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Dec. 13, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 13, 2012, Thursday, Hour #2
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Ha, how are you?
Great to have you back, folks.
El Rushbaugh, the all-knowing, all caring, all sensing, all feeling Maha Rushi.
It's Rush Stonewall Limbaugh, the leader of the never surrender wing of the GOP.
That's what I was proclaimed as being by Norman Ornstein, the American Enterprise Institute today.
Actually last night with Charlie Rose.
Phone number if you want to be on the program is 800 282-2882 to email address L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
I wonder if Barbara Walters is trying to get lucky with Petraus.
She named him the most fascinating guy in 2010.
And as you heard her say, back then it was because of his stellar military record and his great medals and the uniform fits good and surge guy, you know, all this military stuff.
He made the top of her ten most fascinating people list this year because of the sex.
She also, I mean, Chris Christie's on the list.
She said, Are you too fat to be president?
He said, No, I don't think so.
Of course, everybody's chiming with the fact that he is because he's not healthy, obviously prone to illness and disease, born of obesity.
So people have got that discussion started.
You know what that never comes up when Hillary is the subject.
Um, just an interesting aside.
I mentioned to you Aetna, health insurance premiums may double for some small businesses and individual buyers in America when Obamacare fully implements in 2014.
Aetna, the third biggest U.S. health insurance company, told analysts yesterday in New York that uh their premiums are going to double.
Now we have this.
California's Blue Shield is seeking up to 20% increases in their premiums.
I thought Obamacare was supposed to reduce premiums.
Yeah, that's exactly right.
That's the number I heard.
Everybody's insurance premium was going to drop 2,500.
Now, Aetna, theirs will double.
Blue Shield, California set to go up 20%.
Uh and people are saying, people of Blue Shield, you ought to dip into your profits.
Well, you what why see here and here it starts.
Why should there be any profit in the health industry?
Well, why why should why should Aetna make any money?
Why should insurance company profit enabling people to stay well?
That's exactly right, Mr. Limbaugh.
I am happy to see you coming around.
You don't need me to help you so much.
This is the voice of Mr. Newcastra.
That's exactly right, Mr. Limbaugh.
You're that there shouldn't be any profit in food.
Grocery stores ought not be selling food at profit because everyone has to eat.
And why should people get rich treating others who are sick, Mr. Limbaugh?
Well, that's exactly right.
And by the extension, why should an insurance company make a profit?
Uh, when they're simply availing people access to health care.
You can't get health care without insurance.
That's law now.
In fact, Obama will fine you if you don't have an insurance policy.
And it's gonna start if it hadn't already well, it is starting.
Some officials want Blue Shield to dip into its profits to avoid taking or uh uh hiking uh the rates.
But Blue Shield says no, there those reserves are there for emergencies.
We can't we can't we we're you know, like uh every business ought to have a rainy day fund, and we have ours.
We're not gonna dip into our rainy day fund, our reserves, our profits to lower the premiums.
We've got to have res No, no, why do you need you don't need any reserves will be the rejoinder.
Why do you need the extra money?
Why don't you just charge what it costs you?
And therefore it'd be cheaper for everybody.
Everybody would have uh cuts in their premiums, and he'd be able to afford it, and then everybody would get health care, and the doctors don't make any profit, and the hospitals don't make any profit, and the nurses don't make any profit.
Nobody.
And look at be it would be wonderful for Everybody.
Now you laugh, but I'm telling you, this is what's taught.
What this is precisely that's not taught that way.
The way it's taught is that profit is evil.
Profit is greed.
Uh profit leads to high cost.
Profit leads to people being left out.
Uh it's, you know, profit is under assault.
Uh junior high all the way up to the academy, academ.
Now these rate increases from Aetna and California Blue Shield, that's exactly what Obama wants.
It's all part of his plan to get everybody out of private insurance and into Obamacare administered by exchanges at the state level or the federal government.
These rate increases are exactly what Obama wants.
He's out there.
Now tell you how this is going to work.
It's so simple.
Obama doesn't lie.
He told you that his plan is gonna is gonna result in your premium being reduced $2,500.
But poor Obama, he didn't count on these insurance companies being cheaters.
Obama didn't count on these people at insurance companies raping people.
Obama thought they'd play nice and everybody would go along with a plan, but the insurance companies are simply trying to gouge now.
Obama was his plan would make everybody's premiums go down $2,500.
