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Dec. 27, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 27, 2012, Thursday, Hour #2
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When you're a guest host, you always want to have a lot of material to talk about.
You know, you can have a slow news day and Russia's going to be able to get through it because Russia's rush.
And the audience is going to give Rush the benefit of the doubt.
We guess hosts, we've got to be good right away.
So you always want to have a lot of material.
And this week between Christmas and New Year's, you'd think that that would be rough.
But we've got the whole fiscal cliff thing.
We've got liberals who I think are more emboldened than ever in trying to demonize those of us on our side.
I want to talk about why we're going over the fiscal cliff, and we're going over the fiscal cliff in a few minutes here, but I do want to talk about a couple of things that I mentioned in hour number one.
If you weren't around, we were talking about the reaction to the statements made by the president of the National Rifle Association, Wayne Lapierre, in which he rejected calls to ban a whole series of guns in the wake of what happened in Newtown, Connecticut.
And the ridiculing of Lapierre when he dared to suggest that if we want to do something about violence in schools, what we need to do is get more guns in schools, guns in the hands of police officers, put a cop or a security guard in every school in the United States.
He was ridiculed.
Even some of the conservative press said that he was tone deaf.
The anger and the venom directed at the NRA death threats to the NRA.
Fort LaPierre daring to suggest doing something that might help.
The reason they're attacking him is because he won't do the thing that they most want, which is to endorse more gun laws.
Well, in a second, I'm going to prove their lack of sincerity when it comes to gun laws.
We had a caller though made an excellent point, called from California in the last hour of the show, and he said, look, we've got a lot of retired veterans.
They'd probably be more than happy to go to work in schools.
They're certainly trained in firearms use.
If you want to start thinking about how we can address this problem without busting school budgets, if we're actually sincere about making schools safer, I think a lot of these things are good ideas.
Most public school budgets, you could easily get rid of some position, some paper pusher here, somebody somewhere, and try to come up with the funding to do this.
If you think outside the box we might be able to move in that direction, but you've got people who don't want to solve the problem.
They just want to pass gun laws.
Yet, for all their obsession with gun laws, when you actually have massive violation of gun laws, a real atrocity, gun laws that are serious, they want nothing to do with it.
I'm going to prove that point.
One of the most outrageous acts of violation of America's gun laws that resulted in a terrible tragedy was Operation Fast and Furious.
You had the government of the United States of America.
Barack Obama's government sell hundreds of guns to the Mexican drug gangs.
Those were illegal sales of guns because we were selling them to people who we knew to be criminals.
Now they argue that it was a legal operation because it was done for this larger purpose.
Whatever.
Here you put in the hands of dangerous people, hundreds of weapons, some of them very high powered.
We know that those weapons have been used in crimes in Mexico, and one of them was used to kill an American agent on the border.
The left is so obsessed with passing gun laws, but they don't want to know anything about Fast and Furious.
They've been sweeping this thing under the carpet for two years now.
They want to know they don't want to know who violated what law.
They don't want to know who knew about this operation.
They have a total lack of sincerity in finding out what happened there.
They can talk a good game about gun laws.
But they're more than willing to shove a bunch of illegal guns into Mexico.
And then when we find out about it, they don't want to know who did it.
The NRA is at least standing up for a legitimate point of view.
This administration ran an illegal gun running operation into Mexico that ended with the most tragic of consequences, the killing of an American agent.
Yet there's been an almost total blackout by the Democrats in Congress and the media in getting to the bottom of who knew about that operation and when, right up to an including the Attorney General of the United States and when he briefed the president.
I think that that's telling.
They want to pass all these gun laws.
But they can't be bothered at all about fast and furious.
All right, let's talk about the fiscal cliff.
A subject that is getting unbelievably boring.
Because we keep going the whole take on this is will we go over the cliff or not?
Will we go over the cliff or not?
Will we go over the cliff or not?
And then the second take is if we go over the cliff, is it going to be because the Republicans refuse to raise taxes on the rich?
That's the narrative, and it's gotten to be monotonous.
I admit that part of the problem is the Republicans themselves.
They don't really know how to deal with a media landscape in which they're not given a fair shot.
They have a hard time with it.
So they're terrified that they're going to get the blame if we go over the cliff.
And you end up with some of them saying we ought to raise raise these taxes and others saying this, and you've got Grover Norquist thrown into the middle of the thing, and you've got people questioning whether or not Boehner can keep his speakership, the entire focus on the Republicans.
