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RUSH: I think what\u2019s going on here is the liberals are ‘hiding the decline\u2019 in all of these surveys they\u2019re taking. Seventy-five percent say the stimulus is not working for the middle class (it\u2019s not working for anybody) and they report it as ‘25% say it is working.\u2019 And they say ‘seven-out-of-ten\u2019 think it\u2019s good the Democrats lost their supermajority, rather than say 70%. They\u2019re hiding the decline just like they did in the global warming hoax, which now has been doubled down on. Have you heard about the guy at the IPCC? Pachauri, I think, is his name. They\u2019ve been totally exposed again on the melting glaciers of the Himalayas — totally, totally exposed. The whole thing is just an outright — and always has been — hoax. It\u2019s always been a political movement. Just like everything the liberals do, it is designed to tug your heartstrings, to make you feel guilty, to get you to go along with tax increase. <\/p>\n

‘You\u2019re destroying the planet!\u2019 and this is how you get your mind right. This is how you say you\u2019re sorry. You let people go ahead and grow governments around the world and tax you and roll back your lifestyle, all for the purposes of empowering them. I mean, this has been an incredible 12 months, just an incredible 12 months — and here, from the disappointed Associated Press: ‘With his prospects for another term brightening, Ben Bernanke will lead the Federal Reserve this year in pulling back the stimulus money it pumped out to fight the financial crisis that erupted in his first term. The challenge will be how and when to do so. At their first meeting of the year, Fed policymakers are likely weighing such matters, including which tools to use. The officials began meeting Tuesday and will issue a policy statement Wednesday. It\u2019s not known whether they will signal their timing and strategy to reverse course. … <\/p>\n

‘With the worst of the financial crisis over…\u2019 Not according to my stack! Foreclosures continue. New home starts are down. Three different foreclosure programs designed to help people are failing. In (I think it\u2019s Kentucky or Tennessee) the unemployment bottleneck is so bad that people cannot get on the phone, can\u2019t connect with a human being to renew their unemployment benefits. Everybody is just swamped, and we\u2019ve got a guy who\u2019s totally enamored of process. You know who else loved process? Michael Dukakis. I remember him discussing that in the presidential campaign of 1988, the year this program de-buted (‘debuted,\u2019 for those of you in Rio Linda). Dukakis said, ‘I love policy. I love the process. I love the process of making policy.\u2019 Obama does, too, and Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter loved process, and this is turning into Jimmy Carter 2. It\u2019s his second term, only worse. So the Fed is considering ‘stimulus exit strategy.\u2019 <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what stimulus this is, but… ‘With the worst of the financial crisis over, the Fed is gradually moving to remove some of the stimulus money before it can trigger inflation. Some analysts think the Fed might bump up the rate it charges banks for emergency loans.\u2019 Now, remember the Fed loaned $2 trillion to people and still hasn\u2019t told us who got it. Is that the money they\u2019re talking about or are they talking about Obama\u2019s stimulus? In any case: If it\u2019s Obama\u2019s stimulus, does it mean it failed? If they\u2019re worried about it causing inflation, does it mean that it failed? Look, I don\u2019t mean to depress you here, folks, but you have to know the reality of Obama\u2019s policies. You have to know what liberalism will do. You have to know what it will do every time it\u2019s tried so you never give it a chance again at the ballot box. <\/p>\n

‘Sales of New Homes Sink 7.6% Last Month, Worse than Expected — December results in the weakest year on record.\u2019 How can this be? How can the wizards of smart at AP be shocked again? Did they really believe all the government involvement was going to help the housing market? The answer is: Yes, because these people place all of their hope and all of their faith in government. They really do. ‘New home sales unexpectedly fell 7.6 percent last month, capping the industry\u2019s weakest year on record. … The results were the weakest since March and indicated demand remains sluggish despite newly expanded tax incentives to spur sales. … Only 374,000 homes were sold last year, down 23 percent from a year earlier and the weakest year on record dating back to 1963,\u2019 and staying on the same basic line here, this is the MSNBC.com: <\/p>\n

‘Flaws Plague Foreclosure Relief Program.\u2019 Do you realize nothing, nothing he has done is working? Nothing! Now, from his standpoint, it might be working. I still firmly believe that all of this was to create this kind of chaos and to create the demand for more government. It\u2019s backfired on him. I think what he really wanted to do here was just totally get as many people on the welfare rolls as possible (Cloward-Piven) and empower himself at the Democrat Party, empower in perpetuity, but it\u2019s backfired because he\u2019s misread the American people. The American people do not want to be wards of the state and they don\u2019t want their country to be a failure, and they don\u2019t want to be having their president run around the world and apologize for things we\u2019ve done. They don\u2019t want terrorists being given Miranda rights. <\/p>\n

They don\u2019t want terrorists being given US constitutional rights the same as if they were US citizens. They don\u2019t want show trials of terrorists beating up their own country at a cost of security alone of $200 million a year. They do not want what Obama is. They do not want anything to do with his ideology or his policies, and the things that… If I ran the Republican Party, what I would be having them do is say, ‘Look, Obama\u2019s no different than Barney Frank, no different than Harry Reid, no different than Nancy Pelosi, no different than John Kerry, no different than Algore, no different than Clinton. It doesn\u2019t matter which one of these people you elect. Obama may be the most radical of all of them but they all are liberals and liberalism is this! Liberalism is failure of capitalism; it is failure of freedom. Liberalism is outright failure of prosperity.\u2019 It\u2019s right there for everybody to see now, as clear as it\u2019s ever been, and the Republican Party ought to be pointing this out. But I\u2019m sure that that would be a little too controversial, a little too mean-spirited. I\u2019m sure that moderates in our party wouldn\u2019t appreciate that kind of criticism. In fact, ladies and gentlemen — sound bites four and five, Mike — this is last Sunday afternoon, CNN\u2019s Fareed Zakaria GPS. During the panel discussion he had this exchange with the New York Times book review editor and the author Sam Tanenhaus about conservatism.<\/p>\n

