Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
It's about time.
Everybody start to see it now.
It's only taken two years and what, seven months?
Heck, longer than that.
I mean, I saw it back during a campaign.
I'm talking about who Obama really is, this petulant, self-absorbed, egoistic little man-child.
Everybody start talking.
Even David Brooks is disappointed.
He still likes the substance, but he can't believe how childish Obama's acting.
You remember, folks, there was a book out there.
You women will remember this.
And by the way, hi.
You know who this is.
You know what this is.
You know how to get a hold of what this is, so I don't want to waste any time with it.
Well, I'll give a number 800-282-2882.
I'm me.
You are you.
We're doing what we're supposed to do.
Let's get started.
There's a book out there.
I don't know, some years ago.
I don't, I think it was written by a guy.
Might have been written by a woman.
I'm not sure.
The book was, he's just not that into you.
Oh, yeah.
Now all the women are nodding their heads.
Oh, yeah.
It was basically a how-to book for women to understand.
Look, the guy's not playing games.
If he doesn't call you back, it's because he's not that into you.
What do you mean it was a terrible book?
Oh, exposes secrets women should know nothing about.
See, Snerdley, this is where you think you're a female expert.
What you don't know is that women know all the secrets anyway.
They don't need to be told what the secrets are.
The book didn't reveal any secrets.
It just depressed them because it confirmed that they were right in what they were assuming.
They were hoping that, you know, hope always, you know, what hope really is an effort to prove to yourself that you're wrong when you know you're right.
That's what hope is.
And I'm not talking about the biblical sense, of course, or definition.
And I think it's starting to become obvious now that we're just not that into Obama.
And he needs to read the book.
All of these speeches, and it's just, it's counterproductive.
And I think the reaction to the BAMST is, hey, dude, we're just not that into it.
In fact, this is not even a think.
I mean, we know this.
You go back and you compare the messianic idolatry people had for the guy during the campaign and the acceptance speech at Grant Park compared to now.
And it's absolutely true.
And my good friend Pete Wayner, who worked in the White House for Rove and therefore for President Bush, posted a piece at Commentary Magazine, what is the date today?
Yesterday, our petulant and inept president.
And listen to this.
This is Pete's way of saying what I have said since I hope he fails.
It's been clear to some of us for a while, parentheses to Rush Limbaugh since the beginning in parentheses.
He doesn't say that.
I just threw it in.
That Barack Obama is a man of uncommon self-admiration.
Quite thin-skinned.
And this is the biggie.
Increasingly consumed by his grievances.
I've told you people, this guy's got a chip on his shoulder, and it goes back to the way he was, well, probably born, and then certainly the way that he was raised.
And he's got a chip on his shoulder about this country and various aspects of this country.
And I just like the way Pete phrases it here.
Increasingly consumed by his grievances.
Democrats on Capitol Hill rapidly losing confidence in the president's competence as a negotiator.
That's true.
Yesterday, CNN had a story we talked about how he's losing ground with liberals.
That was an attempt to warn the liberals, hey, you know, you guys, you can't abandon him now.
It's too crucial out there.
Con Carroll has a piece of the Washington Post, I'm sorry, Washington Examiner today.
Americans blame Democrats for the bad economy.
It's in the CNN poll.
Except CNN didn't report that part of their poll.
CNN completely buried the headline in the write-up for their latest poll of a thousand Americans.
Pessimism overflowing in New Poll reads the headline, and the article goes on to report: quote, while some expect economic conditions to improve, a majority, 59%, believes the economy will still be in poor shape one year from now.
It's the first time in the 14 years that CNN has asked a question that a majority has been pessimistic about the country's economic future.
Buried five paragraphs down is the fact that when asked, do you think Democrats or the Republicans are more responsible for the country's current economic problems?
Americans chose Democrats over Republicans by 38 to 35 percent.
And among independents, the gap is wider, 3725.
So all of this fear in Washington that the independents have run away from the Republicans, that the independents have had, like that CBS, I'm sorry, like that NBC Wall Street Journal poll last week.
We were in Los Angeles.
Remember that bogus poll?
That poll was of adults only, and it tried to say that, well, forget the election results in November, because that's all changed now.
The American people love Obama.
The American people want Obama's plan.
That wasn't in the Obama plan to want, but nevertheless, that's what the poll tried to say.
And is that Boehner's office?
You're acting like you didn't know they were, you're acting like you didn't know they were calling.