I happen to think that this misses the point.
Barack Obama's the president of the United States.
If he didn't want to go over the fiscal cliff, do you not think he couldn't make a deal?
I think Obama wants this.
I think Obama is relishing this.
I think Obama loves the fact that you've got this hand wringing among the Republicans.
Harry Reid went to the floor of the United States Senate this morning and demanded that John Boehner bring the House Republicans back, blaming Boehner for called Boehner almost a dictator, it's Boehner's fault that we don't have a deal.
Obama's the president.
If he didn't want us to go over the cliff, he'd call Boehner up, he'd call up for that matter the Senate Republicans, and he'd deal with this thing seriously.
All right.
Fiscal Cliff, terrible thing.
What do I need to do in order to avert this?
Do you think for a minute that's been Obama's approach?
He hasn't budged at all on this.
He's offered nothing.
The Republicans have thrown out the idea that maybe we can raise some taxes if you cut spending.
He hasn't offered any spending cuts for crying out loud, he's asking for a new stimulus.
He's asking that the debt ceiling be permanently removed so that there's never any leverage to get him to cut spending.
He hasn't proposed a single thing that would get the Republicans interested.
You may not agree with what Boehner threw out, and you may not agree with Plan B. But I think that the reason we're at this point is because Obama wants us to go over the cliff.
Suppose you ran a business, and in a few days there was this thing that would terribly affect your business, everybody was telling you.
Well my goodness, if we don't get something worked out, the business is going to be completely fouled up.
Wouldn't you think that the CEO would be spending all of his time trying to figure out how to avoid that terrible thing?
I think Obama wants this.
I think he wants us to go over the cliff because he thinks once we have increases in taxes, once the middle class realizes that their tax rates are up and the family care credit are up and all of these other taxes are up, that people are going to freak.
And then he's going to get up there and say, oh, the reason why this one is because you Republicans won't raise taxes on the rich.
And that the Republicans will then buckle, they'll vote for a tax increase, the Republican base will be frosted, That they'll be talking about running primary elections against all these Republican incumbents and that the Republicans will lose the House in two years.
I think that's Obama's plan.
I also think he likes the idea of raising taxes.
I think he thinks that if we go over the cliff, it improves his bargaining position.
There's a magic number out there somewhere of what of what the income level is going to be as to who's going to have a tax increase.
Obama's been talking about 200 and 250,000 in plan Baehner threw out one million.
At some point there may be a deal, but Obama thinks that once we get over the cliff and the Republican position is weakened, he'll be able to move that number down.
He thinks the Republicans will be so freaked over being blamed on this that they'll cave on everything.
At least that's how I'm reading this.
If he really wanted to avert this, I think his approach would be entirely different.
Here's my point on this.
I think we have the weird situation of a president of the United States who doesn't care if something bad will happen to the country he runs.
We've never had a president who thought that way before.
The reason the Republicans, for better or worse, are tripping over themselves trying to offer this proposal to see if we can't get this done, is I think most of them sincerely believe it would be a bad thing for us to have this massive tax increase kick in on January 1st.
The economists say it's going to send us back into a recession.
All of this money, all you know, the withholding on individual paychecks is going to go way up.
People aren't going to have the money that they had before.
They also are philosophically opposed to a big tax increase on just about everybody who earns money in the United States.
They think that going over the cliff is a bad thing, and going over the cliff is a bad thing.
That's why I think there's some sincerity on the Republican side in which they'd like to try to come up with something that would avert it.
But I don't think Obama cares.
Do you really think Barack Obama would be bothered at all on January 2nd if there's no deal?
Income tax rates go up on everyone.
Companies are told by their parallel companies that we've got to dramatically increase the withholding to reflect these new rates.
The economists tell him that there's going to be a freeze on spending.
Mr. President, the Christmas spending numbers were out, they weren't as good as we thought they'd be.
Now nobody's going to spend because of this tax increase.
It's going to send us back into a recession.
I'm serious about this.
I don't think Obama would give a rip.
I don't think it bothers him at all.
I think things like the status of the American economy are not high on his priority list.
He's got other things that are more important.
What's important to him?
Redistribution of income.
He so badly wants to significantly raise income taxes on successful people, that he's willing to see the economy of the United States suffer if that helps him achieve that goal.
He's determined, here's another thing high on his priority list.
Destroy the Republican Party once and for all.
