RUSH: My gosh, folks, we are being played like fiddles! In just the six minutes that we\u2019ve been away, the absolute BS that has crossed the wires! I\u2019ve got it all here for you. The New York Times sent out a news alert: “Obama and Boehner Close to Major Budget Deal, Congressional Leaders Are Told.” New York Times news alert: “Obama and Boehner Close to Major Budget Deal…” Then CNBC says, “White House Denies Deal,” and then Boehner tweeted back: “No deal,” says, “The Senate ought to pass ‘Cut, Cap, and Balance.'” So somebody tells the New York Times that Obama and Boehner are close to a deal. Breaking news (actually was 12:38): “Obama and Boehner Close to Major Budget Deal,” and then Jay Carney denied it and then Boehner denied it.<\/p>\n
But what happened in the process is that the market surged when the New York Times printed the headline: “Obama and Boehner Close to Major Budget Deal.” The market went up a hundred points instantly; then Carney denied it, and the market plunged. Then CNBC says there\u2019s nothing to it, and then Boehner says there\u2019s nothing to it. But somebody told the New York Times (or they just decided to do it on their own) that Obama and Boehner were close to a deal. So hold on tight, folks. This is the kind of stuff that happens when everybody is starting to get real nervous, when everybody is using the media to try to influence what they want to happen.<\/p>\n
Somebody called the New York Times and said that Obama and Boehner were close to a major, major deal. (sigh) I guess I\u2019ll say this until I am blue in the face: “Any deal that carries Obama through the election gives him a lifeline.” Remember, John Boehner is Obama\u2019s lifeline. When Obama looks at Boehner, he sees, ‘You\u2019re my ticket to reelection.'” All he\u2019s gotta do is to get Boehner to cave. It turns out there\u2019s no story backing this up because there is no story yet. The market was dancing up a hundred, then plunging when Carney denies it, so buckle yourselves in because this just indication here that things are starting to get reeeal nervous.<\/p>\n
If I didn\u2019t know better, I\u2019d think they\u2019re nervous at the White House. Obama is willing to cave. He\u2019s now changed his mind on a short-term deal — and prior to yesterday, day before, that was out of the question. Now the news is that he\u2019s open for a deal.<\/p>\n
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(playing of debt ceiling spoof)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Boy, doesn\u2019t that say it all? It does because we did it, and we know how to say it all. And we say it all in the fewest words possible, which has the greatest impact. By the way, The Politico is currently claiming that President Obama and Boehner are making a last-ditch effort to strike a grand bargain on slashing the deficit and raising the debt ceiling days after that idea appeared to be dead. Grand bargain I guess means a big, long thing, which will carry Obama through his reelection. This is the media stampede that they\u2019re now eagerly hoping that people like me will tell you about this and you\u2019ll get deflated and depressed. Boehner\u2019s denying it, Jay Carney is denying it, but the Politico and the New York Times are insisting that a grand bargain is imminent. One last-ditch effort, The Politico says, to make this happen.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: My friends, it appears there\u2019s a reason why the New York Times is sticking with its story that Boehner and Obama are on the brink of a deal. It\u2019s because they might be. Somebody has leaked something to the New York Times that convinces them that they\u2019re on to something here, and I just got an e-mail from the chief of staff to a member of Congress with this note: “Rush, you need to know that Speaker Boehner has called a special meeting at nine o\u2019clock tomorrow morning of the full Republican conference. These are usually called when they have a deal to float to the full conference.” And it says here, “despite what Boehner is saying in person.”<\/p>\n
Now, this is a person I know, chief of staff to a Republican member of Congress, says that Boehner has called a special meeting at nine o\u2019clock tomorrow morning of the full Republican conference, that means all the members, and the chief of staff here says that these are usually called, these meetings, when they have a deal to run by or float to the full conference. So apparently the New York Times has received the leaks. I think it\u2019s all starting to line up now, folks, as a lot of people feared that this is the way this was gonna happen.<\/p>\n
