Breaking: Rush Limbaugh Admits GOP Hysteria Over Rising Deficits Were Bogus All Along

No. Establishment Republicans and Leftists destroyed the TEA Party movement, or at least marginalized it.

Your theory is total ass and shows you never attended an event, or really conversed with real TEA Party people. I bet you were afraid to watch the video with Keith Olbermann.

 

Oh, it wasn't about hating Obama. They were really outraged. OK. Soooo, back to the original question: now that we have ginormous deficits in a time of supposed prosperity...

Where is the Tea Party? Is your theory then that the Tea Party is STILL upset by debt and deficits and were so cowed into submission by leftists that the Tea Party won't even show their faces in public anymore to protest what they were (and, according to you, are still) passionate about?

 

Being you didn't care what Rush Limbaugh said before, why would you care now?

 

The Tea Party was successfully destroyed by McConnell and Ryan with their Omnibus spending bill of 2015. RIP

 

^^^ True story. It took Establishment Republicans and Democrats to destroy the movement.

 

That's why it's always surprising to me that uninformed leftists are so far behind. Trying to catch the Tea Party is a little like still freaking out over the Moral Majority. You would think they would have noticed that the Tea Party was a no show during the entire 2016 election cycle. Reason? The movement was already dead.

 

Sadly true. It was a real missed opportunity. We had a real movement that was about ending our national reckless spending. But, Leftists, the same ones crying now about Trump signing a ridiculous bill, attacked the TEA Party that would have been their ally today. They are such sheep. The TEA Party was some solid people, but when you have the Establishment GOP and all of the LEFT, including the entire MSM attacking you, misrepresenting you, and then the Federal Gov't attacking your donors and key figures, it's over. Had the Left that supported OWS actually taken a step back you would have seen that the TEA Party was 100% with OWS on being against Crony Capitalism and Spending.

 

Except we have it from the horse's mouth:

“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.”"

 

They wouldn't have been an ally. The left doesn't care about deficit spending, they are only trying (and failing) to spring some sort of hypocrisy trap. I've been in dozens of these threads where some leftist complains about the deficit, but it almost always turns out they don't care about the deficit at all, it's just a pointless gotcha exercise that doesn't really have a gotcha attached. They seem too dumb to realize that though.

When they sign on for a Balanced Budget Amendment, I'll start believing that they care about deficits. I've been waiting a long time for that though.

 

Do try to keep up. See post #4.

 

When was the last a Republican, irrelevant of party bloc, ever took any accountability of themselves, it always someone else.

 

Raising taxes back to pre trump tax cut levels would of course not tank the economy.

 

I did. Post something worthwhile if you're going to push it. Limbaugh didn't say "All this talk about concern for the deficit and the budget has been bogus since 2015." He said
"as long as it’s been around." If I'm not mistaken, "as long as it's been around" INCLUDES the years the Tea Party was protesting. Limbaugh is telling you it was all bogus. Because it was.

 

Do they EVER take responsibility for anything?

 

Nobody in Washington does.

 

Spending isn't the problem so much as funding it. If you weren't conditioned to foam at the mouth at the mention of taxes, you might consider that raising taxes on the wealthy and closing all those blasted loopholes that allow corporations to shelter their wealth from taxation to this very day would make spending much less of an issue. We could have our welfare and our military and have it all paid for if it weren't for the partisan gridlock with YOUR party stubbornly keeping taxes far lower than they should be for the wealthy and corporations. We will never get spending low enough for current tax revenues to cover it, so let's get together and get away from this silly left-right stuff, and get Washington to get real about reforming the tax system along with reforming health care and other things that really need a reform.

 

Or imagine if "the left" could agree to welfare reform/cuts and "the right" could agree to tax increases and somehow they could meet in the middle........

You can't attack Republicans for fighting tax increases, when the Democrats spend (and waste) like drunken sailors and refuse to touch their golden goose welfare.

 

I think the pendulum is finally shifting our (liberals) way when it comes to rich people. Tucker sounds a lot like Elizabeth warren these days and he even praised her on his show. Whoever wins in 2020, it will not go well for the rich. These tax cuts were the last gasp and will be repealed.

 

Welfare programs are not big drivers of the deficit. There are three major drivers: military spending, entitlements, and interest on the debt.

 

I suppose you want to split hairs on "welfare" vs "entitlements".......

 

We have RECORD tax revenues and STILL run a $1 Trillion debt. More taxes is NOT the answer. Cutting spending is the real answer.

 

Yes, they're entirely different things.

 

OK, what are you going to cut?

 

So you think Limbaugh was saying on his show that that the Tea Party was fake? Show me who he was talking about. Not the Tea Party. I've already explained it for you; broke it down in easy to digest bites, and you still can't get it.

I get it, you don't have the knowledge base to understand the context. That's OK.

 

Trump is the one who is turning his back on the Tea Party by not caring about the deficit.