I sent out a giant message to everybody at 10 till 12.
I said, Boehner's going to call whenever.
When he calls, put him off.
It's 12.40.
Okay.
Sterdley's on the phone in there.
What's the point of me telling people things are going to happen when nobody hears it?
Okay, so you're in there setting it up now.
I talked to the speaker about 10 minutes before the program started, and he's telling me about the deal.
I said, why don't you come on the program and explain this?
He said, okay.
I said, my day is wide open in terms of guests since they don't have any.
So I said, pick a time when you've got some time and get back to us.
So he's just not getting back to us.
So it's going to be 12.40.
All right.
Now, look, you call them back and you tell them there's going to be a commercial break right after that.
Because I can't take the commercial break early, that early in this, I mean, I can't take a commercial break at 12.37.
So you call them back and say they're just call them back and say 1245.
Yeah, that'd be the simplest way to do it.
Call them back and just say 1245.
Now, I've not lost my place here.
Buried five paragraphs down is the fact that when do you think Democrats or the Republicans are more responsible for the country's current economic problems?
Americans chose Democrats over Republicans by 38 to 35 percent margin.
And among independents, the gap is even wider.
3725 independents blame Democrats as being more responsible for the country's economic problems.
So NBC Wall Street Journal poll last week tried to convince everybody that the independents had done a 180.
They're back in the Obama camp.
The independents had seen the light, that they'd fled the scene, that they'd fled the coup, and it's not true.
The independents are becoming even more solidly anti-Democrat and anti-Obama.
So there's no good news.
There's no trending good news for Obama in all this.
All these speeches, we're just not into him.
They're not working.
In fact, people are getting tired of seeing Obama.
And what happened last night, Boehner decided to do a response.
And lo and behold, the networks decided to cover it.
And lo and lo and lo and behold, Boehner was much better than Obama was.
I've actually got people who don't know much of anything sending me friends sending me notes to say, hey, you know, Boehner looks pretty presidential.
There's a friend of mine who doesn't really know much, but thinks he knows a lot.
A lot of people like that.
You have friends like that.
Boehner looks pretty presidential.
Boehner's not going to be running for president.
He's where he is.
He likes what he's doing.
However, there is a caveat here.
When given the option of blaming George W. Bush, a majority of Americans still chose to blame the former president.
So they're a little schizoid on who to blame, but it appears to be turning.
And in the current iteration, when you ask people, Obama or the Republicans, who's responsible, it's Obama.
Now, we're making headway on this.
And CNN buried this.
You'd have to look long and hard to find this in the CBS poll, the CNN poll.
But that's why we are here.
I'll tell you, folks, it's very hard to be a good negotiator when your two skills, your only two skills are arrogance and petulance.
When those are the only two things you're good at, it's really tough to be a good negotiator.
And the Democrats, the Democrats on Capitol Hill have gone public, some of them, talking about how pathetic a negotiator they think Obama is.
And Bernie Sanders, the socialist from Vermont, grabs him by 25.
Bernie Sanders was on some wacko left-wing radio program.
They syndicated probably on in five cities.
You know, but they say nationally it's syndicated.
And the question was, how can we get a government that calls balls and strikes, quits running the country like it's a for-profit machine?
Now imagine that question.
How do we get a government that calls balls and strikes that quits running the country like a for-profit machine?
How do we do it?
He was asking that of Bernie Sanders, the socialists of Vermont.
There are millions of Americans who are deeply disappointed in the president.
It would do this country a good deal of service if people started thinking about candidates out there to begin contrasting what is a progressive agenda as opposed to what Obama is doing.
It would be a good idea if President Obama faced some primary opposition.
Reminds me of 1992.
Remember that?
I endorsed Pat Buchanan, 1992, just to make sure there was some conservatism in the presidential primary on the Republican side.
And of course, it worked.
And the liberals, you know, they're all upset.
I mean, not the liberals.
I mean, the communists are all upset because Obama is not communist enough for him.
Now, this also, we have to allow, is perhaps a ruse to continue this notion that Obama is some sort of a centrist.
But I don't think Bernie Sanders is on that reservation.
I don't think that they could corral.
Bernie's one of these guys.
I don't think if you called him in a room and say, Bernie, look, we're going to play a little trick here.
We're going to run a little scam.
And we need you to go out there and start caterwauling about the fact Obama's not left.
I think Bernie Sanders will mutter some obscenities and walk out of the room.
