{"id":13653,"date":"2012-12-19T19:02:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T19:02:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-12-19T19:02:05","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T19:02:05","slug":"obama_holds_press_conference_to_brag_about_boehner_s_confession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/12\/19\/obama_holds_press_conference_to_brag_about_boehner_s_confession\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Holds Press Conference to Brag About Boehner\u2019s Confession"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: My friends, we cannot secure ownership by Obama of the last four years. We can\u2019t make him own the last four years. We cannot convince people that he\u2019s been president the last four years. We can\u2019t convince people that what he\u2019s done in the last four years relates to current economic circumstances that people are facing. They don\u2019t believe that.<\/p>\n

So if we can\u2019t make Obama own the last four years, why does anybody think we can make him own the fiscal cliff?<\/a> Why does anybody think we can make him own Benghazi? I mean, if this guy can Houdini out of four years of being president, surely he can get out of a day gone wrong at Benghazi<\/a>. Speaking of that, wait \u2019til you hear this. This is from his press conference where he tried to upstage… Sorry.<\/p>\n

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This is from his press availability earlier today where the president spoke to the country in a heartfelt and heartwarming way about taking away their guns… I can\u2019t do it. I just can\u2019t do it. I\u2019m trying to be less threatening and all that but I can\u2019t. I can\u2019t avoid somehow telling the truth. Anyway, he had his little presser today where he upstaged me or tried to (they all start at noon) and he\u2019s announced that Biden is going to lead the effort to end gun violence.<\/p>\n

The AP correspondent, Ben Feller, said, “Can you give us a candid update? Are we likely to go over the cliff?” Now, don\u2019t you love it? Here\u2019s the AP. (summarized) “Sir, please, help us. Reassure us. We\u2019re all really nervous here in the press corps. Please, please, tell us candidly. Are we likely to go over the cliff? Are the Republicans going to take us over the cliff? Is it over, sir, or can you stop them? Can you save this country, sir?”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the question.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Obama\u2019s answer…<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Remember what I said during the campaign. I said I thought that it was important for us to reduce our deficit in a balanced and responsible way.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Nurse, nurse!<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I said it was important for us to make sure that millionaires and billionaires paid their fair share.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Doctor!<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I have gone at least halfway —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Where\u2019s my medicine?<\/p>\n

OBAMA: — in meeting some of the Republicans\u2019 concerns, recognizing that even though we campaigned on these issues, even though the majority of Americans agree with me that we should be raising taxes, uh, on the wealthiest few, uh, as a means of reducing the deficit, I have also said that I\u2019m willing to identify some spending cuts that make sense.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Um… Okay. Yeah, right. He said in the campaign it\u2019s important to reduce the deficit in a balanced way; make sure that millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share. Anyway, I don\u2019t want to repeat it, you heard it. Then he pointed out that he\u2019s already, essentially, obtained Boehner\u2019s confession that the Republicans are to blame for this.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: If you look at what the speaker has proposed, he\u2019s conceded —<\/p>\n

RUSH: There it is! There\u2019s the word!<\/p>\n

OBAMA: — that tax rates should go up.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There it is!<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Except right now he only wants —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape!<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s what this has all been about!<\/p>\n

He has wanted the Republicans to “concede” that tax cuts for the rich caused all these problems. That\u2019s what this has all been about: A confession from the Republicans that what they believe is the reason we\u2019re in a recession, is the reason unemployment\u2019s so high, is the reason home value are so low, is the reason for everything that\u2019s gone wrong. Benghazi, hell, throw that in there, too!<\/p>\n

Tax cuts for the rich, from Reagan forward all the way to Bush, that\u2019s the problem. He has wanted the Republicans to admit and concede that. Cue that back up to the top. Right here he says, “[T]he speaker has … conceded that tax rates should go up.” This exactly what he wants! He\u2019s got Boehner\u2019s confession. That\u2019s what this is about. That\u2019s why he shows up at noon today. He\u2019s out there strutting, popping buttons, suspenders and all that.<\/p>\n

This guy, he\u2019s having a Merry Christmas.<\/p>\n

He is getting everything he wants, and he isn\u2019t getting any of the blame for anything that goes wrong, when 90% of it is his fault.<\/p>\n

<\/a>OBAMA: If you look at what the speaker has proposed, he\u2019s conceded that income tax rates should go up, except right now he only wants to have them go up for millionaires. If you\u2019re making $900,000, somehow he thinks that you can\u2019t afford to pay a little more in taxes. Uh, but the principle that rates are gonna need to go up, he\u2019s conceded.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, he has, and Obama couldn\u2019t be happier. But notice the disdain for people making $900,000? Notice the contempt Obama has for them? “If you\u2019re making $900,000, somehow … you can\u2019t afford to pay a little more in taxes.” But now, ladies and gentlemen, the piece de resistance, the “why” we need to do this. The “why” Republicans have to cave now. The “why” we have to get this deal done now.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Just think about what we\u2019ve gone through over the last couple\u2019a months. A devastating hurricane, and now one of the worst tragedies in our memory. The country deserves folks to be willing to compromise on behalf of the greater good and not tangle themselves up, uh, in a whole bunch of ideological positions that don\u2019t make much sense.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So because of the hurricane, because of the shooting in Newtown<\/a>, we deserve the Republicans caving and compromising on behalf of the common good. The American people need something good to hold onto! The Republicans need to see the Republicans give up and cave in. They\u2019ve been through too much already.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, folks, a little statistic here before the next sound bite and then we get back to your phone calls. Obama\u2019s latest offer to raise taxes on everyone making over $400,000 would raise $70 billion a year, and that $70 billion would go to government. Now, to put that in perspective: The aid package — the federal aid package — for Hurricane Sandy, just by itself, is $60 billion.<\/p>\n

