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RUSH: Here\u2019s Wayne in Roanoke, Virginia. You\u2019re next on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, Rush, thank you very much. It\u2019s such a privilege to be able to talk to you. What I want to speak about is that it is increasingly looking like more and more the Repubs to take over the House and the Senate and like Bob McDonnell did here in Virginia, the first thing he did was cut his pay and the staff pay and the cabinet pay, I\u2019m wondering if the Republicans and the ones running could make agreements similar to like Newt and say one of the first things they do as a minimum is to like quit paying for the czars — czars can take a pay cut and cut a lot of this budget stuff and all this spending like I think the — right now the cabinet for Obama administration\u2019s spent 120% more.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Just a second on this, there\u2019s something I want to say here before I answer your question specifically, and you are the second person to hit me with what you think is a likelihood today. Snerdley was the first. I walked back to his office minding my own business, and he\u2019s watching Andrea Mitchell and I looked at her and said, ‘This woman looks heartbroken.\u2019 She was leading off with the Evan Bayh story, I said, ‘This woman looks heartbroken today.\u2019 He said, ‘They\u2019re all going to want you on election night.\u2019 ‘What do you mean?\u2019 ‘Yeah, even these people, they\u2019re going to want your opinion on election night, when that big sweep comes.\u2019 Folks, I don\u2019t like thinking that. I don\u2019t want us sitting here thinking there\u2019s going to be this massive sweep, that we\u2019re going to take over the House, take over the Senate, because if you start thinking that, you\u2019re going to let other people do the work and you won\u2019t show up and vote. It\u2019s only February. You can\u2019t take that for granted right now. The last time I was on there was 2002. Tom Brokaw had me on and they\u2019re not going to do it again. It was Russert that asked me. Brokaw willingly went along, but they\u2019re not going to have me back there. They know I\u2019ll just come on and gloat, you know, tell \u2019em how stupid and wrong they\u2019ve all been all these years, that this was in the cards. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s like after the Steelers — I forget the year, 2003, 2004, lost the championship game to the Patriots at Heinz Field, the next season, from the coach on down, ‘Yep, we\u2019re Super Bowl champs this year,\u2019 and they asked the owner Dan Rooney, ‘Do you like this kind of talk?\u2019 ‘I sure don\u2019t. We haven\u2019t even started a season and they have us in the Super Bowl? No, no, no, no. We\u2019ve still got 16 games to play here. We got a bunch of months to get through here.\u2019 We have a lot of Republicans who, I mean if we\u2019re not vigilant here they\u2019re going to fall prey to this bipartisan crap, despite the polls, they\u2019re going to be pressured by the culture inside the Beltway to go along to get along. And let\u2019s not count our chickens before they hatch. Now, let\u2019s deal with the hypothetical. Yeah, the Republicans, look at Chris Christie in New Jersey. He ran on a premise that we can\u2019t afford what we got coming down the pike on this budget and I\u2019m freezing it, and he did. And they are squealing like stuck pigs with the hoot owls and the polecats and the barnyard in Morristown. It is amazing to see. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got a story here that is just amazing with what New Jersey is facing in pensions. They can\u2019t pay it. They have no way. Here it is: ‘The New Math: Union Pensionomics Levies Crushing Debt on State and Local Governments.\u2019 I\u2019m going to just have to give you this briefly because we go into a break here, but how\u2019s this for an investment, you\u2019re a public employee and ‘You pay a total of $124,000 into your pension plan,\u2019 over the course of your work life, ‘and, upon retiring at age 49, you receive $3.3 million in pension payments and $500,000 in health care benefits. You receive $3.8 million in total on a $124,000 investment.\u2019 That is a real world example in New Jersey, public employee union people get that kind of deal. This is what Christie knows. We can\u2019t afford this. The state will go bankrupt if they don\u2019t do something about this. This is simply undoable. So whether the Republicans get tax cuts, you know, getting Obama to sign them is another thing. We\u2019re not going to have a veto-proof majority no matter what happens. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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