{"id":11121,"date":"2013-10-16T16:39:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T16:39:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-10-16T16:39:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T16:39:21","slug":"gop_seeks_to_rid_itself_of_the_tea_party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/10\/16\/gop_seeks_to_rid_itself_of_the_tea_party\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Seeks to Rid Itself of the Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s Ted Cruz on TV right now ripping this deal. I have to tell you, I admire the guy. He\u2019s unflappable. You talk about… (hits table) I\u2019m sorry, folks. I know that pounding the table… I\u2019m not even pounding it. I\u2019m just putting my hand on the table. I\u2019m sorry for the distraction. I will try to limit it. He\u2019s up there, he\u2019s on TV, saying, “This deal isn\u2019t any good. This deal doesn\u2019t provide any relief to the American people. All this deal does is benefit Obama and Harry Reid.” <\/line>But we gotta be fair. Harry Reid didn\u2019t get everything he wanted here, folks. We\u2019ve gotta be honest. Harry Reid wanted a $1 trillion debt limit increase, and he didn\u2019t get it. He only got $986 billion. So he didn\u2019t get $14 billion of the $1,000 billion that he wanted. I\u2019m sure those on our side will claim victory here for hanging tough.<\/line><\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so Dingy Harry and McConnell were announcing on the Senate floor that they\u2019ve reached agreement here to give Obama and the Democrats what they want, and then everybody go home. I don\u2019t know if the agreement was the Republicans can stay home after they go home, but they may as well. Now, Ted Cruz went out, and he had a press conference at the same time this going on, at which he said that he would not block the Senate deal. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

All he could do would be block it for a day or two, and he said that wouldn\u2019t make any sense. So he\u2019s basically, by not blocking it, not trying to block it, it\u2019s a done deal. And of course Drive-Bys are ecstatic, folks. We\u2019re gonna borrow another $1 trillion! You know, we\u2019re gonna borrow a trillion more dollars to pay off money we\u2019ve already borrowed. Boy, it\u2019s a great day in Washington. <\/p>\n

I want you to just keep in mind, Obama said raising the debt limit didn\u2019t mean that we\u2019re gonna go into more debt. We just had to be able to pay our bills. Okay, so Christine Lagarde, the IMF babe, she\u2019ll be happy. A global economic catastrophe\u2019s been averted here! The only thing left now is to steamroller and wipe out the Tea Party so that something like this can never happen again, and that is going to be the objective going forward of both the Republican and Democrat establishments. <\/p>\n

But we\u2019re going another $1 trillion in debt, and that won\u2019t even take a year to run that up. You wait and see. This trillion dollars that we\u2019re gonna borrow is to pay off money we\u2019ve already borrowed, even though Obama said that that\u2019s not what any of this means. This Pew poll says 81% are dissatisfied, but you won\u2019t find Obama\u2019s name in this poll. I\u2019m sorry, that\u2019s just unrealistic, that Obama doesn\u2019t get any blame? Obama\u2019s approval number is (pick your poll) 37 or 41%. <\/p>\n

So it\u2019s a done deal, and for the conservatives, it\u2019s regroup time. I just want you to be prepared. There\u2019s gonna be an all-out assault on the people that you think have done a good job and by extension an all-out assault on you. It\u2019s gonna come from both parties, gonna come from the media. Now, I want to go back to this Bill Clinton piece, because, remember the trick, as I need to reiterate. One of the reasons we\u2019re here is for reasons that still baffle me. The Republican Party has agreed to not oppose anything.<\/p>\n

I mean, tantamount they\u2019ve agreed not to oppose anything. Yeah, they voted against Obamacare, and, yeah, nobody really associates opposition with the Republican Party. Of course the pressure is on \u2019em to, you know, be Democrat light. I mean, the Democrats are saying, “You guys are never gonna win any elections unless you stop this War on Women.” What\u2019s that mean? “You guys better come out for abortion pretty quick or you\u2019re never gonna win, and you guys are never gonna win the White House.”<\/p>\n

As though the Democrats care. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

“You guys, we\u2019re trying to help you,” the Democrats say. You\u2019re never gonna win the White House again, unless you come out for amnesty.” The Democrats really want to advise us on what we need to do to win the White House away from them? The Democrats really want to advise us on how to act so that we take some of their voters? That\u2019s absolute insanity to believe that, and yet amnesty is the next card to fall. Now that this deal has happened, you watch.<\/p>\n

