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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, my contention that there is only one mandate the Republican Party has after the election, that being to stop Obama, has been debated all over cable news. And I frankly — and I\u2019m not trying to be funny here — I don\u2019t understand what the debate is. What is there to debate about this? If you want to say that the election, “Well, Mr. Limbaugh may be partially right, but there\u2019s also the idea…” I heard this on TV this morning. “It may be that he\u2019s right, but, I mean, that would mean, uh, nothing gets done.”<\/p>\n

I said, “Yeah, that\u2019s precisely the point. Stopping Obama is making sure that nothing gets done, nothing of his agenda gets done.” That\u2019s huge! That has to happen before anything else. If you look at this country as a giant boat or ship on the water, you have to stop it before you can change direction. Stopping Obama, stopping the implementation of the Obama agenda is the mandate. And of course it means nothing of Obama\u2019s gets done. But stopping the mandate is a huge getting something done. Stopping Obama\u2019s agenda from being implemented is a huge getting something done.<\/p>\n

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I really — well, I say I don\u2019t understand. I do. I know it\u2019s the competitive nature of commentary and the competitive nature of analysis and the overriding — I\u2019m telling you, it\u2019s big out there with a lot of people, this notion that we\u2019ve got to work together. And the reason that notion is big is because professional political people misunderstand the electorate on this. They\u2019ve got it in their heads, primarily the Republicans have it in their heads, that the electorate wants both parties to work together and compromise and get along and smile and enjoy each other\u2019s company. That\u2019s not what this election meant.<\/p>\n

How many Republicans lost in the House? Let me just give you a pop quiz. How many elections, how many Republicans lost seats in the House? (interruption) Nope, that\u2019s it. Two. How can you say that this is an anti-incumbent election, if only two House seats were lost by the Republicans? Sorry, folks, no way this is anti-incumbent, either. It\u2019s anti-Obama. It is anti-Democrat.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: So it\u2019s a little guarded. It\u2019s a little guarded \u2019til we find out what they\u2019re gonna do. We\u2019re gonna get a pretty good indication here when we listen to some of the audio sound bites, \u2019cause my analysis that the only possible way to analyze this election is a mandate for Republicans to stop Obama, that\u2019s been all over cable news, and every analyst you can think of is being asked to comment on it.<\/p>\n

And I was surprised. Practically everybody that was asked agreed with it, but they all had a ” BUT.”<\/p>\n

“Yeah, Rush is right, BUT I think the voters still want us to work together. Yeah, Rush was right, BUT there\u2019s more to it. Yeah, Rush was right. Of course Rush was right. BUT…” And then people throw their own ideas in here.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Lot of great calls on hold, and if you are one of them, please be patient and hang on, as we are going to get to you. In fact, one of them has a great point to make. If the voters — and don\u2019t hang up out there. This is John in Mount Clemens, Michigan. But I don\u2019t want to take the call right now because I gotta get started. His point is, “If the voters wanted Congress to work with Obama, they would have elected Democrats.”<\/p>\n

Amen! That deserves an iPad or an iPhone. That is brilliant. He\u2019s exactly right. That may be the most down-to-earth, simplest way to explain this. If voters wanted Congress to work with Obama to get things done, they would have elected Democrats. Anyway, let\u2019s start with the reaction to my version of the election, the mandate analysis. Dana Perino was on Fox with Megyn Kelly last night.<\/p>\n

PERINO: He certainly has a point, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s the only point. I would describe it as “Stop, Drop, and Roll.” They want to “stop” President Obama from doing more things like Obamacare. They want to “stop” executive action on immigration, and I also think there\u2019s a significant part of the population who wants to “stop” him from doing a deal with Iran. The “drop” part, Obamacare certainly still played a major part. And the third thing is, get the economy on a “roll.” And so that\u2019s why I think President… Uh, Bush… (giggles) “Bush.” Rush… President… Rush Limbaugh, uh, is not being fulsome enough in the answer because I think that people do want to see a change in the economy, and these senators, members of the Congress that won —<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, that\u2019s enough. First of all, see the faux pas there? President Rush Limbaugh? (chuckles) It\u2019s all on their minds. It just is. See, she agrees partially. What she doesn\u2019t know is she agreed fully. How do you get the economy back rolling? The first thing is you\u2019ve got to stop what Obama\u2019s doing to it. Obamacare is destroying the private enterprise economy!<\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s tax increases that are part of Obamacare, any number of things that he\u2019s doing, all of the spending that he\u2019s done and wants to continue doing, the continuation resolutions and the way we\u2019re doing budgeting in this? All of this is contributing to the slow down of the economy. He\u2019s gotta be stopped. His policies have to be stopped.<\/p>\n