Obama was right.
It's these dirty, rotten private sector companies, these corporations profiting off of illness and sickness and taking advantage of this new law.
Obama was right.
Your premium would go down $2,500.
So you see, the ultimate aim is for all these corporations to be put out of business.
The private sector health insurance business is targeted for extinction, leaving America's patients, all of us with only one place to go.
Government and hello single payer.
And the objective here is for that to happen anywhere from five to ten years.
And Obama said as much in a speech to the Service Employees International Union back in 2007.
And yes, we played you all those sound bites during the campaign and even beforehand, all during the past four years.
We played those sound bites during the 2008 campaign.
Where Obama was very upfront.
He told the union guys, we can't get the single payer overnight.
It's going to take us ten to fifteen years.
But if I work hard, maybe five to ten years.
Well, he's being assisted rapidly here.
Aetna, doubling premiums.
Blue Shield California up 20%.
Made to order.
John Boehner, let's listen to him.
This was this morning in Washington on Capitol Hill.
He held a press conference about the fiscal cliff.
He used a chart to illustrate the amount of spending the government does compared with taxes.
Republicans want to solve this problem by getting the spending line down.
The president uh wants to pretend that spending isn't a problem.
That's why we don't have an agreement.
The chart uh depicts what I've been saying for a long time now.
Washington has a spending problem uh that can't be fixed with tax increases alone.
Now let's let me parse that because there are two things in that statement.
You might have heard only one.
You might have heard Boehner say we have a spending problem, and about that he's correct.
But then he said, and his last words in this bite were Washington has a spending problem that can't be fixed with tax increases alone.
Thereby accepting the premise that there will be tax increases.
He's accepting the proposition.
The premise, the idea, the notion, the fact.
We can't fix the problem with tax increases alone.
They're gonna have to be spending cuts.
We can't f what we need are spending cuts And tax cuts, folks.
If we really want to fix this, if we really want more money to treasury, if we want to generate more economic growth and more jobs, you cut spending and you cut taxes.
But that's not what Obama is about.
There's no desire to cut government.
There's no desire to cut spending or entitlements.
So there's no common ground here.
So here's Boehner.
Let me check something real quick.
Dow Jones industrial average is uh down 71 points right now.
And let me read to you from Kate Gibson at MarketWatch.com.
U.S. stocks fell Thursday after John Boehner declared spending to be the issue preventing a deal to avert spending cuts and tax increases from starting in the new year.
Boehner called a nude's conference to detail his views on what's blocking negotiations to avoid the cliff.
And the Dow Jones industrial average fell twenty-eight points immediately after Boehner said we have a spending problem.
Every gun is aimed at us.
Every time somebody articulates the fix, in this case, spending cuts, the market goes down and the media says Boehner's causing this.
Your stock portfolio is declining because Boehner went out there stupidly talked about spending cuts.
So we're to believe if Boehner had gone out and agreed with tax increases and spending increases that the market would have gone up.
So you see, folks, no matter where you turn, the solution to this problem is savaged.
The solution to this problem is criticized, ripped, and is blamed for all the evil.
That is why I say what's really on Obama's agenda is his desire to see to it that the Republicans and everything they stand for is seen as the problem.
Low employment, high unemployment, no economic growth, real estate values plunging, whatever the economic problem is, it is because of Republicans, and Boehner typifies it.
He goes out there, starts talking about spending cuts or what happens to the market.
Everything these Republicans stand for as causing a problem.
That's the message.
And the Republicans at some point have a duty here, and that is to agree with this by virtue of letting Obama has what he wants in a fiscal cliff deal and thereby cementing the notion that it's their fault.
That's what Obama is aiming for.
Brief timeout, we'll come back and we'll introduce uh your phone calls to the mix.
So stay with us, folks.
Okay, let's start on the phones.
We uh go to Peoria, Illinois.
Hi, Eddie.
I'm great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Megadiddles, Rush.
I appreciate you, appreciate your show.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate you saying you appreciate it.
Earlier in the program, um, you made a very interesting point.
And um your point was something along this line, and correct me if I don't have it exactly right.
Um, that you know what, the people who elected Obama, these people from the left really don't understand how the economy works.
They cannot appreciate supply and demand.
They don't understand the base, they don't understand the relationship of price to supply, for example.
They don't they they don't you're exactly I don't it's just not being taught.
