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RUSH: The sad comedy and the Big Lie continue, ladies and gentlemen, unabated, and although it\u2019s not a laughing matter, it nevertheless is hilarious. Great to have you here, broadcast excellence, hosted by me, Rush Limbaugh, on the EIB Network, and this is the nation\u2019s most listened to radio talk show. Great to have you here. Our high-definition Dittocam is up and running, and looking good. Phone number if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. <\/p>\n

Remember, just yesterday Joe Biden told us how well the stimulus worked and that Obama had saved us from a depression. ‘The number of newly laid-off workers filing applications for unemployment benefits unexpectedly surged last week after having fallen sharply in the previous week. The gain dampened hopes about how quickly the labor…\u2019 this is a joke. The people in the media have become a recurring joke. Unexpectedly surged? Jobless claims unexpectedly surged? Who are these experts? I think they\u2019re doing this just to irritate me. They\u2019ve gotta macro, they hit command-M and it just types this garbage. ‘The increase followed a drop of 41,000 in the previous week which had raised hopes…\u2019 Whose? ‘… that the labor market could be improving.\u2019 The temporary boost appears to have worn off, from the Associated Press. I guess we should all be confused here \u2019cause Obama says that all this is a success. Maybe, folks, we are just too dumb to understand all this. Maybe Obama needs to be clearer. He says, ‘let me be clear\u2019 a lot. Maybe he\u2019s not being clear enough because: ‘Economy\u2019s Growth Rate May Be Ebbing — Leading indicators rise for 10th straight month, but at slower pace.\u2019<\/line> <\/line>There isn\u2019t a recovery and anybody who is marginally engaged in their life every day has full awareness there isn\u2019t any recovery. Nevertheless here\u2019s State-Controlled AP: ‘A forecast of future economic activity rose for a 10th straight month in January, but,\u2019 but, but, but, but, but, but, but, ‘… the pace of growth is slowing. The index of leading economic indicators rose 0.3 percent last month, according to Thursday\u2019s report from the Conference Board, a private research group. That\u2019s weaker than a 1.2 percent rise in December and a 1.1 percent rise in November. Its also was short of the 0.5 percent gain that economists polled by Thomson Reuters expected. Some economists have been worrying that growth in the economy will stagnate this year, however, as government support programs wind down and unemployment remains high.\u2019<\/line><\/p>\n

The next one, and this is from Associated Press: ‘Wholesale prices –‘ this is inflation, folks. This is what we\u2019ve all been worried about. I mean it was inevitable, it was going to happen. ‘Wholesale prices shot up at double the expected pace in January, propelled higher by big increases in energy costs. The surprisingly large jump was viewed as a temporary blip and not the start of inflation problems, however.\u2019 Really? The annual projection for inflation this year is now 16.8%. We haven\u2019t seen anything like that in I don\u2019t know how long. By land. ‘The Labor Department said Thursday that wholesale prices rose 1.4 percent last month, reflecting higher costs for gasoline and other energy products. Private economists had expected a 0.7 percent increase,\u2019 half that. Do these people not realize — look, folks, I\u2019m doing my best here today to maintain an even keel. I could have started this show literally screaming and laughing. Do these people not realize how absurdly stupid they appear? <\/p>\n

The Labor Department said today wholesale prices rose 1.4%. Private economists had expected a 0.7% — do you think it\u2019s maybe time for these schlubs at AP and Reuters to go out and find some new economists, like maybe call me? Core inflation at the wholesale level, which excludes energy and food, rose 0.3% in January, faster than the 0.1% increase economists had predicted. I\u2019ve been doing this show, ladies and gentlemen, well, for 20 and a half years, and I don\u2019t think in the last ten we\u2019ve had an economic story on labor, jobs, energy, overall economic growth or not, that has not featured the word ‘unexpected\u2019 or ‘surprised\u2019 or ‘shocking.\u2019 For ten years the increase is unexpectedly twice and even three times what the expert economists had predicted. The hell, you say! ‘The 12-month rise in core prices at the wholesale level was a more moderate 1 percent. Economists believe that inflation is not a problem at the moment and is not likely…\u2019 oh, God, folks, that means we\u2019re in deep trouble. Ten years and their economists have been wrong about everything and now they\u2019re telling us that economists believe inflation is not a problem? Book it. ‘… because of all the downward pressures on wages and prices as a result of the recession.\u2019 No, no, no. We\u2019re in a recovery, I thought. I thought there was going to be upward pressure on wages and prices because we\u2019re in a recovery! We\u2019ve been hearing that for the past year. If that\u2019s what the economists are saying, we are reassured there\u2019s nothing to worry about. <\/p>\n

