{"id":31014,"date":"2008-11-26T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:05:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T03:05:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:05:10","slug":"obama_will_not_cut_the_budget2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/11\/26\/obama_will_not_cut_the_budget2\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Will Not Cut the Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: Now, as to this business, it\u2019s the second day in a row that he has said he\u2019s going to have this guy with the bad wig, what\u2019s this guy\u2019s name, Orszag. Drudge has a picture of this guy, the OMB guy, Peter Orszag. I\u2019ve heard the name. I hadn\u2019t seen a picture of this guy in a long time. <\/p>\n

Drudge has a picture of this guy up in a side view with the link headline is, ‘The Whigs,\u2019 W-h-i-g-s, but I mean this is — (interruption) yeah, I know we\u2019re not supposed to comment on this, but sometimes, folks, things just hit so fast. I mean, you can\u2019t miss \u2019em. This is one of the lousiest hair pieces I\u2019ve ever seen. Take a look at it. Take a look at it. There is no way anybody would style their hair this way. If there is, we\u2019re in big trouble. But that doesn\u2019t matter. The point is he said this guy is going to go through the budget, page by page, line by line, and he\u2019s going to find all this waste and he\u2019s going to get rid of all this waste, and he focused yesterday on all the waste in the farm bill. Now, this has drawn some responses even from advisors to Obama. Late yesterday afternoon on DNCTV, the anchor Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, was interviewing former Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h. Andrea Mitchell said, ‘I\u2019ve been hearing about getting rid of waste in government going back probably 30 years since I\u2019ve been covering this stuff. Does it ever really happen?\u2019<\/p>\n

REICH: Well, I\u2019ve been hearing about it for, let\u2019s see, about 50 years, it never really happens all that much, Andrea. I can tell you in 1993 I was there sitting with Bill Clinton and Algore and his economic team, and we did literally go through step by step, line by line almost every budgetary item and we got rid of a lot of stuff that shouldn\u2019t have been there. But did it make a huge difference? The answer is no.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What a crock! What a crock! Folks, there is no such thing as getting rid of anything in Washington. We\u2019ve been through this, baseline budgeting. A cut is nothing more than something that\u2019s not growing as fast as was originally forecast. Have you ever seen the budget get smaller? Have you ever seen the budget deficit, what it\u2019s projected to be next year, $1.3 trillion. Here\u2019s Bob Reich, ‘I\u2019ve been hearing about it for 50 years and it never really happens that much.\u2019 And yet this is a guy that was part of a campaign team that kept talking about Draconian cuts, the worst economy in the last 50 years. He\u2019s part of a party whenever a Republican president submits a budget, why, too many cuts, Draconian cuts, poor and minorities hardest hit. You can\u2019t take that much money away from this.<\/p>\n

There are never any cuts. And these guys went through the budget line by line and got rid of some things? I\u2019d like to know how they did that, because there is no line-item veto. I mean these guys just flapping their gums out there making it sound like Obama\u2019s got a magic wand and he, too, can do it. Then Reich throws cold water on the whole thing, yeah, we did it, we got rid of a lot of stuff that shouldn\u2019t be there, didn\u2019t make any difference, didn\u2019t make any difference. This was also discussed on the Fox News All Stars last night on the Fox News Channel, Special Report with Brit Hume. He was speaking with Fred Barnes, and Hume said, ‘In Washington, a cut means something that doesn\u2019t grow, and in Washington anything that doesn\u2019t grow as fast as it was previously scheduled is called a cut. What do you make of all this line by line budget stuff they\u2019re going to do?\u2019<\/p>\n

BARNES: When I was hearing that from Barack Obama, I just rolled my eyes. Remember zero-based budgeting that Jimmy Carter brought? Remember the Grace Commission under Ronald Reagan? And now this poor Peter guy is going to have to go through page by page, line by line. It really is preposterous. I mean, look, on the one hand, Ed, I think you pointed out, Barack Obama is proposing one of the great spending binges of all time, and then we\u2019re going to attack the structural deficit. I mean, come on. It\u2019s silly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It is silly. Forget Obama\u2019s binge spending. What the hell have we been doing the past six weeks with these bailouts? I saw a number today that we\u2019re now up over eight trillion. It\u2019s hard to know what the number is, in bailout money. Eight trillion! What Obama is going to spend is inconsequential to this, even though it\u2019s huge. His spending, however, is going to be directly related to government growth. Now, remember the example that Obama used yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, was the farm bill and all these crop subsidies and people that make way too much money getting paid by the government not to do so. The Wall Street Journal has an interesting editorial on this today. <\/p>\n

‘Barack Obama yesterday introduced his new White House budget director, Peter Orszag, vowing to conduct a ‘line by line\u2019 review of the federal fisc. Most incoming chief executives promise that sort of thing. But here\u2019s a detail that really caught our eye: As part of his plan to kill government programs ‘that have outlived their usefulness,\u2019 the President-elect singled out farm subsidies for the rich. If he really means it, this would be big news. Mr. Obama cited a recent Government Accountability Office report that found that of the 1.8 million people receiving farm payments from 2003 to 2006, nearly 3,000 had incomes above $2.5 million, which ought to make them ineligible for aid. Nevertheless, they cashed in to the tune of some $49 million. Having written 40,000 or so editorials against this corporate welfare over the years, we\u2019d love to see a Democrat join the fight.<\/p>\n