I well, I I agree with you 110%.
Now I I have a a little different spin on this, and you know, figure me out if I'm incorrect.
Here's what I believe, Rush.
I think that there are a certain there is a certain segment of that population that really is ignorant.
I mean ignorant.
However, I believe the greater side of that population that is these people who lean to the left, these people who suck off the taxpayers' dollars, actually really have a very good understanding of exactly how the economy works.
And you know what they want?
They want the status quo.
That's why they voted Obama.
It's not because, you know, they didn't think, oh, well, you know, jeepers.
I agree with you.
I I I said of the percentage of Americans who vote, those who voted for Obama knew exactly what they were doing.
I I agree with you.
At the same time, those same people are wrong.
They do not know where prosperity comes from.
They they they they're looking at prosperity purely in a selfish sense, and at how they can get I don't even think they look at themselves as prosperous.
They just they they don't have to work.
Uh everything everything's fine, they're still eating when they don't have a job, they still have the car, phone, cell service, don't have a job, what's the not like?
And that is, in their view, in my opinion, prosperous.
Why work?
Why get educated?
Why do what you need to do to help you help yourself.
How do you call it?
Pull yourself up by the bootstraps.
Why not do that?
You know why?
Because people like Obama give it to them.
They don't have to earn it.
And you know, I understand.
Well, there's something a little bit more insidious than that.
What Obama's role in this is to make those people feel justified in this because the really rich and successful have come by it dishonestly.
And so if the game is rigged and the people who have stuff haven't really earned it, then it's okay for these people to be taken a little bit back from them.
That's Obama's message.
Obama's message is that everything about this country is illegitimate.
Particularly success and achievement.
It's been phony.
It's been it's been preordained and selected by a select group taking care of itself.
I agree with you.
And and I believe that, you know, Obama's message went even further.
What what Obama's message sent to these people is hey, let's keep the status quo.
You know what?
That way all you people here.
I d I know what you're saying, but if you listen to Obama and I do, if you listen to Obama, he says repeatedly that what he's about is making sure everybody has a fair shake, a fair shot.
And uh and America's a place where with a fair playing field, level play field, and you work hard, then you did that's how that's what we want.
He he talks like that.
But at the same time, he is excusing people who don't get involved that way because everything's stacked against them anyway.
And that's exactly right now, until he fixes it.
Russia, that's exactly what they buy into.
They buy into the fact that okay, we need to level the playing field.
Well, how do we do that?
Here's some money for you.
No, the level playing field is achieved by tax increases on the rich.
The level playing field is achieved by taking money from the success, by taking money from people that have even a dollar more than you do.
And that's exactly what they buy into.
And so there's no incentive for them to move themselves from where they are into a better place.
Uh you know, these these people who that's true, because if one if you go down that path, you might be looking at ten, fifteen years for the payoff.
It takes a while to be successful.
It's a har if you go the hard work route, you might get fired a couple times.
You might work for a boss as a creep.
It's it's really hard.
It's really hard versus the status cruise.
Heaven forbid that you go to school and work two part-time jobs, no, and and educate yourself and that's for suckers.
I haven't forbid.
That's for suckers.
That's for suckers.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Suckers, and you know who the suckers are?
It's everyone who voted for Obama.
Well, you know, I think that's a good thing.
The thing I think uh now you understand something here, uh Eddie, there are a lot of people listening to you, and I think that that that we're full of it that we're not got to that point yet.
Uh I know a lot of people think, come on, rush, you lose one election, you go over to deep end with this kind of thing, and we haven't gotten there yet.
Um I'm afraid among the people who vote, we have.
I think this is something we've got to admit.
Why do you think the left gets so ticked off at me when I describe their party as Santa Claus and Obama's Santa Claus?
They get so ticked off because it's right.
So when when you understand Obama's level playing field is not about opportunity.
You and I, we come from uh I believe opportunity society.
Everybody has a fair shake at opportunity.
That's not what Obama means.
When Obama talks about a level playing field, he's talking about outcomes.
And he is going to administer the outcomes.
He is going to be in charge.
Obama's gonna determine.
He's gonna pick the winners and losers.
And right now, the losers are people who are the winners in our society because they have won unjustly.
They have made obscene profit.
They have charged people way too much for their service.
They have uh cheated, maybe, stolen, in fact.
So today's winners are actually the cheaters.
