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RUSH: We\u2019ll go to Tampa. This is Charles, been on hold for quite a while. I appreciate it. Thank you much for waiting.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. God bless you and your staff, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think we have no compromise whatsoever. Send Democrats to the pits of hell as far as I\u2019m concerned.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How you do that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you shred the health care bill, facsimile of the health care bill in a shredder on national TV. You make the Bush tax cuts permanent. You ease small business taxes, secure our border with troops and law enforcement, and make the Democrats a small blip in the annals of history.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, cool, fine and dandy. I just wanted you to specify the issues, because when you say you want to consign some people to hell, people might get the wrong idea about that. So thank you for spelling that out. He\u2019s right on the money when it comes to the issues. Here\u2019s the bottom line for you Republicans. If you control the House, there shouldn\u2019t be any legislation Obama wants, none, zero, zip, zero, nada. If you control the House and if you\u2019re the opposition, there\u2019s not one thing that he should agree with that you propose. And if there is, it\u2019s a problem. ‘Okay, Rush, well, what happens if they propose a Social Security fix that doesn\u2019t require tax increases?\u2019 Well, I gotta see more than that before I can respond to something like that. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s enough going on here that leads me to believe that there is an effort not to understand what the Tea Party\u2019s about. There\u2019s enough going on that leads me to believe that they don\u2019t really want to understand or deal with the issues that are going to result in Republican victory. It\u2019s going to be hard work, roll up your sleeves every day to roll this stuff back. It\u2019s going to be hard work because these people are not going to stop. Obama\u2019s not gonna stop. (interruption) Believe in the big tent. Yeah, I guess if you mean by big tent, moderates and pro-choicers in there and all that, but the problem with their big tent is they don\u2019t want the Tea Party in it. The problem with the Republican big tent is they don\u2019t want the Tea Party in it \u2019cause the Tea Party isn\u2019t sophisticated enough. They haven\u2019t read the right books. They haven\u2019t been to the right universities or what have you.<\/p>\n

Diane in Sarasota, Florida, hi, and welcome to the EIB Network. Nice to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you very much, Rush. What I\u2019m calling about, my husband and I are beginning members of the Tea Party, and we certainly do not want compromise, and I don\u2019t want to hear reaching across the aisle anymore. But I\u2019m also suspicious of Politico.com. I just wonder if there\u2019s some plan possibly out of the White House or amongst the media to put some doubts in our minds that we\u2019re not going to have as much control, try to split the Republican Party —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, wait —<\/p>\n

CALLER: — try to make us vote third party.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s no question that two weeks before an election the media does stories that are designed to deflate you and us and to try to tamp down our enthusiasm and so forth, and there\u2019s no question that there\u2019s an element of that in this story. However, I\u2019m just going to tell you that I have talked to Republicans, Diane, who have said to me, ‘We\u2019re not going to have control. We\u2019re not going to have that much power.\u2019 I have talked to Republicans who have asked me to pass on to you, ‘Don\u2019t have all these high expectations.\u2019 I have talked to them, so The Politico is not entirely wrong. I think that the timing of the story is exactly as you say. It\u2019s designed to depress turnout. It\u2019s going to do just the opposite. It\u2019s going to ramp up turnout.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, I hope so.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, don\u2019t doubt it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And also we in the Tea Party, we don\u2019t stop in 2010. That\u2019s just the beginning and we\u2019re gonna hold all of those Republicans responsible to stop what has happened over the last two years, and even what happened before that. We\u2019re not going away.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s not just Republicans. It\u2019s Washington.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely. And we want to reverse it, it\u2019s been going on for a very long time but it\u2019s much worse under Obama. But again, I don\u2019t trust anything that comes out of Politico.com. Mike Allen that started it, as you know, started from the Washington Post and TIME Magazine, and he\u2019s to the left of Lenin, and I hear him on the radio, and he\u2019s still a big Obama supporter and a big Obama administration supporter. So that\u2019s why I just wanted to say I don\u2019t believe these polls because I don\u2019t believe anything comes out of that publication.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, Diane. Thanks for the call. Appreciate it. I know that The Politico thinks they\u2019re throwing cold water. That\u2019s what they\u2019re trying to accomplish, right? They\u2019re trying to throw cold water. The problem is that Americans are so boiling mad that there ain\u2019t enough cold water to throw on us. They\u2019re not gonna tamp down the election turnout, and they\u2019re not gonna tamp down expectations. It\u2019s just gonna add to the volume. All the cold water they throw is just gonna add to the whole volume of water that\u2019s boiling, all the effervescence that\u2019s boiling out there, plain and simple.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I\u2019m looking at the audio sound bite roster. It\u2019s such a great sound bite roster today, but, as is always the case, and I explain to people — I had some people in watching the show last week, and they said, ‘How do you prepare this?\u2019 I gave them the prep schedule and so forth, but I said, ‘Basically this is improv. There\u2019s no producer and there\u2019s no script, and there\u2019s nothing I have to do at X \u2019cause somebody\u2019s expecting it like it is on television. And we don\u2019t do retakes, and it just flows.\u2019 And today is a great example. We got a great audio sound bite roster and I haven\u2019t gotten but two sound bites of it, maybe even one, Christine O\u2019Donnell, and she wasn\u2019t even on the original one. So I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m gonna keep today\u2019s sound bite roster for tomorrow and incorporate it with whatever we have tomorrow that I don\u2019t know about yet. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in Washington there will be meetings conceived this afternoon and tonight about the Limbaugh Problem; that we deal with the Limbaugh Problem. So there\u2019s a lot happening here that we have to deal with on the fly as it happens. <\/p>\n

