{"id":386168,"date":"2021-03-12T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=386168"},"modified":"2021-03-15T16:00:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T20:00:18","slug":"liberal-caller-loves-bidens-covid-bill-so-we-let-rush-explain-why-hes-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/03\/12\/liberal-caller-loves-bidens-covid-bill-so-we-let-rush-explain-why-hes-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Caller Loves the Covid Bill, So We Let Rush Explain Why He\u2019s Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

TODD: Joe in Detroit, Michigan, joins us on the Rush Limbaugh program. You think you\u2019re gonna tell us about the greatness of this bill, Joe? Welcome to Rush\u2019s show. It\u2019s Todd Herman, your guide host.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Todd. Thanks for taking the call. Seventy-five percent of the people in the country want this bill, this $1.9 trillion. It\u2019s a relief measure, and I love listening to right-wing commentators like you saying Biden is, um, insane, that he\u2019s, uh, demented, and so on and so forth. This guy\u2019s just put something past you. Now he\u2019s gonna go to infrastructure, he\u2019s gonna go to voting rights, and he\u2019s gonna run the table while you guys cower in fear of Donald Trump. Keep up the good work.<\/p>\n

\"\"TODD: Joe, so here\u2019s the question for you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Don\u2019t change a thing.<\/p>\n

TODD: No, I\u2019m not gonna change a thing. Joe, here\u2019s the question for you. What do you think are the most controversial aspects of this bill, of this law?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t see too many controversial aspects. I think they\u2019re all —<\/p>\n

TODD: Wow.<\/p>\n

CALLER: They\u2019re all good provisions.<\/p>\n

TODD: I see. So you don\u2019t see anything controversial in this law?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I think getting people out of poverty and helping the unemployed —<\/p>\n

TODD: Can you remind me who Dylann Roof is?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Is he that Confederate guy?<\/p>\n

TODD: Didn\u2019t he kill nine people?<\/p>\n

CALLER: He was one of those Confederate gunslingers, wasn\u2019t he?<\/p>\n

TODD: Yeah, a southern Democrat. So did he kill nine people?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, he —<\/p>\n

TODD: Didn\u2019t he kill nine people? What do you think he\u2019s gonna do with his $1400? What do you think he\u2019s gonna do with his $1400 check that Joe Biden sent him from China?<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: That\u2019s none of my business.<\/p>\n

TODD: Oh, okay. What about the Boston bomber? Do you remember the Boston bomber?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. You tell me all about him. You mean DeSalvo?<\/p>\n

TODD: I usually don\u2019t say mass murderers\u2019 names on the air, usually. My question is, what do you think he\u2019s gonna do with his 1400 bucks?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Don\u2019t change a thing, Todd. Keep up the good work.<\/p>\n

TODD: I\u2019m just asking you this, Joe. What do you think he\u2019s gonna do with this 1400 bucks?<\/p>\n

CALLER: You\u2019re telling me Biden is —<\/p>\n

TODD: See? ‘Cause you called this program with the bullet point that you read about 75% of people supporting this. I have some data for you. The three major mockingbird media networks did 40 stories on the $1400 checks, but they missed the part about it going to mass murderers, which, by the way, Republicans tried to stop.<\/p>\n

But your team said, “Nah, we gotta make sure the mass murderers get this money.” They talked about the additional unemployment benefits, the funding for vaccines. This makes up maybe 6% of this bill, maybe — or law — Joe, maybe 6%. They didn\u2019t talk about the money for Amtrak, the bailouts for the teachers unions. By the way, it doesn\u2019t get spent this year, Joe. So what\u2019s fascinating —<\/p>\n

CALLER: (garbled)<\/p>\n

TODD: No, Joe, you called with a point. You read a bullet point, and then you said, Joe —<\/p>\n

CALLER: (garbled)<\/p>\n

TODD: — and then you said you couldn\u2019t think of anything controversial to this bill. Can you think of anything controversial now?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I think when he gets infrastructure and immigration —<\/p>\n

TODD: Okay. So we\u2019ll go back —<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and shoves it down your throat.<\/p>\n

TODD: There\u2019s two ways to do this, Joe, there\u2019s two ways. We can stay on topic or we can end the call. So it\u2019s real quick here. Can you see anything controversial about the call now, Joe?<\/p>\n

CALLER: You guys are gettin\u2019 hosed.<\/p>\n

TODD: I appreciate it. Thanks for the call, Joe. So when you call a show and you\u2019re liberal, and you\u2019re gonna interact, we can interact, and we can go Socratic. And if you don\u2019t have your ducks in a row when you call a program like this, all right, you might end up on sort of the embarrassing end of things. I don\u2019t try to embarrass callers. But listen just to this analysis. Just listen to this.<\/p>\n

