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RUSH: Yeah, here I go again. I really hate to say it, folks. I\u2019ve been debating for the last 90 seconds \u2019cause that\u2019s about all the free time I\u2019ve had here, whether to say it or not. It\u2019s unfortunate, but this State of the Union stuff tonight is gonna be a real test of the Republicans\u2019 resolve and competence. It just is. I do not want to be critical, you people know that, I really do not want to be critical, but here\u2019s Obama setting up one of his themes tonight, which is civility and moving to the center and we\u2019ve all gotta get along and his guys are already out trashing Paul Ryan, who hasn\u2019t said anything yet. He\u2019s gonna be delivering the Republican response. I think it\u2019s quite telling Michele Bachmann\u2019s doing the Tea Party response. We\u2019ve got two responses going on to this State of the Union show tonight, but I mean Eric Cantor has invited Pelosi to sit next to him at this thing tonight. (interruption) Well, yeah, just about a half hour ago I heard this. What? Yeah, really. <\/p>\n

In the meantime, here we go, Salon.com: ‘The GOP\u2019s War Against the Poor and Sick — The new Republican plan to cut the deficit: Hit poverty-stricken Americans where it will hurt the most.\u2019 This is the new civility. So here\u2019s Obama getting all this credit for saying that we need to get along and get rid of all this horrible talk and so forth, and he cows the Republicans — they\u2019re just reacting to what he and the media are saying. Where\u2019d this idea of sitting together come from? Whose idea was it? Was it Coburn\u2019s? Whoever it was, it\u2019s all a reaction to Tucson, is it not? I don\u2019t really care if it was a Republican or Democrat idea. It might have been Coburn who was the first Republican to agree to sit next to these Democrats. Whatever it is, it\u2019s a trick. And it\u2019s all reactionary. (interruption) That\u2019s right, it was Mark Udall, who\u2019s a Democrat. Now everybody\u2019s reacting to sitting next to the Democrats, reacting to Tucson, reacting to Obama, reacting to the Democrats, and in the meantime, ‘The GOP\u2019s War Against the Poor and Sick.\u2019 This is a story by Andrew Leonard, Salon.com, Republicans want the poor to die on the street like they used to. <\/p>\n

Listen to this last paragraph. It\u2019s absurd and it\u2019s insane, but it\u2019s quite telling here. You can laugh at it all you want, yeah, it\u2019s ridiculous. I got a note from my brother last night, ‘What did Palin do?\u2019 I said, ‘What do you mean, what did Palin do?\u2019 ‘Well, Frum\u2019s out there saying she\u2019s forever shot herself in the foot now.\u2019 I don\u2019t know what she did. I\u2019m not aware of anything. As far as I\u2019m concerned, the real concern here is people committing Frumicide. Frumicide is the conservative movement killing itself. I dug into this and I found out that the left\u2019s latest charge at Sarah Palin is that video after Tucson, she had the flag on the wrong side, it should have been on her right side, not her left side, so it shows that she\u2019s, A, an idiot, B, unpatriotic, C, puts herself ahead of the Constitution and the country. So we get all these calls for civility which we\u2019ve nailed here as just intimidation tactics to get Republicans to shut up. It\u2019s working. <\/p>\n

Now, listen to this last paragraph from this Leonard guy at Salon.com. ‘I\u2019m sure there are plenty of conservatives who want to get rid of Medicaid altogether. If poor old people can\u2019t pay for nursing home care then let them die in the street, like they used to.\u2019 Who is it that\u2019s proposed death panels? Obama. Whose health care plan is going to let people die, is going to tell people, ‘By the way, we\u2019re not gonna let you live, we\u2019re not gonna treat you\u2019? But forget all that. This is happening in the new era of civility. So we\u2019ve got this guy Steve Cohen, and the media acts somewhat amused, and you have Sheriff Dipstick, and they act amused and then they\u2019re laudatory, Sheriff Dipstick and Steve Cohen, they\u2019re not backing down. When\u2019s the last time I was ever applauded for my courage in sticking to my guns? It doesn\u2019t happen. So Obama gets to occupy this lofty new perch of Mr. Civil, while his minions are out there doing what he is essentially instructing them to do. <\/p>\n

