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    Why Do We Vote Republican? What Trump Must Do to Avoid More Disastrous Budget Deals

    Why Do We Vote Republican? What Trump Must Do to Avoid More Disastrous Budget Deals



    May 1,2017





    RUSH: Now, I know what many of you are thinking, and it is next up in the Stack right here. Here is the headline. I don’t care where you see it, this is the headline: “Congress Deal Funds Sanctuary Cities, Obamacare, EPA, Planned Parenthood; Does Not Provide Money for the Wall.” Now, if you look at that headline and you happen to believe that it’s true — which it is. I mean, we extended the budget. There’s not gonna be any shutdown. Republicans are going (sigh), “Thank God! No shutdown.” So we’ve extended the budget, not for a week, but all the way through September.






    In the process, sanctuary cities are continually funded. Obamacare is not repealed nor is it replaced. The White House is saying that they’re very close to having enough votes in the House to actually move forward on Obamacare. But until we see the vote, we will know they don’t have the votes. They’re not gonna conduct a vote ’til they have them. So Obamacare gets funded. Sanctuary cities get funded. The EPA gets funded through September. Planned Parenthood gets funded. The wall does not. So if you’re asking yourself, “Why am I voting Republican?” you have a good question.


    Why is anybody voting Republican, if this is what happens when we win?

    We won the House, we won the Senate, we won the White House, and the Democrats thwarted everything we supposedly said we were going to do with our victory. Well, I don’t want to use the word “we,” ’cause I’ve got nothing to do with this. This is another reason why I do not get close to these people. I do not… I would not relish having to have you call here today and make me justify what all happened here, had I been out there promoting and ballyhooing. That’s why I keep my distance from these people, ’cause I don’t have any control over what they’re gonna do or say, what their policies are going to be.


    But I think this illustrates a much larger problem that we are going to have to recognize, and it’s the real reason Donald Trump was elected. It’s the real thing that he has got to do, and he’s got to start doing it. And it is not going to happen if he continues to work with Republicans, because it is obvious, for whatever reasons — and we can get into them — the Republican Party has no intention of defunding Planned Parenthood, no intention of defunding sanctuary cities. They don’t want to pay for a wall. Who knows what they really want in Obamacare. But then again, is it really the Republicans? I think there’s something much larger going on.


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    RUSH: There’s no reason to keep electing Republicans if this is what we’re gonna get with this budget deal, which pays — continually pays — for sanctuary cities, funds Obamacare, funds the EPA, gives money to Planned Parenthood and no money for the wall. If you’re asking, “What am I voting for Republicans for?” you have a legitimate question. This is one of the reasons Donald Trump was elected. This is the swamp. This is what needs to be drained: The way the budget happens, the way legislation happens, who’s responsible for it. I’ll tell you where I’m going with this. I want to go back and play a sound bite from me on Friday’s program. This is the direction that I’m thinking this has to go…


    RUSH ARCHIVE: Where’s Trump on this? For crying out loud, Trump’s elected president! Trump’s got a mandate. This was clearly part of it. Like building the wall, like any number of other things, repealing and place Obamacare was mentioned at every rally, so why doesn’t the president go in there and tell them what-for?


    RUSH: Now, I don’t mean to be ragging on Trump there, but my point is this. The legislation making process in Washington, everybody I think is under some misunderstanding about it. Mr. Snerdley, how do you think legislation happens in Washington? I mean, take me from there’s nothing and then there’s a bill. What happens? Where does it start? (interruption) No, it does not… (interruption) No, I’m not asking spending. I’m talking any bill, any bill whatsoever. Where does it start? Who writes it? Who’s in charge? Say you… (interruption) There you go: The lobbyists, the donors.

    This is the problem.


    The Republican Party is not a party that writes legislation. The Democrats don’t write legislation anymore. You know where legislation is written? Legislation is written by the quote-unquote “special interests.” You know where they’re located? They’re located on K Street. They’re lobbyists; they are donors. They are the people, and 96% of Washington, D.C., — which is where these people live — voted against Donald Trump. He got 4% of the vote in D.C. among this group of people. Not the whole population, but among this group of people. Depending on the Republican Party for this is a loser’s game. Trump is going to have to take over the legislation-writing process himself.


    That’s why I was asking, “Where’s Trump on this health care?”



    Screw the House leadership! Write your own bill and get it passed.

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    RUSH: Let me try to explain this as best I can. When I saw this headline, it brought some things into focus for me, because this is gnawing at the edges here of irritation. The impression that I’ve had — you’ve had it, too — that something’s out of whack, something’s not wrong right. We won the election. I’ve described it, I don’t see the glow of victory on Republican faces. I don’t see optimism. I don’t see happiness. I don’t see confidence. I don’t see an attitude that says, “Man, what an opportunity we have.” And as I say it’s just been eating away at me.


    And like everybody else, I’m trying to nail it down, explain it to myself so that then I can explain it to you. And then I see the headline at FrontPage Magazine: “Congress Deal Funds Sanctuary Cities, ObamaCare, EPA, Planned Parenthood, Doesn’t Fund Wall.” This doesn’t make any sense. It makes no common sense whatsoever when you juxtapose it against the election returns.





    Donald Trump won the election and he ran and won on a series of issues, and all of them are embodied in this budget, and not a one of these things did Donald Trump seek the presidency by saying he was going to continue. The one thing that is not paid for in this budget is the one thing that Trump made one of his top two vote-getters, and that’s building the wall. And that of course is related to immigration.


    So what explains this? Why hasn’t there been a flood of legislation emanating from the Republicans in the House and the Senate to begin the process of implementing the Trump agenda? I know, I’ve answered my question. I’m doing this in a rhetorical sense to set up a premise. As I’ve stated many times, the Washington establishment’s totally opposed to Trump. They don’t want anything that Trump campaigned on to happen. They don’t want an outsider coming in and succeeding and thereby demonstrating how it can be done.


    Nobody on the outside is supposed to be able to come in and reform Washington and improve it. The establishment has set it up so they have an exclusive, exclusionary club that very few people are capable or qualified to be part of, and that’s that. So the last thing they can afford is for somebody like Trump, who’s not a politician by trade, to come in after winning an election and totally turn the town upside down. They will not do it.