I don't think he's the kind of guy to play ball that way.
He goes on this fringe radio show, and I think he's generally ticked off that Obama's caving.
And I think, I said this last week, I think, so that's why I hope we do the right thing.
I think Obama will sign anything that comes his way.
I think what is the Boehner deal is basically $1.2 trillion.
Raise a debt limit.
There are more cuts.
Then the debt limit goes up.
We got the Commission, a lot of fear that the Democrats on the Commission are going to raise taxes.
But in the original bill that Obama will get, there are no tax increases.
There is no new revenue.
There are, get this, there are some Democrats, the Reed Bill.
Dingy Harry has got some $2.7 trillion reduction bill, but get it.
Get this.
Wait for it.
He is counting $1 trillion of his $2.7 trillion as the war is ending.
Afghanistan and Iraq ending.
That's cutting as far as Dingy Harry is concerned.
So anyway, that's where we are.
We'll have the speaker on the program in about 25 minutes to explain all this.
Your host continuing to be blamed for what the left sees as a national crash or shutdown.
We've got a lot of sound bites.
We'll do some contrast.
Obama last night and Boehner.
Did you watch Obama?
Yep.
You were mad, what, mad at his lies, mad at him being on TV all the time?
Yeah, that's why I say we're just not into them.
All these speeches, and he doesn't say anything new.
And it's the same attitude.
It's always somebody else's fault, crybaby stuff.
Yep, same corporate jets, shared sacrifice, balance, all this crap.
Exactly right.
Exactly right.
I didn't watch much of it either, I must confess.
We had another tea tasting session last night.
Last night we tasted the latest batch of peach that came in.
Yeah, peach are going to be one of them.
And then there's one more that we're working deciding probably not going to do lemon because people can add lemon to their tea anytime they want.
But you can't, for example, put pomegranate in there.
Not saying it's going to be pomegranate.
I'm just, in fact, I'm trying to throw competitors off.
But we're working on two other flavors.
So we did a taste session last night.
And I must confess, I had one computer left to upgrade to OS 10 Lion, set that up.
So I did that.
And what?
Well, I didn't say that.
That's true.
But if you're still using that stuff, you deserve to have it wiped out.
Like, for example, I use Quicken, which was made for Power PC chip.
And Quicken goes with the, I have it from 2007.
It doesn't work anymore.
You know, in previous versions of OS X, they had this program called Rosetta that would translate Power PC programs up to these Intel chips, but they stopped doing that.
This is it.
Now, I knew in advance it wasn't going to work, so I've got Quicken on a separate computer that I'm not upgrading to Lion.
That's how I did how to handle it.
But if certainly, like, are you still using WordPerfect?
Well, good.
But if you're using stuff from 2004, it deserves to be wiped out.
You need to upgrade.
So I just got to note that some people say that there's a program out there.
If you use Quicken 2007 on your Mac, of course, it won't work with Lion.
And Quicken's not going to fix it.
I mean, they've got an upgrade called Quicken Essentials, but it's not any good.
The Quicken CEOs on the Apple board, this makes no sense, but it ain't going to upgrade it.
So you've got to keep an old computer around at system 10.6, whatever, to use Quicken.
And they say there's a new app out there called iBank, which I tried.
I exported all my Quicken stuff to iBank and I imported it.
Problem is that none of the memorized transactions arrived.
And Quicken's got a lot, and the reporting, prepare a tax summary or whatever, that's not nearly as good and therefore not useful for me.
But I don't want to run down iBank.
I mean, if you just need a checkbook, write checks, keep track of stuff, you can do that.
But if you use Quicken to really keep track of everything tax-wise, iBank, I haven't found a way to make it work.
For example, in Quicken, when you're writing a check, you got to write your check to American Express.
You type in AM, it all fills in.
Type AM, it all fills a memorized transaction, all the address and so forth.
And if there are multiple ones, you scroll through to get the one you want.
None of that transferred in the import.
And then there are scheduled transactions.
Every month, certain bills get paid.
That didn't import.
So it's got a great interface and it does print checks and all that kind of stuff, but I tried it.
Tried it.
I'm not trying to run it down.
It doesn't do everything quicken.
It kind of ticks me off here.
I got to keep a computer on the old system just to use Quicken.
This Intuit people, one of these outfits that cares about Windows and Apple or Mac is an actual, but they're on the Apple board.
