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RUSH: ABC News just now: John Boehner has shrugged off conservative criticism of the dollar amount of the continuing resolution. He said, “It\u2019s not perfect. It\u2019s a first step,” and what is the second step? The debt limit? What will his second be in that regard, to wait for the Ryan budget? The second or third step, we don\u2019t know. But we do know… Can you imagine what it was like in the Republican caucus meeting last night, because all day yesterday there was talk that they might need some Democrat votes to get this continuing resolution passed. That would not look good, and here you\u2019ve had a weekend filled with spin: “Big win for Boehner!<\/p>\n

“Oh, my God, why, it\u2019s the first time we\u2019ve cut the budget since Mars was discovered! This is huge: $38 billion, my God, Mabel, it\u2019s never been done before!” That was the weekend spin, and it kinda of started to deteriorate. To the point that last night it was down to $352 million. There\u2019s been criticism everywhere. There has been support from some sectors of the conservative media, but you the peoples and much of the conservative media have not been happy here. First we were told $100 billion, and that didn\u2019t fly. It was $61 billion. If it was less than that there was gonna be hell to pay and there\u2019s hell to pay. <\/p>\n

So imagine being in that meeting. In this regard, Republicans and Democrats don\u2019t differ much. If the leadership wants something done (chuckles), and you have an arm, they\u2019ll twist it. So I wonder what the message was from the leadership to recalcitrant Republicans who might have been told they were gonna vote “no;” who might have said to leadership, “You know, we can\u2019t vote for this,” because the last thing the leadership wants is Democrat votes to pass this. Now, how many of the freshmen…? Freshmen, they\u2019re the ones that always get the pressure. Okay, so we have a huge number of freshmen. Some of them gonna vote “no,” leadership learns it, brings \u2019em in. There was a meeting yesterday afternoon into last night. <\/p>\n

We know that. <\/p>\n

“Okay, vote ‘no.\u2019 Go ahead and vote ‘no,\u2019 and don\u2019t bother coming back. Okay, vote ‘no.\u2019 You want to vote ‘no\u2019? Don\u2019t expect to ever matter here again.” Whatever, you can imagine the kind of stuff that might have been said. So here\u2019s Boehner shrugging off the criticism of the dollar amount. It\u2019s not perfect, first step. Okay, what\u2019s the second step? Debt limit? Well, what\u2019s gonna be the second step there? Because we\u2019re already hearing that the debt limit, “Ahhhh, kick that can down the road, too. Let\u2019s focus on the Ryan budget,” and then we start focus on the Ryan budget and it\u2019ll be, “Let\u2019s kick that can down the road. We gotta focus on the 2012 election.” They just don\u2019t want to deal with it. The Democrats do, and I think it\u2019s an opportunity. Here is Senator Chuck-U Schumer this afternoon in Washington. The Democrats held a miniature press conference, and during the press conference this is what Chuck-U Schumer said about Obama\u2019s speech yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n

SCHUMER: The president\u2019s speech has framed a debate that will rage long after we resolve the debt ceiling. The debate is a debate we welcome. We\u2019ve been waiting for it. It is a debate we will win. It is a quite a different debate than the one we will finish up today. The one to come has much higher stakes. The debate ahead of us is about the role of government itself. It will be one of the seminal debates in the first quarter of this new century and will determine what America is like. The fact that the president has drawn a clear distinction with the Republicans and their Ryan budget brings the debate finally to a head, and we welcome it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, before you pooh-pooh this and start talking about Chuck-U Schumer as a wacko extremist, let me tell you what he just did. Chuck-U is banking on the fact, using intelligence guided by experience, that the Republicans in the House will punt the debt ceiling. Chuck-U Schumer has just set that up as the debate of the 21st century. Chuck-U Schumer has just said that the debate on the debt ceiling is going to be the most important thing we do in the first 25 years, and he\u2019s confident that the House Republicans are gonna punt. Meaning, when it\u2019s all said and done, the Democrats… Chuck-U Schumer, is gonna be out there next time he sees the camera, he\u2019s gonna be out there saying, “We won it. We won the debate.” <\/p>\n