Okay. The next one, jobless claims. This is AP, a very robotic AP. AP seems to have automated their reporting on the unemployment rate. We ought to just make a loop that I play once a week when these labors statistics numbers come out, just make a loop. ‘The number of newly laid-off workers filing applications for unemployment benefits unexpectedly surged last week after having fallen sharply in the previous week. The gain dampened hopes about how quickly the labor market may improve this year. … Claims at the beginning of this year had been affected by a holiday backlog. The easing of the backlog had elevated the numbers for the previous three weeks. That temporary boost appears to have worn off.\u2019 There was no boost if it\u2019s temporary. All of us non-expert non-economists had predicted all of this. Lucky this news didn\u2019t come out yesterday, folks, it\u2019s damn good that this unexpected news didn\u2019t come out yesterday or we would have thrown cold water on all the claims about the amazing success of the slush fund. Isn\u2019t this strategically interesting, they had the slush fund meeting yesterday, things are great, we don\u2019t know how bad it would have been if it hadn\u2019t been for us. Then the news of the truth comes out. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s CNBC: ‘The number of US workers filing new applications for unemployment insurance unexpectedly surged last week, while producer prices increased sharply in January, raising potential hurdles for the economic recovery.\u2019 When has it ever shown a strong recovery? If you combine this with the coming state, county, and city layoffs, I don\u2019t know if the media experts are tuned into that, but we are here at the EIB Network, so Obama has set the table for future pain. Thanks to a slush fund bill designed to primarily stimulate public service unions, unemployment across the fruited plain continues to deteriorate, and that means tax revenues and the deficit will remain in free fall. And you combine that with Obama\u2019s never-ending spending binge — Oh. Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. The comedy continues. I\u2019m watching this morning, there\u2019s Obama, he\u2019s got ‘Plugs\u2019 Biden with the carbon no longer on his forehead today, and he\u2019s got ‘Irksome\u2019 Bowles up there from the University of North Carolina and Alan Simpson, and we\u2019re going to have a blue ribbon deficit commission. What is the liberals\u2019 answer to out of control government spending? You create more government to study it! There\u2019s not a person who is engaged in this in the world who doesn\u2019t know why this has happened. It\u2019s called Barack Hussein Obama Barry Soetoro. Who spent us into this state of ruin in one year? Barack Hussein Obama. And now he\u2019s calling in these two retreads with 18 other people or 16 other people to study this? Here. Listen to it and laugh. This is Obama announcing all this.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles are taking on the impossible. They\u2019re going to try to restore reason to the fiscal debate and come up with answers as cochairs of the new National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. I\u2019m asking them to produce clear recommendations on how to cover the costs of all federal programs by 2015 and to meaningfully improve our long-term fiscal picture.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why are these guys even accepting the gig? What\u2019s in it for ‘Irksome\u2019 Bowles and Alan Simpson to accept the gig? Because if they\u2019re going to approach this honestly they can produce their report today, and it would say: ‘Mr. President, either resign or put somebody else in charge of spending because you are bankrupting and destroying the country. We\u2019ve studied it here for the past year, and there\u2019s nothing that can be done to fix this if you don\u2019t change, and if you don\u2019t change then you\u2019re going to have to for the good of the country resign.\u2019 We don\u2019t need study it. Nobody needs to study this! What we need to do is change it. Here\u2019s Obama, who is on track, if he hasn\u2019t already, he\u2019s on track to spend more than anyone since FDR, now tells us this.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Last week I signed into law the PAYGO bill.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape a minute. Recue it. When Nancy Pelosi and her cronies took over the House of Representatives in 2007, they announced PAYGO. This means you don\u2019t pay for anything until you got the money. You either cut spending to pay for it or create new revenue somehow. It\u2019s a sham, they haven\u2019t done it and now here\u2019s Obama signing into some executive order a PAYGO bill? If they\u2019re going to do that, why do they need ‘Irksome\u2019 Bowles and Alan Simpson up there? Oh, this wears me out. Here\u2019s the bite.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Last week I signed into law the PAYGO bill. It says very simply that the United States of America should pay as we go and live within our means again, just like responsible families and businesses do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I can\u2019t take it. Folks, I just can\u2019t take it. There\u2019s only one guy he should be talking to, and that\u2019s himself. We need to send him into a carnival booth surrounded by a thousand mirrors so that whenever he talks, all he sees is himself because — (interruption) well, yeah, put the prompter in there, too. He\u2019s the problem! <\/p>\n

