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RUSH: Let me take you back a year-and-a-half, I think it was 2007, the summer of 2007. Do you remember when the amnesty bill was being formulated behind closed doors under cover of darkness and rammed through Congress, rammed through the Senate with no hearings, no expert testimony, no nothing? We had people running around, elected officials saying, ‘We gotta get the politics out of this, we need this bill to pass, this bill\u2019s gotta pass now.\u2019 And the reason that they were trying to do it that way is because they knew that once people found out what was in it, all hell would break loose, and it was nothing more than dressed up amnesty for anywhere from 12 to 20 million illegals. And do you remember the outpouring of opposition in the form of phone calls and e-mails and faxes to Capitol Hill? I\u2019m sure you do because you were involved in the effort. And remember, now, the effort was successful. The whole thing fell flat. And the members of Congress were then reduced to trying to get incremental parts of amnesty in coming months and years, and they are still working on it. <\/p>\n

I am told, ladies and gentlemen, by credible sources that the calls, the voter comments — e-mails, phone calls, faxes — are running pretty close in volume to what they were during the amnesty bill, during the illegal immigration. It\u2019s just that nobody\u2019s reporting this, at least that I\u2019ve seen, and therefore nobody really knows the degree to which it\u2019s happening. I\u2019m told the calls coming in are 100 to one in opposition to the stimulus and that these calls are voluminous and that they are close, they are rivaling the volume of calls that happened during that two- to three-month period regarding the amnesty bill. It\u2019s just not being reported now. That\u2019s why the Bamster is out there trying to get this thing passed and trying to get people to think it\u2019s something other than what it is, why he\u2019s trying to get GOP cover on the bill, because the Democrats and Obama know the level of discontent in this bill. They know, they have seen the Rasmussen polling data and others, and again the Rasmussen polling data on the stimulus bill is down to 37% support, and the reason for this is simple. There has been one element of the media, the New Media, that is getting the details, the content of this stimulus bill out to people, and they\u2019re realizing it\u2019s just another spending bill. It\u2019s nothing different than your average appropriations bill, except this was written 100% by Democrats led by Nancy Pelosi and her office. <\/p>\n

There was no involvement from the Republicans on this, and it has nothing to do with stimulus. It is pet liberal project after pet liberal project, designed to grow government, create dependence, and buy votes. Pure and simple. There has been no responsible analysis of this legislation from the Drive-By Media. Everybody is existing in this whole mode of ‘give him the benefit of the doubt, he\u2019s president, he ought to get a honeymoon, we ought to let him have what he wants the first hundred days and let\u2019s see if it works.\u2019 But that\u2019s not going to fly with people who learn what\u2019s in this legislation. These people on Capitol Hill, from what I\u2019m hearing, are getting hammered. Democrats on Capitol Hill are letting Obama know they need cover on this, and they\u2019re letting Pelosi know they need cover on this. That is why all of the pressure on Republicans to support this. If you want to know the truth and you want to know why Obama keeps harping on the Republicans and ripping them to shreds and saying that they don\u2019t know what\u2019s good for the country and the same thing other Democrats are doing, is because they\u2019re getting hammered. <\/p>\n

The American people by ratios of 100 to one are calling Washington and saying, ‘We don\u2019t like this. This isn\u2019t what you say it is. We don\u2019t want you voting for it.\u2019 So they want Republicans on board for this thing \u2019cause no way they\u2019re going to give it up. They\u2019re not going to respond to you on this the way they responded to you on the amnesty bill or on the Dubai Ports deal. This is too important to Obama. And, by the way, you know, elections do have consequences, and right now — and I say this from the depth of my sizable beating heart — right now the primary focus of the supporters of this bill has nothing to do with the United States of America and her economy. This is 100% about the Democrat Party. These people have been fuming ever since they lost the House in 1994. They have been fuming since they lost control of the Senate intermittently from 1994 to the present. They have been fuming since Bush won the White House in 2000. They have been outraged. You know it. You have seen it. These were the people invested in defeat in the Iraq war. These are the people consumed with a bitterness, a rage and a hatred unlike anything we\u2019ve seen in American politics since the sixties, and it happens to be the same people grown up. <\/p>\n

This is about getting what they\u2019ve wanted done that they saw interrupted in 1993 and the \u201994 campaign with the Republicans winning the House. So this stimulus bill, if you\u2019re listening to me in Elkhart, Indiana, you just came out of the Obama rally, I will always tell you the truth. You had a town meeting with the president today, and others of you around the country are going to have scheduled town meetings with the president later this week. I\u2019m just telling you, this piece of legislation is about one thing and one thing only, and that\u2019s the Democrat Party and people in power getting their little wish lists, their own bridges to nowhere, their own leftist, extremist ideological elements that exist in this bill like no building on a college campus where students religiously worship will benefit from renovations from federal funds, isn\u2019t going to happen. The left has taken control of this bill and its objective is to just ram as much far extreme liberalism into our culture and society as quickly as possible. <\/p>\n

