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RUSH: Now, Mike, I want you to grab sound bite 22 and sound bite number three. I want to do \u2019em side by side here, Chuck Schumer and Bill Kristol. This tweet that I have here that I have discovered, that details what Obama said to Paul Ryan after the budget deal was done confirms what I actually think is going on here. Obama called Ryan and said, “Thanks for making government work.” <\/p>\n

Now, let me briefly go through all of the excuses that we are given for why this happened. A, well, we were up against a deadline. The clock was ticking, and, man, it was worse than Ryan knew, the mess that Boehner left him and the clock was running out and we had to deal with the cards that we were dealt and we just had to rely on the same old way we\u2019ve been doing this, and it\u2019s gonna be different next time. Except this is what we\u2019ve been told every omnibus budget December for the last eight years. <\/line><\/p>\n

It\u2019s folderol because everybody knows that the end of the year is December, and everybody knows that deadlines are pushed and pushed and pushed for exactly this reason. You get closer to the deadline, there\u2019s a greater urgency to get things done. The difference here is why is it the Democrats never have to play the cards they\u2019re dealt? Why is the clock never ticking on the Democrats? Why is it never the Democrats who have to compromise what they want in order for a deal to get done, and especially now the Democrats have fewer seats in the House than at any time since the Civil War, and yet they just got total victory. <\/p>\n

Okay, in addition to everything else that I\u2019ve said in the past two days about this, I think what\u2019s really going on here, the Republican Party, if you listen to them, even now there are candidates for the Republican primary who are making the case that they are the ones who can cross the aisle and work with Democrats. There are fewer of them, but you and I know well that the Republican Party seems to believe that it needs to expand. It can\u2019t win with its current base. There simply aren\u2019t enough Republicans to win, so they have to broaden the base. <\/p>\n

They don\u2019t like their base. They don\u2019t like us. They don\u2019t like conservatism for a host of reasons that you know and understand, I don\u2019t need to repeat those. The interesting thing is they think they need to broaden. That\u2019s why they support amnesty. They think they need to get more Hispanics. But they think that they need to show they can make government work. And that\u2019s why they have made a political calculation that as far as their own political fortunes are concerned, they\u2019re damaged much less by letting Democrats win big time on things like this as opposed to shutting down the government. <\/p>\n

\"large\"The Republican Party has made it clear they\u2019re scared to death of the whole idea of even being accused of shutting down the government, and at all costs they have decided it\u2019s gonna stay open. “At all costs” means whatever the Democrats want, they get. The Republicans have thrown away the power of the purse. The Republicans have thrown away their majority. They have thrown away every obstacle that would normally be in the Democrats\u2019 way. The power of the purse is big. It all makes sense politically if you realize that the Republicans are doing here exactly what they\u2019ve told us they think they have to do. They think they have to cross the aisle and work with the Democrats. <\/line><\/p>\n

They think that demonstrates to Hispanics and independents and women and moderates that they can work with Democrats and that they can cooperate and that they can make government work and that they can be bipartisan. And doing all of that dispels all of the bad branding they\u2019ve got of racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe. So the Republicans have decided, to heck with their own base. They don\u2019t care about it. They don\u2019t respect it, so they\u2019re gonna run the risk of losing it while they show non-Republican voters how great they are, by giving the Democrats what they want, because that\u2019s how you keep government open. <\/p>\n

By giving the Democrats what you want, that is how you cross the aisle and cooperate. By giving the Democrats what they want, that is how you demonstrate you can make government work. Chuck Schumer admitted it in The Politico yesterday, quote, “Senator McConnell wants to see the Senate work, but the good news for Democrats is that to make it work he has to basically do our agenda.” Bingo. This is what the Republican leadership has calculated, folks. <\/p>\n

In order to be seen as bipartisan, in order to be seen as cooperative, in order to be seen as not argumentative, in order to be seen as non-combative, in order to be seen as bipartisan and able to make government work and keep it open, they have to basically do the Democrat agenda. Because anything else is gonna result in an accusation of shutting down the government or not caring about the poor or not caring about Planned Parenthood or whatever. <\/p>\n

