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Feb. 16, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 16, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
The French news agency is reporting that the mullahs and Mahmoud Akmatini Zad, the Iranian regime, have called a rally, called for a rally on Friday in Tehran to express hatred.
They're actually calling it a hatred rally against the opposition.
A hatred rally against the freedom fighters.
In Iran, the government calling a hatred rally.
Hi, folks, how are you?
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No, I do not expect Pharoah Obama to get involved in that.
Uh no, I if the if the mullahs are calling for a hatred rally, and then there's this.
This just happening.
Two Iranian warships are planning on sailing through the Suez Canal on the way to Syria today.
This does not happen on this.
This has not happened in a while.
It is very provocative.
The uh the nation of Israel sees a major threat, of course, in the nuclear program of Iran, and these Iranian warships are going to hit the Suez Canal on the way to Syria.
And the uh Israeli foreign minister is saying to my regret, the international community is not showing a readiness to deal with the recurring Iranian provocations.
The international community must understand that Israel cannot forever ignore these provocations.
They might have to do something about this if nobody else will.
Of course, they have to be very concerned about what would be on those warships on the way to Syria.
Uh in Hafez al-Assad, not yeah, no, no, Basher.
Basher Assad, Hafez al-Assad room temperature now.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program 800-2822882, and the email address L Rushbaugh at EIB net.com.
Have you seen this poll out of uh CBS News?
It's amazing.
Most Americans oppose cutting funding for health care reforms.
You believe that?
I don't believe it either.
So we dug deep out there.
We dug deep in this poll to find out what the responsive or the uh uh the samples were.
And here you go.
There were there were 1,031 samples.
Respondents in the sample.
Total Republicans 298, the total Democrats 345, and the total independence 388.
Folks, you don't even have to read the article.
All you have to do is look at the actual uh way that this thing has been sampled.
It was 28% Republicans, 32% Democrat, and 40% independent.
And they didn't stop there.
They waited the poll to give the Republicans even less of a say.
Same thing that they always do.
And therefore they're able to come up with a poll result.
Most opposed cutting funding for health care reforms.
This is all just a game.
Everything in Washington is just a game.
There is a political story today.
Has Obama set GOP entitlement trap?
They're all concerned.
Is Obama gonna really snooker Bahner here?
Is Obama real on this budget proposal?
Is Obama is he gonna just play these guys like a stratovarius?
In the meanwhile, we are looking at the utter bankruptcy of our country down the road, and these people in Washington in the press corps look at this as just it's it's a game.
Senior congressional Democrats were plenty nervous on the eve of Obama's budget presentation, fretting that Obama would suddenly gain his nerve and decide to take on the issue of entitlement reform.
But they needn't have worried.
White House officials assured their friends on the Hill that Obama wouldn't broach the subject, according to Democrats talking to Politico, and on Monday, when he presented his budget, the president conspicuously avoided addressing entitlements despite citing them as the country's major fiscal problem.
With Obama refusing to offer his own plan, Congressional Republicans, as the president noted, rushed in to fill the vacuum, talking about entitlement cuts.
Is this the trap?
His Obama brilliantly outsmarted these guys once again.
Oh, oh, the DC press corps so hope so.
Obama at his news conference, I was glad to see yesterday.
Republican leaders say, how come you didn't talk about entitlements?
I think that's progress.
One senior Democrat congressional aide said of the House Republican plans to release the first detailed proposals to reduce entitlement spending.
They are suckers.
They have painted themselves into a corner.
Obama didn't mention entitlements.
Republicans rush in to fill a vacuum.
And the Democrat congressional aides says they are suckers.
When asked whether he was abrogating his responsibility to lead, Obama said, it's not a matter of you go first or I go first.
It's a matter of ultimately getting in that boat at the same time so it doesn't tip over.
But Obama isn't anywhere near the water's edge yet, much yet the boat.
Most Democrats have no intention of jumping into the debate on entitlements anytime soon when asked what Obama should do when the Republicans release their entitlement proposal.
One Democrat aide said nothing.
Just let the Republicans sink.
Because after all, they are suckers.
Glenn Thrush at Politico, the uh the stenographer here on the story about the game.
It's all just a big game.
Everything looked at through the eyes of Obama, just like our old buddy Nick Robertson from CNN reporting from the belly of the beast in Egypt about what the people there think of Obama.
