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July 21, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 21, 2011, Thursday, Hour #3
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It looks like it's a day for deals.
The NFL and the owners are close to a deal in the National Football League, and that's um that's been brewing for the last two or three days.
Everybody expected the players to vote on their deal yesterday, as the owners have their owners meeting in Atlanta today.
Now it says that looks like they'll come to an agreement soon.
Everybody looking at today, and now the leaks are all over the place about a deal between Boehner and Obama on a grand budget deal to raise the debt ceiling.
The National Journal reports that no significant tax revenue is part of the deal, the deal three trillion dollars in budget cuts over ten years.
And I have to tell you, folks, that no 10-year plan is going to be upheld a year from now.
Next year, Congress will do another budget.
This is all it's the same old thing.
A 10-year deal is not a you know this.
Welcome back.
Rushlin Ball behind the golden EIB microphone in Los Angeles today.
Telephone numbers $8282-2882.
Eric Cantor just sent us an email about five minutes before two o'clock Eastern time, and it said Eric Cantor's not agreed to any deal, not aware of any deal that is close.
That means the phone means the phones are melting up there.
And that it's it's it's clear that the tone of the phone calls being received up there is not hunky dory and favorable, and leader Cantor wants everybody to know he's got no part of this.
Baehrard, during the top of the hour break, tweeted again the following message.
Time for Senator Reed and Senate Democrats to pass cut cap and balance.
Now here's the question, folks.
The Speaker of the House can come out right now and tell the public that he that he's had no backdoor discussions with Obama at some deal.
He can come out and say that this is all not true.
He can come out and say that the New York Times is wrong and that the National Journal is wrong.
But we're not we're not asking if they've cut a deal yet.
We're asking if they are working on a deal behind the scenes now.
That's the story.
And they're not denying that.
What they're denying is that they have a deal.
But that the the the story is not that there is a deal.
The story is they're working on a deal.
Okay, so you got a leak from the New York Times backed up by Politico and the National Journal, which says that they're close to a deal.
I.e.
don't have one.
Everybody's denying there's a deal.
Well, the leak doesn't say there's a deal.
So come out and tell us, are you working on one behind the scenes?
And if so, why are you doing it behind the scenes?
Why all the secrecy?
We had secrecy before the stimulus bill.
We had secrecy before the uh Obamacare.
In fact, Pelosi, you remember, said we have to pass this to find out what's in it.
And I guess we're not going to know what's in this until they pay.
All that means is that that somebody is really concerned that whatever's in it we won't like.
Or that somebody won't like.
So that's where we stand uh with uh with all of this now.
And as we continue to get things leaked here and unfold before our very eyes will pass this, uh pass this on to you.
As we get it.
Um Mr. Snerdley uh just asked me in the IFB, don't we trust our leadership?
Uh Snurdley, you're the one getting calls from people who are shouting profanity saying, No, I don't want to go on the air.
It's obvious that Republican voters don't.
It's obvious Republican voters don't trust the leadership.
Down this road.
Everybody has been waiting for the fateful day where the Republicans cave.
Now, again, remember, uh the ones the one leak with any substance at all in it, and it's not much, says that it's a 10 year deal with three trillion dollars in deficit reduction and no significant tax revenue.
So I guess it could read three trillion dollars in budget cuts over ten years with insignificant tax revenue.
What is either significant or insignificant tax revenue?
The bottom line is if that leak is true, there is tax revenue in this.
And they have to put the word insignificance in there.
Grab audio soundbite uh number 20.
Jake Carney, the daily press briefing at the White House.
Unidentified reporter said Senator Tom Corburn just said that he bets if the uh FCCMB were able to pass the Senate, you know, cut cast uh uh uh cut pass and balance, whatever, were able to pass the Senate and get to the president's desk.
He's willing to bet a porter house stake that the president would sign it if in fact it did pass the Senate.
Should he go out and get the A1 stake sauce?
I have a feeling we're gonna hear this exchange on the radio, but uh we would take that debt, and I would refrain from heading to the Safeway to buy A1 because the President has very clearly vowed to veto a bill if such a bill were to arrive on his desk, because it is a draconian measure that in terms of its impact on dramatic cuts in Social Security, Medicare would make uh the Ryan budget plan pale by comparison.
Okay, so Jay Carney um said that cut cap and balance doesn't have a prayer.
And Carney knew it would appear on this program.
He knew this sound bite would uh would appear.
Well, that's the latest that we have on this, but uh things are starting to fall in line.
Things are something something's happening.
