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RUSH: During the campaign for the November elections, the pledge was to cut $100 billion — and when that pledge was made, folks, I have to tell you, that\u2019s largely symbolic. It\u2019s a good step, I guess, but $100 billion, we\u2019d still be talking pennies. This was not an election that was eked out in the final moments. This was a tsunami, and it\u2019s gonna take a whole bunch of tsunamis to continue to roll this back. We\u2019re not gonna roll this back with baby steps. We need a series of tsunamis, like the November election. <\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nOkay, but, anyway, during the November election the pledge was to cut $100 billion, and then when there wasn\u2019t a budget and we went to a continuing resolution format, that got reduced to $61 billion on a prorated basis because we lost five months there; and then $61 billion became too much and we ended up at $38 billion. My question is, why promise $100 billion, and then why reduce the hundred billion to $61 billion and reduce that to $38.5 billion? What changed during all of this? Where did we start losing leverage? Where did we start losing ground? Obama\u2019s poll numbers didn\u2019t start skyrocketing upward. What happened? <\/p>\n

This is what I don\u2019t understand: Why even promise $100 billion if you don\u2019t mean it and then reduce it to $61 billion? Okay, we\u2019ll go for that on a prorated basis, but then that\u2019s too much. So we\u2019re down to $38 billion. What changed? There was a great opportunity here because of leverage and these opportunities don\u2019t come along very often. The Democrats and the left didn\u2019t get us to where we are today by compromising. Pelosi never compromised. Tip O\u2019Neill never compromised. It\u2019s not even a word in their vocabulary. Thanks to the RINOs and other wishy-washy politicians, the Republican Party has almost been compromised out of existence. <\/p>\n

The Tea Party is what\u2019s given them new life, but Republican Party can\u2019t go back to its old ways or they\u2019re gonna be lost as a political force forever. I just don\u2019t know what changed — and if $100 billion was too much to actually promise to pledge to cut, then why promise it in the first place? Now, I understand some people are saying, “Hey, Rush, don\u2019t get caught up in all this because the Ryan budget, that\u2019s where the rubber is gonna meet the road. Ah, we\u2019re gonna be talking trillions.” That\u2019s right, and the Republican leadership is suggesting that, yep, that\u2019s where it\u2019s gonna get really serious. <\/p>\n

This was really serious. The Democrats have been on defense since the election. They\u2019re the ones that didn\u2019t do a budget. They are why we are in this position in the first place. The opportunity was great. It\u2019s like I told the audience at my Heritage speech: Never in my lifetime — and this has been the case for a couple years now. Never in my lifetime has the opportunity for contrast been so great, to tell the American people to demonstrate the difference. Because the American people already, by half, understand it. Why did the independents abandon Obama and the Democrats in the first place?<\/p>\n

I mentioned this Friday night, too, and there were a lot of Republicans in the audience. Republicans didn\u2019t do zip to attract the independents. They just happened to be the only place to go. Obama and the Democrats drove them away. Now, I want to know what has changed to make everybody fearful the independents are gonna somehow go back to the Democrats. The only thing I can think of is this talk of a government shutdown. Somehow, these independents when they hear talk of a government shutdown immediately run back to the Democrat Party. I don\u2019t intellectually understand that. I don\u2019t see how that happens. <\/p>\n

This is not 1995. The circumstances are entirely different. You have a far greater, impactful conservative media; a much more informed and caring and invested public in this. So I\u2019m at a loss. I don\u2019t understand what has happened. Well, you know me. I\u2019m really not all that caught up in being fearful every day of what the independents are gonna do. This notion that 20% of the American people determine the electoral outcome in the country? If that\u2019s true, that\u2019s gotta change. The standard operating theory is: Okay, 40% of the voters are gonna go Democrat; 40% are gonna go Republican; and then you have the undecideds, the independents. <\/p>\n

And who wouldn\u2019t like to be an independent? <\/p>\n

Hell, everybody talks about \u2019em as the smartest people in the world, the most open-mind people in the world! “Oh, yeah, these people are not extreme, fringe ideologues. They\u2019re not hard-core, closed mind people. No, no, no! They are the open-minded among us. That\u2019s who everybody fights for in elections.” Okay, fine. Then let\u2019s go fight for \u2019em instead of being afraid of them. Let\u2019s go out and persuade \u2019em! Let\u2019s go out and tell \u2019em, “Guess what? You know what you really are? You\u2019re conservatives, you just don\u2019t know it. You live your life that way. You\u2019ve been making the mistake of voting for people who won\u2019t let you live your life that way but you\u2019re conservatives. <\/p>\n

