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Dec. 21, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 21, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Oh man, oh man, oh man, here we are.
This is the last live program before Christmas.
And uh, and I was thinking traditionally it's you know, light hearted and full of the spirit and the season and so forth.
And folks, I did this program today.
We are loaded for bear.
Uh once again, I, L. Rushbaugh, am being blamed for the House Republican so-called intransigence in uh in doing what the establishment Republicans and the establishment Democrats want done with this so-called two-month tax cut on the payroll tax.
It's not even really a tax cut when you get right down to it.
The Wall Street Journal has an editorial today which just excoriates the House Republicans, and it's quite illustrative of the fact that the uh the journal is the total defensive position here.
The journal's point is, and we're gonna get into this in great detail.
I'm gonna respond to it as we go on, because it's it, yeah, I saw it last night, and it just it shocked me.
And remember, I've been saying for the cast past two to three weeks that nobody ever won anything defending it.
We are in on this on this argument with Obama.
The Republicans in the Senate and the Republican establishment are in a total defensive posture here.
They are worried that the Republicans in the House are going to see to it that Obama is going to end up being seen as a big tax cutter, that the Republicans are being seen as opposed to the middle class having a little bit more money in their pockets.
Uh and and they're just what they're they're angry, a Republican establishment, angry at the Tea Party freshman in the House, and they're angry at conservatives in general.
So we have that to break down, and that may take a while.
It's a long editorial, and I want to go through it graph by graph uh and and have some response to it.
And I'm I'm gonna do my best in this to make the complex understandable.
And uh, by golly by gosh, I am gonna get some lighthearted stuff in this show if it's the last thing I do.
I'm not gonna let what's going on in Washington totally drag us down for the whole three hours today.
For example, we have a story from the BBC today.
I love this headline.
Tell loved ones they're overweight this Christmas.
That's the best gift that you could give your loved ones is to tell them they're fat.
Be honest with them, save their lives.
Then they draw a distinction.
Now, wait a minute, you guys cannot do that with your wives.
Wives, you can do that to your husband.
But husbands, you can't say to your wife she's fat.
You have to have somebody else do it.
You can't do it yourself, but somebody needs to do it so that everybody will not die.
And this is the perfect gift, the perfect time of year.
Uh that's right, yeah, your mistress everybody.
You pull everybody under the mistletoe and tell them, by the way, you're fat.
And I'm just saying this to try to help you out.
I'm just trying to be kind.
Uh vacation.
Obama vacation.
There is thehill.com.
I swear when I went to the website and read the story, I swear my computer screen started crying.
The story is a tear-soaked article out this morning about what they say is one of the toughest decisions Obama has ever faced in his presidency.
I'm not making that up.
That is how they characterize this.
One of the toughest decisions he's ever faced in his presidency.
And the decision is whether to go to Hawaii for his Christmas vacation or not.
You see, Mooch held my bell and the kids are already occupying Hawaii while Obama remains in Washington to occupy the White House.
And the sad thing is, sad thing is that the Hill in their tearstoked piece might actually be right here.
This could be one of Obama's toughest calls ever.
But in the end, Obama, like Clinton and like everybody else gonna do what the focus groups and the polls say will be the best optics.
His reelection comes first, even before vacationing in Hawaii.
But I mean, folks, look at I mean passing up spending 17 days alone on a tropical island with Michelle Obama.
What could he be thinking?
Who could pass that up?
But you have to wonder, at least I do.
As a married guy.
And I'm just I have to wonder here.
Why Michelle and the girls couldn't have simply waited a few days.
Why?
I mean, it's just today it's December the 21st.
And she's been gone four days.
She split the scene on the 17th.
Kids are still in school.
A lot of people's kids are still in school.
Why couldn't they have all just gone to Camp David?
It's uh Christmasy destination.
But think of think of how this indecision is inconveniencing his Secret Service detail.
And I don't say this.
Do you know?
You may not know this.
