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RUSH: We\u2019ll go to Columbus, Ohio, and say hi to Matt. Matt, you\u2019re the first call. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. Thanks. I got a question about the budget and the Republicans\u2019 alternative budget.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The media, I just want to find out what the differences are, as far as how much less money we\u2019re going to spend. It seemed like the media just isn\u2019t covering it. I\u2019ve heard that it\u2019s laughable, but they don\u2019t seem to want to tell you the details and let you decide for yourself, and I was wondering why is that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, probably because it\u2019s never going to happen. That\u2019s one reason they\u2019re not reporting it. The other reason, they don\u2019t believe in it, the media doesn\u2019t care what the Republicans are doing, proposing.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So they\u2019re judge, jury, and executioner basically for all alternative ideas?<\/p>\n

RUSH: At this stage they\u2019ve become activists, they\u2019re not — <\/p>\n

CALLER: So we\u2019re going to have to come up with something new again like a Contract with America, something that\u2019s bigger that they just can\u2019t ignore, that hits them in the face and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no. Look, I\u2019m going to tell you what\u2019s in the Republican budget here, but you have to learn something.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I have begged and asked people to do this for the course of many years of my sterling broadcast career. Please, ladies and gentlemen, do not ever seek validation for your own views; do not define success in advancing our cause by whether or not we are discussed accurately in the Drive-By Media. There are certain realities that one has to face, and there are certain realities in life that you cannot change. And when you can\u2019t change something, it\u2019s ridiculous to be obsessed with it. It is a total waste of time to be obsessed with the media and what they say about Republicans. You can sit there and say, ‘But, Rush, but, Rush, they\u2019re poisoning the minds.\u2019 Yeah, but George W. Bush still won two terms, Ronald Reagan won two terms. The right candidate could win. The right message can win. The Drive-Bys don\u2019t win all the time. If you believe that the ultimate success of what you believe in resides in seeing it promoted and respected on the NBC Nightly News every night, you are going to be disappointed and sad for the rest of your life. That isn\u2019t going to change, nothing you can do to change it. Focus on voters, not the media.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: The question was, ‘What\u2019s in the Republican alternative budget proposal?\u2019 A couple sound bites here to explain it. Paul Ryan this morning in Washington, congressman from Wisconsin held a press conference to introduce the Republican budget. We have a couple sound bites. Here\u2019s number one.<\/p>\n

RYAN: Our budget avoids the huge tax increase scheduled at the end of 2010 by making the 2001 and 2003 tax relief permanent. Second, it permanently extends the alternative minimum patch tax. Next, our budget reforms the broken tax code by making it simpler, more pro-growth and more competitive. For individuals we offer taxpayers a choice. You can have the current code with all its bells and loopholes and deductions if you want to, or you can switch over to a choice-based system, a simple system, a system with two rates, 10% on the first hundred thousand dollars for couples, or 50,000 for individuals, 25% above that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And here\u2019s the second part of his presentation.<\/p>\n

RYAN: To get this economy growing we\u2019ve proposed a number of reforms. Number one, cut the corporate tax rate. Currently it\u2019s the second highest in the industrialized world, to the average industrialized nation rate, 25%. We also propose to suspend the capital gains tax through the year 2010. We need to spur investment, not punish it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s Paul Ryan, congressman, Wisconsin, with the alternative Republican budget, and the ideas are great. Don\u2019t misunderstand here my flippancy about this to the caller. The ideas are fabulous. In fact, many of them were in my bipartisan stimulus plan op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal way back many months ago when Obama was asking and saying he would listen to ideas that maybe were not his if they made sense. So I wrote — after he told Republicans not to listen to me — I submitted my bipartisan stimulus plan, and two of the key ingredients were cutting the corporate income tax rate and suspending the capital gains rate for a year or longer. This is what the Republicans have proposed, and it makes sense that they would propose this. After all, I have been named by Democrat leaders as the leader of the Republican Party. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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