‘If poor old people can\u2019t pay for nursing home care then let them die in the street, like they used to. The Tea Party version of government apparently just doesn\u2019t believe in helping people who can\u2019t help themselves. For the modern Republican Party, it\u2019s far far more important to ensure that those who will never need Medicaid … get their big fat tax cuts, adding up to $700 billion over the next 10 years.\u2019 I don\u2019t even know who Andrew Leonard is and I don\u2019t care. He\u2019s probably some new hot-to-trot graduate from journalism school somewhere, but the GOP\u2019s war against the poor and the sick, and what are the Republicans doing? Once again trying to prove that that\u2019s not who they are. I don\u2019t know folks. <\/p>\n

Hi. How are you? Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. Our telephone number is 800-282-2882. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. <\/p>\n

No, no, no, no, Snerdley, I\u2019m not trying to be negative. (interruption) I can\u2019t say stick to my guns? Yeah, guess not. Yeah. Guess I should do a John King of CNN and apologize for that. We\u2019re trying here. I did mention moments ago that when\u2019s the last time I got any credit for sticking to my guns? That\u2019s a no-no. At any rate, here\u2019s the deal. Many Republicans were pushed and dragged to the conservative agenda by the Tea Party and other conservatives via that landslide election in November. But let\u2019s not fool ourselves here, folks. Two years ago, right after the regime was immaculated, two years ago right after Obama was inaugurated, they were willing to sell out, the era of Reagan was over, gosh, Obama had won, he\u2019s the first African-American president, we can\u2019t be critical. We gotta sit there and we gotta eat our lunch. I mean it was handed to us, we gotta eat it. We\u2019re gonna be in the wilderness for a few years. That was the attitude, and they ended up being saved by a movement not of their making, the Tea Party. Average American citizens who were looking at what the regime was doing refused to put up with it. <\/p>\n

They saw their future, their kids\u2019 future, their grandchildren\u2019s future being spent away, nothing to inherit. And it was not something they were gonna put up with. So here we got the State of the Union show tonight, and seeing signs of some of the old habits, and I hope this is all head fake stuff that is indeed faking me out. But I see this desire to appear to want to get along with Obama, to want to get along with the Democrats. And this is Tucson. All of this is Tucson. And all of the rhetoric from Sheriff Dipstick and the rest of the media, and I guarantee you that there are some people, Republicans in Washington who would do anything that they could not to be tied to anything that might have had anything to do with that incident, which of course that agenda, that whole narrative is being written by the Democrats and the president. We got this folly going on here that Obama\u2019s in the midst of remaking himself. Yeah, that\u2019s right, becoming a centrist, moving to the center, and nothing could be further from the truth. <\/p>\n

Reporters echo White House talking points about Obama moving to the center. Look, folks, this is not a good sign. It isn\u2019t fatal, don\u2019t misunderstand here, but it\u2019s an illustration of what one incident — (unintelligible) — hell, I don\u2019t know. Things can happen overnight in politics and totally upset and change the game, i.e., Tucson. A totally, by the way, nonpolitical event that has been converted into a political event that somehow the Republicans need to go out of their way and say, ‘Hey, hey, hey, wasn\u2019t us, and to prove it we\u2019ll sit next to you guys in the State of the Union and we\u2019ll go along with this Obama moving to the center stuff.\u2019 But what\u2019s the symbolism of sitting together? All it is is a trick that\u2019s been dreamed up by the Democrats to make sure that the vast Republican majority is not seen during the relative standing ovations or lack thereof. So the optics will not show this massive Republican majority in the House of Representatives. So what is it symbolic of? Well, it\u2019s symbolic of the GOP playing along, symbolic of the Republicans not wanting to show distinctions, not wanting to draw on the differences. <\/p>\n

