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Rush Limbaugh admits his attacks on Obama were ‘bogus’ as he attempts to defend TrumpPublished 2 days ago on July 19, 2019 By Igor Derysh

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh admitted that Republican fear-mongering over the federal deficit under President Obama was “bogus,” while defending the deficit’s explosive rise to $1 trillion under President Trump.

This article originally appeared at Salon.



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During Limbaugh’s show on Tuesday, a caller suggested that Republicans should nominate a young fiscal conservative instead of Trump, citing the rising deficit. Limbaugh dismissed the concerns, declaring that fiscal conservatism was basically a sham all along.




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“Republicans can nominate a young, potentially two-term president, one that believes in fiscal conservatism,” the caller told Limbaugh. “We’re gonna have — in 2019, there’s gonna be a $1 trillion deficit. Trump doesn’t really care about that. He’s not really a fiscal conservative. We don’t, we have to acknowledge that Trump has been cruelly used.”

“Nobody is a fiscal conservative anymore,” Limbaugh shot back. “All this talk about concern for the deficit and the budget has been bogus for as long as it’s been around.”


That’s quite the statement from Limbaugh, who spent the entirety of the Obama years attacking the president over rising deficits.

In 2009, Limbaugh ranted that Obama was a “coward” without the “spine” or “gonads” to admit he was responsible for driving up the deficit (rather than the two wars President George W. Bush started while cutting taxes).

In 2011, Limbaugh bizarrely claimed that Obama was “the architect of deficits and debt unheard of in this nation.”


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The late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., spent the entirety of his 2008 p**********l campaign warning about rising deficits, CNN noted. The 2010 rise of the Tea Party, which fueled massive Republican gains in that year’s midterm e******ns, was fueled largely by claims that federal spending was out of control. Former House Speaker Paul Ryan made an entire career out of rhetoric decrying the rising national debt. Then he led the charge to approve a $1.5 trillion tax cut for the rich and corporations, leading to the $1 trillion deficit Republicans apparently no longer care about.



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Trump himself vowed to be a savior, promising that he would eliminate not just the budget deficit but the entire $22 trillion debt within two terms as president during his 2016 campaign.

“It can be done. … It will take place and it will go relatively quickly. … If you have the right people, like, in the agencies and the various people that do the balancing … you can cut the numbers by two pennies and three pennies and balance a budget quickly and have a stronger and better country,” Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity in 2016.


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Later on Tuesday’s show, Limbaugh doubled down on his newfound believe that fiscal conservatism was never authentic, accusing former Rep. Mark Sanford, R-S.C., of fear-mongering for expressing concern over the rising national debt under Trump. (Sanford has proposed mounting a campaign against Trump for the Republican nomination in 2020.)

“How many years have people tried to scare everybody about the deficit?” Limbaugh asked. “The years, how many decades of politicians tried to scare us about deficit the national debt, the deficit, any number of things. And yet, here we’re still here and the great jaws of the deficit have not bitten off our heads and chewed them up and spit them out.”

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The premise of your post is based on pure lies, Rush Limbaugh is NOT on both sides of the deficit. Maybe you should learn some reading comprehension and just maybe you will not misinterpret or lie about what other have actually said, here is the transcript of the conservation you are talking about. Rush was not saying his call for fiscal conservative was bogus, he was saying (implying) that conservative politicians call for fiscal conservative has been bogus for as long as it’s been around.


RUSH: Let’s grab Douglas on line 4, San Diego. Douglas, it’s great to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.

CALLER: Well, thanks. It’s wonderful to be here. Of course, I often… I listen to your show. For the most part, I enjoy it, and I’ve often thought of, you know, topics I’d like to tell you about. The one I want to pick today is I want to advance the point, basically stated, that Republicans can do better than Trump. I don’t think… I’m not a Never Trumper. Jonah Goldberg and Bill Kristol are Never Trumpers. I’m just a nobody. But I —

RUSH: You’re not a nobody because you’re appearing on this program.

CALLER: Well, what I want you to understand —

RUSH: You are Douglas on the EIB Network. You have escaped the bonds of Nobodyness.

CALLER: I’m very grateful for that —

RUSH: Yes.

CALLER: — and it’s a wonderful opportunity and I hope I make the most of it. What I want to say though, is —

RUSH: Okay. You think we can do better. Who can we do better with?

CALLER: I’m sorry?

RUSH: You said that we can do better than Trump, “Republicans can do better than Trump,” and so I’m asking: Who do you have in mind?

CALLER: (unintelligible) …Trump Derangement Syndrome, and that will allow any normal Republican to get elected in 2020. Republicans can nominate a young, potentially two-term president, one that believes in fiscal conservatism. We’re gonna have… In 2019, there’s gonna be a $1 trillion deficit. Trump doesn’t really care about that. He’s not really a fiscal conservative. We have to acknowledge that Trump has been cruelly used.

RUSH: Nobody is a fiscal conservative anymore. All this talk about concern for the deficit and the budget has been bogus for as long as it’s been around.

CALLER: That’s a difficult one. That’s a difficult one. And you’re right, that is true, that Republicans in Congress love spending taxpayer money almost as much as Democrats do. But it’s not just fiscal conservatism. You can get other characteristics. And the point is, you need to acknowledge that what has happened to Trump would try lesser men. It’s not fair, but that doesn’t mean that we owe him a ree******n.

RUSH: I understand it. Look, I want to move forward. Time is limited here; so I want to… So you think any, quote-unquote, “normal” Republican could win now because the Democrats have gone so wacko left extreme. So the thing we should do is find a normal Republican to win, and they can win simply because the Democrats are so objectionable?

CALLER: That’s correct. In Michigan, in the 2016 e******ns, Trump didn’t win because he got a bunch of v**es from people. A bunch of people left their p**********l b****ts empty because they didn’t want Hillary Clinton. So I think the people that you would gain by nominating a normal Republican are greater than the people you would lose that are, you know, Trump supporters.

RUSH: Okay. Give me the name, then.

CALLER: (crosstalk)

RUSH: Give me some names of “normal” Republicans. I’m not trying to put you on the spot! You’re the guy with the opinion. I just want to know some names that you’re thinking about here. Remember, this is your come-out moment. You’re coming from nobody to somebody here.

CALLER: Well, um… (pause) You know, I — I — (sputters) That’s not my place to do. Uh, I don’t know —

RUSH: Aw, come on, Douglas!

CALLER: No. I’m not working for any candidate, and, um, it would be, I think, a very Trumpy thing for Trump. You know, imagine if Trump somehow had, you know, God forbid, you know, some illness or something that he decided precluded him from running again and he decided, “You know, my fellow Americans, I thank you for this great honor, but, you know, I can’t be your president again and…”

RUSH: I just want to tell you something, Douglas. I appreciate you calling, and I think I understand where you’re coming from. You’re in the group of people that think all this negative media coverage of Trump is bleeding over and hurting everybody. But I’m gonna tell you something. There were 16 normal Republicans that sought the nomination in 2016. Not a single one of them came close to winning the nomination — and if one of them had, there’s not a single one of them who would have beaten Hillary Clinton. You gotta think about that. It’s all well and good to think we need a normal Republican, but then you can’t give me a name because you haven’t taken this that far for some reason.

You’ve got to give me a name or you go back to nobody status!

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