http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/10/28/how_the_budget_deal_paves_the_way_for_president_hillary_rodham_clintonHow the Budget Deal Paves the Way for President Hillary Rodham Clinton
October 28, 2015
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RUSH: So how does the budget deal pave the way for Hillary Clinton? Folks, it's real simple. Over half of any Republican candidate's campaign arsenal has just been neutered. The Republican Party cannot campaign by running around blaming the Democrats for destroying budget, for overspending, for threatening the very fabric economically of the country. They can't do it. This is the Republican budget deal that Barack Obama cannot wait to sign.
So the idea that the Democrat Party and their nominee, most likely Hillary Clinton, pose a grave threat to this country's future because of their runaway spending, their expansion of the welfare state, the expansion of the entitlement state, the creation of more and more dependents, we can't say that anymore. A Republican presidential candidate is not saying that anymore. All the Democrats are gonna have to do is say, "Wait, wait, whoa, you're accusing us of doing what?" And they just have to go back and cite this budget deal, which is coming up for a vote today.
That's how over the top this is. It's how far the Republican Party has abandoned its own principles in putting together this budget. The fact that they make it a two-year budget takes it out of the presidential campaign as having any relevance. And if the Republicans happen to win the presidency, the new president already has his first fiscal year budget signed into law by Barack Obama. Now, these things can be open 'cause budgets are actually one year. I understand all that. But the effort here is to take this off the table for two years so there will be no fights on the debt limit, therefore no potential government shutdowns.
In other words, the Republicans are looking at it as though they are taking themselves totally out of any political risk circumstance. And that may be, but the way they did it was to essentially act like Democrats in putting together this budget. When you can't go after the Democrat presidential nominee for who she is and what she will do and why you don't want that to happen because you've already made sure it will happen, what in the world are you gonna campaign against her on? That she's incompetent, Benghazi, secretary of state, Huma Abedin, Bill Clinton? What's gonna be the primary campaign message when all of this is off the table?
So I will be eager to see. This just argues more and more for a presidential candidate that's not part of this apparatus. And eventually it may even happen tonight, if there's some bright-eyed, bushy-tailed debate moderator tonight. "Can I see a show of hands of candidates who agree with the Republican budget and support it?" That's a sitting duck. That's just waiting to happen tonight.
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