George W. Bush spent Christmas in the White House.
You know why?
I mean, he got out of there after Christmas, went down to Crawford, but he spent Christmas in the White House so his Secret Service detail could stay at home in Washington and spend some time with their families.
Now he might have hightailed it for Crawford on the 26th.
Uh but he spent Christmas in the White House.
Obama, of course, that's not a concern, and probably might be saying Secret Service, why hell.
Family or Hawaii.
Who cares when I'll opt for Hawaii?
Who knows?
But Michelle My Bell and the kids couldn't wait.
It's like they couldn't wait.
They couldn't wait four hours to accompany Obama to Martha's Vineyard back in August.
They left four hours early.
And we've had a story out of uh Oahu about how much this is costing.
What's it four million dollars this whole thing is going to cost?
$100,000 minimum a day.
And that did not factor Michelle My Bell and the kids going early on their own plane before Obama takes his two 747s out there.
So there's uh there's that, and folks, I have to, I have to tell you I discovered a friend of mine sent me an email today.
I discovered an app for the iPhone and the computer.
You have to have a, I think.
You have to have a Mac to make this thing work.
It enables you, the user, to dictate text to your computer via your iPhone.
The app is called Vocal.
It's just released today.
I have been spearming with it.
I've been playing with.
The thing is amazing.
It is literally amazing.
You have to download the app from the Mac app store.
It has to be running on your computer.
You have to have a version on your iPhone.
And the two see each other via Wi-Fi.
And you speak into your iPhone, and you can dictate text in a in a in an email or any any app, and it knows if you've got a text window open, an email or an instant message window open, you dictate and it fills it in right in front of your eyes, then you just hit the return key with your hand.
If you say open Microsoft Word, it'll open the app.
It'll open websites, it'll play songs from your place.
Just say it.
Play X song.
It costs a buck ninety-nine.
And the thing, the thing is amazing.
Now, I am huge, as you know, in Apple stuff, but the this the latest innovation of voice to text is a huge next step that has me fascinated.
Anything that limits the amount of time I have to spend typing because I make errors, have to go back and stop my train of thought and correct it.
It's just so much more convenient.
It saves time, much more efficient.
Plus, it's amazing I mean, technologically, I marvel at it.
It's it's uh it's amazing how this thing works.
Uh there's a um there's a website for the company that makes the app called uh vocal.
That's not the website, the website, I don't have it in my mind here, but there's a video that shows all this thing can do with voice commands and text dictation.
So I've been playing a little bit with that this morning and um and marveling at it, and I've said it.
What?
Yeah, you can do it any Mac.
You do it to any and all of your Macs to your laptops, your desktops, and as many computers you have, you just have To have the app on each one of the computers as well as having it on the iPhone.
And it's just I think it's a UK company because the guy in the video that's demonstrating the app has a British accent.
So I'm assuming it's a Brit company.
Not that that matters.
But it's just I don't know.
I I just, you know, I thought Siri was amazing, be able to dictate straight to the iPhone.
This is dictating to the computer through the iPhone.
As though the iPhone is just a microphone.
Now, Dragon has an app like this called uh called Dragon Microphone.
It turns the iPhone into a microphone where you dictate into a dragon uh voice to text app on the computer.
But this is a little bit more direct because the dragon does something pretty much, it's they're they're pretty close.
This just seems to be a little more direct, and there's no voice training that you have to do.
You have to set up a voice training file uh condition the app to understand your words, and you can customize it, have it learn new commands that you want to make it.
So I've been playing with that.
Just was released this morning.
Friend of mine told me about it.
I didn't even know about it.
So I've been doing that, and we've got all kinds of stuff here in a stack stuff, and we've got our last live show before the uh the Christmas holiday, the Christmas break.
So we'll take it to snerdly.
By the way, just to remind, we're doing open line Friday on Wednesday today, since this is the last live show.
You know, don't get so feeling sorry for yourself up there.
You know, really it's not becoming.
