This is a CNN poll and Boehner on the short end of it.
Spending cuts will affect nearly every federal agency, upending almost every federal agency.
Healthcare, education, transportation, slashed.
The libs are calling it an assault on basic services.
This is this $28 billion budget deal.
That's the L.A. Times.
Washington Post, $38 billion in cuts budget deal will cover various domestic areas.
Some of the worst-sounding trims are not quite what they seem.
Would not necessarily result in lost jobs or service cutbacks.
They were worried for a moment there at the Washington Post that this $38 billion budget agreement would actually shut down the economy.
They were actually worried about that.
Great to have you back, Rush Limbaugh, behind the golden EIB microphone.
There's only two of them.
One's a backup for the primary.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, the email address, El Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
Byron York and the Washington Examiner.
The pundits are fond of saying that Republicans are deeply divided over cutting federal spending.
John Boehner, the story goes, is barely able to ride a herd on these rowdy Tea Party freshmen who want deeper cuts than House Republican leaders.
There's been less discussion of the deep divisions on the Democrat side.
How deep are those divisions?
Well, as Obama prepares to reveal his budget priorities tomorrow and lie to the American people, I threw that in there.
Byron didn't write that.
Just take a look at a new document called the People's Budget.
The People's Budget is a product of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of the most liberal Democrats in the House.
It's not a small bunch.
They got 76 members of the Progressive Caucus.
That's about 40% of the 192 Democrats in the House.
But remember what I said earlier.
These internecine fights in the Democrat Party, they're not over the end result.
They're over how fast to get there.
Pure and simple.
Many members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus are quite prominent.
Barney Frank, John Conyers, George Miller, Charlie Wrangell, Rosa DeLauro, Gerald Lutton-Nadler, Louise Slaughter, and others.
In other words, the Progressive Caucus, about three times bigger than the Blue Dog Coalition, is not a fringe munch within the House.
The People's Budget, they have put together their own document called the People's Budget.
It's the liberals' answer to Paul Ryan's budget proposal, which they say is leading us down a road to ruin.
The people's budget would eliminate the deficit in just 10 years.
But wait till you hear how.
Wait till you hear this.
The people's budget would eliminate the deficit in just 10 years.
Ryan's plan would take more than 25 years to do it, they say.
The people's budget would expand Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.
This budget saves the American people from the recklessness of the Republican majority.
Now, how can such fiscal miracles be accomplished?
By tax increases that would make even some top Democrats gasp.
The most extraordinary tax increase proposed by the Progressive Caucus is to raise the Social Security tax to cover nearly all of a taxpayer's income.
Right now, the Social Security tax, FICA, is imposed on the first $106,000 of income.
For people who make more than that, the caucus would tax a full 90% of income.
So for every dollar above $106,000 you make, the tax rate would be 90%.
Not the income tax rate.
This is the Social Security tax rate, FICA.
So if you make $206,000, $100,000 of that would be taxed at 90%.
Every dollar over $106,000 taxed at 90%, no matter how high it goes.
No matter what your income, the caucus would raise the Social Security tax that employers pay as well.
Although that's, I have to keep for 22 years, I've had to point out that the employer doesn't pay Social Security tax at all.
And every year I'd mention this, and I still get people emailing me and phoning me, arguing with me.
I'm not even going to waste my time explaining it again.
If you don't understand it by now, you won't.
You just don't want to.
Anyway, the caucus would create three individual tax brackets for the highest incomes, topping out at 47%.
It would also raise the capital gains tax, the estate tax, and corporate taxes.
It would create something called a financial crisis responsibility fee and a financial speculation tax.
And of course, it would repeal the Bush tax cuts, which Obama is going to propose tomorrow night, by the way.
After agreeing to them in December, Obama is going to propose we get rid of them.
Now, the Progressive Caucus is just an offshoot of the Socialist Party of America.
They are a bunch, for all intents and purposes.
You call them socialists, but they're communists.
And how about the people's budget?
It sounds Maoist.
Sounds like something Maoiste Tong and a gang of four would write.
Now, if anybody needed reminding the people's budget is proof that the liberal idea of budget balancing is tax, tax, tax.
If you're looking for spending cuts in the people's budget, you'll find only one really big one.
That's national defense.
The liberals would end overseas contingency operations, i.e. the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan starting in 2013.
They would save more money by reducing strategic capabilities, conventional forces, procurement, and research and development programs for the military.
