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RUSH: From John Voorhees at Slate.com: “The congressional super committee<\/a> has one week left to hammer out a deal that would provide $1.2 trillion in savings over the next decade. Think they can do it? If your answer is ‘No,\u2019 you\u2019re not alone. A new poll out Wednesday shows that the vast majority of Americans would bet against the bipartisan panel. The CNN\/ORC International survey shows that 78 percent of those polled say that it is somewhat or very unlikely that the panel will develop a plan to significantly reduce the federal budget deficit by the Nov. 23 deadline. Furthermore –” dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut “– Americans are more likely to lay the blame for such a failure with congressional Republicans (42 percent) than they are with Democratic lawmakers (32 percent).”<\/p>\n

More Americans would blame the Republicans if the super committee fails. It\u2019s just another reason why the Democrats don\u2019t want a super committee deal. It\u2019s not the main reason. The main reason is there was never supposed to be a deal. Obama\u2019s campaign is based on a do-nothing Congress. <\/p>\n

Now, this is from TheHill.com. You\u2019re not going to like the headline, nor are you going to like the story. “Republican Leaders Preparing Rank-and-File For Deal on New Tax Revenues — House Republican leaders began preparing their members on Tuesday to accept a potential deficit deal that includes new tax revenues. The GOP co-chairman of the deficit super committee, Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), briefed the House Republican Conference on the details of multiple offers that GOP members of the panel have made to their Democratic counterparts.<\/line><\/p>\n

“A week before the super committee\u00c2\u2019s Nov. 23 deadline, a deal has yet to be struck, but Tuesday\u00c2\u2019s meeting offered Hensarling his first chance to explain to his restive colleagues what Republicans have described as a major concession in negotiations with Democrats. Lawmakers emerged from the closed-door meeting saying Hensarling had made the case that offering some new revenue — $300 billion in at least one publicized offer — would be a good trade to secure a permanent extension of the George W. Bush-era tax rates.”<\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019m wondering, folks, we got this story from TheHill.com about Republican leaders preparing rank-and-file for a deal that involves a concession. I\u2019m wondering if there is a twin piece, another media piece somewhere like this about major concessions the Democrats are making. Somehow I don\u2019t think that story exists. And somehow I think the reason it doesn\u2019t exist is \u2019cause I don\u2019t think the Democrats are going to make any concessions. But, according to TheHill.com, the Republicans are going to make a concession, $300 billion in new tax revenue. <\/p>\n

Now, it doesn\u2019t necessarily mean a tax increase. You can get new revenue from taxes by cutting \u2019em. I don\u2019t know what it means. Let\u2019s read further. “Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told reporters after the briefing that the GOP had made ‘a fair offer,\u2019 referring to a proposal from super committee member Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) that would call for about $300 billion in new taxes in a total deficit-reduction package of $1.2 trillion.” Now, folks, we don\u2019t have a revenue problem; we have a spending problem, and raising taxes is only going to exacerbate that. But here\u2019s the next line in the story. “Despite the concession on taxes,” despite the Republicans agreeing to raise taxes $300 billion, “Democrats have rejected the GOP offer as ‘not serious.\u2019 Hensarling received a standing ovation following his presentation, which one Republican described as ‘clinical\u2019 and somewhat ‘detached.'”<\/p>\n

Somewhat detached? That\u2019s how Hensarling sounded to his own caucus? I think they\u2019ve all sounded detached to us, for a long time. Get this. “One lawmaker who attended the conference told The Hill that Hensarling ‘did say that what with the statutory obligations that have been set before us, let alone the statutory goals — don\u00c2\u2019t be surprised if they\u00c2\u2019re not met.'” So that means that even $300 billion in new taxes won\u2019t meet the goals? Sheesh. What part of “taxed enough” already don\u2019t Republicans seem to understand? Did we dream up that whole year of 2010? Did we dream up the midterm election results? Did we dream up the whole Tea Party existence and its reason for existing? <\/line><\/p>\n

So, according to this story — and again, I won\u2019t be surprised if I get a call from somebody in Republican leadership\u2019s office, “That Hill story is dead wrong, they misquoted us, they\u2019re not reporting the truth.” I wouldn\u2019t be surprised, but what we have to go on is this story, and it seems to be that the Republican plan is to trade $300 billion in new taxes for a permanent extension of the Bush tax rates. But the problem is that nothing is permanent in Washington. Obama\u2019s been trying to undo the Bush tax rates for as long as he\u2019s been there. There\u2019s nothing to stop the Democrats from ending the Bush tax rates after they get this $300 billion in new taxes, but apparently they\u2019re not gonna take it. They\u2019re refusing the $300 billion tax increase. <\/p>\n

So maybe what we\u2019ve really got here is a sleight of hand trick by the Republicans. “Okay, okay, you guys want some tax increase, you want some new revenue, here\u2019s $300 billion.” The Democrats reject it so that we can then say they don\u2019t want a deal, they\u2019re going to try to blame us for no deal. We\u2019ve asked them, we\u2019ve given them what they\u2019ve asked for, and they still turn it down. Maybe that\u2019s the plan. Yeah. Yeah. (interruption) The Democrats were insulted not just by the extension of the Bush tax cuts. The Democrats say they\u2019re insulted by $300 billion. It\u2019s paltry. But the hope here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies is that this is a trick, that these guys know that the Democrats don\u2019t want a deal, that these guys know the whole point here is to have no deal and have it blamed on the Republicans. So Hensarling lets it be known to the media, “I told my caucus, we\u2019re willing, okay, you keep the Bush tax cuts intact and we\u2019ll find $300 billion in new tax revenue.” The Democrats say, “Nope,” reject it out of hand. <\/p>\n

