{"id":231745,"date":"2017-05-01T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=231745"},"modified":"2017-05-02T16:15:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T20:15:14","slug":"nothing-in-this-budget-deal-is-defensible-but-sean-spicer-gave-it-a-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/05\/01\/nothing-in-this-budget-deal-is-defensible-but-sean-spicer-gave-it-a-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing in This Budget Deal is Defensible, But Sean Spicer Gave It a Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: You know, the more you get into this, the worse it actually is. Listen to this. This is from the Washington Post story with the headline: “Eight Ways Trump Got Rolled in His First Budget Negotiations<\/a>.” This, in the Washington Post, is their number one roll, and it\u2019s understandable. The only thing that didn\u2019t get any money in this budget is Trump\u2019s wall. Everything else — including everything Trump opposes — got a budget increase. Try this: “There are explicit restrictions to block the border wall.<\/p>\n

“We knew last week there would be no money to start construction on a project… But the final agreement goes further, putting strict limitations on how Trump can use new money for border security… Administration officials have insisted they already have the statutory authority to start building the wall under a 2006 law. This prevents such an end run.” Can I translate this for you? And, by the way, it\u2019s true. Trump has been running around saying legislation from 2006 authorizes the building of the wall — and, for all intents and purposes, it does.<\/p>\n

This budget has put a restriction explicitly on building the wall! Now, some of the quasi-Republicans in the media who are trying to soften the impact of this are saying, “Well, yeah, Trump didn\u2019t get the money to build the wall. But, man, is there all kinds of new border security in there. This is a win for Trump because there\u2019s all kinds of new border security authorizing more freedom and latitude and leeway for ICE and Border Patrol people and all that.”<\/p>\n

The truth of the matter is that this budget explicitly takes aim at building the wall and says it cannot happen. So where does this come from? is the point. Who wrote this budget? Did the Democrats write this budget? Well, that\u2019s what we\u2019re led to believe. What we\u2019re led to believe is the Democrats wrote the budget, and they used the threat of a government shutdown, and once again those rascally Republicans (who thought they were gonna do an end run again on the United States) were brought up short because they know a government shutdown will be blamed on them.<\/p>\n

\"\"They will lose every election thereafter, and so they caved. That\u2019s what we are supposed to believe. And the Republicans seem content with that! The Republicans — mystifyingly — seem content with the spin that they\u2019re scared to death of a government shutdown and therefore the Democrats can\u2019t be opposed. Now, I know this budget reflects Democrat Party thinking. I know that… What I just read anything from the Washington Post. I know this represents their ideology. They don\u2019t want a wall. They don\u2019t want any limitations on illegal immigration. They want their sanctuary cities funded and acknowledged.<\/p>\n

And all of that happened. But did the Democrats really write it, or is this somebody else\u2019s work? It may be six of one, a half dozen of the other, because the Washington establishment is for the most part very liberal and very progressive. The community of people that we\u2019re talking about, not all of the population of Washington, but those that have any contact offer tie with government, 94% voted for Hillary. So the actual governing portion of Washington, D.C. (and even the surrounding areas of Virginia, Maryland) is overwhelmingly big government liberal.<\/p>\n

And those are the people who are the power behind the throne. And the Republicans just don\u2019t stand up to \u2019em. That much is abundantly clear. Which is why Trump was elected. Look, I hate being repetitive. I\u2019m just saying that this is all going to fall on Trump\u2019s shoulders. And I think he\u2019s fully aware of it. I think he knows. I think he was hoping for something different. I think he was hoping that the Republican Party would actually unify behind his agenda and his election. And that may have been a bit naive, but I think he was hoping for that. I think he was probably a little surprised at the disunity and the division after his election, certainly after his inauguration.<\/p>\n