The Republicans alone are not going to be able to get the economy rolling because they have to go through Obama to do that, and he\u2019s not going to willingly work with them on different ideas. Therefore, his ideas have to be stopped, and that\u2019s a major achievement. Again, I\u2019ve heard so many people on Fox this morning that were saying, “Well, I agree with Rush partially, but — but — but then nothing would get done.” Au contraire.<\/p>\n

The whole point of stopping the Obama agenda is a major “getting something done.” It\u2019s huge. It\u2019s the only thing. This idea that Republicans and Democrats have to work together to produce legislation that leads to X, Y, and Z? No, that\u2019s not what has to happen right now because that would mean compromise with the Democrats, and the voters don\u2019t want any more of that.<\/p>\n

So many people are caught in this prison of belief that “We have to work together and get something done.” Yeah, normally. Yeah. Normally, when everybody\u2019s on the same page. Normally when everybody arguably wants the same thing. It used to be that both parties wanted economic growth. It used to be that both parties wanted great career opportunities for a lot of people. It\u2019s not that way anymore.<\/p>\n

The Democrat Party wants as much dependence on government as they can concoct. That\u2019s why they\u2019re gonna do amnesty. The Democrat Party is not the Democrat Party of JFK. “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.” Those are curse words today to the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party today wants as many un-self-reliant people as they can concoct and create.<\/line><\/p>\n

Why work with that? The Democrat Party wants as many victims as they can create. They want as many people thinking of themselves as victims of this unfair, unjust, immoral, racist, bigoted country as they can create. They don\u2019t want people self-reliant and productive. They want to be that for people. In the old days, you could work together when at least the objectives had some things in common.<\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t happen right now. So the old idea of, “Well, if we stop Obama, nothing is gonna get done.” Precisely. We\u2019ve had six years of something getting done, and we can\u2019t afford any more of it. Here\u2019s Joe Trippi, Democrat strategerist, cohort of Karl Rove on election night coverage, and he ran Howard Dean\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n

TRIPPI: Some of the people did mean what Rush said — stop, don\u2019t compromise, don\u2019t work with the Democrats, don\u2019t give in to the president — and I do think there are a lot of people who do want things to get done and want compromise. And that actually exists within the Republican Party, too.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Who? If that were the case, like our upcoming caller is gonna say, why not elect Democrats? If you want to get something done, if you want people to work together, keep voting for the Democrats. By the way, with the Democrats running the Senate and the president having White House (Democrats have the White House) why isn\u2019t any more getting done than is getting done? Why is it such a mess anyway?<\/p>\n

Democrats are in charge. The Republicans are trying to work with \u2019em. Listen carefully. The Republicans have come up with something like, what did I hear, 300 pieces of legislation the past two years, and they\u2019re all dead. Harry Reid shut down the Senate to protect Obama. There wasn\u2019t any debate. There were no deliberations. There were no amendments. Nothing was taking place in the Senate. No legislation was being advanced.<\/p>\n

Who did that? Dingy Harry, Democrats. Why? To protect Obama. The legislation coming from the Republicans was designed to work with them and help fix what\u2019s wrong, and that wasn\u2019t desired. This is an old cliche that people are falling back on. “Well, I do think people want things to get done and they want compromise.” Things are getting done. Just the wrong things!<\/p>\n

Obamacare is getting done, and the worst parts of it haven\u2019t even hit yet. Those were delayed purposely until after the election this week. Amnesty is gonna get done, incrementally. Illegal immigration is getting done. People want it to stop. The idea that nothing\u2019s getting done in this country\u2019s absurd. What the Democrats want is the Republicans to have some fingerprints on this mess, and that\u2019s what they had better not let happen.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: You know something else about this idea that we gotta get something done? That is, I believe, the root of our problems. What is great about congressional recesses? Nothing gets done. We have too many laws. Since when has this country been defined by the greatness of its legislation. That\u2019s not how things got great. Legislation didn\u2019t make the country great. “What about the GI Bill, Rush?” Ah, spare me. The GI Bill enabled people to work hard. Hard work makes things happen, innovation, creativity, entrepreneurism.<\/p>\n

This idea that we got to be doing something to get things done, Congress has gotta be doing something. Obama and the Democrats had total control of the White House and the House of Representatives and the Senate the first two years. What\u2019d they get done? A lot of bad crap is what they got done. Just because something gets done doesn\u2019t mean good is happening. There\u2019s way too much that\u2019s been done. There\u2019s been way too much of doing something going on out there.<\/p>\n