    I go back to Lindsey Graham. He’s changed his mind since, but go back to Lindsey Graham before the election. (paraphrasing) “I would rather lose and be on the outs for 25 years than to win with Donald Trump.” That happens to be the frame of mind and the attitude of Washington, D.C. There isn’t, in that town, folks, in all of the places where legislation is written — oh, and let me issue one other caveat here.


    Normally I would be happy that no new laws are being made. Every new law is potentially an erosion of freedom. I’m not one of these people that defines Washington’s success by how many bills get passed and signed into law. But in this case, the legislation needed is that which will unravel and unwind things which are destroying the country or wreaking great harm and damage on our culture, the economy, and what have you.


    But the dirty little secret is that there isn’t any evidence that anywhere in Washington is there any aspect of the Trump agenda on display. It doesn’t seem to be that in the House of Representatives that there is a desire to implement any of the Trump agenda. It doesn’t seem in the Senate that there is a desire to implement any of the Trump agenda. It does seem in the House that there is a lot of energy devoted to stopping a Trump agenda. Ditto in the Senate.


    So the people who are running the show in Washington are impervious and unconcerned about public opinion and the results of an election and are now in the process of doing what they can to thwart the will of the people in a very clear issues-dominated and issues-oriented election. Trump wins, he has a specific agenda. Where are the members of his party writing legislation to get going on the implementation of his agenda?


    When Obama was elected, do you know the stimulus bill was written even before Obama was inaugurated? Who wrote it? Who actually wrote the stimulus bill? It was written before Obama was inaugurated. The stimulus bill was off and running nine days after he was inaugurated. And then they were off and running on Obamacare. And then off and running on whatever else the Obama agenda was. The Republicans didn’t have the votes to stop anything, so they were irrelevant in the process the first two years.


    Well, what I said in the previous segment, the fact of the matter is that corporate interests or special interests or lobbyists or what have you, is where legislation gets written, because that’s where the donors and their money are headquartered. And the donors, the big money more than likely determine what does and does not happen in Washington. And I can tell you this. On K Street, the lobbying firms, the Chamber of Commerce, big donors, there’s nobody in that group that is in favor of the Trump agenda.


    Now, Trump knew this; it’s why he ran for office. You knew it. I knew it. We all knew this. This is what being opposed to the ruling class, being opposed to the establishment is all about. But now it’s become crystal clear. Now it’s no longer a matter of speculation and theory. Now we know, we’ve just extended a federal budget all the way through September and there’s nothing in it that represents the will of the American people as expressed in the election. There’s nothing in it that represents the campaign pledges, promises, objectives of Donald Trump. Quite the opposite.


    This budget is a direct slap in the face. This budget is a stop sign. And it’s throwing down the gauntlet. “You may be elected president, but you’re not getting anything. Nothing’s gonna happen here.” And if Donald Trump cannot rely on the members of his own party — are you really telling me we can’t get a replace and repeal Obamacare bill after all this time? And I don’t mean since Trump won the election; I’m talking about since it was passed seven years ago, six, whatever it is now.







    All those repeal and replacement bills that they sent to Obama that he vetoed, where are those? Where’s one of those? The will isn’t there. I’m not harping on any one Republican. That’s not the point here. The point is that if something doesn’t change, then this is going to continue to be the story. What has to change is that the entire legislative writing process is going to have be taken over by the White House, meaning the ball gets rolling at the White House, and there’s gonna be, I mean, tons of opposition to it.


    But for Trump to rely on his allies on Capitol Hill to commence with legislation that implements his objectives is not gonna happen. Obviously it’s not gonna happen. We’ve had enough months now under our belt to know exactly what the lay of the land is. Now, you can say, “Well, yeah, Rush, but it was the fear of a government shutdown.” No, it’s not that. That’s such a convenient excuse.


    I’m telling you, folks, the will isn’t there. The establishment, whatever you want to call this bunch of people, the ruling class, the establishment, the donors, whatever you want to call ’em, they’re not just gonna roll over and let Trump implement those things that he campaigned on just because he won the office, just because he won the presidency. And he’s going to have to overcome this if he’s going to be successful. And the way he’s going to have overcome it, he’s going to have to have his own staff, legislative staff in the White House that writes this legislation and muscles its way through.


    And it’s gonna be tough. You see the obstacles here with Obamacare, the repeal and replace. They’re making this so much harder than it should be, so much harder than it is. One thing that’s become abundantly clear in the Obamacare fiasco is that official Washington does not trust free markets. Official Washington is not interested in letting the free market determine the solution to any problem. Understandably so. They have less power if the free market runs.


    These people have control and total say-so over money, how it’s spent, who gets the money, and this kind of thing. Why give that up? So it’s gonna be a knock-down, drag-out. I’m not saying any of this because I don’t think Trump knows it. I think he’s more than aware of this. And I would fully expect a White House official reply to what I’m saying today to be, “Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but we know what’s going on, but, look, the next budget coming up in September, when we go for the next fiscal year, that’s when we’re gonna put the pedal to the metal.”


    Well, okay, fine, I understand that, but that’s what we Republicans have been told for I don’t know how many years: “Well, we got to do it this way now, but I’ll tell you what. The next time this comes up, we’re gonna hammer ’em.” And they never get hammered.


    So it is a Herculean battle, ladies and gentlemen, and it’s all compressed right here in this one story about this budget. The Democrats are gloating like you can’t believe. Grab audio sound bite number four. We have a little montage here of the Drive-Bys declaring victory for the Democrats and reminding Trump that he said everybody was gonna get tired of winning so much. They’re starting to now gloat, “Where’s the winning, Mr. President? Where’s the winning?”






    ALISYN CAMEROTA: (music) The bipartisan budget deal appears to have more wins for Democrats than for Republicans.


    CHRIS CUOMO: A good day for Democrats. The border wall is not in there. The money that goes to Planned Parenthood is in there.


    NANCY CORDES: The money cannot be used to build a new border wall. The bill keeps funding for Planned Parenthood.


    GRIFF JENKINS: Democrats have been quick to praise the deal as a victory.


    GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Big victory! Democrats are refusing to fund President Trump’s border wall.


