Rush Limbaugh Suggests Republicans May Pass Budget Deal Out Of Fear That “Otherwise The Media Is Going To Call Them Racist”

From the October 28 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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LIMBAUGH: We can now officially claim that the Republicans are responsible for five trillion additional dollars added to the national debt. Spending bills originate in the Congress. The president can ask and demand and do whatever, but he can't write the bills, he can't write the laws. All he can do is sign them or veto them. We turned over the writing of the budget ot Obama and the Democrats essentially. It wouldn't be much different if they had started the whole process and completed it. So I don't know how this helps them. I don't know how they think it helps them. I don't know why it's happening, is this all because of the demands made by donors? I mean, that's the latest excuse we're given for everything they're doing. “Well, the donor class, they're demanding this, and the donor class demanding amnesty, donor class demanding nuke deal with Iran. Donor class” -- Is that what explains this budget deal, the donors are demanding all of this? Or have the Republican leadership just become a bunch of pathological actual left wingers in the last couple of years? I don't see the difference in the current Republican house leadership, when it comes to government spending, the whole philosophy behind government spending, big government, I don't see any difference between the Republican leadership and the Democrat leadership. When I look on the Democrat side, I see Pelosi and Reid cheering the budget. Are they still scared to death of Obama? They still think that they have to show that they can work with Obama, be cooperative and let Obama have everything that he wants, otherwise the media is going to call them racist? We've got a year to go, for crying out loud. Just one more year of this, and they are going to put it on paper that we get two more years of this. It's the most confounding thing, we've got one year Obama left, but the Republican leadership in the House has passed a budget, or is about to, that will essentially give us another year of Obama, in terms of philosophy on government, it's size, and spending. Are they doing this to prove that they can be bipartisan? Do they think that's going to help them in the presidential race? Are they doing this to show they can cooperate? Are they doing this to show that they love and support entitlements, and nobody should think Republicans are going to take anything away from them? Are they that defensive, are they that scared? Are they that convinced the media can define them and there's nothing they can do about it so they might as well do everything the media is demanding of them so that the media will shut up and not be mean to them anymore? Is that what's going on here?

Previously:

“Sellout,” “Surrender”: Conservative Media Slam Budget Deal

Laura Ingraham Blasts The Bipartisan Budget Deal As A “Sellout”

Mark Levin Rails Against “Disastrous” Budget Deal