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April 14, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 14, 2011, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
I got back real relatively early.
I got back about where we landed around one o'clock.
1230, 1 o'clock, yes.
Oh.
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Normal night.
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Um, you know, Obama's speech yesterday was taking place while the program was unfolding, and I got so disgusted with it, I stopped carrying it, as you well know.
It turns out that I was entirely warranted in dispatching it.
It was a disgusting display.
It was it was in no way presidential.
Uh this is what we're up against.
He invites Ryan and a couple other Republican leaders up there, sit in the front row, and then proceeds to insult him.
Now I'm gonna tell you the real reason he did it.
There are two real reasons he did it.
One is he's not this cool, calm, collected uh guy.
He's he's just folks.
Um he's not a good guy.
You know, you hear people uh ask, is this such such a good guy?
Obama's not a good guy.
He's a mean, vindictive little guy.
He's very cold.
The second thing he was doing yesterday was shoring up his base.
I I I kid you not, the uh there are a lot of factors that went into the uh makeup of the type of speech Obama gave yesterday, but certainly in the mix is the fact of who his base is.
His base is made up of people even more vile than he is.
I mean, you've got you you've got the the genuine, I mean, you've got a lot of it is just walking human debris uh on on the Democrat base side, and they've got to be stoked.
And you can go through uh earlier this week and all of last week.
The uh drive-by's had a whole series of stories about how the left is not happy with Obama.
He's uh he's moderating too much for him.
You look at all the stuff.
Gitmo's still open.
We're at war as much if not more.
Uh he extended the Bush tax cuts uh last last December.
I mean, that bunch of people, those savages, uh uh that make up the Obama base are fit to be tied.
He had to get them back, and the one way to do it is to go out and savage us.
That's what they love.
That's what they get off on.
That is their orgasm.
Because these people can't find willing mates.
So their orgasm is for Obama and Democrat Party leaders to really take it to us.
So that's one of the things that was involved in what he was doing.
The second aspect of it is just his nature.
That's just who he is.
Community organizer, agitator.
There was there was there was nothing presidential.
I told you the day before he's gonna come lie to you.
He's gonna give a campaign speech, campaign kickoff speech.
There was certainly nothing uh presidential about it.
And of course, the final authority on the list, Charles Crowdhammer, uh, as everybody acknowledges, uh called it a disgrace.
Which it it was.
Uh, Paul Ryan has been uh he was on my buddy Levin show last night.
Uh was great.
He's been on uh television this morning reacting to Obama's speech.
We have audio sound bites of that.
Uh but remember I want let's go back and listen to Obama from last December.
This is uh check the date here's December the 17th.
And remember every Obama statement has an expiration date.
This, yeah, this is after signing the this is after the lame duck session, and they had agreed to extend the Bush tax rates.
Now you remember that act alone caused the loyal clause of the savages at Obama's base to slip and begin to fall down.
They were just beside themselves.
This is not what they elected.
You know, some of you are mad at the Republican leadership in the House.
Well, these guys are angry at Obama.
They think that he's betraying them.
So here you have Obama.
This is what he said December 17th, not that long ago, about the Bush tax cuts.
And remember, yesterday he came out and he just excoriated them.
And he said that he he characterized people who uh achieve and earn and who who get these tax cuts, uh, tax rates, whatever.
They're baby killers, they're elderly killers, they're going to start.
I mean, it was just it it it there was no pretense of that speech yesterday being presidential.
But let's see now, this is uh April, so you get uh March uh February, four months ago.
Four, maybe five months ago.
Tax rates for every American were poised to automatically increase on January 1st.
If that had come to pass, the average middle class family would have had to pay an extra three thousand dollars in taxes next year.
That wouldn't have just been a blow to them.
It would have been a blow to our economy.
Just as we're climbing out of a devastating recession.
I refuse to let that happen.
Because we acted, it's not going to.
Right.
In fact, not only will middle class Americans avoid a tax increase, but tens of millions of Americans will start the new year off right by opening their first paycheck to see that it's actually larger than the one they get right now.
Okay, so four or five months ago, there he's taking credit for a tax cut.
And remember back then we made a point, semantics, the media was portraying it as a tax cut when it wasn't.
It was simply the extension of existing tax rates.
But they're so eager, so eager to give Obama credit for a tax cut.
Why?