From The Politico: ‘Early Vote a Bad Omen for Harry Reid — In Nevada\u2019s prime swing county, Republicans are significantly outpacing Democrats in early-voting turnout, according to official statistics — a potential sign of difficulty for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as he attempts to rally his base for his tough contest with Republican Sharron Angle.\u2019 Now, we\u2019ll see. I\u2019m sure the fraud and cheating has also begun out there. There\u2019s a story I also have in the stack that early voting all over the country, white males are showing up in droves, which you know how that\u2019s going to be portrayed, and of course isn\u2019t it profiling to notice this? <\/p>\n

Columbia, South Carolina. Hi, Jack. Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program. Nice to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, former Air Force, Jeep-owning, special-needs-parent, thank-you-for-agreeing-with-me dittos, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well thanks for the call, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Bipartisanship is what got us into this mess, and partisanship is the only thing that\u2019s gonna get us out. When we started busting our morals and going against the Constitution — this country has taken a downward turn and I\u2019m ready for some partisanship. I\u2019m ready for some good knuckle banging in the Senate and House and overturning all these social programs that are leading us straight to communism. We need to go back to capitalism and we need to go back to the Constitution. Those guys were smarter than we are, and if it\u2019s not in there why are we doing it?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s clear that there are a lot of things that need to be on the agenda. House rules are not one of them. Stopping the spending is. We don\u2019t need debate. There\u2019s a great way to put it. Why do we need to debate these guys? The debate is the election, and it\u2019s going to be solved. Hell, these guys aren\u2019t even running on their agenda. How in the world do you debate these clowns? They aren\u2019t even running on their agenda. The Democrats are not out there saying, ‘Reelect us, look what we did for you.\u2019 They\u2019re running away from it. How in the world you gonna debate these people? These people are made to order right now to be defeated. Like Obama says, ‘We need to get ready for hand-to-hand combat.\u2019 That\u2019s what he said this was going to be. He\u2019s not moving in our direction. <\/p>\n

The debate is over. The Democrats will not even show up. The Democrats, they\u2019re having to buy \u2019em off. In Cincinnati there\u2019s a story today that they\u2019re taking kids out of school on field trips, high school kids and giving them cupcakes and cookies and teaching them how to vote Democrat. Yeah, it\u2019s somewhere buried in the stack here. I got a whole show we didn\u2019t get to today. This show boomeranged off of essentially two stories today. The Politico story about how the Republicans are really not crazy about repealing stuff and the second story is how Republicans realize they\u2019re going to have to compromise. So basically two stories. The debate\u2019s over. The Democrats will not show up, pure and simple. I mean look at the debates they\u2019re having. They have to have seven or eight other people on the stage with them and they call it a debate. As Obama said, this is what elections are for. Elections solve the debate, and that\u2019s what\u2019s going to happen two weeks from today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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