He believes that if the Republicans actually have to vote for a deal that has tax increases in it, that there's going to be this terrible rift in the party that's going to severely weaken it in the 2014 elections.
That's important to him.
He hates the Republicans.
He wants to stomp on them in the 2014 election.
He thinks that if we go over the cliff, it will help him do that.
He is willing to sacrifice.
The economy of this country.
He's willing to see all of these taxes go up even though it's going to mean that unemployment is going to stay at the high levels that it is, even though it might mean a recession.
Because I think he just doesn't care.
He's got other things that are more important to him.
And that's what's really not only sad but scary.
We have a president Whose highest priority isn't the state of the American economy.
It's achieving the political goal of redistributing income and achieving the political goal of stomping the Republicans.
That's more important to him than what's in the best interest of the country that he has been re-elected to lead.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush.
There are a lot of people who believe that Barack Obama has all along wanted to destroy the American economy.
Some of us have never been willing to go quite that far.
But I do think this.
I think that the things that most politicians are focused on and are motivated by not the things that motivate him.
You go to any of the fifty governors in the United States, they're all pretty much obsessed with how their economies are doing because they know it's going to be hard for them to be reelected if they don't have good jobs numbers if their economy isn't doing good in comparison to other states.
You go back through all the presidents that we've had in the recent past, they've been laser focused on the economy and the condition of the economy because that's a high national priority.
I just think he's got a different set of values.
The things that are important to him are not the same things that are important to just about any other leader.
I don't think he much cares about the unemployment rate.
I don't think he cares much about the growth rate.
I don't think he much cares if we have another recession.
I think he's a true radical.
I think that the things that he cares about are the same things that those liberal egghead professors talk about on college campuses, how we can have a more redistributionistic society in which we can take more of the assets away from certain people and get it to the masses.
I think that he's got the kinds of beliefs and values that have a lot more to do with evening things out and getting even with people who he thinks have taken advantage of the United States.
Those are the things that motivate him.
Those are the things that charge him up.
So the fiscal cliff becomes an opportunity to pursue those goals.
I don't think he has any desire at all to try to deal with this terrible debt crisis that we have, and it's terrible.
The fiscal cliff is just the first of the 9,000 different deadlines we're going to face.
What we are right now in terms of our debt, it's frightening.
We talk about a national debt of sixteen trillion dollars.
How about the government's unfunded liabilities?
That's the gap between the money that is coming in and what we're going to have to pay out in Social Security and Medicare in the future.
That number is like five times higher than this sixteen trillion dollars.
Fifteen, twenty years out, we're going to have so many baby boomers that are retired and around the system, and every projection out there shows nowhere near the amount of money coming in to pay their benefits.
That's what's really scary.
He's the president of the United States, but do you think he cares?
Do you think that that's a pro that that's a subject that he wants to address?
Do you think he wants his legacy to be the president who came in and helped turn the corner on America's terrible debt problem?
Do you think he wants to be remembered as the president who brought entitlement spending under control and helped America right its fiscal ship?
Most presidents would care deeply about that.
Because they want a positive legacy and they care about the future of our nation.
I think he wants to be remembered as the guy who created a new entitlement.
He wants to be the guy that put the middle class on the government dole by creating Obamacare.
I think he wants to be the guy that brought America to a system in which people who are successful have to pay way, way, way more in.
I think he wants to be the guy that helped create a country in which virtually every American was dependent upon the government.
I think those are his big issues.
I think those are the things that drive him.
So he's not going to reach a deal on the fiscal cliff because the things the Republicans want are things that he has no interest in doing.
If you have his ideology and you have his motivation, why would you even try to reach a deal?
Well, Mr. President, we might give you a tax increase, but you've got to cut some spending.
He's not going to cut that spending.
He doesn't believe in it.
He doesn't want to do it.
I think he cares about a lot of things that have nothing to do with the situation that we're in right now.
Me?
I don't believe we should raise taxes unless you get a wonderful deal that's never going to come.
But I at least understand that what happens January first is bad for our country.
I don't want to see everybody with less money.
I don't want to see us throwing more money into the government, sending us into a recession.
I don't want to see more people fired.
I don't want to see people less able to spend money on the things that they want to spend them on because we're all sending it to Washington.
I know what the downside is.
I think I care a lot more about what's going to happen to our country than he cares, which is why we're at the point that we're at right now.
He doesn't want a deal because he doesn't care about the problem.
Here's one thing I'm convinced of.
I think most Americans, what is Rush call them the low information voter?
