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Speaking of which, grab audio sound bite 22. This is just now, moments ago on PMSNBC. John Podesta, the former Clinton chief of staff, was on. He now runs Think Progress, Think the American Way, some uber-leftist think tank. And he was asked, “Do you think there\u2019s a risk here of Democrats in the White House getting overconfident, what with all this great economic news out there? Do you think so?”<\/p>\n
PODESTA: I doubt it. You see his job approval going up, but you also see the enthusiasm gap being closed. In the latest New York Times poll, for example, Democrats now are as enthusiastic about this campaign as Republicans. That\u2019s quite a reversal from last year when Republicans were quite fired up and Democrats were kind of down.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So Podesta: The enthusiasm gap is gone! All is well for the Democrats! Yep, yep. We\u2019re now on equal footing and it\u2019s, “Katie, bar the doors.”<\/p>\n
Here is Al Hunt with a little bit different view. Al Hunt last night was on Charlie Rose on PBS, and the question was, “If you look back at Bill Clinton the early \u201996 or Ronald Reagan early \u201984 what you saw was those guys crossing the 50% threshold in approval, continuing to creep up a little bit more. If that continues to happen, the president will be in very good shape for reelection.” That\u2019s Charlie Rose to Al Hunt. Here\u2019s what Al Hunt said.<\/p>\n
HUNT: I would add that I think a lot of people who I talk to about the economy, uh, who — who are Democrats, have great fears that this has been — if not a Prague Spring, it\u2019s not something that\u2019s likely to continue for the next seven or eight months. And if it doesn\u2019t — and direction really matters. If it stalls, uh, I think you\u2019ll see that number go down a bit. The Obama campaign is a bit more arrogant than they have a right to be right now. We have a long way to go in this race.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So Al Hunt apparently does not believe that the White House is in charge of the numbers. Al Hunt doesn\u2019t believe that the White House can control the unemployment number and presidential approval poll numbers and so forth. And what Al Hunt is telling us here (laughing) is if the media ever decides to report the truth, Obama\u2019s gonna be in trouble.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: We\u2019ll go to Iron Mountain, Michigan. Hi, Monica. You\u2019re up first. It\u2019s great to have you with us. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. This morning on Morning Joe, Howard Dean said the following, and I quote: “Most Americans don\u2019t think sexuality is the business of the church, any church. They just don\u2019t believe it is. They believe it\u2019s their own business, not the business of the church. They don\u2019t think it\u2019s the business of the government, either.” And everybody kind of nodded, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, if you think about that statement for two seconds, it defies logic. Tell me, which group is trying to make sexuality the business of the government? It\u2019s ridiculous.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, you mean the government is trying to —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: — make sexuality its business?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Exactly.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: But wait a second. Hold it, hold it. Just a second. I don\u2019t want to let this first thing you said just go by. You said that Howard Dean said that people don\u2019t think churches should be discussing sexuality, correct? Did he say that?<\/p>\n
CALLER: He said Americans don\u2019t think sexuality is the business of the church —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — any church.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Stop. Stop right there. Would you be shocked, would you be shocked if I were to tell you I think he\u2019s on to something?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m not shocked because… I\u2019m not shocked.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You realize, organized religion, particularly Christianity, has been in the crosshairs of the American left and the media, Catholicism, Protestantism, for as long as I\u2019ve been alive. When it comes to the Catholic Church, the media, the American left have actually been lobbying for the church to relax its views on everything it believes regarding personal morality, including sex.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hm-hm (affirmative).<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now, given where our culture is today, I wonder how many people that go to church don\u2019t really want to hear their church preach to \u2019em about their sex lives.<\/p>\n
CALLER: They don\u2019t. They don\u2019t. They don\u2019t.<\/p>\n
RUSH: How many parishioners do you think believe the church needs to modernize, needs to understand the mores of today and learn to save our souls based on the way things are today? The church is too old-fashioned. My preacher doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about, he doesn\u2019t know my life.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Rush, I am a Catholic, okay. I\u2019m faithful to the Magisterium. I\u2019m hearing now the last two weeks this 98, 99% of Catholic women have rejected Humanae Vitae —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Do you realize what a crock that is? Do you realize, 98% of Catholic women use birth control — that is absurd for Pelosi to say. Do you realize how absurd that is?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, it\u2019s not even true because we have women who have infertility and of course past childbearing age. But take it on face value, 98%, 99% of Catholic women don\u2019t reject Humanae Vitae; they ignored it, they don\u2019t even know what it is. They never read it. Ninety-nine percent of Catholics have never read Humanae Vitae. They don\u2019t even know what they\u2019re supposedly rejecting. You know what, if the Catholic Church had wanted to ban contraception from the government, they would have been trying to do it for 2,000 years. For all I care, Obama wants to wants to solicit private monies to fully stock every Planned Parenthood in the country. He can have kiosks on the street distributing birth control, I don\u2019t care. I think it\u2019s harmful for men and women, but I don\u2019t care. We don\u2019t live in a theocracy. But if I\u2019m a business owner, and not just a faith based, any business owner, don\u2019t you dare force me to subsidize the morning after pill for my employees.