{"id":320242,"date":"2019-08-23T16:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T20:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=320242"},"modified":"2019-09-03T14:14:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T18:14:04","slug":"democrats-reduced-to-santa-claus-insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/08\/23\/democrats-reduced-to-santa-claus-insanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Reduced to Santa Claus Insanity"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Here is Nelson as we start on the phones. Fredericksburg, Virginia. Welcome, sir. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: Hey, Rush. It\u2019s nice to talk to you. My question is, do you believe the left has actually become trapped by their successes when they use sort of tricks and techniques, things like Alinsky\u2019s Rules for Radicals? It seems to me that they don\u2019t have anybody on their side that has any intellectual gravis anymore. Years ago, they had people that could explain the position — whether you agreed with it — well and could do it point for point. But they don\u2019t seem to have that anymore. It\u2019s like they\u2019ve become spoiled sort of by the success of the tricks and the techniques that they\u2019ve used in the past. Just curious what your thoughts are on that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I know what you\u2019re saying. The way it manifests itself, your point about, “Where are the Democrats who could actually — if they had to — enter the arena of ideas and explain what they believe in a way that would win converts? They can\u2019t do that because it won\u2019t win converts if they\u2019re honest about it. So what they do is bludgeon their opponents into submission using their friends in the media. But beyond that, look at what has become of what used to be Democrat policy.<\/p>\n

Look at Crazy Bernie\u2019s climate change plan! It\u2019s $16 trillion! This is after he\u2019s granted health care — free health care — to every illegal immigrant paid for with a middle tax increase. The federal budget every year, $4 trillion to $4.5 trillion. His climate change plan is four times that. We don\u2019t have that money. We don\u2019t even have the money we spend now, technically. So they\u2019re reduced now to literally admitting that they\u2019re Santa Claus. Who can announce that they\u2019re going to give away the most?<\/p>\n

\"\"Rather than there be any intellect heft or intellectual reasoning why anybody ought to support it. Whether it\u2019s because they bought into Alinskyite things or whether they\u2019ve just become intellectually bankrupt, I don\u2019t think they\u2019ve ever had to make their case, because of a friendly media running cover for \u2019em so I don\u2019t think they know how. They don\u2019t think they should have to anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Look at what has become of what used to be Democrat policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":320280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nDemocrats Reduced to Santa Claus Insanity - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/08\/23\/democrats-reduced-to-santa-claus-insanity\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Democrats Reduced to Santa Claus Insanity - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: Look at what has become of what used to be Democrat policy.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/APP-082319-Bernie-Sanders-SANTA.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Dean Karayanis\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/\",\"name\":\"The Rush Limbaugh Show\",\"description\":\"Excellence In Broadcasting\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/08\/23\/democrats-reduced-to-santa-claus-insanity\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/APP-082319-Bernie-Sanders-SANTA.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/APP-082319-Bernie-Sanders-SANTA.jpg\",\"width\":640,\"height\":360},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/08\/23\/democrats-reduced-to-santa-claus-insanity\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/08\/23\/democrats-reduced-to-santa-claus-insanity\/\",\"name\":\"Democrats Reduced to Santa Claus Insanity - 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