I mean, look, Republicans don\u2019t need to be constantly here at dagger points and all that. But they certainly don\u2019t have to become part of a Broadway play, in effect, written and directed by Obama and supporters all for some show. We haven\u2019t even gotten to what is said to be the substance of this speech tonight based on what\u2019s been leaked. Obama\u2019s gonna call for a budget freeze tonight? Well, well, a budget freeze. The guy who spent us into never-never land calling for a budget freeze, isn\u2019t that nice. The Republicans have been calling for reducing spending back to 2008 levels. He wants to freeze everything in place now after he\u2019s got it and get credit for fiscal discipline, and he\u2019s gonna get it, because the media\u2019s wired that way. ‘Look at Obama. He\u2019s really willing to now grab this deficit thing by the throat and shake it to death. This guy is calling for Draconian measures, freezing the budget at current levels.\u2019 Well, whoop-de-doo. Sorry, folks, that\u2019s not the agenda. The agenda is cutting it. The agenda is reducing it. We\u2019ve called for the spending to be reduced to 2008 levels. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m told he\u2019s gonna call for a ban on earmarks. Well, I\u2019m sorry, that\u2019s hijacking what the Republicans have already done. Has he ever had an original idea? By that I mean something not found in the Communist Manifesto? Has he? Has he had an idea not found in Saul Alinsky\u2019s Rules for Radicals? One thing I know for sure, all this so-called moving to the center, Obama moderating and all of that stuff, he\u2019s not gonna give any ground on illegal immigration; he\u2019s not gonna give any ground on cap and trade; he\u2019s not gonna give any ground on Obamacare. How can a guy who says he wants to freeze spending not also by the very definition here have to freeze Obamacare? Meanwhile, as I said, while all this is going on, the Democrat Party which Obama leads is trashing Paul Ryan in advance of his reply to Obama\u2019s speech. And this is what the leftists do. Obama goes out there, he takes the high road, he pretends to be something he isn\u2019t and the hacks and the thugs smear and attack. We have a montage. This is Mediscare 1995 all over again. They\u2019re trying to make Paul Ryan into Newt Gingrich. This is a montage of what I was just talking about.<\/p>\n

BEGALA: We ought to be focusing on Paul Ryan. The budget would privatize Social Security.<\/p>\n

CARVILLE: Paul Ryan who wants to get rid of Social Security and Medicare.<\/p>\n

SCHAKOWSKY: Paul Ryan is going to exacerbate the problem of money just gushing to the wealthiest of Americans, turning Medicare into a voucher program, cutting Social Security.<\/p>\n

O\u2019DONNELL: Paul Ryan, who advocates increasing the Social Security retirement age and virtually dismantling the program.<\/p>\n

SCHULTZ: He\u2019s radical. They\u2019re going to go to people who live on fixed incomes. They want to take health care away.<\/p>\n

SANDERS: We need a real national debate on what Congressman Ryan has been saying. The vast majority of the people will say it is insane<\/p>\n

RUSH: What\u2019s insane here is that Paul Ryan is simply delivering a response, they haven\u2019t even heard it yet, and Paul Begala said, ‘We need to be focusing on Paul Ryan.\u2019 No, we don\u2019t. We need to be focusing on you guys and Obama and how you are being your usual dishonest selves. This is a page from a 30-year-old playbook. (imitating Carville) ‘Paul Ryan wants to get rid of Social Security and Medicare.\u2019 Tell me, has anybody proposed this? You look at Paul Ryan and do you see this kind of radical? In the meantime, Chuck-U Schumer on television this morning, ‘Do you expect, Chuck-U, that we\u2019ll hear anything from the president on gun control or any of that?\u2019<\/p>\n

SCHUMER: I don\u2019t know about gun control. I can tell you this. He\u2019s gonna have a speech that in certain ways is like Ronald Reagan. It\u2019s gonna talk about optimism and growth and our future, not this dour, sour, we can\u2019t do anything right and America\u2019s all messed up completely, which I\u2019m hearing from some of my Republican friends.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Folks, it\u2019s Alice in Wonderland time here. It\u2019s Through the Looking Glass. It\u2019s Grace Slick and the giant bunny on MTV. (imitating Schumer) ‘I can tell you this. He\u2019s gonna have a speech that in certain ways is like Reagan, optimism and growth.\u2019 Now, excuse me, Senator Schumer, have you ever, ever characterized Ronald Reagan that way before? Has any Democrat ever characterized Reagan properly that way before? Obama, in order to claim greatness, they have to say he\u2019s gonna sound like Reagan? As I said yesterday, go read Obama\u2019s books on Reagan. He hated Reagan\u2019s ideas. He despised Reagan\u2019s ideas. There is not an ounce of honesty in the Democrat Party or in the leftist movement in this country, not an ounce of it. (imitating Carville) ‘Yeah, we need to be focused on Paul Ryan out there. Paul Ryan gonna take away everybody\u2019s Medicare and Social Security. Where\u2019s my gumbo?\u2019 And the Republicans, folks, in light of all this they\u2019re gonna sit next to these people? Why? Just to try to show the world that, ‘No, no, we\u2019re not as bad as what they\u2019re saying.\u2019 Uuuugh.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, I have a simple way that the Republicans can proceed on such matters in the future. It\u2019s very simple: ‘What Would Our Voters Do?\u2019 You know the old ‘What Would Jesus Do?\u2019 question that people used to ask? WWOVD: What Would Our Voters Do? Would anybody who elected a Republican last November sit next to Pelosi? Would anybody sit next to Chuck-U Schumer? You know the answer. Now, listen to this. Just to show you. This has been in the works for the longest time, to try to suck the Republicans into this sitting-next-to-each other thing. Well, I know what some of you are saying. <\/p>\n