In other words, they would gut the U.S. ability to defend itself today and long into the future.
What would the liberals spend money on?
Well, the people's budget is essentially a newer and bigger stimulus bill.
It pledges to invest $1.45 trillion in job creation, early childhood, K-12 and special education, quality childcare, energy and broadband infrastructure, housing and research and development, along with billions more for stimulus like road and other transportation games.
Overall, the plan shows the gaping divide between the progressive caucus and the Obama White House.
Back in his Chicago days, Obama might have signed on to something like this.
But now as president, desperate for the support of independent voters in 2012, he can't, at least not openly.
But some strategists are arguing that the people's budget is good for Obama because it lets him position himself responsibly between what he'll call the excesses of Ryan and the progressive caucus.
My friends, The most important line in Byron York's piece here is as president, desperate for the support of independent voters, Obama can't support it, but he might easily have signed on to it back in his Chicago days.
This is just evidence what I said in explaining the internecine battles in the Democrat Party.
Obama, I'm telling you, do not doubt me, Obama agrees with everything in the progressive Paucus caucus people's budget.
He just can't come out and support it openly the way the authors do.
But he and the rest of that bunch of Denver, there might be three Democrats in all of Congress who think this is too extreme.
The vast majority of them, this is precisely what they believe.
I mean, the difference is you'd have to quibble over pennies, hate defense, raise taxes on everybody.
The only job would come working for government.
This is exactly what they believe.
It's exactly what Obama would love to be able to accomplish.
He can't say so.
And he can't openly support this.
But he's not opposed to it.
The people's budget, and this is nothing new, by the way, the people's budget is something that communist parties in the U.S. have been putting out for years.
1999, the Congressional Progressive Caucus website was hosted by the Democrat Socialists of America.
That's one of the hardest things for people in this country to get their arms around, that people like this actually exist, that a lot of them live in this country, that a significant percentage of the population in this country, 20% maybe, believe this.
And a lot of them are elected.
40% of the Democrat caucus is made up of people like this, almost half of it.
It's not within the party itself an extreme fringe group or its fringe extreme beliefs.
It's who they are.
Okay, I said we got a great audio soundbite roster.
Let's get started.
Last night on On the Record, Greta Van Sustrin, she talked to Donald Trump.
And she said, Rush Limbaugh says the GOP caved in the recent fight over the continuing resolution, a 2011 fiscal budget that was hammered out Friday.
And they had this exchange following her assertion.
Do you agree with Rush Limbaugh?
Well, I'm a fan of Rush.
I like Rush a lot.
I think it's step-by-step.
Certainly, they probably wanted a little more, but if you look at the pundits, they're all saying that Obama lost big and the Democrats lost big.
But I think it's a step-by-step issue, and next year will really be telling.
That was last night, don't forget.
And he had not seen the media that came out today that talked about, hey, you know what?
After we've looked at all this, Obama was the big winner because really, they counted a bunch of stuff from a previous Obama budget that hadn't been spent.
You know, there's some money previously allocated, not like TARP, but, you know, there's unspent TARP money.
There are other elements of the budget where money hasn't been spent where they got some of that money and applied it to this.
It was originally thought that about $6 billion unspent from the census budget was applied here to reach the 38.
Turns out that was not the case, but things like that did happen.
And Donald didn't know that last night.
So Van Sustrin said, well, look, our debt ceiling is the next big issue.
The president, when senators, said he would vote no to raise the death city.
Now he wants to raise it.
What is your position?
Unless they come up with some really good ideas and come up with them fast, I wouldn't do it.
I'd force them to the fire.
I'd make sure that they come out and straighten out this mess that we have because our country is a financial mess.
And unless you're going to straighten it out, and you have to do it quickly, because we're going to end up being like some of the worst countries in Europe.
We're going to end up being literally, if you look at what's happening with China, if you look at what's happening with some of the other countries, what they're doing to us, until we can straighten that mess out, we're going to have to do something with the debt ceiling.
People are still trying to figure out what is he doing?
What is his objective?
And my email is running a gamut.
Some people think that he's actually running at the behest of Democrats, Ram Emmanuel, to so split the Republican Party to get him to support Iran as a third party or to cause a third-party splinter.
Other people are saying, Russia, remember how you were right about Perot?
We're looking at Perot too here.
This is a second coming of Perot.
And people are urging me not to get sucked in here by this.
Other people, so what this guy is really going out on a limb, this birth certificate thing, really going out in a limb for what purpose?
