{"id":18704,"date":"2011-04-06T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:21:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-20T00:21:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:21:27","slug":"we_are_here_because_democrats_didn_t_pass_a_budget_for_2_years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/04\/06\/we_are_here_because_democrats_didn_t_pass_a_budget_for_2_years\/","title":{"rendered":"We are Here Because Democrats Didn\u2019t Pass a Budget for 2 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Cary, North Carolina. This is Sarah, and you\u2019re up next on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hi. I\u2019m having a little bit of a problem with my phone right now. It keeps cutting in and out. So can you hear me?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah, plain as day.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: First off, my husband and I, we both listen to your show everyone morning and &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you. <\/p>\n<p>CALLER: &#8212; I\u2019m calling confused, and I\u2019m glad that I\u2019m able to listen to your station while I was waiting. With this whole thing with the shutdown, my husband got the news, he\u2019s a staff sergeant in the National Guard and he\u2019s active Guard so he\u2019s not just a weekend warrior, that\u2019s his job.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Right. Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: But he gets a meeting this morning saying that, you know, if they don\u2019t sign off on this budget thing that he\u2019s going to be going to work but he\u2019s not gonna be getting paid.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: So I\u2019m confused, I don\u2019t know if I should be angry and, like I said after listening to you now I\u2019m like maybe it won\u2019t happen, maybe it won\u2019t affect him. So now I\u2019m just confused.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, I think active duty military will be paid for a week.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Active duty military will be paid for a week and there are bills pending in both the House and Senate to secure military pay even during a shutdown. Now, those bills have not, at least as of this morning when I was prepping the program, those bills have not been brought to the floor of either the House or the Senate. But he\u2019s gonna get paid. If he doesn\u2019t get paid at the time, the back pay will happen. They always have been paid.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Not for nothing, you know, he\u2019s been to Iraq twice, it just seems like one of those questions, like, why would that even be a possibility that he wouldn\u2019t get paid, you know? I was thinking that\u2019s outlandish. Why would that even be a question of him getting paid, you know? 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We want military wives upset at the Republicans that their husbands aren\u2019t gonna get paid in the National Guard.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, I mean, you know, my husband and I, we both are Republicans &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I know that.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: &#8212; and not for nothing, that was the first thing I thought of when he was telling me about it, like, why, when we\u2019re just starting to get the majority, would Republicans do something like that, you know? Like, I mean that\u2019s just outlandish, you know, like it just doesn\u2019t make any sense.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: The Republicans aren\u2019t doing it.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well, you know, after listening to you now I\u2019m starting to get a little bit, you know &#8212; I\u2019m reading online, though, and I\u2019m trying to look at news channels, and I can\u2019t find anything, and this is the first time I\u2019ve ever called a radio station before \u2019cause I just want to know what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, what specifically have you been trying to find out? Whether or not your husband will get paid?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Whether he\u2019s getting paid, why exactly that would even be a possibility that he wouldn\u2019t get paid, I mean I\u2019m just confused. But, you know, I\u2019m getting a little bit more clarity after listening to you.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: The Democrats are players here, and the Democrats have a little say so here, too. Democrats haven\u2019t even done a budget. What they\u2019re doing, the Democrats are holding back on defense precisely to create pressure such as action from people like you.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125111.Par.4584.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright\"\/>RUSH: There are teachers and librarians at the federal government that are gonna get paid. But they\u2019re gonna have to refuse to pass the budget, or Obama has to veto it, one of the two. So whoever is to blame here is a Democrat. The Republicans are the only ones taking seriously the responsibility for a budget whereby the money to pay your husband would come. The Democrats are punting. The Democrats are trying to thwart all this for political gain. You can listen to \u2019em, old people are gonna die in the streets, Republicans are gonna kill old people, Republicans don\u2019t care about the military. It\u2019s all a crock.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yeah. Well, one thing that I didn\u2019t realize was, you know, government shutdowns have happened before, you know &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh, jeez. How old are you?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Not to sound completely ignorant, you know, I do try to follow the news and stuff like that, but, you know, I think it\u2019s exactly what you were saying, they\u2019re trying to target certain areas, they\u2019re trying to create hysteria, and, well, it kind of worked today, you know?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: How old are you?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I\u2019m 31.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You\u2019re 31. You know that\u2019s how old Jackie Kennedy was when she was first lady?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: (laughing) Oh, wow.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Pretty close to that.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Wow.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah, imagine yourself being first lady, having to redo the White House, you know, check all the rooms to see what your husband\u2019s doing in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I\u2019d go with paisley. Paisley definitely. (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: (laughing). <\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I\u2019m sorry, I don\u2019t mean to make a joke like that. <\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, I want to point something else out to you, Sarah. The bills that are pending in both the House and Senate to see to it that the military get paid during the shutdown are Republican bills. They have not been offered by Democrats in the House and Senate. In the Senate the Democrats are the ones holding the bill to keep it from coming to a vote. The Republicans are not the ones responsible if your husband doesn\u2019t get paid immediately here.