{"id":18699,"date":"2011-04-05T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:21:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-20T00:21:29","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:21:29","slug":"obama_fears_blame_for_shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/04\/05\/obama_fears_blame_for_shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Fears Blame for Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: I have it in the stack from yesterday. It\u2019s about Hillary supporters miserably unhappy with Obama and strongly hoping that she will once again seek the presidency in 2012 running against Obama. Probably ain\u2019t gonna happen, but it\u2019s a fascinating piece nevertheless that just goes to illustrate, contrary to State-Controlled Media, there is not universal contentment or happiness on the left with the regime. There\u2019s no reason to be afraid of \u2019em, is the point here. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125110.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright\"\/>RUSH: I see that the esteemed leader of the regime is in the White House briefing room here talking about how he and Boehner did identify areas where they could make substantial budget cuts. Now, Boehner came out of there saying there\u2019s no chance of an agreement. We\u2019re rolling on this and if Obama has anything interesting, substantive to say, we of course will pass it on to you. There\u2019s a headline about this, CBSNews.com from early today: &#8220;Obama Summons Boehner for Budget Talks &#8212; Speaker heads to White House as Congress fails to reach 2011 funding agreement, may result in government shutdown.&#8221; I found the headline to be a little disconcerting. Oh, is that what he\u2019s saying, politics and ideology are to blame if there\u2019s a shutdown? Politics and ideology are to blame. Oh, yeah, he\u2019s not political, he\u2019s not an ideologue. Yeah, he\u2019s Mr. Clean. He\u2019s clean and pure as the wind-driven snow. He\u2019s up there just trying to do his job. All these politicians, all these ideologues are getting in the way of the esteemed leader trying to get something done on the budget. He has no role in this whatsoever. He\u2019s not a politician, and he himself is not an ideologue. <\/p>\n<p>But this headline, &#8220;Obama Summons Boehner for Budget Talks,&#8221; that\u2019s a little disconcerting. I didn\u2019t realize Obama had that kind of power. I always thought the three branches were coequal. Obama summons Boehner. Like Boehner is sitting over there sucking his thumb and all of a sudden a note, &#8220;Hey, you\u2019ve been summoned.&#8221; So Boehner drops everything and heads up. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Needless to point this out, ladies and gentlemen, but nevertheless I shall: Obama goes out there today (mere moments ago) with an unscheduled, impromptu little appearance in the White House Briefing Room; and he starts whining and moaning and complaining. People don\u2019t want to see all this finger pointing, and they don\u2019t want to see a government shutdown, and Americans don\u2019t like seeing these games. About that, au contraire! I do want to see these games. I looove seeing these games. These are the games I want to see. <\/p>\n<p>I want to see a lot more of this. I want to see our side go up there and not bow down and act afraid of this guy. Now, this guy, Obama, I\u2019ve been mentioning all day as I look at the Washington Post poll and their reporting of it. It seems to me that the press is doing everything it can here to warn the Democrats (paraphrased): &#8220;You know, be careful on this shutdown because you guys are likely gonna get blamed for it this time. This isn\u2019t 1995,&#8221; and I\u2019m convinced Obama goes out there and portrays himself as Mr. Clean. (paraphrased) &#8220;It\u2019s a bunch of ideologues and politics causing this problem. We don\u2019t need the government shutdown. I\u2019m willing to go $73 billion in cuts. Boehner wants $100 billion. It\u2019s too much, some of the specific things, blah, blah.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I think they sent Obama out there because if this shutdown happens, he gets blamed. I think it\u2019s on the Democrat this time. There\u2019s no other reason to go out there and do this today. There\u2019s no reason for Obama to go out and play the games he played today and say what he said. Don\u2019t doubt me on this. The Washington Post poll: 37-37 as to who gets blamed, Republicans or Democrats, for a government shutdown. That\u2019s not good, and I\u2019ll bet they\u2019ve got internal polling that\u2019s worse that shows them getting blamed &#8212; and why wouldn\u2019t they? I know I keep saying this, but when it comes to the budget these guys don\u2019t have any standing anyway. When it came time to do the budget, they didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t have one. That\u2019s why all these continuing rulings, because the Democrats punted. There weren\u2019t any negotiations. They didn\u2019t even present a budget. Obama did, but they didn\u2019t (because of an election year) and Obama, again, just claimed they had an agreement of $73 billion in cuts. Boehner is right now saying that they never even agreed to $33 billion in cuts. So here\u2019s Obama saying $73 billion; Boehner says we never even agreed on $33 billion. So we got a difference of $40 billion in what both sides are saying they\u2019ve agreed to. That\u2019s why I want to see these games. I want to see the sausage made. I want to see how this works. I want to see this played out in the media. I want to see it raw so that the media doesn\u2019t have a chance to filter it for me. I\u2019m telling you, Obama going out there is &#8212; to me &#8212; a sign things are not going his way. They had to send the great orator out there to try to put this back together again.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You know, folks, all of a sudden since Obama spoke none of the news networks are talking about the budget. That\u2019s all they were talking about. Obama goes out and speaks and none of them are talking about it. Suddenly, everything else is much more important. Now, why is that? Why did they just drop talking about the budget? Are they worried Obama is gonna cave, or maybe they think he caved too much based on what he said? It\u2019s very bizarre, folks, how quickly they have moved off the budget story since it was all they could talk about all day, then he makes an unexpected appearance and they dropped it like a hot potato.<\/p>\n<p>END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>*Note: Links to content outside RushLimbaugh.com usually become inactive over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I have it in the stack from yesterday. It\u2019s about Hillary supporters miserably unhappy with Obama and strongly hoping that she will once again seek the presidency in 2012 running against Obama. Probably ain\u2019t gonna happen, but it\u2019s a fascinating piece nevertheless that just goes to illustrate, contrary to State-Controlled Media, there is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Obama Fears Blame for Shutdown - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/04\/05\/obama_fears_blame_for_shutdown\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Obama Fears Blame for Shutdown - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: I have it in the stack from yesterday. 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