I mean, people can't imagine he's doing this without somebody urging him to do it for an ultimate payoff down the line.
People just can't accept that things are what they are.
And I'm just sharing with you what I have no answer.
I'm just sharing with you here what people are saying to me in the email.
So then, let's see, Wall Street Journal website, Kelly Evans interviewed Trump, who's everywhere now.
And during a discussion about him possibly running for president, question, if you don't get the nomination as a Republican, will you run as an independent?
I'm thinking about that.
I'm very conservative.
To be honest with you, I think it would be very, very bad for the Republican Party.
I could also possibly win as an independent.
Otherwise, I wouldn't do it.
I'm not doing it for any other reason because I like winning.
The concern is that if I don't win, will I run as an independent?
And the answer is probably yes.
And that bothers me only from the standpoint that if I don't win, when I'm going to get a Republican and Obama gets re-elected.
So why do it?
That's an amazing answer.
The concern is if I don't win, will I run as an independent?
The answer is probably yes.
And that bothers me.
I got to get him back on here.
I got to get Trump back.
I cut through all this noise and see what's actually going on here.
This is what, Tuesday, I think I can do that by the end of the week.
Get him back on it.
I bet I can.
I bet I can.
Let's see.
I'm going to skip C, skip number four, skip number five.
Oh, go to number six.
Yesterday at the White House, Washington, Pharaoh Obama spoke with eighth graders from Longmont, Colorado's Altona Middle School.
And a little girl said up and said, what was the hardest challenge you had to overcome to become president or being president?
Being president, the hardest thing is that this is such a big country with so many different kinds of people, and everybody has different ideas.
And so even if you have a pretty clear sense of what you want to do, your budget for health care or foreign policy, there's going to be, you know, half the country may disagree.
It would be easier if I could just say, well, here's what I think is the best thing to do.
I could just do it.
But I've got this thing called Congress, and, you know, they're elected to make sure that we're busy members of Congress.
We've got this constitution.
This is how we should do things.
First, will Obama ever speak to a grown-up audience again?
Seems like every audience either a bunch of salivating Democrats with their tongues on the floor or a bunch of kids.
And here, what did he essentially say?
He's complaining he's not a dictator.
It'd be so much easier if he was a dictator.
He thought he's going to be able to do the job of dictator.
He can't do that.
Oh, how about did you see where Obama laments the loss of his anonymity?
Wishes he could just sit in the park and, yeah, and watch people walk by.
He just really misses, you know, he hates getting up having to shave.
He hates getting up having to look presentable.
He'd like to just, you know, veg, and he can't do that.
He would love to go to Central Park and just sit there and tax people as they walk by, but he can't collect taxes from them as they walk by.
Well, he can't do it.
Amazing the complaints that.
I mean, look, he sought the job.
It's not as though this was an unknown aspect of the job that you lose your anonymity.
All right, folks, sit tight.
We're coming back.
We'll get back to your phones and just jiffy.
Okay, another email.
Dear Rush, this is maddening.
Why do you have to go to your subscriber email account?
You get immediate feedback from all of us listening.
If you just check your Twitter stream while you're on the air, thanks.
Gina in St. Louis.
Gina, I'm not on Twitter.
I don't tweet.
I think there's a lot of limbo imposers, posers, imposters, and so forth out there pretending to be me, but nobody can really pull that off.
So if you think you're tweeting with old El Rushbo out there on Twitter, you're not.
Because I'm not there.
This next story.
Perfect.
This dictator in Ivory Coast, the president of Ivory Coast, his name is Bagbo.
How does he really pronounce it?
Well, it's GBAG.
It needs a couple vowels.
GBAGBO.
Bagbo.
Gubugbo.
I'll pronounce it Bagbo because it sounds funnier.
Laurent Bagbo was offered a professorship at Boston University if he would quit as president.
No, he's holding on for Harvard.
He was offered a chance to teach at Boston University in the United States if he would renounce his claim to be president of Ivory Coast and end the country's civil war.
Said a source familiar with the negotiations on CNN, the United States, gave permission for him to lecture at the university and teach anywhere else in the country as a visiting professor.
A senior African diplomat told CNN on Tuesday.
Now, who pays him?
American taxpayers would pay the guy.
Or your tuition fees for your young skulls full of mush would pay the.
So here you have a killer, right?
He's a murdering president.
He's offered a professorship if he'll leave.