And they are Obama's losers.
He's gonna get them.
Merry Christmas and happy Christmas and uh Kwanzaa and oh.
Let me find it.
I just reminded myself of something.
I'm looking for a sound bite with Nancy Pelosi.
I'm looking for Pelosi.
I know I saw it in the list.
Is it 17?
Is I missed 17?
Do I not have 17?
Yes, it is, Nancy Pelosi.
Uh, yesterday at a press conference to talk about fiscal cliff negotiations.
Is there not an appreciation for the Jewish holidays, the Christmas holidays, Kwanzaa, all the other things that families come together around, bonding rituals important uh to the strength of our society?
Do we not care about that?
Well, the American people do, and they want to shop for it.
Now you might be saying, What the hell is that about?
That is why I'm here to tell you what Nancy Pelosi is saying is that the Republicans are ruining Kwanzaa shopping with the fiscal cliff delay.
The Republicans are destroying the Jewish holidays, the Christmas holiday, and Kwanzaa.
All the things that families come together around, bonding rituals important to the strength of our society.
Republicans don't care about that.
But the American people do, and they want to shop for it.
They want to go shopping.
American people want to go shopping, Rachel, but because the Republicans are playing hardball on a fiscal cliff.
Kwanzaa shoppers are so depressed that they're not shopping for Kwanzaa.
Jewish Americans are not shopping during this season because the Republicans are playing hardball at Fiscal Cliff.
Let's go back to 16.
Sheila Jackson Lee.
Now, just to remind you, she is from Houston.
She Congresswoman from Houston.
She replaced uh uh former Congressman Mickey Leland, who died in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
He went over there to look at famine.
And his plane crashed, and she ran for receipt, she won it.
She is the member of Congress.
She was at NASA one day when the Mars rover was being moved around, and you could see it at a camera on the Mars rover, and she asked NASA representatives if they were going to steer the rover on Mars over to where the astronauts had planted the flag.
Which, of course, the astronauts haven't been to Mars yet, and there's no flag there.
Uh that would be the moon.
And NASA officials reacted very embarrassed.
It's sort of like Al Gore and Clinton shortly after Clinton was immaculated himself in 1993.
They were at Thomas Jefferson's house, or maybe George Washington, I forget which, and a robusts of famous Americans, former presidents.
And Al Gore stroll in, and he's looking very studious and very serious, very scholarly, and he's asking the curators, well, and who is this?
Uh, that is uh Thomas Jefferson, uh, Mr. Vice.
Oh, Thomas Jefferson, yeah.
He recognized Thomas Jefferson, Sheila Jackson Lee.
And these are the smart ones you see.
Yep, we are the idiots.
These are the brilliant among us.
Here's Sheila Jackson Lee during general speeches on a floor of the House yesterday talking about the fiscal cliff negotiations.
There is no way, Mr. Speaker, that we should raise the eligibility age for Medicare, that we should not think carefully about how we approach the reform of Medicaid, and that we don't tell the American people that Social Security is solvent.
So I would say move quickly to pass uh the middle class tax cuts that would be for all of Americans, 100 percent, up to 250,000.
And let's think about moving into 2013, how we make this economy better by looking carefully at how we reform entitlements that are not handouts, but they are earned.
Yes.
You see, there you have entitlements are earned.
Did you know that?
Entitlements are earned.
Exactly.
So who who are you to say they aren't, Mr. Limbaugh?
I earned my social security.
I earn my Medicare.
I earned my Medicaid.
I earned all this.
I earned my middle class.
I earned it all.
Well, there's a question that needs to be asked, uh uh ladies and gentlemen.
If these entitlements are earned, how the hell can they be going bankrupt?
Simple question.
Question I'm not supposed to ask.
I just asked it uh anyway.
Back to Barbara Wawa.
Uh this is shortly after announcing that General Petraeus is for the second time since the year 2010 the most fascinating person of the year because of the sex scandal.
Because he combined sex, lies, the digital age with military honor.
That's that's that's what she said was the criteria.
So last night, she presenting a ten most fascinating people.
And I've been on that list twice, by the way.
I should full disclosure, I have been on the list twice.
I don't think I was the most fascinating.
One year I came close to being the most fascinating, early on, early 90s, but I don't think I was close.
Anyway, she uh talking to Hillary, and they had this little chat back and forth.
Will you consider running for president in 2016?