‘However, there is the small matter of where Senator Obama was on this issue when we really needed him. The 2008 farm bill — which set national policy for five years — was a perfect chance for real change thanks to surging crop prices, record farm income and a President unconcerned about re-election. President Bush actually sought a $200,000 annual income cap on subsidy payments, but Congress couldn\u2019t bring itself to vote on anything below $750,000. And even that got killed by the likes of Senate Budget Chairman Kent Conrad, who as it happens helped Mr. Orszag get his current job running the Congressional Budget Office. The Members ended up passing a $300 billion bill in which nearly every crop, from corn to sugar, won subsidy increases. Mr. Bush vetoed it in May but was overridden.<\/p>\n

‘The vote in the Senate was 82 to 13. Mr. Obama missed the roll call, issuing a campaign statement saying that the bill was ‘far from perfect\u2019 and would have preferred ‘tighter payment limits.\u2019 However, he added that ‘with so much at stake, we cannot make the perfect the enemy of the good.\u2019 And he then went on to rake Mr. Bush and John McCain (who opposed the bill) for ‘saying no to America\u2019s farmers and ranchers, no to energy independence, no to the environment, and no to millions of hungry people.\u2019 In other words, given the chance to support cuts in farm subsidies for the rich, Mr. Obama chose instead to attack his Republican opponents for doing precisely that.\u2019<\/p>\n

So his record suggests that times are too crucial now to be hard on the farmers, any of them. Now he wants to portray himself as a giant budget cutter. It\u2019s all smoke and mirrors; cuz I\u2019m telling you, folks, there aren\u2019t going to be any budget cuts in our country for the rest of the time you and I are alive. The bailout has just seen to it. (interruption) What are you freaking out over there for, Snerdley? You think I\u2019m wrong about this? How in the world can we get budget cuts, Snerdley, when we\u2019re now spending over $8 trillion on a bailout? Where are we gonna get the budget cuts? I\u2019m telling you that the federal budget is not gonna get smaller. (interruption) When has it? He may find a couple things in there, you know, subsidies. If there\u2019s something that benefits Republicans in the private sector, he\u2019ll try to get it out, but it\u2019s going to be replaced by something else. There aren\u2019t going to be any budget cuts. I mean, show me where the impetus for it is even now.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: My last comment that the budget\u2019s not going to get cut for as long as the rest of us live, my friends, I\u2019m not saying there\u2019s not stuff in there to cut. There\u2019s so much to cut outta there. You could probably cut billions, if not hundreds of billions, out of this budget. I\u2019m not saying that there\u2019s not fat and waste and all this stuff in there; I\u2019m just telling you that where\u2019s the impetus to do it? We\u2019ve been here before. This is the Clinton administration redone, except we\u2019ve got a guy who\u2019s now admitting he has no executive experience. He\u2019s admitting that Sarah Palin is more qualified to be president than he is. Anyway, it\u2019s a side issue. What he\u2019s doing is he\u2019s promising this $700 billion in new spending and then saying he\u2019s going to cut spending at the same time. This to give the impression that this massive new spending is going to be offset by his cuts, and there are not going to be cuts. It isn\u2019t going to happen. <\/p>\n

The Democrats have controlled Congress for two years, including Obama as one of its Democrat members, what have they even attempted to cut from anywhere in the federal budget of any consequence? These were essentially Democrat budgets that Bush signed. I\u2019m not trying to depress anybody here. It\u2019s time for a little dose of reality. ‘But, Rush! But, Rush! If the Republicans would run on cutting the budget…\u2019 Yeah, yeah, but except this time they\u2019d have to do it because they ran on it a bunch of times then they got saddled with a big spending president and they couldn\u2019t. It can be done. I\u2019m just saying the atmospherics and the opportunity for it will probably present themselves sooner than I think, because this is untenable what we\u2019re doing here. From standpoint of common sense finance, this is untenable. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: This is Roy in Summerfield, North Carolina. Hi, Roy, great to have you on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, mega-grazie <\/emphasize>for taking a call from an Obama supporter.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Wow, and mega condolences on the last few months. Couldn\u2019t get Hillary on the head of the ticket, Democratic ticket. Couldn\u2019t get her on the tail and then Obama got elected. Looks like we might have 60 Democratic senators coming up here.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but, you know, I\u2019ll tell you what. We got the Clinton cabinet, and if it hadn\u2019t been for me supporting Mrs. Clinton, I don\u2019t know that we would have this many Clinton people around. But I don\u2019t look at these things as personal failures. You don\u2019t need to offer me condolences. I\u2019m sitting here happy as a clam here waiting for the future.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. I think they\u2019re really going to do something good here. He\u2019s shown a willingness to… Hey, he\u2019s got a certain humility. I think Biden does, too. <\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) You know, I would love to be you for a day just to find out what it\u2019s like. I just would.<\/p>\n

CALLER: What do you mean by that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: To live a lie. To live a lie, to believe the lie. To be so ignorant and be in such bliss, to be so happy about an utter disaster that is about to swallow you and everybody in your neighborhood.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Obama and humility. That\u2019s what did it. The two do not go together. But if there are more of you Obama voters out there and you want to call and gloat or whatever, give us a call, it\u2019s Open Line Friday on Wednesday, 800-282-2882.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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