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RUSH: You know, here we are, this is Christmas week. I mean, we\u2019re four or five days, depending on how you count it, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and I made reference to this last week, this is the strangest month of December. Normally — and the last three or four have been — normally when we get into December and late December and a little, I mean, the subject matter here changes and it becomes, I don\u2019t know, certainly less pressure packed, more jocular and so forth. <\/p>\n

But I really may have sounded like a little bit of a downer today when I opened the program, and I apologize if that\u2019s the case. It just ticks me off. I think back to these seven years and it just really set me off when I just realized today that we still have a majority of people on our side who still haven\u2019t figured out what he wasn\u2019t going on or are only recently are figuring it out, and it\u2019s just so unnecessary. All of this seven years there hasn\u2019t been any push-back for all the reasons that we have discussed, and it just hit me today. So I have spent the first hour, hour and a half detailing all of this, and if it\u2019s a downer, I apologize. It\u2019s certainly not my intention to be a downer during this week in any way, shape, manner, or form. <\/p>\n

At the same time, if I went home today and had not discussed any of this with you, I would have had a guilt complex about that. So it\u2019s one of those can\u2019t-win-either-way kinds of things. But it is a genuine, genuine problem, and this next election — well, I don\u2019t even want to go there right now. I\u2019ll save all that for the coming of the new year. Now, I mentioned earlier in the program that I was again or am again half of the sound bite roster today. And as is the usual case, I have delayed playing those sound bites here until the final half hour. Let\u2019s start Friday afternoon, Mechanicsville, Virginia, Senator Cruz held a press conference before a campaign rally, and during the Q&A he had a little back-and-forth with a female reporter.<\/line><\/p>\n

REPORTER: I just heard Rush Limbaugh criticizing Donald Trump for criticizing you, so what\u2019s your reaction?<\/p>\n

CRUZ: Listen, I love Rush Limbaugh. He is a powerful voice for freedom and conservative principles, and as it concerns Donald Trump, Donald Trump\u2019s a friend of mine. There are an awful lot of folks in the media that want to see a cage match between me and Donald Trump. I think the Washington establishment is desperate for that battle. I have no interest in giving them what they want.<\/p>\n

RUSH: “I just heard Rush Limbaugh criticizing Trump for criticizing you. What is your reaction?” Boy, journalism\u2019s so easy today. “What do you think of what X said about you,” seems to be the number one question journalists ask these days. So same place, Mechanicsville, Virginia, Cruz and another unidentified reporter had this exchange. The reporter said, “At the time you said that you supported what you were pushing because it would legalize the undocumented.” This is a reporter trying to either nail Cruz down or clarify the argument he was having with Rubio over legalization, the Gang of Eight bill.<\/p>\n

<\/a>CRUZ: That statement is false. Jeff Sessions and I both stood on the Senate floor, were assailed from all directions. I spent 30 minutes on the radio with Rush Limbaugh<\/a>. During that half hour Rush Limbaugh interview the phones on Capitol Hill erupted as people across this country lit up the phones and we turned the debate. Senator Jeff Sessions has come out publicly and said: Ted is telling the truth, Marco is not telling the truth. And Rush Limbaugh has come out publicly and said: Ted is telling the truth, Marco is not telling the truth. As John Adams famously said, “Facts are stubborn things.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, now, wait a minute. I haven\u2019t accused anybody of lying here. All I\u2019ve tried to do is properly characterize what the debate was. This is about the poison pill that either was or wasn\u2019t a poison pill. This is about essentially there\u2019s a Gang of Eight, not a Gang of Nine. The Gang of Eight, Senator Rubio\u2019s in it, and the pictures show him in it, and Cruz isn\u2019t. And so members of the Gang of Eight are trying to make the case that Cruz at one point would have made it a Gang of Nine because he was for legalization but not for citizenship. <\/p>\n

And mixing definitions and so forth, some are trying to say, “Hell, there\u2019s no difference in the two. If you\u2019re for legalization, you\u2019re for amnesty and all that,” and they\u2019re trying to trip Cruz up. I was just recapturing the argument as it went back and forth and trying to translate it for people. Anyway, Ted Cruz was on Greta on Friday night on the Fox News Channel. She said, “Why, in the days and weeks and months after June 4th of 2013 did it never come up that what you were doing, your amendment, was a poison pill?”<\/p>\n

CRUZ: It came up over and over and over again. Chuck Schumer publicly said he knew it was a poison pill. In the last 24 hours Senator Jeff Sessions has gone out publicly and said Ted is right and Marco is not telling the truth. And Rush Limbaugh has come out publicly and said Ted is right, Marco is not telling the truth.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So you see, ladies and gentlemen, no commentary needed here. I\u2019m just playing you the sound bites, half of which I star in today. CNN\u2019s State of the Union, Jake Tapper spoke with Mitch McConnell, Senate Republican leader, about my criticism of Republicans over the passage of the budget.<\/p>\n

TAPPER: Rush Limbaugh said, quote, “It\u2019s as though Pelosi is still running the House and Harry Reid is still running the Senate.” I\u2019m guessing you disagree with these assessments?<\/p>\n