‘Rush, this is not bad. This is not bad. This is gonna get the independents.\u2019 They got the independents in November, and you know how they got the independents? They didn\u2019t do anything. They just shut up. The independents moved to Republicans \u2019cause they despised how they were misled by Obama. The independents moved to the Republican Party because they finally saw the fraud that is Obama, that is this regime, that is the Democrat Party. Now, listen to this montage of all kinds of media people and elected officials talking about the State of the Union show tonight.<\/p>\n

DANA BASH: (rotunda noise) This is turning out to be like the prom! Everybody is racing for a date.<\/p>\n

JOHN KING: (music) It\u2019s also being called ‘date night\u2019 or ‘prom night.\u2019<\/p>\n

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Who are you going to be sitting next to?<\/p>\n

SEN. JEFF SESSIONS: (rotunda noise) …sit with me at the State of the Union.<\/p>\n

SEN. AMY KLOBUCHAR: (rotunda noise) I\u2019m wearing light blue. Maybe he\u2019ll have a matching tie.<\/p>\n

ANDREA MITCHELL: (sfx\/music) It\u2019s prom night on the Hill!<\/p>\n

LAWRENCE O\u2019DONNELL: It looks like it\u2019s prom night.<\/p>\n

SEN. KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON: I don\u2019t have a date.<\/p>\n

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Have you picked a date?<\/p>\n

SEN. KENT CONRAD: I just asked Kay.<\/p>\n

SEN. JOE LIEBERMAN: I always waited too long before the prom to ask for a date.<\/p>\n

CARL HULSE: (rotunda noise) It does have a prom night feel to it.<\/p>\n

THOMAS ROBERTS: (newsroom noise) Some may think of this as prom night.<\/p>\n

SEN. DICK DURBIN: Mark Kirk and I are going to sit together. He\u2019s bringing a Coke with two straws.<\/p>\n

JACK CAFFERTY: Not unlike a high school prom, all of Capitol Hill is aflutter.<\/p>\n

CAROL COSTELLO: Senator Gillibrand and Senator Thune sitting together. (giggles) The prom king and queen?<\/p>\n

KEN STRICKLAND: The ‘It\u2019 couple would be Thune and Gillibrand. <\/p>\n

SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: They have one thing in common: Good hair!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Somebody out there in the Twitterati just tweeted: ‘This State of the Union bipartisan seating thing is the political equivalent of a comb-over: Looks odd and fools nobody.\u2019 I wonder if Eric Cantor will buy Nancy Pelosi a corsage. <\/p>\n

‘What\u2019s so bad about this, Mr. Limbaugh? Are you against civility? Are you against people getting along?\u2019 <\/p>\n

No. No. I just…<\/p>\n

You Democrats don\u2019t mean any of this. This is just a show. (groans) Jeez!<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All I\u2019m saying here is it just appears that the Republicans don\u2019t know how to handle all this. I remember one of my observations, if you will, back in 1994 when the Republicans assumed power in the House for the first time in 40 years was: They didn\u2019t know what it was like to act in the majority. They didn\u2019t know what it was like to have power \u2019cause they hadn\u2019t had it for 40 years. I related it to the perpetual dieter. The overweight guy loses weight and looks in the mirror, but really doesn\u2019t believe he\u2019s lost the weight. Every chance he gets to look in the mirror he looks at it \u2019cause he doesn\u2019t trust it. He has no experience being thin and just doesn\u2019t really believe it. He never has been. <\/p>\n