OBAMA: After taking steps to cut taxes and increase access to credit for small businesses to jump-start job creation this year, I\u2019ve called for a three-year freeze on discretionary spending starting next year.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape. That\u2019s a 1% freeze after he\u2019s already bumped it up 25%.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: This freeze won\u2019t affect Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security spending.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Which means there\u2019s going to be no end in sight to the spending no matter what ‘Irksome\u2019 Bowles and Alan Simpson and their 16 other worthless blue-ribbon panel people — What in the world is the president for? What is Congress for? What are all these czars for? Why do they have to go out and get these two guys and 16 other people to absolve everybody of responsibility, everybody that is culpable in this is to be absolved of responsibility. I can\u2019t wait, I really can\u2019t wait \u2019cause I bet you I can predict what the outcome of this blue ribbon panel is going to be. These people are going to fix it so that there is going to be a quiet revolution in November and virtually anybody that reminds the voters of this country of anybody in the past year and a half is gone, never to get back to Washington ever again.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: And it won\u2019t affect national security spending, including veterans benefits. But all other discretionary spending will be subject to this freeze. These are tough times and we can\u2019t keep spending like they\u2019re not.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We can\u2019t keep spending. Yeah, and let that be a lesson to all of you people. We can\u2019t keep spending like this. We just can\u2019t do it. You realize it\u2019s our fault and we can\u2019t keep spending and daddy Obama, he\u2019s going to put the foot down now, it\u2019s gotten out of hand. Oh, man. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I guess I ought to be honest with everybody in the audience because I always am. You people are used to me being in a great mood each and every day — and as a highly trained professional, that\u2019s my instinct. But I am so irritable today, I am just that close to exploding over a whole bunch of stuff. I\u2019m doing my best to rein it in, but I am. It has nothing to do with any of you people, nothing whatsoever to do with any of you people. I just want to warn you in case I have one of these eruptions today. It has nothing to do with you. Even if Snerdley gives me Obama-type thinking phone callers, I promise — and now watch him try to do it just to get me to erupt because he gets entertained by it. <\/p>\n

So we just listened to all of this BS, this total crap from the president of the United States with the appointment of two total retreads who represent exactly what got us into this mess in the first place. Does this mean that Obama is now going to retract his budget which has a $1.6 trillion deficit in it? Hmm. Is that going to happen? All of this is nothing more than a Big Lie, and I do not retract that this is being done on purpose. There is nobody — nobody — who is this stupid. There\u2019s no collection of people this naive and ignorant. I don\u2019t care how well-intentioned they are. This is purposeful — and I, for one… I am 59 years old. I have worked and worked and worked, and I know you have, too, your whole life. I didn\u2019t do all of this to spread the wealth for this guy so that he can change the makeup and very foundation of this country which made all of this prosperity for so many of us possible. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not suggesting do this by any stretch of the imagination, but I\u2019m just going to tell you: If Obama needs some help in reducing his spending, what if we just all stopped paying taxes? The IRS doesn\u2019t have enough people to come get it. I\u2019m not suggesting it. I\u2019m just pointing out here. This stimulus? There\u2019s no such thing. The government does not have an endless stash of money sitting back somewhere that\u2019s not being used. We don\u2019t have any money! We are the future Greece. We don\u2019t have any money! We don\u2019t have — what was it? — $8 billion to guarantee loans for a nuclear plant. And, by the way, we don\u2019t want the federal government involved in the nuclear power business anyway. That\u2019s just a trick to advance his cap-and-trade idea. This guy is a destroyer — and, for some reason, he\u2019s doing it purposefully. He\u2019s not fooling a majority of people. <\/p>\n

By the way, did you see, CNN…? I gotta get this number right. CNN\u2019s numbers for 25-54, the big-time Democrat graphic in primetime, the last two months are lower than at any time in their history. They were beat out by a test pattern on a local station in Oshkosh, after midnight. Nobody\u2019s watching CNN. Yet they\u2019re coming out with this poll: ‘The vast majority of Americans believe Congress is not tackling the nation\u2019s problems.\u2019 This is CNN\/Opinion Research Corporation. ‘Eighty-four percent of Americans think Congress has not done enough to create jobs, and only 14% said that they\u2019re satisfied with the efforts so far.\u2019 Congress cannot ‘create jobs.\u2019 Where do you think the stimulus money comes from? We don\u2019t have it, so we\u2019re either borrowing it or we\u2019re printing it. <\/p>\n