Oh, again, uh Boehner's got a meeting tomorrow morning at nine o'clock with the entire Republican conference.
That means all the members ostensibly this is from a uh an email from a member of Congress Chief of Staff, who we know very well has told us that there's a nine o'clock meeting tomorrow morning.
Boehner to explain the details of the deal to the uh to the conference.
So they kind of all of this kind of obviates uh all the other stack of stuff I have here regarding the the deal.
For example, a uh a post here from uh Robert Costa National Review.
Earlier tonight, House GOP leaders met with Obama, the White House reportedly discussing a short-term debt ceiling hike that would be coupled with immediate spending cuts of greater magnitude.
And uh we just had the news yesterday that Obama had changed his mind and probably would sign a short-term deal.
In fact, a lot of people were recommending a short-term deal just to get Obama to sign something and put the onus on him.
So we've gone from Obama caving and willing to sign, and he said he would never sign a short term.
He said 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, I'm not gonna do that, because it doesn't help him in in his re-election.
So he was apparently willing to do that, and all of a sudden that's gone, and now this grand bargain is out there, the 10-year granddaddy of all grand bargains.
So that's off the table.
There's a um uh story here from roll call, vulnerable Democrats display their timidity within days, vulnerable Senate Democrats will cast perhaps their toughest vote of their career on politically volatile legislation to raise the debt ceiling.
Such votes have been in remarkably short supply this year for the Democrat class of 2006.
These members point with pride to the risky votes they cast in the last Congress, those roll calls led to the enactment of historic health care reform and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
But this is a story the Democrats worried about the debt vote.
Now, uh, who knew?
You know, the the the conventional wisdom is that it's the Republicans are scared to death.
It's the Republicans are quaking in their boots.
And that's been the standardized conventional wisdom since this whole began.
Obama's cleaning up is he's uh embarrassing these guys, that's been the standard operating procedure.
But the truth of the matter is the Democrats are nervous about this.
And if we're not taking advantage of that with what whatever is brewing here, it's going to be crying shame.
And it's going to be worse for the Republicans if this is deemed to be unacceptable by people who uh elected them and remember those election results of November.
This this, you know, losers don't compromise.
Or winners don't compromise, losers do.
And we were the big winners.
As I said yesterday, everybody's out there demanding the Republicans compromise with who?
The Democrats don't have a plan.
The Democrats haven't put anything forward.
So they're asking us to compromise with ourselves.
So we keep coming up with plans of specificity.
They keep saying no.
Okay, okay, well, how about this?
No, we don't like that either.
Come back.
And they don't have any specific plan whatsoever.
And yet they demand that we compromise.
But winners do not compromise.
And this is what Republican voters know and understand.
And if it turns out that the winners have ended up compromising here, they're not going to be assuaged by the argument, well, you know, it's tough to go up against the president.
This president sets the agenda.
President Bully Pulpit, President gets what he wants.
Usually that's not going to fly here.
This president has had way too much of what he wants.
And it has meant disaster for millions of Americans at present and for their future.
And they don't want this president to win anymore.
They don't want standard operating procedures of conventional wisdom to triumph here.
That's what sending Republicans to Washington is all about.
Cut cap and balance.
Boehner is still tweeting, demanding that Harry Reid put it up for vote and the Democrats pass it.
Now, you know, Obama's out there saying, yes, a serious plan.
We can never go for that since Jay Carney out say the same thing.
But if Obama thought that cut cap and balance wasn't a serious plan, it was a waste of time, here's what he would do.
He would take to the microphones, and he'd tell the American people exactly what cut cap and balance says.
He would read it out loud, he'd mock it line by line.
If it's such a bad deal, he would go public and explain what it is and tell people why it's ruinous.
But he's not doing that.
He doesn't want you to know what cut cap and balance is.
Well, here's what cut cap and balance says.
Cut.
We must make discretionary and mandatory spending reductions that would cut the deficit in half next year.
Number two, cap.
We need statutory, enforceable caps to align federal spending with average revenues at 18% of gross domestic product with automatic spending reductions if the caps are breached.
Balance.
We must send to the states a balanced budget amendment with strong protections against federal tax increases and a spending limitation amendment that aligns spending with average revenues as described above.
Thank you.
Crazy, right?
Or is it simple, rational, and wait for it in writing.
It's in writing.
I just read to you what cut cap and balance says.
If it's so bad, Obama can go out, read it to us and tell us why it is bad.
He doesn't do it.
The president would hold up social security checks over this.
I frankly would love to hear his explanation on it.
The plot is thickening.
From Fox News, a congressional aid on the debt deal.