If the debt ceiling goes up a dime, Chuck-U is gonna go out and say they won the debate. If the Republicans do not even challenge it, if they kick it down the road as they have said they\u2019re going to do — and there\u2019s pressure being brought to bear. Wall Street tycoons are calling Boehner. We played you the sound bites yesterday. Some of the people warning, “The debt limit, you know, you guys start messing around with that and you got a default on your hands and we can\u2019t handle it.” There will not be a default. Nothing would happen. The consequences are far greater than the government shutdown with a continuation resolution, but this is what that election in November was all about. <\/p>\n

Chuck-U Schumer is setting the table for the media to be able to report that the election of November of 2010 didn\u2019t mean anything. That\u2019s what this means, taken to its ultimate logical end. I just said: Why don\u2019t we want this debate? This debate is winnable. By gosh, we\u2019ve got it. But we don\u2019t. At least our leadership doesn\u2019t. Chuck-U makes it look like they do. Chuck-U is willing to go out there and defend Obama. He\u2019s willing to go out there and defend joblessness. He\u2019s willing to go out there and defend what\u2019s happened to the private sector. He\u2019s willing to go out there and defend all of this that has ended up causing this damage. He\u2019s willing to do it or say so, anyway, because they think — and who could blame \u2019em? <\/p>\n

Our one weapon, the shutdown, pfft! We telegraphed we would not use it. I\u2019m not trying to be negative, and I don\u2019t think it\u2019s the end of this, I\u2019m just telling you: As we sit here today approaching 2:15 Eastern time on the 14th of April, that\u2019s what this means. It doesn\u2019t mean we can\u2019t be dealt with. (interruption) Snerdley, would you get your face off the floor in there. I did not say this is how this ends. This is what Chuck Schumer is trying to set up. It\u2019s almost a challenge. It\u2019s almost a call to arms, if you will. I would look at this… It\u2019s just me. It\u2019s just me. Chuck-U wants to go out and defend this? The role of government?<\/p>\n

The role of government is to destroy the US private sector? Defend it. The role of government is to pay for abortions and not military personnel? Defend it. Go right ahead. The role of government is to start taxing people left and right and choke off any economic recovery? The role of government is to prevent, to retard the creation of wealth? Great! We want you to defend that. He seems eager to, and I don\u2019t think he really is. I think one of the reasons he says he\u2019s eager to is because he doesn\u2019t think our guys are gonna show up in any serious way, at the debate that he\u2019s just now said we\u2019re gonna have.<\/p>\n

Before Chuck-U Schumer has this little sound bite, we\u2019re all sitting here thinking that the debt ceiling debate, “Ah, they\u2019re gonna kick that can down the road. We\u2019re not gonna have it.” Chuck-U has just said it\u2019s the most important thing in the first 25 years of the century: Role of government. And if they win it, Chuck-U is gonna say, “The American people have decided what they want the role of their government to be.” It\u2019s the shooting match. This is it right here! That\u2019s exactly right. You know, Yul Brynner has just left of the theater at West World, he\u2019s in the street and he\u2019s about to draw on us! Or Hedley Lamarr has abandoned Governor Le Petomane, whatever western analogy you want. The bad guy has just walked to the middle of the street. Are we gonna be Sheriff Bad Bart or are we gonna be whatever, Cleavon Little, and drive away in a Cadillac eating some popcorn.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Timothy Geithner, Treasury secretary was on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer last night, and Jim Lehrer says, “There\u2019s going to be a vote next few weeks on the debt limit. You\u2019ve said if that does not happen, would be a catastrophe. The Republicans have said, ‘Wait a minute, we\u2019re not gonna vote for that if we don\u2019t get some more cuts out of this.\u2019 In other words, there\u2019s going to be a tradeoff.”<\/p>\n

GEITHNER: Congress will pass an increase in the debt limit \u2019cause they have to and the leadership of both houses has recognized that the country has to meet its obligations, and they are not prepared and should not be prepared to take the risk that that\u2019s called into question.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Timothy Geithner telling the Republicans: You will give me your money. You will give me more money. And I remind you of Chuck Schumer, who has set this up as the defining debate over the role of government in people\u2019s lives. This debt ceiling debate, that\u2019s the debate on the role of government. Well, if the Republicans do indeed kick this down the road and don\u2019t take it seriously as they\u2019ve said, then the Democrats have just set the stage here to go down and say, “The American people have sided with us, the liberal Democrats, and their view of the role of government.” That\u2019s what\u2019s been set up today with Chuck Schumer. Keep a sharp eye. We don\u2019t intend to let \u2019em get away with it, but I mean that\u2019s what they\u2019re trying. <\/p>\n

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