This is why the Republicans need to continue to stand in total opposition to it. It is nothing more than a scheme to enrich and to empower the Democrat Party, pure and simple. This is not about our country; it\u2019s not about our economy being revived. That\u2019s the smoke screen, that\u2019s the cover they are giving it. But it has nothing to do with that. All you have to know is that the biggest amount of the spending doesn\u2019t begin until the reelection year of 2010. Here we have a job stimulus bill and 4% gets spent in the next two years. The CBO is said to be nonpartisan, the Congressional Budget Office. And the Congressional Budget Office is set up by Congress, it\u2019s nonpartisan, and it analyzes all the legislation and the impact that the spending in legislation will have on the economy and on the country. And by the way, the notion that the Congressional Budget Office is nonpartisan is a joke as well, particularly as in cases now where the Democrats run the show. <\/p>\n

‘President Obama\u2019s economic recovery package will actually hurt the economy more in the long run than if he were to do nothing, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday. CBO, the official scorekeepers for legislation, said the House and Senate bills will help in the short term but result in so much government debt that within a few years they would crowd out private investment, actually leading to a lower Gross Domestic Product over the next 10 years than if the government had done nothing. … The budget office had previously estimated servicing the debt due to the new spending could add hundreds of millions of dollars to the cost of the bill — forcing the crowd-out. CBO\u2019s basic assumption is that, in the long run, each dollar of additional debt crowds out about a third of a dollars worth of private domestic capital, CBO said in its letter. CBO said there is no crowding out in the short term, so the plan would succeed in boosting growth in 2009 and 2010,\u2019 but in the end it would be better if we did nothing in terms of the economy. And believe me, Obama knows it, Pelosi knows it, the Democrats know it. They don\u2019t care! This is about them and the party and political power and is about nothing else. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I\u2019m now told by reliable sources, ladies and gentlemen, the calls in opposition to the stimulus to elected officials in Washington is not just 100 to one, it\u2019s hundreds to one in opposition, that it rivals the volume of calls against the amnesty bill a year-and-a-half ago, and it\u2019s just not being reported. It\u2019s the same thing, they keep repeating the technique. ‘It\u2019s a crisis, it\u2019s an emergency.\u2019 Remember with the first $700 billion, ‘We may not have a country if we don\u2019t get this passed.\u2019 They even had a bunch of anchors on business channels roped in repeating all this. We gotta get this done. It\u2019s just crucial, and it\u2019s very crucial, we can\u2019t wait, we just don\u2019t have that luxury, and they\u2019re telling us now. We can\u2019t wait, we\u2019ve got to get this trillion dollars spent. Why, Pelosi says 500 million Americans a day or a month or whatever, are losing theirs jobs.<\/p>\n

The woman\u2019s ignorant. So many people I\u2019m conflicted by, but I do know now, I do know now why Pelosi and Reid had no intention of seeing to it Hillary Clinton became the Democrat nominee, \u2019cause they could run this guy around. They\u2019re writing the legislation. He\u2019s farmed it out to them. This is Pelosi\u2019s bill that he\u2019s out there trying to sell. He\u2019s going for it because it\u2019s got his name on it, and it is what he wants, it\u2019s a bunch of leftist spending, his ACORN buddies are going to get four and a half billion dollars, it\u2019s going to grow the government, it\u2019s going to repair the Democrat Party, but he let Pelosi and Reid write the bill. He wouldn\u2019t oppose them in anything they had in it. They know that they can push him around. They knew they would not be able to push Hillary around. Hillary never had a chance. The only thing that gave her a ghost\u2019s chance was Operation Chaos. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: This is Vicksboro, North Carolina. Chuck, you\u2019re next on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, mega dittos, Rush.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Can I have you do me a favor? My brother just turned 70 today. He lives up in Cuba, New York. Can you say happy birthday to him, Mike?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Happy birthday, Mike. Great to have you on the program today.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He\u2019s a longtime listener.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The reason I called, Rush, is it seems to me that Arlen Specter called you and asked for your support when he was running for the Senate this last time?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I think he called —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Called for your help or something. <\/p>\n

RUSH: No, he had a book out, and he wanted to talk about a book.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, well, he\u2019s been wavering on this stimulus plan, and it really bothers me. He and those two senators from Maine there, those two ladies, Snowe and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. I mean does this really surprise you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, it doesn\u2019t surprise me, but I don\u2019t know. This is McCainish.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n

CALLER: All this reaching across the aisle and all this other stuff —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Except McCain\u2019s on the right side of this. McCain\u2019s kicking butt on this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But I mean, look, I went blue in the face when everybody was counting up the Senate votes on election night, are they gonna get 60, it won\u2019t matter, they got Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, two or three Republican RINOs in there, Republican moderates that will join the Democrats on things. Look, in the Senate they\u2019re going to do their test vote on this tomorrow to see if they can get cloture. Cloture\u2019s been filed. They\u2019ll probably get it. Senator Specter and Susan Collins and what\u2019s her name — Olympia Snowe — will go for it. Where the rubber is going to meet the road is in the conference report, when the House and Senate get together and try to reconcile the two bills, \u2019cause they\u2019re different. That\u2019s where the fireworks are going to happen, and then the final vote in both houses will be taken on this, on a singular bill that they negotiate the differences out of in the conference committee. I think that\u2019s why the pressure needs to be brought. This can\u2019t be stopped. Folks, it cannot be stopped, but it can be slowed down and done much better than this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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