{"id":11709,"date":"2013-08-08T19:11:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T19:11:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-08-08T19:11:30","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T19:11:30","slug":"perhaps_the_greatest_example_of_the_limbaugh_theorem_yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/08\/08\/perhaps_the_greatest_example_of_the_limbaugh_theorem_yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Perhaps the Greatest Example of the Limbaugh Theorem Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: This may be — and this is tough to say — the best example of the Limbaugh Theorem yet, and that\u2019s hard to say because there are examples of the Limbaugh Theorem every day. The Limbaugh Theorem is almost like gravity. When Sir Isaac Newton finally explained gravity to people, that was it. Everybody understood that. The Limbaugh Theorem <\/a>is the explanation of how the Obama Administration works, and there are examples of it constantly because it\u2019s how they work. Some days the examples are better than others.<\/p>\n

Now, today\u2019s example comes from the New York Times, headline: “Obama, Before a Military Audience, Vows to End Across-the-Board Cuts — President Obama stood at this desert base on Wednesday before nearly 3,000 Marines, sailors and their families — and a captive audience of two Republican adversaries from Congress — and vowed that he would fight to end across-the-board budget cuts that have shaken the military.” <\/p>\n

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For crying out loud, I really don\u2019t know of a greater example of the Limbaugh Theorem and there it is in the first paragraph. Here we have the architect of military cuts. Here we have the man who has been responsible for them going to an audience of marines and others at Camp Pendleton and promising that he would fight to end them. Not only was the sequester Obama\u2019s idea<\/a>, he insisted on it. You know why he insisted on the sequester? Because it had automatic military spending cuts. Obama knew that the sequester would cut military spending the most, and it did.<\/p>\n

On top of that, in 2008, Obama ran on the promise of cutting the Pentagon\u2019s budget by at least a trillion dollars since we wouldn\u2019t be fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan anymore. And that $1 trillion savings was going to pay for Obamacare, remember?<\/line>Obamacare magically came in at less than a trillion dollars and it was not going to bust the budget. It was going to save money, because we were going to cut the military budget by a trillion dollars.<\/line><\/p>\n

So we were going to take that money we were spending on Iraq and Afghanistan and we\u2019re going to transfer it to health care and it will be a wash. That was why it was so important to claim, if you remember, that Obamacare was only going to cost $900 billion. That\u2019s why all of the moving and shaking and maneuvering and massaging with the Congressional Budget Office to make sure that Obamacare was scored at under a trillion dollars. And true to his promise, Obama probably has cut the Defense Department\u2019s budget by that much or more since he\u2019s been quietly slashing the Pentagon budget since he came into office. He was cutting defense spending long before there was a sequester, even, but the sequester took the budget ax to it.<\/p>\n

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The sequester — the best way to explain this — they\u2019re trying to come to an agreement on extending the debt limit, and one of the terms of the agreement was, “Okay, we\u2019ll do it this time, but then, in the future if we don\u2019t come to an agreement, there\u2019s going to be massive cuts in Medicare and massive cuts in military.” And the reason that happened, the theory behind it, at least as we were told, the Democrats would never allow Medicare to be cut. And those evil, rotten Republicans, they\u2019d never allow the Defense Department budget to be cut.<\/p>\n

And so the sequester, mandatory spending cuts, if we couldn\u2019t come to an agreement on the debt limit or extending the budget or doing a continuing resolution, those two cuts were supposed to be so onerous and so painful that neither party would go along with it.<\/line>But the sequester happened and we are living under it now, because neither side blinked.<\/line><\/p>\n

Now, one of the reasons the Democrats didn\u2019t blink, Obama had already cut Medicare in order to take it out of the calculations of cost for Obamacare, if you remember. I mean, getting rid of $500 billion of Medicare by cutting it and not counting it was a crucial element in the whole equation of getting Obamacare magically to cost less than that one trillion-dollar figure.<\/p>\n

So there had already been the Medicare cuts. We\u2019ve lived with that. But he was salivating over the automatic massive cuts to the Department of Defense that the sequester would bring. And it was his idea, don\u2019t forget. He tried to pass the sequester off as a Republican idea; it was his. And there have been Defense Department cuts prior to the sequester.<\/p>\n