RUSH: Falls Church, Virginia. Hi Jim, glad you waited. Great to have you here. Hi.
CALLER: Hi Rush. Now I know that Republicans are big supporters of tax cuts to create jobs. So I'm a little confused here. If you Google American Jobs Act online you find that in the jobs bill $250 billion of it is payroll tax cuts for working people and also the job creators, the employers. So I'm wondering if you would ask our congressional Republican leaders to support a payroll tax cut of $250 billion.
RUSH: Would I ask the Republican leaders to support a payroll tax cut of $250 billion?
CALLER: Because you have a lot of clout, of course.
RUSH: Well, that's true.
CALLER: I mean, a majority of the Jobs Act is tax cuts. So I was wondering if you could help us get that through.
RUSH: No, a majority of the Jobs Act is tax increases.
CALLER: Zero tax increases, Rush. And anybody can Google American Jobs Act to find out that's not true.
RUSH: What blog are you calling from or reading from?
CALLER: Look at the American Jobs Act website. If you go to the Congressional Record I'm sure you'll easily find --
RUSH: I'm telling you, this is not arguable. There's not one tax cut in that thing that is real. It is a total tax increase bill. Let me ask you, what is it that funds Social Security?
CALLER: Well, is it the payroll tax?
RUSH: Right. Now that's the only funding source for Social Security. So we've got a Democrat president who wants to cut funding for Social Security.
CALLER: Well, any tax cut is going to take away from the general fund.
RUSH: No, no, that's not -- (crosstalk)
CALLER: Taking away from Social Security via the general fund.
RUSH: Many tax cuts raise revenue and generate new money to the Treasury.
CALLER: The payroll taxes are the ones that actually affect the middle class as opposed to tax cuts for the rich.
RUSH: Look it, who are we going to help, the middle class then put Social Security recipients on ice?
CALLER: No, help both of them and give Oprah maybe a three percent tax increase like under the Clinton administration.
RUSH: This is what I find fascinating about you guys, on the one hand you're out there constantly lying about the fact that Republicans want to kick Social Security recipients out of their homes and deny them food and make them eat dog food. Then your president comes along and cuts the only funding program that they've got in half and you support it. And then you want to call it a wonderful tax cut bill. If this bill were filled with tax cuts, everybody and their uncle on both sides of the aisle would be rushing to sign it. But this president doesn't believe in tax cuts. He wants tax increases, and that's all this bill is.
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RUSH: I got an interesting e-mail during the break. "Rush, I can remember in the past when you had a caller like that, you would try to teach them why they were wrong. Why did you just not ask the guy to hold on and tell him where he was wrong?" It's a great, great question, and in this instance it was simply my instinct. We were talking with somebody who was purposely pig ignorant. We had somebody on the phone who was not interested in being right or wrong. We had somebody on the phone who was nothing but a partisan hack. Not one thing he said was true. The things that he was attempting to tell us he believed, that was not the point. He simply was trying to counter what is being effectively stated on this program.
Let me go back to the first hour and our affiliate in Chicago, WLS, where they interviewed Dick Durbin. Dick Durbin admits that they can't find any Democrat votes for Obama's jobs bill because he has no votes in the Senate from people who want to run for re-election supporting tax increases. He can't find any Democrats who will vote for tax increases right now when they're up for re-election. So you've got one of Obama's lieutenants in the Senate admitting that it's a tax increase bill. There's a talking points blog which is essentially a Democrat outpost, says Obama's job bills increases taxes by one and a half trillion dollars. To the left that's one of its selling points. To the genuine left, not like this guy that called, but to the genuine left, the fact that there are a billion and a half dollars, or one and a half trillion dollars in tax increases is why they like it.
It's the class warfare. They think only the rich are going to get soaked. This guy calls up and he wants to harp on the payroll tax, $250 billion, we've been there and done that. On Tuesday, Obama tried to keep pressure on Congress to consider his $450 billion jobs bill. Dick Durbin, "The oil-producing state senators don’t like eliminating or reducing the subsidy for oil companies." How do you people like hearing that? You hate big oil. You want to get rid of what you think is a tax break, and here's Durbin saying Democrat senators won't vote to get rid of that. Not when they're up for re-election. And then Durbin said there's some senators up for re-election who say I'm never going to vote for a tax increase while I'm up for re-election, even on the wealthiest people.