In fact, TheHill.com has this: “Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Thursday he has prepared his members to compromise on the debt ceiling and that a majority of House Republicans could support a potential deal with Democrats. In a news conference at the Capitol, Boehner pressed anew for the GOP\u00c2\u2019s ‘Cut, Cap and Balance\u2019 plan but also pushed back against conservatives in his caucus who are unwilling to move beyond it. The Speaker was asked to respond to comments from Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee, who described the \u00c2\u201cCut, Cap and Balance\u00c2\u201d plan as ‘the compromise\u2019 and signed a pledge opposing other alternatives to raising the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling. ‘I\u00c2\u2019m sure that we\u00c2\u2019ve got some members who [aren\u2019t willing to compromise], but I do not believe that\u00c2\u2019s anywhere close to a majority,\u2019 Boehner said.”<\/p>\n
This doesn\u2019t sound good. I just have to tell you, doesn\u2019t sound good. I don\u2019t know what else to tell you. I could offer further opinion, playing us for saps all along, but this has been the fear. This is why we begin the program every day with the thought the Republicans are nervous, are very nervous. So the New York Times puts this story out backed up by The Politico that a grand deal — one last effort at a grand bargain — is being made, and I get this note from a Republican member of Congress\u2019s chief of staff that special meetings been called at nine o\u2019clock in the morning of the full Republican conference; and this, according to the e-mail I have, usually means that Speaker has a deal to run by the whole conference, despite what he\u2019s saying publicly. As always, my friends, once the floodgates open on stuff like this, get ready for it. It\u2019s gonna start cascading in all afternoon now, and for those of us on the Left Coast all morning, it\u2019s gonna continue the rest of the morning. It\u2019s gonna start cascading in now as the denials will not carry much weight.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Reuters has a story here today, and it\u2019s probably an accurate story. “The Federal Reserve is actively preparing for the responsibility the US could default as a deadline for raising the debt ceiling looms.” I think I\u2019ve been saying this \u2019til we\u2019re blue in the face: The country will only default if Obama chooses to! There is plenty enough revenue currently coming into the US Treasury to service our debt and pay the mandatory entitlements. Now, Reuters has been calling this “a grand exclusive,” The Fed is planning for potential default. I would certainly hope so, and this is the second exclusive from Reuters about secret contingency plans — which, of course, have been denied by officials at the Treasury department.<\/p>\n
But it would be irresponsible for the regime not to have a plan, should this so-called default date actually come without a deal. You would think that most governments would want to reassure the financial markets that they do have a plan. This bunch doesn\u2019t care. This bunch is not concerned about reassuring anybody. They don\u2019t care a whit about this country. It\u2019s obvious. So why are they lying about something that should be good news? This is even more trouble: If the regime will lie to us about something as important about going into default, what else are they lying about? Unemployment statistics, GDP, inflation? You and I both know we\u2019re not getting the truth on inflation in terms of government reporting. So, look, of course they have a plan in case this default happens, just like the Pentagon\u2019s got war plans for every conceivable circumstance they can imagine. Not that the plans are good or not, but they do have contingencies. Reuters exclusive plans and so forth.<\/p>\n
Okay, quick time-out here, folks, as we resume from LA right after this.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Snerdley tells me that the phones are going nuts with people who refuse to go on the air. People are calling Snerdley and every other word happens to be an obscenity or a profanity, saying, “If this happens, then [blank] it! [Blank] it! [Blank] it!” and they hang up. “No, I don\u2019t want to go the air!” then they hang up. There\u2019s anger brewing out there. Now, here\u2019s the latest on this from the National Journal. This is the bunch that publishes The Hotline each day. This is the place that F. Chuck Todd used to work. I think he ran the place. “National Journal confirms that the White House and congressional leaders are Discussing $3 Trillion Deal,” by Dan Friedman, posted about ten minutes ago.<\/p>\n
