man-child president whose primary job, if you will, in life has been leisure. This guy is practiced at leisure more than anything else. So he\u2019s out there ambushing the chamber, he\u2019s nuking doctors, but he has no time for Afghanistan, no time for Afghanistan whatsoever but, boy, I won\u2019t risk your lives until it\u2019s absolutely necessary, if it is necessary we\u2019ll back you to the hilt. He\u2019s golfing; he\u2019s attacking private businesses here at home. NATO has had plenty of time to figure out that McChrystal has the right plan for Afghanistan. Oh, and the global warming news, folks, it is absurd. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s another thing<\/a> I saw. I guess this was Saturday. I was out in Las Vegas, and it was Saturday, and I took a quick peek at the Drudge page, and there\u2019s this thing, I don\u2019t even remember, some global warming link, and I clicked on the link, and I got to that story. It was the UK Daily Express and there\u2019s a story there with the headline, two people have written a book about how dogs do more damage to the environment than an SUV. So I clicked on that link, I ignored the Drudge link. I clicked on it, and said, ‘What in tarnation is this?\u2019 And I have details of that coming up. And then this Lord Stern is out there saying stop eating beef, the only way to save the planet. I mean the extremism of these people is on full display everywhere. Now, there\u2019s a story here that the Copenhagen people, the UN people are very depressed now that they might not get any kind of a significant deal in December because the US Congress is dithering and members of the US Congress, ‘Yeah, we\u2019re not even going to get to this this year, the climate change cap and tax.\u2019 Now, before we go to the break — no, I\u2019ll do it after the break. Crap and tax, whatever it is. <\/p>\n

Now, I have to tell you, this thing that happened Friday on this program with Obama\u2019s thesis, it has been hilarious to watch the media cover this. I got two sound bites<\/a> as an example. It is stunning to me how closed-minded, narrow their world is, how absolutely ignorant they are. I\u2019m not questioning their intelligence, but that\u2019s next. They\u2019re just ignorant. And they still have no sense of humor. Wait \u2019til you hear these two sound bites. One is from 1010WINS in New York, the all-news station, and the other is from this blubbering, blathering, increasingly idiotic Chris Matthews. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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