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RUSH: I\u2019m gonna play the sound bite of me from this program, the portion of the program where I threw up my hands in frustration and just said, “For the first time I\u2019m ashamed of my country.” Now, I realize that many of you tuned in today wanting to hear more of this, because you didn\u2019t hear it at all yesterday. You weren\u2019t here but you heard about it, so you made an appointment to join this program at the beginning.<\/p>\n

You wanted to hear what this is all about. You wanted to hear more about it, and I haven\u2019t really discussed it yet and you\u2019re probably angry, and I want to tell you why. A, I didn\u2019t say this yesterday to generate attention, interest, or whatever. I don\u2019t do that. That\u2019s not the reason I say anything, any day. The second thing is, I\u2019m really serious when I say, “I don\u2019t want this program to be about me.” So I did the first hour sticking to the issues and so forth.<\/p>\n

Of course the third reason was the old broadcast trick of hooking you in and keeping you waiting. It\u2019s the old entertainer\u2019s creed: “Always leave them wanting more.” You never, ever satisfy the audience. That\u2019s one reason, but that\u2019s third on the list. So let\u2019s just get to it in case anybody missed yesterday\u2019s program or if you heard about it or you heard it discussed and you\u2019re curious. Here, essentially is what I said. I spent more time than this, but this is two minutes, and it\u2019s a pretty good summary of what I said yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in my life, I am ashamed of my country. To be watching all of this, to be treated like this, to have our common sense and intelligence insulted the way it\u2019s being insulted? It just makes me ashamed. Seriously, man. Here we get worked up over $44 billion. That\u2019s the total amount of money that will not be spent that was scheduled to be spent this year.<\/line><\/p>\n

In truth, we\u2019re gonna spend more this year than we spent last year. We\u2019re just not gonna spend as much as was projected. It\u2019s all baseline budgeting. There is no real cut below a baseline of zero. There just isn\u2019t. Yet here they come, sucking us in, roping us in. Panic here, fear there: Crisis, destruction, no meat inspection, no cops, no teachers, no firefighters, no air traffic control.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sorry, my days of getting roped into all this are over.<\/p>\n

We have the media playing along with all this. The ruling class of both parties play along with all this. It\u2019s insulting. I don\u2019t know how else to describe it. I\u2019m into my 25th year. I can\u2019t tell you the number of times this has happened. This hit me yesterday. I\u2019ve said the same things over and over for 25 years. Whether the Clinton presidency or the Obama presidency, whether it\u2019s a Pelosi speakership or Tom Foley (who was speaker when I started), it\u2019s the same stuff.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the same threats. It\u2019s the same arguments over and over. Nothing ever changes! We just keep spending more money. We create more dependency, we get more and more irresponsible from one crisis to the next, all of them manufactured. Except for the real crisis, which nobody ever addresses, and that is: We can\u2019t afford any of this.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Just one slight error. “Fort Worthless” Jim Wright was the speaker when I started, and Tom Foley came in after “Fort Worthless” Jim was forced to resign. Remember why he had to resign? (interruption) Well, it was Newt but what did Fort Worthless do? Well, in addition to being “Fort Worthless” Jim, he published a book that was a rehash of floor speeches, public speeches, and some pages had only one word. Most pages were double-spaced and some were triple-spaced just to get it up to 200 pages.<\/line><\/p>\n

The “book,” nobody ever bought except the unions. The unions bought the books in bulk but never took delivery. They stayed in the basement of the publisher. Fort Worthless Jim was a shifty guy. I mean, he was. He did the most corrupt things. I\u2019ll never forget, he did a response to the State of the Union one year after President George H. W. Bush. It led into the House Bank Scandal, the House Post Office Scandal, and the bottom fell out of the Democrats right in the early nineties over all of this stuff.<\/p>\n

Anyway, my point with all this is that for 25 years, folks, we\u2019ve been dealing with the same premise: “Unless we spend another dime, the country is going to cease to exist.” And for 25 years I have responded to each premise on what I call an intellectual, point-by-point basis refuting every claim. The purpose of this program has been to create as large a body of informed voting citizens as possible. While we\u2019ve been largely and profoundly successful at that, the left has beaten us.<\/p>\n