You sit there and feel sorry if you have one of the greatest jobs working for the greatest guys in the greatest country for a little while longer than anybody can ever have.
And you get all down in the dumps about open line Friday on Wednesday, I would think it'd be easier.
At any rate, what we're gonna do, whatever you want to talk about today is pretty much fair game.
It's not the rule generally.
Generally Monday through Thursday going to talk about things that interest me, or you don't have a prayer unless you lie.
Uh, and if you lie and we find out about it, you don't last long.
On Friday, today, Wednesday as Friday, pretty much whatever you want to talk about.
Fair game.
If I don't care about it, fine, I'll fake it.
Or act like I'm interested, either one.
800 two eight two two eight eight two is the number when we come back, a Wall Street Journal editorial, real pressure, folks.
Once again, the freshman Republicans in the and the House leadership, they're very nervous.
The entire political establishment is aligned against them, which means the entire political establishment is aligned against Congressional Conservatives, the Senate Republicans, the Wall Street Journal editorial, the Democrat establishment, the Democrats in the Senate, the Democrats in the House, they are all lined up.
And over this one thing, whether or not we're gonna have this payroll tax cut for two months or for a year.
And the Wall Street Journal just summarized the Wall Street Journal is afraid that the Republicans holding out for a full year instead of two months, which is what everybody else wants, is going to make it look like to voters that the Republicans don't care about tax cuts for the middle class,
that uh thus Obama is going to be able to steal and purloin the issue, and going into a campaign year, Obama's gonna be the guy that looks like the big tax cutter stealing the issue from the Republicans and all woe is us so worried about this.
In the meantime, the substance of this issue is being totally ignored at the expense of playing the political game.
So what is apparent to me, and I shall detail this as the program unfolds, what's apparent to me is that the view that you and I have about the country and its perilous state right now is not shared.
We know by the Democrat establishment.
Continuing evidence is that the Republican establishment does not really see the country threatened or imperiled.
This is just the latest political cycle.
That's just Democrats happen to win last time, it's gonna be our turn soon.
And it's uh nothing really out of the ordinary here.
17 trillion dollars national debt, yeah, no different than five trillion.
Uh President White House is waging war in the middle.
Eh, not that big a deal, Mr. Limbaugh.
We'll we'll fix all this.
We get our turn back.
Um In the meantime, the substance of this issue, this payroll tax cut, FICA, Social Security, what's actually being done here, what it actually means, and the substantive reason to not let Obama win this, to not let the Democrats win this, to insist on this being for a full year is being lost.
In fact, what this is is even being lost.
This is on the one hand, they tell us that uh Social Security is not really a tax.
Right?
It's a deduction.
It's a contribution.
This is simply citizens paying into their own retirement, and they'll get the money, but it's not a tax.
Now all of a sudden it's a tax.
Now all of a sudden it's a tax cut.
No, it's it's the only mechanism for funding Social Security that there is.
The Democrat president.
See, if we had a team that was on offense, rather than trying to defend something, if we had a team that was on offense, what we'd be doing is making the point that a Democrat president is trying to underfund senior citizens' retirement.
I don't know about you, but as a Republican, I'm sick and tired of having been told all my life that I want to kick old people out of their houses, and that I want them to eat dog food, and that I don't care about their health care or any of that, that I want to cut their social security.
That lie has been around for as long as I can remember.
Well, now look what's happening.
The only funding mechanism is being underfunded by 250 to 500 billion dollars a year by the Democrat president, and nobody talks about that.
Oh, gosh, oh gosh, oh Obama's gonna get away with a tax cut idea that we're gonna have it stolen others.
Oh, no, no, no.
Meanwhile, Romney, where was Romney was on?
Yes, he was on O'Reilly last night.
He refuses to call Obama a socialist.
He says he's in over his head.
He won't he won't call him a socialist.
And that's nothing.
Imagine asking Romney to call him a Marxist.
So it's coalescing here, what we face and where we are.