Now, would we all agree we have a crisis here?
I think everybody that pays attention to this realizes we have a debt crisis.
You realize Bush first budget two trillion dollars, it's almost doubled now.
And we're still, when it comes to budget cuts, we've still got some tweezers and we're and we're we're picking scabs on the margins of all this.
We're not getting into the nuts and bolts.
That's and I don't even mean before you get to entitlements.
It's it's uh you're talking about 3.7 trillion dollar budget, even cutting a hundred billion, yeah, it's a cut.
I mean, it's a start, but I mean, folks, it's uh it really isn't much.
We have a genuine crisis here.
When Lincoln faced a crisis, they said Obama's the next Lincoln.
He's the next Reagan.
He's the next JFK, he's the next Hoover, he's the next whoever.
When Abraham Lincoln faced a crisis that shook the country, did he ignore it?
And the press were around marveling at the games Lincoln set for his opponents of the traps.
Did Lincoln bait Congress into dealing with slavery for his own political gain?
No, he didn't.
Yet we're told that Obama's the next Lincoln.
Lincoln didn't punt on the biggest issue of the day and try to set up a trap.
FDR didn't punt after Pearl Harbor in 1941.
He didn't wait for Congress to tell him to declare war after Pearl Harbor.
Well, FDR set traps elsewhere, but on things of crisis magnitude, he was there.
Truman didn't wait for Congress regarding the Marshall Plan.
JFK didn't wait on Congress to push tax cuts of the moon program.
Reagan didn't wait for Congress to dig the economy out of the Carter mess.
None of these presidents who have had greatness attached to them or to various things that they've done did not punt on matters of real importance.
They didn't sit around and set traps and then chuckle about it with their friends in the press court.
George W. Bush did not punt on economic recovery or dealing with the acts of terrorism after 9-11.
But our social security reform, he attempted to tackle this.
But punting, voting present, and then have your your slavish media write stories about has Obama set an entitlement trap for the Republicans.
Dealing with things is not the Obama way.
Obama uses the biggest issue of the day as a political trap.
And everybody knows what Obama's doing with the budget and entitlements.
This is a small petty political animal who puts his own needs above all the others.
He's a trillionaire.
Barack Obama is the first trillionaire in American history.
He treats the federal budget as his personally.
And I'm not talking about the Air Force One trips and the vacations and stuff.
He uses the federal budget as his own money.
Well, look, that's not the way to put it.
But he thinks it's all his money to spend and do with whatever he wants.
If you want to rail against the rich, I mean you got to put Obama at the top of the list there.
The first trillionaire lives high off of our tax dollars.
We've food prices.
Have you seen wholesale price index?
It's up.
The inflation, everybody feared it's here, has been for a while, actually.
Now is uh showing up in the official measurements.
Food prices and shortages are causing a lot of the upheaval around the world.
People in Washington want it to be something else, as we've been saying.
They want it to be uh an uprising for freedom, an uprising for democracy, an uprising for all the wonderful things.
But it's largely to do with food prices, shortages, number of other things.
By the way, 95% of the American media oppose defunding Obamacare to go along with that that ought to tell you where we are in this.
95% of the media oppose defunding, and they're running polls here that say the most of uh the majority of Americans oppose cutting funding, which is ridiculous.
Clothing prices are going uh going to go up 10% in the spring.
Cotton primarily is the culprit.
But natural fibers along with synthetic fibers, prices are on the rise.
Inflation's starting to settle in, and we still, everything's looked at to the prism of Obama, and is he winning?
Will he shellack the Republicans?
Will he once again humiliate and embarrass the Republicans?
Under pressure from about a hundred conservatives, this is from the political piece.
After the Democrat congressional aid says the Republicans are suckers for being sucked into a discussion on entitlements.
Under pressure from about a hundred conservatives to tackle the issue, possibly through a new privatization plan that was part of the party's midterm blueprint.
The Republican leadership knows it's taking the first bite of a wormy political animal.
One Republican insider, none of these options poll very well.
Imagine Lincoln saying that.
None of these options poll very well.
So the Democrats are likely to uh portray whatever the Republicans produce as the son of privatization, said Senator Schumer.
In fact, Democrats are running around predicting, almost hoping for a shutdown.
In fact, you could almost, if you look at what Obama's doing, he's planning for one.
All the Democrats are gearing up for a government shutdown.
