Pat Buchanan and the GOP House

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Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Audio and Transcript – The Republicans, your saviors in GOP clothing, control the House of Representin’ and have just capitulated and signed onto nearly the largest tax increase in American history.  Just for a moment, just for argument’s sake, imagine what happens if the Democrats control the House of Representin’.  There will be some that will say: Mike, that will just hasten the end.  Will it really hasten the end or will it increase the misery?  We seem to be able to discover new and more inventive ways of prolonging the inevitable, which is how you get to the ubiquitous phrase “kick the can down the road.”  The legislative branch is actually controlled by the good party, as we’re told, yet the best that can come out of that is the largest tax increase in American history, not one solitary nickel of a decrease in spending from the federal edifice, a president who’s still out of control. Check out today’s transcript for the rest…

 

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Mike:  Would you ever have thought in early November 2010, when the Boehner Congress was going to become a reality, Pelosi Congress had been kicked out, that we would be sitting here in January 2013 talking about how not much can get done now until, at the earliest, the mid-term elections in 2014?  That’s probably not going to happen.  You have to now wait till the next election of a president.  You have to wait until 2016.  If you read Patrick J. Buchanan today, that’s what Buchanan basically says.  2016 is now the new target date to actually do something and not kick the can down the road.  Would you have believed that?  Speaking as XM DC command center, is that something you would have thought [mocking] “You’re not really serious.  That’s not really happening here.  That can’t possibly come to fruition”?  Do you think that’s an apt characterization?  I don’t know if you read Patrick Buchanan today.  Buchanan’s piece is “After the Republican Rout.”  Buchanan’s postulation here is basically that the Boehner Congress got hosed, that there’s not much they can do — although I say there’s a lot they can do because they control the power of the purse if they really wanted to.  Saying there’s not much you can do and saying you don’t have the power to do it are two different things.  Buchanan has some statistics in his piece today.

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At the Potsdam conference with Harry Truman and Josef Stalin, Winston Churchill learned that the voters of the nation he had led for five years through World War II had just voted to throw him out of office.

“It may well be a blessing in disguise,” said his wife Clementine.

“At the moment, it seems quite effectively disguised,” replied Churchill.

Republicans must feel that way today. For they have survived their own Dunkirk. They may have left their helmets, canteens and rifles behind, but they did finally get off the beach.

That Republicans suffered a rout, as the British did with the fall of France and evacuation at Dunkirk in 1940, is undeniable.

The party that blocked tax increases since George H.W. Bush agreed to raise Ronald Reagan’s top rate of 28 percent to 35 percent, thus repudiating his “no-new-taxes” pledge, just signed on to one of the largest tax increases in history.

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Mike:  Think about that for just a moment.  The Republicans, your saviors in GOP clothing, control the House of Representin’ and have just capitulated and signed onto nearly the largest tax increase in American history.  Just for a moment, just for argument’s sake, imagine what happens if the Democrats control the House of Representin’.  There will be some that will say: Mike, that will just hasten the end.  Will it really hasten the end or will it increase the misery?  We seem to be able to discover new and more inventive ways of prolonging the inevitable, which is how you get to the ubiquitous phrase “kick the can down the road.”  The legislative branch is actually controlled by the good party, as we’re told, yet the best that can come out of that is the largest tax increase in American history, not one solitary nickel of a decrease in spending from the federal edifice, a president who’s still out of control.

That reminds me, did you see the story the other day of the judge that said that President Obama can basically launch drone strikes and kill whoever he wants without a consultation of Congress?  Did you see that?  Somebody had sued to try to stop the drone strikes basically.  I don’t have the story here in front of me.  I read it the day before we came back on the air.  Someone had sued to contend the president did not have the authority to kill people, and he doesn’t.  The President of the United States does not have the authority to launch a strike and keep a secret kill list and all these other things.
A federal judge ruled: I’m going to go ahead and determine that the President of the United States most certainly can kill whoever he thinks is the threat.  Really?  Seriously?  Although, we must continue this because we’re Americans.  We must continue to devote ourselves to this because we’re Americans.  Devote ourselves to the indiscriminate whims of an American president who does not even have to now make a public case?  Hell, he doesn’t even have to make a private case on whether or not he’s going to fly a drone over someone’s house or someone’s castle, tent, whatever the case may be, in some foreign land, and drop a bomb on them.  Really?  The people are okay with this?  Shocking times we live in, ladies and gentlemen.

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