<\/a>The Republicans have made the calculation they\u2019re sick and tired of these accusations, and so in order to eliminate that and to broaden their base and to show how great they are at making government work, they are giving the Democrats their agenda. For pointing this out, I have become the bad guy. I\u2019m the extremist. I\u2019m the one out of touch. I\u2019m the one that doesn\u2019t see what\u2019s going on, as the country is being sold down the river. When the Democrat agenda is implemented you can say good-bye to whatever you think the United States of America was, and instead you wave hello to the new America that we are transforming to under Barack Hussein O. <\/p>\n

Our last caller, David in Seattle<\/a>, this guy was the Bush-Cheney chairman for King County between 2000 and 2004. You can\u2019t get more straight-and-narrow Republican. He was the Bush-Cheney campaign chairman for King County, Washington. And he thinks it\u2019s over. He thinks we\u2019ve lost. And he\u2019s tracing this transformation of the Republicans basically into Democrats or Democrat light. He thinks it goes back to weapons of mass destruction and Iraq. I think it traces back maybe to that, but that\u2019s when the first immigration battles began, if you recall. <\/p>\n

It was between 2000, 2004 that I had emissaries from the White House sent down here to talk to me to try to make me understand amnesty and how it wasn\u2019t amnesty. But now, knowing all of this, and knowing what the excuse is… “Well, our backs were against the wall! Well, time was running out. Well, we didn\u2019t know how bad it was. Well, we had to play the cards we were dealt! Well, you know…” Side by side, here is Bill Kristol on C-SPAN\u2019s Washington Journal yesterday reacting to one of the hosts there who read from my transcript on my website yesterday.<\/p>\n

And he focused on this part when I said yesterday, “We don\u2019t even need a Republican Party if they\u2019re going to do this. Just elect Democrats. Disband the Republican Party and let the Democrats run it, because that\u2019s what\u2019s happening anyway.” Speaking euphemistically. I mean, realistically, nobody\u2019s gonna get rid of the Republican Party. I\u2019m trying to illustrate how lost and gone and bye-bye the Republican Party is. We may as well just elect Democrats, because that\u2019s effectively what\u2019s happening. The Republicans are implementing a Democrat agenda. Bill Kristol reacted this way…<\/p>\n

KRISTOL: I don\u2019t like the omnibus spending bill. I probably would vote against it if I were a member of Congress. Having said that, it would be a lot worse if Nancy Pelosi controlled the House and Harry Reid controlled the Senate. Let\u2019s not kid ourselves. This does not make the case for Democratic control of Congress. It doesn\u2019t make the case that Republican control doesn\u2019t matter. But I do think this is the case — and Paul Ryan sort of said this — that he it was stuck with where things were. The clock was running out; he felt he had to go with the way business has gone the last few years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Chuck Schumer yesterday reacting…<\/p>\n

SCHUMER: If you would have told me this year that we\u2019d be standing here celebrating the passage of an omnibus bill with no poison pill riders at higher levels above sequester than even the president requested, I wouldn\u2019t have believed it. But here we are. This bill is a great victory for the principles Democrats stand for.<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: Barack Obama calls Paul Ryan and thanks him for making government work! Schumer tells The Politico (summarized), “Yeah, Mitch McConnell wants to see the Senate work. But the good news for us is that McConnell knows to make the Senate work he has to basically do our agenda.” And over here we\u2019ve got establishment Republicans, “Hey, you know, it could have been worse. <\/p>\n

“I mean, it\u2019d have been much worse if Pelosi and Reid were running the show.” Not according to Chuck Schumer. Do you realize the Democrats just got more of what they wanted in one budget than they ever got with Pelosi and Reid? That\u2019s what Schumer\u2019s saying, and Patty Murray, and Israel. That\u2019s what they can\u2019t believe. They got more with a Republican speaker than they ever got with Pelosi running the joint! <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s John in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Back to the phones on Open Line Friday. Great to have you, John. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, I love your show, I always agree with you, and I voted for Oba… It says here “Bush.” Sorry about that. “Bush.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: You “voted for, it says here ‘Bush'”?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I got a script here [for a seminar caller].<\/p>\n

RUSH: I got you. It can be very, very nerve-wracking to appear on this program, and you write down the basics to make sure you don\u2019t forget. Yeah, I got it.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Hey, I got a question for McConnell and my Republican leadership. So we can\u2019t defund Planned Parenthood because we don\u2019t have the presidency. Okay, I got that. Cool. But why can we defund the 2006 Security Fence Act?<\/p>\n