At Boston University, the audio soundbites Alan Simpson babe was on a roll last night.
He was on hardball with Chris Matthews.
You know, he was one of the co-chairs of Obama's deficit commission out there, along with Irksome Bowles.
So they had him on, and yeah, he was on hardball, and he was, oh, the first bite here is with client number nine over on CNN with Elliot Spitzer.
Client number nine said, let's talk politics for a second.
The Republicans got to have a presidential nominee next year.
And, you know, look, you've been doing everything that's right and good for the public without being partisan, Senator Simpson.
And that's what the public applause.
Yeah, everybody's applauding Alan Simpson.
CNN wonders why nobody's watching.
Everybody's applauding Alan Simpson.
And Elliot Spitzer knows it.
But to be partisan for a moment, Senator Simpson, is there a Republican candidate out there who's talking common sense on the deficit right now?
I can only tell you, if they stay away from the social issues, if somebody is saying return to the base, or if somebody is telling you they're going to do this or that, or abortion is a hideous thing.
Who the hell is for abortion?
I don't see anybody with a sign, but for God's sake, it's a deeply intimate and personal decision.
And I don't think men legislators should even talk about it or even vote on it.
And then you got homophobes in our party.
Good God, we're all God's children.
We're all human beings.
If they're going to play that ancient ritual, we ain't got a prayer.
It doesn't matter who they put up.
All right.
So the Republican Party is full of homophobes, and men should have nothing to say about abortion, even though in many cases in abortion, they are the known father.
In some cases, it's not known.
But they shouldn't have any role whatsoever.
It's a hideous thing, and he doesn't know anybody who's for it.
You ever heard of Planned Parenthood, Senator?
You ever heard of Margaret Sanger?
I mean, there are...
Senator, let me tell you something.
If you see Planned Parenthood or other leftist organizations advertising, promoting women's health services, you know what that stands for, Senator?
You know what women's health services means in the current debate?
What were they talking about during this most recent budget battle?
It's about women's health services.
It was abortion.
Anyways, what's got to do with the budget?
But the question was, are there any Republican nominees out there talking common sense on the deficit?
Hell, I don't know.
Bunch of homophobes.
Good God.
We're all God's children.
Where's the bar?
Then on Hardball, he went over there with Chris Matthews.
Matthews said, what do you think of the Republican field?
How about that?
Two networks, same question.
What do you think about the Republican field?
Because you were a pro-choice Republican of some belief in fiscal responsibility.
You proved it on the commission.
Is there anybody running for president right now that you think has got the right stuff and earns the Allen Simpson rough-hewn endorsement?
We won a governorship there in New Jersey, one in Virginia by not talking about social issues.
Then you've got homosexuality.
You've got don't ask, don't tell.
We have homophobes in our party.
That's disgusting to me.
We're all human beings.
We're all God's children.
Now, if they're going to get off in that stuff, Sam Torum has said some cruel things, cruel, cruel things about homosexuals.
I'm not sticking with people who are homophobic women, you know, moral values while you're diddling your secretary, while you're giving a speech on moral values.
Come on, get off of it.
He did say it.
He did say it.
He said it on hardball.
Good old Alan Simpson, babe.
Senator Simpson, let me say the whole Democrat Party is for abortion.
They get a cut of every abortion at Planned Parenthood in contributions.
Planned Parenthood's a money laundering operation for the Democrat Party.
Abortion is the sacrament of the religion of liberalism.
By the way, since I think 2001, I think he still is, Simpson has been the honorary chairman of the Republican Unity Coalition, the ROOC, R-U-C, which is a gay, straight alliance within the Republican Party.
So, see one more.
Jim Avila, ABC's world of news tonight, had a report about gasoline prices approaching the $5 per gallon mark.
And there's also another guy in this Moody's analytics economist, Chris Lafakis, fill-in anchor George Stephanopoulos, but here's the exchange.
The dreaded $5 mark.
It's a price point economists say will hurt not only personal budgets, but could thwart the recovery.
We're right on the cusp.
It's not going to take too much more of an increase in oil prices to start triggering these changes in consumption behavior.
There's nothing more pernicious for the economy than an increase in oil prices.
It acts as a tax.
A tax that does little to benefit the American taxpayer.
It doesn't pay police and firefighters.
In fact, 60% of the oil dollar goes overseas.
And, George, that's a transfer of wealth no one here wants to see.
Absolutely not.
Oh, wow.
