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RUSH: Now, Colin Powell. I\u2019ve been wondering during all of this job loss and all of this expansion of government: Where are Colin Powell and Tom Ridge? You know Colin Powell and Tom Ridge have both said that I\u2019m not any good for the Republican Party, and people are saying, ‘Yeah, we need Colin Powell. He\u2019s the ideal Republican!\u2019 <\/p>\n

A guy who endorsed and voted for Obama!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m saying, ‘Where are these people?\u2019 I mean, I guess by their silence they support what\u2019s going on here. They support every job gained in the last nine years being lost. They support rampant inflation. They support government-run, single-payer health care. They want this cap-and-trade stuff. Because I haven\u2019t heard Powell or Tom Ridge voice any concerns about any of this. The only thing I hear them voicing concerns about is me. Well, Colin Powell has spoken out. They\u2019ve got another interview at CNN and they\u2019re promoting it by releasing portions of it today. He\u2019s going to appear on State of the Union Sunday with the host John King. But to set this up, let\u2019s go back to the 1996 Republican convention in San Diego. Listen to Colin Powell back when he was a Republican.<\/p>\n

POWELL 1996: I became a Republican because I believe, like you, that the federal government has become too large and too intrusive in our lives. We can no longer… (applause) We can no longer afford solutions to our problems that result in more entitlements, higher taxes to pay for them, more bureaucracy to run them, and fewer results to show for it. (applause) <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah! Right on, right on, right on. Now, I happen to still believe that. Colin Powell said last fall that Americans want more government, and they want higher taxes — and I\u2019m accused of being the problem. He\u2019s the one who\u2019s changed, and he has abandoned Republicanism, conservatism. He\u2019s joined hip to hip with Obama — and I am the problem. They gotta get me out of the Republican Party to save the Republican Party? They need to get him back in it to save it? ‘Cause he\u2019s left it. Maybe not officially, but he\u2019s endorsing and voting for Obama. I mean, in \u201996 he got standing ovations for that great speech he gave. He defined Reaganism and conservatism pretty well. That\u2019s all gone. So let\u2019s now move forward to this coming Sunday. John King says to Colin Powell, ‘When it comes to spending and the reach and the role of government, has the president met the test laid out by Colin Powell in 1996?\u2019<\/p>\n

POWELL 2009: Well, first, let me say, that was a pretty good statement, I thought. And I believe in all those things. But I also believe that we should have a government that works. I don\u2019t like slogans anymore like ‘limited government.\u2019 That\u2019s not the right answer. The right answer is, give me a government that works. Keep it as small as possible. Keep the tax burden on the American people as small as possible, but at the same time, have government that is solving the problems of the people. The people want their problems solved. And very often, it\u2019s government that has to do that. So let\u2019s have good government, effective government, whether you call it limited or not. Now, I think one of the challenges that President Obama has now is that he\u2019s got so many things on the table, and these are issues that the American people find important, health care and so many other issues. But I think one of the cautions that has to be given to the president — and I\u2019ve talked to some of his people about this — is that you can\u2019t have so many things on the table that you can\u2019t absorb it all. And we can\u2019t pay for it all.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, ladies and gentlemen, there\u2019s one word that describes that sound bite, one word that describes General Powell in that sound bite, and that is ‘incoherent.\u2019 See, John King played for him that portion of the 1996 speech at the convention. We played it last month; we quoted it last month. John King plays it for General Powell to get his reaction. (imitating Powell) ‘Well, first let me say it\u2019s a pretty good statement, I thought, and I believe in all those things. But I also believe we should have a government that works.\u2019 He\u2019s learned well from Obama. ‘I stand by my thing in \u201996. That was brilliant what I said in \u201996. That was a really great statement. But, but, but…\u2019 There\u2019s always the BUT. ‘On the other hand, we need a government that works.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Is this one working? Is this a government that is working? When you say in 1996 you don\u2019t want a government that\u2019s become too large and too intrusive in our lives, how do you go from that to people want a government to solve their problems? That\u2019s not what government does. Government doesn\u2019t solve people\u2019s problems. I mean, maybe in a broad context, but problem solving is up to you! It\u2019s up to family, church, community, what have you. Now, government can solve problems that it creates by removing the problems it\u2019s created, unusually by virtue of its size. So he says he\u2019s for limited government in the same bite and then he goes back. ‘I\u2019m for limited government but I\u2019m for a government that works.\u2019 This is incoherent. It depends on where he is speaking as to what he\u2019s going to say. Here\u2019s the next bite. He continued with this.<\/p>\n

