{"id":13353,"date":"2013-01-31T18:20:49","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T18:20:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-01-31T18:20:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T18:20:49","slug":"dingy_harry_4th_quarter_economic_contraction_is_the_gop_s_fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/01\/31\/dingy_harry_4th_quarter_economic_contraction_is_the_gop_s_fault\/","title":{"rendered":"Dingy Harry: 4th Quarter Economic Contraction is the GOP\u2019s Fault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/45680\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: The Democrats are in circle the wagons mode.  The economy is contracting. This morning on the Senate floor this is Dingy Harry, the Senate majority leader.<\/p>\n<p>REID:  We are in a recovery.  The moral of the fourth quarter is a repudiation of the Republican playbook.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Of course it is.<\/p>\n<p>REID:  Growth went down in the fourth quarter because of reduced government spending &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  Of course it did.<\/p>\n<p>REID:  &#8212; and the reticence of the private sector as Congress fought over the fiscal cliff.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n<p>REID:  The economy was rejecting the austerity and brinksmanship.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src='http:\/\/widget.newsinc.com\/single.html?WID=1&amp;VID=24295356&amp;freewheel=69016&amp;sitesection=breitbart&amp;w=640&amp;h=480' height='480' width='585' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' marginwidth='0' marginheight='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:  That\u2019s exactly right.  See how this works?  The economy contracted. I gotta remind you, at the end of September, the third year calendar quarter, economic growth rate in September was 3.1%.  Something happened, though, folks, I don\u2019t know what.  Between the end of September and the end of the year, in October, November, December, something happened, and it caused the economy to stop growing.  Something happened, I don\u2019t know what it would have been, but something happened in there that caused the economy to stop growing. <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s Dingy Harry with the answer.  &#8220;Oh, yeah, we\u2019re still in the recovery.  The economy contracted, yeah, but we\u2019re still growing.  What that fourth quarter contraction means is just a repudiation of the Republican playbook.  Growth went down in the fourth quarter because of reduced government spending.&#8221;  That\u2019s right.  You know the Republicans engineered that?  The Republicans cut spending.  Poor Obama couldn\u2019t do anything about it.  Poor guy\u2019s hands were tied, he was handcuffed.  He just won the election, and the Republicans somehow went in there with swords and stuff and they just started slashing spending.  They cut a lot of spending out there.  And the people of this country didn\u2019t like that. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"eZObject_72241\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaEconomyReid.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The American people saw that the Republicans were cutting spending in December, and they didn\u2019t like it, and they got all depressed.  So they stopped spending money because the Republicans were cutting spending.  It\u2019s what Dingy Harry is saying.  You stop spending. You stop buying gas. You stop buying cars, stop buying TVs, stop buying cell phones, stop buying iPads, who knows, whatever, because you saw the Republicans slashing spending.  And, yeah, they were gonna take us over the fiscal cliff.  So the Republicans are responsible.  And, of course, folks, the low-information voters soak all this up and believe it. <\/p>\n<p>The truth of the matter is, of course, you know and I know there weren\u2019t any cuts in government spending.  I mean, that\u2019s such a laugher.  Spending continues to skyrocket so much that we gotta build and expand the debt limit to accommodate it.  There isn\u2019t any spending cuts.  So age-old question, how do you counter this?  I mean here you have the Senate majority leader lying, brazenly, openly, that there were spending cuts, that the Republicans did it, that caused the economy to shrink, which took everybody\u2019s confidence in the economy away.  So it\u2019s the Republicans\u2019 fault.  They lost the election, by the way.  The Republicans lost the election.  They held the House.  Still, they were able, in the House, the Republicans were able to cut all that spending. <\/p>\n<p>Obama wasn\u2019t looking.  It was a trick.  The Democrats in the Senate weren\u2019t paying attention, the Democrats in the House. They were all down at Casa de Campo down there in the Dominican with Menendez, so the Democrats weren\u2019t paying any attention. They were having fun with the ladies down there, flying down on Democrat-donated corporate jets.  Bob Menendez led a troupe of people down there, having fun with the babes. And Obama, he\u2019s playing golf or whatever he\u2019s doing, and the Republicans went in there, Boehner, they cut spending.  And we didn\u2019t know it \u2019til yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: The Democrats are in circle the wagons mode. The economy is contracting. This morning on the Senate floor this is Dingy Harry, the Senate majority leader. REID: We are in a recovery. The moral of the fourth quarter is a repudiation of the Republican playbook. RUSH: Of course it is. 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