{"id":15476,"date":"2012-06-07T16:34:10","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T16:34:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-06-07T16:34:10","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T16:34:10","slug":"secret_senate_meetings_on_bush_tax_cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/06\/07\/secret_senate_meetings_on_bush_tax_cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Senate Meetings on Bush Tax Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: There\u2019s a secret meeting going on — a series of meetings, a series of secret meetings taking place — between and among senators of both parties, 12 of \u2019em. It\u2019s not secret anymore because The Politico has the story.<\/p>\n

“Secret Talks Under Way About ‘Fiscal Cliff.'” The Politico claims that 12 senators from both parties are secretly huddling over plans to avoid the fiscal cliff awaiting us on January 2013. That\u2019s Taxageddon. Senator Dick “Turban” of Illinois says that the senators are trying to come up with measures that “will restore confidence in the business community.” But if their measures would restore confidence in the business community, why do they have to keep \u2019em secret, is my question. If these 12 senators are meeting, six Republicans, six Democrats, from what I\u2019m told, if they\u2019re meeting in secret to try to come up with ideas to restore confidence in the business community, why not do it in public? If you really want to restore confidence, why do you have to keep it hidden? <\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s the answer. These talks “must be done secretly and never be made public.” That\u2019s a quote from the story. These talks must be done secretly and can never be made public because secret talks will allow Democrat senators to make entitlement cuts, and Republican Senators to increase taxes without either side getting blasted in the political arena. In other words, these Senators know that they\u2019re having this secret meeting, and they\u2019re plotting things that end up being essentially governing against the will of the people. I mean, we\u2019ve learned by now cuts to entitlements never materialize. Tax increases always do. Besides, most of us know that we don\u2019t have a tax problem; we have a spending problem, and increasing taxes just increases our spending problem. <\/p>\n

So there\u2019s a secret meeting, and it\u2019s a replay of what\u2019s gone on in public. The Democrats promise entitlement reform but they\u2019ve gotta do it privately because their left-wing extreme kooks would go absolutely nuts and the old folks, if they found out about it, would start throwing bricks at their cars like they did to Dan “Rosty” Rostenkowski. The Republicans who can\u2019t publicly say they\u2019re gonna increase taxes privately will talk to the Democrats about doing just that, in exchange for all these entitlement cuts. And together, working in secret, without any arrows being thrown, these brave 12 Senators can come up with a plan that, when publicly revealed, will be greeted with love, adoration, and total support. But they couldn\u2019t do it in public. This is in The Politico. <\/p>\n

I think there\u2019s something else at work here. This article in The Politico ends up saying that all that will probably come out of this is a temporary extension of all the Bush tax cuts, as Clinton initially suggested this week. Oh, about that, Clinton\u2019s aides are saying that he screwed up and they\u2019re blaming his age. Clinton\u2019s own support staff is saying privately to the media, “Look, all this positive talk about Romney, he\u2019s just getting old. The guy\u2019s getting old.” The implication is he says things he doesn\u2019t know. Not using words like dementia or any of that, but the implication is clear. This guy is aging. He doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s saying sometimes. You gotta cut him some slack. That\u2019s Clinton\u2019s own people, according to the Politico. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, I want to go back, ladies and gentlemen, this secret meeting that\u2019s going on, series of secret meetings taking place, according to The Politico. There are 12 Senators from both parties secretly huddling over plans to avoid the fiscal disaster we\u2019re headed to in January of next year. Taxmageddon, the Bush tax cuts end, and new tax increases start with Obamacare, new rounds of government spending, all kinds of things that, if they happen… I find this fascinating, too. Even the Democrats know, and it\u2019s a Democrat wish list. The Bush tax cuts end, new tax increases, massive spending, and they understand fully that it\u2019ll wreck the US economy. Some of them do. And we\u2019re led to believe that enough of \u2019em care about it that they\u2019re having secret meetings with the Republicans to try to head off this disaster. <\/p>\n

