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RUSH: This is Fabian in Staten Island. Great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. Mega dittos and Merry Christmas.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Thank you. And regarding this No Labels stuff, I was brought up believing that if you withhold the truth, it\u2019s the same as lying. Liberals are creating this dichotomy with this No Labels issue where they want politicians running for public office to be open and honest with the people, just as long as they don\u2019t let us know to what party they\u2019re affiliated. And that\u2019s what gets me about this. I feel like there\u2019s a certain danger here where liberals only talk about liberty when they\u2019re taking our liberties away and they\u2019re controlling our speech. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, all of that and more. They\u2019re trying to control what your kids eat now because that can\u2019t be left to you. You\u2019re too big an idiot. You know, the guy has a good point, which candidates hid their labels in the last election? Do we know of any that did? We know the media in any story of corruption or crime that involves a Democrat, you\u2019ll never find out in the story that they\u2019re a Democrat. But what candidate hid their labels during the last campaign, and why? I\u2019m gonna tell you what this is. See, it\u2019s easy for me \u2019cause I know — not personally, but I may as well — I know some of the people on the right joining this group. I know some of the people on the right, well, formerly on the right who are championing this group and I know their mind-set and I know that they\u2019re ticked off. They basically have been rendered irrelevant in the conservative movement because these are the people who have been spouting the end of Reaganism, the Reagan era is over, we gotta move beyond that. ‘You can\u2019t just say tax cuts and beat the communists anymore. That\u2019s not gonna cut it. Conservatism has to stand for active, large government done wisely.\u2019 Well, those people, of course, the Tea Party said sayonara. <\/p>\n

So they resent the Tea Party. These are the people that resent ordinary, average people, while attempting to stand up for \u2019em and defend \u2019em. So no matter how you slice it this group is gonna fall of its own weight. It\u2019s simply not possible. It is simply not possible to run around and live and engage in politics the way these people want to. At some point people are going to ask, ‘Are you Republican or Democrat?\u2019 ‘Uhhh, uhhh, in the No Labels movement that\u2019s precisely why we\u2019re here, that doesn\u2019t matter.\u2019 The hell it doesn\u2019t. Are you a Republican or a Democrat? And you\u2019re gonna find out they\u2019re Democrats trying to hide the fact, or they\u2019re liberals trying to hide the fact. A lot of Democrats, to answer my own question, a lot of Democrats ran ads without party affiliation in the 2008 congressional races without saying they were a Democrat, plain and simple.<\/p>\n

Ken in Livonia, Michigan. Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network. Nice to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, Rush, I wanted to comment regarding this whole issue of No Labels.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Many years ago I took a college course, it was a business class called Conflict Resolution. And what was being taught was that labels were a bad thing because when you label people, you divide people, and the way they put this insane idea into the college course is they were teaching that when there\u2019s a conflict, there must never be a winner or a loser. It must be a win-win situation so that you don\u2019t hurt the feelings of the people that you are in a disagreement with —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and this whole idea is just completely out of left field because, think of it this way. The country being an automobile, as the Democrats like to use the comparison with, if you have two unmarked jugs, one gasoline, representing capitalism, you put that in the car, and it will run nice and smooth. The second jug, soda pop, representing statism, which is what the Democrats love, you put that in the car and it\u2019s dead. It won\u2019t run anywhere. And so this whole idea of No Labels is just, like I said, out of left field, it makes absolutely no logical sense whatsoever.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Again, you\u2019re exactly right. I mean you can\u2019t even call people girls and boys or men and women, it\u2019s a label.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s just silly, and again, born of a bunch of losers. Bottom line, folks, it\u2019s this simple. If they want to steal our money, if they want to tax us — you know, this whole notion of greed, Bill McGurn has a great column today in the Wall Street Journal about greed and tax cuts for the rich. The conventional wisdom is that the rich are a bunch of greedy SOBs and that the government, who wants to raise taxes on these people, they are fair, they understand the great inequities in our society and they seek to level them out. It\u2019s these greedy rich people who are steadfastly opposing giving up any more of their money. They don\u2019t need the money they\u2019ve got, they\u2019ll never miss a tax increase, they don\u2019t need this — blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And the notion gets put out there that they are the greedy ones. But who are they? Whether they\u2019re rich or not, they\u2019re people who want to keep what they\u2019ve earned. Who is the government? Who are the Democrats? The Democrats are the people who want to take what they have earned. They want to take from the people who have earned it and use it as their own to spend to their own benefit. <\/p>\n

Now, to whom does the definition of greed more properly apply? As I\u2019ve always said, the real focus of greed in this country is in the government and everybody who works there. Well, not everybody. Elected officials, that\u2019s the greed, that\u2019s where it\u2019s located. It\u2019s so convoluted to have people who earn their money being called greedy simply because they think they should be able to keep a little bit more of it, that they\u2019ll do better with it than the government will. And that\u2019s greed. And when Reagan won elections, it was a triumph of greed and selfishness, the media said, on the part of the voters. Yeah, the voters, they wanted to cheat the government out of what was rightfully the government\u2019s because Reagan was for tax cuts and so forth. But the real greed exists in Washington. It is there that people who haven\u2019t earned your money want to take it from you and spend it as though it was theirs, for their own benefit, as in buying votes, continually being elected, what have you. And he\u2019s absolutely right about this. So, you know, whether they want to steal our money, have high taxes or what have you, Democrats, liberals, progressives, socialists, doesn\u2019t matter what they call themselves. We know who they are. They are people who feel entitled to everybody else\u2019s earnings while having not earned any of it themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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