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RUSH: It was a great night at the Heritage Foundation last night. It was a weird room. I mean, it was a giant room in the Reagan building. The ceiling must have been 200 feet tall. When I\u2019m standing backstage listening to my introductions, it sounded like a funeral mass was going on in there. It was just the acoustics, because I couldn\u2019t understand what anybody was saying. But I went on for about an hour. I was a little late getting on. But I\u2019ll tell you, the Heritage Foundation is one of these groups that\u2019s holding firm. They\u2019re not dillydallying around and they\u2019re not wishy-washy on things. We talk about AskHeritage.org<\/a>, which is a website area of the think tank. It\u2019s a membership website. A lot of people in the audience last night were new members of Heritage and AskHeritage.org. <\/p>\n

But you need to thank them. You need to be able to rely on some people during times like this, \u2019cause it seems so many people are wavering and riding off the reservation. Either they\u2019re faltering, or they\u2019re not exuding any confidence in what they believe. Trust me: the Heritage Foundation, Ed Feulner and his gang, are not wavering. They\u2019re not embarrassed, and they don\u2019t have to feel like they make excuse for themselves — and you will find things on their website that you won\u2019t find in other conservative places. Sadly. It\u2019s sad to say, but it\u2019s the truth. This website, AskHeritage.org, you realize what\u2019s at your disposal with the website? AskHeritage.org.<\/p>\n

Whatever you want to know, from the stimulus spending, to TARP spending, to the Chrysler bailout, ask it. You\u2019ll get the scholarly view of it, facts, figures that refute all the liberal BS, and you\u2019ll be able to understand it and explain it to people. Now, Mitch Daniels, who is the governor of Indiana, is just a man after my own heart, because I also in my speech last night to the people at Heritage made the same point essentially that Daniels is making. He\u2019s urging Republican leaders in Washington to stop ‘whining\u2019 in order to mount a serious opposition to President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats. ‘I hear Republicans whining about, you know, the Democrats not being bipartisan. You know, ‘We weren\u2019t included in this, we weren\u2019t at the table in that.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Well, get over it, that\u2019s the way those folks are,\u2019 Daniels said in an interview that ran Saturday in National Journal. ‘To me there\u2019s not a lot of upside in whining.\u2019 Daniels said Republican leaders have behaved ‘erratically\u2019 since the beginning of the Obama administration, frequently offering ‘process arguments\u2019 rather than competing policy prescriptions,\u2019 and this is exactly right. This is a point that I made at CPAC and a bunch of conservatives disagreed with me about this. It\u2019s the point that I made last night, and I made it at the Milken Institute last week in Los Angeles when talking about this. Okay, the liberals advance an ideal, like we need national health care, and rather as conservatives stand up and say, ‘No, we don\u2019t need national health care,\u2019 we stand up and say, ‘Weeeeell, let\u2019s see if we can accept the premise and maybe make it better on the margins.\u2019<\/p>\n

Or they say, ‘Let\u2019s do a listening tour, and let\u2019s find out what the people want and pander to them\u2019 and so forth. What Governor Daniels of Indiana is saying here is: You get involved in the process arguments, guess who\u2019s setting the process? The process is always determined by the left! Even when we are in power, they got to determine the process. Rather than putting up competing policy ideas, rather than drawing contrasts, the Republicans are saying, ‘Well, they\u2019re not helping. They\u2019re not being bipartisan.\u2019 There is no such thing as bipartisanship! Bipartisanship, as it\u2019s defined today, is Republicans caving on what they believe to agree with Democrats! Mitch Daniels said, ‘What they should say instead is, ‘Well, here\u2019s the way we would spread health insurance and not ration care and not take away your freedom in the process. <\/p>\n