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I\u2019m not sure I believe that. I think it\u2019s another attempt behind the scenes to snooker Republicans into going along with tax increases. They\u2019re not gonna cut entitlements. When\u2019s the last time an entitlement\u2019s been cut? The only way an entitlement\u2019s gonna get cut if it\u2019s deemed unconstitutional. There haven\u2019t been any entitlement costs proposed that anybody really ever meant. And they\u2019re always paired. “We\u2019ll start talking entitlement reform if you Republicans finally agree that we need new revenue,” i.e., tax increases. <\/p>\n

So at the center of everything is the Bush tax cuts expiring. That is at the center of everything. We talked about this on this program yesterday<\/a>. I said… and Snerdley perked up on this, he couldn\u2019t believe it. The conventional wisdom is that if Obama\u2019s reelected, and we get to Taxmageddon, that he\u2019s gonna relent, and he\u2019s gonna authorize another temporary extension of the Bush tax cuts to avoid economic disaster. That\u2019s the conventional wisdom. Now, Obama\u2019s not saying it. All of his surrogates are saying it. The press is speculating. A lot of people have just concluded that it\u2019s conventional wisdom. David “Rodham” Gergen. We played the sound bite yesterday, David “Rodham” Gergen thinks that Clinton is actually part of a strategery here to give Obama cover on this, because Clinton is out there not only saying we shouldn\u2019t hit Bain Capital, private equity is honorable work and those are good people, but we need to extend the Bush tax cuts because we are in a recession. <\/p>\n

What you have to understand here, folks, and I\u2019m not exaggerating, what you and I call Taxageddon, the Democrats call nirvana. What you and I look at as fiscal disaster, they look at as dreams realized. And I am not exaggerating. So the popular conventional wisdom, which is often wrong, is that Clinton is out talking about extending the Bush tax cuts to give Obama cover for doing it. I do not believe if Obama\u2019s reelected he\u2019ll not extend the Bush tax cuts. That\u2019s not why he\u2019s running for reelection. He\u2019s running for reelection to end those tax cuts and to raise them. That\u2019s what Obama\u2019s salivating over. He\u2019s not gonna extend these tax cuts. And I don\u2019t know whether David “Rodham” Gergen\u2019s believing his own drivel or whether he\u2019s part of the ruse, too. (interruption) Carney said that? Carney said it on the gaggle on Air Force One? The spokeskid said that Obama is not gonna extend the Bush tax cuts. Okay, well, then the regime is on record, if Snerdley\u2019s right. There\u2019s no guarantee of that. (laughing) <\/p>\n

So, anyway, at the center of all these secret meetings, the Bush tax cuts. What The Politico says is going on here is that Durbin is the guy talking, and he\u2019s saying that they\u2019re having these private meetings because to do this publicly, everybody would start throwing stones at \u2019em and they would disband. The political heat would be too much. If Democrat voters learned that Democrat Senators were considering cuts to entitlements, that there would be hell to pay. By the same token if Republican voters learned that Republican Senators were talking about raising taxes, there would be hell to pay. So Durbin says we can only do this in private. We can\u2019t hold public meetings. So why talk about it, Dick? Why leak it to The Politico that it\u2019s even happening? And they also say, Durbin says to The Politico, the reason they\u2019re doing this in private is to make sure that business is able to have its confidence restored. Dick Durbin said they\u2019re trying to come up with measures that will restore confidence in the business community. <\/p>\n

Now, if these ideas that they\u2019re talking about in secret would restore confidence in the business community, don\u2019t you think that that would happen if they did this publicly? So I think there\u2019s something else at work here. This article in The Politico ends up saying that when all is said and done, all that will end up happening is a temporary extension of the Bush tax cuts as Bill Clinton is out suggesting. The Politico cites Kent Conrad, Democrat Kent Conrad. They quote him as saying it might make some sense to extend all the taxes in short term, tax cuts. So Obama\u2019s gonna take Kent Conrad to the Cory Booker Memorial Woodshed because Kent Conrad is the latest Democrat to publicly speak out against the Obama agenda. <\/p>\n