    AINSLEY EARNHARDT: Democrats getting plenty of concessions, but money for the border wall? Nowhere to be found.


    STEVE DOOCY: …money for a border wall nowhere to be found.


    JOHN BERMAN: I’m hearing a lot more Democrats crowing than Republicans.


    RON BROWNSTEIN: …victories in stopping things that Trump wanted to do.


    ADRIANO ESPAILLAT: This is a clear victory for Democrats…




    RUSH: And it is! It is, folks. There’s no other way to look at this. If you’re asking yourself, “Why am I bothering to vote Republican?” you’re gonna have a lot of people understand why. The Democrats didn’t win diddly-squat last November. The Democrats continue to have trouble winning elections, and yet they’re carrying the day as always. Is it really the Democrats, though? What’d the Democrats do here other than threaten a government shutdown? I think that’s what they want us to believe.



    They want us to believe that the Republicans still haven’t quite gotten the courage to take the Democrats on. I don’t think that’s what’s going on at all here. I think what’s really going on is that the action is not in the Congress, the action is not in the House, and the action is not in the Senate. If the House Republicans are unwilling to implement the Trump agenda, why? Is it because they disagree with Trump’s ideas, Trump’s issues, or is it because there’s outside pressure threatening them if they do? And is that pressure monetarily?



    Are donors telling them, “If you help this guy, you can forget being reelected; you can forget our help”? Is that what’s going on? More than likely it is, because that’s what always has gone on. The lobbying effort gets bigger every year, spends more money every year and, as such, has more power every year. And Trump knows it, folks. That’s what draining the swamp really was about, not simply getting rid of all of the embeds in the bureaucracy, in the deep state. It’s also dealing with K Street and overcoming the influence there, because nobody there is elected. Nobody on K Street — no lobbyist, no donor — none of them are elected. And that’s where legislation either begins or is prevented.



    BREAK TRANSCRIPT



    RUSH: Listen to this list of things that were funded in the latest budget deal and ask yourself: Why are you voting Republican? “The bill continues funding refugee resettlement and visas from the six countries from which Trump wanted to suspend immediate immigration, despite this budget being the last recourse against the judicial tyranny.” This was a… This budget was an opportunity to stick it to the judges. It did not. “Sanctuary cities were funded…” Congress could have weighed in in any number of ways to stop this. The American people are tired of it; Trump is tired of it.





    Trump ran for office and was elected on this. Sanctuary cities continue to be funded against the law. “Planned Parenthood was funded, despite the long-standing GOP promise to fight to defund it, even when they only controlled Congress. … Increased spending for a number of liberal priorities rather than codifying Trump’s requested $17 billion in non-defense spending cuts. EPA was saved from the cuts proposed for this year by Trump’s [budget director]. A $295.9 billion bailout for Puerto Rico’s irresponsible Medicaid program. …



    “Sec. 543 of the omnibus contains a provision opening the door for more H2-B low-skilled workers this fiscal year. $990 million increase of the ‘Food for Peace’ program in Africa. Government-run health care? HHS will see a $2.8 billion boost in spending, of which $2 billion will go to the [National Institutes for Health], which was supposed to be cut by the Trump budget. Green energy programs within the Department of Energy, programs Trump would have eliminated, received a modest spending increase.


    “The federal judiciary saw its budget increased by 3%, to $7.4 billion, from fiscal 2016, despite engaging in civil disobedience against the rule of law. The unconstitutional Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is fully funded despite GOP promises to dismantle it. … California’s high-speed rail will continue to be funded by the Federal Rail Administration.” What was “not funded”? “The border wall. Although $1.5 billion in additional ‘border security’ funds were allocated,” and there were a couple of other little things done to ramp up border security and fewer people are coming in because of the fear factor, but this makes no sense.


    It makes no logical sense whatsoever if you have a particular view of politics.


    BREAK TRANSCRIPT


    RUSH: Let me be clear about something. It wasn’t just Trump that people voted for. It was Republicans in Congress, Republicans in the Senate. People voted to do the exact opposite of what has happened in this budget. It’s not just Trump voters. Now, you can say it’s betrayal. It certainly is. But it’s much more than that.


    All right, now, look. I’m seeing all kinds of adjectives in the media various places how we got screwed, how we got betrayed and all of this. I… Folks, I think, yeah, yeah, yeah. There’s no question. But none of this should be a surprise. It’s disappointing, and the election had specific reasons for happening. People voted for specific reasons. Among them was stopping the current inertia, reinstituting the rule of law throughout our country; trying to save the constantly degrading culture, the growing expanse that is the Washington, D.C., government and the entitlement component of our government that just seems to have no end.





    A totally inexperienced nonpolitician was elected because people know — instinctively they know — that official Washington is not interested in any of this. Official Washington is not interested in reducing the size, the scope, the reach of government. Official Washington is not interested in spending less money. Official Washington is not interested in closing the border to illegal immigration. Existing Washington is not in favor of a middle-class tax cut or any tax cut whatsoever. People knew this going in.



    What’s on display here is exactly how Washington, official Washington does it — and in that, it’s another learning opportunity. Now, I know what the objections to what I’ve said in the first hour are gonna be. I can predict them right now. “Rush! Rush, come on. You know that this is a stopgap. You know that this was just basically a spending omnibus, meaning we gotta throw everything into it ’cause we gotta keep the government running! Enough of these one-week continuing resolutions. Enough of this one month here. We need to get this funded through the end of the year” well, the fiscal year, which is September, “so that we can turn our attention to things that really matter.”


    No, no, no. This is the stuff that really matters.


    “But Rush, there was gonna be a government shutdown. We can’t afford a government shutdown. A government shutdown would destroy whatever credibility…” No, no, no. (chuckles) The Republican Party doesn’t have any credibility right now, not after a budget deal like this. It would have been better for the Republican Party to let the Democrats go ahead and shut things down than to do this. What are the Republicans thinking? Ask yourself this: Why are the Republicans probably not worried at all about this? You think they are? Why aren’t they?