I think most people think that when we go over this fiscal cliff that that means taxes are going to go up on the rich.
I don't think most people know that they're going to go up for them.
First, there's the payroll tax.
You know, that's the withholding for Social Security Medicare.
There's been a temporary, it's been in place for years now, a temporary two percent reduction in that thing.
People are going to say, you know, that withholding is going to go up.
Their income tax rates are going to go up.
I looked at a chart yesterday.
For somebody making seventy five thousand dollars a year, it's not like they're going to be paying nine dollars a year more in taxes.
Hundreds, thousands, thousands.
I don't think they know that this is happening.
I think the people who are really focused know what's happening.
I think most people hear fiscal cliff and they don't know that their taxes are going to go way up, and I mean regular people's taxes going way up.
So you've got the Republicans that are just mortified by this.
And that's why I think a lot of them don't know which way they should go.
They're mortified.
We're going to get blamed.
If I could give them any advice to buck them up, it would be to stop worrying about getting the blame.
You just lost the national election.
The voters can't throw you out again.
They can't reject Mitt Romney one more time.
If ever you should be liberated to stand for your principles and hold to a position that you're proud of and you believe in, it would be now.
This is not to say that it's not plausible that you would ever have a deal.
I just don't think Barack Obama's ever going to agree to anything that would be worthwhile.
So you may as well stand up here.
And in terms of persuading the American public who the problem is, let's ask them, which guy is really serious about the reason that we have a fiscal cliff?
Do you think Obama really wants to reduce government spending and deal with our debt?
The reason we're at this point now with all these deadlines is because Obama has not been serious about constraining government spending.
He's been the guy that's driven spending way up.
How do you know you're going to lose the argument?
Well, we're going to get blamed for it.
We're going to get blamed for it.
Hey, you see a couple of kids, you know, kids when they're playing sports.
The kids who think they're going to lose, their team always loses.
The Republicans are acting like they're the Kansas City Chiefs right now.
We're going to lose.
Well, maybe try to win.
All right.
Phone calls.
Adam in Riverdale, New York, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Hi, Mark.
You're doing a great job.
Thank you.
Yes.
It's not nineteen fifty nine anymore.
Right now at this moment, we need flamboyant, cocky candidates, just like the Democrats.
And uh we need more um uh TV time to explain to the American people how the economy really works.
I don't think the Republicans ever uh try to go into um uh black areas of our country and teach uh African Americans the way the economy works and how um uh if you want to call it Reaganomics will help them.
They make no effort to do this.
Right now, there's nothing we can do.
Obama's in there, we may go into a recession.
Uh so this I mean, this is what we need.
We need powerful uh conservatives that are More flamboyant, more cocky.
We can borrow that from Democrats.
The whole how do you win and how do you win this argument?
A lot of things have changed in America, and the Democrats have gotten really good at turning their people out to vote, and they used to not be so good at that.
It used to be that Republicans were, you know, Republican voters were the ones that showed up for every election, and maybe the Democrats would show up for a presidential election if the weather was nice that day.
Those things have all changed.
Now you're raising the really large questions of how do you bring people around to your point of view and how do you get them to listen to you?
That's a tough one because I do think, and I don't want to be a fatalist on this, but I have some pessimism for this reason.
People, once they become dependent on something, find it very hard to get off.
I think what's happened with minority populations in the United States is that we have made them so dependent upon government programs that the politicians simply say the other guy wants to cut off the thing that you become dependent on.
Dependency is real.
Just about every addiction that we have is a dependency on something.
Now that Obamacare is in place, he's put the middle class in this.
The Democrats have been able to portray the Republicans as the party that doesn't care about middle class people.
They've been persuasive in that argument.
I do agree with you.
We've got to do a better job of winning that argument.
I think the comments that Romney made, and and it was unfair.
He didn't know he was being videotaped, he was talking to supporters.
The comments that Romney made about the 47%, that ended up being devastating to his campaign.
There were off the cuff comments that if he had to say it all over again, he wouldn't have said it in that way.
But when you tell people that we're writing you off that conservative philosophy has nothing to say to you, well, it's not, I guess, any surprise that you need to tune them out.
Uh that you're tuning them out.
Guys like Rush who've been arguing this thing to people who are in the 47%.
People listen to that.
They accept it.
They, you know, they understand the arguments.
You're talking about the bigger picture, though, of winning the long-term argument about America, and that right now is a tough one because we've got problems that are coming to a head right now.
