{"id":10844,"date":"2013-11-15T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-11-15T19:24:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T19:24:00","slug":"this_is_the_smartest_guy_in_the_world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/11\/15\/this_is_the_smartest_guy_in_the_world\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the Smartest Guy in the World?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: One thing about the press conference — well, a couple more things about the press conference yesterday that I didn\u2019t know until the program was over yesterday. I\u2019ve alluded to couple of these today already. The president of the United States actually said yesterday (paraphrasing), “Okay, on the website, I was not informed directly that the website would not be working the way it was supposed to. Had I been informed, I wouldn\u2019t be going out saying, ‘Boy, this is gonna be great.\u2019 You know I\u2019m accused of a lot of things, but I don\u2019t think I\u2019m stupid enough to go around saying this is gonna be like shopping on Amazon or Travelocity a week before the website opens, if I thought it wasn\u2019t gonna work.” <\/line><\/p>\n

So this is the example where he uses his own ignorance as a sign of brilliance. His own stupidity or ignorance is a sign of how smart he is. He actually wanted people to believe yesterday that he wasn\u2019t told that the website wasn\u2019t ready. Now, that simply isn\u2019t true. That has to be a lie. It has to be a lie. There\u2019s no way he didn\u2019t know. The real answer, he didn\u2019t care. It didn\u2019t matter whether it was ready to go or not. Didn\u2019t matter. The website, the exchanges, they are necessary distractions for what he wants. In fact, the more they don\u2019t work, the faster he thinks he\u2019s gonna get where he wants to go. <\/p>\n

But here\u2019s a guy, on one hand, everybody thinks he\u2019s the smartest guy in the room. Why, this guy knows everything. You ever listen to him talk? You ever heard him talk on policy? This guy can talk about policy like nobody\u2019s business. This guy knows everything. He can\u2019t do it. He\u2019s horrible at policy. But he plays the talk game really well. He sounds smart. He sounds like he knows everything. He\u2019s got these details down like nobody other than Clinton had \u2019em down. He\u2019s a great academic. He\u2019s a professor of law at Chicago University or some such thing. But then, being the all-knowing master of detail, he doesn\u2019t know anything, on the other hand. <\/p>\n

So this guy holds up the fact he didn\u2019t know about his website as proof of how smart he is. “You think I\u2019d be dumb enough to go out and sell this thing as ready to go, as good as Amazon, if I thought it wasn\u2019t ready to go?” So on the one hand he wants us to think, boy, this guy\u2019s so brilliant, so hands-on, so masterful in details, and then, on the other hand, he\u2019s an absolute ignoramus. There are a couple other things that he said. Get this, now. And again I apologize. I shoulda had this stuff yesterday but I didn\u2019t have a chance to get to it. <\/p>\n

“What is true is that, as I said before, our IT systems, how we purchase technology in the federal government is cumbersome, complicated and outdated. And so this isn\u2019t a situation where — on my campaign, I could simply say, who are the best folks out there, let\u2019s get them around a table, let\u2019s figure out what we\u2019re doing and we\u2019re just going to continue to improve it and refine it and work on our goals.<\/p>\n

“If you\u2019re doing it at the federal government level, you know, you\u2019re going through, you know, 40 pages of specs and this and that and the other and there\u2019s all kinds of law involved. And it makes it more difficult — it\u2019s part of the reason why chronically federal IT programs are overbudget, behind schedule.”<\/p>\n

Okay. Do you understand what he just said here? He just indicted bureaucracy as one of the reasons why his health care plan is failing and why the website\u2019s bad, and he says he knew that going in, except he didn\u2019t know the website wasn\u2019t working. If you know the federal government can\u2019t do something, then why did you do it? (Obama impression) “It\u2019s not like my campaign. I can\u2019t just sit there and issue orders, ‘Go get the best people.'” He\u2019s admitting you can\u2019t get the best people in the federal bureaucracy. You can\u2019t get the best people and you can\u2019t give \u2019em orders because there\u2019s 40 pages of rules and regulations that you gotta go through. <\/p>\n

So the guy indicts the very means of implementation of his dream. And then, folks, this was the biggie. The president said, “Even if we get the hardware and software working exactly the way it\u2019s supposed to, with relatively minor glitches, what we\u2019re also discovering is that insurance is complicated to buy. And another mistake we made I think was underestimating the difficulties of people purchasing insurance online and shopping for a lot of options, with a lot of costs and a lot of different benefits and plans and somehow expecting that that would be very smooth, and then they also go try to apply for tax credits on the website.” <\/line>