{"id":13011,"date":"2013-03-07T19:54:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T19:54:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-03-07T19:54:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T19:54:34","slug":"closing_white_house_tours_backfires_on_obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/03\/07\/closing_white_house_tours_backfires_on_obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing White House Tours Backfires on Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. I mentioned that the president is having a little trouble here with the sequester and the White House tours being shut down. In fact, in Politico there\u2019s a story: “Now Democrat Worry: Did President Obama Cry Wolf? — President Barack Obama hopes to spark a pitchfork revolt against Republicans over sequester-induced budget cuts — but many Democrats fret that he\u00c2\u2019s undermined that effort with an early strategy marred by hype, poor planning and muddled messaging.”<\/p>\n

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Imagine that! Democrats saying all of that about Obama? Hype, poor planning, muddled messaging? “The stakes in the sequester debate aren\u2019t quite as high as they were during the debt ceiling battle of 2011, but Democratic veterans of the Obama-Republican wars of 2009 and 2010 are getting a creepy sense of deja vu from a White House messaging shop they believe fumbled the rollouts of the stimulus and health care initiatives.” (interruption)<\/p>\n

No. They never got above 50%. They\u2019re very worried here that people can\u2019t find these sequester cuts — and when you can find \u2019em, they\u2019re cuts that don\u2019t make any sense. We\u2019re shutting down White House tours while Obama takes a 20-vehicle caravan one half a mile? By the way, that\u2019s how far the trip was from the White House to dinner with the Republican ruling class guys last night: Half a mile! Twenty cars! How many people in those cars do you think attended dinner?<\/p>\n

One. Well, I don\u2019t know. Maybe McCain and Graham drove over there with Obama. I have no idea. But I guarantee you that the people in those 20 cars for a half a mile were not at dinner. Yet we can\u2019t keep the White House open for tours, and it\u2019s not playing well for Obama and the media. The media is mad. Here\u2019s ABC. We have Diane Sawyer and Jonathan Karl talking about it. I mean, even Diane Sawyer was a little upset about this last night on World News Tonight.<\/p>\n

SAWYER: The White House says they\u2019re forced to shut down White House tours. Little kids are disappointed, and people have been e-mailing us today saying, “Really? Is that the only way to save money?” Yeah, see, that\u2019s not the way this is supposed to happen. What\u2019s supposed to happen is that little kids are supposed to be running around acting like they did when the Republicans were gonna starve them back in 1995. Back in 1995, when these little kids were gonna be starved to death, they were writing letters to the Republicans, “Dear Mr. Congressman: I can\u2019t study when I\u2019m hungry. I can\u2019t live if I don\u2019t have food. I don\u2019t want to die. Please don\u2019t starve me. Please don\u2019t cut the school lunch budget.” Little kids writing letters to that effect. <\/p>\n

Now, what they\u2019re supposed to have been doing here is writing letters to Republicans blaming them for shutting down the White House tours, but they\u2019re not, they\u2019re blaming Obama. That\u2019s not how it\u2019s supposed to go. Democrats are worried. Here\u2019s Jonathan Karl, his report last night, the White House wants the media to go find victims and children who are victims. They want to go find victims willing to blame the Republicans, but it backfired because they\u2019re now victims of the White House, not Republicans. And the Republicans, in fact, may end up being the good guys here, which could be Obama\u2019s worst nightmare.<\/line><\/p>\n