I have to admit I'm vacillating on what needs to be cut out of the budget. Obviously, payments to foreign countries should be cut right out. Give them free condoms, by all means, one thing the whole world does not need is more people. But giving money to corrupt regimes who don't use that money to help their people - we've got to stop doing that.
RUSH: I think you need to know something, folks. You're all wired and ready for the debt ceiling fight, right? Don't be. Don't be. The ruling class on the Republican side has decided the debt ceiling is not the next battle. The Ryan budget is. Go to conservative media blogs, yesterday afternoon and last night, you would have said that the message here, the real fight is not the debt ceiling. It's the Ryan budget. What the conservative ruling class ruling class intelligentsia media is attempting to do here is to accomplish the same thing they did with the budget: don't fight it. Don't go for the government shutdown. Don't plant the flag here on the debt ceiling. Don't do it. We can't win. Don't do it. We're gonna lose.
It's a rerun, folks. The people who gave you the tepid fight over this budget vis-a-vis the government shutdown are now the same people attempting to plant the flag in the area where, "Ah, forget the budget debt limit. That's not the next fight. We gotta gird up. We gotta get ready for the Ryan budget. That's what we have to focus on." If you haven't heard it yet just keep a sharp eye, you will, it's coming. Because it's already been said. The groundwork has been laid. Just warning you.
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John Fund was on one morning show today. I forget which one. But he was saying, "Look, the real fight's not the debt ceiling. The real fight's gonna be the Ryan budget," and a lot of others are starting to say the same thing, that the debt ceiling is not the next fight. Now, all weekend long... Folks, you can get mad at me all you want for just pointing out what's happening. You can go right ahead.
But all weekend long one of the reasons we were told, 'That $38 billion, that's a lot of money. We finally turned the boat around: a $38 billion budget deal, real cuts. Thirty-eight, that's good because the real battle is gonna be the debt ceiling, there we're gonna be talking about trillions, not billions," and now I'm telling you the table is being set that we're gonna forget the debt ceiling next and instead the real focus is gonna be on the Ryan budget. Mitch McConnell at that confab the Republicans just had, the Senate leader for the Republicans just spoke. He talked about the importance of "maintaining confidence in the United States around the world."
He said you can't threaten to go into default by refusing to raise the debt limit and keep the confidence of world markets. So we are getting... I don't know if I like the term. You know, I really don't want to make you guys mad at me by using the term "precave," but the debt limit now. "We're gonna focus on the debt limit. Don't worry about what didn't happen with the budget deal. That's chump change, and we knew it was chump change. The debt limit, that's where we're gonna fight." Apparently not. (sigh) Now there's too much at risk in a debt limit. Then we gotta move on to the Ryan budget.
A giant See, I Told You So. Larry Kudlow over at CNBC said the same thing yesterday. "Ah, the debt limit, it's too risky. No, we're gonna fight it," and before long, before long, I'm just gonna predict to you that the message is going to evolve to be, "You know, really, this is not the time to fight for the Ryan budget because we don't have the White House. We've gotta focus on the presidential election. The Ryan budget? We need to wait on that awhile." I guarantee you. Well, I'm not gonna guarantee you on that. But I'm just suggesting that you not be surprised, 'cause the pattern is starting to establish itself out there. You know it and I know it.
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