RUSH: You mean to build a wall?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. So 2006 security was for the 700 miles of secure double-layer fence.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Bush was president at that time —<\/p>\n

RUSH: That wall wasn\u2019t built because somebody forgot so design the door.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, the argument of my leadership —<\/p>\n

RUSH: (suppressing laughter)<\/p>\n

CALLER: — the smart people up in Washington that I send money to and I vote for, they say, “Hey, look, you can\u2019t defund legislation,” when it\u2019s Planned Parenthood, when it\u2019s Obamacare, when it\u2019s all this other stuff. Okay, that\u2019s the argument. I hear what you\u2019re saying.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no! No, wait. That\u2019s not it. No, no, no, no. It\u2019s, you can\u2019t defund entitlements. You certainly can defund legislation; it\u2019s done all the time. Defunding entitlements is what\u2019s said to be impossible to do because that\u2019s basically taking Santa Claus away from people. But defunding legislation… You got a great question here. They said, “Oh, we can\u2019t defund Planned Parenthood<\/a>! No, no, no. We can\u2019t.” But they can easily take away the money to build a wall. And you\u2019re asking, “Why? If you got the guts to take money away from the wall, why don\u2019t you have the guts to take it away from Planned Parenthood?” <\/line><\/p>\n

And it comes down to a guts question. And the answer is rooted in the new outreach that the Republican Party is engaged in. They do not want to anger the feminazis. They don\u2019t want to anger the NOW gang. They do not want to be accused of conducting a War on Women. So whatever the Democrat Party wants where women\u2019s issues are concerned, the Republicans support. Because, in their minds, that\u2019s how you eliminate all the talk of the War on Women. The Democrats also don\u2019t want there to be a wall, and most Hispanics vote for Democrats, the Republicans believe. <\/p>\n

Therefore, to show the Hispanics that you don\u2019t hate them and that you don\u2019t intend them any ill will and you want their families to be able to come here, you take away spending for the wall. You send the message, “Hey, we\u2019re not what they say about us. We like you as much as the Democrats do.” That\u2019s what\u2019s happening here. The Republican Party is engaged… Via legislation and budgeting, they are engaged here in an ongoing outreach effort to expand their voter base, and in the process they are willing to throw away their current base for the new one they hope to get.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: What is that? What has Trump said about the budget? Probably what I\u2019ve said. I\u2019m the advisor, right? Nah, Trump ripped it. I mean, he said that the Republicans threw in the towel on the budget deal. He dropped his statement on the budget shortly after the program yesterday, and it\u2019s exactly what you would expect any reasonable person to think of it. And I just checked. Folks, this budget contains more of what the Democrats want than Harry Reid and Pelosi ever provided. <\/p>\n

This budget is more generous to the Democrats than anything that they\u2019ve ever had from when the Democrats ran the show, in the modern era, during the Obama years. Now, to make the point here — because people are taking issue with me that it\u2019s as though Reid and Pelosi are still running the show. “Oh, no, no! It\u2019d be a much different, much different budget if Reid and Pelosi…” No, this is bigger. <\/p>\n

Obama got more of what he wanted from the Republican leadership than he\u2019s ever gotten from Reid and Pelosi. Just in terms of dollars and policies paid for, doubled down, implemented, you name it. It\u2019s abundantly clear. This is not… This is Republican… Well, there is some cowardice, but it\u2019s not what you think. This is not the Republicans caving, by any stretch. This is the Republicans “reaching out” to new voters. Do not doubt me on this. <\/line><\/p>\n

Here Jason in San Angelo, Texas. You know what the great thing about San Angelo is? You\u2019ve got to be going there to get there. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You will not just run into this place. So the point is, the only people in San Angelo are those who want to be there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Great to have you with us, Jason. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, how are you doing? I have watched you on television as a kid because my dad made me, and I\u2019ve been listening. I got hooked at a young age and been there, been with you ever since. I\u2019ll get right to my point. There\u2019s two things that are coming out of Washington that make me livid, absolutely shaking mad, and that is, “That\u2019s not who we are” and “We can\u2019t.” If they actually knew who we were, they would never say, “We can\u2019t.”<\/p>\n