    They followed instructions to the letter is exactly what they did. Now, you could say their masters are their paymasters, their donors or what have you, but one thing is crystal clear. Can you find any single piece of legislation that is in anywhere near final form since Donald Trump was inaugurated, or even before? As I say, in the case of Obama and his stimulus, it was written before he was inaugurated. He wins the election; he knows he wants to have a stimulus bill because he knows what he wants it to be.


    It wasn’t a stimulus. I don’t want to re-litigate this, but it was a payback to his donors and it was a sop to unions. It was not a stimulus. It was not gonna grow anything, and it didn’t, and it was not gonna build roads, bridges or anything. It didn’t. The point is they wanted it done and it got done even before Obama was inaugurated and it was voted on and implemented within a week, two weeks of his inauguration. Where is that corresponding behavior? We won the election. Where is all of this pent-up legislation that we supposedly have been believing in and dying to have passed for the last eight years?



    Repealing Obamacare, replacing it, whatever. That’s at the top of the list. Getting rid of a whole bunch of punitive taxes, that’s another thing that’s been at the top of the list. And, of course, immigration reform has been at the top. Not for Washington, but for voters. The point is, there isn’t any legislation being written. Again, I want to restate something so there’s no misunderstanding. I’m universally, almost always opposed to legislation meaning something good’s happening. I long ago ceased falling into that trap. Legislation is just new laws.


    The legislation we’re talking about is legislation that fixes years and years and years of mistakes. The legislation we’re talking about is legislation that could have done an end run around these judicial rulings that have tried to stopgap Trump ever since he became president. No effort whatsoever behind any of this. And they’re gonna say, “But, Rush, it’s a stopgap. We really… We’re gonna do all this stuff once we get the real first Trump budget when that kicks off next year.” Okay. If we want, we’ve got no choice but to sit around, wait, and see what happens.


    What they mean by that is that the next fiscal year budget, which will be Trump’s first, kicks in October 1st of this year. The fiscal year starts October 1st. So the budget negotiations that we’ve just been through are gonna happen all over again. And Trump’s gonna be back, and he’s gonna be touting the fact that we’re gonna build a wall, we’re gonna have it paid for by somebody. The tax cut that Trump has advanced, that’s going to be part of the budget as well. But, remember, the budget is not the president’s. The budget originates in the House of Representatives.


    And by, you know, using intelligence guided by experience, why should we expect anything different in the next budget after what we’ve just seen in this one? Trump is going to have to take the reins, which is what his campaign led people to believe he was going to do anyway. This is a battle between Donald Trump and not the House Republicans per se. It’s not between Donald Trump and the congressional Democrats, House and Senate. This is a battle between Donald Trump and official Washington. And the House members and the Senate members, in large part, are employees, not of us, but of official Washington.



    So what’s the process to overcome this? It can be done. It’s going to have to be led by Donald Trump. This is what he does. Donald Trump’s a smart guy. Donald Trump’s a great negotiator. Donald Trump is the guy who fixes things going wrong. Donald Trump is the guy who… He told us — and it’s been true in the way he’s lived his other business and professional lives — that this is the kind of stuff he tackles and overcomes and fixes, and he’s going to have to do it. He’s going to have to be the energy.

    He’s going to have to have a staff of people in the White House who take over the process of writing the legislation. Because if he waits for it to happen in Congress, it isn’t going to happen. It’s clear and abundant. And it’s not just since Trump. Throughout the eight years of Obama — do I need to repeat the story for you? — every election year we hear wonderful, marvelous things from the Republicans. We hear exactly what we want to hear. We hear exactly the common-sense that we demand.

    We hear it. We hear it so loudly and we’re in favor of it so much that those people win. The Republicans now have the House, the Senate, and the White House. But nothing changes, does it? Republicans don’t act like winners, don’t seem to be excited about winning. I mean, in the sense that the power and opportunity that it presents them. So we’ll see how this next budget fight goes. We’ll see how this all shakes out, if it’s any different. Trump has got to be furious. I don’t know to what extent Trump knows what he’s up against.

    I have to think he knows better than I do, better than anybody else does, ’cause he’s living it. I don’t know what his expectations were. I can believe that he expected the Republicans were gonna be deliriously happy at his victory and deliriously happy to work with him, and I fully think that he expected the Republicans to be on his team and that they would be working together to get a whole lot of this stuff done to fix and repair America and stop this descending trend that our country is in.

    But he hasn’t found that to be the case. Where is there any legislation to fix — not even the Obamacare repeal — are you telling me it’s this complicated? It isn’t this complicated. There’s no trust in the free market, obviously. It’s not that there’s no trust in the free market. There’s no desire for it. These are people who have control over the market. Why would they give that up? By free market, if you want to fix Obamacare, let the market hash it out. The market will do a much better job of fixing American health care than these so-called Washington experts have been doing for 50 years.


    Free markets have been determined to be successful. They work every time they’re tried. That’s the problem. It’s almost the same analogy Trump coming to Washington as an outsider and those insiders cannot afford for Trump to succeed. What would that make them look like? They would be unmasked and illustrated to be close to fraudulent.


    Well, they tell us only they are capable, they’re experts, you have to have certain number of years of experience. Your life has to be devoted to this, that, and the other, the way to make Washington work, governance, the policy, process, all of this stuff. And some outsider comes in and inside of a four-year term fixes it all? They can’t let that happen. So it’s gonna be a battle royal, a knockdown, drag out. The thing is, it hasn’t really begun yet, as evidenced by this particular budget.





    Now, we’ll present the other side of this. Trump is on a roll in terms of his attitude and his agenda and his objectives. We have the audio sound bites of the rally over the weekend and some of his interviews over the weekend with the media. It was actually hilarious. He was on Face the Nation, said, “You know what I call your show? I call your show Deface the Nation.” Well, I don’t care if we’ve said it here before. You imagine any other president telling the anchor of the CBS show Face the Nation, “I call your show Deface the Nation, Slay the Nation,” whatever it is.


    BREAK TRANSCRIPT


    RUSH: This budget not only provides no money for the wall, it limits how Trump can use new money for border security. It’s astounding when you get further into the weeds on this thing. I keep trying to get away from it, and it keeps sucking me back in.




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    We go to Fullerton, California, to start with Ernestine, and it’s great to have you, Ernestine. How you doing?


    CALLER: I’m doing good. How are you?


