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Dec. 7, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 7, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Man, oh man, oh man, ladies and gentlemen, the left.
What a bunch of racists.
I mean, they're all over MSNBC.
They are all over.
The New York Times, uh, the Washington Post, I have never seen such a collection of racists.
All these liberals criticizing Obama on this uh on this compromise on the tax bill.
I mean, well, every bit of criticism of Obama's always been said to be racist.
Hasn't it?
What a bunch of just undisguised racism we are seeing in America today.
Uh from the normally they camouflage their racism pretty well, but I mean they can't.
They're so upset.
It's there for one and all to see.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am going to do something today I rarely ever do.
Because I am in a peculiar position here.
If I praise the tax deal, the Democrats are going to find it very hard to vote for it.
And this is not done yet.
On the other hand, is titular head, the Republican Party, if I attack the deal, the Republicans will have to oppose it.
So what am I to do?
I am so famous, I am so powerful.
If I take a position on this, I could end up causing nothing to happen.
Well, I mean, the most tempting thing to do is to praise it and make the Democrats vote for a deal that is backed by me.
I mean, this this is essentially, if you go back to my Wall Street Journal piece on uh uh we got it out here, January 29, 2009, my bipartisan stimulus.
Let's cut taxes as I want and spend more as Obama would like, and let's compare the two, see which ones work.
The language in my op-ed is shockingly close to the words of Obama last night.
We'll get to all that in due course on the program today.
Uh whether or not this is passed, you know, Obama starts out his administration telling the joint congressional leadership don't agree with Rush Limbaugh, that's not how things get done in Washington.
And yet, on the surface, it appears that Obama has caved to me and to Bush, Cheney and the Palin.
But if I say that, if we'd be jeopardizing things here.
So here's what I'm gonna do.
Now I've already spoken to snurdly about this.
He knows what my position is.
No, I'm not gonna talk about golf, and I'm not gonna talk about the NFL, other than I told you what was going to happen last night.
Told you what was gonna happen last night, and it happened.
Well, I didn't predict the route, but uh I didn't think there was any question about the outcome last night.
Now here's what I'm gonna do.
Snurdly.
I this I was gonna be fascinated by this too, because the reaction to this is running the gamut.
All over the place.
I want to hear from you.
I want to hear from because when I say something, there's nothing left to be said.
When I say something, all there is is for people to call up and pretty much say, yeah, you're right.
So what I want to do, you people are the Tea Party in large.
You are actively involved.
You in this audience were fundamentally crucial in the election results and the outcome last November.
Therefore, I want to hear from you.
I want to find out what you think of this without my having said anything about it.
Without my having taped, because look at when I say something about anything, it's over.
I mean, there's a there's a smattering of disagreement out there, but the vast majority of people say, oh yeah, you know, I never thought of it that way, and generally tend to agree with me.
So we'll get to phones quickly, snurly start lining them up, and this is specific.
I only want to talk to people who have an opinion about the deal.
Now there's one thing that I think you all need to know here.
I'll just want to pass one bit of information.
I was somewhat uh confused about it earlier this morning until I did due diligence and research.
And it appears that the 99ers, those who have been unemployed for 99 weeks, will not see their unemployment benefits extended.
The AP has a story on this, uh, ladies and gentlemen, basically says that the people who are eligible for this uh are here, here it is.
Under his plan, unemployment benefits would remain in effect through the end of next year for workers who've been laid off more than 26 weeks and less than 99 weeks.
Without an extension, two million individuals would have lost their benefits over the holidays, the White House said, seven million would have done so by the end of next year.
In other words, those who have exhausted their two years worth of jobless benefits, the 99ers, will not be covered by this extension.
Because they are not in the system.
They will they uh uh they're gonna have to re-enter the system somehow.
This does not retroactively start unemployment benefits for people who've already reached the 99 weeks, the two years.
That's fundamental, and I don't know if you knew that.
If the well, that's true.
If the 99ers are to get extended benefits, they'd have to be brought back into the system.
They're now out of the system completely.
They got their 99 weeks, they're they're gone.
They are that group that may be looking for work or may not, but by definition, they're not.
It will require a new tier.
It would require tier five, which they have been pushing for, but that hasn't gone anywhere in the House.
From the New York examiner, Obama's deal on unemployment extension does not include tier five for 99ers.