In other words, it\u2019s money that\u2019s being taken out of the private sector and then put back in. There\u2019s no net increase of money. They\u2019re just redistributing it, reallocating to their political cronies in the public employee union, pure and simple. They\u2019re trying to shore up states, making sure they don\u2019t go bankrupt. But that\u2019s just a little finger-in-the-dike business. That\u2019s not permanent, either. None of this is permanent. It\u2019s all stopgap, while Obama tries to come up with a way to pass the buck. Now, here\u2019s this from the Associated Press: ‘A forecast of future economic activity rose for a tenth straight month but the pace of growth is slowing. Some economists have been worrying the growth in the economy will stagnate this year as government support programs wind down and unemployment remains high.\u2019 You know, folks, I\u2019m fairly smart guy here, but I\u2019m so confused now. Obama yesterday said it\u2019s a huge success, so did Biden. (sigh) All of this is phony — and there isn\u2019t any of it, anyway. There is no growth, economic growth. There\u2019s zilch, zero, nada. There\u2019s government growth, but there\u2019s no investment, there\u2019s no consuming, and there\u2019s no job creation happening in the private sector, which is where it matters for the health and the future of all of us in the country.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, back to this irritable Porkulus, Pickulus slush fund. I have two observations about this. Just yesterday, just yesterday we had the near criminals that run this administration, Biden and Obama, up there telling us that all of this Porkulus spending, the slush fund, saved us from the Great Depression. If that\u2019s true why do we have to stop now? If that spending staved off a second Great Depression, why in the name of Sam Hill are we stopping? One other observation about this: Despite what Obama said yesterday, the stimulus was not ever supposed to protect us from a depression. Do you know what was? TARP! TARP was supposed to save us from a depression. TARP was supposed to save the world financial system. TARP was supposed to make sure that this disaster that we faced — and if we didn\u2019t fix it in 24 hours, we were all going to be essentially smoke and mirrors. If we didn\u2019t fix it in 24 hours, TARP was supposed to stave off the depression, and that was Bush. <\/p>\n

Bush was TARP, Obama urged it. He was all for it, and apparently it did work, if we would accept — which is hard to do — what anybody in government tells us about that. But the stimulus, Obama\u2019s stimulus was supposed to keep unemployment from getting too high and lasting too long. Obama\u2019s stimulus is a disaster. It is an absolute failure. He has failed to do anything he said he was going to do, and the TARP program has been paid back — with a profit! Apart from the automakers\u2019 part, which Obama and the Democrats tacked on. The stimulus has been a total failure. Meanwhile, the price for Obama\u2019s stimulus has been ratcheted up another $75 billion because of ‘unexpected\u2019 unemployment claims and compensation in payments. None — None; zilch, zero, nada — of the $862 billion taxpayer dollars will ever be paid back except in one way, and let me tell you how. <\/p>\n