They think that this is the way to get themselves back on top and to set the narrative as it has always been.
Republicans mean spirited, we got Pelosi.
Republican policies hurt women and children the hardest.
The cliches are everywhere.
The old playbook has not been updated.
It's all they know to go to.
And they fail to understand the mind of the public.
They fail to understand just how insistent the public is that all this be gotten control of.
In the meantime from the politico as well, liberals launch an anti-ISA crusade.
Democrats are understandably obsessed with Daryl Issa.
He's the lead congressional investigator of the Obama regime.
He set himself up as a practically one-man investigating machine aimed straight at the Obama regime.
But a handful of liberal political operatives in California, including a former Hillary Clinton hand, are taking their anti-ISA passion to a whole new level.
They've launched a nonprofit group, a website, and they've even paid media advertisements aimed at undermining and investigating the chairman himself.
It's Ken Starr all over again.
Don't address the charges.
Do not address the substance of what ICE is doing.
Set out to destroy ISA.
Set out to destroy his reputation.
And thereby taint anything that he might come up with.
They say they're going to leave no stone unturned in digging into ICE's personal and business history.
This week the group will reveal more than 100 pages about an investigation into a fire that burned down a building that housed his business in the early 1980s.
The launch of this group, they're calling themselves the Third Lantern, is naming the website the ISO Files.
It's remarkable because it's wholly focused on the activities of one congressman who has no immediate plans to run for higher office.
This is simply the playbook being re-employed.
ISA to investigate Obama, they must be scared to death of what ISA could learn.
They must be scared to death of what Obis uh ISA could produce because they're now out to do what they did.
Robert Bork, good on the list, Robert Bort, Clarence Thomas.
Uh any number of people.
Ken Starr, now it is Darrell Ice's turn.
We warned him about this, by the way, when we had him on this program.
I interviewed him for the for the Limbaugh letter.
We had him on this program and told him you're you know you're good you're gonna have you're gonna have people aiming at you in ways that you cannot even imagine.
He said he was up for is this the new civility, by the way.
Obama's uh Oprah's out there demanding all this new civility for Obama.
We gotta give him a chance.
And uh after Gabriel Giffords was uh was shot in Arizona, we have all this new civility.
Is this the way?
Is this what Obama meant by the new civility?
To try to come up with lies about Republican opposition.
California's Democrat Governor Jerry Brown and Dingy Harry.
One of these deeply involved is Averill Ace Smith, who ran Hillary Clinton's successful California and Texas primary operations in 2008, known as one of the more cutthroat political operatives in the business.
This is who they're going to use to go after ISA.
Maybe we should investigate Averill Ace Smith to find out who he is.
Dan Newman of SCN Strategies, one of the three people leading the anti-ISA campaign, declines to disclose how much is being spent on the effort or who is bankrolling it.
The goal is clear.
Newman Smith and the third partner Sean Clegg want to raise enough questions about ICE's background and personal history that anything he turns up in probes of the regime will be immediately discredited.
There you have it.
That's how they operate.
They do have something to hide.
They do have something they don't want you to know.
So much so that when you know it, they don't want you to believe it because they want you thinking the investigator ISA is the crook.
Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
As far as the media, looking at everything Obama's doing as a game, audio sound bites, trying to play the Clinton game again.
Last night on uh on television, Howard Feynman appeared to talk about the president vetoing the plan, Republican spending plan, and so forth.
What's going on here, Howard?
What's gonna happen is the House Republicans will pass draconian cuts.
The Senate, which is still controlled by the Democrats, will not accept it.
Then you've got a situation coming up on March 4th about whether the government is gonna shut down for lack of funds for this year.
The government could shut down.
The president is anticipating that and trying to get ahead of the politics of it.
That's what's going on.
Okay, uh, so you think the president's already given up too much in the budget this year, uh, Howard?
It's very interesting to watch, as you say, offense on this year, defense on next year, because yes, he's trying to reach independent voters.
The progressives see that, and they think that things are going in a bad direction for them.
If they think it's bad now, they think it's gonna get worse for them down the road, and they're right.
So you see, the whole thing here is is a game.
Uh and all of you who voted in November, this isn't a game.
This is real.
This is your future.
This is your kids' future.
This is the future of the country as you know it.
And now you hear the press willingly, almost admiringly, praise Obama, coming up with this brilliant game to get the Republicans to go first on entitlements just like Bush went first on Social Security, proving that the Republicans don't care about the little guy and the elderly and the sick.