There's only four tiers now.
Tier five would extend unemployment benefits for the 99ers.
Donnie Shaw of Open Congress explained that Obama's agreement succinctly, uh explained it uh succinctly this morning, the filing deadline for federal unemployment insurance that provides benefits for people who run out of their 26 weeks of state provided benefits without finding a gig would be extended until January of 2012.
Essentially, this will make it possible for people who became unemployed in the past 99 weeks, still haven't found a gig to collect benefits for the same length of time as people who lost their job more than 99 weeks ago.
This would not add additional weeks of benefits.
99 weeks still be the maximum amount of time and anybody could receive benefits.
Now, it's still gonna cost 56 to 60 billion.
But before you start opining on this, I wanted you to know that salient fact, because some people are under the impression that this adds a full year of benefits for people who've already reached their 99 months, and it does not.
So as I say, uh, ladies and gentlemen, rarely, rarely do I refrain from telling you what I think about something.
But in this case, as they say it's it's it's it's uh uh there's a potential downside here.
Uh could end up killing the deal.
As uh either inspiring Democrats to vote against it, or the Republicans to not support it, given that I am the titular head of the GOP.
So we'll get your calls 800-282-2882 is the number, snerdily diligently working and calls snurterly.
Listen to me.
No calls on the NFL, no calls on anything other than this for a while.
We're not gonna do the whole program, but just this.
Because you people were part of the electorate that resulted in this deal happening last night.
I want to know what you think about this.
And we're all where, I ask as host of the most listened to radio talk show.
Where oh where is the Celebration of bipartisanship here.
Where was Obama's happy face?
Where was the broad smile?
Do you ever see an angrier compromise last night?
Obama consented to extend the current tax rates for all taxpayers.
And he's calling it a stimulus, and this is key.
I'm gonna get to all this later on.
I don't want to.
I don't want to in any way unveil my thinking on this yet, because that will taint what you say.
Everybody wants to be me, and therefore everybody wants to copy what I think.
I mean, who wouldn't?
But I just want to know where was all the happy faces over compromise and bipartisanship.
I I've never seen these Democrats, these leftists out there demanding compromise, demanding bipartisanship, saying that's what the election really meant.
Have you seen how livid these people are today?
I mean, you go to the Daily Coast website, yet last night there were six pages of incoherent full-fledged, undiluted rage over this.
I've got some audio sound bites of people on MSNBC enraged over this that Obama's sold them out.
And I'll tell you one thing, it has happened here.
For the last ten years, we have been hearing about how worthless, how damaging, how costly the Bush tax cuts were.
And now Obama has basically taken ten years of criticism off the table.
This is this is akin to George Bush 41 promising not to raise taxes and then doing it.
Although this is worse because the Democrats, as a matter of identity, have been have been ripping and bemoaning the Bush tax cuts as simply tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires.
They have been touting these tax cuts as harmful to the economy because there is no trickle down.
All this supply side stuff is just a bunch of rhetoric, and they have staked their identity to this.
And now all of a sudden, Obama's calling it a stimulus.
Obama's out there saying that this is a stimulus just to maintain tax rates where they're where they are.
There are no income tax cuts.
There is a new uh new rate on the estate tax, and there is a slight reduction payroll tax holiday of 2% for one year.
Six, what is it, 6.4 to 2.4%, something like that.
So that's that's where we are on this.
Uh I just I'm amazed at the racism that's out there on the left, and I'm amazed at the anger.
When uh we got lawless bipartisanship and compromise.
Obama knew where was the happy face?
He was frowning so hard, I was gonna bust the stitches in his lip.
Julian Assange in jail.
Little ironic, isn't it?
Mr. Assange, who's world famous for leaking, being arrested for not wearing a condom of all things.
I guess I guess Eric Holder.
Yeah, I said it.
Assange, world famous for leaking, being arrested for not wearing a condom, it's a little ironic.
Of all things to arrest this guy for.
And why doesn't Holder go after Assange right now?
They got him in custody.
Assange is white.
That seems to be the number one uh requirement at the Justice Department.
I mean, he's really white.
This guy Lillywhite.
Pasty.
Lily was so white, he's almost transparent.
This guy, I mean, he's perfect.
According to the criteria for prosecution of the Justice Department by Eric Holder.
