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RUSH: Here is Chris, Sioux Falls, South, Dakota. It\u2019s great to have you on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. Thank you for taking my call. I wanted to second what your first caller said. Jason. I think we totally screwed ourselves when we sat back and allowed John Boehner to be elected Speaker of the House after we elected all these great Tea Party people in there and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: What is this “we”? <\/p>\n

CALLER: We Republicans.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know, but what did we have to do with it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, we just allowed it to happen. I mean —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. How would you have stopped it? You\u2019re not there. You have to be a member of the House to nominate somebody, to be Speaker, to seek it. That\u2019s pretty much the House did that, not us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right but we didn\u2019t protest it we came out in droves for all these others things and it was just kind of like… I don\u2019t know, I feel like we just sat back and allowed it to happen.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, did you have your doubts despair.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I did, and I regret not saying anything earlier.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You had your doubts about Speaker Boehner before he became Speaker?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. And I just want to make sure that we don\u2019t do this come 2012 and elect an oldie-moldy Senator like we did with McCain and Dole and get trounced again.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, let me tell you what we\u2019re up against here. I mean, I\u2019m probably not going to tell anything you don\u2019t know. We\u2019re up against an entrenched Republican establishment, the old guard that in many ways is just happy to be there, and they are happy to have the power of leadership. But in terms of taking these guys on and actually rolling some of this back with they don\u2019t have the stomach for it. I don\u2019t think a lot of them really have the stomach for it. They have the desire to win pieces of legislation day to day and week to week, but in terms of being revolutionaries, I don\u2019t think that that\u2019s who we\u2019ve got here. Now, I\u2019m talking about current leadership. You\u2019ve got, obviously, some freshmen and some of the Tea Party people, that\u2019s why they think they\u2019re there. Obviously.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m interested to know what your doubts were about Speaker Boehner before the election. What did you know about him?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Uh, that he cried a lot. Well, and he seemed like a nice guy but he seemed like a George Bush nice guy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But what I\u2019m getting at is, you knew that or suspected that long before the Republicans even won the election.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. I don\u2019t know that many people thought that. I\u2019ll just take you back, though. You remember, there were people that wanted to be Speaker that did run against Boehner. One of them was Michele Bachmann, and if, there were a lot of people others put do you remember how everybody just laughed at them? “Oh, come on! Be serious!” Everybody just laughed when they said that. “You want to be Speaker? No, that\u2019s not serious. Come on, you\u2019re not even in line yet.” There was laughter at the thought. How many people in your life are there examples like this: something that you pooh-poohed, months later you wish it had really happened? You wish you had taken something seriously that you pooh-poohed. It happens to a lot of people all the time — very rarely to me, but it happens to a lot of people all the time, and it sounds like you are going through this circumstance even now.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: A lot, my friends, I must tell you… There\u2019s a lot of vitriol, a lot of anger, and some of you are actually being quite impolite in your e-mails to me today. I made reference to the fact that I played golf with John Boehner. Okay, strike one. Hee-hee-hee. Number two, I said, “Look, before we get off down the path, he\u2019s a fine guy. He\u2019s a good guy.” You don\u2019t want to hear that, apparently, and the fact that I played golf with him has compounded my assessment. Some of you think I\u2019m ready to sell out. I kid you not, Snerdley. The e-mails accuse me of almost now I\u2019m carrying Boehner\u2019s water. <\/p>\n

Folks, I\u2019m gonna tell you something right now. I can\u2019t tell you how I know this but if you think I\u2019m carrying the water you ought to know that my name is being bandied about up there in Washington by certain Republicans, and it ain\u2019t pretty. They are complaining about me to themselves, and they are telling members not to appear on this and other shows. If you think I\u2019m carrying Boehner\u2019s water, you need to understand: They don\u2019t think anybody\u2019s carrying their water, and they\u2019re upset about it. Just so you know. You know, I love analogies. And you and I, one of the things we\u2019ve always said about the leadership here is that we\u2019re all in the now. <\/p>\n

