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Some of you may not agree with me here, so I want to try to expand on it just a little bit because you have to look at what both parties want here, and in the process you\u2019ll get what they ostensibly stand for. So the Republicans want entitlement reform. They\u2019re in no position to get it, by the way. The Republicans are in no position to win anything. They can hold out, but they can\u2019t get what they want.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no reason to!<\/p>\n
Why would Obama give the Republicans anything they want? Why would he? Only we do that. No. Obama doesn\u2019t compromise. Community organizers and so forth don\u2019t compromise. He\u2019d be happy with the illusion of compromise and bipartisanship, but there isn\u2019t any. The Republicans, if they stay true to form, recognize that what we have here totally is a spending problem.<\/p>\n
When Jay Carney says that we can\u2019t “afford” to extend the current tax rates, that is a profound statement. The president\u2019s spokesman is saying that the nation cannot “afford” for people making over $250,000 to keep what they\u2019re keeping. It is entirely their fault. Our deficit and debt problem is entirely due to the fact that high earners aren\u2019t paying enough of what they earn to fund the government. There\u2019s no compromise in that.<\/p>\n
As far as Obama and the Democrats are concerned, there should be no limit on spending. In fact, you heard Geithner say, one of his demands in the deal is that the president gets to lift the debt limit singularly and arbitrarily. He wants to take the whole notion of a debt limit off the table. There won\u2019t be one. He wants total control over it. So the fault here is not that the government is too big. The fault is not that there\u2019s too much spending.<\/p>\n
The problem is not that we\u2019re wasting money. The problem is entirely that the people able to are not paying enough for it, and that\u2019s gotta change. That means that the only people with any money left are gonna have to fork over more of it. Now, the Republicans think that it\u2019s entirely the opposite. It\u2019s a spending problem. The government\u2019s too big and spending money and borrowing money it doesn\u2019t have.<\/p>\n
Entitlements have gotten too big, and they can\u2019t be sustained at the current level of spending and taxation, and they haven\u2019t been sustainable for quite a while. So what the Republicans want to do is reform entitlements, such as raising the eligibility age for Social Security, or eliminating it or means testing it for certain people at certain income levels because we can\u2019t afford it.<\/p>\n
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Democrats say, “What do you mean, take it away from them? There\u2019s no way! There is no way! Entitlement reform?” They don\u00c2\u2019t want that. They want more money to expand it. There is no common ground, folks. There simply is no middle ground here at all. Compromise is impossible. All that can happen and all that will happen is one side will concede, and what Obama wants is a confession.<\/p>\n
When this is all said and done, Obama wants it understood that this problem was caused by George Bush; that the Republicans are responsible for the debt. The Republicans are responsible for the deficit. The Republicans are responsible for the entitlements maybe not being able to pay what their promises are, because Bush didn\u2019t take enough money from people who could afford it.<\/p>\n
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Well, not only did he do it, but a majority of voters also blamed George Bush. We saw it in the polls. So what I think Obama is aiming for is, essentially, a confession from the Republicans that this is their fault. And in getting it, in getting that confession, Obama seeks to ensure that there will never, ever be tax cuts again. “Because look what they led to.” And when or if the Republicans concede, that will be the story.<\/p>\n
The seeds have been planted. The sprouts are growing and they\u2019re soon to bloom. “Bush did it! Bush and the Republicans did this.” From the Founders to Bush, they did this. This country was founded improper and unjustly and immorally and unfairly, and we\u2019ve finally reach a tipping point where those guys couldn\u2019t live off their illusion. These 230 years have been a mistake, and now we\u2019re fixing it.<\/p>\n
And at the end of all this, the Republicans will end up admitting that President Obama is right. Now, Boehner\u2019s not gonna call a press conference and say any of this. That\u2019s not going to happen. He won\u2019t have to. The media will take care of this for Obama. A confession: “Republicans admit that if there had been higher taxes for the past decade, there wouldn\u2019t be a deficit, and the national debt would not have grown. The budget would have been balanced.<\/p>\n
“In fact, we\u2019d still have a surplus! We would still have the Clinton surplus, if Bush hadn\u2019t cut those taxes. Tax cuts are to blame.” That will be the single lesson learned when this is over: “Tax cuts caused this,” and 98% of the American people will be told that tax cuts for 2% caused this, and they will accept that. They will believe that. So that down the road, the next time… What is the Republican Party singularly known for? Cutting taxes.<\/p>\n
So ten years from now, five years from now, a Republican is back in the White House, maybe, and proposes tax cuts. “Oh, we can\u2019t do that! Look what happened the last time we did it with Bush. Look what happened.” Obama will be removed from the equation. In fact, Obama\u2019s involvement in the equation will be as the fixer. Obama will be the savior. He will be the solution.<\/p>\n
He will have identified the problem. He will have persuaded the country of the problem, and he will have beaten back the Republicans into admitting that they were the problem. He doesn\u2019t want the Republicans crying “uncle.” He wants them crying “Bush.” That\u2019s where this is headed. That\u2019s why the money doesn\u2019t matter. That\u2019s why all of this is smoke and mirrors. All this talk about $800 billion to pay for this, to reduce the deficit here? The CBO says all of that is a distraction.<\/p>\n
It is smoke and mirrors. It\u2019s entirely irrelevant. In fact, Obama has demonstrated in his first four years that he doesn\u2019t care about that. In fact, running up this debt and annual deficits of over a trillion dollars have been done purposely so that we arrive at this point, so that it can all be blamed on tax cuts. You think that sounds too simplistic, that it\u2019s gotta be more complicated than that? Well, there are a lot of intricacies in it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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<\/a>But remember, no less a personage than Dr. Krauthammer has suggested that Obama wants to decimate the Republican Party, and it\u2019s true. He wants to decimate the Republican Party and create a civil war within the party, particularly in the House. Well, if you take away from a political party its top identity — in the Republicans\u2019 case, it\u2019s tax cuts equal economic growth. If you destroy that, you\u2019ve destroyed the Republican Party.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/00-24_7Self585.jpg\"\/)
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