So you see, there's a part of this program we're gonna have to be serious today, but we're gonna, as I say, we're gonna mix lighthearted stuff in with it.
So you sit tight.
We'll be back, and we'll get started with all the rest of this right after this.
We'll be back.
All right, there's some confusion out there on this uh app.
Uh let me give you the website.
I've I just sent it up to Coco.
The link to the website, this new amazing app I was just describing, uh, Coco get it up there soon at Rush Limbo.com.
The uh the website is MTRBTS dot me slash vocal slash.
HTTP slash slash mtrbts dot me slash vocal slash.
And on that page, you'll be able to watch video this thing in action, demonstrated, and two downlink um uh opportunities, one from the app store, one from the Mac app store.
There's apparently a competing or a similarly titled app, but it's not the one I was talking about.
Okay, let's um Do we have any lighthearted stuff before I check the stack here?
Yeah, tell loved ones they're overweight this Christmas.
Christmas may be a time for indulging for many, but health experts believe it's the perfect time to tell a loved one they're overweight.
This is the BBC.
The National Obesity Forum and the International Chair on Cardiometabolic Risk said that it was important to be upfront because of the health rate.
How would you like to be?
How'd you like to grow up and work at the cardiometabolic risk international form?
Who are these people?
What did they aspire to when they were young?
Tell you what it is, I want to control other people's lives.
And so I'm gonna set up my own organization to do it where I will tell everybody else how to live.
Being overweight, particularly around the waist increases the risk of diabetes, heart disease, and stroke, but a poll by the group suggests too many people shy away from the issue.
Survey of more than 2,000 people found that 42% of 18 to 24 year olds would not tell a loved one that they're too fat because of a fear they would hurt the person's feelings.
For people between 25 and 44, just a third of people who wouldn't do it.
While for older people, it was about 25%.
So clearly older people don't care who they hurt.
Older people couldn't care less.
They'll be glad to hurt your feelings.
They'll be glad to tell you.
In fact, the older you get, the less you care about people.
Unless you have a lot of money.
It's a new poll on that.
You know that?
That the rich have no compassion.
Oh, you wouldn't believe there's another uh poll out today that that um uh it's it's just it's from MSNBC and it's made to order for Obama in a campaign year.
And it's about Americans being fed up with taxes, but it's not what you think.
They're fed up with the fact the rich aren't paying their fair share.
Yep.
After a three-month class warfare onslaught by Obama, his network, MSNBC, goes out and does a poll, and lo and behold, they find a majority of Americans think that the tax code is unfair because the rich aren't paying their fair share.
From the Associated Press, an actual random act of journalism.
Payroll tax cut boosts the cost of new mortgages.
The dirty little secret in the payroll tax cut is who is going to pay for it.
It's not going to be the previously thought uh tax increase on the 1%.
No, no, no.
It's a tax increase on people who pay mortgages.
I'll give you the details when we get back.
We'll get started with this when we come back.
All right, folks, one more item here on the app called Vocal.
If you're looking for it on the app store on your iPhone, I had trouble finding it there because it's just been posted today, and some phones uh app store is not up to date.
There's a that's why I gave you the website.
The web link at Rush Limbaugh.com will take you to the app on both app stores, the Mac app Store and the iPhone app store.
The author of the app, if you want to search for it this way, his name is Matthew Roberts.
Matthew Roberts is the key to finding the right app, titled vocal on the iPhone app store.
I don't mean to be confusing you.
I'm trying to cut through the confusion.
When I first looked to went to look for it on the iPhone, I couldn't actually wasn't there.
I first heard about it on an app called App Advice, which is an app that tells you what the latest additions are to the app store.
Uh they had a link to it from App Advice, which took me right there, but searching the app store did not produce it.
I don't know if that's still the case, but the web link I gave you will take you to it, or you can search Matthew Roberts is the key to finding the right app.
Now, before we get started this Wall Street Journal stuff, Mitt Romney soundbite from O'Reilly last night, but I want to explain I actually last night and this morning.
