{"id":14639,"date":"2012-09-10T16:10:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T16:10:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-09-10T16:10:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T16:10:14","slug":"obama_will_solve_chicago_teachers_strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/09\/10\/obama_will_solve_chicago_teachers_strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Will Solve Chicago Teachers Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Last week I asked a stupid question, and it took me a couple of hours on Friday to figure it out. I\u2019ve been hoping I wouldn\u2019t forget it all weekend. And here we are, and I remember what it was. The stupid question I asked was: “Why are the teachers in Chicago going on strike?” The answer is very simple: So Obama can solve it as a campaign issue. That\u2019s why they\u2019re on strike. It won\u2019t be long before we hear Moochelle say that he\u2019s up late at night on the campaign trail practically crying, reading letters from students in Chicago upset they can\u2019t go to school. <\/p>\n

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The schools are open in Chicago for lunch and breakfast. Teachers aren\u2019t there. Rahm Emanuel\u2019s kids are at their $25,000-a-year private school. The Chicago teachers have been offered a 16% raise. How\u2019s that compared to your raise at your job? And they turned it down over some pension stuff. You watch. Rahm Emanuel himself is the guy who said, “Never let a crisis go to waste.” We know that the unions, Obama and Rahm Emanuel, the Democrats, are in bed with each other. So this, to me, I think it\u2019s a perfect setup.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: This school teacher strike in Chicago? Let\u2019s just see how long this thing goes on, and let\u2019s see how it gets solved. Anybody want to bet against me that Obama\u2019s the one that gets credit for this, in a few short days? Anybody want to bet that there might be a little bit of violence and finally Obama will have to move in and do something? He and Rahm will figure this out so they get credit for solving it. Because, I tell you: There is no union that is gonna go on strike right now for the express purpose of harming Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

Quite the contrary.<\/p>\n

Any union who thinks their actions would end up hurting Obama will delay or put off those actions. I don\u2019t think Rahm\u2019s gonna beat up the teachers; I just think he\u2019ll talk to the gangbangers and say, “You know what I told you about ignoring the kids? Well, forget it for a couple days.” No, I\u2019m just kidding. I just kidding. I\u2019m just telling you, we know the alliance between the Democrat Party and Obama (more so than Rahm, but nevertheless Rahm\u2019s part of it) and the unions.<\/p>\n

And you\u2019re gonna get really depressed when that happens. I\u2019m warning you right now: You haven\u2019t seen anything \u2019til you see the PR surrounding Obama solving the teacher strike, and then the video of the little kiddies going back to school. They\u2019re gonna be singing Obama songs. (Kid impression)”Barack Hussein Obama! Mmm! Mmm! Mmm! He makes it possible for us to get prop-a-gan-da! Mmm! Mmm!” They\u2019ll be singing that as they walk in the school doors, and the media will be swooning.<\/p>\n

“Ohhhh!” There will be virtual orgasms.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: These teachers in Chicago on strike, being offered a 16% raise? Wasn\u2019t Michelle Obama talking just last week about the heroism of teachers working without pay? Just last week at the convention, wasn\u2019t she praising teachers? She was going on and on about what heroes they are \u2019cause they often work without pay and then they have to bring their own supplies from home.<\/p>\n

Now they\u2019re on strike in Chicago.<\/p>\n

I got an e-mail: “Well, I can see where you might be right, Rush, about Obama moving in at the last moment to solve the teacher strike. But if that\u2019s the case, why didn\u2019t Obama move in to solve all the murders going on in Chicago?” I think the answer to that, although cynical, is very simple: There weren\u2019t any pictures. All we had were statistics. Nineteen more dead overnight (or this weekend, whatever) in Chicago. But that was it. We just had words, text. There weren\u2019t any pictures of the slain. There wasn\u2019t any video footage. There was no video footage of any of the murders.<\/p>\n

Here we got pictures.<\/p>\n

We got teachers on strike carrying picket signs.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s something people can actually see that Obama with stop (i.e., solve).<\/p>\n

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RUSH: So I was just watching CNN during the break. Suzanne Malveaux\u2019s the anchor, and they have their reporter on the streets of Chicago covering the strike, and she has this serious and pained look on her face. “Oh, this is horrible. Oh, this is a terrible strike. The poor students.” And she throws to this reporter, and this reporter (I don\u2019t know the name) says, “Well, I hope they get this thing settled fast, Suzanne. No one wants 400,000 kids on the streets of Chicago during the daytime and not in schools.”<\/p>\n