Well, uh, they had lost the debate.
Tax cuts.
Let's put it this way.
Raising taxes, everybody agreed except Obama's lunatic base would choke off whatever chance there would be of an economic recovery.
But now, four months later, that's all out the window.
It's all gone.
That didn't matter.
Statement had an expiration date and it doesn't apply.
Now, either he doesn't care whether we remember it, or he doesn't remember that he said it, or it doesn't matter to anybody at the regime that he said it because what he said yesterday doesn't matter.
Only what's said today is uh is relevant.
USA Today, Obama, I refuse to renew Bush tax cuts for rich.
We can't afford a trillion dollars in tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire.
Uh so uh he's willing to do whatever damage he can to the economic recovery.
The let's see, this is uh AP has an analysis.
Now you all heard the speech, or you've heard about it, and you know full well that raising taxes was a focal point, correct?
Am I right?
Uh redundant question.
Here's the headline.
Obama tiptoes on proposed tax increases.
Tiptoes, AP.
Tiptoes.
That's right.
Crowdhammer crowd hammered Obama.
Well, crowd hammer, crowd hammers you.
I mean, it carries a lot of weight because people wait for what Kralhammer is going to say.
Here's Obama.
This is this morning in uh in Washington, a meeting with the White House deficit commission co-chairs Irks and Bowles and former Senator Alan Diddle Secretary Simpson.
Uh speaking to reporters about the meeting.
Yesterday I laid out a plan to cut four trillion dollars from our deficit.
It is a balanced plan that asks for shared sacrifice in order to provide shared opportunity for all Americans.
It is important that we put everything on the table.
These gentlemen uh share the view that we can't exempt anybody from these efforts that it's not appropriate for us to ask for sacrifices from everybody except for the two percent of Americans who are doing best.
Think about this.
This guy's so easy now.
This is all prediction.
In fact, I did predict it last year that this was going to happen as a result of Obama going for the extension of the tax rates.
That is part of the campaign.
He's gonna it wouldn't be long before he comes back and starts demagoguing the rich and ridiculing them after having said that we need to extend their tax rates in order to prolong the economic recovery.
Uh now it is always happens, as always happens.
I've got a couple, maybe three examples here in my stack.
When Obama calls for tax increases, we start uh getting articles about polls that show most Americans want their taxes raised.
It's just amazing.
Back when Clinton was lying every other sentence, we got stories on how it's good for you.
White lies actually good for family.
Spare people's feelings.
Little white lies actually help promote the concept of happiness and so forth.
So here's Obama raising taxes, they've got stories.
Yeah, it's amazing.
57% of the American people, it's a good idea.
Just just like that.
Americans want their taxes raised.
What's funny is that Obama doesn't even believe that he doesn't believe that people want their taxes.
He made a joke about it in the speech.
And yet his minions in the media go ahead and run the story for him based on a fake poll.
Victor Davis Hansen, National Review Online, a fine paragraph to open his analysis of this, is really is good.
The president gave the sort of scare speech he not long ago warned against and blasted the income tax rates he not long ago agreed were necessary in a context in which he has just presented a budget with a 1.6 trillion dollar deficit of the sort he now says is unsustainable,
and has warned about recklessly voting against raising the debt ceiling in a fashion that he himself had once done in a larger landscape in which he had once damned attacking Middle East countries in optional wars, guantanamo, renditions, tribunals, preventative detention, intercepts, wiretaps, predators, and leaving troops in Iraq, and then embraced or expanded all of that and more.
He said this list is infinite and includes everything from drilling to campaign financing to remarks, whatever he says he'll change it on a dime.
These weird about faces raise interesting questions that transcend the current politics of the deficit.
A, has Obama in his past careers never been called to account and so reached a point where simply being Obama means that we're not supposed to apply standards of accuracy or memory or consistency to him in the way we do all others.
Or B, does an absent-minded Obama carelessly just make things up, ad hoc as he goes along, forgetting what he said earlier, but secure that his hope and change delivery of the moment will so mesmerize the audience that nobody will remember or care if at times he ends up saying exactly the opposite of what he had said, maybe even just yesterday.
Or C so blatantly partisan a politician that he has no principles at all, and knowingly says things that are aimed at appealing to 51% of the public at any given moment and therefore will always change with public opinion.
