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RUSH: I\u2019m gradually weaving my way into my opinion, yeah, but before I get to the final pronouncement, I\u2019m telling you and giving my thought process on all this. Gotta know what it is. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m just not gonna say, ‘I like it, and now back to the phones.\u2019 I\u2019m not gonna say, ‘I don\u2019t like it, and now back to the phones.\u2019 I\u2019m gonna tell you how I\u2019ve arrived at it, and I still haven\u2019t told you the final like it or don\u2019t like it. But I will tell you that a lot of this is not to his benefit. Getting this extension of unemployment… I hate… I hate the fact that it\u2019s not paid for. This election was about spending. I hate the fact that it\u2019s 13 months. We coulda hung in there for six. We don\u2019t need… Look, folks, for those of you who hate this, there are some realities. One reality is there are three weeks left in the Christmas news cycle, okay? And not once in those three weeks can they do a story on the Republicans being Scrooge. <\/p>\n

Now these, sadly, are factors our guys take into account. But this 13-month business takes us back to this time next year where it\u2019s Christmastime again and — guess what? — they\u2019re gonna be extended again. I guaran-damn-tee you they\u2019re gonna be extended again, and that really rubs me raw. Really. You coulda done this for six months, coulda done this for four months and you coulda had a moral component and said, ‘Look, this is a disincentive to work.\u2019 You coulda said, ‘Okay, we\u2019re gonna extend it, but you\u2019re gonna be cleaning up the highway.\u2019 Look at welfare reform. That worked! Welfare reform required you to go to work — to be looking for work, looking to find work — to get welfare benefits. Clinton came along and signed that, and now these guys immediately do away with it, \u2019cause they\u2019re trying to create a permanent underclass. <\/p>\n

Thirteen weeks of this stuff, the fact it\u2019s not paid for, that\u2019s bad enough. The fact that it\u2019s harming the people getting it — and believe me, it is. In the long run, it is. It\u2019s a disincentive to work, and the longer these people are unemployed, the less skilled and experienced they become. Therefore the less qualified they become as time goes on. It\u2019s not good for \u2019em in the long haul. They\u2019re not rich. It\u2019s not even a middle class income that they\u2019re getting. It\u2019s lower middle class, and there\u2019s no dignity attached to this. This just stinks. But it\u2019s Christmastime, and they don\u2019t want any covers of John Boehner and Mitch McConnell on TIME Magazine as the Guys of the Year, as Ebenezer Scrooge, or the Grinch (as they did with Newt) or what have you. <\/p>\n

I understand all of this stuff. I also understand we won the election and we have more power than we\u2019re willing to use here. We have more power than we were willing to use, but they don\u2019t think so. I don\u2019t think they do, \u2019cause they live in Washington. They live and breathe there, and their perspective is different from ours. The people, the voters, we are all ahead of them in Washington. We have better handle on what the people of this country are thinking than they do even after the election results. I have told you of the ranking Republican that called me before the election and asked me to tell you to lower your expectations \u2019cause they\u2019re not gonna have any power, \u2019cause they\u2019re not gonna have any control. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re not gonna be able to do anything. They asked me to tell you that. We are ahead of the game with that. We know more about how we think than they do, and we have a better handle on how teetering and tottering Obama is on this stuff than they do. They\u2019re still concerned about Obama\u2019s skin color. There\u2019s a whole bunch of stuff here that\u2019s got them handcuffed, and they\u2019re the ones putting the handcuffs on themselves. Nobody else. Now also, personally, being purely personal, I love the fact my taxes aren\u2019t gonna go up with the extension of the deal here. I love it. I\u2019m gonna be totally honest with you. The way our money is being spent? No way. We all pay enough! Nobody, nobody in this society is undertaxed. Nobody. But I also think: Why are we clapping our hands on an extension? Where is the cut? <\/p>\n

The table has been set to where the outcome of ‘no change\u2019 is considered a victory. A real victory would have been tax cuts: Corporate tax rate reduction, capital gains reduction. That\u2019s scheduled to go up, by the way. I haven\u2019t heard what is gonna happen on capital gains. Do something that would have done something for job creation. Now, I know there\u2019s next year when we have the majority in the House, and maybe they\u2019re waiting on that. ‘Just get through Christmas. Let\u2019s get through Christmas without them calling us the Grinch,\u2019 \u2019cause they\u2019re just dying to do that. That\u2019s why this whole extension thing has been set up on this timetable, but it\u2019s gonna happen again next Christmas. Hell, I know prosecutors who don\u2019t want to go to trial \u2019cause juries turn all mushy at the holidays. They don\u2019t even want to send Charles Manson away during the holidays. Understandably. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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