But no matter how he slices it, uh Obama through his actions here has confirmed the wisdom of the original Bush tax cuts.
All right, let's see what else we got.
Uh that'll do for now.
Brief time out, we'll come back and get to your phone calls on what you think of the deal.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Limbaugh, rarely do the doing this, but today doing it, deferring to the audience for opinion on the deal.
By the way, before we get to your phone calls coming up real soon here, according to the Drudge Report.
Sources say that editors of Time magazine are gonna name WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange person of the year.
Now this might have been before time heard that he had sex without a condom.
That can be a disqualifier.
For certain leftists.
So Drudge may have had that up there prematurely.
Just have to wait and see.
All right, we're gonna start on the phones.
Jersey City, New Jersey.
Jill, you're up first.
What are you thinking of deal?
I mega dittoes, mega food police dittoes from the land of Chris Christie Rush.
I love I I I'm happy with the deal, but it was just bliss to see the man child in cheap in that suit that's growing larger by the second, have to have to talk to us and have to yeah, they had to settle on this deal.
What do you mean?
Well, well, what do you mean the suit growing larger by the second?
You mean he's shrinking?
Does he look smaller to you?
He he he he looks like he's shrinking.
I've always thought he looked small and cold.
That's the man child in chief.
Yeah.
He is Okay, so you like the deal.
What do you like about the deal?
I like that he gosh, Rush, I I I like that Obama had to I I don't like the word compromise, but he had to actually talk to the Republicans.
He he's he's having to talk to them.
After what, two years in office?
He's finally he's finally recognizing So we could say that you like the deal because you think Obama had to eat it.
He had to eat it big time.
All right.
Big time.
All right.
And I and for the case.
Well, I can understand uh I can understand satisfaction in uh in the uh in the notion Obama had it stuck to him.
We're gonna run into all kinds of reasons for people who like it and don't like the deal.
I want you to hear this, folks, before I weigh in on it.
Thank you, Jill.
Eric in Napa, California.
What's up?
What's your opinion of the deal?
Hey, 24-7 Ditto's from Napa Rush.
Thank you.
Hey, looking forward to seeing you on the golf channel coming up also.
January 11th is the debut.
You like the plug I gave you?
Thank you, sir.
Yes.
Hey, I I was calling.
I told Mr. Snerdley, I think this is an absolutely atrocious deep deal for us.
Um you've hit on it, and the biggest thing going into the next election cycle, and forget the or not forget, but setting the presidential election aside is the number of Senate seats that are up and the number of Democrat seats that are in play.
And I don't think that we can go into the next election cycle without our guns blazing.
And I think what this deal did was it it really chopped us off at the knees because the taxes expire in two years.
So that's a big deal.
Taxes uh expire in two years.
That to you they put it right in the middle of possibly the biggest Senate election in in my time, and I'm only 40 years old.
Now, okay, interesting.
Why do you think that the deal, the tax cuts expiring in two years during an election year is good for Obama's reelection?
Well, it it it puts the Republicans, it's damned if they do and damned if they don't.
If things work out, Obama gets credit.
If they don't work out, Republicans can get the blame.
I see.
All right, I appreciate your thinking on this.
Thanks, Eric Vinny.
Vinny and Queens, you like the deal or not?
Ah, ditto's great one.
I love the deal.
It's a win-win for us.
First of all, we all knew the Republicans uh were not going to deny unemployment benefits, especially around Christmas.
We know them well enough to know what they're gonna do regarding that.
However, this puts to lie uh the Democrats claim that, you know, tax uh, you know, lowering taxes uh uh doesn't uh stimulate the economy at all.
Well, if if that were the case, why are they going for it?
Although we have yet to see if they're going to Well, now wait a second, though.
We haven't lowered taxes.
Well, no, I don't want to say too much.
But we haven't lowered taxes.
Well, keeping keeping them current, keeping the rates current.
I mean, haven't they been complaining for ten years now that the tax cuts were only for millionaires and it did nothing to stimulate growth?
It did nothing for the middle class yet.
Here they are, they're going to extend it to two years.
Now do you think Obama got anything in the deal?
You said it's a win all the way around.
You think Obama got uh no, the best thing is to watch all the kooks that MSNBC, especially the bet the uh the best looking man on television over there on MSNBC uh what's her name, pull their hair out of their head.
Okay, they are going to go absolutely apoplectic about this deal.