‘If they\u2019d let us in the room, this is what we\u2019d suggest,” an alternative to socialized medicine! An alternative to health care taken over by the US government! You know, I tried to emphasize this point last night. I don\u2019t know how well I did. I emphasize this point in this program all the time, and I tried to emphasize it at the Milken Institute forum last week. But there is a golden opportunity. I look at Obama and the Democrats as vulnerable. There is no way what they\u2019re doing is going to work. You simply cannot sustain budget deficits that have been programmed and written by the Obama administration. It just can\u2019t happen. You have to oppose it. You don\u2019t want to let horrible things happen and then benefit from that by virtue of winning elections. <\/p>\n

You want to try to stop some of this bad stuff from happening, because the bad stuff that Obama has planned is gonna result in a loss of liberty and wealth for a tremendous number of Americans, and we don\u2019t want that to happen. So we have to move in and stop it. This is a great example of what I\u2019m talking about here. I have paid attention to the way Jack Kemp is being written about after his death. One of the things… When somebody mentions Jack Kemp to me, the thing that strikes me about Jack Kemp is Kemp-Roth, which were the Reagan tax cuts, supply-side economics. Jack Kemp is who made that happen with the Reagan administration. And, by the way, he was working with the Heritage Foundation to make it happen. <\/p>\n

Jack Kemp and Arthur Laffer and Reagan. Kemp made it happen, and the House version of the tax bill in Kemp-Roth. But all of a sudden, all of a sudden I\u2019m hearing people eulogize Jack Kemp as somebody who ‘reached out.\u2019 Jack Kemp was somebody who went beyond pure conservatism to ‘reach out;\u2019 as in ‘enterprise zones,\u2019 bringing investment to inner city communities and so forth. Well, he may have done that, but he won the argument from the conservative vantage point! He didn\u2019t reach out with liberalism to the other side! He didn\u2019t become a moderate when he reached out. He attempted to attract people who were not yet fully understanding of what conservatism was, into our tent. People say, ‘Jack Kemp tried to build a big tent.\u2019 The Reagan tax cuts were not based on a big tent. <\/p>\n

The Reagan tax cuts were considered radically conservative until they were promoted, embraced, and adopted. The same people, folks… You may not remember this. You may not have been paying close enough attention and you may not be old enough, but the same people who attacked the Reagan tax cuts back in the early eighties — including George Bush 41; during the Republican primary, he called it ‘voodoo economics.\u2019 All those people later came to embrace those tax cuts, which is the point. Those tax cuts, everybody was saying, ‘Well, that\u2019s just a right-wing, class oriented.\u2019 It\u2019s all the usual criticism that attaches to conservatism. And these tax cuts, the Reagan tax cuts did not come about through a ‘listening tour,\u2019 and they didn\u2019t come about by preaching ‘a big tent,\u2019 as if anybody knows what the hell that means. They came about because people had a firm belief in the principle that the served as the foundation for the policy, and that\u2019s what we have to get back to.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, try to follow me on this, folks. The Reagan tax cuts did not come from a listening tour. The Reagan tax cuts were not the result of somebody pitching a big tent. The Reagan tax cuts came about because of a commitment to a philosophy that gave birth to a policy. The philosophy behind the Reagan tax cuts is that people deserve to keep most of what they earn, and if you let them do that then they will go crazy earning. And people will hire other people because they\u2019ll have more money as their businesses take off. It does trickle down, it certainly does. As you release or lighten the burden on the job creators, they are able to create more jobs. This creates more taxpayers, a lower tax rate on everybody creates thus more tax revenue. This was not a policy that was devised as some trick to go out and get a certain segment of the voting public to elect Republicans. It was a philosophy born of the Constitution\u2019s and the Declaration of Independence\u2019s references to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. It was born of a belief in natural law. It was born of a philosophical belief that an oppressive, large government will choke off individual economic freedom, growth, and liberty. So we didn\u2019t have to build a big tent. <\/p>\n

