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<\/p>\nRUSH: Paul Ryan canceled the Republican press conference today. He said that there was too much conflict. There was a scheduled new conference, and there was just too much conflict within the Republican caucus. I was just watching CNN, and here\u2019s their take on all this. They think that this is all for show. They think the Republicans canceling their press conference and going up and having a meeting with Trump in the White House, which was scheduled to start at noon. We don\u2019t know if it did, but it was to begin near then.<\/p>\n
CNN says all this is for show.<\/p>\n
The meeting, the canceling the press conference, this is just so that Trump… Cause he\u2019s gonna sign the thing. They\u2019re telling each other at CNN, “It\u2019s a done deal. Trump\u2019s never gonna shut down the government before Christmas! It isn\u2019t gonna happen. All this is designed to make you Trump voters think that he\u2019s seriously considering it, and that he\u2019s in there fighting for you, and that he took it down to the wire and he was this close to not signing it, to vetoing it. But in the end, common sense prevailed, and President Trump realizes that he cannot shut down the government before Christmas and therefore they think this is all for sure. That\u2019s what they are saying at CNN. Then they threw it to some reporter somewhere.<\/p>\n
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Well, I wouldn\u2019t be so sure. You know, the one thing about Donald Trump is we never know what he\u2019s gonna do. Which is true. But they\u2019re trying to comfort themselves in the Drive-By Media that all of this is for show. And they\u2019re talking about the fact that this has happened before, that there have been threatened government shutdowns and Trump has huffed and puffed but in the end, he has gone ahead and kept government opening by giving Democrats whatever they want. In this case, Republicans too.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s true too. This is why all of this argues for drawing a line in the sand. We\u2019re talking… We\u2019re not talking about $5 billion. By the way, can I mention another aspect of this that is not even being mentioned? We\u2019re talking about federal spending here that is out of control. We\u2019re gonna have a total expenditure in this fiscal year of over $4 trillion. We don\u2019t have it. You know, I am convinced that something has happened in Washington and maybe it\u2019s not recent, but I think all of the talk, whenever there is talk about spending restraint or responsibility is just that.<\/p>\n
Because there isn\u2019t a person in that town that is actually acting as though they\u2019re concerned about it. I actually wonder, why do we even need a budget? Because there\u2019s no pretense at trying to balance it. We have money raised via taxes, which is at an all-time high, by the way. Washington is collecting more money from all of its sources than ever before, largely because of tax cuts. Tax cuts always result in more money to Washington because more jobs are created. More taxpayers are created.<\/p>\n
But as this money comes in, the spending… There\u2019s no correlation of the two. We\u2019ve got monthly deficits now of $300 billion. It used to be that was the annual deficit! Now it\u2019s $300 billion per month that is a deficit. And I\u2019m convinced that most people in Washington don\u2019t think there really is any budgetary reason for not spending money. There is no clerical reason, there\u2019s no pressure to balance a budget, there\u2019s no need to balance a budget. Just spend the money. I mean, we can print it and we\u2019ve got the Federal Reserve over there to keep the economy in check by raising interest rates.<\/p>\n
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That is an entirely different subject, and that is another attempt at sabotaging Trump. It\u2019s Fed Chairman Jerome what\u2019s-his-face, Jerome Powell, is that his name? Raising interest rates in this economy is crazy, but they\u2019re doing it and talking about even more. It\u2019s not just the interest rates that they\u2019ve raised recently. It\u2019s the promise to keep doing it next year and the market continues to lose value. It\u2019s fascinating to watch the media. You know why the market\u2019s losing value today? Because Trump might shut down the government!<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t insult my intelligence! People invest money are not sitting there, (impression) “Oh, my God. Government shutdown? Ah, sell, sell!” That\u2019s not at all how this happens. So much of this trading is automated and done by computers based on algorithms and so forth. The idea that the stock market\u2019s down because Trump might shut down the government, it\u2019s just another bunch of media drivel designed to create the impression that everybody hates Trump because nothing Trump does is right and there\u2019s nothing that he\u2019s doing that anybody understands, and that nobody agrees with anything he\u2019s doing, this is totally out of control.<\/p>\n
Yet this guy who doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing and has no business being there and is dangerously incompetent has produced more positive results for the U.S. economy in two years than happened in all of eight years with Barack Obama, who was the most seasoned veteran we could have had, the most responsible, the most sophisticated, the most intellectual, the most knowledgeable. You\u2019d be hard-pressed to find economic activity like this in the first two years of any presidential term. You have all these insiders cannot hold a candle.<\/p>\n
And of course, what\u2019s on the table is slowing it down. We cannot allow any of this to be seen as caused by Donald Trump. We cannot allow any credit to accrue to Donald Trump. So possibility of a government shutdown, market sell-off, it\u2019s because of Trump. Everything is because of Trump and this isn\u2019t gonna change. He cannot buy, he cannot purchase their goodwill, he cannot purchase their support, he cannot buy the lack of criticism. He cannot stop them from criticizing and he cannot stop them, he cannot do anything that\u2019s going to change the way they approach him.<\/p>\n
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Their objective is to get rid of him and they\u2019re going to keep trying to do it throughout the next two years no matter what. So his thinking ought to be just to continue to rack up wins, continue to do the right things based on his own instincts. He ran for office following instincts, and those instincts are correlated and oriented around making America great again. We all knew what that meant, because America does need to be made great again because America\u2019s under attack. America as founded is under attack, and there are substantive reasons why this agenda won the presidency, and there\u2019s no reason to abandon it whatsoever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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