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Not for nothing, you know, like I don\u2019t care who\u2019s responsible. <\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You\u2019ve got to start caring.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I\u2019m glad it\u2019s not, but at the same time it\u2019s like I don\u2019t understand why &#8212; (crosstalk)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I know, look, I understand that, but you\u2019ve got to start caring.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Yes, definitely.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: This stuff does matter. What is your husband &#8212; this is none of my business.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I\u2019m sorry, what was that?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t feel comfortable. I was going to ask what kind of money we\u2019re talking about here &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: No, yeah, that\u2019s irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8212; in a week. Well, no, it\u2019s not irrelevant, it\u2019s not my business, but &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: It\u2019s our main salary so &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: It\u2019s important to you guys.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I\u2019m very sorry but my phone is cutting up again. I can\u2019t hear you now. I don\u2019t know if you can still hear me, but I do want to say thank you and I\u2019m gonna try to go online and listen to your show more. I don\u2019t know if you heard that or not but &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: If you do that, you\u2019ll never have another question. I\u2019m glad you called, Sarah. Don\u2019t give up here, don\u2019t give up. She can\u2019t hear me.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay, Sarah. Sarah was calling, she\u2019s got the husband, the last caller has the husband in the National Guard. She\u2019s calling me. I\u2019m flattered. But, Sarah, if you could, the people you should be calling are President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid. They didn\u2019t pass a budget. Now, let me go through this, very simply. The only reason there is going to be a shutdown, if there is, and I still don\u2019t believe there\u2019s gonna be a shutdown, but if there is a shutdown, it will be because Democrat senators will have refused to pass the budget, or because Obama vetoes the budget. Whoever is to blame here is a Democrat. The Republicans have presented a budget. Last fall the Democrats and the president did not present a budget, which is required constitutionally. The Democrats did not present a budget because they didn\u2019t want their plans to be seen during an election year, because Democrat budget plans are not what the American people want. They do not want continued unfunded spending, deficit spending, debt upon debt piled up. <\/p>\n<p>So the Democrats punted. The Democrats voted &#8220;present.&#8221; The Democrats chickened out. That\u2019s why we\u2019re even doing continuing resolutions every week, pass another stopgap bill that keeps the government running for a week or two, all because the Democrats didn\u2019t do a budget. So the Republicans have presented a budget. The Democrats and Obama are trying to stop the budget. They are the ones causing the shutdown. It\u2019s really that simple. It\u2019s just as Bill Clinton vetoed the 1995 budget. Bill Clinton caused the 1995 budget shutdown. It was Clinton\u2019s veto that shut down the government. The Democrats are trying to use the military just like they use teachers and nurses and librarians and doctors and so forth, the cops at the local level, &#8220;Oh, cut the budget? Okay, we\u2019ll have to let the cops go and we\u2019ll have to let the firemen off.&#8221; No, no. This is the trick, and now at the federal level Democrats use the military, the National Guard, in their budget negotiations. When have the Democrats ever cared about whether the military gets paid or not? <\/p>\n<p>So, Sarah, your complaint would best be answered by President Obama or Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. They didn\u2019t pass a budget. That\u2019s how we got here. Listen to me, look at me: don\u2019t doubt me. The reason we are talking about all of this gobbledygook in the first place is because the Democrats did not pass a budget. But there are other reasons. Obama\u2019s stimulus bill failed. Jobs were not created. Tax revenue has dried up. They did not cut spending. The budget is not balanced. The only group of people in this country who are in fat city right now happen to be public sector unions, federal and state. They are the chosen people. If the Democrats had passed a budget, if they had presented a budget, if Obama had had an economic plan to create jobs, we wouldn\u2019t be here, none of this would be on the table, we wouldn\u2019t be talking any of this. The only reason we are here is because of the irresponsibility of the Democrat Party. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125111.Par.57631.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright\"\/>I know what you\u2019re saying. Some of you say, &#8220;Rush, I know you\u2019re right but you\u2019re just driving people away. You can\u2019t just keep blaming everything generically on the Democrat Party.&#8221; Sorry. If the shoe fits, then wear it. We are exactly where we are because of the Democrat Party. And they want this shutdown. That\u2019s the next item. Sarah, you still out there? They want the shutdown. They are happy to hear you call this program and complain because they think that you\u2019re gonna end up blaming the Republicans. That\u2019s what happened in 1994, they are convinced it\u2019s going to happen again. That\u2019s what Obama wants. That impromptu press conference he had yesterday, what ineptitude. That alone is evidence that they want the shutdown. Then today he leaves? Supposedly we\u2019re getting down to the wire, negotiations are continuing at a breathtaking pace. What does he do? He flies off to break bread with Al Sharpton, the National Action Network in New York. <\/p>\n<p>You notice how much this outcry from the Democrats about Paul Ryan\u2019s budget plan came out yesterday? The CBO has even published an attack on it. &#8220;CBO: Big Health Cost Shift to Elderly in GOP Plan.&#8221; The CBO has published an attack on Paul Ryan\u2019s budget. Ryan\u2019s budget is 73 very densely written pages long. At two o\u2019clock yesterday afternoon he presents it. So how could any of these people have had the time to read it and do the in-depth analysis that they are supposedly known for at the Congressional Budget Office? The CBO published their analysis less than four hours after Ryan presented his budget, and they rip it to shreds, particularly on the notion that the elderly are hardest hit and could die. If anybody thinks the CBO is a bunch of nonpartisan people, you got another thing coming. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Sarah, I\u2019m still thinking about your call. She says she doesn\u2019t care. Sarah, the Democrat Party sought the defeat of the US military in Iraq. Harry Reid, &#8220;This war is lost. This war is lost.&#8221; They were out there doing everything they could. They believed made-up stories in TIME Magazine about the Marines being mass rapists in Haditha. The US military was constantly ripped and impugned by the Democrat Party in this country. They don\u2019t care whether you get paid or not. They care about whether or not you\u2019ll blame the Republicans. 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