Before the big GOP gains secured in this week?s elections, Rush Limbaugh shared with Newsweek some ideas for congressional Republicans planning their legislative strategy:
Limbaugh laid out his to-do list, which includes repeal of the health-care law and the financial-regulatory-reform bill; ending the ban on offshore drilling; the reprivatization of General Motors, Chrysler, and the student-loan program; a spike in the heart of cap-and-trade legislation (he regards global warming as a hoax); the elimination of the capital-gains tax; a reduction of the corporate tax rate to 20 percent; and replacement of the progressive income-tax code with a flat or ?fair? tax.
Limbaugh is aware that it is very unlikely that there will be enough votes in Congress to achieve any of this. But that isn?t the point. He wants to use the next two years as an educational seminar on what he regards as the evils of Obama-style liberalism. ?The mistake the GOP made in 1994 is that they stopped teaching after they won,? he says. What should the GOP do to make its point? ?Send Obama a repeal bill every week and make him veto it,? he suggests. ?My attitude is, who says we can?t override his vetoes? The Republicans are being sent to Washington to stop the Obama agenda. And it is not just Republicans sending them to D.C. Lots of independents and Democrats are going to vote for Republicans to stop this.?
One wonders what El Rushbo would suggest for the newly minted GOP majority in North Carolina?s General Assembly?
