{"id":18747,"date":"2011-04-12T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:21:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-20T00:21:18","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:21:18","slug":"the_shutdown_strategy_explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/04\/12\/the_shutdown_strategy_explained\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shutdown Strategy Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: Joe in Monroe, New York. Hello, sir, great to have you on the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. It\u2019s a real honor to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I appreciate that. Thank you very, very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just want to tell you what I think. I don\u2019t think that Boehner is scared of a shutdown. Boehner\u2019s in to cut the deficit (unintelligible). So a shut down isn\u2019t a solution. A shutdown is not gonna solve the problem, so they pushed Obama to the corner to get more and more cuts. So when it\u2019s come to the point of a shutdown why should we let a shutdown, why this is not a solution? You won\u2019t cut the deficit with a shutdown.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Because this is the first step, and in the first step we demonstrated our limit. We demonstrated how we can be hornswoggled at each point in the negotiation.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Or at least let a shutdown by the trillion-dollar deficit side, not about by the billion-dollar deficit side?<\/p>\n

RUSH: What makes you think we\u2019ll shut down over a trillion dollars, if he wouldn\u2019t shut down over $38 billion?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, because on billions he will forgive them, but on trillions he won\u2019t forgive them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Who will forgive —<\/p>\n

CALLER: (Unintelligible) shut down the government and then not cut from the trillions.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Who\u2019s going to forgive who? I\u2019ve lost track here now.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think Boehner.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Boehner will be forgiven by whom?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, Boehner will negotiate with the Democrats on billions but not on trillions, and when he wants to cut trillions and they won\u2019t, he will make a shutdown.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019ll find out. We got the debt limit come up here sometime at the end of May. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Anyway, but, Rush, my point is just that I don\u2019t think Boehner is scared of a shutdown. Boehner wants to see cuts, and he can\u2019t get pushed. I think he pushed Obama very well in the corner he gets over I half of what — what he wants.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What did he mean when he said that there wouldn\u2019t be a shutdown, that there\u2019s no political win in it? What did he mean when he said that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm. That\u2019s a point. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: A hundred percent. I agree with Mike Pence.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Lucky for me the segment is over. Usually happens that way. Thank you.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me explain the shutdown. I do sometimes make the mistake of believing that people understand things as I do, particularly those of you in this audience and I\u2019m well advised to learn that sometimes these things need to be explained in a strategic sense. Now, Boehner has not said that he will shut down the government for anything — and if he says that he is prepared to do so, that\u2019s because he\u2019s being pressed hard on this. But a shutdown\u2019s not the end goal here. The previous caller is arguing that he wanted to know why I was so in favor of a shutdown. Shutdown is not the end goal; that was not the objective. <\/p>\n

The shutdown is the only tool we had (might say “have”). The shutdown is the only tool that we have to force better outcomes. What else is there? What matters most to these guys? What matters most to the Democrats? Government. Now, here\u2019s what the GOP should have said. They should have said, “Look, we don\u2019t want a shutdown, but if Obama continues to spend recklessly and wildly — pushing this nation toward poverty for everybody and bankruptcy, and destroying the future for our kids — we can\u2019t accept that and we won\u2019t!” <\/p>\n

It\u2019s what I always say: Turn the tables, go on offense, don\u2019t accept their premise. Their premise is that we want a shutdown. Their premise is, we hate government. Their premise is we want people in pain and suffering. It\u2019s utter BS. They are the ones that have caused pain and suffering at every level of our society — and they\u2019ve been doing it for years, decades, by virtue of their policies. It is not our goal to shut down the government. Now, we have a real plan. Ryan has put forth a real plan and we have presented it to the president, but he\u2019s vacationing and traveling we can\u2019t seem to get his attention \u2019cause his priorities are not the same as ours. <\/p>\n

Look, the stakes very high here. This is not the farm bill we\u2019re been debating every two years, not when you\u2019re talking about the future of the country. (Nothing against farm bills here.) Now, a government shutdown means that essential parts of the government do not, in fact, shut down. Social Security checks go out. Medicare happens. The Post Office stays open. Law enforcement, military, it all continues — with Obama, they just don\u2019t get paid. With Obama the military doesn\u2019t get paid. Oh! Speaking of Obama lying to you, now Obama and Moochelle are out there claiming to be the best friends of the military today. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s part of setup for the big lie happening tomorrow night. Now, whether you want to admit it or not… Some people don\u2019t like the fight. Some people wish we could all just get along. There are several columnists out there today say, “Can we just agree? Why do we have to always be in confrontation? Can\u2019t we just get along?” Well, no; because there are more battles ahead, big ones, which are gonna determine the future of the country; whether we\u2019re gonna be poor throughout every layer of society, or whether we\u2019re going to be a vibrant, healthy, prosperous society. That\u2019s the debate! That\u2019s what we face. <\/p>\n

It involves the debt and the 2012 budget. I would hope that we want to make clear to the Democrats and the president we consider all these issues as one, that we\u2019re not going to back off. The Republican Party should be identified as that party that is understood — and if it\u2019s not understood, it should say it — we stand with you. We stand with your children. We stand with your parents and grandparents. The Democrats and the president stand with big government, bureaucracies, deficits. They believe you work for the government; we believe the government should work for you. <\/p>\n

We\u2019ve tried it their way for 50-plus years. Unemployment is up; deficits are up; gasoline prices are up, approaching $5 a gallon. We want to reverse course. Shutting down the government is a tool toward achieving our endgame. It is not the endgame.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Chris in Metamora, Ohio. We go back to the phones and welcome to the program, sir. It\u2019s great to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks, Rush. It\u2019s a great honor to speak with you. I\u2019ll just get to my point. My question for ya basically, is the public gonna look at this the same way that they did when Bush, Sr., put out the “no new taxes” and what happened with that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. He raised taxes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so what\u2019s the analogy to that here?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that the Republicans were so gung-ho and pushing so strongly to reduce the deficit, and they would basically take whatever steps necessary to do it, and they backed down.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh! Oh, oh! The hundred billion became 38. Okay, okay. Yeah. Well, they did raise people\u2019s expectations. I guess it remains a possibility. The Tea Party is growing larger. (interruption) Oh, he\u2019s asking me if it will be perceived as just as bad? Let me think about that. With that “no new tax” pledge, that was a biggie. Remember, George H.W. Bush came out of the Gulf War with a 90% approval number, and the Democrats threw their third string at him in terms of presidential nominees, because the big guns said, “There\u2019s no way we can win here. We just have to sacrifice this year,” but Bill Clinton didn\u2019t get the memo. <\/p>\n

He said (impression), “Hey, you know what? There\u2019s this gal I gotta meet out there named Lewinsky and the only way it\u2019s gonna happen is if I\u2019m in the White House. I\u2019m in.” So he was in and he kept running and chugging and chugging and chugging and dunkin\u2019 and dunkin\u2019 and dunkin\u2019 and got in there, and that 90% plummeted because in part because, “Read my lips: No new taxes,” became, “Oops, we gotta raise taxes.” Now, this we promised a $100 billion in cuts. This is not as drastic. I think for the analogy to be full-fledged, Obama would have had to have gotten spending increases here. We got cuts. Even if it\u2019s $2 billion, there are cuts. I don\u2019t care if they\u2019re dwarfed by interest on the debt every three days (chuckles), we still got cuts. <\/p>\n

How many campaign promises has Obama broken? Has anybody bothered to read his lips? (interruption) Well, I know: Where else did the left have to go? They\u2019re clearly not gonna vote for anybody we could throw up there. That\u2019s — that\u2019s absolutely true.<\/p>\n

END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

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