We just need to stop it. It\u2019s the first order of business, and that\u2019s what this election\u2019s message was, to stop this. Put the brakes on it. But yet it survives out there. “That would mean we wouldn\u2019t be getting things done.” Yes, it would. It would be a major thing to get done to stop Obama\u2019s Regime, to stop this agenda. It would be huge. Look, I don\u2019t mean to be beating a dead horse here. I guess I am. But I\u2019m trying to get through.<\/p>\n

This, to me, seems inarguably perfectly clear. And I\u2019m not trying to stir things up. I never try to stir things. That just happens. I\u2019m not trying to do that. I mean every bit of what I\u2019m saying. Just like in 2009 when I said, “I hope he fails,” I meant that for exactly what it said. And ditto here.<\/p>\n

Greetings. Welcome back. Rush Limbaugh, EIB Network. 800-282-2882, and the e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com.<\/p>\n

“But, Rush, they want us to work together, and they want us to get things done.” No, no, no. If that were the case they would have sent a bunch more Democrats back. This isn\u2019t that hard to figure out. They don\u2019t want compromise. They want this stuff stopped. They\u2019ve had six years now. They know they made a mistake in 2008. They didn\u2019t vote for more of it. How can anybody take any other message?<\/p>\n

If people wanted more of what is happening in the country, they would have returned Democrats to the majority. Republicans would have lost all those Senate seats. The Democrats would have picked up seats in the House. If people wanted more of this, then they would have guaranteed that Obama had what he needed to get it done, and what\u2019d they do? They sent people to stop it.<\/p>\n

Mr. Snerdley, you have a vacant look on your face. Is this hard to understand? (interruption) You\u2019re confusing me, looking like you don\u2019t understand what I\u2019m saying in here and this is simple as hell. How can I make it any simpler? (interruption) Surgeons love to cut people open, too, but sometimes you don\u2019t need surgery. Surgeons like to do surgery. That\u2019s what they do.<\/p>\n

I like to talk but sometimes it\u2019s better when I don\u2019t. Well, not for you. But for me. Sometimes I get tired of talking. Sometimes I get tired of the expectations and the pressure. Sometimes I like to shut up. Most of my life I shut up, by the way. Most of my life I don\u2019t talk, I listen. But that\u2019s another story.<\/p>\n

Just because surgery… (interruption) Wait a minute. Just because surgery is getting something done, does that mean you should have some when you don\u2019t need it? (interruption) Well, okay, then. But we do. We have this silly idea, it\u2019s settled in and it\u2019s been there for decades that the only time things are getting done is when they\u2019re passing legislation. And that\u2019s a crock. That is absolute, total BS.<\/p>\n

We have enough laws. What is legislation but new law? You don\u2019t think we have enough limits on our behavior already? We don\u2019t need anymore limits on our behavior. We don\u2019t need any more people being regulated out of profit, regulated out of prosperity, taxed out of profit. We don\u2019t need anymore! We need to cut it back. We don\u2019t need reduce some of this stuff, in fact. That\u2019s the kind of doing stuff that we need done.<\/p>\n

Great artists will always tell you that the final step in any great work of art is what you take out of it, not what you add to it at the last moment. And if you doubt me, Google it, however you can produce search results, Google it, and you\u2019ll find every great artiste, and not just painter, any artist in anything. When they go in to edit a movie, what do they do? Take stuff out of it that\u2019s confusing, not relevant. They might add some things now and then. I\u2019m not saying it doesn\u2019t happen, but you take out. The idea that we need more laws and we need more legislation and Congress working together. No, no, no, no. We need to halt it, and that\u2019s what the vote meant.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: back to the audio sound bites. I\u2019m taking this slow because, you know, I don\u2019t like to make this show all about me. But I could have if I wanted to today. Because virtually everybody in the Drive-Bys has been asked to comment on my take on the meaning of the election results. Here is Kirsten Powers last night on The Kelly File.<\/p>\n

She asked the question, Megyn Kelly did, “Let\u2019s take immigration. This has been a divisive issue within the Republican Party. Is there any way Republicans get together on that issue and manage to strike a deal with somebody who sees it through a very different ideological lens like President Obama?”<\/p>\n

POWERS: For anything to get done now, someone\u2019s gonna have to compromise. I mean, both sides are gonna have to compromise, because the problem with what Rush Limbaugh said, in my mind is: How are they gonna get anything done if they don\u2019t compromise with President Obama —<\/p>\n