Or D. Is he so cynical that he understands campaign rhetoric has nothing to do with actual governance?
And so he's allowed to say something that he knows in advance that he's not bound to follow.
Or E, is he so bored with uh this job, he feels no responsibility to offer reliable, consistent governance and so rashly throw things out, hastens back to the more enjoyable PR aspects of the office.
As Victor Davis Hansen at uh National Review Online wondering Desperately trying to explain this.
Because it is puerile.
It is infantile.
It is incoherent.
It's immature, it's childish.
It's uh uh certainly not presidential.
So we make uh take a brief timeout, and we gather our forces, and we gather our stacks of stuff, and we organize for our continued excursion into broadcast excellence, which will include your phone calls at some point today.
Again, the telephone number is 8282-2882.
Sit tight, because we will be right back.
Is the news media, is the news media gonna have to go back and rewrite all their stories from last December during the uh the whole series of stories they filed a discussion of during the lame duck.
The Obama tax cuts here, the Obama tax cuts there.
Yesterday, in case you're still curious as to who Barack Obama is, you got the real guy.
That was Barack Obama yesterday.
That was Barack Obama unplugged, it was Barack Obama unrestrained, unchained, whatever.
Barack Obama would rather give hundreds of billions of dollars to community activists than to reform Medicare.
Barack Obama rather give hundreds of billions of dollars to government unions and acorn and the like rather than reform Medicaid.
And by the way, reforming Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, gotta happen, folks, to save the country, as it's been founded.
These are crucial things requiring strong, competent leadership.
We do not have it.
We never have had it in this president or administration regime.
It's we've been defrauded.
It's a complete fraud.
This administration is a complete fraud.
As Paul Ryan points out, even Sunday on the Sunday shows, discussing all of these salient points about the budget, our solvency.
They send out a campaign guy, David Fluff.
They don't send out somebody from uh the regime, Office of Management, budget, somebody like that.
Of course, they're all frauds too, but still, they didn't even make any pretense.
So, no, we're gonna give we're gonna give money to acorn.
We're not gonna fix Medicare.
We're gonna give money to government unions, gonna keep our money laundering operation going rather than fix Medicaid.
Obama would rather give hundreds of billions of dollars to environmentalist wackos and invest in what he knows to be a totally fraudulent enterprise, that being green energy, as a suitable, capable replacement for current energy source.
It's folks, it's it's it's it's insane.
There is no replacement for oil right now.
There's no replacement for coal.
There's no replacement for how we generate our energy.
Zilch!
You can dream, you can hope.
You can pretend that we're on the way to utopia, but we're not, and it doesn't exist, but doesn't stop him.
He'll give hundreds of billions of dollars to that effort.
Rather than grow the private sector, which is where standard of living is increased, which is where economic opportunity and prosperity reside.
No, we're not going to strengthen that.
Obama would rather increase the number of bureaucrats than promote private sector job growth.
He would rather fund more abortions than pay the U.S. military their salaries.
Why in the world?
I will never understand this.
Were we afraid of that debate last week?
When it came to the potential shutdown over this silly continuing resolution, which now we're told.
Don, I don't know if you've heard this.
The CBO, to the extent we trust them, has done a final analysis.
You know how much money was actually cut?
Not 38.5 billion, not 20 billion, 352 million.
All of this was over 352 million, and we're still being told from the uh salons and the upper echelons of our side's a big win.
I kid you not.
But last week when we're talking about why in the world, what are we afraid of in this debate?
They will not pay the military, which is at war, but they are going to go to the I mean they're going to plant the flag and they're going to go to the grave on the fact that they're going to continue to pay Planned Parenthood.
They will continue.
And they will not compromise on paying for abortions.
But they will not pay the military.
Why are we afraid of that debate?
Folks, this is actually, I can go through the uh uh a further list of other comparisons.
And in the real world, it's almost too easy.
This debate with and beating Obama and beating the left right now, it's almost too easy.
It isn't hard.
We have the simple best weapon anyone can have in a debate like this on our side.
That's the truth.
Obama has to lie, his entire life's a lie, his entire political career is a lie, his regime is a lie.
All we have to do is tell the truth, and we win.
And somehow we remain tepid in our energy for that.
The Republicans need to take Barack Hussein Obama on, throw his positions right back at him, unravel his BS and advance American principles.