Quote, I can confirm the details about three trillion dollars and no revenues.
Congressional aid on the debt deal.
According to Fox News, I can confirm the details about a three trillion dollar cut in spending and no revenues.
Our office just received an email from Speaker Boehner's office.
I we just wanted to check in because we heard Russia's remarks on our special conference.
Contrary to the New York Times story, there is no deal or agreement.
The president has been in discussions with all of the congressional leaders on both sides and looking at various options, but there is no agreement.
We have special conferences all the time, including last Friday, when there were no deals announced.
Just wanted to make you aware.
No deal.
The leak does not say that there is a deal.
Well, congressional aid is saying I can't confirm the details about three three.
Nobody's saying a deal is done.
What they're saying is that they're close to one.
All the leaks are saying that they're close to a deal.
But the Speaker's Office says that there is no deal and no agreement.
It doesn't say that they, of course, they're talking.
The president's been in discussion with uh all the congressional leaders on both sides, looking at various options, but there is no agreement.
We have special conferences all the time.
I just got a note from a chief of staff of a member of Congress.
The meeting at 9 o'clock usually is when deals are announced.
So, as I say, the floodgates are open now, and the trickle has become a gully washer.
Thank you.
Now, the this the House bill cut cut cap and balance.
Isn't that bill exactly what people voted for last November?
It's almost word for word what the voters demanded in an historic landslide.
We've now just laughed off as meaningless.
And we thought elections were supposed to have consequences.
But this House bill is exactly what the voters who sent those people to Washington to do and come up with.
The Democrats and their buddies in the media keep trying to portray the House bill as some product of the lunatic fringe.
They don't seem to remember that a balanced budget amendment was almost passed by Congress back in 1995.
Failed in the Senate by one vote.
It is not a fringe idea.
All we hear nowadays how fiscally responsible everybody was back in 1995.
The Jay Carney just said that Obama supports a debt default, by the way, in that soundbite that we played.
Cutting spending, capping spending, balanced budget amendment is extreme when you are Obama.
Now, the speaker is tweeting that he wants Reid to pass cut cap and balance, but Reid's got to know something's going on behind the scenes.
Reid knows that Coburn and Chambliss and all these Republicans in the gang of six are throwing him a lifeline.
Right.
Thank you.
McConnell's come up with a bright idea to give Obama the two and a half trillion dollars he wants to spend an additional deficits.
So, you know, these specific Republicans and some others are telling Reed and Obama they don't believe in cut cap and balance, even though they're telling us they support it.
It's hard to keep track of all this stuff going on out there.
And here's Chris Van Holland.
Uh uh says the New York Times story is correct.
This is on Enman's MSNBC just this afternoon.
I think that that's generally uh correct, uh, other than the fact that you continue to have a fairly large contingent of House Republicans who think that it would not be so bad if the United States didn't pay its bills and default on its debt.
And that continues to be a wild card.
I do think that the leaders, both in Congress and of course the White House on both political parties are trying to find a solution here.
And the focus remains, Andrea, on trying to get a grand bargain.
Even as talks go on about a plan B, there's still serious discussions about trying to get something big done.
So Chris Van Holland is a Democrat leader.
Hey, New York Times story's right.
Exactly right.
We're all ready to make a deal here.
Just those those fringe lunatic Tea Party Republicans.
They're the ones standing in the way.
But the responsible members of the Democrat and Republican leadership in President Obama, of course, want to do a deal.
New York Times deal is right.
Andrea Mitchell says, are you Democrats going to be able to provide enough Democrat votes to help Boehner out as he tries to pull this together, even despite the opposition of those freshmen who are so rigidly against any compromise?
We've made very clear, number one, that America has to pay its bills.
These are bills for things that we've already voted on.
Democrats and Republicans alike.
We will support a balanced approach to reducing the deficit.
I knew this guy was slick when I first saw his hairstyle.
But this we are, we we will support a balanced approach to redu that reducing a deficit from the people who have blown it, the Spitherenes, and now want to act as though they had nothing to do with it whatsoever.
Well, where there's smoke, there's fire.
Something obviously is going on.
And it is happening in secret.
And nobody, all we have are leaks, unnamed congression laid.
Yeah, I can confirm.
Three trillion dollars in cuts and no tax revenue.
No name.
We don't know who it is.
Nobody's saying a deal is done.
In fact, they're all denying a deal is done and trying to say therefore the leaks are wrong.
But the leaks are not saying there is a deal.
The leaks are saying there are discussions and that they're close.