Obama's speech last night, let's just call it what it was.
That was his malaise speech.
He's attacking his predecessors, attacking the Republicans, attacking the so-called rich or actually the working middle class, his own party.
There's no one or nothing he won't use as a human shield to get his way.
It's childish, and it's noticeable now.
I was also playing with a program last night called Dragon Dictate.
Now, this, Dragon has had a dictate program for the iPhone and the iPad, the iPod Touch.
You basically click on the button, the microphone starts recording, and it turns your voice into text.
And when you finish, you paste it into whatever app you want, an instant message or an email or what have you.
Well, they've upgraded a program for the actual desktop Mac or laptops, Dragon Dictate.
And that was a boxed thing that came with one of those headset microphones.
And it was kind of cumbersome.
You had to charge the microphone.
You had to connect it via Bluetooth.
And it basically had to look like Lily Tomlin, the phone operator, Ernestine, to use it, which was fine and dandy at work.
Well, they've come out with a new iPhone app called Dragon Microphone.
It turns your iPhone into the microphone for Dragon Dictate for Mac.
So I was playing with that last night, too.
You talk into the iPhone and you can dictate an email.
You speak it, and the text prints out in the body of the email, or it's system-wide, whatever.
You can iChat this way, instant message, what have you.
So I was setting that up.
All of this is, you know, I'm just not that into Obama.
I was doing this stuff.
I knew what Obama was going to, I knew it was going to have to sound bites.
I knew that he was not going to say anything different than he hasn't been saying since last Friday and then the speech before that.
I know he's ticked off little man-child upset, summoning members up to Congress up to the White House, thinking that he's a king or dictator, what have you, and they're not treating him that way.
That speech last night actually was Obama's malaise speech.
Jimmy Carter gave one of those.
Jimmy Carter actually used the term malaise in his speech.
But it was nothing different.
He blames Bush.
You know, I know Bush isn't ever going to react to this, but I wish he would once.
It's not in Bush's character to do it.
I wish Bush would come and say, you know, it's three and a half years now.
I think it's time for the current president to start being a man, stuff like that.
So he's attacking Bush.
He's attacking the Republicans, the corporate jet owners, not enough shared sacrifice, the rich who are actually working middle-class families in his definition.
Even attacked his own party.
There's no one or nothing he won't use as a human shield.
The same guy, by the way, Barack Obama, same guy whose own decisions have created the current situation, is now pretending he can solve it by doing more of the same.
I mean, if it weren't so outrageous and sad, it'd be a laugh riot.
Now we go to the audio sound bites.
James Carville last night was on CNN, Anderson Cooper 74.
And James Carville was asked the following question by Anderson Cooper74.
James, what do you think is going to happen here?
I talked to a lot of people on the phone today, and I'm detecting, and people that follow this close, I'm detecting a slight element of something I never heard before, a little fear of people's voices that say, baby, this thing just can't get there.
This is very, very, very touchy.
Look, there's a significant number of Republicans that I pointed out that say it's not a big deal if we default.
Senator DeMint, Senator Toomey, Rush Limbaugh.
The Wall Street Journal ran a big influential piece by a big-time investor saying it'd be better to go ahead and default.
They don't believe in expertise.
They send the Treasury Secretary down there.
They send this establishment guy down there.
They think it's all just made up.
And this is something that they kind of been sent here to do.
So we don't know what we did.
Boehner's got, they obviously got to get some Democratic vote somewhere to do this.
Well, there's a little aimless wandering for you.
Well, I did not technically say that it's not a big deal if we default.
I said that we won't default.
There's a big difference.
We won't default.
But I'm told Carter did not use the word malaise in a speech.
Pat Cadell did in his memo about it.
Carter Cadell, you tell me the difference.
Anyway, there's a Bloomberg piece here.
The U.S. government can avoid a default for at least a month after Ramadan to lift the debt ceiling set by the Treasury Department said John Sylvia, the chief economist at Wells Fargo Securities.
It's a bank.
The Federal Reserve and the Treasury can work together to generate enough cash probably for the next two to three months to avoid any kind of automatic default on the Treasury debt, said Sylvia, who's based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
He did this in an interview on Bloomberg Television's In the Loop with Betty Lou as a way of getting around this issue for at least another month or two.
Maybe even longer than that.
One of the questions is when the Treasury bills come due, do most people let them roll over or are most people going to want the cash?
Traditionally, they roll them over.
