{"id":13610,"date":"2013-01-03T17:22:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T17:22:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-01-03T17:22:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T17:22:43","slug":"obama_gets_gop_confession_fiscal_cliff_deal_enshrines_principle_that_tax_cuts_hurt_the_economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/01\/03\/obama_gets_gop_confession_fiscal_cliff_deal_enshrines_principle_that_tax_cuts_hurt_the_economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Gets GOP Confession: Fiscal Cliff Deal “Enshrines Principle” That Tax Cuts Hurt the Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Folks, I have to tell you. I am sitting here and I had so many observations, but I am stunned. I just have to tell you, I\u2019m stunned at how, after four years, none of the conservative or Republican inside-the-Beltway establishment even now understands who they\u2019re dealing with in Barack Obama. How many of our core beliefs are we going to throw away in this misguided belief that we can finally get to what matters? There is a prevailing opinion out there that, “Well, this deal, you know, is actually a pretty good deal. It keeps taxes the same, lowers taxes.” And nobody\u2019s taxes got cut. There was not a tax cut. I\u2019m blue in the face already and we\u2019re only two minutes into this. <\/p>\n

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Anyway, so here\u2019s the deal. We have the taxes off the table. Yes. And now Obama\u2019s going to be forced to talk about spending. What? Obama\u2019s not through raising taxes on everybody, folks. Obama is saying we raised taxes, but the rich still aren\u2019t paying their fair share. They\u2019re still not paying enough. He\u2019s gonna come back for more. There aren\u2019t gonna be any spending cuts. There isn\u2019t gonna be any entitlement reform. Would somebody show me the evidence to suggest Obama can be pressured to doing anything that he doesn\u2019t want to do? I sit here in stunned disbelief. But at the same time I feel like I\u2019m a member of the smallest minority in this country. When I listen to people and conservatives, Republicans, inside the Beltway, when I listen to \u2019em talk and the things that they say and the things that they think about this deal, I don\u2019t have anything in common with them anymore. It\u2019s stunning to me. It really is. <\/p>\n

Before I unload on the whole thing, I\u2019m curious what you all think of this. I have to figure out where we all are in this \u2019cause I\u2019m telling you, things are spinning out of control in ways that, frankly, I never imagined. I still don\u2019t think people have the slightest understanding of what we\u2019re up against. And until that\u2019s understood, until it\u2019s admitted to, we\u2019re never gonna make any real, significant progress.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, so much to say about this situation we find ourselves in. The first thing I want to do, I want to go back to December 6th on this program,<\/a> me, and replay for you a three minute clip of me laying out what was ahead of us. And I\u2019ll just tell you up front, I called it, nailed it on the head. Here it is.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: Compromise is impossible. All that can happen and all that will happen is one side will concede, and what Obama wants is a confession. When this is all said and done, Obama wants it understood that this problem was caused by George Bush; that the Republicans are responsible for the debt. The Republicans are responsible for the deficit. The Republicans are responsible for the entitlements maybe not being able to pay what their promises are, because Bush didn\u2019t take enough money from people who could afford it.<\/p>\n

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Bush instituted tax cuts twice, 2001 and 2003, that we couldn\u2019t afford. … When or if the Republicans concede, that will be the story. The seeds have been planted. The sprouts are growing and they\u2019re soon to bloom. “Bush did it! Bush and the Republicans did this.” The Founders to Bush, they did this. This country was founded improperly and unjustly and immorally and unfairly, and we\u2019ve finally reached a tipping point where those guys couldn\u2019t live off their illusion. These 230 years have been a mistake, and now we\u2019re fixing it.<\/p>\n

And at the end of all this, the Republicans will end up admitting that Obama is right. Now, Boehner\u2019s not gonna call a press conference and say any of this. That\u2019s not going to happen. He won\u2019t have to. The media will take care of this for Obama. A confession: “Republicans admit that if there had been higher taxes for the past decade, there wouldn\u2019t be a deficit, and the national debt would not have grown. The budget would have been balanced. In fact, we\u2019d still have a surplus! We would still have the Clinton surplus, if Bush hadn\u2019t cut those taxes. Tax cuts are to blame.” That will be the single lesson learned when this is over: “Tax cuts caused this,” and 98% of the American people will be told that tax cuts for 2% caused this, and they will accept that. They will believe that. So that down the road, the next time… What is the Republican Party singularly known for? Cutting taxes.<\/p>\n

So ten years from now, five years from now, a Republican is back in the White House, maybe, and proposes tax cuts. “Oh, we can\u2019t do that! Look what happened the last time we did it with Bush. Look what happened.” Obama will be removed from the equation. In fact, Obama\u2019s involvement in the equation will be as the fixer. Obama will be the savior. He will be the solution. He will have identified the problem. He will have persuaded the country of the problem, and he will have beaten back the Republicans into admitting that they were the problem.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That was just a month ago that I made this point, December 6th. Let\u2019s listen to what the president himself is saying about this. Here\u2019s the president on Tuesday night, January 1st, in Washington at the White House…<\/p>\n