For example, his speech yesterday, and it was it was actually embarrassingly bad when you realize that you you watch it, you realize it's being given by president.
And you know he could never give that speech at nighttime.
He couldn't have even given that you ever stop thinking about it, he could not have given that speech in prime time.
He could not have given that speech from the Oval Office.
That's how unpresidential it was.
It was a disgrace.
It was embarrassing.
According to Obama, if you are not a compassionate socialist like he is, you want to harm children, the sick, the elderly, you are totally comfortable with them dying, and yet who today is harming children, the sick, and the elderly by destroying the core principles that uphold the society, whose health care plan will ration their death?
Who is destroying the financial status of the country and with it the future of the children, the sick, and the elderly?
Who wants to ration wealth?
Who wants to ration health care?
It's not us.
We want prosperity for everybody.
We want as many people as seek it to experience success.
We don't begrudge anybody, and we don't hate those who are successful, and we don't think they deserve to be punished, and we do not consider them suspects.
They're not guilty of anything.
I've about had it with this notion that the successful, the wealthy, however you define it, got there by stealing it from the poor.
I've never understood the math on that.
It is never added up to me.
How anybody can get rich stealing anything from the poor.
Yet they say it each and every day.
Who is it?
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, that's destroying the value of your savings and pension and paycheck.
Who's doing this?
This regime.
Obama.
Whose policies are causing the price of basic necessities, food, gasoline to skyrocket.
I mean, folks, as I said, it's almost too easy.
This doesn't require a bunch of uh message specialists.
It doesn't require focus groups.
It doesn't require polling data.
We don't have to go out and ask people various questions to learn how they want to hear us speak.
We have the truth on our side.
We have never ever had a greater opportunity to contrast who we are with that which we oppose.
In the old days, we had to a lot of times define our opposition because they lie about who they are.
So we were always having to say, no, no, no, they're not what you think.
They are this and that and the other thing.
Well, we don't have to say a word, and it's proven by the fact that the independence, these precious God love them independence, abandoned the Democrat Party in Drolls just last November.
And we didn't do anything to attract them.
We just happened to be there.
Uh Biggest claim to fame in Democrats or the Republicans had was that they weren't Democrats.
They didn't have a plan.
They didn't have an agenda.
They didn't go out and woo any voters.
They just abandoned.
It's plain as day.
Anybody paying attention.
You want a prosperous country.
You want a um uh a robust future.
It ain't with this regime.
People know this.
How in the world last week are we afraid of the debate that was presented to us?
The regime, Obama calls it a distraction to have a writer or a piece of legislation that would actually pay uniformed military personnel in combat operations their paychecks.
Yes, my friends, that's a distraction.
No, we don't, you can't saddle us with that.
But the regime planted the flag on funding for planned parenthood.
Why are we afraid of that debate?
I'd take that debate to the American people any day of the week.
American people, I would say, in an address to the nation.
The administration is refusing in our budget talks, as we attempt to fund another ten days of the government's operation.
They are refusing to pay military people in combat.
They're refusing our efforts to have them paid if there's a government shutdown.
They are also demanding that abortions continue to happen paid for with federal dollars during a government shutdown.
How do we lose that?
We don't.
We do not lose that.
The only um entity, by the way, that can get rich by stealing his government.
And yesterday it was Obama explaining how he plans on stealing for his party and for the government.
Here is Paul Ryan.
He was invited by Obama to attend the speech yesterday at George Washington University.
And Ryan and the other Republicans who were invited actually thought that the invitation meant that Obama was going to seriously respond to Ryan's budget proposal.
Ryan should have known better.
Ryan attended the health care town hall, whatever it was, the summit at the White House, where he presented a couple of options and uh presidents look if looks could kill Ryan would be in the hospital to this day.
President did not like what Ryan was.
The president's not interested in opposing views.
He's not interested in compromise.
He's not interested in maintaining the country as founded.
Biden fell asleep, should have been Ryan that fell asleep.
Ryan stayed awake, and here a couple of bites of what he thought this this morning at uh in Washington.
He spoke about Obama, the speech.
Uh Fred Barnes, the moderator, and says, uh, what are the prospects for a grand bargain?
See, they I love Fred Barnes, everybody does, but there can't be a bargain with this guy.
We can't we've got to stop thinking bargain.
I don't care on what, be it a budget or anything else.