I really intended on this being a lighthearted yuck it up, let's head off into the holidays kind of show like we always do.
Then this Wall Street Journal editorial hit.
Then I started watching some television this morning, and I said, All right, I'm gonna have to broom the lighthearted stuff, and we're gonna have to do this.
But you're gonna have to bear with me as I go through this, because I didn't spend all night taking this complex issue and synthesizing it down to its basic simplicity.
I'm gonna be doing that live in process as we do it on the air here.
And I normally try to do that beforehand so it has a little bit more cogency and coherence to it.
So just bear with me as uh as we go through it.
But before we start, here is Romney last night.
Uh it's a problem.
He he asked, he's asked here, he will not call Obama a socialist.
And and this is the conventional wisdom of the GOP elite.
You you don't you don't criticize Obama.
You can't, but see, I don't think you can separate Obama from his policies.
You can't separate Obama from who and what he is.
But we got this belief that if we go out and say he's a social, oh no, Russia, independence, they don't want to hear they're gonna start running back to Obama.
We're gonna lose them.
Oh no.
Please rush, don't do that.
I get notes.
Okay, please rush, dial it back, will you please?
Hitting Obama too hard is not gonna help us.
They're really scared.
They're really scared.
Romney won't even call Obama zany.
He'll call Gingrich Zany.
George Will will not call Obama a Marxist, but call Gingrich a Marxist.
Here's Romney.
O'Reilly says, is Obama a socialist?
You know, I prefer to use the term that he's just over his head.
I consider him a big government liberal Democrat.
I think as you look at his policies, you conclude that he thinks Europe got it right, and we got it wrong.
I think Europe got it wrong.
I think Europe is not working in Europe.
And I'll battle him on that day in and day out.
But I'm probably not going to be calling him names so much as calling him a failure.
Well, be careful, Mitt.
They'll come down on you on that.
Remember what I I asked, I hope that he was a failure.
Hoped he would fail.
And he hasn't.
Depending on your perspective, Mitt, he hasn't failed.
That's a problem.
Yeah, I know some people say Romney's in over his hair here.
I just don't understand the reluctance.
The guy's a socialist.
What is that?
Pole poorly or something?
Well, polling the word socialist, it doesn't serve us well.
Is that whatever happened to leadership?
Whatever happened to education, whatever happened to informing people.
We don't want to be a socialist country, do we?
No.
Why not?
If people don't know, you tell them.
It's called leadership.
It's called teaching.
People love learning things.
I know I still do.
That's very hard for me to learn things now.
I know a lot, but when I do learn, that's what the computer is so exciting to me for.
I learned so much.
It's a thrill.
Most people like learning.
Most people want to be taught.
And if they've got the wrong idea about socialists, teach them.
At the very least, make Obama explain how he's not won.
Don't let him get away with not even having to defend it for crying out loud.
I, folks, I just, you know, I want to rip my hair out over this kind.
I really, really do.
And I don't have that much left to rip out.
Why are we always on the defensive?
What is it that's we always have to be defending some?
Nobody ever won anything defending it.
I know you're still.
Some of you dialing the phone even now feverishly because you think you found an example of defending something that ended up in victory.
And you can't wait to tell me.
Go ahead, go for it.
We didn't win World War II defending anything.
I don't mean to be offensive, but the Alamo they had no choice.
It was valorous that what they valorous, but it just you have to be, in order to advance, in order to move forward, you have to be doing something other than defending where you are.
You have to be something doing something other than defending your turf.
Now, Wall Street Journal editorial.
It's entitled The GOP's payroll tax fiasco.
How did Republicans manage to lose the tax issue to Obama?
And they start this way.
Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell famously said a year ago that his main task was to make sure that Obama would not be re-elected.
Given how he and John Boehner have handled a payroll tax debate, we wonder if they might end up re-electing Obama before the campaign even begins in earnest.
