{"id":12711,"date":"2013-04-10T17:54:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T17:54:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-04-10T17:54:25","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T17:54:25","slug":"democrats_outraged_by_obama_budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/04\/10\/democrats_outraged_by_obama_budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Outraged by Obama Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Business Insider has a story: “Outraged Liberals Say Obama Is About To Screw Over The Very People Who Got Him Elected.” I\u2019m gonna give you a pull quote from this: “‘It\u2019s really a slap in the face to Democrats who knock on doors and volunteer for campaigns,\u2019 DFA spokesman Neil Sroka told Business Insider. ‘It hits at the very foundation of what it means to be a Democrat, and you\u2019re going to see primary challenges emerge. Any Democrat who votes to cut Social Security and Medicare is not a progressive Democrat, and they should be prepared to feel the ire of the progressive base.'”<\/p>\n

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“Liberals descended on Pennsylvania Avenue Tuesday to protest President Barack Obama\u2019s decision to include entitlement cuts in his upcoming budget, delivering 2 million petitions demanding the White House back off its support for the chained CPI. As [Business Insider] reported this weekend, liberals have been seething over the inclusion of the chained CPI in Obama\u2019s budget, which they see as a huge betrayal by the Democratic president.” Linking things to inflation is how Obama\u2019s justifying his cuts, and they don\u2019t like that chain, that link.<\/p>\n

“This week, progressive groups, including MoveOn.org, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, and Democracy for America, have mounted \u2019emergency\u2019 online campaigns against the proposal, accusing Obama of turning on the very supporters who helped re-elect him to office. MoveOn.org, PCCC, and Democracy for America are also threatening Democratic lawmakers against supporting entitlement cuts. Politico reports today that the three groups have sent ‘strongly worded letters\u2019 to Democrats in Congress warning that they could face a primary challenge from the left if they back Obama\u2019s proposals.”<\/p>\n

Now, I don\u2019t know if this qualifies, but remember what I said to frustrated callers who wanted to know, “Rush, we\u2019ve tried everything! We\u2019ve tried every television show, every radio show. We have knocked them out of the park logically. We have won the debate on every issue, and yet low-information people still don\u2019t get it. What can we do? Besides take over Hollywood and the music business and the book business and the TV business, what can we do, Rush?”<\/p>\n

I said, “It\u2019s gonna take an event that we don\u2019t cause, that just happens,” and I joked. I said, “Something like Obama dissing Timberlake\u2019s latest CD or something to really tick \u2019em off.” Well, I don\u2019t know that this is it, but this is the first time in five years that activist liberal groups have been publicly livid with Obama and threatening him. These groups are publicly livid with Democrats and threatening them, and you\u2019ll notice something else. I must put this within the context of the Limbaugh Theorem. Remember what that is.<\/p>\n

Obama is not seen as governing. Obama is not seen as having any responsibility for what is happening to the economy, to the military, to the banking business, the culture. Whatever is happening in the country, he\u2019s seen as still trying to fix it. He\u2019s seen as still fighting what\u2019s going wrong. He\u2019s seen as still campaigning against all this bad stuff and trying to stop it and reverse it. Now he submits a budget with entitlement cuts. They see his fingerprints on Social Security and Medicare cuts, and they are livid. And it\u2019s real. <\/p>\n

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Now, he could put \u2019em to bed very quickly with a personal appearance. I don\u2019t think this is a tipping-point event, but it is the first time. As an isolated event, it\u2019s not gonna matter. But if it is part of an ongoing series of events, such as more and more Democrats admitting that Obamacare is impossible, Jay Rockefeller is the latest, that\u2019s coming up in a minute. <\/p>\n