    RUSH: Fine and dandy. Thank you much for calling.


    CALLER: Yeah. You should be his council, Rush. You should be advising him every single day. He’ll take your phone call and he’ll listen to everything you have to say. I know he listens to you every day, but he can’t listen all day long because he’s busy.


    RUSH: How do you know he — wait, wait, wait —


    CALLER: He needs you to counsel him.


    RUSH: Ernestine, the man’s president of the United States. How do you know he listens every day? He doesn’t have time.


    CALLER: Oh, yeah, he listens.


    RUSH: What, do you know him?


    CALLER: No, but I just know.


    RUSH: Well, you’re very kind. I appreciate your nice thoughts.


    CALLER: No, I’m serious.


    RUSH: He’s got all kinds of advisers. I’m sure people — he knows this stuff instinctively anyway.


    CALLER: But he doesn’t have you. You know everything about these people and how they operate. And the Republicans are pathetic. I mean they are just pathetic.



    RUSH: Trump, by the way, if you listen to him talking, he’s out there, he’s ragging on Chuck Schumer. I think Trump has had an awakening on who the liberal Democrats are. I think when he was campaigning, I don’t think he was ideological at all. That’s not how he saw them, but after all of this time, I think he’s beginning to. And he’s out there saying that Chuck Schumer and the Democrats are dooming Democrat Party. Now, here’s the thing. In an electoral sense, yeah. In an electoral sense the Democrats are being doomed. But their agenda is just sailing, it’s flying through.


    The Democrat Party agenda, it doesn’t seem like there’s anything standing in its way. If you look at it as embodied in this budget, they got everything they wanted! And they’re losing elections! Somebody tell me how that makes sense.


    CALLER: It doesn’t.


    RUSH: Well, yes, it does, though.


    CALLER: Well, we know that the Democrats are gonna be bad, but the Republicans are absolutely horrible. Why didn’t the Freedom Caucus stop this budget?


    RUSH: They’re only 30 or 40 votes.


    CALLER: Yeah, but they were able to stop health care.


    RUSH: Well, the Freedom Caucus really took an unfair hit. If you want to know the truth, it was the moderate Republicans in the House who — I’m not kidding you. The RINO types. Look, there isn’t — I had the news last week. There’s about, what was the number? I forget. It was a Byron York story. I can’t remember if he put the numbers in. But it’s at least 40, which is a big number, because Ryan can only lose 21 Republicans on any legislation. If he loses 21 Republicans, whatever the number after, fails. And something like 40 — if I’ve got this number right, 40 Republicans don’t want to do a single thing about Obamacare.


    They don’t want to tamper with it. They don’t want to modify it. They don’t want to change it. They don’t want to get rid of it. They don’t want to replace it. Forty. That is a significant number, when you look at the — and it’s not the Freedom Caucus people. There isn’t Republican unity on this stuff. But even that alone does not get close enough to illustrating the real problem here, because why? What you have to answer is, why do those 40 not want to touch Obamacare? Who are they? Why do they care so much? It’s absolutely a disaster. If ask them, “Well, Rush it’s been implemented, people are living with it now. We’ve got the exchanges and the subsidies and we can’t be the party that’s seen taking that stuff away.”





    Yes, we can if we do it better. And this is something that can certainly be improved on. Are you telling me that this is the best we can do? That’s what’s wrong! Is that mediocrity is what we’re told is the best we can do. That a nation in a slow state of decline is the new norm. No! We don’t accept that. But yet this is what we’re being told.


    So why do those 40 or whatever the number is that Byron York wrote about, why do they not want to tamper with Obamacare? Is it really their own thinking or does their next election depend on it? Does the money for their next election depend on it? Does their future, after they leave the House of Representatives, depend on it?


    You know that old saw, “follow the money”? Sadly, it is pretty true in almost every case. Every story, every mystery in Washington, D.C., can be answered by following the money. Folks, look. How much money does the federal — forget what it spends for just a minute. How much does it take in? Two and a half trillion dollars a year, maybe three, if we’re lucky. You know how much money that is?


    How many people live and work in Washington with one objective: to get their hands on as much of that pile as they can? If you realize that Washington, D.C., functions as a very tiny, compressed geographic area with $3.1 trillion every year and people are making their own moves in getting their share of it, their portion of it, however they do it, then you’ll understand a lot more why and how things work.


    BREAK TRANSCRIPT


    RUSH: Okay. So the Byron York story says there are 50 Republicans that don’t even want to touch Obamacare in any way. No reform, no repeal, no replace, no modification. So if that number is accurate, then there’s no hope. If those 50 people hold fast. Yet we’re being told today, “There’s another vote and we’re very, very close! We’ve almost got the votes!” For what? Nobody can even tell us what it is! I think we’re being strung along. “Yeees, we’re very close to having another vote!” But there isn’t gonna be a vote until there are the votes.


    There’s no way Ryan’s gonna schedule a vote until they’ve got the votes. So until you see that, they don’t have the votes. And if there are 50 Republicans saying “over my dead body” when Ryan can only lose 21? By the way, Paul Ryan is not an idiot. Folks, you’ve gotta look at this… He’s not an idiot. I don’t care what you think of him, he’s not stupid. He knows full well that what the House of Representatives is not doing and what they are doing is in direct opposition to what you voted for. He knows this, and yet he’s continuing to do it.


    The answer to the question “why” is where this battle is. Paul Ryan’s not stupid. He’s not incompetent. He’s not incapable of leading the House. Now, if you think that the only reason the House is not enacting the Trump agenda or supporting it is because Ryan can’t rally the votes, well, then you would have a point. But that’s not what this is. Ryan is not incompetent. He’s not stupid. He’s not blind. There’s much more going on here than simply Ryan can’t unify his caucus. The Democrat Party is the losers, and they’re triumphing with everything.


    The Washington Post headline… I mean, the Washington Post is crowing over this. “Eight Ways Trump Got Rolled in His First Budget Negotiation.” Eight ways Trump got rolled! They’re throwing parties on K Street. They’re throwing parties at the Drive-By Media. They think they’re carrying the day and winning. And remember, it is the media that’s leading the Democrats. The Democrats are an arm of whatever power source is really running that town, and I think it’s a combination of the media and the moneyed interests.




