{"id":10617,"date":"2013-12-13T18:20:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T18:20:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-12-13T18:20:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T18:20:18","slug":"democrat_hacks_employed_by_cbs_attack_marco_rubio_for_common_sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/12\/13\/democrat_hacks_employed_by_cbs_attack_marco_rubio_for_common_sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Hacks Employed by CBS Attack Marco Rubio for Common Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Here\u2019s Rubio. Rubio was on CBS This Morning today, and he\u2019s toying with the idea of running for president, too. They\u2019re having a discussion about the budget deal. The cohost infobabe Norah O\u2019Donnell said, “Senator Rubio, I want to ask you about a criticism where you may be more beholden to these conservative groups than your own party, the legislating party.”<\/p>\n

Now, think of that formulation of a question. (translated) “You may be more beholden to the base, you may be more beholden to your voters than to your party,” as though Rubio is committing some kind of political crime here. So Norah O\u2019Donnell is accusing Rubio of being beholden, “more beholden” to his voters than his own legislating parties. She says, “If you looked at the votes in the House yesterday it had nearly equal Democrat and Republican votes.<\/p>\n

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You had Congressman Ryan and [Senator] Patty Murray working out a compromise. Shouldn\u2019t you be encouraging a rare outbreak of bipartisanship?”<\/p>\n

RUBIO: Compromise just for the sake of compromise so we can feel good about each other I don\u00c2\u2019t think is progress for the country. I recognize how difficult it is…<\/p>\n

O\u00c2\u2019DONNELL: Really? Really? That\u2019s what you think?<\/p>\n

RUBIO: Yeah. For the sake of the compromise, that doesn\u2019t solve problems, just for the sake of it? Yeah, that\u2019s not a good thing for the country. That\u00c2\u2019s why we have to have solutions.<\/p>\n

ROSE: But Senator, they\u2019re not saying —<\/p>\n

RUBIO: No, no. We have a very serious problem in the country.<\/p>\n

ROSE: But Senator, they\u2019re not saying they\u00c2\u2019re compromising —<\/p>\n

RUBIO: I\u00c2\u2019m surprised you\u00c2\u2019re surprised by my answer because…<\/p>\n

ROSE: — for the sake of compromise.<\/p>\n

RUBIO: No, no, no. But listen.<\/p>\n

ROSE: They\u2019re saying their compromising so —<\/p>\n

RUBIO: No.<\/p>\n

ROSE: — that they can move forward.<\/p>\n

RUBIO: That\u00c2\u2019s what you —<\/p>\n

ROSE: Not for the sake of compromise.<\/p>\n

RUBIO: — had described the question as. No, that\u00c2\u2019s how you\u00c2\u2019ve described the question.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Let me tell you, Rubio is so right on the money here. But do you notice, do you note, these are not media. You gotta think of these people as Democrats. Forget that they\u2019re on television and asking questions. They\u2019re not journalists. You\u2019ve got to look at these people as who they are. They are Democrats. They are Democrat hacks, and they\u2019re working as journalists.<\/p>\n

So Rubio says something that, to you and me, is just the most solid common sense in the world. Compromise for the sake of compromise so we can feel good? That doesn\u2019t do anything. And they can\u2019t believe what they heard. She can\u2019t believe what she just heard. (imitating O\u2019Donnell) “You mean, Really? Really? That\u2019s what you think? That compromise, just to feel good, doesn\u2019t mean anything?” And Rubio, “Yes. Compromise doesn\u2019t solve problems just for the sake of it. It\u2019s not a good thing for the country. That\u2019s why we have to have solutions.” And Charlie Rose, “But, Senator, Senator, my God, have you taken leave of your senses? They\u2019re not saying –“<\/p>\n

“No, no, we have a very serious problem in the country,” Rubio says. <\/p>\n

“But Senator, they\u2019re not saying they\u2019re compromising.” <\/p>\n

Rubio: “I\u2019m surprised that you\u2019re surprised by my answer.”<\/line><\/p>\n

“But they\u2019re not compromising for the sake of compromising.” <\/p>\n

Yes, they are, Charlie. The Republicans are, because that\u2019s what you people tell \u2019em they ought to do. You Democrats in the media tell the Republicans, “You people need to compromise, bipartisanship, people want people to get along.” Okay, so they got along. They went bipartisan. They compromised. They got a budget deal that doesn\u2019t solve one problem. It doesn\u2019t fix anything. And yet everybody on the bipartisan side is just feeling happy as they can be. And Rubio says it\u2019s meaningless. And they can\u2019t believe it. Huge divide. <\/p>\n