So raising taxes on people who make over $400,000 will raise just $10 billion more than the government\u2019s gonna spend on Hurricane Sandy aid packages. Now, knowing that, I want you to listen to this next bite. This is the one I referred to at the top of the program. This is where Obama talks about (summarized), “Hey, look, you know, my taxes are going up too and I wish they weren\u2019t. I don\u2019t want to be paying that much.” Listen. Keep in mind it raises $70 billion. In terms of the overall federal budget, that\u2019s a rounding error.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what he says…<\/p>\n

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OBAMA: Keep in mind I\u2019m in that income category. I\u2019d — I\u2019d love to, y\u2019know, not pay as much, uh, in taxes. But I also think it\u2019s the right thing to do for us to make sure that people who have less — people who are workin\u2019, people who are striving, people who… who, you know, are hopin\u2019 for their kids — that they have opportunity. That\u2019s what we campaigned about. It\u2019s what we talked about. And this is not a situation where I\u2019m unwilling to compromise.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I have a simple question that is rooted in pure logic. Would somebody — and I\u2019m serious, \u2019cause obviously I don\u2019t get it. Would somebody explain to me how $70 billion going to government affects people who are striving and hoping for their kids to have opportunity? Would somebody explain how that works? Because I don\u2019t understand it. I don\u2019t know how taking $70 billion from people and transferring it to Washington equals relief for people who are striving to succeed so that their kids have opportunity.<\/p>\n

What…? Where is the opportunity in taking money away from people who\u2019ve earned it? I don\u2019t understand. I literally don\u2019t understand the logic. Does Obama, for example, believe that the US economy is a zero-sum game; that the size of the economy is what it is — it never grows, it never shrinks — and that if we take $70 billion away from some people, that somehow automatically that money is gonna go back into the pool or into the pie, and people who are striving are going to have a chance to earn it?<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s not even talking about work.<\/p>\n

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Folks, it doesn\u2019t make any sense, and I\u2019m sure it doesn\u2019t make any sense to you either. Fact is, it doesn\u2019t matter to people. The fact that it makes no sense is of no relevance to people. The people Obama\u2019s… Remember, TIME Magazine named Obama Person of the Year. <\/a>The editor announced it today on Today show. They named him Person of the Year specifically because he has found a way to get the votes of people that don\u2019t know anything. People that don\u2019t follow politics, Obama got their votes.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s magical and it\u2019s why he\u2019s Person of the Year. So TIME magazine admits: We\u2019re gonna make this guy Person of the Year because he\u2019s the first president to come along and get elected by absolute ignoramuses. And somehow this is good for the country. When you take $70 billion or take $100 billion away from people who\u2019ve earned it, how does that equal opportunity for the kids of parents who are striving and hoping? The two don\u2019t have anything to do with one another.<\/p>\n

And yet that sells.<\/p>\n

That makes sense to the vast majority of people who vote. To them, that\u2019s fair. To them, that makes perfect sense. “Yeah! Yeah! In fact, $70 billion? Make it $170 billion, Obama, and I\u2019ll really love you.” The fact that a year after all this is done these people are still gonna be striving, they\u2019re still not gonna have any opportunity, and they\u2019re still not gonna have any jobs? That won\u2019t matter. What will be said is, “At least Obama cares and at least he tried! All you did was sit on the radio and whine about it. At least he tried!”<\/p>\n

I, frankly, don\u2019t know how to communicate with morons.<\/p>\n

That is one of my big problems. I do not know how to communicate with them. (interruption) Pardon? Yes, I\u2019m sure I do threaten the low-information voter. I don\u2019t know how to talk to \u2019em. Not really talk to \u2019em. I mean, I can listen to what they say and I can try to hide my laughter and incredulity. But I don\u2019t know how to talk to \u2019em. If somebody said, “Okay, you are in charge of reaching out to the low-information voter,” I\u2019d pass.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d say, “You need to find somebody stupider than I am to pull that off.”<\/p>\n

(New Castrati impression) “See, Mr. Limbaugh? You just can\u2019t help it! You just have to be so scary. You have to intimidate people! You have to… You have to make people so nervous talking that way.”<\/p>\n

Ah, I know. I just can\u2019t help it. I don\u2019t know who I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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