So the weight loss? Eh! You\u2019re never confident. You\u2019re always looking for confirmation that what happened, happened. And when you\u2019re looking for confirmation, then you say, ‘Well, okay. Who are you looking to for that confirmation?\u2019 In our case it\u2019s the media, the Democrats? I\u2019m not trying to be negative, but we\u2019re reacting to Obama now, we\u2019re reacting to the media. We\u2019re reacting to the political attacks after Tucson. It\u2019s not that I have anything intrinsically against people sitting next to each other, although in this case I know what it is. It is a trick, as we all know, to get the Republicans to go along with hiding their majority.<\/p>\n

Which Democrat is gonna sit next to the new monster, Paul Ryan? Here\u2019s a guy that wants to cut and wipe out Social Security and Medicare. What Democrat\u2019s gonna sit next to this monster? Lest we forgot, Nancy Pelosi would not even meet with Eric Cantor back in June. This in 2009 from The Hill: ‘Representative Eric Cantor…\u2019 I know what some of you are saying, ‘Rush, we\u2019re bigger people than they are.\u2019 Folks, I get that, but there\u2019s a time to turn the other cheek here. This isn\u2019t it. Turn the other cheek from position of strength, not reaction. This is pure defense (‘d\u2019fense,\u2019 the correct pronunciation of the word.) <\/p>\n

But The Hill had the story back in June of 2009, ‘Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) says he has requested to meet privately with Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) this year, but has been repeatedly rebuffed. In an interview with The Hill, the minority whip said, ‘I have been told that Speaker Pelosi doesn\u2019t like to meet with Republicans &hellip; I would say that is the case in my instance. I have put in requests to meet with her and have yet to be responded to.” I talked to Michele Bachmann. She\u2019s the interview for the next issue of the Limbaugh Letter. I asked her, ‘Have you ever met Pelosi? Do you ever talk to her?\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘No, she doesn\u2019t talk with Republicans.\u2019<\/p>\n

Republicans were not even allowed in half the committee meetings the Democrats held when she ran the place. So I just want to know: Which Democrat draws the task of sitting next to the guy who wants to kill Social Security and Medicare? Who is gonna sit next to Paul Ryan who they say wants to kill old people by cutting Social Security and Medicare? I mean, they are having… What would we call this? You have the speech, then you have a rebuttal. The Democrats used to have the ‘Prebuttal\u2019 to Bush\u2019s State of the Union. The Republicans are already experiencing a prebuttal to their rebuttal, which is Ryan. <\/p>\n

Now, the other side to this coin is that all of this rhetoric from the Democrats is indicative of the predicament they are in. They\u2019re using the same rhetoric that they used back in 1995, when the Republicans won the House, and the Democrats got shellacked. What\u2019s funny is they\u2019re using it before the Republicans have even said or done much of anything here, particularly as it relates to the State of the Union. What did they use back in 1995? Why did they use it back in 1995? ‘Cause they had their asses — assets, sorry — handed to them just as they did in 2010. So their reacting the same way, pulling out the same page of the same playbook. I mean, this ‘Republicans want to kill Social Security and Medicare,\u2019 that goes back…? (groans) What, to the seventies? Even back further than that. <\/p>\n

Now, let\u2019s go to The Forehead. Paul Begala. This is interesting, too. Begala was on Anderson Cooper 9 last night, and Anderson Cooper said, ‘What do you want to hear from the president,\u2019 Forehead?<\/p>\n

BEGALA: Jobs, jobs, jobs. (snickers) I want a drinking game where every time he says the word ‘jobs\u2019 I get to have a beer. Uh, but every time he says the word ‘competitiveness\u2019 I\u2019m gonna want to throw up. I\u2019ve never SEEN the country more focused on one need, and that is JOBS. And if he\u2019s dancing around either with euphemisms like ‘American competitiveness\u2019 or in fact ignoring jobs — which I can\u2019t imagine — I — I — I think that\u2019s where he needs to be: I\u2019m gonna talk about the future, and I\u2019m gonna talk about jobs.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What is this? I mean, The Forehead is off the reservation here. The Forehead is telling us what he doesn\u2019t want to hear from his own president. The Forehead\u2019s allegiances are to the Clintons, and The Forehead here is being a little critical. ‘I don\u2019t want to hear about competitiveness!\u2019 I wonder if The Forehead wants to hear about ‘investments\u2019 and ‘civility,\u2019 \u2019cause he\u2019s gonna get a lot of that. That\u2019s well known by now. Everybody knows that we\u2019re gonna be hearing about ‘investments\u2019 to the point that it will get us sick. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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