And we're back on Rushmore, serving humanity simply by showing up.
We are in Los Angeles.
But remember, my friends, as long as I'm here, it doesn't matter where here is.
Folks, when you um when you think of Obama, you think of balanced approaches, don't you?
I mean, here's Chris Van Holland, Mr. Slick.
Oh, yeah, we favor a balanced approach to reducing debt.
Yeah.
You Democrats, balanced approach.
So when I when I when I think of Obama, I think of balanced approaches.
All of this turmoil, all these threats of debt defaults, all of this anxiety over massive deficits and debts.
That's a guy who wants a balanced approach, right?
The guy who's creating this chaos, the guy who has created this living hell that is the U.S. economy.
He drags people kicking and screaming to this point.
He waits to the last minute to try to evade public scrutiny.
Goes out in the tax Tea Party rallies.
His irresponsible spending is being challenged.
Obama wants a balanced approach.
Don't insult me.
This is outrageous.
And of course, Obama is responsible for nothing.
Oh, of course not.
He didn't do anything.
Why, he said just yesterday that everybody knows he inherited this mess.
So he thinks he's going to run against Bush again.
And he thinks people are going to vote on how hard they think he's trying for them, or fighting for them, fighting who.
He thinks he's going to run against Bush.
Work the first time, why not again?
This guy, I don't care what happens to the Republicans.
You know, they're they're they're gonna they're gonna sit in their own stew depending what happens here.
But this guy, Obama and his advisors are in for a rude awakening, because he's not gonna escape this either.
Don't think it's only the Republicans are gonna pay for this.
If there is a deal here that continues this travesty that has become the U.S. economy, if there is a deal that continues that raises taxes that makes it impossible for people to get back on their feet again, everybody in that town's gonna pay the price next election.
Obama's not gonna get a pass.
Good intentions notwithstanding all that garbage.
Well, they're gonna realize that I'm out there fighting for him.
He's they'd have a chance.
Bill O'Reilly's out there looking out for us.
Obama can't compete with that.
Everybody knows that.
Who's next on the phones?
Doug in Newburgh, North Carolina.
I'm glad you waited.
I really appreciate your patience.
Hello, sir.
Hi.
Thanks for taking my call, Rush.
Um, I'm all for cut cap and balance.
And um, I'm concerned that if uh Boehner gives on this, you know, in any way on taxes.
Um, does that give Obama a free ticket for uh 2012 election?
Well, depends on what the deal is.
Obama is clearly hoping he looks at Boehner's lifeline, I guarantee you.
What Obama's counting on is that the Republicans will cave.
And that creates so much anger the Republican Party that it'll split or maybe form a third party, bunch of Republicans get so fed up they won't even show up and vote in November 2012.
That's what he's counting on.
Right.
And so to that in that to that extent, yeah, uh Boehner's his lifeline.
That's that's that's how he's looking at it.
I think anyway.
Well, thank you very much for taking my call, Rush, and I appreciate everything that you do.
Well, Doug, uh it means more to me than you can possibly know.
You're saying that.
I really appreciate it.
Well, thank you.
Thank you so much.
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Uh hate of four uh Rhino Republicans.
Uh what's your opinion of uh Fox News Channels uh talking heads who seem to be more and more Rhino, and I'm thinking uh particularly of uh Chris Wallace.
Uh who I almost was screaming at with his interview of Chris Van Halen and Jordan, and he was trying to push uh the Republican Jordan that say that he would not vote for the depth ceiling uh crisis.
Uh Chris our Greta Van Sustern always seems to have these irrelevant uh Republicans like uh Graham Esty and uh uh McUh McShame uh on his pro on her program, who uh mad or not, and uh I I was just wondering at your opinion of uh of those uh of this programming of Rhino uh talking heads.
Well, I mean I uh the people who do guest programs, uh you know, they're into it themselves and they can have the guests on that they want.
I don't know that there is an official position at Fox News that rhino guests uh have to take precedence or anything.
I you know I've got my own theories about you could ask me about any show.
You know, why does CNN do what it does?
Why does MSNBC do it the way they do it?
Why does Fox News do it the way it does?
And I can got my own theories, because you know, I'm a highly trained broadcast specialist, uh, and I am well versed in this.
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To cable really isn't federally regulated, but uh there are still, you know, the long arm of the government can reach you in any number of ways.
When you've got this kind of regime, then it's quite understandable that uh if you've got a bottom line you have to make financially that there are certain things that you might do to keep the baying hounds uh the wolf hounds at bay.
Uh that's what I mean by programming in fear or in defense or what have you.