Once again the problem with this is that it relies on the mainstream media to tell the truth about what\u2019s going on. It relies on the mainstream media to say, “Republicans, in a show of good faith, offered exactly what the Democrats had been demanding: new tax revenue via tax increases. But the Democrats selfishly rejected.” That\u2019s what they\u2019re hoping to get from the mainstream media? They want it reported that way? ‘Cause it isn\u2019t gonna be reported that way. If that is indeed the gambit, you\u2019re gonna only gonna hear about it here and elsewhere in the alternative, so-called alternative media. The mainstream guys are not gonna give the Republicans credit here. The mantra, the narrative, the template is the Republicans won\u2019t compromise; the Republicans want the poor to stay poor; the Republicans want the air to stay dirty and the water to stay dirty; the Republicans want people to die and the Republicans want people to get sick. The Republicans will not compromise. What\u2019s gonna change about that narrative? Nothing. <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. I mentioned I heard Paul Ryan on Fox this morning. It was Brian Kilmeade who said to him, “Let\u2019s talk about super committee. You\u2019re not on it. You said you didn\u2019t want to be on it. I\u2019m sure you would have been put on it. Now, sitting inside ten days, we see Republicans yesterday were optimistic; Democrats weren\u2019t. In reality, where\u2019s the progress?”<\/p>\n

RYAN: We\u2019ve offered solutions. Our negotiators in the super committee put forward plans to actually accomplish this objective, and we put forward plans that we thought Democrats would agree to. They keep seeming to move the goalposts and walk away from the table. Pat Toomey, our Senator from Pennsylvania, put together a plan to replace the Bush tax cuts with tax reform — lower tax rates, broadening the base, meaning get rid of the loopholes — and that actually brings in more revenue. So our negotiators already said: Let\u2019s replace the Bush tax schedule, lower everybody\u2019s tax rates, get rid of the loopholes and reductions and you bring even more revenue into the federal government — more importantly, you grow the economy and create jobs — and that is what we offered, and that\u2019s what the Democrats walked away from.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. So I heard him right. “We\u2019ve offered all kinds of things. We\u2019ve even offered to replace the Bush tax cuts, and we\u2019ve shown \u2019em how it\u2019ll create more revenue.” It\u2019s not about revenue. The Democrats are not about increasing revenue. Increasing government is what they want to do, and the way to do that is take money out of the private sector and people\u2019s pockets who live there, you and me; and the way to do that is to raise our taxes. They\u2019ll take money out of our pocket, it will cause economic growth to slow down even more, but it will transfer more money to Washington — and even if it doesn\u2019t significantly increase revenue that much, it still increases government power by keeping the private sector small and shrinking, which is what the Democrats want.<\/p>\n

“The Democrats want more of what we are living through now,” is the simplest way I can explain it to you. “Mr. Limbaugh, are you saying that the Democrats want 9% unemployment?” Yes, Mr. New Castrati. I\u2019m saying they want 9% unemployment. They\u2019d be happier with 10% unemployment, but for the next six months they want it reported as 8%. “Are you saying the Democrats would actively lie about the unemployment figures?” Yes, Mr. New Castrati. I\u2019m saying that they are lying about the unemployment numbers. “This is simply outrageous, Mr. Limbaugh. Do you actually believe the Democrat Party wants pain and suffering on the part of the people?” Well, every policy they\u2019ve put forth, Mr. New Castrati, has brought about pain and suffering.<\/p>\n

They are rejecting solutions! They are rejecting programs which solve the problem, which will grow private sector jobs, will grow the US economy, because they want the government getting bigger. “What\u2019s wrong with the government getting bigger, Mr. Limbaugh? That\u2019s where people get taken care of.” No, it\u2019s not. If a big government equals “people being taken care of,” why is there so much squalor, unemployment, and all the other things you continually whine and moan about, Mr. New Castrati? “Because the program is uncompleted! It\u2019s not finished yet; the Democrats have not finished their great compassionate work.” Well, it\u2019s true they haven\u2019t finished their work but it\u2019s not rooted in compassion, Mr. New Castrati — and it depends on absolute blithering idiots like you for success. Here\u2019s Jeb Hensarling himself last night Larry Kudlow\u2019s show, CNBC. Kudlow said, “Moments ago the super committee broke up for the night. No new deal. I want to ask you about the threat of super tax increases that could sink the economy.”<\/p>\n

HENSARLING: Uh, not gonna happen, Larry. I mean, listen, we\u2019re facing a jobs crisis and a debt crisis. We\u2019re certainly not gonna exacerbate one by trying to address the other. Uh, frankly, that\u2019s one of the reasons that we are somewhat stymied at the moment. We have come forth, frankly, with a very good-faith offer of putting some tax revenue on the table, but only if we do it in a pro-growth fashion to broaden the base, bring down rates — uh, which is what every, frankly, other bipartisan effort has done. That would help unleash pro-growth economics by one study —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so that\u2019s the old cut taxes, create more jobs, i.e., more taxpayers, i.e., more revenue. That\u2019s their proposal. Democrats want no part of it. That\u2019s Reaganomics. They don\u2019t want more revenue. They don\u2019t want more jobs. The Democrats are gonna reject these concessions. They reject $300 billion in new revenue, via new tax policy. The choice is easy, folks: Either the Democrats are hopelessly incompetent or they want this. There is no third option. Nobody is this stupid. This is incompetence or purposeful — and if it\u2019s purposeful, who are the saboteurs? That is what is happening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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