All of you Democrats — I don\u2019t care whether you\u2019re Blue Dogs, if you\u2019re half-breeds, whatever kind of dogs you want to describe yourselves as — the way this $862 billion ‘stimulus\u2019 is going to be paid back is in the form of votes kicking you outta town. I mean this from the bottom of my heart. The people of this country right now are bordering on hate for all of these establishment politicians — and that hate, that borderline hate is ratcheted up each and every time Obama and Biden (whoever else, Pelosi and Reid) get on TV and insult their intelligence. The people who are going to repay the stimulus by getting rid of everybody who\u2019s responsible for it, love their country. They love the founding principles and they have a borderline hate for the people who have caused this. Mark my words. Do not doubt me. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Sam in Saginaw, Michigan. Welcome to the program, Sam, great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks, Mr. Limbaugh. I\u2019m just trying to figure out why you\u2019re so much against the debt reduction task force. If we\u2019re trying to reduce debt and get out of the deficit, why against the task force? <\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, let me ask you a question, let me give you an analogy. You have a house, Sam, or an apartment building you live in?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I have a home, yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You have a home. Okay. Suppose I come to your home tonight and fly an airplane into it after I bail out, I destroy your home, and then I call for a commission to examine how it happened? The people who are destroying the country in front of our eyes, Sam, are asking a bunch of retreads to come up with basically an idea that can\u2019t be pinned on the administration to raise our taxes through the roof. That\u2019s why this is being done. They\u2019re absolving themselves of any blame, these two retreads and their 16 members are going to come up with one plan and one plan only and that\u2019s massive across the board tax increases because they\u2019re responsible for it and they\u2019re trying to shovel it off to a bunch of people that have nothing to do with it and those people then get to prescribe the fix which shields Obama from the accusation he\u2019s raising taxes because when it happens, (imitating Obama) ‘I\u2019m just listening to suggestions from the blue ribbon committee that I appointed, I\u2019m agnostic about this but I think I gotta do it.\u2019 Raise taxes, that\u2019s the next stage.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But if we get these guys in there and they say let\u2019s raise taxes and so forth and so on, isn\u2019t that just another reason for us to really get behind some change and some things? Because folks are fed up with taxes. I mean I pay my fair share, and I\u2019m sure you pay your fair share.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, now, wait. What I\u2019m hearing you say is let\u2019s go ahead and let Obama destroy the country so we can show everybody else what Democrats do, and then let\u2019s fix it. Everybody has all the evidence they need that this guy is a walking, talking disaster. We\u2019re interested in fixing this, not trying to show a bunch of dummkopfs, about 6% who still don\u2019t get it, because the people that still don\u2019t get it are never going to get it because they\u2019re just nothing more than pure partisans who are brain-dead, they\u2019re flatlined out there while still breathing and spending everybody\u2019s money. I\u2019m glad you called. I appreciated my analogy. <\/p>\n

Josh in Kansas City, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Mr. Limbaugh. I have gotta say, it is such an honor to be talking to you. I am the truest form of a Rush Baby. You started broadcasting in \u201988, my dad started listening to you in \u201988 and I was born in \u201988.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir. Well, it\u2019s great to have you on the program today.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I really want to thank you for the impact that you\u2019ve had on my life, and if you\u2019re ever in Kansas City I would love to buy you a beer or a hamburger or something to show you my appreciation.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stroud\u2019s.<\/a><\/p>\n

CALLER: Stroud\u2019s, oh, yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, Stroud\u2019s, screw the burger.<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: Okay, no, I\u2019ll buy you a chicken dinner at Stroud\u2019s.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: And gravy.<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: And gravy, of course. And the nice little cinnamon rolls that they got there.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: I was just going to say, cinnamon rolls next, and then gotta have some cottage fries in there, too.<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: Oh yeah, oh yeah.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: Yeah.<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: Oh, yeah. But no, I\u2019m 100% serious. I would love to buy you dinner there.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: Thank you. Thanks very much.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: But, anyway, I wanted to say that I have never been a supporter of Obama. I\u2019ve never liked Obama. I\u2019ve always seen him as a disaster for this country.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: Yeah.<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: But I\u2019ve gotta say, with him talking about opening up these new nuclear power plants, nuclear power is the way of the future, I see it so much more efficient than the solar panels, than the wind power, and I\u2019m actually going to be signing my contract to go into the Navy on Saturday, and I\u2019ll be going there. I\u2019ll be working on the nuclear reactors in the aircraft carriers. So knowing that there\u2019s going to be more nuclear power plants out there providing power for our country and knowing that that provides me a future job opportunity after I leave the Navy, I\u2019m actually kind of tempted to be a little bit proud of Obama.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: I need to put you to the real test here of being a Rush Baby. You\u2019ve got a lot of experience listening to this program. Would you explain to me why it is in this case you have fallen for an absolute lie and a trick played by the president of the United States, designed to coerce people just like you into thinking he\u2019s doing a good thing. Don\u2019t you realize that this is nothing more than in a roundabout way of getting cap-and-trade legislation and get the Republicans to sign on to it? This is nothing more than a trick. There aren\u2019t going to be any new nuclear power plants. The government\u2019s going to be loaning money. The government doesn\u2019t know how to build anything. It\u2019s going to take years and years and years for regulatory approval. Obama\u2019s own base is gonna stop \u2019em. Obama\u2019s own base is gonna oppose it. It ain\u2019t ever going to happen. But he\u2019s going to get a lot of praise: ‘He\u2019s coming around, no more windmills, no more solar panels, Obama is going nuclear.\u2019 It\u2019s a lie. Everything they say is a lie. (kissing sound)<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: I have to agree that most everything that comes out of his mouth —<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: So why do you believe this?<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: I don\u2019t 100% believe it.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: Good.<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: I don\u2019t. I can\u2019t say that I 100% believe it, but I do think that by him introducing the prospects, especially with this coming election, the Democrats are going to be out of office. When 2011 starts up and we get all the new people in office, Democrats are going to be a minority then and I believe that the Republicans are going to try to hold him to his word on this. I believe that they\u2019re going to say, ‘Yes, nuclear power is the way, we\u2019re going to drive it home.\u2019<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: I don\u2019t disagree that nuclear power is the way, but Obama is genuinely not interested in it. Please don\u2019t doubt me, please. <\/line><\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Tom in San Antonio, Texas, thank you for calling, sir. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, an honor to speak with you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m calling in response to your first caller, Sam, you talked about it a little while ago where you gave the analogy of the plane flying into his house when he was talking about this debt panel. I think I might have a better analogy for him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute, now. Was Sam the guy who didn\u2019t understand why I was opposing the blue-ribbon panel?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I said burn down his house. I wouldn\u2019t fly an airplane because that means I would die.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s true. And we wouldn\u2019t want that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But something simpler for Sam. Imagine if Sam were to walk into his boss tomorrow morning and say, ‘Boss, you know, I really like my job, I like how much you\u2019re paying me, I like the perks, I like the benefits but, you know, parts of this job are really, really hard and I think you need to hire someone else to do the hard parts for me. I\u2019d like you to keep paying me, I\u2019d like to give myself a raise while we\u2019re at it, but I don\u2019t really want to do the hard parts of my job anymore.\u2019 His boss would rightfully look at him like he was insane and throw him out of the room, and that\u2019s in effect what this debt panel is, it\u2019s an admission by the legislative branch of government and the executive that they\u2019re not going to do their job.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That is actually —<\/p>\n

