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12/13/13, "Democrat Hacks Employed by CBS Attack Marco Rubio for Common Sense," Rush Limbaugh transcript
"RUSH: Here's Rubio. Rubio was on CBS This Morning today, and he's
toying with the idea of running for president, too. They're having a
discussion about the budget deal. The cohost infobabe Norah O'Donnell
said, "Senator Rubio, I want to ask you about a criticism where you may
be more beholden to these conservative groups than your own party, the
legislating party."
Now, think of that formulation of a question. (translated) "You may
be more beholden to the base, you may be more beholden to your voters
than to your party," as though Rubio is committing some kind of
political crime here. So Norah O'Donnell is accusing Rubio of being
beholden, "more beholden" to his voters than his own legislating
parties. She says, "If you looked at the votes in the House yesterday
it had nearly equal Democrat and Republican votes.
You had Congressman Ryan and [Senator] Patty Murray working out a
compromise. Shouldn't you be encouraging a rare outbreak of
bipartisanship?"
RUBIO: Compromise just for the sake of compromise so we can feel
good about each other I don’t think is progress for the country. I
recognize how difficult it is...
O’DONNELL: Really? Really? That's what you think?
RUBIO: Yeah. For the sake of the compromise, that doesn't solve
problems, just for the sake of it? Yeah, that's not a good thing for the
country. That’s why we have to have solutions.
ROSE: But Senator, they're not saying --
RUBIO: No, no. We have a very serious problem in the country.
ROSE: But Senator, they're not saying they’re compromising --
RUBIO: I’m surprised you’re surprised by my answer because...
ROSE: -- for the sake of compromise.
RUBIO: No, no, no. But listen.
ROSE: They're saying their compromising so --
RUBIO: No.
ROSE: -- that they can move forward.
RUBIO: That’s what you --
ROSE: Not for the sake of compromise.
RUBIO: -- had described the question as. No, that’s how you’ve described the question.
RUSH: Let me tell you, Rubio is so right on the money here. But do
you notice, do you note, these are not media. You gotta think of these
people as Democrats. Forget that they're on television and asking
questions. They're not journalists. You've got to look at these people
as who they are. They are Democrats. They are Democrat hacks, and
they're working as journalists.
So Rubio says something that, to you and me, is just the most solid
common sense in the world. Compromise for the sake of compromise so we
can feel good? That doesn't do anything. And they can't believe what
they heard. She can't believe what she just heard. (imitating
O'Donnell) "You mean, Really? Really? That's what you think? That
compromise, just to feel good, doesn't mean anything?" And Rubio,
"Yes. Compromise doesn't solve problems just for the sake of it. It's
not a good thing for the country. That's why we have to have
solutions." And Charlie Rose, "But, Senator, Senator, my God, have you
taken leave of your senses? They're not saying --"
"No, no, we have a very serious problem in the country," Rubio says.
"But Senator, they're not saying they're compromising."
Rubio: "I'm surprised that you're surprised by my answer."
"But they're not compromising for the sake of compromising."
Yes, they are, Charlie. The Republicans are, because that's what you
people tell 'em they ought to do. You Democrats in the media tell the
Republicans, "You people need to compromise, bipartisanship, people want
people to get along." Okay, so they got along. They went bipartisan.
They compromised. They got a budget deal that doesn't solve one
problem. It doesn't fix anything. And yet everybody on the bipartisan
side is just feeling happy as they can be. And Rubio says it's
meaningless. And they can't believe it. Huge divide.
Folks, this is why I say, there's no hope of genuine, real
compromise. There's no hope of getting along here. This is politics. These people need to be defeated, not gotten along with, not reasoned
with, because we can't. You just heard it. Reasoning with them, logic,
does not reach them. You and I know, compromise for the sake of
compromise accomplishes nothing just to make yourself feel good. They
think that's all that's involved here. 'Cause what they know the end of
the day is that Republicans compromising is Republicans losing, and
that's why they're really for it, and they can't believe that Rubio
doesn't see that the only way that Republicans can win is for them to
lose....
RUSH: So this is the follow-up. He went
on to explain why this compromise that happened on the budget deal, in
his view, isn't good for the country.
RUBIO: Compromise is a good thing, especially if it arrives at a
solution. Our ultimate goal here is to solve problems and to make
progress on issues that confront our country. We have a government that
continues to spend more money than it takes in at an alarming pace. That is going to trigger a debt crisis. It is holding American
ingenuity back. When is there going to be urgency around here about
addressing that? So far it has not.
RUSH: And that's the dividing line, and I want to stress again,
there are some people, and apparently a majority in Washington, to whom
it's not a crisis at all. There is no debt crisis to them, and there is
no spending crisis. "The government will never run out of money. What
are you talking about?...We're never gonna run out of money. We're the United States, what
do you mean, debt crisis?"...
And then you say, "Well, but for every dollar you borrow, that's a
dollar that the private sector doesn't have available to borrow. So
there's less development. There's less building. There is less
entrepreneurism. There's less hiring. There are fewer jobs."
Doesn't matter....There's no debt crisis. It's a
genuine dividing line. The national debt today, to them, is no
different than it was 30 years ago. As long as the percentage of GDP
doesn't change, there's no problem. Now, you look at the private sector
and you see that there isn't really any new job creation, and people
are losing hours. There are no real careers....
The people in Washington,
"We don't really have to pay our debt. The national debt never really
has to be paid. I mean, we owe that to ourselves." This is what the
establishment says. "So it's not like this money's owed to somebody."
"Well, wait a minute. The ChiComs are underwriting a lot of it, other people are."
"Well, yeah, they're gonna buy Treasury bonds, and they'll redeem
'em, and they'll be paid. There's no crisis, Limbaugh. This is where
you Tea Party people are really off the path. There's no danger here."...
And that's the great divide between the Republican Party and its
base. That's why the Republican Party establishment is not really, when
they look at Obama economic policy, they don't see disaster....
We'll have Christie in there and we'll be smooth sailing. That's how they look at it.
Nothing to really worry about here, folks. And you who want to
create crisis and demand they take action, you're the troublemakers.
You're the extremists....Washington's fine. Just let us handle it. You don't know what you are talking about."
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