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RUSH: Next up, folks, of course is going to be the battle over raising the debt limit. State-Controlled Media already girding for this one. We have a couple of sound bites here from Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, and her guest, Charlie Cook, this afternoon on Andrea Mitchell Reports, NBC News, Washington. And they have this little discussion about the debt ceiling. Here\u2019s the first of two bites.<\/p>\n

MITCHELL: We\u2019ve talked about the debt ceiling. When you look at the NBC News\/Wall Street Journal poll numbers, 46% oppose, only 16% support raising the debt ceiling. And after being told that the U.S. would default without raising the limits, 62% oppose. How do you get past that kind of lack of understanding of what\u2019s going on out there? <\/p>\n

<\/a> COOK: What we were just facing Friday night was sort of a government slowdown, not a shutdown. I mean there were all kinds of safeguards and it was not what it should have been. But this would be Social Security checks don\u2019t go out, nobody gets paid, the U.S. goes into default. This is nuclear. And never in the history of this country, we\u2019ve never defaulted on debt.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a second. That isn\u2019t true. I\u2019m gonna have to go back to my archives, but we operated without redoing the debt limit. Either 2006 or 2009, I\u2019m going to have to find it. But we\u2019ve done this before. We\u2019ve operated without a formal agreement to raise the debt limit. It has been done. These people are shameless. We\u2019ve operated past the debt limit before, and we do it frequently. And now they set the stage. It\u2019s nuclear. It was. It was December 2009. The last time that we operated above the debt limit without authorization to do so was December 2009. This would be Social Security checks don\u2019t go out, nobody gets paid. The people in the private sector will get paid, those relative few who have jobs in the private sector would get paid. Never in the history of this country, we\u2019ve never defaulted on the debt. Well, that may be technically true, but we\u2019ve certainly operated without the authorization to go above the debt ceiling. We\u2019ve done that before. But even before that, that\u2019s Charlie Cook. You heard Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, she\u2019s just beside herself here that 62% of the country oppose raising the debt limit after being told what the result would be. You don\u2019t think there\u2019s a backlash going on out there about this? <\/p>\n

I said last week on this program that if the deal announced to avert the shutdown is less than $61 billion, there would be hell to pay. I told that to the Heritage audience on Friday night. There\u2019s gonna be hell to pay. I got a record amount of e-mail, and all but one phone call today, and we can\u2019t do anything scientific with phone calls, I don\u2019t take enough to even guess that that\u2019s an accurate representation. But it is what it is in terms of that universe. I think we got a second one up there that disagrees with me; is that right? Line five says, “I don\u2019t get it,” that\u2019s somebody that disagrees with me. Okay, so there\u2019s two, and that guy is coming up soon. He\u2019s from Northridge, California. That\u2019s Mike. Mike, hang in there, be tough, we\u2019re gonna getting to you here in a minute. But still, Andrea\u2019s all upset the public\u2019s lack of understanding of the debt limit, “Oh, my God, oh, my God what are we gonna do? How do you get past this kind of lack of understanding?” Andrea, it\u2019s not a lack of understanding. It is a total understanding of what\u2019s going on. We just can\u2019t keep doing this. And then, Andrea, amidst a sigh of resignation says…<\/p>\n

MITCHELL: Well, Charlie, I guess it\u2019s part of our job, too, to try to educate people, but the president is gonna take a stab at it on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, Charlie, (sighing) I guess it\u2019s part of our job, too, to try to educate people, but the president\u2019s gonna take a stab at it on Wednesday. Well, Charlie, (sighing) I guess it\u2019s part of our job. Wouldn\u2019t you think journalism is about education every day? I mean in its raw form you\u2019re telling people things they don\u2019t know. (interruption) Well, of course, Snerdley, the assumption that she knows everything and nobody else does, yes, but I mean even beyond that, well, Charlie, (sighing) I guess it\u2019s part of our job to try to educate people, as though you doddering fools, do we have to do everything for you here? Can\u2019t you do anything for yourself? Can\u2019t you figure out for yourself that we gotta spend whatever it takes to keep our precious government running? Here\u2019s Jay Carney at the daily press briefing this afternoon in Washington about the debt ceiling.<\/p>\n

CARNEY: The consequences of failing to raise the debt ceiling would be Armageddon-like in terms of the economy, on the impact on interest rates, on job creation, on growth would be devastating.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, here it comes, folks, they\u2019re already setting the table. This is what this weekend has all been about, these cuts, devastating, big, big win for Boehner, oh, my God, these cuts, I don\u2019t know if we can go on. This is the first major cut, why, the Democrats really took it on the chin. Now here comes the debt and, oh, my God the country may end next, unless we raise taxes. <\/p>\n

Mark Knoller, CBS, December 16th, 2009: “The latest calculation of the National Debt as posted by the Treasury Department has — at least numerically — exceeded the statutory Debt Limit approved by Congress last February as part of the Recovery Act stimulus bill. The ceiling was set at $12.104 trillion dollars. The latest posting by Treasury shows the National Debt at nearly $12.135 trillion.” So last December we were operating above the authorized debt limit. And lest we forget, Obama had raised the debt ceiling with his stimulus bill to $12.104 trillion just back in February, and we blew past it in December and we kept operating. <\/p>\n