So the Wall Street Journal is convinced here that the House Republicans are on the verge of re-electing Obama with their opposition to a two-month extension of this payroll tax cut.
Which again is not exactly what this is.
Again, we have we've allowed ourselves to lose the language on this debut.
Back to the editorial.
Republican leaders have somehow managed the remarkable feat of being blamed for opposing a one-year extension of a tax holiday that they are surely going to pass.
This is no easy double play.
Republicans have also achieved the small miracle of letting Obama position himself as an election year tax cutter, although he spent most of his presidency promoting tax increases, and he would hit the economy with one of the largest tax increases ever in 2013.
This should be impossible.
Maybe it is impossible.
Maybe people are having a panic attack and just need to lie down and take some deep breaths.
And they continue.
House Republicans yesterday voted down the Senate's two-month extension of the two-percentage-point payroll tax holiday.
Okay.
They say the short extension makes no economic sense, but then neither does a one-year extension.
No employer is going to hire a worker based on such a small and temporary decrease in employment costs as this year's tax holidays demonstrated already.
The entire exercise of political, but Republicans have thoroughly botched the politics.
Okay, so the journal here is saying that the Republicans have got the optics all wrong.
Style.
Everybody wants style.
Style trumps the substance here.
Never mind that the law can't be implemented.
Didn't I just see?
Yes, I did.
Didn't I just tell you about a story by our old buddy Jacob Tacker, Jacob Tapper, that said that the two-month raid on the Social Security Trust Fund, which is what this is.
This raid on the Social Security Tax or Trust Fund, which is known as the payroll tax cut.
It's not a tax cut.
It isn't a tax cut.
Being portrayed as what it's a raid on the Social Security Trust Fund.
Normally, Republicans catch hell for doing what Obama's doing here.
But our side doesn't, for some reason, want to play it that way.
Here we have a Democrat actually doing to the Social Security Trust Fund what they have accused us of wanting to do all my life.
A Democrat presidents actually doing it.
And we're going along with the language that it's a tax cut.
When it's not, it's a raid on the Social Security Trust Fund.
But Jake Tapper said that the implementation here can't be accomplished.
Not enough time to reprogram all the computers for the proper withholding and so forth.
Two months is not enough time to do this.
By the time they get the computers programmed, the two-month extension will be over.
The law will foul up the entire payroll system because it's too last minute.
Now, I hate to nitpick here, but I would think that that would mean something to lawmakers who didn't know that when they came up with their hairbrained idea, but who do know it now.
The journal in their editorial does not make mention of this logistical nightmare.
They're too busy panicking here over the optics.
They just say the fatally flawed law must be passed for appearances.
They admit it's fatally flawed.
We've got to pass it.
We got to pay because it says tax cut there.
Oh gosh, it says tax cut, we have to be behind it.
We can't cede tax cut optics to Democrats.
Because if if we let him have that, then all of a sudden Obama, despite reality, despite his massive tax increases, all of a sudden Obama will be forever known as the king of tax cuts.
That's nonsense to me.
The only way that happens is if we lay down and let it happen.
Which seems to be the preferred course.
By too many on our side.
I wonder, you know.
I actually wonder if Hillary Clinton was over at the Wall Street Journal yesterday with her testicle lockbox.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Let me explain something.
Get some emails.
What is the big deal about calling Obama a socialist?
Right.
Look, folks.
My problem is that nobody has any problem calling the European Union a bunch of socialist nations.
They call them socialist democracies in criticizing what's happening in Europe and their economic plight and their demise.
Everybody says, yeah, that's a bunch of socialist nations, and nobody bats an eye.
Everybody's cool with it.
Because it's what it is.
And Mitt Romney has no trouble calling Newt Gingrich any bad name.
Whatever.
Romney is totally not just Romney.
Our side will call other members on our team any sort of bad name.
What is being said about Gingrich by his opponents is far worse than Romney calling Obama a socialist or anybody else calling Obama a socialist.
