Are You Mad About the Budget Deal?

RUSH: During Obama’s Stimulus …people got … infuriated … began talking spending discipline. And what happened? … What did Democrats do? The Democrats prepared an ad showing Paul Ryan pushing a grandmother in a wheelchair over the cliff … the media, which is the Democrat Party, running all these free ads showing Paul Ryan pushing a grandmother in a wheelchair over a cliff. So now here we are, and that’s just one example. If you think back, I’m sure you can remember all of the examples, all of the outrageous ads the Democrats created, all of the lies that were told about Republican-proposed spending cuts, about Republican spending discipline.

And the Republicans had no idea how to fight back. They had no idea how to overcome it. And so the idea of spending discipline, getting rid of the deficit as far as average Americans who watch the Drive-By Media are concerned, became the same as taking health care away from grandma and basically killing her.

… fast-forward to the present. We are a year and a half away from a presidential election, and it’s time to do a budget. And the Trump White House decides: We we don’t want any of this crap that the Democrats do happening during a presidential reelection year. We don’t want any commercials of Trump throwing grandma over the cliff. We don’t want to deal with any of this crap right now. We’ve got enough on our plates. We’re not gonna balance the budget in a year and a half anyway. We’re not gonna get rid of the national debt. We’re not gonna get rid of the deficit in a year and a half. We know how the Democrats act. We know how the media’s gonna amplify and assist the Democrats.

At the same time, how do you talk about balancing the budget, how do you talk about the deficit when your opposition is promising to give everything away to everybody, including free health care for illegal immigrants? How do you talk about spending discipline and the deficit with a media famous for destroying economies and jobs, favoring policies which destroy economies and jobs?

The Democrat agenda requires poverty. The Democrat agenda requires people unable to cope with day-to-day life. The Democrat Party requires more and more people living in economic despair. That circumstance allows the Democrats to blame the Republicans for it and then propose even more programs and even a more benevolent, gigantic government to take care of all the people the Republicans don’t care about.

Democrats won’t even work with Trump on closing the border! What was Trump supposed to do? I’m playing devil’s advocate. Is Trump supposed to go to the mat on spending, a year and a half away from the election?

Obama doubled the national debt. The Democrats cheered.

So I think a political calculation was made to not give the Democrats and the media such a gigantic, easy-to-hit target, particularly when there still isn’t any know-how or effort or seemingly any effort among a majority of Republicans to know how or even to try to push back against it.

All of a sudden the New York Times is concerned about this ’cause they think they can lay it off on Trump. Trump just made a deal with the Democrats, but you would never know that the Democrats have anything to do with this if you read the New York Times. This is all Trump.

So no matter which way the Republicans go, the media’s gonna trash them as either irresponsible spenders creating red ink or people killing grandmothers and starving kids! And you don’t want that going into an election year. What this is, this is a classic, textbook example of how Washington works.

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