Folks, this is why I say, there\u2019s no hope of genuine, real compromise. There\u2019s no hope of getting along here. This is politics. These people need to be defeated, not gotten along with, not reasoned with, because we can\u2019t. You just heard it. Reasoning with them, logic, does not reach them. You and I know, compromise for the sake of compromise accomplishes nothing just to make yourself feel good. They think that\u2019s all that\u2019s involved here. ‘Cause what they know the end of the day is that Republicans compromising is Republicans losing, and that\u2019s why they\u2019re really for it, and they can\u2019t believe that Rubio doesn\u2019t see that the only way that Republicans can win is for them to lose. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I need to play one more sound bite of Marco Rubio. This is following the discussion he had with Norah O\u2019Donnell and Charlie Rose, where Rubio said, “Well, wait a minute, now. Compromise for the sake of compromise doesn\u2019t accomplish anything. We haven\u2019t done anything. Maybe people feel better.” And they just couldn\u2019t believe it. I mean, genuine disconnect. “What do you mean, compromise? You really, really believe that?” she asked him. He said, “Yeah, what\u2019s been accomplished here? Nothing.” What Rubio also knows is when there has been compromise is when Republicans cave. So this is the follow-up. He went on to explain why this compromise that happened on the budget deal, in his view, isn\u2019t good for the country.<\/p>\n

RUBIO: Compromise is a good thing, especially if it arrives at a solution. Our ultimate goal here is to solve problems and to make progress on issues that confront our country. We have a government that continues to spend more money than it takes in at an alarming pace. That is going to trigger a debt crisis. It is holding American ingenuity back. When is there going to be urgency around here about addressing that? So far it has not.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And that\u2019s the dividing line, and I want to stress again, there are some people, and apparently a majority in Washington, to whom it\u2019s not a crisis at all. There is no debt crisis to them, and there is no spending crisis. “The government will never run out of money. What are you talking about? The people are always gonna be working and paying taxes, and we can borrow what we need and we can print what we need. We\u2019re never gonna run out of money. We\u2019re the United States, what do you mean, debt crisis? There isn\u2019t a debt crisis.” <\/p>\n

And then you say, “Well, but for every dollar you borrow, that\u2019s a dollar that the private sector doesn\u2019t have available to borrow. So there\u2019s less development. There\u2019s less building. There is less entrepreneurism. There\u2019s less hiring. There are fewer jobs.” <\/line><\/p>\n

Doesn\u2019t matter. Doesn\u2019t matter. There\u2019s no debt crisis. It\u2019s a genuine dividing line. The national debt today, to them, is no different than it was 30 years ago. As long as the percentage of GDP doesn\u2019t change, there\u2019s no problem. Now, you look at the private sector and you see that there isn\u2019t really any new job creation, and people are losing hours. There are no real careers. <\/p>\n

Look at Obama\u2019s losing support in practically every demographic, but primarily among Millennials. And these are the people blindly voting for him in 2008 and 2012. They\u2019re coming out of college with high degrees, expensive degrees that they\u2019re in debt for, and debt does matter to them. They do have to pay it back. The people in Washington, “We don\u2019t really have to pay our debt. The national debt never really has to be paid. I mean, we owe that to ourselves.” This is what the establishment says. “So it\u2019s not like this money\u2019s owed to somebody.” <\/p>\n

“Well, wait a minute. The ChiComs are underwriting a lot of it, other people are.” <\/p>\n

“Well, yeah, they\u2019re gonna buy Treasury bonds, and they\u2019ll redeem \u2019em, and they\u2019ll be paid. There\u2019s no crisis, Limbaugh. This is where you Tea Party people are really off the path. There\u2019s no danger here.” <\/p>\n

“Are you telling me you\u2019re not gonna raise taxes down the road to help retire some of this debt and that people\u2019s taxes that get raised are not gonna end up with less disposable income and have less of a standard of living?” <\/p>\n

“Well, that may happen, but that\u2019s just temporary. We\u2019ll retire some of the debt, then we\u2019ll lower taxes again. You know how this works, Limbaugh. There\u2019s no crisis.” <\/p>\n

And that\u2019s the great divide between the Republican Party and its base. That\u2019s why the Republican Party establishment is not really, when they look at Obama economic policy, they don\u2019t see disaster. They just see another Democrat, maybe a little one more extreme and liberal than your average Democrat, but he\u2019s gonna be gone soon, and we\u2019ll win one of these days. We\u2019ll have Christie in there and we\u2019ll be smooth sailing. That\u2019s how they look at it. <\/p>\n

Nothing to really worry about here, folks. And you who want to create crisis and demand they take action, you\u2019re the troublemakers. You\u2019re the extremists. There isn\u2019t anything wrong. Washington\u2019s fine. Just let us handle it. You don\u2019t know what you are talking about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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