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RUSH: Tallahassee, Florida. This is Bob. Great to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Greetings. Former Marine Corps greetings to you. Now, you save $15 billion more this year than this year. Okay, now, considering baseline budgeting, they get $15 more for every $3,700 they were spending. Now, the question is, if you\u2019re getting 15 dollars more for every $3,700 you were spending, why are you laying anybody off in the first place?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that is another great question, and I have the answer, if you can deal with it. Are you ready?<\/p>\n

CALLER: We got the technology. Go for it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The president has total authority when the sequester happens as to what is cut.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. So then that goes to the next question, the White House. Do they have any particular departments targeted for cutbacks and consequences due to the sequestering —<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Yeah, in fact, the Associated Press is reporting that the Department of Homeland Security is already releasing illegal immigrants who are held in immigration jail right now.<\/p>\n

CALLER: See, now, Congress, if they had the backbone, they could make the White House explain all these specifically directed cuts in these various departments, and it would kind of go against Obama\u2019s, what should we say, history, of taking credit for anything —<\/p>\n

RUSH: The bottom line is that Obama, and when you ask me, “Why, Rush, why?” it\u2019s the way the law is written. Obama has the authority to allocate or decide where the cuts mandated by the sequester take place.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, that\u2019s a good point.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So if he wants 800,000 civilian employees of the Pentagon furloughed, he orders that done.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Now, is Congress going to make him take credit for it, rather than his standard history of voting “present” —<\/p>\n

RUSH: This Congress can\u2019t — (crosstalk)<\/p>\n

CALLER: — accountable for anything.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They can\u2019t keep up with what\u2019s happening much less —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you and I are praying that they do, but, hey, we don\u2019t exactly have the confidence they will have, do we?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, not only that, let\u2019s say somebody could go up and explain to the American people what I just told you. How many would believe it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: They\u2019d say, “Oh, he\u2019s making that up.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Making it up, Obama\u2019s not governing. It\u2019s just the Republicans doing this. Obama is fighting these guys. Obama\u2019s trying to prevent these cuts.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, it\u2019s just like when they were campaigning. Rahm Emanuel, what was he doing on the news, all the time he\u2019s telling \u2019em, “Hey, never let a good crisis go to waste.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: How many times did you hear that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s exactly where we are right now.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And he hasn\u2019t governed anything. He\u2019s campaigned from one crisis to another.<\/p>\n

RUSH: In fact, you know what, Common Cause, which is not a conservative bunch, Common Cause has just demanded that Obama shut down his permanent campaign. The actual campaign organization, Organizing for America, it\u2019s now been renamed, they demanded that he actually just shut it down and start governing and stop this perpetual campaigning. The Limbaugh theorem proven once again.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: By the way, the Limbaugh theorem is picking up traction. It\u2019s gaining traction, although I\u2019m not being named in it. I got sound bites here, the Republicans are demanding, “Mr. President, stop campaigning, start governing.” The Limbaugh theorem, I tell you how I arrived at it. There\u2019s a lot of things that have never made sense to me. How is it that Obama wins elections and has massive public approval when everybody disagrees with his agenda? When a majority disagree with his agenda, when a majority think the country\u2019s headed in the wrong direction and yet he wins the election and has a positive approval number? How\u2019s this happen? <\/p>\n

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There\u2019s only one answer, and that is that people do not associate Obama\u2019s agenda with conditions in the country. People do not associate Obama\u2019s policies with the status of the country. Because Obama is never seen as governing. Obama is constantly seen as campaigning. He is fighting these powerful forces that are making all these things happen. Obama\u2019s the guy, like Obama said, when he did the stimulus and he did health care, he\u2019s not gonna do anything that adds a dime to the deficit. Well, a lot of dimes are being added to the deficit, but people don\u2019t think Obama\u2019s doing it \u2019cause he said he wasn\u2019t going to. <\/p>\n

So it\u2019s gotta be the Republicans that are doing it. They do not blame Obama. We\u2019re talking about the low-information voters, and they are a majority to people who vote, folks, and they see Obama as fighting all this stuff. They see Obama trying to create jobs. He\u2019s got his jobs council. They don\u2019t care it never met. He had a council. He talks about it. He talks about the need to create jobs. He\u2019s obviously trying. He\u2019s working very hard. Bush created such a mess. These other Republicans don\u2019t want Obama to succeed. They don\u2019t want jobs created. That\u2019s how this is all happening. And he pulls this off by occupying this perpetual campaign position. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s not governing. And the meaning of that is, he\u2019s not responsible for anything that\u2019s happening. He\u2019s still fighting the people who are responsible for it. And so Common Cause today, Eric Cantor, all these Republicans are now saying, “Get off the campaign trail, Mr. President, start governing.” I wonder where they heard that. Doesn\u2019t matter. <\/line>And now Common Cause is demanding that Obama shut down Organizing for America which they\u2019ve changed the name to Organizing for Action. But they\u2019re now charging 500 grand. You pay Obama 500 grand and you get to visit with him in the White House once. He\u2019s still campaigning. He\u2019s still raising money. He\u2019s still running for office. He\u2019s not occupying it, as far as the low-information voters are concerned. <\/line><\/p>\n

That\u2019s how he\u2019s pulling this off, and more and more people are now wising up to it. You can\u2019t negotiate with somebody that\u2019s not in power. Stop and think about that. “But, Rush, but, Rush, he isn\u2019t.” No, we\u2019re talking perceptions here. Low-information voter perceptions. Low-information voters elected the guy so that\u2019s who we\u2019re talking about here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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