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, I know. I think we\u2019re speaking across each other here. What I\u2019m trying to get at is that there has been a relaxation in morality among the parishioners. You say they haven\u2019t read whatever they haven\u2019t read. I have news for you, I\u2019m not Catholic, but from what I hear, the Catholic Church isn\u2019t even preaching about it. The piece I read the other day from Paul Rahe, the professor at Hillsdale who weighed in on this whole controversy, he left the church, went back to it 13 years ago. He went to Mass weekly for 13 years, he\u2019s had three, what, sermons or what have you, went to Mass three times where he heard the teachings of the church in this area. That what he\u2019s hearing from the priests is left-wing political dogma. He\u2019s not hearing church teachings. That was my point. I just think inmates are running the asylum at a lot of places. Anyway, I\u2019m glad you called. I appreciate it. <\/p>\n
Up next is Lee in Leesburg, Virginia. Welcome. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n
RUSH: All right, now, what is it that I failed to do?<\/p>\n CALLER: Well, you were getting into the idea, or talking about the idea that, okay, why were they doing this? I\u2019m just trying to paraphrase you best I can, but you were explaining that, well, why are they doing this? You kept raising the question, “Why?”<\/p>\n RUSH: Wait a minute. What is “this”? <\/p>\n CALLER: Why contraception, why contraception right now? What does this have to do with anything? And that was the question you\u2019ve been raising and as I remember you\u2019re —<\/p>\n RUSH: Okay, so what am I not saying about it that I need to be saying, what am I not getting? <\/p>\n CALLER: That this is how the health care bill is gonna be used against whoever the Democrats\u2019 political opponents are going forward. This is the first time I\u2019ve ever seen anything like this done in this country where a mandate has been handed down for a political reason over contraception, which means nothing to anybody, but they just dredge this thing up and say, “Okay, we\u2019re gonna use this as a political weapon in this election here.” And I think that\u2019s what I saw this as. This is kind of like the opening round. This is how this is gonna be used going forward —<\/p>\n RUSH: Well, the reason I\u2019m confused is that I\u2019ve spent three years giving examples of how Obamacare will be used to control every aspect of your life, from what you eat to what you drive to where you say what you say, to how you say it. It is total control over everybody\u2019s life. This contraception business that they swerved into is a political ploy right now to defeat the Republicans, pure and simple.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: All right, it\u2019s largely a hearing thing. I\u2019m still not clear what the previous caller was trying to get at. So let me say again what I said about this contraception business as it relates to how it came out of nowhere. I thought that we had gotten into this pretty detailed and made it pretty clear. The whole point of bringing up contraception and trying to make it look like the Republicans want to ban birth control is simply something to excite the Democrat base, which has been depressed as it can be because their president has done a rotten job. The economy is in the tank. They have to fudge and screw around with numbers. They\u2019re trying to tell us the economy\u2019s rebounding, but nobody senses it, nobody feels it. Small businesses are still not hiring, wages are not going up, gasoline prices increase. They\u2019ve got to distract people from this. They had, as Podesta talked about, an enthusiasm gap.<\/p>\n Republicans are far more eager and excited to vote than Democrats. And that still is the case. Podesta\u2019s out there saying that they\u2019ve changed it now. The point of this whole contraception business, he wanted to stir up the base, the women\u2019s vote. You take a look, I mentioned it yesterday, I asked you to go find Obama\u2019s approval numbers, the female vote, the women\u2019s vote, it\u2019s down, way down. All you have to do to get their attention is to dredge it back up that the Republicans want to get rid of their birth control pills and deny them abortion, and that will bring \u2019em back, and that\u2019s what they\u2019re trying to do. It\u2019s a total move of feint and distraction. <\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushJoinRush247.jpg\"\/)
<\/a>CALLER: Hi, Rush. Good to be with you. Rush, I heard you over the past several days opining on, what is Obama really up to, or what are the Democrats really up to with this contraception deal? I feel that there\u2019s some political angles that they\u2019re playing. But one thing I don\u2019t think you really distilled down, which I\u2019m accustomed to hearing you do \u2019cause you have the last word on everything, but what this is, to me, is the kind of opening salvo of how the health care bill is going to be used as a political bludgeon going from this point forward. Any time in an election or when a particular vote is needed, all Obama has to do is bring out, “Okay, well, we need to have mandatory free breast cancer screenings for everybody. If the insurance company won\u2019t do it, look, and the Republicans are going to fight against it,” they just create a new battle. And God knows where this can go. It could go anywhere. Just let your imagination run. They could make up any argument they have going forward and just continue to make these false choices, these straw men arguments about why this should be done and why this should be a mandate.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Obamageddon-Barackalypse-Now.jpg\"\/)