I mean, a lot of people uh throughout my broadcast career, for example, thought that they could mollify critics by giving the critics 10 or 20 percent of what they were demanding.
Uh that would be balanced.
It never works that way.
Take a position, be who you are, and deal with the with the fall out.
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And that's you know, I consider and disagree with uh for example, CNN.
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So it's a very, very complicated thing.
The idea that a lot of broadcast outlets are in it for the cause is a big mistake a lot of people make.
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Not even that.
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Sit tight.
We'll be back.
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We are at our remaining moments on the broadcast today.
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Uh the funeral of Myra Kraft in Boston.
So happy to have with us the Speaker of the House, John Boehner.
I'm glad that we had a chance to talk to you here, Mr. Speaker, because the fur's flying, and people are confused with all of these leaks as to what's going on.
Well, Russia, there is no deal.
No deal publicly, no deal privately.
There is absolutely no deal.
Are you talking about a deal, though?
Pardon me?
Are you talking about a deal in secret?
Our focus right now is getting the Senate to follow us in the House and pass cut cap and balance.
I believe that we've got to act to prevent a default and to prevent a downgrade of our nation's credit rating.
And the best way to do that is to enact cut cap and balance.
But let me be clear.
I said I believe that is the best course of action.
I said all the way along that we've got to keep the lines of communication open.
That's why Leader Cantor and I have talked with Mitch McConnell.
We've talked to Nancy Pelosi, we've talked to the president.
We talked about fallback options.
Uh if in fact uh cut cap and balance does go down.
And I do think that it's our obligation to have a fallback plan, but it doesn't work.
Well, but that's what everybody's worded.
What is the fallback plan?
The congressional aides out there today saying that the deal's been struck.
He's unnamed, he's on Fox.
He's saying it's three trillion dollars of cuts uh with no tax revenue.
National Journal says three trillion in cuts with insignificant tax revenues.
So people a lot of people out here are of the opinion that Obama is the one who ought to be caving.
He's the one that doesn't have a plan.
He's forcing you to compromise with yourself.
Uh and I just he's he's he's done great damage to the economy.
People want it to stop.
I understand.
I'm concerned about the nation defaulting on its credit rating.
I'm um concerned about us not doing anything about our debt, uh, which will cause our credit rating to fall.
And which then would mean everybody's interest rates go up.
I think that's irresponsible.
Uh, frankly, we've looked at a half a dozen fallback plans, uh and none of which none of which uh are all that appetizing.
Uh that's why we continue to support CutCap and Balance.
So you're convinced that a default uh would would uh make it be unable.
We were to be unable to service our debt if there's a default.
I'm concerned that we're getting into uncharted territory uh that could wreak uh great havoc on our nation.
Uh and I don't think it's necessary uh to get into that unknown zone uh and take the chance.
Uh I frankly believe that we've got to find a way uh to to cut our our budget deficit, cut our debt, and balance our budget.
Why is it not Obama's responsibility to do that?
He's the one that's put us in this position.
It would be would have been nice if the president would have put a plan on the table months ago.
But the president has refused uh to put any plan on the table.
It it it is uh it's obviously been driving me right up a wall.
Well, he wants you to take the heat for whatever happens.
Yeah, but I think at the end of the day, he knows that he's the commander in chief, he's the president of the United States, and he will take the heat.
Well, a lot of people are concerned that uh you are his lifeline to re-election, uh, and that that's how he sees you, and that if he can get you to in any way act that can be portrayed as a cave that he wins.
And that's what people are deathly afraid of.
Russia, I'm trying to do what I what I told taught my kids to do, and the same thing my parents taught me to do.
You did the right things for the right reasons, good things will happen.
All right.
Speaker Boehner, thanks much.
I wish we had more time, but we don't.
Thanks very much for the uh for the time here.
Gotta take a quick time out.
We'll be back, wrap it up right after this.
Well, that's it, folks.
Uh, that's all the time that we have for today and a busy broadcast.
And again, Mark Stein uh will be here tomorrow.
Stein gonna be on from New Hampshire tomorrow.
Is that um you know from his little bunker up there?
Okay, cool.
Um I'm gonna miss you.
I I I I really wish I could be here tomorrow, but we have an obligation that uh we uh must attend.
And I'm actually very, very sad uh event here, obviously a funeral.
But we'll be back on Monday.
And we're in good hands tomorrow with Mark Stein.
Thanks for being with us today, folks.
Um, as always, it's an honor and a pleasure to have this time with you, particularly during moments in our nation's history like this.
So be good.
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