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RUSH: Certifiably insane Alan Grayson, Democrat congressman from Florida who was defeated in November went to the floor of the House yesterday to speak out against extending the Bush tax rates. He led off by having a big picture of me on an easel. The picture was of me out at Pebble Beach in the golf tournament, big smile on my face with a giant stogie coming out of my mouth. And then after me he did Beck and Hannity and he went on down the list. And here\u2019s what he said leading off this discussion about me.<\/p>\n

GRAYSON: Let\u2019s take a look at the people who are really in charge, the ones who actually run the Republican Party. Let\u2019s start with this gentleman here, the man with the cigar, Rush Limbaugh. Doesn\u2019t he look happy? According to Newsweek he makes $58.7 million a year and extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich will mean that he\u2019ll have another $2.7 million. Mega dittos, Rush, and mega money.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, ladies and gentlemen, I play this only for the opportunity to correct a popular misconception about all this, Newsweek\u2019s figure, $58.7. I don\u2019t know where they got the .7. It\u2019s actually .9, but who\u2019s splitting hairs? The bottom line here is the Bush tax rate maintaining them doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m getting anything additional. It means I\u2019m not gonna lose any of it. (interruption) What are you laughing at? This is a serious point that I\u2019m trying to make here on Open Line Friday. This is a popular misconception. This is how these guys are doing it. These guys are suggesting that any of you who are, quote, unquote, rich are gonna somehow get a windfall of new money thrown in your lap if the Bush tax cuts are extended, and that\u2019s not the case. Nothing is gonna change. The only thing that\u2019s gonna change is I won\u2019t lose the $2.7 million. If the Bush tax cuts are not extended, I will lose that. It\u2019s not that I\u2019m gonna gain that much, it\u2019s not that the so-called $58.7\u2019s gonna become 63 or whatever, it\u2019s not the case at all. What\u2019s at stake here is the $58.7 is gonna become 55. I\u2019m just using the number Newsweek used. Forget the number. It\u2019s not the point. (interruption) Now what are you laughing at? Now what is so funny? I\u2019m the man in charge of the Republican Party? Well, that\u2019s just Grayson. But you understand my point here? <\/p>\n

You guys are sitting in there laughing. This is a very serious subject. We\u2019re talking about the Bush tax rates. You\u2019re sitting in there laughing and I\u2019m trying to make a brilliant point here to people. (interruption) Yeah, we\u2019ll put the picture up. The picture\u2019s been up on the website countless times. It\u2019s an AP picture. You\u2019ve seen it. It\u2019s not a new picture. But, at any rate, for anybody over $250,000, the idea that if the Bush tax rates are extended somehow we get a windfall, it\u2019s not the case whatsoever. This is all about whether or not the government\u2019s gonna get that $2.7 million, as they say in my case. This is how the Democrats have always used this class envy stuff as a means of securing opposition to the whole notion that — and wait \u2019til you hear the sound bites coming up, folks, about unemployment and tax cuts — wait \u2019til you hear it. I mean it\u2019s getting more absurd by the day, as the Democrats keep talking about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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