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RUSH: Let me go to Kyle in New Albany, Indiana. Kyle, I really appreciate your waiting. Thank you, and welcome to the program, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. Holiday greetings from the great state of Indiana and home of Mitch Daniels who would have made a much better candidate, in my opinion. But I wanted to comment. I hope that the Republican leadership is listening to your show today because I think there\u2019s millions of people like me who are completely frustrated with the way that the leadership of the Republican Party is dealing with this fiscal cliff issue.<\/a><\/p>\n

These guys need to take a class on how to negotiate. They\u2019re not even willing to send the message to the American public that they\u2019re willing to go over the fiscal cliff. I mean, on the talk show on Fox on Sunday, Boehner was asked multiple times, “Is there a chance we\u2019ll go overt fiscal cliff?” and he refused to answer the question. He just said, “We won\u2019t do it. We won\u2019t do it,” and I think that that gives —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, wait a minute. That\u2019s answering the question.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, but it doesn\u2019t. (laughs) I think we had a stronger position that said, “Yes. If we don\u2019t get concessions from the Democratic side, we will go over the fiscal cliff.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t think they want to go over the cliff because they know they\u2019re gonna get blamed for it and they have no answer. I do. We all do. They don\u2019t. So they\u2019re… (sigh) Look, in an effort to try to make sense of this, I put myself in their shoes. They\u2019re in a business just like any other business, and there are professionals and amateurs. We are all amateurs in their business, in the sense that none of us do it.<\/p>\n

So I try to put myself in their shoes.<\/p>\n

In one sense, I do wear their shoes.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m constantly blamed. I\u2019m ripped to shreds. I\u2019m lied about. I\u2019m mischaracterized.<\/p>\n

But getting an audience is a different thing than getting votes. I can get an audience being hated. They can\u2019t get elected being hated. That\u2019s just a simple reality. So they are highly sensitive to being blamed for things, whereas I take it as an honor. If I\u2019m blamed for something, I say (laughing), “I\u2019m a radio guy, can you believe it?” But that\u2019s the point. They\u2019re blamed for stuff all the time, and no matter what they do they\u2019re going to be get blamed for it.<\/p>\n

So I, as an amateur, always say, “Why not just do the right thing? You\u2019re gonna get blamed for it anyway, so why not stand up for your principles?” and that then leads to the question… You know, we think they\u2019re all conservatives. Maybe they\u2019re not. Maybe they cannot articulate it the way we do. There could be any number of explanations, but putting myself in their shoes, they all know what\u2019s coming economically, and it\u2019s a disaster.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t want to be blamed for it.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re going to be no matter what.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what\u2019s being set up.<\/p>\n

But the frustrating thing is that they all think that they can change that by agreeing in part with what Democrats want to do. Or they all think they can be liked if they do, in part, what Democrats want to do. I also think that there\u2019s another factor here. I think not just these guys, I think Republicans everywhere are afraid to stand up to Barack Obama. They\u2019re afraid to stand up to Obama because that\u2019ll make \u2019em racists.<\/p>\n

They believe that, especially after an election which they lost. Their party lost. They still run the House, but they probably conclude Obama is wildly loved, still adored, and in their world, it makes no sense to go after Obama. It\u2019s only gonna redound negatively to them. I think it is clear that that\u2019s the view of the party. The party, we\u2019re in this position… I said yesterday,<\/a> “Obama is a cult-like figure. Obama has legions of support among people who have no idea who he is.”<\/p>\n

It was left to us — I mean the Republicans — to tell the American people who Obama is. They refused to do it, did not want to go there, and this is what happens. The media wasn\u2019t ever gonna tell anybody who Obama is in the sense of vetting him. So by avoiding that part of the campaign… And I don\u2019t mean college transcripts. I\u2019m talking about who he is ideologically, who he is policy-wise, what his view of the country is, where he wants to take it.<\/p>\n