And the payroll, the the payroll uh um uh for Social Security, the reduction, that came out of nowhere.
I didn't hear anything about that until then today.
That's Obama's idea.
Yeah, I still can't get my arms around the idea that Julian Assange had sex with a woman, but I guess he did because that's who's charging him here with not using a condom.
Uh well, yeah, it we are sure it's a woman.
It's uh two there's a rape charge out there, Snerdley, a sexual abuse charge, and not using a condom.
A leaker.
Not using a condom.
Well, I mean, what a charge.
Okay, if you're just tuning in, I am asking the audience what they think of the uh the economic compromise that was reached yesterday because I'm in a really peculiar position.
If I praise it, the Democrats could find it very hard to vote for it, not wanting me to be happy.
And as titular head of the GOP, if I attack it, the Republicans will feel pressure to oppose it.
So something very, very rare.
I am withholding my view and instead asking yours.
See what you think of, because running the gamut on this from both sides of the uh proverbial aisle, and you are the people who made all this happen, really, with your votes.
Last November elections have consequences.
I want to know if this is what you had in mind.
When you wanted the Republicans to win.
Eric and Raleigh, North Carolina, you're next.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Rush, big time fan.
Uh I'm I'm against it.
Uh if his last election showed one thing, is that uh we don't want to compromise with the Democrats.
We simply want to defeat them.
Uh extending these uh unemployment benefits, all that's gonna do is add uh add to our debt.
Uh, from what I understand, uh, it's not being taken from uh the stimulus money that's still available.
So again, it's just gonna add to the country's debt.
I believe we could have gotten the uh Bush tax uh cut extended without uh having to compromise uh with the Democrats.
How about actually getting income taxes cut rather than just the rates extended?
Do you think that was possible?
Not at this time.
Not at this time.
But you think it was possible at this time to get a better deal on the unemployment extension.
Remember now, this does not extend people whose benefits have already perspired after 99 weeks.
They're this this does not add a third year to those people.
I understand that, but it's also not paid for either through uh stimulus money that's already.
The election was about spending, there's no question about that.
That's right.
Okay, so well you don't like the deal.
Um what are you gonna do about it?
I don't have to wait for the next election cycle and uh send another message.
That's serious.
That's serious, Eric and Raleigh not happy about this.
Snurdly is upset that I have deferred uh my opinion.
You gotta look at this as courageous restraint.
What's the question?
Mm-hmm.
All right.
I'm not gonna get Snurdly, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna put your opinion out there.
I'm not gonna put mine out there until I've had sufficient response from the audience.
Tracy.
Uh in the truck in Arizona, somewhere on the highways and byways, trying to outrun the illegals.
How are you?
Pretty good.
Pretty good, Rush Mega Diddles.
It's a great pleasure, sir.
Thank you, sir.
Tracy, do me a favor, turn your radio down.
It is down.
Oh, it's the phone.
It's just it's just yeah, it's just background.
I apologize for that.
So I'm out in the middle of the wilderness of Arizona, and not much I could do about it.
I appreciate that.
I appreciate the effort trying to get through in the wilderness.
The tax cuts uh from a small business standpoint.
They they're uh not letting me see down the street, let alone on the horizon.
Uh I appreciate them letting me keep the cash, but the emphasis is on keep.
Anybody in a s in a business of any sort uh size is gonna keep the cash.
We're not gonna invest it.
I'd like to be able to invest and upgrade someone buying it.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Why?
Well uh what kind of forecast can I do in two years?
Look how much has happened in the last two years.
What's gonna happen in the next two years?
Well, okay, let me play devil's advocate with you.
Are you ever how how often are you guaranteed that tax policy is gonna stay steady for five years, six years, ten years?
Oh, with this group that we've got, and probably the group that's coming on, probably never.
All right.
So the deal doesn't inspire confidence in you.
No, it certainly doesn't.
No.
No, and as far as the and I agree with your last caller on uh uh the unemployment benefits, and I would I was also toss out where's the work requirement here.
Yeah how many of these how many of these communities out there could be uh tapping into that uh uh labor force to be able to get done what they need to have done in their communities and don't have the cash for.
All right, it would be a great way for those people to pay back their communities for helping them out in their time to meet.
All right, so here's the moral component being introduced in this by uh by Tracy in Arizona, upset that there's no moral component here.
