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<\/p>\nRUSH: Here\u2019s George W. Bush at his conference. This is in New York City today on taxes and economic growth.<\/p>\n
PRESIDENT BUSH: If you raise taxes on the so-called rich, you\u2019re really raising taxes on the job creators. And if the goal is private sector growth, you gotta recognize that the best way to create that growth is to leave capital in the treasuries of the job creators. I wish they weren\u2019t called the Bush tax cuts. If they\u2019re called some other body\u2019s tax cuts, they\u2019re probably less likely to be raised. If you raise taxes, you\u2019re taking money out of the pockets of consumers. We trust people when it comes to spending their money, and so should the government.<\/p>\n
RUSH: George W. Bush, after three years, shows up to defend his economic policies and laments that it\u2019s called the Bush tax cuts. If it were called anybody else\u2019s tax cuts, nobody would wanna get rid of \u2019em. He\u2019s right. He\u2019s absolutely right. He knows how despised and hated by the media he is, the left and so forth. So, anyway, he\u2019s out there, he\u2019s defending his stuff now. Donald Trump was on CNBC today with Joe Kernen talking about the Paul Ryan budget. Trump thinks it\u2019s catastrophic for the Republican Party. Joe Kernen says, “I disagreed with you initially when you said Ryan shouldn\u2019t have put out his budget plan. You thought that people would take that budget and twist it around, use it maybe as not what it is, and that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s happened, Donald.”<\/p>\n
TRUMP: I like Paul Ryan, and I\u2019m not knocking anything about his plan. I\u2019m just saying the timing of this plan is potentially catastrophic for the Republicans.<\/p>\n
RUSH: The timing of the plan. I like Paul Ryan, I like the plan, just not now. So back to CNBC\u2019s Squawk Box, Joe Kernen then got hold of Ryan. He played Ryan that clip of Trump. And Kernen then said, “So Donald is cynical. Maybe it\u2019s a realistic viewpoint. Obama can lay in the weeds with a budget that got zero votes from either side. He doesn\u2019t tell the American people any hard choices they\u2019re gonna have to make. So you tell \u2019em the hard choices and grandma and grandpa think they\u2019re gonna be out in the snow starving after they read your budget, and Obama doesn\u2019t have a budget that anybody is paying any attention to, so he\u2019s safe, and you\u2019re gonna make people think they\u2019re gonna be starving in the snow. Was this a wise move, Congressman?”<\/p>\n
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RYAN: I think it\u2019s wise to be honest with the American people about the problems we have ahead of us. I think it\u2019s the right thing to do is show leadership, put solutions on the table to avert a debt crisis. So, yeah, I think the analyses is correct. The president has chosen to punt, not to lead on this most pressing issue of our generation. Wait for Republicans to offer their plan, then attack. And that\u2019s his method to political success to the election. I think people are gonna see through this. You know, where I come from, in a very swing area in America, in Wisconsin, people want to be talked to like adults. They want the facts, the truth. They want ideas and solutions. They don\u2019t want to be pandered to like children.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, even though we\u2019re gonna have to start telling them about Obama\u2019s record, because that\u2019s the answer to this. The answer to this is not to defend the Ryan budget. That\u2019s minutia. If we\u2019re gonna get into this, if we\u2019re gonna roll up the sleeves, the only target is Obama and his record. That\u2019s all that matters. And that\u2019s how you stay on offense. I mentioned this last week. I\u2019m repeating it again. His record must be the battlefield, because he can\u2019t defend it. There\u2019s not one aspect of Obama\u2019s record that he can point to and say, “You want more of this? Vote for me.” Nobody wants any more of it. People have to be reminded he\u2019s running not as an incumbent. Obama is running for office as somebody who hasn\u2019t been there yet. Obama is trying to re-create the 2008 campaign. <\/p>\n
(imitating Obama) “There\u2019s a mess here. This mess is 200-plus years old. It doesn\u2019t work and it hasn\u2019t worked, and I\u2019m the guy to fix it.” That\u2019s his campaign. “This is a country that has only cared about the people who can take care of themselves. And most people can\u2019t take care of themselves because most people are victims of the people who can take care of themselves. The people who can take care of themselves have exploited all these other poor saps that can\u2019t. Well, I\u2019m here for these poor saps. I\u2019m here to make sure you don\u2019t get trod on anymore. I\u2019m here to make sure you don\u2019t get disrespected. I\u2019m here to make sure that your money is not taken away from you. I\u2019m here to make sure you have just as much chance to get rich as these guys who\u2019ve taken your money,” And he\u2019s gonna run as somebody who\u2019s positioned to fix the 200-plus years of absolute disaster this country has been. And it isn\u2019t gonna be his disaster. <\/p>\n
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But he hasn\u2019t really done anything yet. He\u2019s running not as the incumbent. You\u2019ll be able to count on one hand the number of times Obama cites any of his so-called achievements. One of them will be health care, and he\u2019ll have to lie about it. “Yeah, I gave health care to every American. I reduced their premiums and it came in saving money.” That\u2019s what he\u2019ll say. And it\u2019s gonna be up to Republicans to roll up their sleeves and say, “Nope, it didn\u2019t happen.” But that\u2019s gonna require confrontation. That\u2019s going to require competition. That\u2019s going to require a lot of confidence. <\/p>\n
Anyway, there\u2019s one more Paul Ryan bite here. Joe Kernen on CNBC says, “Paul Krugman says that you have $4.6 trillion. You\u2019re gonna close loopholes to make up for the lost revenue, and you haven\u2019t identified any loopholes. So Congressman Ryan, you\u2019re spending $4.6 trillion. How\u2019s your budget any different than anybody else\u2019s?”<\/p>\n
RYAN: The problem, Joe, is spending. Spending is set to double, then triple over the course of this century. We have to deal with the spending. It is a spending-driven debt crisis, and we don\u2019t want to try and tax our way out of the problem we have because, if we do, we will shut down the economy and we\u2019ll actually never close the gap on the deficit. Let\u2019s get spending under control, cut spending, reform entitlement programs, do it in a gradual way so that people can adjust accordingly, prevent people in and near retirement from having any disruption in their lives, and get pro-growth tax reform to get people back to work.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s Paul Ryan responding to people who say it\u2019s just bad timing, you don\u2019t want this budget out there now because it\u2019s such a huge target. We don\u2019t need a target right now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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