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\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Rachel in Manhattan. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. You know, kudos to your brother, David<\/a>. He was on Crossfire last night.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n

CALLER: He is the only one on cable TV and the Sunday shows all these weeks or months that used the word “extremist” against the liberals, finally against Stephanie Cutter. And she was in shock. When you use their words against them, they can\u2019t believe you\u2019re standing up to them. Republicans should all be saying extremist progressives, extremist liberals have been running this country for the last five years, and they\u2019ve run it into the ground, and there are no more moderate Democrats left. They\u2019ve gotta start using the word “extremist,” important word —<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s been a long time since there were any moderate Democrats.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. And they also gotta use the word “fairness,” and, you know, what\u2019s the fairness, why is this fair that Obama gave over 1,400 exemptions to his wealthy corporate friends for Obamacare and not the American citizens? Fairness is another thing. I mean, let\u2019s —<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Let\u2019s get back to David because —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — what you liked about it, I think, was that you saw somebody that\u2019s on your side fighting back and not accepting the BS that these people just routinely utter.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: For example, Bill Burton was talking about how poor the economy was —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — that Obama inherited, and my brother pointed out, it was not a bad economy to the extent that Bush was in charge of it, but the policies that weakened it were policies your guys supported —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — like the subprime mortgage crisis and so forth.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And he hammered them on the fact that they\u2019re the ones causing the debt problems, they\u2019re the ones that gotta rein in spending, and he did call \u2019em extremists.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you how I knew it was a successful appearance.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know how I knew?<\/p>\n

CALLER: How?<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: Because on Mediaite<\/a> —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, good.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — the website that reports what happens on the media, they had pictures of David and Bill Burton.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And the picture of David was mad as hell, and Burton looked like a smiling, soft-spoken, neighbor next door, which is what the left does —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — when they\u2019ve been caught, they try to, with these optics, they characterize conservatives as these screaming loud extremists, and they do it with flash photography, take a still shot from the video that fits the bill that they want. I knew it was good then.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Since our caller, Rachel from Manhattan, mentioned my brother David<\/a> on Crossfire, why not just play some sound bites from it? Somebody once said — I forget who — somebody once said when they bring a knife, you bring a gun. Was it Obama who said that? When they bring a knife, you bring a gun. And somebody once said you get in their face and you just punch \u2019em out or something like that. That was Obama, too? That was Obama? That\u2019s right, that was that community organizer gangster Chicago talk, right? So Obama can say those things. <\/p>\n

Well, that\u2019s kinda what David did on Crossfire last night. He had Stephanie Cutter, who, by the way, she\u2019s pregnant. Did you know that? She\u2019s 44, she\u2019s pregnant. It\u2019s not known whether she\u2019s married and it\u2019s not known who the father is. I\u2019m just telling you what\u2019s in the news, Dawn. It wasn\u2019t announced who the father is, and nobody knows whether she\u2019s married or not. She\u2019s 44 and she\u2019s going on maternity leave soon, shortly after taking the Crossfire gig. I don\u2019t know that CNN knew that. Bill Burton was the liberal guest, and then David. <\/p>\n

So the first bite that we have here Stephanie Cutter says, “The last time we were in this position where the president set up a negotiation process with Boehner, Boehner couldn\u2019t negotiate \u2019cause he didn\u2019t have any control over his Tea Party. So on the eve of a deal he walked away. What happened? The American people lost a trillion dollars in their savings, 401(k)s, money wiped out, stock market dropped significantly. We got a downgrade on our credit rating.” So her setup is Boehner walking away — (interruption) you\u2019re right, a campaign aide is now a host on Crossfire, an Obama campaign aide, and she said, “So the last time we had one of these when Boehner walked away, the world ended. When Boehner walked away from negotiations everybody lost everything.” Here\u2019s what David said to that.<\/p>\n