Uh very interesting.
Um by the way, I I need to add this does add a year of unemployment benefits to those who are in their 98th week.
It's 26 to 99.
Anyone who's uh greater than twenty-six weeks or less than ninety-nine weeks gets an additional, gets the extension.
So if you're at ninety-cent or ninety-eighth the week of unemployment, you do get another year added.
It's ninety-nine is the um is the uh is the cutoff.
Tony, college station, Texas.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
What do you think about the deal?
Well, Russ, dido good as of course.
Uh, I don't agree at all.
Um, we're finally starting to live the reality of, you know, all the left's dreams, all the stuff they've been promising.
I think it's time we let them own it.
I'm tired of arguing with you know socialists about you know things that are going on, and whenever you start to throw facts at them, they start to get really hypothetical on you, and they can't ever nail it down.
I think it's time we take what we have and beat them over the head with it and make them like it mi uh Obama, for instance.
Okay, he knows now that the economy is gonna keep going down if he doesn't do something with the taxes.
But his ideology, everybody he's with, you know, they're totally against that.
If he has to say uh on his own, we're gonna do this, then that makes him betray, excuse me, everything that he stood for his whole life.
And I'll you know, but it's yeah.
All right, but what about the specifics of this deal?
That you what are they that you don't like?
The jobless benefits i is the biggest one.
I just I haven't seen any deal come out of this administration that wasn't tangling and and hairy.
I wouldn't have anything to do with it.
I don't care if they say everybody's gonna get a gold bar.
There's probably something hidden in there that's gonna take two gold bars away from you.
Yeah, but why?
What does what what specifically do you are you opposed to with the unemployment extension?
I just I'm opposed to to people not being uh incentivized to go out and work for it.
All right.
So you're gonna get it's a good cross section here.
Conducting a study group, just like Obama.
Oh no, I'm I'm nowhere near ready to weigh in.
Why would I weigh in now?
We've just I'll tell you my informal survey.
I think it's about five to one opposed to this right now.
What if we had one person, maybe two people that like it?
Let's try Mike in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
What do you think about the deal?
I rush Megadetto's long time fan.
I'm uh still holding a little bit of judgment on whether I like it or not, but I'm very concerned about the payroll uh withholding reduction.
Why are you concerned about that?
Well, going into the 2012 elections, I believe you know, they didn't reduce the tax rate um for those individuals, but they reduce the withholding to the 2012 for one year tax refunds will be extra uh a lot lower.
And I know many people dozens and dozens of people that rely on that as almost like a uh April early year bonus and if the Wait a minute, I want to make sure I understand this.
You don't like the one year payroll reduction because it's gonna lead to smaller tax refunds.
Well, it's not the uh payroll reduction.
It should in my opinion, it should be a payroll, it should be a tax reduction, not a payroll withholding reduction.
Because I think what's gonna happen is in two thousand if you withhold less taxes in two thousand eleven, the same amount of tax is gonna be due when they file their tax returns for 2011 in early 2012.
So the tax refunds for all these folks are gonna be much lower.
I believe if the Democrats can tie the lower tax refunds, the Republicans are gonna get a huge victory on in the 2012 elections if they can link the Republicans to the middle class getting lower refunds over this whole tax plan.
Um you're confusing me now.
Okay.
You're opposed to the deal, yet you say the Republicans are gonna get a huge victory.
Are you a Democrat?
No, the Democrats are gonna get the victory, I believe.
If if you lower the withholdings but you don't lower the taxes, then when people do their tax returns in 2012, they're not gonna get the same tax refund that they've typically gotten.
The people depend on that three thousand dollar refund or the five thousand dollar refund.
And if it's not that same level, I think the Democrats are gonna be able to blame the Republicans because of this tax poll tax plan.
Oh, people are gonna proceed election, they can say Republicans argued to extend tax, you know, tax breaks for the wealthier.
Well now I will I will admit I hadn't factored in the income tax refund angle of this.
I I gotta say, I hadn't factored that in and how that could benefit the Democrats because people's refunds will be smaller and they'll blame Republicans for a tax increase.
I hadn't factored that in.
But that's what we're doing here, folks, for getting people's opinions on all of this before I weigh in and tell you what the truth is.
We'll be back tonight.