They want to kill them all.
They want to get them out of the hounds that they live in in the hospitals and so forth and so on.
Shakespeare.
Shakespeare said some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
Obama is the last of these.
The media is doing its best to force greatness upon Obama because there is no greatness.
No genuine greatness.
But there you hear Feynman and all these other people, Glenn Thrush.
Is Obama really spinning a web to trap these Republicans?
What a great guy.
They're thrusting it on him.
He hasn't earned any of it.
We have something mildly interesting that we discovered here during the break, this group that will be leading the investigation into Republican Daryl Issa, calling itself the Third Lantern.
Now the telephone number for the third lantern, we looked it up.
The telephone number listed in their press announcement is a phone number that operatives for the Democrat Party have used in the past for people to reach them.
No big deal.
I mean, it's obviously the third, they're trying to make the third lantern here in this story out to be some independent bunch people, not really affiliated officially with the Democrat Party, but it's the same phone number in the past.
If you wanted to reach Democrat operatives in Los Angeles, this is the number that you would call.
CEO Watch has used that number.
They list themselves as a project of the L.A. Democrat Party, the L.A. County Democrat Party.
The same phone number in their press release is the phone number that operatives the Democrat Party have used in the past for people to reach them.
So just to make it official, it's the Democrat Party behind this.
It's not some concerned group of people very, very worried about what's happening to our democracy and to our president.
It's typical.
I want to go back to...
It was...
This is the three days ago.
I think it was our Monday morning update on this program.
And I want to, if you missed the morning update, that's our morning commentary that runs on all of our radio stations.
I want to share it with you here because it has, this story has blown up now.
I'm just trying to balance my budget.
Those seven words are the words of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.
Scott Walker, Governor Wisconsin's trying to balance his budget.
He's a Republican.
He has proposed cutting benefits for government employees, and more importantly, curbing the power that unions have to strangle the state of Wisconsin with excessive financial demands in the future.
He would limit what state and local government unions can bargain for to wages only, not vacation and health care benefits.
In addition, he wants to increase what union members contribute toward their pension and health care plans.
Now let me interrupt myself here and say here's a Republican governor in Wisconsin.
This is a place they cannot print money like Obama can.
They have serious budgetary problems.
He was elected to deal with these.
Much like Chris Christie in New Jersey was elected to deal with this.
So he's dealing with it.
And he's zeroing in here on areas that need to be cut back if that state budget is to be anywhere near in balance.
So again, he has proposed cutting benefits for government employees, curbing the power unions have to strangle the state with excessive financial demands in the future.
He would limit what state and local government unions can bargain for to wages only, not vacation and health care benefits paid for by Wisconsin taxpayers.
In addition, Scott Walker, the Wisconsin governor, wants to uh increase what union members contribute themselves toward their own pension and health care plans.
Governor Walker would also stop the state from collecting union dues from employee paychecks.
He would give the employees the right to opt out of paying dues and require secret ballot votes every year to determine if a majority of employees want to remain unionized.
He would require unions to negotiate new contracts every year and limit state employees and teachers' raises to the consumer price index unless voters approve higher wages.
Firefighters and law enforcement are exempted from all this.
Now, the governor and Republican legislators in Wisconsin say getting a handle on union costs would avoid massive layoffs and would maintain Medicaid coverage for hundreds of thousands of children.
They are prepared for a backlash.
And if necessary, the National Guard is standing by to step in to handle state duty.
So he is full aware, fully aware of what the reaction to his proposals now has become.
So you had you have Chris Christie in New Jersey tackling the unions there.
Now Scott Walker in Wisconsin.
We could be witnessing a real revolution in this country.
Let's now go to some related news stories.
This is from the Wisconsin State Journal, Madison Screws.
Madison, Wisconsin closed today as teachers planned a district wide absence to attend protests against Governor Scott Walker's proposal to limit union bargaining.
District Superintendent Dan Neerad made the announcement at 11 p.m. last night after 40% of the 2600 members of the teachers' union had called in sick, and more were expected to do so through this morning.
This ratio, we have serious concerns about our ability to maintain safe and secure school environments because teachers aren't going to show up, so we're just going to cancel school.