Now, to pass it, to pass these Reagan tax cuts with a Democrat-dominated House and a Democrat-dominated Senate, what did we have to do? We didn\u2019t sell Tip O\u2019Neill on these tax cuts; we didn\u2019t sell the Democrats on the philosophy and the policy of the tax cuts. If we had, they won\u2019t be promising to raise everybody\u2019s taxes every time they open their mouth. What happened was we beat their butts, in the eyes of the American people. Ronald Reagan was able to explain this to people and Jack Kemp and the whole army was able to explain this to people. The Democrats had no choice but than to vote for it because the American public had elected Reagan in a landslide on substantive issues, he had a mandate, and that was part of the mandate, cutting taxes. But don\u2019t think they ever came to believe it. They are afraid of tax cuts, they are afraid of the principle of burgeoning economic freedom and liberty because the more of that you get the less need there is for liberals. So they were never persuaded, they were beaten, they were defeated. And this didn\u2019t come about by reaching out. It didn\u2019t come about by building a big tent. It didn\u2019t come about with a listening tour. It came about because of a devotion to a principle that gave birth to a policy. <\/p>\n

Now, look, anybody is free to be a Republican. Anybody is free to run for office. But like anything else, there are winners and there are losers. We support the people we agree with. We oppose those we don\u2019t agree with. That\u2019s the nature of politics and elections. Well, now we\u2019re being told that we\u2019re supposed to exempt liberal Republicans from this very process. We\u2019re supposed to support them even though they don\u2019t advance the cause. We\u2019re supposed to somehow immunize them from any challenges just because we somehow need Northeasterners in the Republican Party, we need liberals in the Republican Party, ‘Yeah, we need a big tent, Rush, we need to reach out.\u2019 Well, no, that is not how you build a movement that appeals to the base of the party. The base is being torn apart and divided by all of this rhetoric. Jack Kemp is remembered for one of the most important and successful acts of conservatism: slashing taxes across the board, slashing them for individuals, slashing them for businesses, cutting taxes wherever and whenever possible. <\/p>\n

The same people to tell us to give up on Reagan must certainly have to tell us to give up on Kemp, because Kemp was right there with Reagan. But I don\u2019t hear anybody saying we don\u2019t have to give up on Kemp. They\u2019re saying we need to do what Kemp did and reach out. That\u2019s not what Kemp did, that\u2019s not what Kemp is known for. When he did reach out, he reached out as a conservative trying to persuade others to join us, not sacrificing or changing what he believed in to join them. These so-called moderates out there are, by definition, folks, moderates are without a core belief system. They float, they meander, they wander, and they settle wherever a majority happens to be where is the path of least resistance because they don\u2019t like confrontation and they don\u2019t like fighting and they just want everybody to get along and they also think they\u2019re the smartest people in the room, and they think they\u2019re the elites. But moderates have no political base. Moderates have no political strategy. Otherwise, why would every election and every four years, ‘We gotta go get those independents, we gotta get the moderates.\u2019 Because they don\u2019t have a base, they\u2019re not anchored anywhere. But if you want to go get \u2019em you have two ways. You can pander to them, which that is the most confusing thing to watch, and it\u2019s the most frustrating, to watch people pander to moderates.<\/p>\n

To watch moderates be pandered to is like you remember in high school and junior high, the little big clique always running around passing notes in the hallway between classes? It didn\u2019t matter what they were doing, they were irrelevant, but, boy, they thought they were something special, because they were the little clique, they\u2019re all listening to each other, not caring about what anybody else is doing or saying. It\u2019s the same way with moderates and so-called independents in politics. They talk in generalities, they talk about big tents, they talk about reaching out, but they think small. They think inside the Beltway. No connection with the base of a party, no connection with reality. They\u2019re just drifting constantly. They\u2019re in motion. And they\u2019re always like water. They seek the path of least resistance. They contradict themselves all the time. And yet look at Jack Kemp. Jack Kemp, look at all things being said about Jack Kemp. ‘He reached out, Jack Kemp is a great guy.\u2019 Jack Kemp is this and that. Yeah, but Jack Kemp could never rise to the level of vice president or president, could he? He challenged Bush 41 in 1988, he ran with Bob Dole in 1996. Why? Why could he never become president? Because he ended up running with exactly the kind of Republicans some are telling us we have to continue to support today. They\u2019re going to go down in flames against Obama and the Democrats every time they go up against them. <\/p>\n