Why does he look at the country the way he does? There\u2019s no… Believe me, there is not even a desire, there\u2019s no compunction, there\u2019s no thought of ever going there. So Obama is gonna get a free ride with all of these assumptions. “He\u2019s a great guy!” We even said so. “Hey, he\u2019s a wonderful guy! He\u2019s a great family man. He\u2019s just in over his head.” He\u2019s not in over his head at all. But anyways, you put yourself in their shoes and you can understand it, but it doesn\u2019t help at all.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: Randy, Sparks, Nevada, great that you called. Welcome to the program, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. About ten years ago after the \u201902 election when the Republicans did quite well that year, they started pushing through a lot of conservative bills, sending \u2019em to the Senate, and this made Ted Kennedy really mad. I remember seeing him on TV going on a rant about how this is not a mandate for the Republicans to push through their agenda and that he still has constituents to represent, and they put him there for a reason, and they\u2019re gonna do everything in their power to stop them from pushing through their agenda. My, how the tables have turned.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Meaning what?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, meaning the hypocrisy of the Democrats, \u2019cause they think they have this mandate right now after winning the election. And after the Republicans won their election, when they tried pushing through their agenda, that made the Democrats mad. And Ted Kennedy went on this rant. He was on TV —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I know, but are you saying that the Democrats, since they won, should say that they don\u2019t have a mandate?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, no, what I\u2019m saying is, the Republicans need to step up and stand their ground like the Democrats did.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, you want the Republicans to stand up and say, just \u2019cause Obama won doesn\u2019t mean that he\u2019s got a mandate?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Oh. Well, that\u2019s such a foreign concept I didn\u2019t even think of it. Isn\u2019t gonna happen.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Probably not. But, I mean, you know, \u2019cause it was only four years later–<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, when the Republicans win elections, the Democrats run around and say, “This does not mean that the minority has no power,” and they start campaigning for minority rights and minority dominance in the Senate and in the House. That\u2019s just who they are. They do not accept defeat.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They do not accept defeat. When we lose, we try to join them in their victory.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right now, Boehner and the Republicans seem like they\u2019re just ready to roll over and give \u2019em what they want.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I know it looks that way. Why do you think Boehner is doing that<\/a>? There\u2019s no wrong answer. I\u2019m genuinely seeking what you think. Why do you think Boehner does that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I just don\u2019t think he wants to look like the bad guy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: A-ha. There you go. You see, it\u2019s all rooted in that. The media concocts all of these narratives and templates, and the Republicans accept them, such as, don\u2019t criticize Obama. The independents don\u2019t like that. The independents want people to get along. The independents and all these people that determine the winners of elections, they want everybody to be singing in the same hymnal, and they want everybody to work together, bipartisanship and all that. And so we don\u2019t criticize Obama. So we don\u2019t define Obama. We don\u2019t tell people who Obama is.<\/p>\n

But, by the same token, the Democrats can come out and call us the most vicious names, refuse to work with us. Harry Reid, before the election, can say<\/a>, “If Romney wins, I don\u2019t care, we\u2019re not working with him. That guy\u2019s a scumbag. You think I\u2019m working with a scumbag dog killer?” The independents don\u2019t seem to mind. Independents don\u2019t get mad at that at all. Somehow, the Republicans have bought the notion that any criticism of Democrats is gonna be met very poorly with the 47%. We can\u2019t do that. So I really think that a number of Republican leaders think that they are outnumbered eight to one. They act like that, behave like that, and they believe that standing up for themselves is gonna only make it worse. That\u2019s what it appears to me.<\/p>\n

Look, I\u2019m glad you called, Randy.<\/p>\n

Thank you.<\/p>\n

Tom in Warren, Michigan. Glad you called, sir. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I can\u2019t believe I got on. I have an idea for you to think about. Right now the Democratic narrative is, the top 2%, they\u2019re evil, and we have to punish them by raising their taxes. Let\u2019s agree with them. Let\u2019s raise their taxes to 100%. This will do two things. It will force the Democrats who know that the top 2% is the golden goose where all the taxes come from, the top 40% of our taxes, it will force the Democrats to defend the wealthy, all right, and if they don\u2019t, then the wealthy will move out of this country, and they won\u2019t have anything to go back on. They\u2019ll have no fallback position.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re forgetting a third possibility.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Let\u2019s hear it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The Democrats would agree to do it and find a way to exempt their rich people.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, see, right now we control the Congress. They will write the law on taxes. There will be no exemptions. That\u2019s what the Democrats are hoping for. Even this little percent, the John Kerrys, the Pelosis, the George Soroses of this world, they know that their friends, their Democratic friends, are gonna give them an out. They\u2019re not gonna pay these taxes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, no, no, wait, wait, wait. How is that gonna happen? How are those people gonna get an out on paying the taxes?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, in every one of these tax bills there\u2019s always, you know, a deduction\u2019s made in such a way. What I\u2019m suggesting is that there is no deductions for the wealthy. You make $10 million, the first $250,000 tax-free. The rest you have to send in.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s not a hundred percent.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you gotta let the poor man have his $250,000, Rush. But at that point, what will happen to the wealthy? Where would they go? What country are they going to? Where is John Kerry gonna move his money to?<\/p>\n