KELLY: Mmm-hmm.<\/line><\/p>\n

POWERS: — \u2019cause he\u2019s gonna veto it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t… Again, you see how people are caught up in this age-old trap or belief that the only time anything gets done is when the two parties sit down and somehow agree on something, and that constitutes “getting something done”? But that\u2019s not what the people who voted in this election want to happen. They want the stuff that is getting done to stop!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no more complicated than that, and it\u2019s not accurate to say, “For anything to get done, somebody\u2019s gonna have to compromise.” That\u2019s not accurate at all. Both sides are not gonna have to compromise to get something done. There\u2019s only one way that can happen, and that\u2019s if you define something getting done as more of the Obama agenda passing, because that\u2019s the only thing that can happen right now with something getting done.<\/p>\n

The Republicans right now cannot advance their agenda. And, by the way, who knows what it is, if I may be so bold. Can somebody tell what the Republican agenda is? And I\u2019m not being critical. Can somebody tell me what the Republican agenda is? They did not run on one. You can\u2019t say the Republicans were elected to implement X, Y, and Z. They did not run on such an agenda.<\/p>\n

So the Republicans don\u2019t have an agenda today, and they can\u2019t get one done anyway. Everybody knows Obama is gonna veto whatever they want to do if they send bills up; that\u2019s the point! You send those bills up to make him veto them. That is getting something done. That is rebuilding the Republican Party brand. That is telling the country what you stand for as a Republican, or as Republicans.<\/p>\n

That informs the American people who really is obstructing things. This, to me — and again, I\u2019m not trying to sound insulting. Please don\u2019t take it that way. It just seems common-sensical to me — or sensible. I don\u2019t understand what\u2019s so hard to grasp here. Let\u2019s just take it in logical order. We had a campaign, and in the campaign the Republicans did not advance an agenda, by design and on purpose.<\/p>\n

The Democrats were committing suicide, and the Republican strategy was to shut up and don\u2019t distract anybody from what the Democrats were doing and let the Democrats commit political suicide. In the individual campaigns, Republican candidates were indeed campaigning on specific things. At the top of their list was Obamacare and repealing it.<\/p>\n

But the national Republican Party doesn\u2019t have an agenda. They didn\u2019t announce one. So how in the world can anybody say they were elected to do something? How can anybody say that the Republicans were elected to advance their agenda when nobody knows what it is? They were sent there to do one thing: To stop what\u2019s happening now.<\/p>\n

They were not sent there to compromise with Obama so he only gets 10% of what he\u2019s doing, or 20% of what he wants. They weren\u2019t sent there to compromise with Obama. If they wanted to get things done, they would have kept Democrats in power and let the Democrats advance their agenda. That\u2019s not what the voters did. They elected people who did not have an agenda, other than the individual candidates.<\/p>\n

But in terms of party identity, you can\u2019t tell me what the Republicans stood for in this election. It\u2019s not a criticism. I\u2019m just look at this as logically as I can. So if you elect a bunch of people… By the way, everybody will admit there\u2019s no way, even if the Republicans had announced an agenda, they can get it done. You\u2019ve got obstructionist number one in the Oval Office who everybody admits is gonna veto whatever comes his way if he doesn\u2019t like it.<\/p>\n

So then what\u2019s to be done?<\/p>\n

How do you stop this?<\/p>\n

Well, the first thing is you don\u2019t agree with any of it. You don\u2019t compromise with anything that Obama wants to do. Zilch, zero, nada. Unless Obama surprises everybody and agrees with you. That\u2019s the only time you compromise is when he comes off what he wants. That\u2019s it. That\u2019s what the people voted for. You don\u2019t compromise by giving him only 10%. You don\u2019t give up anything.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re the winner. You just won big. You just had a landslide. You don\u2019t give up anything! Obama does. He lost. His party lost. They\u2019re the ones that have to move. If they don\u2019t move, the American people should be told. The way you do that is, you send these bills up there just exactly as I said: You attach polling data to \u2019em to show how much the American people support it.<\/p>\n

But what you do is, you very publicly pass pieces of legislation to repeal Obamacare or whatever your agenda is, as Republicans. You send it up, and you let him veto it, and that\u2019s how you tell people who you are as Republicans, and that\u2019s how you portray him as the obstructionist. “But, Rush! But, Rush! The media is not gonna tell the truth about them!” Don\u2019t care. You can. The Republicans can.<\/line><\/p>\n