    I don’t think there’s any question about that, actually.


    Now, Newt Gingrich… We’ll get to the phones here just second. Newt Gingrich had a piece at Fox News, “Newt Gingrich: Trump vs. the Swamp, Round III.” Newt’s close, but I don’t think Newt’s quite all the way there. The headline of his piece: “Democrats Turn to Bureaucrats to Stop [Trump] — When Neil Gorsuch won long-overdue confirmation this month to serve on the United States Supreme Court, Republicans in turn won control of judiciary. This meant they led all three branches of the federal government — at least the three envisioned by our Founding Fathers — for the first time in a decade.


    “As a consequence, Democrats have pinned their hopes to stifle President Donald Trump’s … on the unprecedented insurrection of an unchecked, de facto branch of government: the bureaucratic state.” That’s what Newt calls what we refer to here as “the deep state,” and he’s talking about a bunch of unknown, unelected, unseen bureaucrats in various places throughout the bureaucracy. But I think it goes deeper than that. I don’t think it’s people that per se work in government that are doing this. They lobby the government. They influence the government. Tremendously. They influence individual members of the government, House and Senate, any other number of elected officials.


    Anyway, let me go back to the phones here. Susan, St. Paul, Minnesota. Welcome. It’s great to have you here. How are you doing?


    CALLER: I’m furious (chuckles) in a word. I would like to know… Well, I’ll start out by telling you in the beginning we were Ted Cruz supporters and then when Trump won the nomination, we consoled ourselves with the thought that, “Well, at least he’s a street fighter, and that probably is really what we need in Washington is somebody to really take the fight to Washington.” So my question is: Why wouldn’t he veto this bill? And if he doesn’t veto this one because it’s a stopgap, he should come out and start threatening the veto for the first real budget.


    RUSH: Yeah. I can’t answer that. (sigh) I can only speculate. There’s something that happens to people in that town that instills a fear unknown to you and me, and the fear is centered on this idea that if we stop or interrupt or even pause the actions involving government spending money then we are headed for Armageddon. It’s almost like we cannot interrupt the spending process at all, because if we do, there will be hell to pay. Voters will get mad that their services aren’t there. The media will get into gear and talk about how whoever is responsible for the shutdown doesn’t care about the little guy. It’s something that apparently most in Washington just don’t even want to get close to dealing with. Now, as for Trump, why wouldn’t he veto this? He clearly could. If he wanted to veto this he clearly could and make a statement.


    CALLER: He absolutely should.


    RUSH: Pardon?


    CALLER: He absolutely should.


    RUSH: Well, he may not be ready to. I don’t know at what stage the Trump people see their agenda and their presidency, but it’s four years. We’re not even through six months of the first year yet. It’s still very fluid. Everybody’s still getting their feet wet figuring this out. Trump’s obviously in the middle of a learning curve, hopefully, on some things. He just may not be ready right now to take the step. But it’s nevertheless frustrating. I share your frustration. I saw this headline. It’s almost…


    The feeling I had when I saw this headline was almost like when I saw the exit polls in 2012, at five o’clock, when I knew that Obama had won reelection. I see these headlines, and it so violates surface common sense. But, see, there’s a reason this is happening, and it’s not rooted in people’s stupidity. Paul Ryan, as I say, is not stupid; neither is McConnell. These are not dumb people. They know full well, Susan, that you feel the way you do — and that Ernestine who called before you does.


    They know full well how you feel about it. It’s that there are other people’s feelings they’re more concerned with than yours. It has to be that. At some level, involving information we don’t have… We can only speculate. At some level, all of this makes perfect sense to the people involved. It doesn’t make sense to you and me — and therein lies, I think, what’s actually going on. I mean, put bluntly… When I worked for the Kansas City Royals, one of the guys that was in the Stadium Operations Department was one of these crusty old curmudgeon guys.


    We just loved to go stir this guy up. It didn’t take much and he would start venting and ranting on anything. And you just sat, and you listened, and you tried not to laugh. And all it took… All you had to do was say the word “lobbyist,” and this guy would go on for 30 minutes cursing, yelling, screeching. Everything that was wrong — everything, in this guy’s opinion — was lobbyists.





    “Lobbyists are determining this!” He said, “You think you have power with your vote? Our votes don’t matter a ding-dong. It’s lobbyists today.” This guy, it was his one-note samba, and because of that I’m reluctant to use the word “lobbyist.” (laughing) I know what we ended up… It’s not that we disagreed with the guy; it’s just that it became one of these things. It was like the crazy uncle, you know, upstairs on Thanksgiving that you hope stays in the bedroom.


    But, folks, clearly the people that write the legislation in this country are the moneyed interests behind the impact of that legislation. Meaning the purpose of legislation is not to fix what’s wrong with America, to improve, say, problems like illegal immigration or sanctuary cities. The budget and the legislation does just the exact opposite. People are benefiting from this budget somehow.


    In terms of immigration, it’s the Chamber of Commerce and certain elements of Big Business who want cheap labor. And on the political side you’ve got people that look at these illegals as a magical number of potential new voters once we find a way to register them. There’s any number of things here, but none of that has anything to do with fixing the problem, even acknowledging that it is a problem.


    So in this sense, members of the House and the Senate are order takers. If these people are the reason they get huge amounts of campaign donations, huge amounts of opportunities dangled in front of them for the day they leave government service, what have you? Maybe a job as a lobbyist themselves. Then you have the power structure concentrated in people that do not run for election, people we don’t know, people who are not familiar to us and what they believe. So we have no say-so in it, which is I think, when we get down to brass tacks what frustrates so many people. But it’s clear they have untold amounts of power.


    And look, I want to try to make this analogy stick too. This notion, imagine that pile of money that is Washington, three trillion dollars every year, $3 trillion. Forget debt, forget the deficit, forget all that, forget for a moment the way it’s spent, your tax revenue and every other dime that the government gets, wherever, it totals $3 trillion. This industry exists to get as much of that as it can via legislation, via who knows however. But that remains one of the objectives.