So I got a guy who is essentially calling me from a blog trying to simply score some political points. He's not interested in what's right or wrong. This guy's just a partisan hack trying to counter the effective dissemination of information on this program. Of course, it's always going to fail. We are rooted in the truth here. We are engaged in a relentless unstoppable pursuit of the truth. The left's only hope is to blur the truth. The left's only hope ever is to pull off a series of lies about what they believe and what their intentions are. This Talking Points memo, Democrat House organ admitting, and they're proudly saying a trillion and a half dollars of tax increases in this bill.
That's why I didn't hang in with the guy, folks, because it would have been like trying to talk to James Carville. I'm not going to change his mind about anything. And that's not why he called. I don't know that he really believed what he was saying. He was just -- (interruption) you think he's a plant? A seminar caller plant. Different subject matter. The other three that we've had this week have talked about different things, but, yeah, there's no question, look, the regime supporters out there are in a panic. And why are they in a panic? They're in a panic because they're getting what they wanted. They got healthcare. They're getting a promise to raise taxes on the rich, and it's dooming them. Their leader would face a landslide defeat if the election were today.
So of course they're going to start calling this program and trying to counterbalance what's happening here. We're just way too effective. That's why I'm not going to waste time talking to the guy. Dick Durbin is the second ranking Democrat in the Senate right behind Dingy Harry and he's admitting he can't get any votes from Democrats because it's a tax increase bill and they're up for re-election.
BJ in Westchester County, NY. Great to have you on the show.
CALLER: Rush, it's a pleasure talking to you.
RUSH: Thank you very much.
CALLER: The reason I called was because my concern with political correctness is that it's not just a sort of a dorky thing but in some cases already it's proven deadly. For instance, in Fort Hood where 13 military and one unborn child were murdered. And I think a lot of it was because of fear of political incorrectness.
RUSH: Oh gosh, you're right. There's no question about it. What we had here was a guy named Mahmoud Abdul Mahmoud, whatever, talking to a sheik in Yemen, named Al-Awlaki "I'm going to kill you," and we said, "There's nothing to see here." Then the guy mows down 13 people and they say, "How did this happen?" You're exactly right. This kind of political correctness has always stunned me because this started within days of 9/11. The state department, you might remember, BJ, the state department convened, for lack of a better word, a seminar, the subject of which was: What did we do to cause this? Why do they not like us? What's wrong with us? In other words, there was justification on the part of those 19 hijackers and we had to figure out what we were doing that made them this angry and mad in order to stop others from doing it again. All the fault lay with us. And that's where the political correctness began, and it's only amplified since then.
CALLER: I think actually if you broaden this whole idea of political correctness, it started much earlier than that, because it has to do with wordsmithing, such as instead of saying I'm pro abortion, meaning pro-choice, to go ahead and destroy your child, that they call it choice, because the choice is such a nice word. Another thing they're starting to do now is --
RUSH: Let me tell you something, BJ, I tried that once. I announced on this program way back in -- I mean there have been several eras of the pro-life, pro-choice debate, mid to late '80s and early '90s and cooled off for a while when Clinton was in the White House, then it ramped back up. And during one of these really hot periods, when I was doing caller abortions to make a point, I also claimed that I had had an epiphany the night before and that I had changed my mind on this whole thing and that I now, too, was pro-choice. And it caused understandable hubbub in the audience for a while until a caller said: "What do you mean pro-choice?" I said, "I choose life." And the pro-choicers descended on me like a bunch of commodores trying to find some antifreeze. They jumped on me. "You're not pro-choice." I said, "Yes, I am. I choose life." And what I was trying to illustrate was that pro-choice isn't pro-choice, that the pro-choice position doesn't tolerate choice.
The pro-choice position is pro-abortion, but they can't survive being known as pro-abortion. It's never been the case that the majority of people in this country are for abortion on demand as a means of birth control. And as a result of that show, we now have "Choose Life" license plates. That's why I was saying earlier this week and last week, there's a debate raging inside the Republican leadership. They don't like being called the GOP or Republican establishment. They don't like that. They're trying to say that they are the conservative establishment.
Whoever controls the language is always going to win the debate. So the left has "global warming," and when snow starts falling in June, it's not global warming. When that doesn't work all of a sudden it becomes climate change or what have you. In this case pro-choice was exposed as actually meaning pro-abortion, and they couldn't handle that. So they dumped on me. So political correctness has been around for the longest time, and all it is is the left's censorship of speech. It is the vehicle by which the left shuts up people who say things the left doesn't want to hear or doesn't want to have to deal with, pure and simple. I appreciate the call, BJ.
