You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"If the lesson learned from this is that the way to go is compromise with the left, that's a disaster. We're never going to reverse this leviathan with compromise. We can only reverse it with defeat.""I used to think that you had to be invited to read National Review. I did! I once called and said, 'Can I subscribe?' I thought you had to be asked.""Let's go fight for the independents instead of being afraid of them. Let's go out...

Rush's Morning Update: Deficit ReductionApril 12, 2011Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player The Mighty Pharaoh will reportedly lay out his plans for long-term deficit reduction this week. On Meet the Depressed, regime advisor David Plouffe claimed that Obama has already released his blueprint for reducing the deficit by $1 trillion over the next ten years. He also claimed that Pharaoh Obama has put in place much of the deficit commission's recommendations,...

RUSH: Do you remember, ladies and gentlemen, when talking about the budget was considered deadly boring? I remember back in the early and formative years of this program if I were gonna talk about the budget, I mean it was death. I might as well be putting up the test pattern. I mean it was the last thing. It was esoteric. It was not sexy. There was no drama in it. It was something you just avoided as a radio talk show host at all costs. And apparently the Tea Party has changed all of that...

RUSH: What I don't want to happen here, folks, as I just said, is for our side to believe that any of these big issues can ultimately be worked out through compromise. Democrats don't want to solve any of these problems. They do not want cuts in spending. They don't care about the debt crisis. They are incapable of ultimately agreeing to policies that would solve any of these problems. That's what everybody involved here has to know. They don't care. They are addicted to the redistribution...

RUSH: During the campaign for the November elections, the pledge was to cut $100 billion -- and when that pledge was made, folks, I have to tell you, that's largely symbolic. It's a good step, I guess, but $100 billion, we'd still be talking pennies. This was not an election that was eked out in the final moments. This was a tsunami, and it's gonna take a whole bunch of tsunamis to continue to roll this back. We're not gonna roll this back with baby steps. We need a series of tsunamis, like the...

RUSH: Carthage, Missouri. This is Gordy. Gordy, welcome to the EIB Network. It's great to have you here.CALLER: Yeah, dittos, Rush. This deal on the surface is actually worse than what it appears because included in that $38 billion worth of cuts is the $12 billion that they've already cut out of the continuing resolution.RUSH: Yeah, I heard that.CALLER: The whole deal makes me sick. I mean they talk a good game, but when it comes down to it, nothing really gets changed up there in DC.RUSH:...

RUSH: Let me tell you what this Kabuki dance is leading up to. At least this is one of the many things I think it's leading up to. The news media, the Democrat Party, as you know, in unison, Fox News, everybody, Friday night, all weekend, "What a big win for Boehner. What a huge embarrassing defeat for Obama. Why, the man of the hour is John Boehner. Why, why, I mean there's no question about it." And, if that's the case, you can bet that it's not the case. Grab audio sound bite number one,...

RUSH: Next up, folks, of course is going to be the battle over raising the debt limit. State-Controlled Media already girding for this one. We have a couple of sound bites here from Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, and her guest, Charlie Cook, this afternoon on Andrea Mitchell Reports, NBC News, Washington. And they have this little discussion about the debt ceiling. Here's the first of two bites.MITCHELL: We've talked about the debt ceiling. When you look at the NBC News/Wall Street...