Now, Jay Carney is out there saying that Obama really wishes he had that debt ceiling vote back when he was senator. He\u2019s really learned his lesson on that now. But that\u2019s not all. Harry Reid, 2006: “Raising the debt limit is the last thing we should do. It would weaken the country. It would hurt the economy.” He said, “If my Republican friends believe that increasing our debt by almost $800 billion today and more than three trillion over the last five years is the right thing to do, they should be up front about it. They should explain why they think more debt is good for the economy. How can the Republican majority in this Congress explain to their constituents that trillions of dollars in new debt is good for our economy? How can they explain that they think it\u2019s fair to force our children, our grandchildren, our great-grandchildren to finance this debt through higher taxes? That\u2019s what it will have to be. Why is it right to increase our nation\u2019s dependence on foreign credit?” This is Harry Reid in 2006, five years ago. This is Harry Reid so concerned about the economy in 2006, when it was really rolling along, the economy was really good, rolling along fine in 2006. <\/p>\n

But this is the ruling class. This is how they work. He didn\u2019t mean it then. He doesn\u2019t mean what he says now. He\u2019s gonna have the exact opposite approach now. We\u2019ve gotta raise the debt ceiling. We\u2019ll destroy the US economy if we don\u2019t. Five years ago, how can we destroy the economy by raising the debt ceiling? Five years ago, Harry Reid said, how can we consciously destroy our economy by raising the debt ceiling, trillions of dollars in new debt for our children or grandchildren? Five years later, this week, Harry Reid will say, we will destroy our economy if we don\u2019t raise trillions of new debt. Is it any wonder the voters of this country have become properly cynical? Is it any wonder the people of this country look at our elder statesmen in Washington with little or no respect anymore? Five years ago, folks, five years ago, you just heard it, Harry Reid, “How can we destroy the economy for our children by raising all this debt?” This week, Harry Reid will say, “How can we destroy the economy by not raising our debt?” <\/p>\n

The world is gonna end. We had to pass TARP or the world was going to end. We had to pass the stimulus or the world was gonna end. Five years ago, no, we can\u2019t pass TARP. The world will end. It\u2019s tough to take any of them seriously. And your best bet is not to. In fact, let\u2019s go back to Obama, January 27th, 2010 just a reminder of how he can\u2019t be trusted or believed. You know, Obama\u2019s speeches are carefully crafted, deceitful. They are lies delivered on teleprompter. The president is a con artist. He said, “If we had taken office in ordinary times, I would have liked nothing more than to start bringing down the deficit, but we took office amid a crisis. And our efforts to prevent a second depression have added another one trillion to our national debt. I\u2019m absolutely convinced that the right thing to do was that. But families across the country are tightening their belts and making tough decisions. The federal government should do the same. So tonight I\u2019m proposing specific steps to pay for the $1 trillion that it took to rescue the economy last year.” That was January 27th, 2010. <\/p>\n

A little over a year ago, Obama said he would cut $1 trillion. He has since added more than that to the deficit. So that makes this statement a greater than $2 trillion lie. “Starting in 2011, we are prepared to freeze government spending for three years. Spending related to our national security, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, will not be affected, but all other discretionary government spending will. Like any cash strapped family, we will work within a budget…” and they didn\u2019t even present one. So you see, Reid, Obama, Pelosi, the exact opposite, one year ago, five years ago, of what they are saying today.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Speaking of Obama lies, we have this whopper from the New York Times, Jackie Calmes, February 22, 2009, where he said he would cut the budget deficit in half by the end of his first term. Jackie Calmes wrote, “After a string of costly bailout and stimulus measures, President Obama will set a goal this week to cut the annual deficit at least in half by the end of his term, administration officials said. The reduction would come in large part through Iraq troop withdrawals and higher taxes on the wealthy.” Look at how he had to be dragged fighting, kicking, and screaming into cutting a measly $38.5 billion. <\/p>\n

Folks, the bottom line is the Democrat Party and everybody in it is lying through their teeth every time they open their mouth — and that sounds extreme, I\u2019m sorry, but that\u2019s how you have to understand liberals, and that\u2019s how I always get them right. “Cut the deficit by half after his first term,” and yet dragging kicking and screaming even to $38 billion in cuts. He now regrets his votes against the debt limit when he was a senator. Dingy Harry was talking about how raising the debt limit would destroy the economy five years ago. Today, he\u2019s going to lead the effort to raise the debt limit. What the hell are we to do? Defeat them is what we are to do. It\u2019s like I said in the first hour of the program: The worst lesson to come out of this whole budget thing, this continuing resolution thing — the worst lesson, if they take it — is that compromise is the way to go. ‘Cause it\u2019s not. These people are going to have to be defeated. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing new about that. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s just going to require a continuing commitment.<\/p>\n

END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

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