{"id":16236,"date":"2012-03-19T16:16:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T16:16:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-03-19T16:16:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T16:16:15","slug":"obama_lied_during_debt_ceiling_debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/03\/19\/obama_lied_during_debt_ceiling_debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Lied During Debt Ceiling Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: A massive, long story at the top of the fold on the front page of the Washington Post yesterday on last summer\u2019s very feisty debt limit battle. It is a story. It\u2019s very long. No way would I even recommend you read the whole thing. Well, I might recommend you read the whole thing. I wouldn\u2019t read it to you; I couldn\u2019t. It prints out to ten pages. Front page Washington Post. And what this story points out is that Obama purposely, intentionally lied to the American people when he told us that the Republicans were not interested in raising taxes, that they wanted a cuts-only solution to the debt crisis. It turns out that John Boehner and Eric Cantor had indeed offered $808 billion in tax increases. Obama lied. He just flat-out lied to the American people about the Republicans and their position in the debt negotiations. He flat-out lied. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s on the front page of the Washington Post. You have to read awhile to get to that in the story. There are a couple-three other things that were momentous about it as well. So that\u2019s yesterday, front page Washington Post. This story paints Harry Reid and Pelosi as practically irrelevant. Where everybody thinks they\u2019re part of the problem, part of the obstacles problem, this story makes it clear that they\u2019re just up there to do Obama\u2019s bidding but that Obama doesn\u2019t know how to negotiate. This story points out that Obama\u2019s incompetent when he negotiates because he lies. He told Boehner and he told the country that the Republicans were not willing to compromise in an area, and they were all along.<\/line><\/p>\n

Boehner said, “I don\u2019t know what to do about this.” By the way, I had a meeting with Boehner not long before that. This was last summer sometime, and I had a meeting with Boehner here at the EIB Southern Command some months before that. I just casually asked him what it was like working with Harry Reid. And he said, “You know, it\u2019d surprise you. If it were just Reid and me we could get a deal done.” Of course I thought he was off. “Oh, gosh. Don\u2019t tell me he really believes this.” He did. He said, “If it was just Reid and me we\u2019d get a deal.” He said, “Harry gets it.” I said, “Oh my. (groan)” This story says that. Or pretty close to it. <\/p>\n

This story in the front page of the Washington Post pretty much says that Boehner and Reid could and did work together, and that Obama is the whole problem. Obama was campaigning. Obama had to give his base something. Obama, the whole debt limit thing was a phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock ‘n\u2019 roller diversion. Yeah, he wanted the debt sealing <\/a>raised but he could not afford for his base, lunatic fringe base, to see him as compromising at all. This is the bunch that talks about “compromise.” This is the bunch (along with the Republican establishment, too,) heralding the beauties and the wonders of compromise.<\/p>\n

And here was Obama making it look like he was willing to compromise. He was the stone wall, and he lied in a national address to the nation! He lied in a prime-time address to the nation. And don\u2019t take my word for it if you don\u2019t want to. It\u2019s the Washington Post.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, this debt deal. I\u2019m gonna spend a little bit more time on this. I\u2019m not gonna get into the whole nine-page story. But don\u2019t forget: Obama wanted to be able to run against a do-nothing Congress. There was never — and I remember telling everybody in this audience back then — a time that I thought this. Let me take a break, and I\u2019ll come back and tell you what I believe. The Republicans held all the cards. It was Obama that needed the deal. It was Obama that wants to spend the money beyond the debt limit. They held all the cards. But they believe they gotta compromise. “The American people,” their consultants told them, “think we gotta compromise.” So they tried to compromise and Obama still stuck it to \u2019em, all because he had to be able to run against a do-nothing Congress. There was no way he was gonna ever agree to a deal. That was the point. <\/line><\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, this debt deal. Folks, it is profound what the Washington Post reported. And the fact is, I don\u2019t think MSNBC has talked about it. The Politico has a little bit of a piece on it, but I remember Mark Halperin<\/a>, TIME Magazine, got suspended from MSNBC for couple days because he said that Obama had acted like a male body part. On this debt deal. He said, yeah, “Obama acted like a d—.” Male body part. Halperin\u2019s point was that Obama didn\u2019t want any grand bargain. It was all just posturing. Halperin has been vindicated now. Obama was acting that way. <\/p>\n