Would you just like to make your declaration now?
We could conclude this interview.
Well, that would be fascinating to me as uh well as everyone else.
You know, I've said I really don't believe uh that that's something I will do again.
Right now I have no intention of running.
Well, she'd been anointed.
She doesn't have to run.
We played you the sound bites earlier this week.
It's already a done deal, 2016.
Carville said uh what did he say?
Nobody can beat her, but he says 90 percent done, just dispense with the primaries.
It's uh he said book it or something like that.
And Newt Newt says that as the Republican Party's currently constituted, that that she couldn't be beat.
As currently constant.
Newt sent me a note clarifying what he meant, by the way.
Well, he didn't he he thought that I interpreted his comment as a Republican Party could never beat her, and what he wanted me to know was that he doesn't think as it currently is constituted, it couldn't beat her.
So she'd been anointed.
I don't want to just talk about running.
But uh here's my look, if you're gonna talk to Chris Christie about his girth and the impact that might have on his presidential run.
How do you um I better not go there?
War on women stuff, you know.
Yeah, I do know what they're gonna use.
If if they're I they're gonna say they're gonna I uh operation chaos.
They are going to point out that I once devoted this program to her getting a Democrat nomination in 2008.
Even Rush Limbaugh was for her at one time.
And they will also dredge up the question I asked, and that is do the American People want to watch an aging female president in office.
Do the American people uh put it differently.
Do the American people want to watch a female president age before they were I ask I did ask that question.
They'll dredge that up too.
Um now, uh Barbara Walters then said, so look, you'll be sixty-nine in twenty sixteen.
Sixty-nine.
That's a big number in the left, folks.
Don't discount it.
If you won two terms, you would be seventy-seven.
Is your age a concern to you, Mrs. Clinton?
It really isn't.
I am thankfully, knock on wood, not only healthy, but have incredible stamina and energy.
That's at 69 again.
And so then Barbara Walter said, Well, I have to ask you this very personal question.
Your hair.
I know that it's one of the great uh fascinations about.
Take that back to the beginning.
That's that that sound you heard, that's the Arkansas broadbeam.
It's a species that has only been found natively in Arkansas.
It it can survive outside Arkansas.
That's the Arkansas broad beam.
Here, here it is again.
I know that it's one of the great uh fascinations of our time.
Much to my amazement.
People said to me you interviewing the Secretary of State.
I said, Yes, why don't I ask?
Well, I, you know, I do not travel with any hairdresser, and I'm not very competent myself.
I've been uh admitting that for years, which uh should be obvious to everyone.
It just got to be really burdensome to try to find a hairdresser in some city, somewhere.
So I said enough.
We're just gonna try to go with uh as simple as possible.
Nobody asked the men that have you noticed the men.
What?
No, it's well, what is Huma for?
Who does the hair?
Whom is whoma's the the the the formal wear, whatever Hillary needs, whuma is there for it.
What is what is what is uh have to find a hairdresser in every city?
Come on.
She could she could travel with a hairdresser.
That can be part of the um the retinue.
But anyway, I think she could Bernadine Dorn come in and do it.
Looks like it looks like some hippie hairdresser from the 60s is doing that.
Now nobody asks men about their hair.
No, no, they don't.
But here's here's here's Barbara Walters talking to Chris Christie, and and she said, Look, you've been criticized for praising Obama during Hurricane Sandy.
People have said that you helped him win.
Is this unfair criticism?
I was doing my job.
I'm the governor of the state of New Jersey, and he offered to help.
And so you bet I'm gonna take him up on his offer to help.
Yeah, but I'm gonna be the critic.
You didn't have to put your arm around him, you didn't have to fly in the plane with him.
And you could have said, you know, thank you, Mr. President, it'd been a little cooler.
So I could have lied.
That's what you're suggesting.
I mean, you're suggesting that what I should have done was lied, because everything I said I said is that.
I'm being the critic.
You were too effusive.
You helped him win.
I didn't help him win.
Uh the fact of the matter is, President won the election pretty comfortably.
Any regrets?
No.
No.
And then and then, ladies and gentlemen, in big finale in the conversation between Barbara Walters and Chris Christie.
I feel very uncomfortable asking this question when I'm sitting opposite you.
But you are a little overweight.
More than a little.
Why?
If I could figure that out, I'd fix it.
There are people who say that you couldn't be president because you're so heavy.