“The White House and House Republican leaders are discussing a large deal to raise the debt ceiling that would include about $3 trillion in deficit cuts over 10 years, according to several congressional aides. The aides, who declined to be named because they weren\u2019t authorized to speak publicly, said the proposal\u2019s outline is broadly similar to a plan discussed previously by President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and a ‘Gang of Six\u2019 proposal to cut about $3.7 trillion in a decade, with the major exception,” according to the National Journal, “that it would not raise significant tax revenue. The gang proposal, by contrast, would seek $1 trillion of its deficit cuts from new tax revenue.” So, again, your guess as good as mine. We\u2019re just floating all this by you as we get it, but there\u2019s something going on.<\/p>\n
The New York Times got a leak. There\u2019s no question something\u2019s going on. Things are lining up here that there is a grand deal. Boehner\u2019s got a meeting at nine o\u2019clock tomorrow morning. He\u2019s talking to people about it. He told TheHill.com that he\u2019s got a majority of Republicans that are willing to compromise. He wants Cut, Cap, and Balance. He isn\u2019t gonna get that, but he is holding out for it. But the latest detail here is $3 trillion in deficit cuts over ten years with “no significant tax revenue,” which means there is some. I don\u2019t know what “no significant tax revenue” means; and since we\u2019re talking about people who live and work in Washington, when they say “no significant tax revenue,” there\u2019s no possible way of knowing what that means. So we\u2019ll just wait for the leaks to continue, which they will. The floodgates have opened now, folks, and we\u2019re on the verge of a deal — and don\u2019t forget Ramadan, a key date in all this, is August 1st.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: The leaks are all over the place about a deal between Boehner and Obama on a grand budget deal to raise the debt ceiling. The National Journal reports that no significant tax revenue is part of the deal. The deal, $3 trillion in budget cuts over ten years, and I have to tell you, folks, no ten-year plan is gonna upheld a year from now. Next year Congress will do another budget. This is all the same old thing.<\/p>\n
Eric Cantor just sent us an e-mail about five minutes before two o\u2019clock Eastern time, and it said Eric Cantor\u2019s not agreed to any deal, not aware of any deal that is close. That means the phones are melting up there and it\u2019s clear that the tone of the phone calls being received up there is not hunky-dory and favorable, and Leader Cantor wants everybody to know he\u2019s got no part of this. Boehner, during the top-of-the-hour break, tweeted again the following message: Time for Senator Reid and Senate Democrats to pass Cut, Cap, and Balance.<\/p>\n
Now, here\u2019s the question, folks. The Speaker of the House can come out right now and tell the public that he\u2019s had no back-door discussions with Obama and some deal, he can come out and say that this is all not true. He can come out and say that the New York Times is wrong and that the National Journal is wrong. But we\u2019re not asking if they\u2019ve cut a deal yet. We\u2019re asking if they are working on a deal behind the scenes now. That\u2019s the story, and they\u2019re not denying that. What they\u2019re denying is that they have a deal, but the story is not that there is a deal. The story is they\u2019re working on a deal. Okay, so you got a leak from the New York Times backed up by Politico and the National Journal, which says that they\u2019re close to a deal, i.e., don\u2019t have one. Everybody\u2019s denying there\u2019s a deal. Well, the leak doesn\u2019t say there\u2019s a deal. So, come out and tell us, are you working on one behind the scenes, and if so, why are you doing it behind the scenes?<\/p>\n
Grab audio sound bite number 20. Jay Carney, the daily press briefing at the White House, unidentified reporter said, “Senator Tom Coburn just said that he bets that if the FCC and B were able to pass the Senate,” you know, Cut, Cap and Balance, “and get to the President\u2019s desk he\u2019s willing to bet a porterhouse that the President would sign it. If, in fact it did pass the Senate, should he go out and get the A.1.?”<\/p>\n