The Republicans can tell the truth, just as was just proven. Boehner called a press conference and they all showed up, right? And it was all on TV. People that watched it don\u2019t need to have it characterized for \u2019em. They saw it. Republicans can get on TV. They\u2019re more hated than ever now \u2019cause they won. They can get on TV any time they want; they can say whatever they want.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no excuse now for not calling press conferences, going on TV, announcing the agenda, and coming up with legislation. It\u2019s very simple: You make Obama veto what the American people want done. The American people want things to happen, to roll back Obamacare. They don\u2019t want amnesty. You send the legislation up there and you make Obama govern against the will of the people.<\/p>\n

You demonstrate that he\u2019s been doing that. You make the Democrats the focus in your effort to explain to the American people why things aren\u2019t getting done, and you tell them that you heard them and you\u2019re gonna do whatever you can to make sure no more of this gets done. You know you were sent up there to stop it, so you do. See, me — in the eternal-optimist mode in which I live — see this as a golden opportunity.<\/p>\n

I see it as a great opportunity, and it\u2019s not even that hard. You don\u2019t have to debate anybody. You don\u2019t have to. There\u2019s no racism or sexism or bigotry or homophobia. There\u2019s no War on Women. You just announce an agenda via legislation that you know the American people support, you send it up and make him veto it — and then he\u2019s why nothing is getting done. Now, I know it\u2019s not gonna happen in a vacuum.<\/p>\n

Obama, at the same time, is gonna be saying (Obama impression), “I\u2019m working with these guys. I\u2019m doing everything I can but, you know what, I can\u2019t work with them. They\u2019re a bunch of extremist racist pigs and so I gotta do everything by executive order.” Fine. If the American people like that, the Democrats would have won. If Obama keeps doing stuff like that he\u2019s only gonna be further damaging the Democrat Party and Hillary and whoever else in 2016. There are too many golden opportunities here. And we haven\u2019t even gotten to what would guarantee decades of Republican dominance, and that\u2019s conservatism as their agenda. Well, we\u2019ll get there. But for today, the agenda is to stop what\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n

Back to Fox today. Martha MacCallum had a new panel to talk about this. She spoke with Lars Larson, the radio host, syndicated radio host and Leslie Marshall, another syndicated radio host. There are a lot of those, aren\u2019t there, Mr. Snerdley? (laughing) Yes, there are. And Martha MacCallum is one who also thinks thta nothing would get done if we do this. She said here to Lars, “Is Rush right? Because this is a debate that will take place largely on the Republican side of the fence. If you just stop doing things, how does anything get done?” And here\u2019s what Lars Larson had to say.<\/p>\n

LARSON: I think Rush is right from the standpoint that voters are unhappy with the president. They\u2019re also unhappy with the Congress because they see gridlock there, but the gridlock is not coming from the Republicans. Rush is right when he says that it is to stop the policies of the president, because that\u2019s what\u2019s made him unpopular. It\u2019s what made him so toxic that he couldn\u2019t really show up to support Democrats who are running for reelection or for election on Tuesday night, because his policies are so unpopular.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so next it\u2019s time to turn to syndicated radio host Leslie Marshall. The question that Martha MacCallum asked, “If Republicans do block and stop everything they can, are the voters going to look at this and be turned back on them in the 2016 elections being the party of ‘no\u2019 and just not get anything done?”<\/p>\n

MARSHALL: You read my mind, because that\u2019s what I was thinking. The party of “no” has an opportunity for two years to be the party of “yes.” They\u2019re not happy with the president, clearly. But I don\u2019t think this is the referendum entirely on the president, and, quite frankly, that makes it easier on voters that didn\u2019t come out, on Democrats that didn\u2019t run very good campaigns. You had both sides not running on issues, so I don\u2019t think this is really about issues.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, so she\u2019s really concerned about people that didn\u2019t vote. That\u2019s the future of the Democrat Party, people that didn\u2019t vote. So her theory is the party of “no” has an opportunity for two years to be the party of “yes.” How does the Republican Party become the party of “yes”? What do they have to do to achieve that great accomplishment?<\/p>\n

Seriously, what does the Republican Party have to do? They were elected to be the party of “no.” If they want to become the party of “yes,” what they do is go up and do their own version of political suicide and let Obama have what he wants. That\u2019s being the party of “yes,” and then you can wave good-bye to \u2019em in the rearview mirror.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Question: Is the Republican Party known as the party of “no”? They are. The Democrats have been calling them that for years, and they won, didn\u2019t they? They won as the party of “no.” There\u2019s no other way to spin this than my way. I\u2019m just sorry. No, I\u2019m not. It\u2019s the way it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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