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RUSH: (heartily laughing) Obama\u2019s blue ribbon deficit panel can\u2019t even come to an agreement. They couldn\u2019t even agree on their own plan, folks.<\/p>\n

JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny South Florida, it\u2019s Open Line Friday!<\/p>\n

RUSH: I mean for the last week everybody has been breathlessly awaiting whatever this bunch comes up with, right? For the last month they\u2019ve been waiting half breathlessly. This week everybody has been panting eagerly awaiting whatever magic will come from Obama\u2019s blue ribbon deficit reduction commission. This is Alan Simpson and Irksome Bowles. And they could not even agree on their own plan which just goes to show, ladies and gentlemen, that what we have proposed, 10% across the board is the only way to go, everything else is just gonna be argued ad infinitum. Just cut everything across the board 10%. It can be done. It\u2019s easily done. I mean, if you just ignore the caterwauling, ignore the screaming, ignore the yelling, ignore the people who ostensibly will be in pain, because everybody\u2019s gonna get cut 10%. <\/p>\n

Anyway, great to have you. Open Line Friday. Rush Limbaugh behind the Golden EIB Microphone for yet another excursion into broadcast excellence. Here\u2019s a phone number. 800-282-2882. E-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. <\/p>\n

Now, you people on the phones out there, you\u2019re not on the phones yet \u2019cause Snerdley hasn\u2019t started answering. I am zapped. I am worn out. The clock went off — well, the clock doesn\u2019t wake me up, the sun wakes me up — but I just could not get out of bed. I mean it was a struggle. I was not up all night again. I went to bed relatively early, midnight. I could put my head down on this desk right now and fall asleep, and if I were like half the people working in this country I\u2019d have called in sick. But I\u2019m here doing Open Line Friday. Yep, the commission members, they needed 14 votes, and they got 11. They needed 14 votes to agree on this plan, and the commission members said that by winning over an 11-7 majority on the panel for its blueprint that they had defied expectations. (laughing) I mean, gee. They failed and they defied expectations. If this isn\u2019t Washington speak I don\u2019t know what is. You talk about having low expectations. The expectations here were to fail, and they did, and they\u2019re clapping their hands over it. <\/p>\n

Andy Stern voted no, the SEIU guy. You had Dick Turban on there. He voted ‘yes.\u2019 Regardless, here\u2019s the way the Wall Street Journal blurbed it in an alert. ‘The deficit cutting plan by President Obama\u2019s budget commission failed to win the 14 votes needed to trigger congressional action. The plan won support from 11 of 18 members. Fourteen were needed for official approval. Commission co-chairman Erskine Bowles declared victory, nevertheless.\u2019 Geez, I wish life were that easy. Yeah, Snerdley, can you imagine if it ever happened here? Hey, folks, we lost half our audience in the latest ratings report, and we\u2019re winning. Can you imagine the chutzpah — (interruption) what, Snerdley? Well, no, I know we can\u2019t imagine it happening, no, of course not, and B, it wouldn\u2019t be our response. That\u2019s my whole point. If it did happen I wouldn\u2019t say, ‘Hey, we\u2019re winning big. We just lost half of everything.\u2019 So Irksome Bowles here declares victory, ‘saying the panel\u2019s nonpartisan deliberations showed it\u2019s possible to have an ‘adult conversation\u2019 about cutting the deficit.\u2019 What was this adult conversation worth? Who\u2019s buying the drinks? That\u2019s something Simpson Babe\u2019s always talking about, who\u2019s buying the drinks. <\/p>\n

‘Considering the breadth of the recommendations — ranging from an overhaul of the tax code to aggressively cutting spending to widespread changes to the Social Security program — many economists concluded the commission served its purpose.\u2019 (laughing) Jeez. I wish it were this easy. The commission served its purpose? This commission was a fraud from the get-go. Any commission that has as its objective a plan to reduce the deficit and does not even include Obamacare in the discussion cannot be taken seriously. Adult conversation, why those are nothing new, we had plenty of those during the Clinton years. They generally involve pizza deliveries and then trips to the study off of the Oval Office. I mean this whole thing is Saturday Night Live skit material. This whole Wall Street Journal report declared victory. Many economists concluded the commission served its purpose by having an adult conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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