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RUSH: The Five, the five people on Fox at five p.m. in the afternoon. Dana Perino is on that show. Bob Beckel is on that show. Greg Gutfeld is on that show. Andrea “Tarantula” is on that show. Kimberly Guilfoyle is on that show, and Eric Bolling. I guess there\u2019s six. So they rotate \u2019em. There\u2019s only five at one time \u2019cause it\u2019s called The Five, The Five at Five. They rotate who gets to be host. So Andrea “Tarantula” was the host yesterday, and she was speaking with Beckel about conservatism and me, and they played a bite where I said, “We conservatives do not see black, white, male, female, gay, straight. We look at people, we see potential. We want the best for everybody. We know what\u2019s holding them back, it\u2019s government.” They played that bite, and then Andrea “Tarantula” and Beckel had this conversation.<\/p>\n
TARANTULA: So Rush\u2019s point, Rush actually says that government\u2019s holding people back. I actually think it\u2019s government telling people that it\u2019s okay to sit on your butts and we\u2019ll give you checks every month.<\/p>\n
BECKEL: No, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s what the government says.<\/p>\n
TARANTULA: Because it\u2019s good for the economy.<\/p>\n
RUSH: He did say they were wrong, but he didn\u2019t. This is why it\u2019s gonna take me to translate this. Don\u2019t try to do this at home. He didn\u2019t say what you think he just said there. He didn\u2019t say what you think he said. Now, just calm down in there. Snerdley\u2019s blowing a gasket. Now, let\u2019s review what Beckel said. “We liberals made a terrible mistake.” Forget what follows. “We did it for the right reasons.” So don\u2019t look at the results, examine our intentions. As I always say, don\u2019t judge the results, judge our intentions, and then let us fix it with more government. He says, “We did it for the right reasons, we need to change the reasons, but the way you change it to is require some government intervention.” <\/p>\n
So he admits that the government got too big and made people too dependent and now it\u2019s going to need more government to change that. How does that work? How does more government equal less government? “We liberals made a terrible mistake,” and Beckel deserves credit for this. I\u2019m not trying to deny the credit for it, but he is also trying to paper over the results with the good intentions. “We did it for the right reasons.” See, I reject that. The reasons that they did this are the exact reasons they achieved. They wanted — maybe not Beckel — but the Lyndon Johnson crowd back then, they wanted the dependency. It equaled power. It equaled votes. They couched it in good intentions. They couched it in compassion. But they ended up creating dependency, stifling individuality, stifling creativity, robbing people of their basic identity and humanity. They made them wards of the state and turned them into perpetually voting Democrats. <\/p>\n
Now, 30 years afterwards you admit the mistake, but that it was all done for the right reasons. We still have bigger hearts than you do. We still have nicer hearts than you do. We\u2019ve got better hearts than you do. And we need to change it, but the way you change it is not to come along with some opportunity society. Really? Why not? What\u2019s wrong with an opportunity society? What\u2019s wrong with getting government out of people\u2019s lives? What\u2019s wrong with inspiring people to do more for themselves? That\u2019s all an opportunity society is. “It\u2019s going to require some government intervention.” Well, if it\u2019s gonna require government intervention, the one guy we know who\u2019s not gonna do government intervention right to fix it is Barack Obama, because he\u2019s doubled down on the number of dependents. He has doubled down on the whole dependency class in this country. <\/p>\n