CARNEY: I have a feeling we\u2019re gonna hear this exchange on the radio, but we would take that bet, and I would refrain from heading to the Safeway to buy A.1. because the president has very clearly vowed to veto a bill if such a bill were to arrive on his desk because it is a Draconian measure that in terms of its impact on dramatic cuts in Social Security, Medicare, would make the Ryan budget plan pale by comparison.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay, so Jay Carney said that Cut, Cap, and Balance doesn\u2019t have a prayer, and Carney knew it would appear on this program, he knew this sound bite would appear. Well, that\u2019s the latest that we have on this, but things are starting to fall in line, something\u2019s happening. Again, Boehner\u2019s got a meeting tomorrow morning at nine o\u2019clock with the entire Republican conference. That means all the members. This is an e-mail from a member of Congress chief of staff who we know very well, has told us that there\u2019s a nine o\u2019clock meeting tomorrow morning, Boehner to explain details of the deal to the conference. So all of this kind of obviates all the other Stack of Stuff I have here regarding the deal. For example, a post here from Robert Costa, National Review: “Earlier tonight, House GOP leaders met with President Obama at the White House, reportedly discussing a ‘short-term debt-ceiling hike that would be coupled with immediate spending cuts of greater magnitude.'”<\/p>\n
We just had the news yesterday that Obama had changed his mind and probably would sign a short-term deal. In fact, a lot of people were recommending a short-term deal just to get Obama to sign something and put the onus on him. So we\u2019ve gone from Obama caving and willing to sign — and he said he would never sign a short — he said 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, I\u2019m not gonna do that, \u2019cause it doesn\u2019t help him in his reelection. So he was apparently willing to do that, and all of a sudden that\u2019s gone, and now this grand bargain is out there, the ten-year granddaddy of all grand bargains. So that\u2019s off the table.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a story here from Roll Call: “Vulnerable Democrats Display Their Timidity — Within days, vulnerable Senate Democrats will cast perhaps the toughest vote of their career on politically volatile legislation to raise the debt ceiling. But such votes have been in remarkably short supply this year for the Democratic class of 2006. … These Members point with pride to the risky votes they cast in the last Congress. Those roll calls led to the enactment of a historic health care reform,” and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. This is a story, the Democrats worried about the debt vote. Now, who knew? The conventional wisdom is that the Republicans are scared to death, the Republicans are quaking in their boots. That\u2019s been the standardized conventional wisdom since this all began.<\/p>\n
Obama\u2019s cleaning up, he\u2019s embarrassing these guys, it\u2019s been the standard operating procedure. But the truth of the matter is the Democrats are nervous about this. And if we\u2019re not taking advantage of that with whatever is brewing here, it\u2019s going to be a crying shame. It\u2019s going to be worse for the Republicans if this is deemed to be unacceptable by people who elected them, and remember those election results from November, winners don\u2019t compromise; losers do. And we were the big winners. As I said yesterday, everybody\u2019s out there demanding the Republicans compromise. With who? The Democrats don\u2019t have a plan. The Democrats haven\u2019t put anything forward. They\u2019re asking us to compromise with ourselves.<\/p>\n
So we keep coming up with plans of specificity, they keep saying, “No,” and we say, “Okay, okay, well, how about this?” “Oh, we don\u2019t like that either.” They don\u2019t have any specific plan whatsoever, and yet they demand that we compromise. But winners do not compromise, and this is what Republican voters know and understand. And if it turns out that the winners have ended up compromising here, they\u2019re not gonna be assuaged by the argument, “Well, you know, it\u2019s just tough to go up against the president. The president sets the agenda, president, bully pulpit, president gets what he wants usually.” That\u2019s not gonna fly here. This president has had way too much of what he wants, and it has meant disaster for millions of Americans, at present and for their future, and they don\u2019t want this president to win anymore. They don\u2019t want standard operating procedures and conventional wisdom to triumph here. That\u2019s what sending Republicans to Washington is all about.<\/p>\n
Cut, Cap, and Balance. Boehner is still tweeting, demanding that Harry Reid put it up for vote and the Democrats pass it. Now, you know, Obama\u2019s out there saying, (imitating Obama) “It\u2019s not a serious plan. We\u2019d never go for that,” sends Jay Carney out to say the same thing. But if Obama thought that Cut, Cap, and Balance wasn\u2019t a serious plan, or was a waste of time, here\u2019s what he would do: He would take to the microphones and he\u2019d tell the American people exactly what Cut, Cap, and Balance says. He would read it out loud, he would mock it line by line. If it\u2019s such a bad deal, he would go public and explain what it is and tell people why it\u2019s ruinous. But he\u2019s not doing that. He doesn\u2019t want you to know what Cut, Cap, and Balance is.<\/p>\n