(laughing) No one wants 400,000 kids on the streets of Chicago?<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what they do in the summer! I\u2019ve never understood it. “No one wants 400,000 kids on the streets of Chicago.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: The Chicago teachers strike. A CNN reporter says, “The last thing anybody wants is 400,000 Chicago kids on the streets.” Yeah, can\u2019t have the kids on the streets. Gangbangers, fine. Kids on the street, no way. We need to get \u2019em back in school. I\u2019m very suspicious of this, as I said in the first hour. Of course this can\u2019t be established and can\u2019t be proven, but is this not a golden opportunity for Obama? What are we dealing with here? We\u2019re dealing with teachers unions. We\u2019re dealing with avowed Democrat fundraisers, donors, bundlers, voters for Obama. And they\u2019re on strike. <\/p>\n

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They earn more than any teachers anywhere in the country. Their salaries are higher than any teachers. They rejected a 16% wage increase. The argument is over health care and pensions. How can that happen? How in the hell can you have a bunch of Democrats going on strike over health care after a Democrat president has given them Obamacare? Would somebody explain all of these incongruities to me? A Democrat mayor, Rahm Emanuel, Democrat union, Democrat fundraisers, donors, bundlers, voters, teachers. You have Obama, Democrat, loves the unions, does everything in the world for them. He shuts down the oil industry for them, whatever they need, buys General Motors and Chrysler, gives them the companies, majority stake, and yet here they are walking out on strike in Chicago, the teachers? <\/p>\n

Now, something\u2019s up here. To me it\u2019s made to order. Have this thing go on a couple of days, make sure it gets plenty of news coverage. Have Rahm go out there and sound really, really tough on \u2019em. He\u2019s the mayor. Nobody\u2019s gonna beat him. He can do whatever he wants to do in Chicago. He\u2019s never gonna be vulnerable at election time, so he can take whatever position he wants. He can even threaten to fire them, a la PATCO. If it\u2019s legal. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s legal. <\/p>\n

Somebody should take a poll of the unemployed in Chicago and ask \u2019em what to do with the teachers. If Kyle Smith is right, they\u2019ll say pay \u2019em. People feel sorry for Obama. Apparently, according to the media, some conservative blogs, none of this is ever Obama\u2019s fault, none of it\u2019s ever the fault of Democrat Party. There ought to be a poll of some small-business people in Illinois, Chicago, see who they support for president. Poll the unemployed in Chicago, see who they support for president. Somebody ought to go out and poll homeowners that are underwater, see who they support for president. Instead of these usual polling samples we get that show Obama at 50% and climbing. It\u2019s just absolute crock. But our media people are falling for it, folks. <\/p>\n

You go to the wrong places in our media, it\u2019s over, election\u2019s over, it\u2019s done. The bounce, we didn\u2019t get a bounce. Our convention was horrible. Our convention was bad, in comparison anyway. But man, that Democrat convention was a disaster, and they\u2019re trying to tell us that it had a real bounce and a bounce of substance, a bounce that\u2019s gonna last. <\/p>\n

Chicago teachers make on average $76,000. That means some make more than that. That\u2019s for nine months work, God knows how many other days off. It does not include their benefits. Here\u2019s the graduation rate. Barely half of Chicago\u2019s high school students earn a diploma in the unionized schools. Over 90% of those studying in nonunion charter schools do graduate. And you can bet those nonunion teachers are paid a good deal less. Stop and think of that. Barely half of the students, the high school students being taught by the teachers on strike earn a diploma. But, folks, it\u2019s not all lost today. The schools are open. Did you know that? For breakfast and lunch for the students. The teachers aren\u2019t there. But what difference does that make when barely half of the students graduate with a diploma that they can read? And they\u2019re on strike.<\/p>\n

Is this not made to order for Obama to come in? And not solve it as president, no, no, no, but go in and bring the two sides together and make them see eye-to-eye for the good of the country. Maybe Obama can even go in and say, “I think at this time when so many of your fellow citizens are out of work, and when so many people\u2019s homes are underwater, so many small businesses are having trouble, when everybody\u2019s gotta contribute, everybody has to pitch in, everybody has to sacrifice, I think you teachers may want to look at this in a little bit different way. <\/p>\n

This school teacher strike in some ways may be like the environmentalist wackos. The environmentalist wackos sue the EPA, then the EPA settles with them. It\u2019s an inside-outside game. The EPA claims it had no choice but to settle on certain terms. Here the teachers strike, Rahm Emanuel eventually says he had to give them much of what they wanted or the kids would still be out of school. That\u2019s what\u2019s gonna happen. And Obama, I\u2019m not predicting it, but I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if Obama inserts himself in the mix here somehow to bring reason and compassion. Not to the point that Rahm is hurt. It\u2019ll not happen in a way that makes Rahm look incompetent. No, no, no. They will do it working together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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