Folks, there is nothing.
There's there's not one part of Obama's agenda I want to compromise with.
There's not one part of it that I want to see implemented.
It's got to be defeated.
This is this is no different than if during the 80s, Reagan was arguing with Mikhail Gorbachev about our budget.
We're going to compromise compromise with the leader of the Soviet Union on our budget.
That's what's happening here, for all intents and purposes.
Anyway, here's Ryan's response.
This hurt definitely damages them.
I think when you go after your political adversaries with the kind of demagogic terms and comparisons that the president did, that makes it harder.
I forgot whose quote this was.
Maybe it was Churchill, but he was basically a pyromaniac in a field of straw men.
I mean, to set up all these straw men arguments and then to tear them down.
It's almost as if he wanted to paint his political adversaries, supposedly us, in a cartoonish kind of a way.
In a caricature.
As if we want to hurt people's grandparents, we're against families who have children with autism and disabilities, and we don't want kids to go to college.
I mean, that's basically what I got out of the president's speech yesterday.
Yeah, and he said it, Mr. Ryan.
He said it for a reason, because Obama's base believes it.
You have to.
This is um I've been here, folks.
The old been here done that.
The Democrats use this stuff.
I mean, to us it sounds ridiculous.
And we say to ourselves, who in the world is going to believe that we want to actually kill people.
Who's going to believe that?
They do believe that about us.
And that's why he's saying it.
He is saying it to the deranged people that make up his voting base who believe it.
Remember my story.
I'm speaking at Gopac, 1995.
We're in the midst of the budget battle.
The Democrats are accusing us of wanting to cut back on the school lunch program and on Medicare and Medicaid.
And the charge is out there that seniors are going to have to be eating dog food.
So I open up my remarks in GoPack by suggesting that I'm happy to be participating in this new plan that will require American senior citizens to eat dog food.
But I am so excited about it, and I feel have so much compassion.
I called my mother and I said, don't worry about it.
I'm going to get you a new can opener so you can get to the dog food easier.
Pat Schroeder thought I meant it.
She went to the floor of the House, one of the most hilarious examples.
You know, illustrating absurdity by being absurd, but she believed it.
She believed it because that's what they think of us.
No matter how ridiculous, no matter how absurd we think these allegations are, you must believe me.
Don't doubt me.
There are voters in in what they would consider their mainstream who believe, folks, that we want to get rid of Granny.
When it's they who have the plan to do it.
They have people who believe we don't care about children with autism.
They have people who believe it.
That's why Obama said it.
It is why he copped that attitude.
Obama has lost independence.
He's losing the black vote.
The polling data for Obama going as it is now.
He's he's down double digits in Pennsylvania.
And I know it's early, but he's an incumbent.
These are not good numbers for any incumbent at any time.
So what they're doing, they're not even making any pretense now at trying to woo the independence.
They're simply trying to show up their base.
That's why I went and spent some time with uh Reverend Sharpton at that convention.
You would think he's got the black vote wrapped up.
He doesn't.
You might be saying, well, where else are they gonna go?
They sit out.
You know, they're not energized, they'll sit out.
But the point is, right now, he has got to show up his base.
That's what he was doing yesterday.
They want mean-spiritedness.
They want vindictiveness.
They want to hear these allegations about us from him because they believe them.
So I caution Congressman Ryan.
He's sitting there, he's listening to himself being described this way.
And he says, This is absurd.
How in the world?
I mean, this is basically what we got out of speech yesterday that we're this and we're that.
Congressman.
You may think I'm nuts, but I urge you, don't doubt me.
I know who I'm talking about.
I know liberals, I know the American left and the base of this party.
Believe that about us.
Make no mistake.
There's more.
There's always more.
We get to it sooner than anybody else does, too.
Be patient.
Be right back.
I gotta tell you, folks, I just love this.
I ju I just love my job.
I don't even consider it a job.
I love my life.
I love my existence.
I I am so grateful for it.
And I I really I wish I knew what I wanted to do when I was eight.
I wanted to be on the radio.
That's how that's how early in life I discovered it.
And I uh I know so many people who uh they finished college and really had no idea what they wanted to do.
They most people had a lot of passion for things nobody would pay them to do, you know, hobbies and stuff like that.
Uh and it's uh I'm just sitting here thinking during the commercial break.