ZAKARIA: Even though there\u2019s a political rival of conservatism, you don\u2019t quite see an intellectual reliever. There are… you know, the William Buckleys and Irving Kristols of the world have yielded to the Rush Limbaughs.<\/p>\n

TANENHAUS: There were a number of books about a possible Republican and conservative revival. David Frum wrote one, [and] Ross Douthat, and Michael Gerson wrote one. And they all accepted that there was a major role for government to play. They were kind of accepting what seemed to be the shift in the inevitable interrelation between government and society. Those ideas have not been picked up —<\/p>\n

ZAKARIA: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

TANENHAUS: — at all, as far as I can tell, by the movement on the right.<\/p>\n

ZAKARIA: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, damn right, and they won\u2019t be! What do you think the hell is failing here, Mr. Tanenhaus? How many people read Frum\u2019s and Brooks\u2019 books? You could probably count \u2019em on one hand. This is absurd. Last week, maybe the week prior, I spent a lot of time on this program excoriating these people. Remember, these were the people that said Reagan\u2019s era was over and that we had to go get moderates to win. This is in the aftermath of Scott Brown\u2019s election. ‘Yeah, the American people want higher taxes. They want a bigger government. They want a government more involved in their lives.\u2019 And Tanenhaus says, ‘I don\u2019t see the right picking this up.\u2019 Why should we pick it up? It\u2019s failing to the max as the Democrats try it! Let\u2019s go ahead and play number five. Fareed Zakaria next talks to Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal, who said this about conservatism and recent elections…<\/p>\n

NOONAN: Purism took a hit in New Jersey and Virginia, in Massachusetts. They voted for Republicans who are conservative economically but are very non-snarling, who are not guys who you can look at and say, ‘That is an ideologue.\u2019 I interviewed Scott Brown — the senator-elect, I guess, from Massachusetts — two days ago. The first thing he did was compliment Obama. Something new is going on. It is a certain… It\u2019s a growing pragmatism among the tea party people who voted in Jersey, Virginia, and Massachusetts for guys they were not 100% on the page with.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You hear that, the ‘non-snarling Republicans\u2019? There\u2019s ‘something new … going on\u2019 out there? Scott Brown actually complimented Obama? The ‘growing pragmatism among the tea party people who voted in Jersey, Virginia, Massachusetts for guys they were not 100% on the page with\u2019? Yeah, well, they\u2019re 100% on the page opposing Obama — 150% on page opposing Obama — and all they had to hear from Brown was he\u2019s the 41st vote against health care. I mean, that\u2019s ball game, Peggy. That\u2019s the end of this country as we know it if that debacle had passed. So at the end of his program Zakaria makes a commentary, and it\u2019s to us Republicans, and he warns us to forget Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

ZAKARIA: That Tanenhaus\u2019 premise is compelling is not so easy to refute. Today\u2019s conservative movement, he says, is dying because it is harshly ideological; very different from the grounded, philosophical movement of the past in which there were great thinkers like William F. Buckley, Irving Kristol, those were the people who personified the right. Today, Rush Limbaugh speaks for the movement. Tanenhaus argues that right now, conservatism serves as a kind of movement of obstruction, recrimination that does not offer a thought-out set of ideas; nothing voters will hold onto in the long run. So despite the Massachusetts message, I think it\u2019s a, uh, interesting book to read.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And there you have elitism and out-of-touchness unmasked and on parade. No ideas on this program. No ideas from Mark Levin\u2019s book. No ideas in any of the movement conservative people here. We\u2019re too ideological. We\u2019re dying? There is an ascendancy going on, and it\u2019s ‘harshly ideological.\u2019 Of course the left, you see, is not ‘harshly ideological.\u2019 ‘No, no, no! Obama is not ideological.\u2019 This is the point. Obama is. They all are. Liberalism is ideological. It is governed by it; it is propelled by it. That\u2019s all it is. It\u2019s not pragmatism; it\u2019s not compassion. It\u2019s not love and tolerance and all that. It is a destroyer of freedom. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, these clips from Fareed Zakaria and Peggy Noonan, they\u2019re hilarious, they\u2019re actually hilarious. You have elitism on parade, you have a bunch of strident ideologues who, because of their manner of speaking, think that they are not, and they convince you that they are not and that they are pragmatic and practical and thoughtful and very, very, very intellectual, smarter than the rest. And of course we Neanderthals on the right, no ideas here. How can you speak of ideas, as I do, and not be an ideologue? An ideologue for liberty is an ideologue for free society. That\u2019s a good ideologue. I — we — are great ideologues. It doesn\u2019t mean we agree with all details on all points. It doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019re closed-minded. It doesn\u2019t mean that we\u2019re narrow-minded, but it means we agree in the natural rights of man, and an ideologue on the left means promoting one or more forms of tyranny. It\u2019s the opposite of promoting liberty. And so it\u2019s an ideology to be rejected and detested, and it\u2019s on parade, unfettered right now. In fact, they\u2019re starting with the State of Obama speech tonight, they\u2019re going to do their best to say that they\u2019re moving in a different direction, going to be populist now, going to bash the banks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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