CALLER: They should be doing their job.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That is actually —<\/p>\n

CALLER: It just frosts me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That is actually a pretty good analogy as it relates to me personally. I can\u2019t tell you how many times that happens to me. I\u2019m not kidding you. You go out and hire some people to do something, and they want two other people to help \u2019em do it. I can\u2019t tell you how often that happens. But the analogy for the sake of Obama is not quite there, and I\u2019ll tell you why. It\u2019s because there is an ulterior motive. The ulterior motive is to have somebody besides himself recommend these tax cuts that nobody can afford in order to fix this. He wants to at the end of this blue ribbon commission say the respectable ‘Irksome\u2019 Bowles and the longtime Washington Senator immensely respected Alan Simpson have looked at all of this, and they conclude only one thing: We must raise taxes. So to complete your analogy, what I would have to do is come to you and say, ‘Boss, you know, I appreciate what you\u2019re paying me, and I think I need a raise. But I got some really hard stuff in this job that I don\u2019t want to do. I think you need to go hire some other people to do the hard part so that I can come back to you and say that they\u2019re the ones who say this is what needs to be done, because I don\u2019t want to be held responsible for what it is they\u2019re going to say. I don\u2019t want it, but I do want a raise.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: And that is why you are the great Maha Rushie.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, no, it\u2019s a great analogy. And I\u2019m sure that your analogy resonates with all kinds of people who own businesses.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m sure, yeah, and frankly, at the base of it that\u2019s why, when that panel was recommended, it just frosted me, like why do we elect you? Why do we elect these guys to do this exact thing —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, it\u2019s no different. Congress is a bunch of cowards, yellow-bellied sapsucker cowards. This is no different than the base closure commissions when it came time to close military bases. Guess what? Our lily-livered, linguine-spined, chicken, coward members of Congress and the Senate wouldn\u2019t have the audacity to do the job themselves. So they came up with a bunch of blue ribbon ex-Senators and congressmen, brought \u2019em back for who knows how much money in perks, to make the recommendations of which bases get closed, thereby insulating them from any local criticism in their own state or their own district. In this case there\u2019s not going to be a recommendation to cut spending. There\u2019s going to be a recommendation to raise taxes, except it ain\u2019t going to be Obama\u2019s. But nobody, I\u2019m telling you, nobody is gonna get fooled, because I\u2019m not going to allow it. It ain\u2019t going to happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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