Jack Kemp was eventually seduced. He was seduced into thinking that the big tent idea of the party was the way to win, and I\u2019m telling you when the big tent people get hold of the party, all it does is lose and lose and lose, and it was that way before Reagan. These tax cuts, for example, I keep hearing people talking about how Reagan\u2019s tax cuts were focused on the middle and the working class. They were not focused on anybody. The tax cuts were for everybody who paid taxes. They included big cuts in corporate taxes, incentivized investment in research and development, and now even our side wants to come out and say, ‘Well, Reagan had these targeted tax cuts on middle class, hard-pressed middle class, working class.\u2019 If that\u2019s the case, how in the hell the have liberals gotten away with saying they were tax cuts for the rich? They were tax cuts for everybody. They were across the board. The top marginal rate went from 70% to 28% in eight years. That affected everybody, not just specific, hard-pressed middle class or working-class voters. They weren\u2019t focused on that group of people. You know, Jack Kemp, he never sounded angry, never sounded embattled. He was an unabashed conservative. He was tonally open and fresh. He constantly was talking about economic growth, electoral growth. <\/p>\n

The guy was quoting the Bible. He came on this show once to quote the Bible, the Old Testament, as evidence that supply-side or tax cuts work. Remember that? He came on this program to talk about it. He was committed to a philosophy and a policy that was birthed from it. So the top marginal rate, 70% came down to 28%, and all the rates in between got cut as well. They reduced the length of depreciation for capital equipment investments. They cut the cost of research and development. This is the point I tried to make at Heritage last night. Whenever I speak on this program or the public, the point I\u2019m trying to make is that good policy or policies build on foundation of philosophy and principle. If you don\u2019t have a conservative foundation that\u2019s built on conservative principles, the policies you come up with aren\u2019t going to have roots. The policies are going to be the result of pandering. But if you have policies built on conservative foundations and principles applied across the board wherever possible, you end up with something not only good for the nation, but good for all citizens, regardless of their supposed economic class, because conservatism lifts all boats. <\/p>\n

We keep running around, some of us talking in socialist lingo, about classes of American citizens. To start categorizing people in this country is to adopt a European history and in left-wing language, undermines the whole principle and philosophy of conservatism. We are about the well-being of all citizens. That is a universal appeal. If tried, it works. Everybody says we need to do great, fresh ideas. We need a listening tour. We need to send Republicans out to start listening, we need to learn, we need to listen, and we need to lead. What are the ideas? What are they? Where are these great new ideas that will modernize or bring conservatism into the twenty-first century? What are these ideas? Are they not ideas borrowed from the left? Are they not principles borrowed from the left because some people on our side don\u2019t have the confidence in their own beliefs, so for some reason, we have to borrow certain ideas, policies, or prescriptions from the left? What are these great, fresh ideas around which the public will rally and bring electoral victory? So far, I\u2019ll tell you what I hear as the new ideas. We have to reject Reagan and nostalgia. We have to forget about tax cuts. That was yesterday. Don\u2019t talk about immigration. But if you do, support it in all its forms. Don\u2019t talk about the social issues. If we talk about immigration, we\u2019ll lose. If we talk about the social issues, we\u2019ll lose. Don\u2019t talk tax cuts. Don\u2019t talk about Reagan. <\/p>\n