MCCONNELL: We can\u2019t do things one party only in a town with divided government. But there were other important things done in the context of that overall bill. For example, we got rid of a 40-year-old relic of the past called the oil export ban. So, it was a big compromise. That\u2019s what you have to do when you have divided government.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, there you have it, folks. Now, if they\u2019re doing one thing they\u2019re staying focused on the tune they\u2019re singing. Remember, when all they had was the House, the Senate said, “Well, I\u2019m sorry we can\u2019t do anything here. We don\u2019t have the Senate. The House can pass all at once. We can\u2019t pass it over here so it can never be sent to Obama.” So voters said, “Okay,” so they gave the Senate to Republicans. They elected a majority of the Republicans in the Senate. And therefore they expected a lot of compromise legislation to be sent to Obama, expected the Republican Party to take a stand, expected the Republican Party to stand up and say no, even if Obama did veto it. <\/line><\/p>\n

And the Republicans said, “Hey, all Obama\u2019s gonna do is veto it, there\u2019s no sense passing anything. He\u2019s just gonna veto it. We don\u2019t have the White House. We got divided government. And if we got divided government, there\u2019s no way we can prevail on anything. We don\u2019t have the White House yet.” <\/p>\n

So on the budget deal, “Hey, we got the oil export ban lifted, first time in 40 years. I mean, it\u2019s a great thing. That\u2019s as much as we can do, as much as we can do because it\u2019s a divided government. When you got a divided government, all you can do is compromise. So we still can\u2019t do anything because we don\u2019t have the White House. We\u2019re making as much ground as we can, we\u2019re covering as much ground as we can.” That oil export ban thing, I explained how that\u2019s gonna work. <\/p>\n

Let me just remind you and prepare you for it again. This is going to have the effect, in time, of raising prices, which, if you\u2019re the oil industry, is a good thing, okay? And the oil industry is donors, right? So it\u2019s a good thing. And to a certain extent, you know, oil can get too low. The cheaper it gets, it becomes unprofitable to get it out of the ground. That\u2019s not good. So there\u2019s a happy medium and a price balance. It can get too low. Not for consumers.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Gasoline is under two bucks in certain places now for the first time in a long time. But industry-wide, it can have negative ramifications. Well, lifting the 40-year-old oil export ban is going to facilitate the process of oil prices rising, but not overnight. So let\u2019s pretend it\u2019s next September, October, 2016. Gas prices are rising, oil prices are rising, and Democrats out there skewering Big Oil. “Once again, they\u2019re raping the average American, causing the price of gasoline to skyrocket.” <\/p>\n

And Democrats could say, “Wait a minute! We remember why this is. In that budget deal, the Republicans demanded that we agree with them to lift the ban on the export of oil. We went along with it, and look what\u2019s happened? The Republican Party in that budget deal is pending passing money from your back pocket right to Big Oil,” and that\u2019s gonna be a campaign issue next fall. You watch. Make book on it. Make a note right now: On December 21st, 2015, that I, El Rushbo, said so. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: There are five more sound bites here that are based around me, one with Teve Torbes, Lou Dobbs, Republican strategist Cathy Lynn Taylor, Betsy Woodruff, Newt Gingrich. I may have to hold these over to tomorrow. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s… Yeah, grab sound bite number seven. Steve Forbes thinks I\u2019m wrong on the budget deal. He was on Fox Business Network Friday. David Asman says, “Rush Limbaugh says the Republicans threw away the power of the purse by giving everything to the Democrats. Chuck Schumer loves it. So is this good for conservatives or what?”<\/p>\n

FORBES: There are a couple things in there that I think, uh, the liberals, uh, are overlooking. One is removing that oil ban which is good. Uh, a second thing is, uh, postponing, uh, the device tax on Obamacare, postponing the Cadillac Tax on Obamacare. This is the beginning of the unwinding of Obamacare. The other thing is that by making permanent certain tax breaks, it\u2019ll perversely make it easier in 2017 for a president to simplify the tax code. It will actually make tax cutting and simplification easier. I don\u2019t think the Democrats realize that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: A lot of people don\u2019t. (sigh) So I just… I don\u2019t know. I\u2019ve heard it all before. “Hey, you know what? We may have lost everything here but there\u2019s a couple things in there, and the next budget that comes around, we\u2019re gonna skunk \u2019em! We\u2019re gonna skunk the Democrats. They don\u2019t have the slightest idea how we have set them up like you can\u2019t believe. We\u2019re gonna ram tax cuts through \u2019em and they\u2019re not gonna know what hit \u2019em,” and this has been the way it\u2019s gone for the last five years. <\/line><\/p>\n

Every time we take it in the shorts, we are told how we have set them up. And they just continue winning and winning and winning. And, by the way, folks, if I may say one more time on this postponing the device tax on Obamacare and postponing the Cadillac Tax? You know, that can work in a detrimental way. Those are very, very punitive things. If those things were implemented, it would do a lot to make people mad. We are now delaying elements of Obamacare that people would really be ticked off about, and we\u2019re just allowing these Obamacare tentacles to get woven even deeper into society, making it tougher to ever repeal this thing. I just… I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s a boondoggle if you ask me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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