And this is what I said. It was June 30th, after playing the clip from MSNBC, Halperin\u2019s remark. I said, “Now, after they stopped giggling on the Scarborough show, Halperin made a good point. Obama does not want a deal. He really doesn\u2019t want a deal. He wants the chaos. He wants all this to continue and that\u2019s what generates happiness for him.” He cannot permit a deal with Congress when he\u2019s setting up a campaign this year to run against a do-nothing Congress. There was never any way he was gonna deal. And what happened was Boehner said, “Okay, I\u2019ll give you some tax increases,” and Obama panicked. “Oh, my God! Okay,” then he went out and lied to the country. That\u2019s all he knew to do.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, folks, I want to add another interesting ingredient to this debt deal. Now that I\u2019m not so compressed for time, let\u2019s start at the beginning. Washington Post, huge front-page story. It\u2019s by Peter Wallsten and two other Drive-By reporters. This Wallsten guy apparently has a very solid reputation. That might be at risk now since I\u2019ve praised him, but that\u2019s the breaks of the game. It can happen to Drive-By journalists. If I praise them they lose favor with all of their friends. But so be it. Wallsten and two others write this huge piece on the front page of the Washington Post. <\/p>\n

Which, if you slog through it (and you don\u2019t have to because I did), you learn that Obama intentionally lied to the American people in a prime-time address announcing the failure of the negotiations to expand the debt limit last summer. What this story points out that is that the Obama lie was telling the American people that the Republicans were demanding cuts to the budget only as a means of expanding the debt limit. “We\u2019ll give you the debt limit increase, but you have to have some budget cuts.” Obama lied to the American people and said that was the intractable Republican position. When, in fact, Boehner and Eric Cantor had offered tax increases in the $800 billion range. <\/p>\n

Now, to take you back nine months ago, I thought it was Obama who needed the deal. I thought the Republicans held all the cards. I thought that Boehner and the boys could hold out and demand anything. It\u2019s Obama whose job is spending money. It\u2019s Obama who needs the debt limit increased so he can continue to buy votes, expand government, whatever his plan is. What Boehner and the boys decided to do was essentially call his bluff. He was setting up to run against a do-nothing Congress. They said, “Okay, here you go.” Obama rejected it and then addressed the nation and lied. He told the American people that the Republicans were intractable, inflexible.<\/p>\n

It was their way or the highway. They wouldn\u2019t give an inch. When in fact they had given Obama — this is the key — everything he wanted. And that\u2019s what he couldn\u2019t afford. The trick that they played on Obama was giving him what he wanted. They forced Obama to reject that, then go do a national address — a prime-time address to the nation — and lie about it. Mark Halperin goes on MSNBC and calls Obama a male body part and gets suspended for a couple days for this, but ends up being vindicated. This story also, if you slog through it, illustrates that Obama is incompetent as a negotiator. What this story says is that he\u2019s profoundly arrogant and afraid at the same time. <\/p>\n

And also the story says that he doesn\u2019t know nearly what he thinks he knows. He\u2019s… I\u2019ll use the word “ignorant.” Arrogant and ignorant. Arrogant condescension is the way Obama\u2019s portrayed in this story in dealing with the Republicans. Also it points out that Reid and Pelosi were nonfactors. They took the heat but they had to follow Obama\u2019s lead. So not only is he incompetent, he\u2019s dishonest. Once he got what he asked for he moved the goalposts and did it in a prime-time address to the nation. But the story didn\u2019t end there. From the New York Times, this is a story in July, July 23rd. <\/line><\/p>\n