So tell me what are the great new fresh ideas that everybody\u2019s insisting are winners? If we\u2019re going to throw away every idea that\u2019s won for us, what are the new ideas that are going to help us win and where do they come from? Whose are they? We\u2019re supposed to embrace Jack Kemp at his death, but not Reagan. We\u2019re supposed to embrace Kemp\u2019s tax cuts but not tax cuts generally. Jim DeMint, who I met last night, is another great example. If Jim DeMint is dead and he\u2019s so inconsequential, why is the left trying to destroy him? Jim DeMint said I\u2019d rather have 30 strong conservatives in the Senate than 60 wishy-washy moderates. I agree a hundred percent with him \u2019cause we are in a rebuilding phase, and we\u2019re not going to rebuild by continuing to muddy and muddle the waters that have succeeded in mis-defining us and confusing everybody on who we are. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Okay, so I got an e-mail question: ‘Rush, are you really saying that Obama is out to destroy prosperity?\u2019 My friends, read his books. Barack Obama\u2019s primary objective is undoing Ronald Reagan\u2019s tax cuts. Now, why would that be? That\u2019s all he\u2019s doing: returning the nation\u2019s wealth to its so-called rightful owners. He operates on the belief that every achiever in this country is a thief, that every achiever has stolen or has something that\u2019s genuinely not his or hers. They\u2019ve come by it unfairly. He may not be about destroying prosperity, but he sure as hell is going to try to define it down. My hope is that he can\u2019t destroy prosperity, that no one man can destroy the United States of America, even with his political party. Because at some point, we\u2019re going to rise up and not accept it. We\u2019re just not going to allow it to happen. <\/p>\n

But there\u2019s no question that he\u2019s defining prosperity down. His objective is to undo the Reagan tax cuts. Now, if his objective is to undo the Reagan tax cuts, I guess those are really big-tent moderate ideas, huh? We know Obama is a left-wing radical. He takes a look at anything right wing and he wants to destroy it. They go after everybody that makes a difference. Jim DeMint. He\u2019d rather have 30 strong conservative ideologues to build a base of operations with in the US Senate than 41 wishy-washy moderates who can\u2019t get anything done, including oppose this president \u2019cause there\u2019s nothing to build on — and he\u2019s exactly right. I totally understand what he meant when he said that, but now they\u2019re trashing him, and it\u2019s only because they\u2019re afraid of DeMint. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re afraid of conservatism! If it were not something that bothered them greatly, they wouldn\u2019t give it the time of day. So now we have to reject Jim DeMint for being too conservative. We have to go out and appeal to the likes of Specter and Lincoln Chafee and others, \u2019cause we need a ‘big tent,\u2019 not so much for conservatives who are too narrow-minded. That\u2019s the problem with the debating society. We have people who look at conservatism as a debating society rather than a foundation for philosophy and ideas that lead to a great country. Well, I\u2019m sorry. I left the debating society long ago back in high school. <\/p>\n

To me, this is real. This is for keeps. It\u2019s not about sharing my intellectual ideas with other people I also think happen to be intellectuals. It\u2019s about promoting what I think is the best for the United States of America and everyone who lives in this country. You want to run around and emphasize process over principle, and then claim that the process will give us principle? It\u2019s the other way around. You cannot engage in a productive process without a foundation — a philosophy and principle that leads to the development of policy that then becomes a process of trying to pass it. We\u2019re can\u2019t even talk about principles, not too much. <\/p>\n

‘We gotta talk more about process, because if we talk about principles too much, we\u2019ll turn off the middle class. But we gotta talk process.\u2019 Turn off the middle class? In other words: Don\u2019t be confident in who you are. Duck battles over substance and principle. Get engaged in process. Show people how smart you are and convince them that you\u2019re listening to them, when you actually hold them in very low regard yourself; but you\u2019re going to go pander to them to make \u2019em think you\u2019re listening to \u2019em, just to get their vote. The way to get their vote is to identify with them. Tell \u2019em you understand what they think. Teach \u2019em how did to get it done, provide leadership for them — and then, Katie, bar the door. You\u2019ll have a landslide victory.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Folks, it\u2019s as predictable as the sun coming up in the morning. Now the libs are out trashing me for suggesting that we need a ‘teaching tour\u2019 rather than a ‘listening tour,\u2019 because a teaching tour is arrogant. Of course, it\u2019s perfectly fine when Obama teaches, but when I want to do a teaching tour? No, no, no! That\u2019s arrogant. We need to listen. I\u2019m telling you: all of this is a sign of how they fear our possible strength.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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