OBAMA WANTS A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN IN MARCH

RUSH LIMBAUGH: Don't think for a moment Obama's not setting up a government shutdown here and try to recreate 1985, shift the blame to the Republicans. I mean, they're doing their own budget. Obama's budget's a blueprint; all president's budgets are. Congress actually does the budget. And they'll send it up there, and if Obama vetoes the thing, then he wants a shutdown. He wants a shutdown because he thinks he can reverse his own fortunes just like Der Schlick Meister, Bill Clinton, did in 1995. But you know what they always say. You ever thrown, folks, you ever had a spontaneous, great party? It just happens Friday or Saturday night. You get together with some people, just have a great time, and you say, "You know what, let's do this next week," and you try to do the same thing next week. It just isn't the same. Well, I predict to you it will be the same effect for the Democrats if they try to recreate the government shutdown party of 1995 here in 2011. I got a note here from a friend listening intently to the program, all this that we've discussed today, and this is really good: "The Only Hope the Country Has -- The only hope this country has is through the innovations of a free people, a people who are free to benefit from their good ideas and their hard work. History has proved over and over there's no shortcut. University eggheads and politicians do not have, never have had a better way to achieve prosperity for a nation. "Hard work born of free people benefiting from their innovations." Now, government can't accomplish this. Government only gets in the way and makes it more difficult. Government does not create wealth. By definition, government does not create wealth. Government confiscates wealth. So the government needs to get out of the way, and that means quit taking so much wealth away from the private sector. That's the hope that we have. That's the only hope we've got. America's hope is not in stimulus bills. It's not in mortgage-assistance programs. It's not in green technology sponsored by the government with crony capitalism subsidies. It's not in windmills or any of that -- unless market forces can combine with need and necessity to create something that's profitable in a new energy sector, and that will happen if the country remains free. That kind of stuff cannot be forced on us. The country is not gonna become great and rediscover itself because of electric cars or any of that, or any of these other government ideas. It just isn't going to happen. And looky here! How many...? Remember all these arguments about government-funded abortions? "No, Rush, the government doesn't pay for abortions. That's just one of the tricks you people on the right try to always use."

BREAK TRANSCRIPT RUSH: We're talking about the government shutdown of 1995 and how the Democrats are hoping to relive that wonderful moment in their political history because they do view it (perhaps correctly so) as one of the elements that revitalized the dormant Clinton regime at the time. 'Cause Newt and the boys had the House Republicans on a roll. This was just the second year after they had been sworn in. And the government shutdown happened, and it was totally orchestrated. Clinton told the federal employees, "Don't worry, you'll get your back pay." (interruption) Okay, the question is: "If it saved Clinton, why did he sign welfare reform?" It didn't alone save Clinton, but they think it did. We're not dealing with reality. This is what they think. The Democrats think that this is how they beat back this Republican revolution. That's why I'm eager to repeat this. We have a montage from my television show in 1995 about the budget battle the Democrats think they won and are looking to replay. This is how they were behaving. This is what they were saying back in 1995, 16 years ago. Is that right? Yeah. Five, 11... Regardless of the lousy at quick math in head, this is what they're hoping to replicate. This is perhaps a prelude to things that you will hear them say as we get closer to March this year, which is the government shut down date.

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