So we can call Newt Gingrich anything, and nobody's worried about what that's going to do to voters.
Mitt Romney thinks he can win the Republican nomination by going scorched earth negative with one of his super packs on Newt Gingrich.
Nid Romney is obviously totally comfortable with negative campaigning, all the blasphemous words, terms being used to describe Newt, or whoever else, you know, surface to become the not Romney.
But when it's Obama, no, no, no, Rush, we can't do it.
And we can't we can't call Obama a socialist.
We can call Greece a much socialist, we call Spain a bunch of socialists.
We can call a European Union a bunch of commie pincos, but when we call a Chinese communist, we cannot call Obama socialist.
No, no, no.
But Newt can't.
So our Republicans, they can win the Republican nomination by going scorched earth negative, but we can't win anything else by being true.
Oh, is that it?
You know, I keep forgetting.
I keep so the fact that Obama is black is why we can't call him a socialist.
Is that it?
Because Obama's black, we can't call him anything.
Is that what it is?
Oh, I you know, I uh that had slipped my mind because I don't when I look at Obama, I don't see black, I see a socialist, I see a Marxist, I see a guy who's got this country in his crosshairs.
Okay, well, if the Republicans are running around still worried that anything they say, so we can call Gingrich whatever we want because he's white.
Or we can call Gingrich whatever he wants because he's not black.
But Obama is black, so we can't we can't call him a socialist.
That's racist, and we don't want to be called racist.
Well, then we may as well just give up.
Our side may as well just concede here.
Because they're demonstrating they know how to run a political campaign to win the nomination.
But when it comes to winning the White House because of the occupant, we're gonna dial it back 75%.
And then what?
Hope to get credit for being nice, guys.
Anybody wonder why negative ads are run?
You want to know why they're run?
Because they work.
Sadly, that bothers you.
I'm sorry to tell you, but they work.
That's why it happens.
So that's that's the fact that he's black.
Yeah, he's been black all of his life.
That doesn't change anything.
Not to me.
That's certainly not something to fear.
I, but why you get these inside the beltway types and their worldview, their daily worldview is just different because it's divorced from the reality of life outside the beltway.
So anyway, this Wall Street Journal editorial, upset.
The optics.
We're afraid here that the House Republicans are just gonna blow it all.
And Obama's gonna end up in a campaign year with the title King Tax Cutter.
Now, would this be the same Wall Street Journal that attacked conservatives and Tea Party activists who said the uh the debt ceiling deal was a fraud.
Now the Wall Street Journal believes that a two-month cut in payroll taxes, which is virtually impossible, by the way, for most businesses to institute without a great amount of time and trouble.
And by the way, a two-month cut in payroll taxes, which will do absolutely nothing to help the economy.
And you gotta go back again in two more, we've got to go right back to it in two more months.
But at the same time, we'll at least theoretically drain resources from the bankrupt social so-called Social Security Trust Fund.
Are we that this is what has to be adopted?
The Wall Street Journal, the same Wall Street Journal of tax conservatives and Tea Party people who said the debt ceiling deal was a fraud.
And now this two-month cut, which is impossible for most businesses to institute and won't do anything to help the economy except deplete Social Security, has to be adopted by the House.
This is dead wrong, folks.
Sorry to say, dead wrong on every policy and political level I can think of.
If the Republicans want this tax cut extended, then they have to fight to actually extend it for a year.
Two months doesn't do anything.
But the thinking is, oh yeah, Rush, two months, that means we get to go back at it again.
Two months from now.
We have to go back at it again.
Why?
If Obama's king tax cutter, why do you want to give him another chance to be one?
We'll have more on this, folks.
We're barely just getting started with it here, truthfully.
Okay, more on the tax cut.
The payroll tax cut, the Wall Street Journal editorial House Republicans.
This editorial manages to assume every false premise, every lie the Democrats are putting out in this payroll tax debate.
That's really shocking to me.
This editorial is a shocker.
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