The fiscal cliff itself, I think is significant.
This is a monster tax increase.
And I think that to do it, given how fragile our economy already is, and to do it with Obamacare about to kick in, it's going to be really, really bad.
You're talking about an enormous tax increase in a country that's got a growth rate of about one and a half percent, where unemployment is still at 7.7%, and you've got a president who isn't willing to address the fact that we have an enormous debt crisis going on.
Wait until interest rates get above the zero percent that they're at right now, and we have to start paying more to service that debt.
All of this stuff's coming to a head.
The point I'm trying to make is I don't believe the president is sincere about wanting to fix any of these things.
And that's the part that's really scary in the past.
Let me use Clinton as an example.
I like Bill Clinton.
The guy was an indecent person.
He disgraced the office, he was hedonistic, but I do think he wanted to be successful and be judged on the basic standards that we judge presidents on.
I think Clinton wanted to have a good economy.
I think that Clinton was a politician who is motivated by the same things that motivate most politicians.
He wants the country to do well so he gets the credit.
I think by and large, even though he pursued these goals from a liberal liberal position, Clinton did want America to succeed under his watch.
He wanted to be regarded as a successful president.
He loves being able to stand up and give all the speeches now in which he talks about how we hardly had any deficits when he was president and all of that stuff.
He wanted to do well.
I think that you've got a different kind of president right now.
I don't think he cares about the same kinds of measures of success that other Democrats cared about.
I think that Barack Obama's driven to do things other than solve problems like the fiscal cliff.
I think he's driven to do things other than reducing entitlements.
I think he's driven to do things other than getting us out from underneath this debt thing.
I think that he's somebody who has an agenda to transform America.
And he isn't willing to have himself judged by the same barometers that we've used to judge everyone else.
Let's go to Ventura, California and Dale.
Dale, it's your turn on the Rush Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Yeah, Mark, I think that our problem here is the president doesn't really care, and the Republicans are wishy watching the power actually lies with the people right now.
I think it's about time for a tax air revolt.
If you look at our taxes are automatically taken out.
If everybody shoots tax code and follows a tax code, you'd be changed your withholding.
Have your taxes stop.
Yeah, I d unfortunately, Dale, your phone line isn't doing too well, and Bowserley is ordering me to no longer try to make it work.
What Dale's driving at is this is where I think a lot of people are frustrated and dispirited.
In fact, I wanted to tell this let me tell the story now.
I last did Russia's show right around Thanksgiving.
Sometime around Thanksgiving.
It was late November.
And we were talking about the fiscal cliff then.
And I was shocked at some of the callers.
Many callers called up and said we ought to just raise taxes on higher income people.
Because we're gonna get blamed if there isn't a deal.
I came back to Milwaukee and talked about that on my own program because it was a little bit of an eye opener because usually callers to talk radio programs stand up and say, stand firm, don't raise taxes, don't concede, don't give in.
And if anything, you've got to try to tell them, well, maybe you might have to make a deal if you can get this, that, or the other thing.
I thought that there was an incredible amount of defeatism there.
People seemed really dispirited.
I think that they were shocked that Obama was re-elected.
I think a lot of people get it.
They understand that we're not just at a fiscal cliff.
We're at the cliff.
Our country's at the cliff.
You're talking about raising the debt ceiling again.
It's right now sixteen trillion four hundred billion.
What do you want to raise it to?
18 trillion?
We'll have another debt ceiling argument in a few months.
Twenty trillion, twenty-four trillion, twenty-eight trillion.
By the time Obama's presidency is over, it could be thirty-two trillion dollars, given how fast it's growing.
And that interest rates may well go up before the end of his term.
People do get it.
And they know how bad this is.
And they're wondering which way to turn.
The time for the task taxpayer revolt was before.
Right now, we're dealing with a country that's on fire.
The fiscal cliff is one of the fires that we need to put out.
We've got to try to figure out how to survive the rest of his presidency and turn America around.
But I'm telling you, the thing that is the hardest to cope with right now is that you have a president who I think doesn't much care about the normal measures that we regard as f for success in our country.
I don't think he cares about the growth rate.
I don't think he cares about the stock market.
I don't think he cares about the unemployment rate.
I don't think he cares if he leaves us in all sorts of debt.
I think he's motivated by other things, and that's why John Vahner is going to have a very, very hard time getting him to agree on anything.
I think President Obama is coming back from Hawaii and is loving this.