Well, here\u2019s what Cut, Cap, and Balance says. Cut: We must make discretionary and mandatory spending reductions that would cut the deficit in half next year. Number two, Cap: We need statutory, enforceable caps to align federal spending with average revenues at 18% of gross domestic product with automatic spending reductions if the caps are breached. Balance: We must send to the states a balanced budget amendment with strong protections against federal tax increases and a spending limitation amendment that aligns spending with average revenues as described above. Crazy, right? Or is it simple, rational, and — wait for it — in writing, it\u2019s in writing! I just read to you what Cut, Cap, and Balance says. If it\u2019s so bad, Obama could go out, read it to us, and tell us why it is bad. He doesn\u2019t do it. The president would hold up Social Security checks over this? I, frankly, would love to hear his explanation on it.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: The plot is thickening. From Fox News, a congressional aide on the debt deal. Quote: “I can confirm the details about $3 trillion and no revenues.” A congressional aide on the debt deal, according to Fox News, “I can confirm the details about a $3 trillion cut in spending and no revenues. Our office just received an e-mail from Speaker Boehner\u2019s office. We just wanted to check in because we heard Rush\u2019s remarks in our special conference. Contrary to the New York Times story, there is no deal or agreement. The president has been in discussions with all of the congressional leaders on both sides and looking at various options, but there is no agreement. We have special conferences all the time, including last Friday, where there were no deals announced. Just wanted to make you aware.” No deal. The leak does not say that there is a deal — well, congressional aide is saying I can confirm the details about $3 trillion.<\/p>\n
Nobody is saying a deal is done. What they\u2019re saying is that they\u2019re close to one. All the leaks are saying that they\u2019re close to a deal. But the Speaker\u2019s office says that there is no deal and no agreement. Of course they\u2019re talking. “The president\u2019s been in discussion with all the congressional leaders on both sides, looking at various options, but there is no agreement. We have special conferences all the time.” I just got a note from a chief of staff of a member of Congress, said the meeting at nine o\u2019clock usually is when deals are announced. So, as I say, the floodgates are open now, and the trickle has become a gully washer. Now, the House bill, Cut, Cap, and Balance, isn\u2019t that bill exactly what people voted for last November? It\u2019s almost word-for-word what the voters demanded in an historic landslide, now just laughed off as meaningless. And we thought elections were supposed to have consequences. But this House bill is exactly what the voters who sent those people to Washington do come up with.<\/p>\n
The Democrats and their buddies in the media keep trying to portray the House bill as some product of the lunatic fringe. They don\u2019t seem to remember that a balanced budget amendment was almost passed by Congress back in 1995. It failed in the Senate by one vote. It is not a fringe idea. All we hear nowadays how fiscally responsible everybody was back in 1995. Jay Carney just said that Obama supports a debt default, by the way, in that sound bite that we played. Cutting spending, capping spending, balanced budget amendment, is extreme, when you are Obama. The Speaker is tweeting that he wants Reid to pass Cut, Cap, and Balance, but Reid\u2019s gotta know something\u2019s going on behind the scenes. Reid knows that Coburn and Chambliss and all these Republicans and the Gang of Six are throwing him a lifeline. McConnell\u2019s come up with a bright idea to give Obama the two and a half trillion dollars he wants to spend on additional deficits. These specific Republicans and some others are telling Reid and Obama they don\u2019t believe in Cut, Cap, and Balance even though they\u2019re telling us they support it. It\u2019s hard to keep track of all this stuff going on out there. And here\u2019s Chris Van Hollen, he says the New York Times story is correct. This is on MSNBC just this afternoon.<\/p>\n