    So in this sense ideology is not a factor; right and wrong is not a factor; conservative versus liberal; big government, small government, none of that matters. The objective that these people have is facilitating access to the federal Treasury. I don’t know how else to put it. I’m not talking about people walking over there and opening the safe and sticking their hands in and coming out with some.


    I’m talking about ways in which they write legislation or pass regulations or have stuff we never see that enables them and their clients to benefit financially from whatever the government is or is not, does or does not do. And because these people have such control over reelection campaigns and funding and donations and so forth, they carry a lot of weight and have a lot of power.


    Anyway, this is what Trump is up against. It is those people Trump’s gonna have to find a way to overcome. Not just Paul Ryan, not Mitch McConnell, not Schumer or Pelosi or any of that. I mean, they’re players, obviously. And the Democrats are involved in this for a little bit more than Republicans are. The Democrats really do believe their ideology, and they are hell-bent on implementing it and never giving any of it away no matter what happens with elections. They also have the money aspect, too, that motivates them. But it’s gonna be a monumental battle. This is really what draining the swamp is, not just the bureaucracy.


    BREAK TRANSCRIPT


    RUSH: Ray in Ridgewood, New Jersey, you’re next, sir. Hello.





    CALLER: Yes. Hi, sir. I just wanted to say that, first off, I’m a lifelong Republican, voted for Ronald Reagan my first election in 1980 and voted for Donald Trump, but unfortunately, I don’t see Obamacare being repealed. I just don’t. It’s sad for me to say that, but I think it’s so ingrained. People don’t realize how far Obama took us into, say, socialized medicine and socialism. It’s so ingrained now that you could see that probably the —


    RUSH: Well, you mean you think there’d be a revolt if it were repealed?


    CALLER: No, no. I think there’s huge support for it in the sense that look at the rise of Bernie Sanders and all the socialism that he’s espousing. I think the Republicans who don’t want to repeal it are gonna think, “Well, it’s just easier to go forward and maybe tinker with it than repeal it and come up with something new.” Even Pelosi said that, you know, we’re not gonna support anything unless you want to help Obamacare. Then we’ll talk.


    RUSH: Well, wait a minute. Hold it. This is the problem. Trump ran on many specific agenda items, and repealing Obamacare was in the top three. And he won the election. So sorry for the people that Pelosi says don’t — I don’t believe these polls that say a majority of Americans, after eight years of hating it, now all of a sudden love it. I don’t buy any of that. I think that’s an excuse not to do anything, frankly, and it’s paralyzing everybody.


    BREAK TRANSCRIPT


    RUSH: Nancy in Northville, Michigan. Welcome. Glad you waited. How are you doing?

    CALLER: Good. Thank you.

    RUSH: You bet.





    CALLER: I wanted to say I feel betrayed. I was a Trumpster from day one. My husband was in the hospital then, and I talked about him. Even the cleaning lady who had never voted before was gonna vote for Trump. We thought that he would stand up to all these people. I don’t buy the story that Spicer’s selling. Trump should have the courage that Reagan did when he fired all the air controllers and shut down the government. Republicans are gonna get blamed anyway. Trump is gonna get blamed for everything he ever does, no matter what it is, so…


    RUSH: You know, that’s a good point. Let me modify that, ’cause it’s a great point. And I’m reacting to what you’re saying the form of a question. What do the Republicans consider worse, a budget in which they totally get smoked or a government shutdown? They obviously think a government shutdown is worse for them politically than being totally smoked in a budget deal. Go figure!


    CALLER: Well, I’m not buying any of it, and, like I said, I really feel betrayed. How can Trump go out to any of these rallies anymore and talk about all the things that he was going to do and is going to do? And nothing!


    RUSH: Well, I know. It’s a logical thing to think, a logical reaction. All I can do here is tell you what Spicer said. And what Spicer’s answer indicates is that, you know, folks, we’re focused on other things right now. This is just a temporary get us to the end of the year. This isn’t us. This isn’t what we stand for. We’re not gonna waste time standing up and stopping this. This is just one of these stopgaps to finish. We get into gear when we start implementing our budget.


    And one thing. This isn’t Trump’s budget. The CR is not in opposition to Trump’s budget, legislatively. The budget that Trump presented in February from his Office of Management and Budget is intended for the next fiscal year. I’m just telling you how things work. Presidents don’t do budgets anyway; the budget will be written in Congress. And it will be originated to the House Ways and Means Committee. Presidents submit their budget as a way of illustrating their policy preferences. But presidential budgets have no force of law.

    Trump has to negotiate with Congress for everything he wants, as well as everybody else negotiating with Congress for what they want, including the lobbyists and so forth on K Street and all the other special interests. So what Spicer is saying here is that this is not even us and we’re not even thinking about it.

    But that’s not how you see it. What you see is very logical. You see an opportunity. These people lost the election! We won the election! What in the world are these people doing still running the show? That’s your reaction. It makes perfect sense to anybody. It’s common sense.

    BREAK TRANSCRIPT

    RUSH: Fox News is saying that the House is going to vote on the health care bill tonight. Gonna debate and vote on it tonight. If that’s true, then somebody thinks they’ve got the votes. We shall see.


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    Nothing in This Budget Deal is Defensible, But Sean Spicer Gave It a Shot

    May 1, 2017



    [b]. RUSH: You know, the more you get into this, the worse it actually is. Listen to this. This is from the Washington Post story with the headline: “Eight Ways Trump Got Rolled in His First Budget Negotiations.” This, in the Washington Post, is their number one roll, and it’s understandable. The only thing that didn’t get any money in this budget is Trump’s wall. Everything else — including everything Trump opposes — got a budget increase. Try this: “There are explicit restrictions to block the border wall.



    “We knew last week there would be no money to start construction on a project… But the final agreement goes further, putting strict limitations on how Trump can use new money for border security… Administration officials have insisted they already have the statutory authority to start building the wall under a 2006 law. This prevents such an end run.” Can I translate this for you? And, by the way, it’s true. Trump has been running around saying legislation from 2006 authorizes the building of the wall — and, for all intents and purposes, it does.


