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RUSH: You know, folks, I\u2019m reading all this stuff, getting ready for the big show today, listening to Alan Simpson Babe and all these people talking about the tax cut negotiations and the deficit commission and so forth, and I got to thinking, if the government were a person, we would consider it a bum, a failure, a troll living underneath the bridge, somebody that can\u2019t get a job, can\u2019t hold a job, can\u2019t live within its means, all it can do is ask for another handout. The government\u2019s a bum, and the supposed smartest guy in the room is never in the room. It\u2019s Obama. He\u2019s always telling the adults to go solve the problem while he heads out to shoot some more hoops, and he appoints guys like Geithner to negotiate with Republicans on the Bush tax rate deal. <\/p>\n

Anyway, great to have you here, folks, Rush Limbaugh. Already Wednesday. Can\u2019t believe that. Fastest week in media. Our telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882, e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. <\/p>\n

The deficit problem is amazingly clear, straightforward. The federal government spends too much money, pure and simple. If we increase taxes, they\u2019re just gonna spend that. The history of the world is you give government more money, they spend it. There\u2019s no lockbox on anything. There\u2019s no paying down any debt. It never happens. There shouldn\u2019t be any discussion of raising taxes, none, zip, zero, nada, particularly after this election. There ought be no discussion whatsoever of raising taxes. If there\u2019s anything that last month\u2019s election told us, and every poll has been saying for years, it\u2019s read our lips, no new taxes, and there are the Democrats at practically every turn trying to raise taxes on everybody, on anybody. They are tax addicts, and they want to do all this under the supposed rubric of bipartisanship and common ground and compromise and all this. I mean it\u2019s enough to tick you off. It\u2019s enough to put you in a bad mood. I\u2019ve been fighting being in a bad mood all day. I really have. <\/p>\n

I got a story here from Fox News: ‘Senate Republicans Vow to Block Dem Legislation Until Tax Cuts, Budget Pass.\u2019 Now, on the face of it, this is excellent. This is pretty bold. ‘Every Senate Republican has signed onto a letter vowing to block all Democratic-backed legislation until the chamber extends the Bush tax cuts and approves a spending bill to keep the government running, Fox News has learned. Throwing down the gauntlet, all 42 members of the GOP caucus are sending the letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid warning him that they will bring matters to a standstill unless he swiftly brings those tax-and-spending issues to the floor. That means putting on the backburner a push to repeal the military\u2019s policy banning gays from serving openly in the military, a bill giving illegal immigrant students and military members a pathway to legal status –‘ that\u2019s the DREAM Act ‘– and an extension of long-term unemployment benefits.\u2019 <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Back to this Fox News story: ‘While there are other items that might ultimately be worthy of the Senate\u2019s attention –‘ this is the letter that the Republicans sent to Dingy Harry ‘– we cannot agree to prioritize any matters above the critical issues of funding the government –‘ \u2019cause there\u2019s not a budget, folks. Don\u2019t have a budget, and it\u2019s required by October 1st, and there isn\u2019t one. We\u2019re just using a series of patches to keep things running. ‘– and preventing a job-killing tax hike.\u2019 Until those two issues are dealt with nothing else on your agenda is gonna happen here in the Senate. That\u2019s what the Republicans are saying. ‘Given our struggling economy, preventing the tax increase and providing economic certainty should be our top priority.\u2019 Then you read to the very end of this story, and I had a couple people send me this today,\u2019 Rush, this is great, I can\u2019t believe it. The Republicans are really great, this is superb.\u2019 And this next paragraph is the reason.<\/p>\n