To us, this is 2011, on into 2012. But some of the people representing us may still be in 2000, and they may just not have the stomach for this. They may not just have the desire to, as part of their leadership role, take on Obama, take on the Democrats, and literally roll back some of this stuff. They may look at the Tea Party as something to be managed and massaged rather than used as a weapon. So Obama goes out and makes speech like he does yesterday. To you and I, well, he\u2019s thrown down the gauntlet. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s a full-fledged an insult. It is a come-on, it\u2019s an invitation, it is, “All right, pal, if that\u2019s how you look at us, and that\u2019s how you look at the country, battle on. Is that what you want?” But that\u2019s not how they\u2019re doing it. They don\u2019t see the speech that way. Now, Ryan is a different guy. He\u2019s in the leadership, but I\u2019m exempting him. But obviously that speech yesterday that Obama gave… Here\u2019s the analogy. To us, that was in-your-face hostility. That was the president of the United States being hostile to us, to what we believe, and thus toward our country. But to RINOs, to country club Republicans, to Ruling Class Republicans, it was no more offensive than Obama showing up at 21 without a tie. <\/p>\n

So they ran back and they got him a tie and they let him in the dining room. Not a big deal. Not a real big affront to anything. You know, the maitre d\u2019 can handle the problem. “Oh, look, there\u2019s our President. Damn it, he forgot his tie.” We don\u2019t look at it that way. It\u2019s just an entirely different way of looking at the circumstance or the situation — and it\u2019s not, by the way, just in our leadership. There are certain places in our media. This is the Weekly Standard, a journal of opinion. It\u2019s in the same family as National Review, American Spectator, New Republic. It\u2019s a journal of opinion, conservative, and here\u2019s the headline: “Calm Down: The Budget Deal Isn\u2019t as Bad as You Think.” Now, we just found out that the actual amount of dollars cut is not $38.5 billion, not $20 billion. It\u2019s $352 million. That\u2019s how much has actually been cut, and yet here\u2019s the headline: “Calm Down: The Budget Deal Isn\u2019t as Bad as You Think.” Gotta with start someplace. So there\u2019s a disconnect with RINOs, Ruling Class Republicans, and us throughout the spectrum.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Bellefontaine, Ohio, and this is Don. Don, it\u2019s great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, I can\u2019t b\u2019lieve it. After 15 years, I get through.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here you are, sir. Your big show biz break.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Listen, I\u2019m an ex-politician from Belle Fountain, Ohio, and I told your call screener that Ryan and the other Republican boys shoulda got up and walked out of that meeting. This President shows no respect. If we\u2019re supposed to respect the President, then the President should respect the high offices of the Congress.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, he clearly doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I know, and this had been a good way to demonstrate it. I don\u2019t know who he thinks he is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, come on, yes, you do. He\u2019s The Messiah. He\u2019s got a gift. It\u2019s what he told Harry Reid. He\u2019s special.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know. I know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You really woulda walked out?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I woulda walked out. I\u2019ve been in politics just on a minor level, and I know just a little bit about it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s not what they\u2019re gonna do. They would look at that as being too provocative and I think probably they don\u2019t want to send the signal that Obama gets to \u2019em. Who knows? But your point is well taken. It was audacious. It was… I don\u2019t know. It was so unprofessional. It was a disaster! It was a literal disaster of the speech, but the media — see this is the thing, folks. The media loved it. They are praising it to the hilt. They love it when Obama takes it to us. That\u2019s why he did the speech. I cannot emphasize this enough. <\/p>\n

One of the reasons for the tone, that\u2019s who he is. Another reason for the tone of the speech, the content, he loves that. He knows that his base hates us. They want to hear that kind of stuff, they want to hear him talk to us that way. That\u2019s how they would talk to us if they had a chance. They want him to do it, and he\u2019s gotta shore up his base. He\u2019s losing in almost every voter group. He\u2019s losing even African-Americans. He\u2019s trending down in the polls. I\u2019ll tell you what, grab audio sound bites eight at least through ten. Let\u2019s get some Republican response to it. Yesterday afternoon the Republicans held a press conference around four o\u2019clock to respond to Obama\u2019s speech. He\u2019s Jeb Hensarling from Texas up first.<\/p>\n

HENSARLING: He spent approximately a half an hour giving us a history listen, blaming everyone for the nation\u2019s fiscal woes but himself, attacking the Path to Prosperity budget and setting a new standard for class warfare rhetoric. I don\u2019t know about my colleagues, but I thought to myself: “Did I miss lunch for this?”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here is Eric Cantor, who is from Virginia.<\/p>\n

CANTOR: What happened after that is the president goes and delivers a speech in which the only concrete proposal that he proposed was raising taxes, and that solution falls far short of dealing with the kind of crisis that we are facing as far as the debt\u2019s concerned in this country. We have spoken to the specifics, Mr. President. We are serious. Where are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: At the Republican press conference, Paul Ryan, who was the target of Obama\u2019s insults.<\/p>\n

