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RUSH: Look, ladies and gentlemen, we now know what the tax cuts are going to add up to for those of you who get them. <\/p>\n

What is it, $13 a month? Yeah, $13 a week , $13 more. So what, four times thirteen? Fifty-two bucks a month, $52 a month which ought to buy some more cat food or dog food. It\u2019s $52 a month starting in June — and next January, about a year from now, they\u2019ll cut back to $32 a month, $8 a week. That\u2019s what the tax cut is in the stimulus bill. Now, still they\u2019re not going to vote on it in the House until tomorrow because there\u2019s this big fight that broke out between Pelosi and Reid. Now, I have to tell you something. I thought something was up yesterday. I just didn\u2019t put two and two together, but when Harry Reid — we were watching this yesterday before the program ended, Dingy Harry walks out there with the Republican turncoats. <\/p>\n

And, by the way, folks, I know you\u2019re mad at Specter and you\u2019re mad at Susan Collins and you\u2019re mad at Olympia Snowe, but don\u2019t be. There\u2019s no sense wasting energy getting mad when people do what you know they\u2019re going to do. We predicted to you before they even settled the Franken-Coleman race that this whole notion of, do the Democrats have 58 or 59 is irrelevant because they\u2019ve got Olympia Snowe, they\u2019ve got Susan Collins, and they\u2019ve got Specter and there are a couple of other RINOs in there that might flip-flop and go Democrat. So it\u2019s a waste of time to get mad over actions that people take that are not surprising. See, I try to find the good in everything. These people now have been exposed, for once and for all, and there was a huge cleaning of RINO Republicans. One of the reasons that we lost seats in the House was we got rid of bunch of these people like Christopher Shays. <\/p>\n

That has led the Republican Party, you know, to wring its hands and whine and moan about, ‘Remember the Northeast. We must have Republican representatives from the Northeast.\u2019 No, we don\u2019t, not if they\u2019re going to be liberals, not if they\u2019re going to be moderates, they may as well not even be Republicans. If there aren\u2019t any conservatives in the Northeast that can get elected, then fine. We don\u2019t need Republicans in name only. So one of the reasons that we\u2019re where we are is that the party flushed a bunch of RINOs. There are other reasons, of course, but this is part of the cleansing process that\u2019s necessary here in putting things back together when we get our chance. Now, there was a giant surprise today among media economists and other economists. <\/p>\n

They were expecting retail sales to drop 0.8%. But shazam! Retail sales went up 1%, and Snerdley came in here, and he was popping his buttons, and he was all excited. He said, ‘See? The market\u2019s taking care of this on its own. The market\u2019s rebounding. We may have bottomed out already. We don\u2019t need the stimulus plan.\u2019 I said, ‘Snerdley, hold on. You\u2019re getting caught up in the reality of events, and with the Drive-By Media, we are not allowed to live in the reality. We live in an alternate reality, which is presented for us by the Obama administration and then amplified by the media.\u2019 So I\u2019m going to make a prediction to you, the way this news is going to be reported: Retail sales up a surprising 1%. How can this be, in a recession when so many people are losing their jobs? <\/p>\n

One reason, one real reason is that the plummeting price of gasoline since last summer has probably added at least — what, a hundred dollars a month or maybe more — to people\u2019s disposable income. That\u2019s one reason, but here\u2019s what\u2019s going to be said. Here\u2019s what\u2019s going to be said. Well, once they get over the shock. You know, they were hoping for more bad news. Now they\u2019re going to have to do a quick 180 here and explain this slight bump up of 1% in retail sales activity. ‘Well, of course, Mr. Limbaugh! Why, the stimulus bills of all of 2008 — George Bush\u2019s first package; and then the second stimulus package; and then the TARP money, $350 billion — all of that is starting to play out now, proving that government stimulus works, proving that Keynesian theory works.\u2019<\/p>\n

Then, after they give credit to things that have had no impact on this, they will then say, ‘Obviously the public\u2019s mood is improving. The public is happier. Obama has been inaugurated. Obama is now in charge. Obama inspiring confidence in the American people once again,\u2019 even though it\u2019s all BS, \u2019cause every time Obama opens his pie hole, all he does is try to depress people even further by talking about how the catastrophe is right around the corner. It\u2019s worse than we even thought. It\u2019s gonna get worse than we even know, and even with my stimulus it\u2019s going to get worse before it gets better, but they\u2019re going to say all these things, just that 1% bump. This is all about crediting Obama. You know this is going to have… Nobody\u2019s going to say, ‘Hey, get out of this! The market, on its own, is fixing this.\u2019 <\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t going to happen. You shoulda seen Snerdley hang dog walking out of my office. His head was down depressed and so forth. I don\u2019t know if you were depressed over the fact that you didn\u2019t come up with this on your own, which you should have, or if you were just depressed at the solid reasoning that I presented to you. Yeah, you can\u2019t… Folks, the key to getting along here, the key to maintaining your sanity in this current era is not getting stuck on reality. Because if you persist in living in reality, and then you\u2019re going to turn on the Drive-Bys, and you\u2019re going to hear an alternate reality, you are going to go nuts. It\u2019s best to anticipate how they\u2019re going to play this and laugh at it. (interruption) The real estate market is coming back. I\u2019m not denying any of this! I\u2019m not denying the 1% bump. Real estate market\u2019s coming back. Of course the real estate market\u2019s coming back. Mr. Obama is now in office! <\/p>\n

He is serving. He is inspiring people. He has stabilized. The situation was in flux because of that rotten, horrible George W. Bush, and besides that, the housing bubble brought on by the Bush administration finally burst, and there are much lower housing prices out there for people who want to be first-time home buyers. This can be spun any which way you want, Snerdley, but it will be spun so that it\u2019s all due to Obama and government. What makes you think anybody else would say anything different, in this climate, and given who populates Washington, DC, today? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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