    This budget has put a restriction explicitly on building the wall! Now, some of the quasi-Republicans in the media who are trying to soften the impact of this are saying, “Well, yeah, Trump didn’t get the money to build the wall. But, man, is there all kinds of new border security in there. This is a win for Trump because there’s all kinds of new border security authorizing more freedom and latitude and leeway for ICE and Border Patrol people and all that.”


    The truth of the matter is that this budget explicitly takes aim at building the wall and says it cannot happen. So where does this come from? is the point. Who wrote this budget? Did the Democrats write this budget? Well, that’s what we’re led to believe. What we’re led to believe is the Democrats wrote the budget, and they used the threat of a government shutdown, and once again those rascally Republicans (who thought they were gonna do an end run again on the United States) were brought up short because they know a government shutdown will be blamed on them.





    They will lose every election thereafter, and so they caved. That’s what we are supposed to believe. And the Republicans seem content with that! The Republicans — mystifyingly — seem content with the spin that they’re scared to death of a government shutdown and therefore the Democrats can’t be opposed. Now, I know this budget reflects Democrat Party thinking. I know that… What I just read anything from the Washington Post. I know this represents their ideology. They don’t want a wall. They don’t want any limitations on illegal immigration. They want their sanctuary cities funded and acknowledged.


    And all of that happened. But did the Democrats really write it, or is this somebody else’s work? It may be six of one, a half dozen of the other, because the Washington establishment is for the most part very liberal and very progressive. The community of people that we’re talking about, not all of the population of Washington, but those that have any contact offer tie with government, 94% voted for Hillary. So the actual governing portion of Washington, D.C. (and even the surrounding areas of Virginia, Maryland) is overwhelmingly big government liberal.


    And those are the people who are the power behind the throne. And the Republicans just don’t stand up to ’em. That much is abundantly clear. Which is why Trump was elected. Look, I hate being repetitive. I’m just saying that this is all going to fall on Trump’s shoulders. And I think he’s fully aware of it. I think he knows. I think he was hoping for something different. I think he was hoping that the Republican Party would actually unify behind his agenda and his election. And that may have been a bit naive, but I think he was hoping for that. I think he was probably a little surprised at the disunity and the division after his election, certainly after his inauguration.


    But all of this is an elongated wake-up call. So we’ll see. We’ll just have to let it all play out and see what happens. But this is… There’s nothing in here. I mean, if I were, if I had the job… If my job were to carry the water for the Republican Party, I don’t know how I would do it. I don’t know how in the world I would! If that was my job — which it isn’t, for those of you in the media. But if it were, I don’t know how I could. I don’t know where I’d do it. I don’t know where there’s water to carry here. And if I tried, you people? You’d throw me overboard, if I tried.


    There’s nothing here that’s defensible, at least when it comes to the areas that we’ve talked about here: Funding cities, funding Planned Parenthood. How in the world can anybody come to a Republican voter and say, “Hey, hey, hey, we got ’em right where we want ’em! Hey, hey, be patient we’re if we go to. Hey, hey!” There’s no way I don’t know how you would carry water for this. Not that I want to; don’t misunderstand. I’m just coming up with new ways to explain what a sellout, disaster, betrayal — whatever you want to call this — it is.


    Okay, let’s go to the audio sound bites. As I mentioned, there’s lots of other things going on out here, and one of those things going on is the ongoing battle between Trump and the media.


    BREAK TRANSCRIPT


    RUSH: Sean Spicer, White House Daily Briefing. The sharks are out asking and asking about the budget deal, and how it squares with Trump’s agenda and his campaign. John Roberts of Fox News: “What do you say to conservatives who feel like they didn’t get a whole lot of out of the spending bill? There was no money for the wall. There were no cuts to sanctuary cities. Funding for Planned Parenthood was maintained. What do you say to those people?”


    SPICER: People have to keep in context. We’re talking about 2017 funding, right? So this is something that most presidents would walk into office and that would have been done. Because the last Congress didn’t do this under President Obama, we have an opportunity to get some of the president’s priorities infused to the last five months of 2017. That’s a big step forward. Remember, this is 2017 funding. This is something that he wouldn’t normally even have a shot at because it should have been done. So infusing his priority in the 2011 budget cycle is actually something that he’s able to have a say in, which is a big deal the remaining five months. The 2018 budget will address those things.






    RUSH: Okay, so let me translate this. What he’s saying is, “Under normal circumstances we wouldn’t have even had this, a newly incoming president. The budget would have been done last September, October, and it would have been done. Nothing he could have done about it anyway, no matter what. This was an incomplete budget, and so they had to finish it.” nd Spicer is saying, “A lot of Trump’s wishes are in this budget.” But what he really said was, “You wait for Trump to really get into gear in 2018,” meaning the 2018 budget, which starts October 1st of this year.
    The fiscal year is October 1. So what Spicer is saying is, “Look, we wouldn’t normally have had any input in this at all because this would have been a done deal from the last Congress. But since it wasn’t a done deal, they had to finish up the spending. There’s not a whole lot of opportunity for Trump to fix anything here, ’cause this is not normally something he would have been involved in anyway. But the next budget starting this fall, when we start negotiating, that’s Trump’s budget, and that’s when you better start paying attention.” That’s what Sean Spicer just said. That’s what that means.



    (translated) “Don’t pay any attention to this! This is a previous administration’s budget that was incomplete. We had to fill the stopgap, and that was that. This doesn’t mean anything! You just pay attention when we start putting together our first budget. This isn’t Trump’s!” I’m just saying that that’s what he said. (pause) Uh, no. No, no, no, no. I don’t remember that. What I remember is Reince Priebus on this program the Friday after the election saying, “No excuses. We got no excuses now.” But look, Spicer is saying… Just to repeat this, he’s saying, “In a normal year, this wouldn’t have happened.


    “In a president’s first year, the first nine months of that year are irrelevant in terms of the budget because it would have been done under the previous president’s watch, with a previous Congress. In this case, the previous budget was not complete. It was a series of CRs, and so we had to fund the government for the rest of this year. It was not considered important enough to go to the mat on because it’s not even our budget. Our budget starts with the next budget, which will be negotiated this fall, and the fiscal year begins October 1st.” Spicer was simply saying, “That’s when you’re gonna see Trump get in gear.”


    I think if you go back to the first hour of the program, I got close to predicting this.



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