I can't wait for it to end to get back here and keep this stuff going, because this is I mean, it's a crucial, it's important, and we are uh some might say on a precipice, but it's a great opportunity at the same time.
Now here's more of Ryan.
This is uh again in Washington that's some stupid form.
I I can't the symbols with the numbers, the title of this thing, I can't begin to tell you what it is.
But it's a forum entitled Ryan answers Obama.
It's just I don't know where it is, but it doesn't matter.
And Fred Barnes is moderating it after after you just heard Ryan speak, uh after describing he just couldn't sit there and listen to the way Obama thought of him.
I mean, baby killers and all this.
We just it was not presidential.
He kept going and he continued with this.
I think what we got yesterday was a re-election campaign speech.
I guess it sort of tipped it off to me this last weekend when we heard he was floating a speech, not a plan necessarily, but a speech, and he sent his campaign manager out to discuss it.
Not his budget director, not his treasury secretary, not his you know chief of council economic advisors, but he sent his campaign manager out to announce this.
This was really a speech, not a plan, as far as I can tell.
So speeches aren't plans.
Speeches isn't action, it's speeches.
He doesn't have a budget.
He hasn't presented one and he doesn't dare.
He doesn't dare.
He is not presidential.
There's no reason to be afraid of the guy, is my point.
There's none.
There is no reason whatsoever to be afraid of this guy or the regime.
But Rush, but Rustic is sick the IRS on it.
Oh, come on, that's they can look and if you want to find reasons to be afraid, I mean you'll be you can find reasons to be afraid to get out of bed every day.
I'm just telling you here, in the uh in the context of being afraid of the guy's brain, his aura, his intellect, his experience, there's no justification for being frightened of the guy.
If we really got committed to this, this would almost be like taking candy from baby.
It would almost, by the time we got into it, if we really rolled up our sleeves, it would be too easy.
All right, let's uh let's grab a phone call or two, perhaps before the hour comes to a screeching halt.
This is Jason in Atlanta.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
You are up first.
Hey, Rush, honor to talk to you, man.
Thanks.
Hey, listen, man, I am outraged with Boehner.
And I'm outraged with this old guard Republican.
I mean, I'm telling you, my I'm livid to the point.
I emailed Boehner yesterday and told him they would never get a dime from me again.
I'd never support the Republican Party again.
These guys Boehner was on Hannity yesterday, Russ, saying that he fought like a dog for this 38 billion dollars.
Fought like a dog.
And uh now we're finding out that it's not even in the billions.
We're talking millions.
Yeah, yeah.
And I'm trying to figure out at what point, Rush, do we say, you know, we this this party's rot gut from the inside, and we've got to break from it.
Maybe get behind a Tea Party, a third party, maybe get behind the fair tax, do something that's gonna make it.
You don't want you don't you don't want third party.
What we want to do is uh I'm not particularly crazy about the phrase, but take over the uh the Republican Party.
Look, I I know John Boehner, a player golf of John Bahn.
He's a fine man.
I I want every it's it's unfortunate that he's being uh uh not slurred, but he's coming in for it.
I mean, he's getting his share of criticism as events unfold and information is gleaned.
He's uh he's a fine man, folks.
He's uh you know what we what we would all say in the uh common parlance, he's a good guy.
I I I think there's uh the the different forms of leadership.
You got caretaker, uh you have aggressive uh in this case, I I don't I don't know uh for certain what the objective of the leadership is.
Uh best I can tell, they don't really think they've won anything.
If if you had if you had to nail me down, if you had to pin me down to try to get Me to explain this.
My wild guess would be that if we could get in their heads, they don't think they've won anything yet, and they're not going to act like it.
You continue when when Boehner says we are what one half of one third, that's not the kind of talk you get from people who think they've won something.
You and I think we had a shellacking win in November, but they don't.
They don't think they won anything yet.
And uh lest there's this natural fear.
I've explained it, I don't have time to go into it again.
Natural fear of Democrats and the media, uh, and Obama specifically in the um in the beltway.
Anyway, don't go away.
Much more coming up.
Speaking of the House leadership, they are angry with Tim Polenty.
Tim Pollenty has come out and denounced the budget deal, and the editors at National Review have reversed themselves and come out and been critical now of the $38.5 million budget deal.
Still lots to go, folks.
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