There will be a fast move in Republican circles to push “comprehensive immigration reform,” to go all-in now. I can\u2019t tell you what the Republicans think they\u2019re gonna achieve, except this: I really do believe that some of this is oriented toward driving the conservatives out of the party. I really think some of this is oriented toward the Republicans actually seeking to get rid of their conservative base.<\/p>\n

Even if it takes 15 years in the wilderness to rebuild a new base of people who don\u2019t embarrass them, of people who are of the right temperament. Maybe that\u2019s what they\u2019re willing to do. Maybe they\u2019ve got commitments from their donors to keep \u2019em afloat if they just get rid of some of these wacko right-wing extremists. “We\u2019ll just go all-in here. We\u2019ll try to put together a new base of really responsible moderate, temperate, independent-type American voters.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019ll go out, we\u2019ll expand our demographics, we\u2019ll get a lot of Hispanics doing this, by throwing away the Tea Party, and we\u2019ll get a lot of women voters coming back. We\u2019ll throw away our base, and we\u2019ll get the transgender and the lesbian, gay, bisexual groups, we\u2019ll go out and get the Indians that are ticked off at the Redskins. We\u2019ll get them! We\u2019ll come out against that, and pretty soon we\u2019re gonna own the country.”<\/p>\n

That is the way they\u2019re thinking, and all they gotta do to bring all that off? All they gotta do is throw away their base. That\u2019s Christmas morning for \u2019em. Now, the Democrats never stop whipping up their base. Have you noticed? There\u2019s never any pressure on the Democrats to get rid of their base, and you never hear Democrats ripping in their base. You never hear the Democrats acting embarrassed — and believe me, their base is genuine Looney Tunes. Their base lives and workers in asylums. <\/p>\n

But the Democrats never act embarrassed by \u2019em, never act like they want to get rid of \u2019em. They never, ever do anything other than whip them up, keep them engaged, and turn them out. Meanwhile, the Republicans are tamping their base down. Why? ‘Cause the Democrats don\u2019t like their (the Republicans\u2019) base, and it\u2019s more important to be liked by the Democrats within the wasn\u2019t establishment, I guess, than it is to have the current base they\u2019ve got. <\/p>\n

Now, about this trick about shutting up, not being critical, there\u2019s a Politico story<\/a>. “Former President Bill Clinton is weighing in on the government shutdown, saying the problem is that ‘constant conflict\u2019 can be a big advantage for politicians at the ballot box. ‘Constant conflict is actually often good politics, because the more you can inflame your supporters the more likely they are to show up at Election Day,\u2019 Clinton said on Monday, according to CNN.”<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Well, what is that? That sounds like he\u2019s talking about whipping up the base! If your supporters are more inflamed than the other side, even if the other side has more people agreeing with it, you\u2019ll win because your crowd will show up. Whoa! So while the Democrats and the media have the Republicans convinced that any criticism of Obama is bad politically, and any bickering and anything that reeks of partisanship is extreme, mean-spirited, racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobic and shut up? <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Democrats are out doing the exact opposite. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re trying to whip their lunatics into a frenzy to get them to turn out and to get them to register other lunatics to turn out. Now, what Clinton meant this to be, I\u2019m sure, is an attack on the Tea Party. But when you strip that motivation out of it and Clinton\u2019s talking about “conflict is good politics,” of course it is! Conflict is good. Talk to anybody that sends out a newsletter on Wall Street and you ask \u2019em, “What is the one thing you do to gin up subscriptions?”<\/p>\n

They predict a crash.<\/p>\n

They say, “The crash is right around the corner, and I\u2019ve got the answers for you. Buy my newsletter,” and subscriptions skyrocket when you do that. <\/p>\n