“Debt Ceiling Costs Collapse as Boehner Walks Out.” Then in August is when the country debt ceiling had its credit rating downgraded, August of 2011. We lost our AAA credit rating because the debt ceiling fell through, and we now know (thanks to the Washington Post) that it fell through because Obama refused to accept it. It had everything in it he wanted and that was the problem. His bluff was called. I think toward the end of the negotiations, Boehner and the Republicans just decided, “Okay, let\u2019s see what happens,” because it was proving impossible to negotiate with him. Every day that they negotiated, Boehner and Cantor would hear things that had not been agreed to.<\/p>\n

They would listen to Obama recount things that had not been discussed, basically making it up every day as a negotiating tactic to keep them off balance. Nobody would know this to this day. We\u2019d only have speculation. Well, Boehner and the guys know it but had they made a big deal out of it, they would have just been accused of being crybabies and whiners. So, I don\u2019t know the purpose of the story. I don\u2019t know why the Washington Post ran this thing yesterday, and I don\u2019t know why they spent so much time on it.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know why the Washington Post basically lets anybody who reads this story know that Obama was the single problem here; that he\u2019s incompetent, arrogant and he lied to the nation in a prime-time address. I don\u2019t know why they\u2019re running this story. But, folks, I\u2019m just gonna tell you here that there\u2019s abject panic in the White House. And again, things can turn on a dime in the business of politics. Republicans could screw up tomorrow (that\u2019s quite easy) and Obama would be back on a wave that nobody could stop him.<\/p>\n

But as of right now, the polling data continues to just be devastating, including this piece at TheHill.com today which I shared with you in the previous half hour of the program. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Okay, that\u2019s why. That\u2019s why. I\u2019m sitting here trying to figure out why the Washington Post would run such a story. Folks, it\u2019s profound. I\u2019m overusing that word. It\u2019s remarkable because of its length. It\u2019s a front-page story on Sunday, the most read issue of the week. Front page, top of the fold, right in the center of the page. Well, it turns out that the New York Times is going to do a story on the same subject. Now, I don\u2019t know why. I don\u2019t know why all of a sudden the debt deal from last summer has become such a matter of great interest. Bob Woodward is going to write a book on these debt negotiations. I don\u2019t know why this has become such a big deal. <\/p>\n

<\/a>You know, we could hope. It was really a debacle. It\u2019s a disaster. There\u2019s a debt limit for a reason. Limit! The way Obama\u2019s playing along (hell, all of Washington plays along) is the limit exists to be broken, the limit exists to be exceeded. Why even have a debt limit? But with this, this was… I don\u2019t know how often presidents have intentionally lied, like this, in prime-time addresses to the American people. This was brazen. Because, again, Boehner and Cantor had given Obama everything he wanted, and he panicked. He rejected it because he didn\u2019t want a deal. He wanted the Republicans as the ongoing enemy, the Republicans as the obstacles to good government, the Republicans as obstacles to welfare checks going out.<\/p>\n

Remember Social Security checks? Remember all that? Obama said the government was going to shut down. The Republicans were shutting it down. That\u2019s what he wanted was everybody thinking the Republicans gonna shut down the government. They gave him everything he wanted. So you\u2019ve got the New York Times coming out with a story and Woodward writing a book about it. But Obama didn\u2019t just lie. He referred to the Republicans as “hostage-takers.” Joe Biden, I think (my memory, I\u2019m blessed with a good one) even said the Republicans were acting like “terrorists” during all of this. But it was Obama that called the congressional negotiators “hostage-takers” in the Bush tax cut debate December 2010 in the lame duck session. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s what he called them “hostage-takers.” But Biden did call them “terrorists” last August during the debt ceiling negotiations. Biden said the Republicans were “acting like terrorists” when they gave Obama everything he wanted. The New York Times story is gonna be in their magazine. They\u2019re waiting eight months to do this? I\u2019m gonna find a reason. I\u2019m gonna find out what the answer to this question is. I\u2019m fascinated. Why now? They could forget this. Nobody would ever go back to this. Maybe that\u2019s it. Maybe somebody\u2019s planning on it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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