His decision came after Madison Teachers Incorporated Executive Director John Matthews said the union was contacting members and urging them to call in sick and instead attend a rally scheduled for today at the Capitol in opposition to Walker's collective bargaining proposal.
Earlier yesterday, NERAD sent a letter to parents warning of the possibility of excessive teacher absences and that principals were preparing contingency plans to keep the schools open.
From the Associated Press, Hundreds Protest Wisconsin planned to cut workers'rights.
Hundreds of Wisconsin public employees clogged a hearing for hours, camped out in the state capitol early Wednesday morning in a desperate.
This is what Obama hopes happens to Republicans when they get around to entitlements.
This is precisely what Obama hopes happens.
This is exactly what the Democrats hope happened in Washington.
What's happening in Wisconsin?
The thing is, it did not happen in New Jersey.
Oh, yeah, the unions raised hell, but not the population.
The unions raised hell, but the citizens of New Jersey did not.
Chris Christie is a union busting hero in New Jersey.
The legislature's finance committee was preparing to vote on the measure which would end collective bargaining for all state, county, and local workers except for the cops and the firefighters and the state patrol.
The move marks the boldest step by a new Republican governor and legislature to solve budget problems by confronting organized labor.
Opponents seized on the Finance Committee's public hearing on the bill on Tuesday to launch what Representative Robin Voss, Republican Rochester called a citizen filibuster that tied up the hearing for hours.
Alison Port, a 19-year-old freshman.
She clutched her laptop and her Green Bay Packers blanket.
So teaching assistants, too.
She said, I think it's really crappy.
Let's take all the rights away.
If he starts here, where's he gonna stop?
What else are he going to throw at us?
It's only gonna get more extreme.
Walker's plan would make workers pay half the cost of their pensions and at least 12 and a half percent of their health care premiums.
State employees' costs would go up by an average of eight percent.
The changes would save the state 30 million dollars by June 30th and 300 million over the next two years.
Imagine the outrage having to pay for something yourself.
Can you believe the indignity?
Can you believe the heartlessness of this governor?
Making people pay for their retirement.
Making people pay a mere 12% for their health care insurance premiums.
A 50% return on your own retirement.
Imagine having to pay for your own.
Can you I what is this country becoming?
People have to pay for their own retirement.
Next thing you know, people are gonna have to buy their own food.
Next thing you know, people are gonna have to buy their own cars.
Next thing you know, this is really extreme.
Next thing you know, people are gonna have to buy their own cigarettes.
Next thing you know, people are gonna have to pay for their own hotel rooms.
What in the world are they thinking in Wisconsin?
Walker has argued that the public employee concessions are modest considering what private sector workers have suffered during the recession, but Democrat opponents and union leaders said the governor's real motive was to strike back at political opponents who've supported Democrats over the years.
So many people are against this, said uh University of Wisconsin Madison's senior Kylie Christianson early Wednesday.
She sat in the Capitol Rotunda on her blanket, putting the finishing touches on a protest sign.
His job's to help us, not to hurt us.
Public employee bill is the latest measure that Walker has pushed through the Republican-controlled legislature since taking office in January.
Also signed into law tax cuts for businesses that relocate to Wisconsin and those that create jobs, as well as sweeping lawsuit reform.
From the Washington Post, this is an op-ed column by a staunch Uber leftist progressive named Harold Myerson.
The headline, workers toppled a dictator in Egypt, but might be silenced in Wisconsin.
They're referring to Scott Walker here as a uh cheese head pharaoh.
In Egypt, workers are having a revolutionary February.
In the United States, by contrast, February is shaping up as the cruelest month workers have known in decades.
Last Friday, Scott Walker, Wisconsin's new Republican governor, proposed taking away most collective bargaining rights of public employees.
Well, you you know the story.
He's um doing all this, and Myerson says that the real goal of the American right is to reduce public employee unions to the level of private sector unions, which now represent fewer than seven percent of American workers wrong, Mr. Meyerson.
We're trying to save budgets, we're trying to save the fiscal solvency of the federal government and state governments.
That's really what's happening here.
So Mubarak was the chastened pharaoh of the Middle East, and Walker is now the cheese head pharaoh of the Middle West, according to Harold Myerson.
So they're really ticked off.
And I mention all this to you because this is exactly what the Democrats are hoping happens in Washington.
That Republicans get the same treatment.
In fact, the Democrats are hoping that the Republicans try to make the same level of cuts that are happening in New Jersey that are happening in Wisconsin.