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The major three networks, $1400 checks for individuals. That\u2019s how this was pitched to the American people by Joe Biden\u2019s media. Forty stories. Twenty on the unemployment benefits. Funding for testing vaccines, 20 stories. On the $15 minimum wage, 19 stories. Help for small businesses, 12 stories. Money for state and local governments, five stories. No stories on previously unspent monies which exist, but we need $1.9 trillion. We need to invent that.<\/p>\n

Examples of the bill\u2019s unrelated spending, zero stories. No huge state-local government shortfalls where they\u2019re covering the pensions for government employees taking home $350,000 a year to not work. It\u2019s everything the Maha taught us about bills like this. We had his great wisdom yesterday. You\u2019re gonna hear more of that on the program. This is how Rush fashions a radio kingdom. His talent, his decision to be America\u2019s Anchorman in face of what the liberal media hides.<\/p>\n

This is propaganda of silence, and in a way… We don\u2019t believe in victimhood on this show, but in a way, I feel a bit sorry for Joe, because he\u2019s a victim of this propaganda of silence. So let\u2019s lay out what\u2019s to come on this program. More of Rush\u2019s wisdom on this, specifically Rush talking about the role government cannot play. We\u2019ll talk about that. We\u2019ll get into a long, long discussion from Rush on Trump urging austerity versus Biden\u2019s ridiculousness versus a law like this or a bill like this.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

TODD: So apropos to that, Rush fully understood that liberalism and cultural leftism, so economic liberalism and cultural leftism, they\u2019re conjoined twins. One needs the other to survive. Another way to look at this is like a two headed snake. Here\u2019s Rush describing it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I have a theory. You know, I have a lot of theories, and my theories evolve just like our culture evolves — and our culture\u2019s been evolving in ways that a lot of people are not happy, in a lot of ways people oppose. Our culture is evolving in a way that has a lot of people angry, really ticked off, and scared, and I think priorities change. Whereas one day some people might think federal spending is the gigantic dragon that needs to be slain, the next month or the next year it could be cultural liberalism or the American left in general that has to be done away with or else nothing else matters.<\/p>\n

Things culturally shift. Priorities change based on who wins and loses elections at the same time. So we\u2019ve got this massive new budget agreement between the House and the Senate, massive discretionary spending increases. Well, I say “massive.” They\u2019re fairly significant. We\u2019ve got a big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big bump in military spending, and we got the tax cut. And, of course, that\u2019s half of this. The literal eggheads and the people with their heads in the sand think the tax cut is a net loss of revenue, when it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

\"\"It\u2019s gonna be a net gain. So now it\u2019s budget time. Now we have to do another budget even though we just finished a bipartisan budget agreement. What is this? Well, the president has to present a budget. “But wait, Rush! I thought we had a two-year deal.” Well, we do. But the president still submits a budget that spells out spending priorities. It\u2019s just a proposal. Presidential budgets are always declared DOA in Congress: Dead on Arrival. And Trump is demand tough budgeting cuts for domestic programs, and people are gonna say, “Wait, wait, wait. We just blew through spending caps. We just blew through all kinds of limits on spending. We\u2019ve got a trillion-dollar deficit.” What is this? “President Trump is expected to renew his call for drastic reductions to nondefense programs in rolling out his budget request today, even with hundreds of billions in new cash at hand.” What is that, hundreds of billions of new cash at hand?<\/p>\n

Where did that cash come from? We don\u2019t have hundreds of billions of new cash! We don\u2019t have any cash. We\u2019re $20 trillion in debt. Where are we getting this cash? “While Congress busted strict spending caps last week — allowing for an extra $300 billion to be spent over the next two years — the Trump administration is still urging severe austerity for some arms of the federal government. Trump\u2019s budget will lay out ‘an aggressive set of spending reforms\u2019 to reduce the deficit by $3 trillion over a decade, according to a preview released by the White House on Sunday. …<\/p>\n

“Officials said the budget would also prioritize border security — proposing to hire roughly 1,000 more patrol agents and immigration officers than its previous budget. The White House will ask Congress for a total of $23 billion in border security programs, reinserting Trump into the center of a fierce immigration debate on Capitol Hill. Roughly $2.7 billion will go directly to the detention capabilities of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.” With that money, the White House said the agency could reach an “average daily detention capacity of 52,000 illegal aliens at ICE, the agency\u2019s highest-ever detention level.”<\/p>\n

So Trump wants more money to grab more illegals and hold \u2019em before sending \u2019em back. “Trump is also making good on his campaign promises to boost funding to fight opioid addiction and to improve veteran health care. “Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Management and Budget said Sunday that Trump will request more cuts to the State Department and the EPA this time while urging Republican lawmakers to resist the urge to boost spending on social welfare programs.”<\/p>\n

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