So the White House has just announced that Obama is gonna hold a news conference at 2.20 this afternoon in the briefing room.
So either he's gonna announce a deal or he's going to defend his caving.
Well, I'm thinking of uh of waiting until 220 to announce my opinion of the deal.
Well, if this guy is gonna conduct a press conference during my program, I'm gonna wait and tell people what I think of all this until he starts.
If he wants to set up a little competing thing here, I'll be glad to go along with us.
Well, what do you mean I'm adding to the uncertainty?
I have I yes, I'm adding to the uncertainty here as I withhold, defer my opinion on this, but that's because I'm I'm I'm I I'm I'm in a in in a no-win here.
It's a it's a case of of being too powerful and and too famous.
Annette in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Thank you for calling, and welcome to the EIB network.
Long time listener.
Doesn't sound happy.
Well, I am just um confused as to why you're not giving your opinion right away.
I mean, that's what people listen to you for.
Did you not hear me explain, or do you not believe what I said?
Well, you're withholding um because you feel like you're in a no-win situation, but I don't see that.
I think that people tune into your radio station to get your opinion on what is going on in this country, and you're withholding um excuses me.
I'm deferring.
I'm not I'm not keeping it a secret.
I'm gonna get to it eventually.
I just the the reason I'm doing this is exactly what I said.
Plus, as I have examined people's reaction to this, I'm it runs the gamut.
There are Republicans who want this thing killed.
There are Republicans who are organizing in the House uh official opposition.
There are Democrats who want to impeach Obama.
On our side, the election, you know, elections have consequences.
The people who voted and and created this shellacking of Obama and the Democrats, many of them are in this audience.
I want to find out what they this is essentially the first such deal.
And remember, we're still in the lame duck here.
We're still in the lame duck.
The Democrats still the Democrats still run the show in the House of Representatives and in the Senate.
And I'm I've I want to know what people think without having been affected, having their opinions affected one way or the other by hearing what I think.
I'm gonna get to it at some point.
Well, uh, you know, I a lot of people in this country are obviously frustrated with what is taking place, and I don't understand why the Republicans don't step up and say, look, look at what Obama has done, and his and the Democratic administration.
And here they have done it again, where um half the party is upset with the fact that uh he's compromised with the Republicans uh on this deal, that the unemployment extending the unemployment benefits, and then you have on the other side of it um the Republicans um trying to push, obviously the um sorry, I'm nervous.
The tax rate extension.
Yes.
Okay, so where do you come down?
Do you like it or not?
What's your instinctive reaction?
What was your first reaction to it?
Well, I don't like the fact that we have extended unemployment benefits.
Um we've already extended over and over again, so there we are adding to our deficit uh with that.
And then seems to be a recurring theme today amongst uh all the people who've called.
Yes.
And uh on the flip side of it, you've got the Republicans with um the tax cuts for the wealthiest, but also that helps small businesses.
Well, I don't know why they don't reiterate that you know, small businesses make this and you're hurting the unemployment um rate with not having those tax cuts.
Well, thing is um yeah, okay, you're right.
There haven't been any tax cuts.
There they're no there are no tax cuts here.
These are tax rates that are been extended.
In fact, why why is this even considered a victory?
It's because the way the table was set.
For the last what year and a half, the debate has been extending the Bush tax cuts, as they've been called, or not.
The option on the table has been a tax increase, which they haven't properly phrased it that way, the media, or no change.
Never did anybody start talking about tax cuts.
It was never tax cuts have never been proposed by anybody.
Now most people who pay scant attention are finding it hard to believe.
They think this is all about tax cuts.
There hasn't been one dime of tax cuts here.
So uh because of the way the table was set, there is an apparent victory here.
An apparent victory for the Republicans.
There is an apparent victory because of the way the table was set.
Because Obama has spent all this time saying, I'm opposed, I'm opposed, I'm opposed.
We're not going to extend them, we're not going to extend them.
And then all of a sudden there's a supposed cave where we keep everything as it is.
There really nothing has changed here.
We were only dealing with the threat for the last year of the tax rates expiring.
What's really changed here?
Nancy Pelosi had just came out, uh, just come out and said she is for the deal.
She has issued her fatwa.
Pelosi for it.
Obama might be hurting himself because he's guaranteed high unemployment here.
He's guaranteed 9.5-9.8% unemployment with this extension of benefits.
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