{"id":37719,"date":"2011-03-11T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T23:57:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-18T23:57:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T23:57:48","slug":"explanation_bachmann_and_king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/03\/11\/explanation_bachmann_and_king\/","title":{"rendered":"Explanation: Bachmann and King"},"content":{"rendered":"<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">RUSH: There\u2019s an ongoing debate within the Republican caucus in the House over the $105 billion allocation to implement Obamacare that Pelosi snuck in there. There are a number of Republicans. Steve King led this ball rolling, Michele Bachmann has now picked it up. King\u2019s still on it. He\u2019s from Iowa. They say, &#8216;Hey, look what we just found here. Here we are, we\u2019re trying to repeal it &#8212; we\u2019re trying to roll it back, we\u2019re trying to at least incrementally defund it &#8212; and there\u2019s $105 billion that is authorized every year to be spent to implement this.\u2019<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125113.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\"\/>It\u2019s just nefarious. It\u2019s just $105 billion of spending. The thing is, the Republican leadership doesn\u2019t want to do anything about it. The Tea Party Republicans in the House want the leadership to take it out, have a vote to take it out. That would require a suspension of the rules. We are operating under a continuing resolution, not a budget &#8212; and the rules stipulate that only discretionary spending can be taken out (or talked about, dealt with) during a continuing resolution, and this is not discretionary. It is authorized. It is hard-wired. So it would require a suspension of the rules to even go debate it, talk about it, and take it out of there.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">The position of the House leadership is: &#8216;We are going to obey the rules, unlike Pelosi. We\u2019re not gonna turn this place into a lawless organization where we as the majority just do anything we want to do regardless of the rules. We\u2019re not going to show the kind of disrespect to the place.\u2019 The Michele Bachmann-Steve King wing says, &#8216;You could get rid of it without breaking the rules,\u2019 and they\u2019ve explained how this could be done. The leadership says, &#8216;We\u2019ve already voted to repeal this! We\u2019ve already voted to repeal it in total. Don\u2019t accuse us of not caring about this, but we have the rules.\u2019<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">It really hasn\u2019t changed, folks. From the first time we started talking about this when Steve King first brought it to everybody\u2019s attention, the House leadership has made it plain that they\u2019re going to remain loyal to the rules of the House. They\u2019re not gonna just willy-nilly ignore them or what have you, and that\u2019s where we are here. And it\u2019s gonna lead to problems. It\u2019s going to lead to problems, because the people who voted for the Republican majority in November fully expected this to not even be an argument. You got $105 billion? Look, Obamacare and everybody on our side agrees got to go. It has got to be repealed, or the country as we know it is over!<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">It\u2019s got to go. Okay, we found $105 billion of spending described as necessary to implement the law. Well, we\u2019re trying to stop the implementation, and if we\u2019re not gonna try to get that $105 billion taken out, then does it mean we\u2019re really not serious? I don\u2019t think it means that. I think this is all&#8230; If you just want my two cents, I think this is all about a government shutdown and some people are just a little nervous to pull the trigger on one. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything more to it than that. So the argument would then be, among people, &#8216;What do you mean? Look at what happened to Wisconsin. Why are we afraid of a government shutdown?<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">Who the hell perceived shutting down the government in the first place? The Democrats! And what happened? They didn\u2019t get one question about it here at the Obama press conference today. Not one question. So the Democrats do not want to talk about what happened in Wisconsin. That\u2019s only because they\u2019ve lost. They\u2019ve lost in the court of public opinion and they lost for real. So what is this tepidness here in the government shutdown? The polls all say that the Democrats would take the burden of criticism here, far greater burden of criticism than Republicans if there was a shutdown.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\"><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125113.Par.4584.ImageFile.jpg\"\/>Well, you got a lot of Republicans there who were around in 1995 and saw what happened &#8212; and don\u2019t forget, folks, it was just yesterday that I brought to your attention that I had seen&#8230; Names are not important here. You wouldn\u2019t know the names. I wouldn\u2019t know the names, but it was a conservative website, and it was about Wisconsin, and it was a blog post. And the blogger was distressed that we\u2019re losing the headline battle, Twitter and Facebook, over what happened in Wisconsin. &#8216;Yeah, it was a great victory, but how come it\u2019s not being reflected? How come the fact that our side won isn\u2019t in the news? How come?\u2019<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">And I\u2019m thinking, &#8216;How old is this young blogger?\u2019 &#8216;Cause that\u2019s never happened. Our victories are not celebrated in the press, or Facebook, or Twitter. So all I know is that the Tea Party caucus and the Tea Party voters, great percentage of the people last weekend the Republican majority in November are not going to forget it. They expect to see the same kind of energy that they have themselves on stopping this, and to be told, &#8216;Look, we got the rules and all that. We\u2019ll get to it. You know, we can\u2019t do everything here in the first three or four months. We\u2019ll get to it.\u2019 All they know is that if they were there, they\u2019d be getting to it. So how this is gonna turn out is anybody\u2019s guess.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">By the way, there\u2019s been a new earthquake. I\u2019m just told: Magnitude 6.6 earthquake strikes central Japan causing buildings in Tokyo to sway. So I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s an aftershock, maybe, or a new earthquake altogether. Anyway that\u2019s what\u2019s going on with $105 billion, as best as I can explain it to you. Those are the lines of demarcation here &#8212; and to strip it all away, I really think it\u2019s about some who just don\u2019t want to get anywhere near a government shutdown, and others who wouldn\u2019t mind at all a government shutdown \u2019cause it\u2019s worth it in their view to stop this any way and every way they can &#8212; Obamacare &#8212; and the people who are urging it don\u2019t care about their press coverage anyway, which is the way you have to be.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">In my view, the most successful politicians on our side are going to be those who don\u2019t care what the press says, because we already know what they\u2019re gonna say. No matter what we do, we know what they\u2019re gonna say. So you might as well do the right thing. That\u2019s where it is. That\u2019s the answer to the question. Everybody\u2019s been asking me, &#8216;How come you\u2019re not talking about it?\u2019 It\u2019s because we did. I explained all of this over the course many of many days. (interruption) What, Snerdley, what? What now? (interruption) Well, no, we explained it first. But there hasn\u2019t been a resolution to it, and Michele Bachmann is still on television. She\u2019s still trying to drum up support for this and explain what\u2019s going on. It\u2019s Open Line Friday. I promised you got a question, I\u2019ll answer it. That\u2019s a large number of questions in the e-mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: There\u2019s an ongoing debate within the Republican caucus in the House over the $105 billion allocation to implement Obamacare that Pelosi snuck in there. There are a number of Republicans. Steve King led this ball rolling, Michele Bachmann has now picked it up. King\u2019s still on it. He\u2019s from Iowa. 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