They're lamenting the high gas price revenue not going to government.
It's going overseas.
And, of course, the gas tax is a locked-in number.
No matter how high the price goes, the gas, I think the tax, federal tax, stays the same.
And they're upset about that.
Radon, radon, radon.
Back to the phones.
People have been patiently waiting, such as Terry and Phoenix.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Oh, rush, rush, rush.
I am so excited.
I'm really jacked here.
I hope my broadcast insurance with the Justice Brothers is current.
If not, Bo better keep his hand on the bleep button.
Now, we got a 40-second delay here.
You have no qualms.
All right, great.
First of all, Tom, the guy that sent you that email, screw him.
You know, you've got to hit the opponent with as much as you got every chance you get.
You don't hold anything back at any time.
Well, Tom thought I wasn't being optimistic and I think I was spending too much time whining, which I don't agree with.
I don't think I'm whining.
I think I'm trying to correct the record in teaks, but to each his own.
Yeah.
Well, I just noticed my notes are written on the reminder to renew my rush 24-7.
Now, let me talk about Boehner for a second, if I may.
Yeah, go ahead.
Okay, since.
How much time do you need?
We've got about four and a half minutes.
That should be plenty, I hope.
Cool.
I feel like, you know, since he was elected the Speaker of the House, he's been wooing me.
And, you know, he's a really good-looking guy, and he's been talking nice things to me.
And, you know, me being the regular taxpayer.
And while things were really good, looking good, and I decided, sure, I'll go with this guy.
And then last Friday night, you know, there we were at the dance, and I think he might have slipped me a roofie because when I woke up Saturday morning, man, I was sore all over.
I think it was date rape.
I'm not sure.
Whoa.
Well, from Alan Simpson accusing people of diddling their secretaries while talking about social issues to you feeling date raped, we've about covered it here.
You know, the best thing that we got out of that deal is maybe they're playing reruns on NPR.
Otherwise, we got nothing.
You know?
So I got two questions.
I love that.
Reruns.
Okay, what's the questions?
Well, what are we going to do about Boehner?
You know, for years and years, us Republicans have been, oh, well, you know, he didn't realize that it was going to come out that way.
And he was trying his best, and he's doing the good work, and yada, yada, blah, blah.
But we can't afford that, Rush.
You know, things are too close.
Boehner is a good guy.
You know, I've played golf with Boehner, and I know him.
He's a good guy.
And he's, I think, in a lot of cases, animated by not making the same, what he thinks were mistakes made during the newt days.
And he clearly thinks the government shutdown was a mistake.
He doesn't want to be perceived as the architect of that.
And we disagree about that.
I don't think the government shutdown is an end to anything.
I think it's a tool.
But, you know, you have to, when you look, I don't offer this as an excuse.
I say this just trying to help people maybe to understand, not agree with, but to understand the sentiment our people have about the media.
It is a genuine fear, and I can't emphasize it enough.
And when you look at them looking at what's happened to Sarah Palin, they don't want that.
They don't want to be in those crosshairs.
They don't want any part of it.
It's just handle it.
They don't think you can overcome it.
If they end up being targeted like Palin, I think it's the end of their career.
Well, if we give him credit for being a million people in the media that would vote the way they report it, big deal.
We got 20 million listeners of you, like me, that can overturn that.
So he needs to know that we're behind him no matter what the media says.
So I don't know how we get that message to him.
Well, that's a good point.
That's a good point.
And my only other question is, and I know you can fix it because you are the greatest.
I can't go to my PC to work on iPad.
Well, have you got the app?
You don't have the iPad.
Oh, you don't have the iPad.
You don't have the iPad.
I was just totally like, Rush.
That is so shameless I can't reward you.
I know.
So, so shameless.
I know, but I did say the NPR rerun thing.
Yeah, yeah, I know.
Jeez, I've got it.
By the way, but Donald, quickly, 20 seconds, 20 seconds.
You know, he's touching the nerves that need to be touched.
He is.
All right.
He is.
I got to go.
I really do.
Thanks very much.
We'll be right back.
Don't go away.
Okay, we're going to try to get Trump on one day this week.
Should be able to do that.
Actually, you know, I think Trump might actually be the real illegal alien here.
I mean, you say what you will, but he is one guy actually doing a job that most Americans wouldn't touch.
He fits the bill in that regard.
I hope you people have a wonderful Tuesday.
Prepare for Obama's next series of lies to you tomorrow.