Business Insider: “It is not clear if liberals have the resources or political will to back up these threats,” that they\u2019re making against Democrats who might vote for entitlement cuts or Obama. But they are still livid, and they are angry, and they\u2019re being public about it. The Business Insider piece has three pictures of individuals upset with Obama. And one of them here is just classic. It\u2019s a woman practically in tears standing up against a red wall in her house with pictures that you can\u2019t identify, and she\u2019s holding up a — I mean, this woman is probably about 50, 55. She could be 90, hell, I don\u2019t know, brunette, glasses, eyes are pained in a crown, lips are pursed. She\u2019s really in pain here, I mean, really, really suffering. And her little sign says, “President Obama, I supported you, and now you should support me. No cuts to Medicare and Social Security,” and puts her name on it here. I\u2019m not gonna mention her name. <\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s another guy standing by his car in his affluent suburban neighborhood. The picture was taken recently because there aren\u2019t any leaves on the trees, wearing a white T-shirt and a blue lanyard around his neck like it was a press pass to get into a convention. “I worked for your campaign because I support Social Security. No cuts.” And he\u2019s got a “Virginia for Obama” sign on the windshield of his car. And he\u2019s mad. <\/p>\n

The third picture is some smarmy looking female in a hoodie, the hoodie\u2019s down, gray hair, parted on the right, kind of a butch haircut. She\u2019s got a very sanctimonious look on her face, “I supported you because I support Social Security. I flew to Nevada to knock on doors in Spanish for you, and you won. No cuts.” She\u2019s from Berkeley, California. <\/p>\n

So the outrage in Obamaville is real and they\u2019re angry. The interesting thing to me is the reason why. Obama\u2019s fingerprints are on this. These are not Republican budget cuts. These are not Republican cuts in Social Security. And what these people don\u2019t understand is what Obama\u2019s doing. Obama\u2019s trying to rope Republicans in with meager little, practically nonexistent cuts to get them to totally cave on their principles, but they don\u2019t see that. These are people that are totally, totally dependent on government. They\u2019ve got nothing else. A dime cut anywhere threatens their daily life. So they don\u2019t care about the subtleties of what Obama may be trying to accomplish here politically. All they see is he\u2019s offered cuts to these entitlements, and they are not happy.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, folks, it\u2019s not just the threatened Social Security cuts that has all these Obama die-hard groups upset. This charm offensive that was reported that Obama was engaging in, reaching out to the Republicans. That ticked them off like you can\u2019t believe. Totally out of character. The Limbaugh Theorem again, Obama is not attached to anything going wrong. Obama is only attached to good things. And the good things could be just the desire that things get better, Obama has that, he\u2019s trying to fix things. <\/p>\n

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Now Obama, as far as they are concerned, has attached himself to Medicare cuts and Social Security cuts, and he\u2019s out making nice with the Republicans. And do not doubt me when I tell you how literally ticked off they are, these trolls that make up the extreme Obama voter base. They\u2019re out there trolling all these websites, and they\u2019re plastering comments all over Twitter, and they\u2019re everywhere. They are in the tenements. They\u2019re at Berkeley, they\u2019re on campus. Every place this country where nobody\u2019s working is where are they are. That\u2019s who they are. Everywhere nobody\u2019s working. That\u2019s who these people are. And they are livid. <\/p>\n

Now, the thing about this is, it\u2019s all theater. There aren\u2019t any real cuts. This linkage to the Consumer Price Index inflation, there isn\u2019t any inflation. There aren\u2019t any real cuts here. The stories like the one in Business Insider, they\u2019re really crying crocodile tears. There aren\u2019t any real cuts to Social Security. Cost-of-living adjustments under Obama have been nothing. And this cut\u2019s gonna be nothing comparatively. This is Obama once again in a PR blitz. He knows where the majority of the country is on this. He knows that people like us want entitlement cuts. He knows that Republicans want it. So this is all part of a spin game. <\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s not gonna cut Social Security. Now, he did cut Medicare in Obamacare, he did do that, but that didn\u2019t stick. At the time it happened, we couldn\u2019t make any Democrat voter believe it. In order to keep Obamacare\u2019s magical, mythical price tag under a trillion dollars, there was a $712 billion cut in Medicare, and it was real. They pretended they were spending it someplace else, which they weren\u2019t. They double counted it in a budget move, but back then we couldn\u2019t make it stick because Obamacare was gonna happen and it was great. <\/p>\n

But now it\u2019s sticking, when there aren\u2019t any real cuts. They don\u2019t understand what he\u2019s doing. They can\u2019t afford to understand. These are, again, people whose entire existence depends on a check or a debit card or some form of assistance from Washington. Pure and simple. And now when they hear about Obamacare blowing up, that\u2019s going to be another.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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