POWELL: I never would have believed that we would have budgets that are running into the, you know, multi-trillions of dollars — and we are amassing a huge, huge national debt that if we don\u2019t pay for in our lifetime, our kids and grandkids and great-grandchildren will have to pay for it. So I think the president, as he moves forward with these initiatives, has to start really taking a very, very hard look at what the cost of all this is and how much additional bureaucracy — and will it be effective bureaucracy? — be needed to make all this happen.<\/p>\n

KING: So it\u2019s early but you\u2019re a little worried?<\/p>\n

POWELL: Huh? Yes.<\/p>\n

KING: That\u2019s a fair way to put it?<\/p>\n

POWELL. Yeah. I\u2019m a little concerned. ‘Concerned\u2019 would be a better word. I\u2019m concerned at the number of programs that are being presented, the bills associated with these programs, and the additional government that will be needed to execute them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You told us this is what the American people wanted! You endorsed this! Everything Obama\u2019s doing he said he was going to do! We have played the sound bites on cap and trade; we\u2019ve played the sound bites on health care; we\u2019ve read the excerpts from his books where he forecasts the reality that is his administration. (imitating Powell) ‘The president needs to be told we can\u2019t pay for all this.\u2019 Gosh! I\u2019ll tell you, folks, if it weren\u2019t so serious, it would be comical — and it\u2019s both, actually. Well, I have to say this, too. Because, remember, the real reason, ladies and gentlemen, that General Powell is taking after me is because shortly after he endorsed Obama, I said, ‘There\u2019s really one reason for this, and that\u2019s race. There can\u2019t be any other reason. He just doesn\u2019t see how it\u2019s possible not to get on the bandwagon with the first black president\u2019s campaign in the history of the country,\u2019 and, of course, that is and was an obvious truth. Only I, the courageous El Rushbo, dared say it — and I caught grief for it, which is par for the course. But that\u2019s why he\u2019s really mad at me. <\/p>\n

But I would now say, ladies and gentlemen, we go back and listen to General Powell in \u201996, then we listened to him affirm in a sound bite coming up Sunday that, ‘Yeah, that sound bite in \u201996 at the convention, I still agree with that,\u2019 and then in the third sound bite we hear him express ‘concern\u2019 over the debt and the spending and the president must realize as he goes forth with his initiatives that — isn\u2019t it obvious that policy had nothing to do with General Powell\u2019s endorsement of Obama? Isn\u2019t it obvious now, in his own words, because now he\u2019s deeply troubled by what\u2019s happened even though he damn well knew it was going to happen! Obama wasn\u2019t hiding any of this. He was hiding it with his rhetoric. But if you listened — if you got the right sound bites, if you read the texts of the right speeches — none of this is a surprise to any of us. This is why we\u2019re so outraged that so many people got fooled by it because it was all out there. So if it wasn\u2019t policy that inspired General Powell\u2019s endorsement of Obama, I ask, what could it be? What could the remaining reason be? And I still say: race. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: One more thing before we go back to the phones. General Powell was on notice long ago as to where President Obama intended to take the country. I have a Reuters story right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. It is from November 17th of last year, ‘las\u2019year,\u2019 as athletes say. Here it\u2019s ‘last year,\u2019 and the athlete will say las\u2019year. ‘The United States government should not worry about deficits over the next two years while spending money to jump-start the ailing economy, President-elect Barack Obama said in a television interview that aired on Sunday. Obama said consensus had emerged between economists in both major US political parties that expensive measures were necessary to avoid a deep recession. ‘The consensus is this, that we have to do whatever it takes to get this economy moving again, that we have to — we\u2019re going to have to spend money now to stimulate the economy,\u2019 he told the CBS television network\u2019s 60 Minutes news program. ‘And (consensus is) that we shouldn\u2019t worry about the deficit next year or even the year after.”<\/p>\n

So, General Powell, shut up and stop worrying about it. General Powell, you were told by Obama last November that a ‘consensus\u2019 of Republican and Democrat economists said don\u2019t worry about the deficits for two years. We have no other way out. We\u2019d avoid the recession. We\u2019d avoid the recession. Yeah, avoid the recession! We\u2019re only making it worse. But my point is, General Powell was on notice long ago that this was going to happen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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