{"id":15808,"date":"2012-05-02T18:46:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T18:46:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-05-02T18:46:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T18:46:26","slug":"allen_west_and_the_gop_establishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/05\/02\/allen_west_and_the_gop_establishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Allen West and the GOP Establishment"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Carl in Fort Lauderdale. Carl, I\u2019m glad you held on. Welcome to the program, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush it\u2019s sensational to be on the phone with you. Thank you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That lady that called before and you were trying to help her out where her Democratic friends keep beating her up, and you were explaining the lack of power having only the House. But I remember so clearly — and I was so mad and I\u2019m still mad — right after the 2010 midterms there was one of these requests from Obama for $2.4 trillion in expanded debt. Well, the House and Boehner and those guys put together their own package.<\/p>\n

And, just as soon as it was done, and maybe before, Reid says, “I\u2019m not gonna vote on that.” And Obama says, “If they do and they pass it, I\u2019m gonna veto it.” And instantaneously, immediately, they hustled back into the hole and they come out with a bill exactly as Obama wanted it. Now, I\u2019m in District 22 here in Florida with Allen West. I thought he was gonna be a strong man, but he laid down like the rest of them. I think that\u2019s where a lot of disappointment comes from in America, from conservatives. They just lay down.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: What do you mean Allen West laid down?<\/p>\n

CALLER: He backed Boehner.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (deep sigh)<\/p>\n

CALLER: By the way, can I say hello to my buddy?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, go ahead while I figure out what I\u2019m gonna say to you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Wayne! I\u2019m on the phone with Rush! (chuckles)<\/p>\n

RUSH: (chuckles) Big day. That\u2019s a big day.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t remember specifically the spending argument that you described. I\u2019m not denying it. I do know there were a bunch of battles over raising the debt limit, and it was always made to look like the Republicans caved. And I will admit to you: I thought that in each one of those fights the Republicans held the cards and could have dictated to Obama. I always thought that. I thought the same thing that you do. I thought that it was Obama that needed the money. He\u2019s the one that wanted to spend. He\u2019s the one that needed to spend. We could have held out. What is the debt limit for? What does the word “limit” mean? What good is it if it doesn\u2019t exist and you just keep expanding it? Why even have a debt limit?<\/p>\n

CALLER: After they passed it, you called it his new slush fund.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it was. Everything is a slush fund!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, why\u2019d they pass it?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, Allen West…<\/p>\n

CALLER: Why\u2019d they do that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, as a powerful, influential member of the media, I know things that I can\u2019t tell because of confidences. But I\u2019ll just tell you: I was with Allen West. When was this? It was last… It was around one of these instances, and he was just as depressed as he could be over things he was hearing the leadership say to freshmen and so forth. Basically what it was — and Democrats do it; Republicans do it. They say to incoming freshmen… Remember, now, we\u2019ve talked about this. The House leadership was not crazy about these new Tea Party freshmen.<\/p>\n

<\/a>They thought they were nuts. They thought they were kooks. And they bring \u2019em in, and they say, “Look if you want to have any future here, if you want us to help you with your reelection, you\u2019re gonna have to vote with the leadership.” And immediately they face a choice. And that\u2019s why a number of freshmen stand out. You\u2019ve got the guy in Illinois. [Joe Walsh] He stands up, and he\u2019s independent, and he refuses, and the Tea Party people love him.<\/p>\n

But most of them end up, in one instance or another, going along with the leadership. They\u2019re under a lot of pressure to do this. And I remember Allen West. He did the best he could. He told me that he and his fellow freshmen did as much as was humanly possible, given what they were up against. They didn\u2019t have, within the Republican Caucus, enough of these guys to stop the rest of the Republicans in the House. And then, of course, when you\u2019re talking about raising the debt limit, you\u2019ve got all the pressure that\u2019s being brought to bear.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re talking about all the news about what\u2019s gonna happen to our credit rating, all the news of what\u2019s gonna happen to the financial markets. And, as is the usual case, Carl, everybody\u2019s predicting the apocalypse. “If the debt ceiling isn\u2019t raised, why, there goes our credit rating! If the debt ceiling isn\u2019t raised, why, Social Security checks may not go out!” And guess who\u2019s gonna get blamed? The Republicans! The media is blaming them and other Republicans are blaming them. And their hopes of being reelected are dowsed in their first terms if that happens.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I keep saying that it\u2019s gonna require a whole lot of elections, and a whole lot of conservatives winning them, to begin turning back the tide here. But whether these concerns were real or not doesn\u2019t matter. If the financial markets would not have reacted negatively had there not been that specific increase in the debt limit, it is still being reported. The people are hearing it. So it\u2019s a vicious, vicious cycle and battle that takes place. But I don\u2019t believe that, on general principles, Allen West has shrunken from duty and responsibility or “laid down,” as you say.<\/p>\n

But I appreciate the call, Carl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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