But all of this is an elongated wake-up call. So we\u2019ll see. We\u2019ll just have to let it all play out and see what happens. But this is… There\u2019s nothing in here. I mean, if I were, if I had the job… If my job were to carry the water for the Republican Party, I don\u2019t know how I would do it. I don\u2019t know how in the world I would! If that was my job — which it isn\u2019t, for those of you in the media. But if it were, I don\u2019t know how I could. I don\u2019t know where I\u2019d do it. I don\u2019t know where there\u2019s water to carry here. And if I tried, you people? You\u2019d throw me overboard, if I tried.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing here that\u2019s defensible, at least when it comes to the areas that we\u2019ve talked about here: Funding cities, funding Planned Parenthood. How in the world can anybody come to a Republican voter and say, “Hey, hey, hey, we got \u2019em right where we want \u2019em! Hey, hey, be patient we\u2019re if we go to. Hey, hey!” There\u2019s no way I don\u2019t know how you would carry water for this. Not that I want to; don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019m just coming up with new ways to explain what a sellout, disaster, betrayal — whatever you want to call this — it is.<\/p>\n

Okay, let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. As I mentioned, there\u2019s lots of other things going on out here, and one of those things going on is the ongoing battle between Trump and the media.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Sean Spicer, White House Daily Briefing. The sharks are out asking and asking about the budget deal, and how it squares with Trump\u2019s agenda and his campaign. John Roberts of Fox News: “What do you say to conservatives who feel like they didn\u2019t get a whole lot of out of the spending bill? There was no money for the wall. There were no cuts to sanctuary cities. Funding for Planned Parenthood was maintained. What do you say to those people?”<\/p>\n

SPICER: People have to keep in context. We\u2019re talking about 2017 funding, right? So this is something that most presidents would walk into office and that would have been done. Because the last Congress didn\u2019t do this under President Obama, we have an opportunity to get some of the president\u2019s priorities infused to the last five months of 2017. That\u2019s a big step forward. Remember, this is 2017 funding. This is something that he wouldn\u2019t normally even have a shot at because it should have been done. So infusing his priority in the 2011 budget cycle is actually something that he\u2019s able to have a say in, which is a big deal the remaining five months. The 2018 budget will address those things.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Okay, so let me translate this. What he\u2019s saying is, “Under normal circumstances we wouldn\u2019t have even had this, a newly incoming president. The budget would have been done last September, October, and it would have been done. Nothing he could have done about it anyway, no matter what. This was an incomplete budget, and so they had to finish it.” nd Spicer is saying, “A lot of Trump\u2019s wishes are in this budget.” But what he really said was, “You wait for Trump to really get into gear in 2018,” meaning the 2018 budget, which starts October 1st of this year.<\/p>\n

The fiscal year is October 1. So what Spicer is saying is, “Look, we wouldn\u2019t normally have had any input in this at all because this would have been a done deal from the last Congress. But since it wasn\u2019t a done deal, they had to finish up the spending. There\u2019s not a whole lot of opportunity for Trump to fix anything here, \u2019cause this is not normally something he would have been involved in anyway. But the next budget starting this fall, when we start negotiating, that\u2019s Trump\u2019s budget, and that\u2019s when you better start paying attention.” That\u2019s what Sean Spicer just said. That\u2019s what that means.<\/p>\n

(translated) “Don\u2019t pay any attention to this! This is a previous administration\u2019s budget that was incomplete. We had to fill the stopgap, and that was that. This doesn\u2019t mean anything! You just pay attention when we start putting together our first budget. This isn\u2019t Trump\u2019s!” I\u2019m just saying that that\u2019s what he said. (pause) Uh, no. No, no, no, no. I don\u2019t remember that. What I remember is Reince Priebus on this program the Friday after the election saying, “No excuses. We got no excuses now.” But look, Spicer is saying… Just to repeat this, he\u2019s saying, “In a normal year, this wouldn\u2019t have happened.<\/p>\n

“In a president\u2019s first year, the first nine months of that year are irrelevant in terms of the budget because it would have been done under the previous president\u2019s watch, with a previous Congress. In this case, the previous budget was not complete. It was a series of CRs, and so we had to fund the government for the rest of this year. It was not considered important enough to go to the mat on because it\u2019s not even our budget. Our budget starts with the next budget, which will be negotiated this fall, and the fiscal year begins October 1st.” Spicer was simply saying, “That\u2019s when you\u2019re gonna see Trump get in gear.”<\/p>\n

I think if you go back to the first hour of the program, I got close to predicting this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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