VAN HOLLEN: I think that that\u2019s generally correct, other than the fact that you continue to have a fairly enlargement contingent of House Republicans who think that it would not be so bad if the United States didn\u2019t pay its bills and default on its debt, and that continues to be a wild card. I do think that the leaders, both in Congress and, of course, the White House and both political parties are trying to find a solution here, and the focus remains, Andrea, on trying to get a grand bargain. Even as talks go on about a plan B, there\u2019s still serious discussions about trying to get something big done.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Chris Van Hollen is a Democrat leader, (imitating Van Hollen) “Hey, New York Times story\u2019s right. Exactly right. We\u2019re all ready to make a deal here. Just those fringe lunatic Tea Party Republicans, they\u2019re the ones standing in the way. But the responsible members of the Democrat and Republican leadership and President Obama of course want to do a deal. The New York Times deal is right.” Andrea Mitchell says, “Are you Democrats gonna be able to provide enough Democrat votes to help Boehner out as he tries to pull this together, even despite the opposition of those freshman who are so rigidly against any compromise?”<\/p>\n
VAN HOLLEN: We\u2019ve made very clear, number one, that America has to pay its bills. These are bills for things that we already voted on, Democrats, Republicans alike. We will support a balanced approach to reducing the deficit.<\/p>\n
RUSH: (laughing) I knew this guy was slick when I first saw his hairstyle, but “we will support a balanced approach to reducing deficit,” from the people who have blown it to smithereens and now want to act as though they had nothing to do with it whatsoever. Well, where there\u2019s smoke, there\u2019s fire. Something is obviously going on, and it is happening in secret. All we have are leaks, unnamed congressional aide: “Yeah, I can confirm, $3 trillion in cuts and no tax revenue.” No name. We don\u2019t know who it is. Nobody is saying a deal is done. In fact, they\u2019re all denying a deal is done and tried to say, therefore, the leaks are wrong, but the leaks are not saying there is a deal. The leaks are saying there are discussions and that they\u2019re close.<\/p>\n
This is outrageous. And of course Obama is responsible for nothing. Oh, of course not, he didn\u2019t do anything. Why, he said just yesterday that everybody knows he inherited this mess. So he thinks he\u2019s gonna run against Bush again, and he thinks people are gonna vote on how hard they think he\u2019s trying for them, fighting for them. Fighting who? He thinks he\u2019s gonna run against Bush. It worked the first time, why not again? I don\u2019t care what happens to the Republicans. You know, they\u2019re gonna sit in their own stew, depending what happens here. But this guy, Obama and his advisors are in for a rude awakening because he\u2019s not gonna escape this, either. Don\u2019t think it\u2019s only the Republicans that are gonna pay for this.<\/p>\n
If there is a deal here that continues this travesty that has become the US economy, if there is a deal that raises taxes, that makes it impossible for people to get back on their feet again, everybody in that town\u2019s gonna pay the price in the next election. Obama\u2019s not gonna get a pass. Good intentions notwithstanding, all that garbage. Well, they\u2019re gonna realize that I\u2019m out there fighting for them. He doesn\u2019t have a chance, Bill O\u2019Reilly is out there looking out for us. Obama can\u2019t compete with that. Everybody knows that. Ahem.<\/p>\n
Doug in New Bern, North Carolina. Glad you waited. I really appreciate your patience. Hello, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Thanks for taking my call, Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m all for Cut, Cap, and Balance. I\u2019m concerned that if Boehner gives on this, you know, in any way on taxes, does that give Obama a free ticket for the 2012 election?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, depends on what the deal is. Obama clearly looks at Boehner as his lifeline, I guarantee you. What Obama is counting on is the Republicans will cave and it creates so much anger in the Republican Party that it will splinter, maybe form a third party, bunch of Republicans get so fed up they won\u2019t even show up and vote in November 2012, that\u2019s what he\u2019s counting on.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: And to that extent, yeah, Boehner is his lifeline. That\u2019s how he\u2019s looking at it. I think, anyway.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, thank you very much for taking my call, Rush, and I appreciate everything that you do.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, Doug, it means more to me than you can possibly know, you saying that, I really appreciate it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, thank you.<\/p>\n
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