DAVID LIMBAUGH: We didn\u2019t get a downgrade because of the impasse. We got a downgrade because of Obama\u2019s economy and this debt, $17 trillion of debt, $90 trillion of unfunded liabilities, which Obama has clearly stated he has no intention to do anything about. But Obama has gotten his way, notwithstanding your statement that we keep having gridlock all over the place. He got his way on the stimulus. He got his way on Obamacare, Dodd-Frank. And on the things that he can\u2019t get his way legislatively, he has done an end run around Congress lawlessly through executive order with the DREAM Act and the EPA. It\u2019s shameful what\u2019s going on.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, it\u2019s true you would not have an elected Republican saying anything like that on Crossfire. They would be gentlemanly and accepting the premise and then trying to argue it around the edges. They tried to shout him down, but he wasn\u2019t having any of it.<\/p>\n

DAVID LIMBAUGH: Look at the results of Obama\u2019s agenda being implemented. The worst economy, the worst recovery in 60 years. You guys talk about the best debt reduction in 60 years; that\u2019s because you compare it to a different baseline of $1.1 trillion starting, and he has only reduced the deficit because Republicans made him. You ought to be ashamed of his record, with all due respect. I am scared of our future, for our future because we won\u2019t do anything to rein in the debt and spending.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And so then the Republican host on this show said, “Bill, are you ashamed of President Obama\u2019s record?”<\/p>\n

BURTON: I am not ashamed of the president\u2019s record because I was there —<\/p>\n

CUTTER: Nor were the American people when they reelected him.<\/p>\n

BURTON: Right. The president inherited a historic disaster of an economy and what he\u2019s been able to do through the leadership of himself, his economic team at the White House, partners in Congress, is actually bring it back and put us on a path of growth as opposed to the path that it was on, if you recall shedding 700,000 jobs per month when he came into office.<\/p>\n

DAVID LIMBAUGH: He inherited a bad economy caused by policies that he endorsed, like the housing policies and Bush had a good economy for six to seven of his eight years, and unemployment averaged 5.3%.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, the thing about this, this is a stock answer that you get from these regime people. The president inherited a historic disaster of an economy. He did not. It was not a disaster of an economy. It was his election that began job losses every month of 700,000. November of that year, 2008, that\u2019s when 700,000 jobs a month got lopped off and that continued. One of the biggest myths is that Obama inherited a bad economy and then when he got there found out it was even worse than anybody knew because Bush had lied to him in their pre-presidential transition meetings and hadn\u2019t told him the truth about it. There was not a bad economy. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Now, the financial crisis was due to one thing, and this was David\u2019s point, and that was the subprime mortgage crisis, and that was an Obama idea. That was something Obama supported. That was making banks lend money to people who didn\u2019t have any way of repaying it. And then the banks packaged those worthless mortgages as mortgage-backed securities and they sold them to unwitting dupes, and then the dupes figured out they\u2019d been duped and they found a new set of dupes to sell it to and finally they ran out of dupes. So there was nobody to buy this worthless garbage, and that\u2019s when it crashed. Subprime mortgage crisis, a Bill Clinton idea, and they used government pressure to threaten these banks back in the nineties and the early 2000s. <\/p>\n

The Bush administration, with their regulators, tried to straighten it out, and people like Barney Frank practically threw the regulators out of congressional hearings. But it was not a disastrous economy that Obama inherited. David\u2019s right. Unemployment was at 5.3% for the vast majority of the Bush administration. Had two recessions. Came out of 9\/11. I mean, these myths that these people continue to utter, there\u2019s no truth that comes out of any of these people in the Obama camp at all. They manufacture this horrible economic story in order to justify policies that do nothing but take more money out of the private sector and grow the government, which is all the stimulus was. <\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s added $6 trillion to the national debt, the total is $17 trillion since the founding, and almost a third of it, over a third of it belongs to him? And they want to try to blame Republicans for the debt limit and the debt ceiling and just it\u2019s another disaster. What David was saying here, we have a purposeful destruction of the capitalist economy of this country underway. It is a purposeful destruction that all of these leftists totally and thoroughly support. And it has a lot of people scared to death, and more every day as they sign up for Obamacare and find out what it actually is going to mean to their disposable income as they grow and get older. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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