What do you say to them?
Well, that's ridiculous.
I mean, that's ridiculous.
I mean, uh I don't know what the basic.
Well, I've done this job pretty well, and I think people watched me uh for the last number of weeks in Hurricane Sandy doing 18-hour days and getting right back up the next day and still being just as effective um in the job, so I don't really think that would be a problem.
Okay, so let's move forward now to CNN, Aaron Burnett out front, uh Ashley Banfield filling in, and she got uh columnist in the Daily Beast, John Avlon talking about Christie's weight.
And the question, okay, you're a heartbeat away from the presidency, your vice president.
That was an issue with people talking about him being a possible running mate.
When you're the president, you potentially do have health risks.
Isn't that a fair question for the American people to ponder McCrissy's weight?
I'm with Chris Christie on this one.
Look, people of the country have seen him responding to Hurricane Sandy, working around the clock, and he's done by all accounts an exemplary job.
That's what matters.
That's the key criteria.
Uh that didn't satisfy Ashley Banfield.
There is fact behind it.
In fact, in National Institutes of Health say if you're about 5'11 and weigh 215 pounds, you're considered obese.
And the risks that are scientifically associated with being obese are severe.
I mean, uh blood pressure, type two diabetes, gallstones, breathing problems, certain cancers.
That's unavoidable.
Those are realities.
And that, by the way, is just at obese.
There are other statistics for being even heavier than that.
And Chris Christie's never said how heavy he is.
But isn't that a concern to the leader of the free world to be at risk for this many more diseases than, say, the average guy?
Yeah, we can't have a guy at risk for that many more diseases than the average guy, and that's a tender we can't put up with that.
No way.
Well, Shazam Shazam, lo and behold, Jay Carney, the White House spokesperson has just admitted that I am right when I say that what the Democrats what Obama wants is for Boehner and the Republicans to confess, to concede that what they believe in and did caused all of our economic problems.
This is the White House press briefing, and an a reporter said at the start of negotiations, the White House welcomed Republican movement towards revenue, taxes.
Can you point to something the President's done that's moved in the direction of Republicans?
The cuts that you've outlined have been ones that have been in your budget.
You asked for almost double what Republicans have put on the table in taxes.
You have 200 billion dollars in stimulus money.
Can you point to us how that is a negotiation?
Where are you compromising?
In 2001, he fiercely advocated for the massive tax cuts that President Bush insisted on.
Again in 2003 that went disproportionately to the wealthy, promising that they would lead to economic growth and a middle class that was better off.
Let me just say that while I personally am very fond of John Boehner, his record of predicting what would happen if certain policies, economic policies were instituted, is abysmal.
Okay?
There you have it, folks.
Uh that just now admitting it.
Bush tax cuts, 2001-2003.
That's why we're in this mess, and it's Boehner's fault.
And he's gonna have to admit it.
His record's abysmal.
He predicted those tax cuts would lead to economic growth and high employment, and it didn't happen.
But it did.
It did.
These guys are purposely, and everybody else is purposely forgetting what they lived through.
Just like everybody apparently has forgotten the absolute most robust economic recovery in the history of the world, which took place in the eighties.
That economic recovery lasted twenty five years, the Reagan recovery.
It was an expansion of the U.S. economy which had never been seen before.
The Bush tax cuts led we had 9-11 in the mix there and another recession.
The Bush tax cuts led us to, among other things, unemployment of 4.7% for five years in a row, practically.
We had a boom, folks.
We were living in the middle of a boom.
Unemployment was weighed down, jobs were plentiful, the economy was growing.
It's just that during all that time, the Democrats and the media kept lying to the American people about we're on the verge of a recession, we're in a recession, uh calamity, and hell is just around the corner.
But doesn't matter.
What really happened doesn't matter.
What the Democrats and media say happened is all that matters.
And I mean, I called it Kearney is now admitting it.
The Bush tax cuts, which Boehner supported.
Every prediction made about them.
Nope.
They caused this.
That's what we have to fix now.
So we have to put those tax cuts back.
We have to raise those people's because this look at the problems we caused.
All the unemployment, all of this and all of that.
And that's what they're trying to do.
Get the Republicans to agree with that.
You know, the thing is they get rid of the Bush tax cuts on the rich, and that's going to result in less revenue for Washington.
It's going to result in less money to redistribute.
That's the dirty little secret.
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