The Democrats, however, are failing to notice that the public isn't outraged over any of this.
This guy was elected to do this, as was Chris Christie.
He's got the support of the people of Wisconsin.
Wisconsin, folks, Madison, Wisconsin, Moscow, West.
I mean, and yet they've got a Republican governor and a Republican legislature.
Governor Andrew Kumo in New York is cutting taxes.
He's cutting spending and cutting taxes.
They don't have any choice in the states.
They can't make their pension payments as they are.
There isn't the money for any of it.
All of these unfunded, underfunction, underfunded liabilities, The money is not there.
It's reached the tipping point here.
You know, I I frankly am thankful that they're they're appealing people willing to take the arrows and do things like this.
This is not.
This is not easy.
This is, I mean, you know, politicians want to be loved.
They want to be adored.
They want to be respected.
This is this is uh uh I know it's power and it's the wheeling of power, and that that can be exciting, but thank goodness there are people willing to tackle this kind of stuff rather than take the easy way, the road of least resistance.
Quick time out, my friends will be back.
I'll rush ball with much more after this.
I'm watching the White House press briefing.
This is the first press briefing today for Jay Carney, former Time magazine reporter, uh editor, uh now Obama's chief spokesman answering questions from all of his buddies in the White House press corps.
Jacob Tapper just said, hey, Jay, welcome.
And Jay is answering questions, he's replacing uh Robert Gibbs as White House press secretary.
Of course, there's no bias uh in the uh in the media.
There's no bias, there's no there's no agenda.
Media doesn't have any agenda, they just keep getting reporters to walk through a revolving door from administration jobs, congressional senate jobs.
This guy Carney is coming over from uh you know, trying to uh save the day for Joe Biden every day was Biden's press secretary, now biting off the big job for Obama.
There's more on this budget cutting stuff.
Washington Post House Speaker John Boehner dismissed concerns yesterday about the potential for federal job cuts, saying he thinks the government can't afford to keep so many workers.
He was asked at his weekly uh news conference about the prospect of federal job cuts if a House planned to trim a hundred billion dollars in government spending passes.
Boehner said over the last two years since Obama has taken office, the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs.
Now, if some of those jobs are lost in this, so be it.
We're broke.
It's time for us to get serious about how we're spending the nation's money.
The reporter noted, however, the government might have to pay federal unemployment assistance to laid off workers, potentially adding more costs.
Jesse Ferguson, spokesman, Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee.
If this is the attitude of Speaker Boehner, when it comes to saving existing jobs, it's no surprise is moving forward with draconian spending cuts that will cost even more.
Democrats are howling.
This is exactly what they want.
This is what they are setting up.
They think that this is going to redound to their benefit like it did in 1995.
They think that all of these federal budget cuts the Republicans propose are going to come back and just ruin Republican electoral chances.
They haven't the slightest understanding of where the public is on this.
Dana Milbank, also in the Washington Post, the dirty truth.
He's got a column here on what Boehner's doing.
The dirty truth is that Boehner would stall the economy to help Republicans in 2012 with federal layoffs.
Yeah, so the Republicans, whatever they're doing here is designed to slow down the economy.
Because that'll help them in their election efforts in 2012.
How do you stall an economy that isn't moving?
How in the world do you write a piece that the Republicans want to stall the economy when we've had two years of a president who has taken aim at the economy?
And he has hit the bullseye for crying out loud.
No economic growth.
Now inflation is settling in.
There aren't any new jobs.
Spending is through the roof.
The deficits are rising.
The reality is there's no way to pay off this debt that we're in now.
There's literally no way it'll ever be paid off.
There has to be another objective.
The economy is not moving.
There is no recovery.
Still hasn't started.
And yet, the Republicans, the Republicans are trying to stall the economy for their own election benefit in 2012.
It's just in going to play, Mr. Milbank.
You guys, it's it's it's this is 2011.
This is not 1995.
It's not 1980.
you're dealing with a uh with a public that is far more informed than you think because you they know what you're not reporting.
They know what you're not telling them.
They already know it.
And your attempts to affect their negative outreach here is not going to work.
Let me put this in perspective: 800 billion dollars in stimulus spending wasted, not one dime in return for it.
A hundred billion dollars in cuts, one-eighth of it, is a disaster.
Come on, media, get with it.
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