They want the cash.
You've got to do something to come up with it.
But as we mentioned yesterday, there's already a mechanism for selling T-bills or cashing them in to make Social Security payments.
So I have not said default is no big deal.
I have said we won't default on August 2nd if this doesn't.
I have further said that we won't default even if we lower the debt ceiling.
So Carvile is out there attempting to lump me in with people.
See, they're pushing this government shutdown thing.
Their memories are 1995 and they won on the government shutdowns.
They're trying to say that people like me are pushing another government shutdown.
It's not government shuts down a lot anyway.
Joan Walsh, who supposedly works where?
Salon.com.
She's one of these people, by the way, that got taken in by a bogus story not long ago.
A lot of lib journalists got taken in by it.
I forget what it was, but it was a big story.
She was one of many who reported a major lie, major falsehood.
She was on PMS NBC last night with Sergeant Schultz.
They finally dragged Sergeant Schultz out of the dilapidated empty rail car place.
Have you seen that?
Sergeant Schultz had been walking around some mud puddle with a bunch of empty railroad cars in it talking about how we can do better than this.
You seen that?
He ends up at some coffee shop that you and I wouldn't be caught dead in.
Anyway, Sergeant Schultz says to Joan Walsh, what does it say about Speaker Boehner when he gives Rush Limbaugh call, the real boss of the party, before he goes further?
What does that tell you?
Yes, he checked in with the real boss.
We just have to talk about the utter mendacity of John Boehner tonight.
On Friday, they got within $400 billion of a deal.
Sounds like a lot of money, but when you're talking about $4 trillion, it's not really that much.
They were close.
He had to walk away.
So what did he do?
Did he come back today and say, hey, we were this close, and here's some ideas to close the deal?
No, he went full-tilt tea party crazy.
These guys just can't handle it.
Yeah, we're not caving.
Joan Walsh just can't handle it that we're not caving.
Oh, Joan Walsh got the wiener story wrong.
There was, you know, a lot of people bought the hook line sinker that Weiner told.
And she was one of the people that fell for a number of the lies that Weiner was telling.
But they just can't handle it.
They just can't deal with the fact that we're not caving on Obama's terms.
All right, I got to take a break.
My friends, we come back and we'll have Speaker Boehner with us here, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, on a roll.
Don't go away.
Okay, we're back.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, and we welcome back to the program the Speaker of the House, Mr. John Boehner.
Fill me in, Mr. Speaker.
And by the way, congratulations.
That was a great speech last night that you followed the president with.
What are the details of this latest deal, if I can call it that?
Well, this agreement was worked out between myself and the bipartisan leadership in the Senate.
And it's a two-step process.
It cuts $1.2 trillion from the discretionary portion of the budget over the next 10 years and puts spending caps in place that'll make sure that that savings actually does, in fact, occur.
When over the next 10 years does the bulk of the spending cuts, do the bulk of the cuts take place?
It mounts up over time.
But in the first year, you know, we're already spending $38.5 billion less than what we spent last year in that portion of the budget.
This will cut another $26 billion out of real outlays going out and about $7 billion in what we call budget authority.
Secondly, though, it sets up a joint select committee of the members of Congress, six members from the House, three Democrats, three Republicans, and six members of the Senate.
And they're charged with finding an additional $1.8 trillion worth of deficit reduction over the balance of this year.
And they all meet.
Any proposal that gets seven votes out of that group would go into a package where there's an automatic up-or-down vote in the House and Senate.
Are you confident there are any Democrats Harry Reid can pick that actually want there to be cuts in spending and the debt ceiling not exceeded?
Well, there really are Democrats who want to cut spending.
And I'm confident that our members can go in there and make the case for why America needs to act because the greatest risk to our country is not missing August the 2nd.
The greatest risk is that we do not make the cuts necessary to put our financial house in order.
Now, what would you say?
I've got an email here.
As you can imagine, I get emails constantly from people who attempt to influence my thinking.
I'm sure you do, too.
And I've got one here that says, Rush, the Senate Budget Committee is going to confirm in the next hour or so that the Speaker's plan only cuts $6 billion in fiscal year 12 versus the CCB's $111 billion in the House version or $142 billion in the Senate version.
Now, what do you say when people...
Well, listen, now we're getting into budget talk.
It's...
It's $7 billion in budget authority below the current year.
It's $26 billion below in actual outlays that go out the door.