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They have created far more low-information, unaware, uneducated people than we\u2019ve been able to keep up with. We\u2019ve had a profound impact in improving, increasing that universe of people — citizens — who are in the arena of ideas now, who are informed and educated. I\u2019ve always had a Civics 101 view of the country: People get what they want, they vote what they want, and they get the way they vote.<\/p>\n

And if a majority of people are educated and informed and know what\u2019s going on, liberalism — and these powerful forces that have ill intent to the country — can be defeated. Yet despite overwhelming success in creating more and more people who are informed and active and involved, the left has control of the education system — control of the pop culture, movies, TVs, books, music. We\u2019ve just been outnumbered.<\/p>\n

The way they\u2019ve done it is to create more and more dependency, and then every so often tell those people that they\u2019re about to lose it all because of the Republicans. That\u2019s what we\u2019re going through now with the sequester business, which was an idea of the president of the United States. This guy gets away with not even being seen as governing. He\u2019s seen as a campaigning outsider on the side of the low-information voters.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s trying to help them, protect them, save them from the ravages of people like me, supposedly, who want to take everything away from them. I\u2019m just tired of having to defend this. It\u2019s absurd, and it makes me ashamed. It makes me ashamed that we have sunk and descended to this level in our politics. In order for the left to be able to advance, they require ignorance, and as much ignorance as possible. I don\u2019t mean stupidity. Genuine, real ignorance.<\/p>\n

People don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on. They require more and more of that in order to be successful. The left does not want an informed, participating bloc of people. They want people that don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on. They want people that can be frightened. They want people that can be scared to death. And they do it. The first time it was ridiculous. To actually have to spend time here and tell people, “No, the Republicans do not want your kids to starve.” It\u2019s insulting. <\/p>\n

Back during the budget battle of 1995, that was the battle cry: Republicans want to starve our kids, and the Republicans, like anybody else, said, “Nobody\u2019s gonna believe this,” and they didn\u2019t actively refute it. People believed it. It makes me ashamed that the Democrats can get away with this. It makes me embarrassed and ashamed of this country. Now, normally the left would love this. The left doesn\u2019t like America. They would think, “Oh, wow, Limbaugh\u2019s on our side.” The only problem for them is I\u2019m saying this while one of theirs is president. <\/p>\n

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Back during the 1995 budget battle, folks, they actually had students from New Orleans and other Louisiana cities actually sit down in class and write letters to Republican members of Congress begging not to be starved. ” Please, Mr. Republican congressman, don\u2019t take away my school lunch. I can\u2019t learn when I\u2019m hungry.” The utter futility of dealing with this. Let\u2019s say that was for real — and of course it will never happen — but let\u2019s just hypothetically say that the school lunch program is terminated. Are America\u2019s parents just gonna sit idly by and let their kids go hungry? At what point do the parents enter the scene here? <\/p>\n

At what point do people rise up and say, “I don\u2019t care, my kid\u2019s not gonna go hungry. I\u2019ll feed the kid lunch. I\u2019ll pack a lunch.” But to have to spend time refuting such things as air traffic control will shut down, the military will shut down, there won\u2019t be any firefighters, there won\u2019t be any cops. We\u2019re now into the seventh or eighth episode of this in the last two years, be it the sequester, be it the fiscal cliff argument, be it one of the many arguments over raising the debt limit. In each case we\u2019ve been forced to refute a bunch of out and out ridiculous lies and assertions, and it finally hit me that accepting the premise and arguing that stuff on the merits is to be a fool. <\/p>\n

If we\u2019ve gotten to the point, in my mind, where we have to take time and tell adults in this country, “No, the Republicans don\u2019t want your son to starve” — if we actually have to take time and say that, and then whether or not they believe it is an open question — then what\u2019s there to be proud of? If hundreds of thousands, or millions, whatever, adults actually believe that there are people who want their kids to starve in this country, then not only is that shameful, it\u2019s just downright embarrassing. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s beneath the dignity of any of us here to even have to try and defend it, and to even take on the task of defending it is to accept the premise, which is to be foolish. I\u2019m fed up with it. I can\u2019t do it anymore, after 25 years of the same allegations. And while all this is happening, while all these allegations of austerity, what we\u2019re actually doing is ruining the country. We\u2019re actually spending more than we ever have. We\u2019re actually creating more dependents. The whole thing is shamefully absurd. I don\u2019t know how else to say it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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