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RUSH: Let me take a stab at this. And again, it may well be that these people I\u2019m talking about will be identified. I\u2019m not going to myself, but it\u2019s not about them. I was just stunned when I read this. The subject of the first post is an attempt to explain why the Republican leaders in Congress so badly blew the payroll tax cut battle. (interruption) Well, not smoldering about it, but I\u2019m fascinated to read what people think went wrong. And here\u2019s the nut of this one. <\/p>\n
“What\u00c2\u2019s even more ominous is that this national suicide attempt they\u00c2\u2019re advocating for appears to be great politics! As Tucker Carlson said at an ALEC speech in New Orleans last year, the problem here is very simply that ‘people like free stuff.\u2019 The Democrats have realized that they can cobble together winning electoral coalitions by offering the middle class a ton of free stuff. This is not a ‘safety net\u2019 for the poor and down-trodden, mind you. It\u00c2\u2019s more free stuff for people who already have more cars, TVs, and phones than they can afford. That\u00c2\u2019s the basic idea of the subsidies in Obamacare. … Any extension in the payroll tax cut without a spending cut offset is a travesty. In fact, we should have insisted that the extension be offset with entitlement reform, to make no mention of spending cuts.”<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know how to express this. We shoulda known this for 30, 40, 50 years. “We conservatives have to make a much more convincing case that the road to a better society lies in the direction of self-reliance and –” Yeah, well… (sigh) I can\u2019t do this without coming down hard on this guy, and that\u2019s not my point. It really isn\u2019t the point. What I\u2019m trying to say or what I\u2019m not saying is that, yeah, we\u2019re talking basic conservatism and why is it so hard for it to be found in conservative publications? Conservative publications are all tied up in the horse race aspects: conservatives ripping Romney to shreds or alternately ripping Santorum to shreds or ripping Newt. Conservatives aren\u2019t doing conservatism. This is what is frustrating. Yeah, the concept of self-reliance, we have to do a better job pushing self-reliance, yeah, duh! Where\u2019s it been? We\u2019re just now figuring this out? Are we 30 years behind what\u2019s been going on here? <\/p>\n
Since FDR, the Democrats have been countering that, and Obama has codified the notion that self-reliance is not the ticket. Self-reliance is painful, it\u2019s failure, you\u2019re not gonna get anywhere. The deck\u2019s stacked against you. The future is for you to let us take care of you. I don\u2019t know. The second one is: “The idea that these services will be ‘free\u2019 runs against the most basic understanding of economics. It\u00c2\u2019s like the Democrats and the mainstream media think calling expanded coverage ‘free\u2019 makes it free. If there\u00c2\u2019s no free lunch<\/a>, there are no free abortifacients<\/a> either.” Yeah, we\u2019re just now discovering that people actually think that free is free. Where have these eggheads been? I\u2019m still not expressing this right. My bad. <\/p>\n I have to continue to think about this because this is, for some reason my gut, my instinct, is telling me this is important, as it relates to the so-called conservative movement and a failure taking place within it. But I don\u2019t want to focus on just these two people. That\u2019s not really the point of this and that\u2019s, sadly, if I\u2019m not careful, where this is gonna end up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RUSH: Let me take a stab at this. And again, it may well be that these people I\u2019m talking about will be identified. I\u2019m not going to myself, but it\u2019s not about them. I was just stunned when I read this. The subject of the first post is an attempt to explain why the Republican […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n