{"id":13862,"date":"2012-11-28T20:29:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T20:29:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-11-28T20:29:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T20:29:12","slug":"republicans_are_shell_shocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/11\/28\/republicans_are_shell_shocked\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans are Shell Shocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">RUSH: This is Dennis in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  Hi, Dennis.  You\u2019re on the EIB Network.  Hi.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">CALLER:  Hey, Rush, how you doing?  I can\u2019t believe I\u2019m talking to one-fourth of a perfect golf foursome.  Hey, I wanted to make a couple points here.  I\u2019m just afraid our guys have already caved.  I don\u2019t think they really understand what liberalism is.  To your point about true conservatism.  I think that at one point our senator was a true conservative, but when he goes on MSNBC with Chris Matthews and Joe Klein and starts talking about all options are on the table, it really bothers me.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">RUSH:  You\u2019re talking about Tom Coburn?<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">CALLER:  Tom Coburn, yeah, the senator from Oklahoma.  When was the last time we saw any of the liberals on any of the talk shows talking about spending decreases?<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">RUSH:  Well, look, your instinct on this is right.  The Republicans right now, Dennis, are shell shocked.  The Republicans really thought that Romney was going to win the election, and I think they thought it was going to be fairly sizeable, not landslide, but there were a lot of people that thought Romney was gonna win.  As a result, the Republicans are now shell shocked.  They are believing that every core principle they have has been rejected by a majority of the American people.  And the politician\u2019s job is to get reelected first and to spend money second.  That\u2019s their job. <\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">So that\u2019s why you\u2019re hearing from the Republicans all the things they think they\u2019ve gotta do in order to get the votes that they lost to Obama. They gotta do get the illegal immigration vote, that\u2019s amnesty.  They\u2019ve gotta get the welfare state vote.  That\u2019s supporting bigger government, welfare.  There\u2019s no impetus right now in the Republican Party to buck up and to embark on an educational process to the American people.  It\u2019s just not how Republican politics works.  The Democrats, by comparison, when they lose, you never ever hear a single Democrat say, &#8220;You know what?  Maybe we\u2019re gonna have to abandon amnesty.  You know what?  Maybe we\u2019re gonna have to abandon our pro-abortion position.&#8221; <\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\"><img xhtml:id=\"eZObject_69952\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushElectionMap2012.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">They never ever publicly or privately say anything like that.  Their objective is to conduct an even more fervent assault on the voters for voting against them.  So that\u2019s just where we are.  Of course there isn\u2019t going to be entitlement reform.  My question would be, A, why does anybody think there will be?  Who won the election?  Barack Obama and the Democrats.  Do they believe in entitlement reform?  No.  Do they think that the entitlements should be made smaller and that government should get smaller?  No.  Who lost the election?  The Republicans.  What power do they have?  They have the House of Representatives, and that\u2019s it.  They don\u2019t have the Senate. They don\u2019t have the White House. They\u2019re not looking at their position as being in any way, shape, manner, or form one of strength. <\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">&#8220;What do you mean, Rush?  The parameters of the deal were gonna be entitlement reform.&#8221;<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">Parameters of what deal?  The so-called balanced approach?  Who is they?  Okay.  So Obama and the Democrats said the fiscal cliff, get a balanced approach, and balanced means we\u2019re gonna have some spending cuts along with revenue enhancements.  Right.  Well, I\u2019m sorry, I don\u2019t believe a word the Democrats say, particularly when they start talking about balance or spending cuts.  They may say it, they don\u2019t believe it, and it isn\u2019t going to happen.  Not the current configuration. Not with Obama and the White House. Not even three weeks after winning. Why in the world does anybody think Obama\u2019s gonna give anything away three weeks after winning the election?  Why does anybody think Obama is in a weakened position after winning elections?  Why does anybody think that we are in a more powerful position after losing the election? <\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">So what are we gonna do?  Well, we can do our best to hold tight on no tax increases.  But I see Republicans here and there say, &#8220;Yeah, we\u2019re gonna have to look at the revenue side of things, there\u2019s no question about that.&#8221;  Yes, there is a question about that because the revenue side of things isn\u2019t the problem.  The spending side of things is the problem, but we didn\u2019t win, folks.  The people that believe in no limits on spending did.  The American people don\u2019t want any limits on spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: This is Dennis in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Hi, Dennis. You\u2019re on the EIB Network. Hi. CALLER: Hey, Rush, how you doing? I can\u2019t believe I\u2019m talking to one-fourth of a perfect golf foursome. Hey, I wanted to make a couple points here. I\u2019m just afraid our guys have already caved. 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