Conservative radio host Rush
Limbaugh shocked his listeners Thursday with a blunt assessment of how the
White House has taken control of the sequester message: “It just makes me
ashamed,” he said.
“Ladies and gentlemen, for the first
time in my life, I am ashamed of my country,” he said, according to statements
published in The Blaze. “To be watching all of this, to have my intelligence –
all of us – to have our common sense and intelligence insulted the way it’s
being, is – it just makes me ashamed.”
He made the statements in context of
discussing the automatic spending cuts that will hit federal budgets at the end
of this month. Congress and the White House are engaged in discussions to
offset these cuts – and it’s like old times. The talks are the same that have
gone forth again and again, Mr. Limbaugh reminded, in The Blaze.
It goes like this: First, President
Obama paints himself as a Washington outsider, seeking only to benefit the
average American, according to The Blaze. Then, the he points fingers at
Congress – specifically, Republicans in Congress – for stymying his plans to
help middle-class Americans. And then – the cuts he does propose are actually
cuts in planned spending. In other words, they’re not really cuts at all.
“Here we get worked up over $44
billion,” Mr. Limbaugh said, according to The Blaze. “That’s the total amount
of money that will not be spent that was scheduled to be spent this year. And
in truth, we’re going to spend more this year than we spent last year. We’re
just not going to spend as much as projected.”
The media is nonetheless drumming up
mass hysteria over the supposed dramatic and looming budget cuts, he explained.
“It’s insulting,” he said, according
to The Blaze. “I don’t know how else to describe it.”
Exactly. And for those who think these arguments are all new -- read Bob Woodward's, "The Price of Politics." It's a play-by-play of the same budget discussions that are taking place now -- only years ago.
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