‘The filibuster threat –‘ which is what I guess this letter is, ‘– increases pressure on the White House to offer a more realistic agenda for the remaining weeks of the year. For example, if Congress doesn\u2019t act on the tax cuts, it means Republicans will be in position to enact their own, retroactive plan starting Jan. 1 without having to make any concessions to Democratic demands for upper-income earners.\u2019 Now, I had to read that paragraph backwards, forwards, sideways over and over again to try to see what was the good news in it. Let me read it to you again, because it was cited to me as excellent news. Three or four people sent this to me today, ‘Hey, this is really great. They\u2019re not backing off.\u2019 ‘Cause I guess it\u2019s such contrast to the original reporting we got yesterday about the House Republicans coming out of their meeting with Obama, ‘Yeah, he liked us. He was a nice guy, very civil. He gave us a cookie, yeah, he liked us.\u2019 And we were all, ‘What was that matter?\u2019 So this paragraph stands in stark contrast and I understand why people were so excited about it. <\/p>\n

But here it is again: ‘The filibuster threat –‘ again, that\u2019s the Republican letter that all 42 were gonna sign onto ‘– increases pressure on the White House to offer a more realistic agenda for the remaining weeks of the year,\u2019 i.e., the lame duck. ‘For example, if Congress doesn\u2019t act on the tax cuts, it means Republicans will be in position to enact their own, retroactive plan starting Jan. 1 –‘ My problem is the Republicans can\u2019t enact anything. Yeah, they did sign it, and they\u2019ve already sent it to Dingy Harry. He\u2019s reacted to it and of course we know what his reaction would be. All of this is predictable. The great thing is that they are holding firm. They got all 42 to sign this. And that is bold, and that\u2019s the good thing. This appears to be part of a strategy. That\u2019s what\u2019s good about this. They\u2019re implementing a strategery. Now, they gotta do this every day. They\u2019ve got to make the case day in and day out. I hope it continues. I mean this is actually an upper. This is laying the foundation to take over the Senate and the presidency and persuade skeptics to our principles. It\u2019s a long process, and it requires boldness each and every day. <\/p>\n

So here\u2019s one day, and this is good, and this is all about the next election, 2012, taking over the Senate, ‘Okay, here\u2019s where we are; here\u2019s who we are. This is what we heard in the election results. We know what the American people want and we are here to stand up for it.\u2019 So, in that sense, this is good. But we can\u2019t enact anything on our own. So if any of the rest of you have seen this story, if you\u2019ve heard it on Fox News, I just wanted to not throw cold water on it but this finite little element here of enacting their own tax plan if this one fails, they can\u2019t enact anything. They have to pass legislation, and they\u2019re the minority in the Senate. And then Obama would have to sign it. He\u2019s not gonna sign it. We don\u2019t have the votes to override a veto here. So they can\u2019t rely on waiting \u2019til January to enact their own and propose their own. Now, they will, no doubt, do that as a means of setting down a marker, as a means of saying, ‘Here\u2019s who we are,\u2019 as a means of saying to voters, ‘We heard you; this is what we stand for. You can count on us the next two years to fight for this.\u2019 <\/p>\n

It\u2019s like the health care overhaul. We kind of got off track here — well, not we. It\u2019s very easy for the Republicans to get off track unless they remember one thing. If our strategy is to repeal it — and apparently that has not changed despite the confusing reporting yesterday in The Hill — then we have to send a bill up to him as often as possible to make him veto it. The whole point is here make them stand for this, make them daily, weekly, whatever, as often as possible, make the Democrats defend what they want, make \u2019em defend these tax increases, make \u2019em defend it. It\u2019s not what the American people want. It\u2019s not what the American people voted for. They\u2019re on the wrong side of everything. You make \u2019em stand up for the wrong side of everything. You make \u2019em defend it. That\u2019s the value of sending a repeal bill up. It doesn\u2019t do us any good to say, ‘Well, we don\u2019t really want to repeal it, there are a couple things in there we like.\u2019 So Cantor\u2019s mid-course correction here is we do want to repeal this, and then as another side matter there are a couple things here that we do think are good that we want to preserve, i.e., insurance for preexisting conditions and keeping the crumb crunchers on the parents\u2019 policy up to age 26. I think both of those are bogus but that\u2019s another matter for a different portion of the program. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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