“You know how we know you\u2019re conservatives? Because of the way you voted in November. We know you\u2019re conservatives \u2019cause you can\u2019t palate what the Obama regime is doing.” Why be afraid of it? It\u2019s a golden opportunity here — a tremendous, golden opportunity. I just don\u2019t know what to be here, folks, other than honest with you, and if we\u2019re gonna start throwing giant celebratory parties over $38 billion in cuts when that much amounts every two or three days in debt and interest? (exasperated groan) (interruption) I could pretend to be falsely optimistic? Well, no. No, no. No, I am optimistic, not falsely so.<\/p>\n

<\/a>I wouldn\u2019t have to pretend to be. Like I said, the debate has switched now. I mean, even Obama is talking about cutting spending. Obama is gonna give a speech on Wednesday night, and he\u2019s going to talk about cutting Medicare and Medicaid. Now, they won\u2019t be real cuts but he\u2019s gonna talk about it; he\u2019s gonna use the language. These people, the Democrats, are talking cuts. Now, I don\u2019t know they don\u2019t mean it. It\u2019s just like what was it, the 2002 election, the midterms when they got shellacked after the Wellstone memorial and the exit polls… It might have been 2006, I forget which. <\/p>\n

Whichever midterm it was, the exit polls showed that “Values Voters” were the difference and so for two weeks after the election the Democrats said, “Yeah, you know, we kind of missed this. We\u2019re gonna have to go out and make our appeal known. We have values, too,” and it lasted for two weeks. You know, so Obama\u2019s gonna go out there on Wednesday night. He\u2019s gonna talk about more cuts in Medicare and Medicaid. They\u2019re not gonna be real cuts. To cut Medicare is to cut Obamacare. They\u2019re one and the same. He not gonna cut it. He\u2019s gonna talk about it. Just like he goes out to the Lincoln Memorial…<\/p>\n

By the way, the Lincoln Memorial could not be shut down, but he goes up there and takes credit for saving it and keeping it open. It\u2019s outside! They couldn\u2019t shut the Lincoln Memorial if they wanted to! (sigh) We borrow close to, what, $4.5 billion a day, so we borrow $31.3 billion a week — and according to an article the Cybercast News Service, the federal debt increased $54.1 billion during the week before the budget negotiations. So the debt, federal debt goes up $54 billion, we announce this “massive” — and I also heard, for the first time ever, real cuts $38 billion and it just… (sigh) <\/p>\n

The fact of the matter is the Tea Party people, the American voters are way ahead of the commentariat and they\u2019re way ahead of the elected officials in Washington on where the country is. It used to be the other way around. It used to be that spin could work and convince people out there, but the Tea Party\u2019s way ahead of it. The Tea Party is immune to the spin; they\u2019re not buying this. Look, I\u2019m not gonna mention any names, but I\u2019ve talked to four or five freshman Republicans in the House. They\u2019re devastated. This is not at all what they thought they were jumping into. They thought they were jumping into a united effort to really get serious about reversing all aspects of the Obama regime. <\/p>\n

And they find out that that\u2019s not what the agenda is, at least not right now. And it\u2019s the same thing that happened in 1994, with that freshman class. It wasn\u2019t long before most of that freshman class, or at least over half of it just quit. You know, they weren\u2019t professional politicians. They were just all fired up. They got there and they found out that it wasn\u2019t gonna be what they thought — and that was with the Newt bunch and the Newt bunch was truly a bunch of revolutionaries. This bunch isn\u2019t. They\u2019re not revolutionaries. The House leadership today is not revolutionaries, although some of them are holdovers.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m still trying to find out for sure if the $38 billion contains $10 billion in previous continuing resolutions. It\u2019s proving hard to nail down, which is an indication here of just how terrible the news media is that we don\u2019t even know this. But regardless, it\u2019s only $20 billion in savings anyway, which, I don\u2019t know, folks, I can\u2019t do jumping jacks over this. Just can\u2019t. Not in me.<\/p>\n

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