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RUSH: I had this story yesterday, and for some reason I didn\u2019t get to it. But it has stayed alive. Did you hear about Alan Simpson\u2019s comments? He\u2019s on the Obama deficit-reduction commission, Alan Simpson babe. Did you hear what he said? This is funny as hell because people want him to be fired now from the group. ‘Alan Simpson, the outspoken co-chair of President Obama\u2019s debt commission, is in hot water with some advocacy groups after he sent an e-mail to National Older Women\u2019s League…\u2019 I didn\u2019t even know that there was a National Older Women\u2019s League. The director of this group is Ashley Carson, who cannot be old. There\u2019s not an old woman named Ashley. Back in the old days Ashley was a name for guys, like Ashley Wilkes. But regardless, Alan Simpson compared Social Security to ‘a milk cow with 310 million teats,\u2019 only he didn\u2019t say teats. He used the street slang word. We have said on this program constantly ‘people feeding off the public teat\u2019 and so forth. <\/p>\n

‘The letter was a response to a column Carson wrote for the Huffington Post in April defending the entitlement program titled ‘Enough with the Pink Panthers Bit.\u2019 From Simpson\u2019s letter: ‘There may be no group called the Pink Panthers working to protect Social Security but I sure as hell am! I\u2019ve spent many years in public life trying to stabilize that system while people like you babble into the vapors about ‘disgusting attempts at ageism and sexism\u2019 and all the rest of that crap.\u2019 Simpson signs off by writing ‘Call when you get honest work!\u2019 OWL on Wednesday launched an online petition calling for Simpson to resign from his position over the ‘offensive and sexist\u2019 e-mail. Fox News reports that Social Security Works has joined OWL in calling for Simpson\u2019s ouster. Simpson, a longtime critic of Social Security, has come under fire previously for suggesting ‘greedy geezers\u2019 are trying to protect their retirement checks while their grandchildren face a mounting national debt.\u2019<\/p>\n

Look, in certain instances he\u2019s right. Remember that call we had, Carolyn from Grafton, off the Mass turnpike? She\u2019s since passed away, but she was a seasoned citizen and didn\u2019t want to hear a thing about tax cuts because to her that meant less Social Security. And I said, ‘Do you think your kids ought to have to pay higher taxes?\u2019 ‘Damn straight.\u2019 She wanted her own kids to pay higher taxes. She wanted everybody to pay higher taxes to make sure she didn\u2019t get any Social Security cuts. So she woulda been an example of a greedy geezer. Now, they\u2019re not all greedy geezers, but Alan Simpson said that there are some greedy geezers ‘trying to protect their retirement checks while their grandchildren face a mounting national debt. The bipartisan fiscal commission is set to issue recommendations…\u2019 blah, blah, blah.<\/p>\n

Alan Simpson has apologized. ‘I apologize for what I wrote.\u2019 I was thinking about Rush Limbaugh at the time. No, he didn\u2019t say that. I just threw it in there. ‘I can see that my remarks have caused you anguish, and that was not my intention. I certainly did not intend to diminish your hard work for the Older Women\u2019s League. I know you care deeply about strengthening Social Security, and so do I, just as deeply. I remember your testimony at our public hearing in June about the importance of retirement security for women. Over the last 40 years, I have had my size 15 feet in my mouth a time or two. To quote my old friend and colleague, Senator Lloyd Bentsen, when I make a mistake, ‘It\u2019s a doozy!” He said he didn\u2019t respond sooner because he\u2019s on vacation. Nothing odd about that. I mean the Obama people are on vacation when the oil spill happens and other things and they don\u2019t come off vacation. (interruption) Hm-hm. Because the truth is politically incorrect, Snerdley. <\/p>\n

Snerdley says, ‘Why does everybody,\u2019 except me, ‘who speaks the truth have to end up apologizing?\u2019 The truth is politically incorrect. You know what a political gaffe is? When somebody says the truth. Really, it is. A gaffe is when somebody screws up and tells somebody else the truth. Now, Alan Simpson, let\u2019s keep in mind, Alan Simpson was all for cut-and-running from Iraq. He was part of James Baker\u2019s Iraq Study Group, which said get outta there. Have you noticed how everybody\u2019s greedy except for politicians and public union employees? Simpson called \u2019em greedy geezers and there may be some, but the real greed in our country is in Washington, DC. The real greed is with people who work for government who cannot do with a dime less than they had last year, no matter what, no matter how they get their increased money, their funding. The real greed is among our elected political class. Now, Paul Krugman in his blog, ‘The Conscience of a Liberal,\u2019 the New York Times, wants Alan Simpson fired. Figures, Alan Simpson in this instance has — (interruption) no, I know this, the OWLs, the Older Women\u2019s League, they work closely with the NAGs, the National Organization for Women, they\u2019re just older NAGs. It\u2019s the same bunch of people. They\u2019re just demarking their differences by virtue of age and chronology. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Paul Krugman: ‘I always thought that the deficit commission was a bad idea; it has only looked worse over time, as the buzz is that Democrats are caving in to Republicans, leaning ever further toward an all-cuts, no taxes solution, including a sharp rise in the retirement age. I\u2019ve also had my eye on Alan Simpson, the supposedly grown-up Republican co-chair, who has been talking nonsense about Social Security from the get-go. At this point, though, Obama is on the spot: he has to fire Simpson, or turn the whole thing into a combination of farce and tragedy — the farce being the nature of the co-chair, the tragedy being that Democrats are so afraid of Republicans that nothing, absolutely nothing, will get them sanctioned.\u2019 Have you heard this? I haven\u2019t heard the scuttlebutt that Democrats are caving to Republicans in this. I haven\u2019t heard that tax increases are off the table, only spending cuts. Does anybody believe this? We all know we\u2019re gonna get a VAT suggested. We all know we\u2019re going to have all kinds of new tax increases suggested. There have been leaks about the higher taxes coming out of this. <\/p>\n

So here\u2019s this idiot ferret-like Krugman who looks like a weasel, he wants Simpson canned here and claims the Democrats are caving to the Republicans. So Alan Simpson has made some sense here, more sense than he\u2019s made in years, and the left has gone ballistic. This kind of hysteria is precisely why Obama set the commission up to report back after the November elections. December 1 is the report date. The last thing Democrats want is a bipartisan discussion and public hearing on how their policies have screwed up the economy and how they intend to pass a VAT tax on solve the deficit problem. They don\u2019t want any of that before the November elections. Barack Hoover Obama does not want his economy-crushing, Depression-era ruling class views aired at this point in time. He wants a commission to suggest raising taxes for him. He doesn\u2019t want to have his fingerprints on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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