RUSH: New Zealand.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right. Nancy Pelosi? She sells her vineyard out in —<\/p>\n

RUSH: She won\u2019t have to move. She won\u2019t have to. San Francisco is a foreign country. Folks, we\u2019re getting a little weird here now. There\u2019s not gonna be a hundred percent tax increase on the rich. We cannot continue to stand for disaster, support disaster, advocate disaster to teach people a lesson. We\u2019re in the middle of a disaster. It\u2019s incrementally happening. Your 100% tax rate on the rich is incrementally happening. There is an all-out assault on every achiever, and it\u2019s not just millionaires. It\u2019s people starting at $200,000 a year. There is an all-out assault on anybody who has any disposable income. We are in the middle of this. It\u2019s happening incrementally. We don\u2019t have to make this proposal. It has been proposed. It\u2019s in the process of being implemented.<\/p>\n

What we need to do is find a way to stop it, and that means standing up and opposing this at every turn on every proposal, every idea. Every Democrat idea, oppose it. It\u2019s the only choice that we\u2019ve got. Folks, I\u2019m worn out with this thinking, let disaster happen to teach people a lesson. That\u2019s been happening. And the lesson being learned is that there isn\u2019t a disaster. The government\u2019s gonna take care of people. That\u2019s the message of the Democrat Party. You\u2019re out of work for four years, no worry, we\u2019re gonna expand and extend unemployment benefits. And then we\u2019ll give you some more food stamps. And then we\u2019ll bail you out of your student loan. That\u2019s their message.<\/p>\n

There is no disaster for the beneficiaries of the Democrat Party. The disaster is for the people who work and earn their way. I\u2019m sorry, there\u2019s no lesson to be taught here. There\u2019s a country to be saved, pure and simple.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Folks, look, I\u2019m a little worn out, fed up, and very impatient with these ongoing assaults on the people who work in this country. Let\u2019s tax them a hundred percent, teach people a lesson. Let me tell you something, if the current disaster is not teaching people a lesson, nothing will, unless we make some drastic changes. I\u2019m here to tell you, the solution to this problem does not involve punishing people who work.<\/p>\n

You know what needs to happen? Unemployment, 13 weeks, and that\u2019s it. Food stamps, a month or two, and that\u2019s it. If you\u2019re able-bodied, capable, you have your mental acuity about you, that\u2019s it. We are coddling the wrong people and punishing the wrong people. We\u2019re blaming the wrong people and we\u2019re exempting the wrong people, all in the name of phony compassion. It\u2019s not doing anybody any good. We\u2019re not teaching people to be productive and instead we\u2019re teaching them that there\u2019s nothing wrong with being slovenly. I hear all these ideas, raise taxes on the rich, take away their deductions, all that crap. It\u2019s stupid! It\u2019s what they did in the Soviet Union: punish success, punish achievement, punish ambition, kill it! Make everybody dependent on the government.<\/p>\n

To hell with that. I\u2019m telling you, if we go over the cliff, the sky\u2019s gonna be blue. The birds are gonna be chirping. The unemployed are gonna have their money. They\u2019re gonna be eating. They\u2019re gonna have their big screen, their cell phones. Nothing\u2019s gonna change. Nothing. Not in terms of disaster. It\u2019s only gonna get worse for the people who are working. The burden on them is gonna increase. Why do we want to punish them? What is the crime in working? What is the crime in success? We\u2019re criminalizing it for all intents and purposes. We\u2019re ginning up hatred for people that take care of themselves, resentment, all of this stuff. It isn\u2019t healthy. It isn\u2019t good. We gotta stop borrowing money, political money, buying things we can\u2019t afford.<\/p>\n

We can\u2019t afford all these goodies. We can\u2019t afford all these freebies. We are damn lucky there are still millions of enough people who want to take care of themselves. If everybody just chucked it and said, “You know what, I\u2019m gonna let Obama be my dad, my mother, my Santa Claus,” where would we be?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know some of you disagree. You think that until we take Warren Buffett\u2019s money away and Hollywood\u2019s money away, we\u2019re not gonna accomplish anything. We can talk about it. I don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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