{"id":37720,"date":"2011-05-18T23:57:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T23:57:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-18T23:57:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T23:57:48","slug":"dingy_harry_wants_a_shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/05\/18\/dingy_harry_wants_a_shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Dingy Harry Wants a Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125114.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"231\" class=\"alignright\"\/>RUSH: I want to go back to this business of the continuing resolution, the House rule, the $105 billion that a bunch of Republicans think ought to be attacked and taken out, but it can\u2019t be because a continuing resolution doesn\u2019t allow discretionary &#8212; only discretionary spending can be dealt with and that $105 billion in the health care bill is not discretionary, it is authorized, so according to the rule it can\u2019t be dealt with. Therein lies the answer why the Democrats don\u2019t want a budget. It\u2019s why they want just a never-ending continuing resolution. It\u2019s obvious. It\u2019s patently obvious now. And, in fact, Dingy Harry has ended the Senate. He\u2019s gaveled it closed. <\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">Ten Republican senators have sent him a letter, and they are warning Dingy Harry that they will block any bills that don\u2019t address fiscal issues until the current impasse on spending is resolved. But Harry Reid doesn\u2019t want anything that deals with spending dealt with here. The letter says this: &#8216;While there are certainly many issues that warrant the Senate\u2019s consideration, we feel that the Senate must not debate and consider bills at this time that do not affirmatively cut spending.\u2019 Well, Reid doesn\u2019t want those bills. He doesn\u2019t want to cut spending. So he\u2019s using the ongoing continuing resolution as a way of not having to deal with that, and also if the Republicans in the House are gonna maintain that they gotta be loyal to this rule, then guess where Dingy Harry\u2019s taken us? He\u2019s taking us to a shutdown. I have to assume that Boehner and the guys in the House understand that this is what the objective is, that the Democrats want this shutdown. For whatever reason, they are forcing the shutdown. <\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">Now, the ten Republican senators are David Vitter of Louisiana, Jeff Sessions of Alabama, John Ensign of Nevada, who\u2019s retiring, Mike Lee of Utah, DeMint, Rand Paul, Roger Wicker of Mississippi, Marco Rubio of Florida, Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania. And they\u2019re hell-bent here on having everybody understand where Harry Reid is taking this, is right to a shutdown. That\u2019s what Reid wants. So I say, especially coming here on the heels of Wisconsin, let\u2019s have at it. Let\u2019s pick a fight. They\u2019re the ones picking it. Obviously they somehow believe that they can relive 1995 and win everything. They didn\u2019t win a thing after \u201995, by the way. The Republicans still won the House of Representatives, and Clinton still ended up signing welfare reform. What happened in 1995 was the headlines were not nice. That\u2019s where they got creamed in 1995 was the headlines. You remember all that. Some of you might too young, you weren\u2019t paying attention back then, but the big deal of the 1995 budget battle was Republicans want to starve kids. They were gonna cut the school lunch program, which they weren\u2019t. There were no cuts anywhere. There were some reductions in the rate of growth. <\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">But the Democrats had little kids from New Orleans with crayons writing letters to Republicans in Washington. &#8216;Please, Mr. Gingrich, I can\u2019t learn if I don\u2019t have lunch. I won\u2019t learn anything if I can\u2019t eat. Please don\u2019t take away lunch.\u2019 Of course this stuff all makes the media. It\u2019s on the evening news at night. Remember, in 1994-1995 there\u2019s no Fox News, there\u2019s no blogosphere, it\u2019s just El Rushbo and CNN. And no, we didn\u2019t lose the majority at all. We didn\u2019t lose the majority \u2019til 2006 when we started spending out the wazoo, and of course the Mark Foley thing. Don\u2019t ever think that wasn\u2019t a factor in losing in 2006. Nobody wants to talk about it. Everybody wants to say spending did it. But you take the Foley thing out of there and it\u2019s still not guaranteed the Republicans would lose. The bottom line is the government shutdown in \u201995 &#8212; and this is another thing. It won\u2019t shut down. Social Security checks will still go out, all those things are still gonna happen. The government shuts down a lot when it snows. They do it voluntarily. Not often enough as far as I\u2019m concerned. But clearly, given that $105 billion and it\u2019s Republicans in the House saying we can\u2019t touch it because we\u2019re dealing with a continuing resolution here, not an actual budget. Well, Reid doesn\u2019t want an actual budget. He wants a shutdown for obvious reasons. <\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">So that\u2019s where this is all headed. And Dingy Harry, he really can\u2019t do much. He doesn\u2019t have 60 votes. He could block Republicans in what they want, but he really can\u2019t advance his own agenda, and what he\u2019s doing right now is blocking Republicans. You know, they want to cut spending. He\u2019s got the votes to stop that. They\u2019re 47 votes in the Senate and Dingy Harry has his 53. You know, speaking of all this talk from Dingy Harry and the liberals in Congress about a government shutdown if a budget isn\u2019t passed, I think, and so do the people at Heritage, by the way, is just a scare tactic. Now, you\u2019ve seen the majority of the House have agreed on $61 billion in cuts in the next budget, which is like eliminating the equivalent of six days from a year\u2019s worth of spending. I mean it\u2019s not much. It\u2019s a start. And it\u2019s something that people might say, &#8216;Hey, look what we did, we cut spending,\u2019 but it\u2019s six days\u2019 worth, if that. The loudest voices in Washington on being fiscally conservative include those from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.askheritage.org\/\">Heritage Foundation<\/a>, especially their president, Ed Feulner. <\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125114.Par.4584.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" class=\"alignright\"\/>Now, he\u2019s put his points out today in a letter to every Heritage member, all 710,000 of us. And he makes a good point. He says this is much bigger than the first $61 billion in budget cuts. It\u2019s about changing the culture of Washington. And that\u2019s what\u2019s at stake here. Dingy Harry knows it. He knows that the Republicans in the House are scared to death of a shutdown. He knows it, and he\u2019s using it, pure and simple. Now, the Heritage Foundation, they exist and they work without a dime of government support. They are entirely supported by membership contributions to get the word out and to continue to fight these kinds of battles in Washington. It\u2019s times like this that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.askheritage.org\/\">Heritage Foundation<\/a> shines, and it\u2019s as good a time as any to become a member. <\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">Look at that wall of debris in that tsunami! If that doesn\u2019t make you feel powerless and insignificant, if that doesn\u2019t put in perspective things on this planet, that\u2019s just unbelievable.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">RUSH: All right, look, it\u2019s this simple, folks. The Democrats do not want a real, normal budget (particularly right now) simply because in a continuing resolution &#8212; meaning a temporary piece of time to keep the government running; that\u2019s all a CR is: Just enough money to keep it running &#8212; you can\u2019t cut funding. Not in a continuing resolution. You just can\u2019t, and that\u2019s what these ten Republicans are saying. &#8216;Look, Dingy, get in gear here, pal. We\u2019re gonna cut spending, that\u2019s what we\u2019re here to do,\u2019 blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. A continuing resolution automatically prevents cutting any spending. 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