PAUL RYAN: I\u2019m very disappointed in the president. What we got was a speech that was excessively partisan, dramatically inaccurate, and hopelessly inadequate to addressing our country\u2019s pressing fiscal challenges. What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our commander-in-chief. What we heard today was a political broadside from our campaigner-in-chief.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Later, Ryan appeared on the Kudlow Report with the host Larry Kudlow on CNBC. They talked about the budget, deficit reduction speech. Kudlow says, “Does this speech that Obama gave, does this poison with the for a debt limit deal?”<\/p>\n

PAUL RYAN: As far as a debt limit, you know, we\u2019re just gonna have to forget about the president \u2019cause he\u2019s out campaigning — giving us this kind of demagoguery and this kind of rhetoric — and we\u2019re gonna have to work with our colleagues, Democrat colleagues here in Congress, act like adults and try and get a solution to that particular problem which we intend on doing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And he kept on going…<\/p>\n

PAUL RYAN: I really was led to believe that this was gonna be more of an olive branch speech. Instead of getting a speech from a leader, from our commander-in-chief on some constructive path forward on deficit reduction, we got a partisan gauntlet from the campaigner-in-chief. He\u2019s poisoning the well, basically called us un-American for offering our budget — which, by the way, preserves the social safety net, makes it stronger; saves Medicare and Medicaid; pays off our national debt; and gets the economy growing through growth, job creation, and prosperity. So, you know, he basically said it was all these evil things that it does. I just find that really astounding.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I can imagine he would find it astounding. See, I don\u2019t. I\u2019m not astounded he would say it. That\u2019s who they are. At some point, we are going to begin expecting what we know is coming from these people and react accordingly. Kudlow then had another question: “Okay, is entitlement reform out the window now? Obama\u2019s gonna go back to his commission, which I think of as kind of the Central Planning Price Controlling Commission, and that\u2019s gonna be in charge allegedly for lowering Medicare. He has very harsh words towards your ideas. Is entitlement reform gone out the window now?”<\/p>\n

PAUL RYAN: He\u2019s saying instead of more choice and competition he wants to delegate more power to this IPAB. It\u2019s like 12 people who can\u2019t be controlled by Congress, who can just unilaterally price control and ration health care through Medicare. So he just wants to do more price controlling and rationing, and you know as well as I do price controls do not fight inflation. Price controls don\u2019t lower prices. They just bring more scarcities and deny services. We don\u2019t want to go down that path.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. Okay. That\u2019s Paul Ryan, on Kudlow, reacting to Obama\u2019s speech. Now let\u2019s move forward to audio sound bite number 16. Former member of Congress from Virginia, a RINO Republican by the name of Tom Davis who doesn\u2019t particularly like me. I\u2019ve never tried to play golf with him. I don\u2019t know if he\u2019s a fine guy or not. But he was on MSNBC\u2019s Daily Rundown today, and Savannah Guthrie, who is one of the babes that hopes to get the Today show gig when Meredith Vieira leaves — yeah, she\u2019s in the running. Savannah Guthrie is in the running for Meredith Vieira\u2019s gig. Well, Savannah Guthrie, it\u2019s Ann Curry, and there\u2019s a couple others in there. <\/p>\n

You know, I was told back in the old days at MSNBC (I really don\u2019t know if this was true, but I was told by somebody who would know) that whenever they hired an infobabe, they always dangled, “Hey, you know, you could be Today show. That\u2019s where we\u2019re thinking of you,” and then ten years later, “I thought you said the Today show?” “Oh, it\u2019s still possible.” At any rate, Savannah Guthrie is talking to Tom Davis — who, again, I have not tried to play golf with him, I never have played golf with him, I don\u2019t know if he\u2019s a fine guy. I know he\u2019s not particularly crazy about me. He\u2019s a RINO, and she said, “Congressman, you are a Republican, but you are a no longer in orifice perform are Republicans credible when they say they want to attack this deficit problem without touching taxes?”<\/p>\n

DAVIS: Everybody agrees you need more revenue. At the end of the day, when you sit across the table, you really talk about a deal, you\u2019re talking about taxes and not just on the rich.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Tom Davis. So here\u2019s a Republican RINO, former member of Congress essentially committing — well, not committing, but saying, “Oh, yeah, taxes, gonna have to raise taxes on everybody, not just the rich.” <\/p>\n

END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

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