That's what I think.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe he's worried to death about what's going to happen after we go over the fiscal clip.
I don't think he's bothered by it at all.
Mark Belling in for Rush Limbaugh.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
You know, there are a lot of really smart people who analyze the political scene and who've seen these kinds of things in the past, and they all think that there's going to be a deal.
Larry Cudlow, who's really good, he's on CNBC economist, writes for the National Reviews.
There's got to be a deal.
There's just too much damage is going to be done if there isn't a deal.
Some of you are familiar with the Kiplinger letter.
They've been predicting there's going to be a deal.
It might not occur until next year, but there's got to be a deal.
It might even be the grand bargain.
Maybe they're right.
And maybe President Obama's going to concede on spending and they'll reach some deal where both sides give in.
Republicans give up their principles on tax increases, and Obama gives up his principles on spending.
I just have a hard Time seeing it because I think that he does not sincerely want to reach an agreement here.
What you wonder about is the hold that he has on the rest of the Democratic Party.
I mean, what is Harry Reed really thinking?
The White House said today that they're not going to make a proposal today.
The President of the United States is going to offer no proposal on this.
Well, why wouldn't he?
Look at the proposal that he threw out.
It called for more spending.
The one that Senator McConnell laughed at.
This is what you're up against.
He's a guy who's got his arms folded, his legs crossed, his body language is saying, Look, I'm not going to do anything that I don't want to do.
Why did he bother to come back from Hawaii?
Because it looks good, I guess.
You know he wanted to stay.
He's coming back because he thinks symbolically that's all he has to do.
I'm back, I'm ready to talk.
Yet he makes no proposal.
They don't even throw out one of their dumb proposals.
Nothing.
Yet the Republicans feel as though we're going to get blamed.
The President of the United States was just re-elected to a four-year term.
God forbid.
Well, shouldn't the onus be on him to try to fix our problems?
If we're going over the fiscal cliff, why isn't it his job to stop that from happening?
And I I do think that many callers are right that the Republicans aren't very good at making those kinds of points.
To Gloucester, I think it's is it Gloucester, Rhode Island, and Jeff, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hey, good day.
How are you?
I'm great, thank you.
Hey, you know, I want to make the point.
Like Christian Obama said he got re-elected with a mandate to do uh basically pretty much whatever he wants to.
And it just drives me nuts that the Republicans can't voice their opposition in a clear and concise fashion.
I mean, I mean, show what they should be doing is screaming in his face and saying, show me one of your speeches where you said something specific you were going to do that you can draw upon and claim you have a mandate to do.
He didn't, unless I missed it.
This president was so short on specifics as to have none.
So why are they having so much difficulty coming up with cogent arguments that show what a sham his whole administration is?
He did say that he wanted to raise taxes on higher income people.
But that's only a small portion of this problem that we're facing with regard to the fiscal cliff.
There is the debt ceiling that's there.
There is the fact that we are spending way more money than we're taking in.
There's also the question of what do you do with all of the other tax rates that are included in there?
Just because he won, it doesn't mean he's the only person who's around there.
The fiscal cliff and the future future of our nation are things that ought to be on him.
I just think he doesn't give a rip about that.
You can also make the case that the Republicans can point out, look, we were re-elected to the House too.
You say you have a mandate.
Well, we have something of a mandate also.
Our voters who elected us didn't send us back to Washington to ignore the spending crisis and erase taxes right and left.
Thank you for the call.
My name is Mark Belling, and I'm sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
We need to put something in perspective right now.
There's an image out there that the Republican Party is all white boys, the people that are out of touch.
Whereas the Democratic Party, they're the kind they're the party that's in touch with the new America.
Two states.
One state has a multicultural population.
Every ethnicity imaginable from it.
And it has a Democratic governor.
The other state has got a Republican governor and it's from the old South.
Right wing South Carolina.
Republican right wing South Carolina.
The state that gave us Strom Thurmond, South Carolina the South.
Then Hawaii.
The multicultural state that gave us President Obama.
Hawaii, the state that is so tolerant.
The governor of Hawaii, a Democrat, just named To a vacancy in the United States Senate, the Lieutenant Governor named Brian Schatz.
Now, I admit I don't know his ethnicity, but boy, he sure looks to me like a white guy.
Yet the governor of South Carolina, a Republican, named Congressman Tim Scott, who is black.
So the Republicans from South Carolina put a black guy in the United States Senate, and the Democrats from Hawaii put a white guy in the United States Senate.
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