And again, remember, we made big cuts from last year into this year.
We're going to make more cuts going into next year.
When have you ever seen a Congress in that one-third of the budget actually spend less from one year to the next?
And we're going to do it two years in a row.
And frankly, we might even get to three years in a row.
Okay, so we're going to raise the debt limit in this deal through probably you think it'll go to next March or April somewhere.
If this bill were to pass, the president could ask for an increase in the debt limit up to 95% of the cuts.
Remember one of the principles here.
We are not going to increase the debt limit by anything more than what we're willing to cut spending.
I said we're going to have to exceed it, and he'd have to ask for it.
But he gets the new, what, trillion dollars?
Trillion dollars, roughly, and we'll take them probably into February, maybe March.
Right.
So he gets that immediately, but the cuts are spread over 10 years.
That is correct.
That is correct.
Rush, that we waited too long to deal with a problem.
And when you got 10,000 baby boomers like us retiring every day, more money for Social Security, more money for Medicare.
It's just a fact.
But I believe the Joint Select Committee can, in fact, produce real cuts in spending.
But there's a third part of this, Rush, and that is that it requires the House and Senate to have a vote on a balanced budget amendment after October 1st and before the Joint Committee would report.
And the idea here is twofold.
One is to get all of our friends on the same page as to which balanced budget amendment.
And secondly, to allow the American people, our members and others, to put pressure on these liberal members of Congress to step up and to vote for a balanced budget amendment.
And frankly, we need time to build that support because today I'm not sure it's there.
Well, what happens, and I want to go back, what happens when we get to next April when this new trillion-dollar line of credit that's being added expires and we're right back where we are today?
That's the point the president's making.
That's why he wants a $2.4 trillion blank check today that lets him continue his spending spree.
If, in fact, the Joint Committee does not report, the Congress is going to have to act.
And we could be right where we are today.
But it's the only way to force the Congress to make the cuts necessary to get our fiscal house in order.
Now, I'm being the first one to tell you this plan isn't perfect.
Again, it was an agreement between both houses of the Congress.
What are the main criticisms you're getting of it?
Well, some people are concerned that the Joint Committee, my God, they might raise taxes.
Well, I'm going to tell you what, it's going to be pretty hard for the Joint Committee to do that.
I don't believe that the Republicans on this committee that get appointed are going to vote to increase taxes.
And if they did, I don't believe the House of Representatives would approve the report of the Joint Committee.
And so I don't fear that problem.
And frankly, I'm not afraid of the debate.
If they want to have that debate, let's have it.
I spoke to you on Thursday, and it was a major concern of yours that the country not default credit ratings.
But our credit rating has already been downgraded by a couple of agencies.
They tried a trick over the weekend, the president did, that the markets are going to open on Monday and the Asian markets.
And I saw a chart.
Asian markets were not affected by this at all.
All of these scare tactics are being used to try to hurry this along.
And, of course, the vast majority of people who voted last November actually want the debt ceiling lowered.
That's what this is all about.
They want it lowered.
They want spending really reduced because we don't have the money and can't afford it.
They're worried about their kids' futures.
Let's separate the two issues, Rush.
The debt ceiling is about debts that America has already incurred, obligations that we've already made.
It's like you're going out and buying something on your credit card.
You're obligated to pay for it.
And these debts have already been incurred.
And frankly, I think it's the moral obligation of our government to meet its debts.
Having said that, it is time.
If you're charging more than what you can afford, it's time to start spending less.
And what I'm trying to do is set up a scenario with this bill that we're trying to move through the House to force the Congress to finally act.
What happens if there's a deadlock on this blue ribbon committee?
I've got about 35 seconds.
What happens if there's a deadlock and they can't move forward on anything?
Then Congress will have to go through the regular process, which isn't that hard in the House.
It's much harder in the Senate.
And frankly, this joint select committee was set up to facilitate a real vote to cut spending in the United States Senate.
All right.
Well, I appreciate your time again.
We're out of it.
I wish I had more, but we don't.
All right, Rush, we'll see you.
Speaker John Boehner.
Brief timeout.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Don't go away.
Well, in a nutshell, Speaker Boehner seemed to be saying that we're never really going to be able to cut spending seriously because of all the baby boomers retiring.
Have we got another Congressional Commission, Blue Ribbon, or whatever you want to call it?
We've had one of those.
It's called Simpson Bowls, and everybody's ignored it, forgotten about it.