But I\u2019ve been here too many times. I\u2019ve seen this kind of thing too many times. I\u2019ve been around too long to get fooled by any of this. And this to me looks like — and I hope I\u2019m not being too smart by half here — but this is starting to look to me like a deliberate Democrat strategery. And the strategery is Obama encourages all these top Democrats to say the Bush tax cuts have to be extended, that Obama wants Clinton out there saying this stuff. That Obama wants Durbin talking about this. That Obama wants all these other people talking about the Bush tax cuts have to be extended after the election in order to boost economic optimism before November. The key for all of this is for business to think that Taxageddon is not gonna happen before the election. <\/p>\n

But let\u2019s say they play this out. Let\u2019s just watch. Let\u2019s see if all this talk about extending the Bush tax cuts continues. Let\u2019s see if more people pick it up. Let\u2019s see if it becomes part of the conventional wisdom. Let\u2019s just see in the next couple of months, three months, if indeed it becomes part of the mass political assumption every day “oh, yeah, Bush tax cuts extended, January 2012. We can\u2019t allow that to happen, no, no, no, no. We\u2019re gonna have to extend those tax cuts to help” — just say that becomes the public assumption. The purpose of that will be to ease business opposition to Obama and then Obama, let\u2019s just say gets reelected, and it\u2019s just gonna be like Bill Clinton and his middle class tax cut. <\/p>\n

Shortly after being inaugurated in 1993, Bill Clinton called a press conference, might have been from the Oval Office, (Clinton impression) “I have never worked harder in my life. I have looked at the numbers, and, folks, we just can\u2019t afford a middle-class tax cut. I wanted to do this, I know I said I was gonna do it, but you know what? It\u2019s worse than we thought. This is the worse economy, the last 50 years, and I just can\u2019t do it.” We\u2019re gonna get the same thing with Obama. We can\u2019t extend the Bush tax cuts. It\u2019s not going to happen. In other words, a big lie is being perpetrated here for the purpose of getting Obama reelected. I wouldn\u2019t put it past them, all these so-called betrayals and misstatements Clinton and all these other guys, supposedly embarrassing Obama. Where\u2019s the discipline? <\/p>\n

<\/a>If all these guys are really off the reservation and really embarrassing Obama, where\u2019s the discipline? Remember, Michael Walsh had it right. To understand the Democrat Party today is to understand the workings of a modern crime organization, crime family. You go off the reservation like this, you get punished. Look at Bob Torricelli, Andrew Cuomo. Bill Clinton in both cases went to those guys. You know, Cuomo wanted to run for something, and he said, (Clinton impression) “Andrew, you see what happened to Torricelli? He went to jail, Andrew, he was close to going to jail. if you want to have a political future you\u2019re gonna back out.” Carl McCall. Whenever any of these Democrats have gone off the reservation there has been discipline. <\/p>\n

There isn\u2019t any discipline now. These guys are getting away with supposedly humiliating and embarrassing Obama. Here it is from the Washington Post, “Warshington,” for those of you in Rio Linda. “ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — The White House is insisting President Barack Obama will not extend the Bush-era tax cuts for wealthier Americans \u00c2\u2013 even temporarily. Obama spokesman Jay Carney said the president has been clear in his opposition to extending tax cuts for households with annual incomes above $250,000.” So, maybe my theory is not right. ‘Cause Obama\u2019s undercutting it. <\/p>\n

For my theory to be right, Obama would have to shut up and go along with it. But now the spokeskid\u2019s out there undercutting Clinton and undercutting David “Rodham” Gergen and making it clear, “I don\u2019t care what you hear from my so-called friends, I am not extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich.” You got these Senators meeting in private trying to come up with a deal to save us from Taxmageddon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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