Now, I asked somebody on Wall Street, “Well, what would happen to your subscriptions if you wrote a piece now, ‘The market\u2019s looking good. There are no problems out there and everything is cooling.'” Might get some, but not nearly as many as if they think there\u2019s a crisis. And, remember, the Democrats, there\u2019s no crisis that\u2019s too big to waste. So the Republicans have played right along with this. I remain mystified. My only answer to this is that it isn\u2019t a purposeful effort here to get rid of the base. They really are embarrassed by their base or don\u2019t like the base. They\u2019re just not conservatives, in the Republican establishment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: There\u2019s Ted Cruz on TV right now ripping this deal. I have to tell you, I admire the guy. He\u2019s unflappable. You talk about… (hits table) I\u2019m sorry, folks. I know that pounding the table… I\u2019m not even pounding it. I\u2019m just putting my hand on the table. I\u2019m sorry for the distraction. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nGOP Seeks to Rid Itself of the Tea Party - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/10\/16\/gop_seeks_to_rid_itself_of_the_tea_party\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"GOP Seeks to Rid Itself of the Tea Party - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: There\u2019s Ted Cruz on TV right now ripping this deal. I have to tell you, I admire the guy. He\u2019s unflappable. You talk about… (hits table) I\u2019m sorry, folks. I know that pounding the table… I\u2019m not even pounding it. I\u2019m just putting my hand on the table. I\u2019m sorry for the distraction. I […]\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"GeorgePrayias\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"8 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/\",\"name\":\"The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"description\":\"Excellence In Broadcasting\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/10\/16\/gop_seeks_to_rid_itself_of_the_tea_party\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/10\/16\/gop_seeks_to_rid_itself_of_the_tea_party\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/10\/16\/gop_seeks_to_rid_itself_of_the_tea_party\/\",\"name\":\"GOP Seeks to Rid Itself of the Tea Party - The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/10\/16\/gop_seeks_to_rid_itself_of_the_tea_party\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2013-10-16T16:39:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-10-16T16:39:21+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9a33276eb9dc5b6d3f8218957f30e6b4\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/10\/16\/gop_seeks_to_rid_itself_of_the_tea_party\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/10\/16\/gop_seeks_to_rid_itself_of_the_tea_party\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/10\/16\/gop_seeks_to_rid_itself_of_the_tea_party\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"GOP Seeks to Rid Itself of the Tea Party\"}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9a33276eb9dc5b6d3f8218957f30e6b4\",\"name\":\"GeorgePrayias\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d290ab65e2eaca3719268528f83b85bf?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d290ab65e2eaca3719268528f83b85bf?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"GeorgePrayias\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/GeorgePrayias\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"GOP Seeks to Rid Itself of the Tea Party - The Rush Limbaugh Show","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/10\/16\/gop_seeks_to_rid_itself_of_the_tea_party\/","twitter_card":"summary","twitter_title":"GOP Seeks to Rid Itself of the Tea Party - The Rush Limbaugh Show","twitter_description":"RUSH: There\u2019s Ted Cruz on TV right now ripping this deal. I have to tell you, I admire the guy. He\u2019s unflappable. You talk about… (hits table) I\u2019m sorry, folks. I know that pounding the table… I\u2019m not even pounding it. I\u2019m just putting my hand on the table. I\u2019m sorry for the distraction. I […]","twitter_image":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"GeorgePrayias","Est. reading time":"8 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/","name":"The Rush Limbaugh Show","description":"Excellence In Broadcasting","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/10\/16\/gop_seeks_to_rid_itself_of_the_tea_party\/#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/10\/16\/gop_seeks_to_rid_itself_of_the_tea_party\/#webpage","url":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/10\/16\/gop_seeks_to_rid_itself_of_the_tea_party\/","name":"GOP Seeks to Rid Itself of the Tea Party - The Rush Limbaugh Show","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/10\/16\/gop_seeks_to_rid_itself_of_the_tea_party\/#primaryimage"},"datePublished":"2013-10-16T16:39:21+00:00","dateModified":"2013-10-16T16:39:21+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9a33276eb9dc5b6d3f8218957f30e6b4"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/10\/16\/gop_seeks_to_rid_itself_of_the_tea_party\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/10\/16\/gop_seeks_to_rid_itself_of_the_tea_party\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/10\/16\/gop_seeks_to_rid_itself_of_the_tea_party\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"GOP Seeks to Rid Itself of the Tea Party"}]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9a33276eb9dc5b6d3f8218957f30e6b4","name":"GeorgePrayias","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d290ab65e2eaca3719268528f83b85bf?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d290ab65e2eaca3719268528f83b85bf?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"GeorgePrayias"},"url":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/author\/GeorgePrayias\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}