Americans from the interception of the country have always taken on adversity head on and overcome.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You are so right. That\u2019s why I cringe at these excuses that we heard. “Well, the clock was ticking, and there\u2019s nothing much else we could do.” How does a clock tick down when every year you\u2019ve got 12 months to prepare for what\u2019s gonna happen in December?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. Well, if I tell my boss, “Well, the clock was ticking, so I didn\u2019t get my wells treated today.” Would I have a job? No. These people need to be fired.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I have a different theory. It\u2019s maybe the same purpose. And there\u2019s a popular word they would understand. They need to be “defunded.”<\/p>\n

CALLER: Whatever gets them to quit doing what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t… See, that\u2019s another thing. I don\u2019t know if the current leadership\u2019s gonna change. The current leadership is the change. The current Republican leadership is a change away from what we\u2019ve always thought the Republican Party was, which was an opposition to the Democrats\u2019 party or conservative-leaning in any way: Limited government, low taxes, individual liberty and freedom. It\u2019s not the majority of thinking that\u2019s there anymore. They may say it is during campaign time, but you don\u2019t find any evidence — I mean, any evidence — of those beliefs in the budget. <\/p>\n

What you find is excuses. <\/line><\/p>\n

So, no, I agree with you, too, on the, “This is not who we are. This is not our values.” I just start boiling when I hear that. Because Obama\u2019s values are not mine, and I resent to all get out this assumption that liberal Democrat leftist values built and defined this country. No such thing is even close to the truth. Liberal Democrat values undermine the America that was founded. Liberal Democrat values are attempting to transform this country away from the values and the traditions and the institutions that were established at our founding. Why do you think so many people are upset? That\u2019s what\u2019s at stake here.<\/p>\n

Steve in Appleton, Wisconsin. This is a little trivia for you: This is where visiting teams stay when they go in to play the Green Bay Packers. Steve, how are you, sir? Great to have you on the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Very good, Rush. Dittos. I have some very liberal Democratic friends, and they all seem to say the same thing, that Republicans are just so stupid. It\u2019s just so very easy for the Democrats to walk all over the Republicans. They have absolutely no respect for the Republicans because it just too easy to go and beat \u2019em.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I want to ask you a question, and I don\u2019t want you to get mad. I want you to understand anybody can call here and say anything. Does that really happen to you, or is that what you think the Democrats say? You actually have liberal Democrat friends who chortle at you at how easy it is to bamboozle Republicans?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. They all say it. It\u2019s so funny, because it\u2019s as if they\u2019re reading from the same script. They always say Republicans are stupid.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know, it doesn\u2019t surprise me. I have suspected, long suspected that behind closed doors the Democrats are kicking each other. They can\u2019t believe how good luck has descended. They just can\u2019t believe it. And all of this public, like on their blogs and in the Drive-By Media about, “These Republicans, you gotta watch out for them. They\u2019re such tricksters!” You know, all the fundraising letters that the Democrats send out, “Beware! These Republicans are sandbagging you!” They know they\u2019re lying through their teeth. <\/p>\n

They don\u2019t dare send out a fundraising letter saying, “We\u2019ve beaten the Republicans. We got \u2019em right where we want \u2019em. They\u2019re so stupid, they\u2019re giving us everything,” \u2019cause nobody would send them a dime. So they have to constantly, in public, portray the Republicans as these great deception artists and very, very clever opponents, and say, “These Republicans are sandbagging everybody, and they\u2019re setting you up to be totally wiped out.” In private, I don\u2019t doubt for a minute that these Democrats are sitting around actually dumbfounded at how they have no opposition anymore. <\/line><\/p>\n

I would be. I don\u2019t know what it\u2019s like to be a Democrat. It must be like what it was like to be a fan of the New York Yankees for 50 years up until the 2000s began, where you never lost. The media loved you. Everybody loved you. Your opponents were dirt, your opponents never stood a chance, and you never had to worry about anything. I think they have to be sitting around gloating privately. In fact, I know they are, because they\u2019re now starting to gloat publicly, like Chuck Schumer and some of the others did at the press conference yesterday. <\/p>\n

And Obama? He\u2019s calling Paul Ryan, “Hey, Paul! I want to thank you for making the government work.” I mean, that, to me, is… That\u2019s a gigantic put-down to me. Now, Ryan may have accepted it as a great compliment. Who knows? But, Steve, it doesn\u2019t surprise me at all that you\u2019ve got liberal friends doing that, because it\u2019s only the natural, common-sense reaction for any Democrat to have over how easy it is becoming for them to get anything they want. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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