RUSH: Everybody\u2019s wondering what happened, everybody wants to know, I mean the Washington establishment, the media, and on the Democrat side, everybody\u2019s wondering what the hell happened between Friday and Sunday with Boehner. What happened? They can\u2019t figure it out. Nobody has the slightest idea. What happened? AP can\u2019t figure it out. AP twice can\u2019t figure it out. Reuters can\u2019t. Rupert Murdoch doesn\u2019t even know.<\/p>\n
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Man, this is gonna be fun today. There\u2019s lots of stuff out there. Just finished an Obama press conference. It was boring, it was repetitive, there was no teleprompter. He was at a loss for words. He either thinks we\u2019re stupid and speaks slow so we can keep up, or — yeah, he actually comes up with this, what was it, time to pull off the Band-Aid and eat your peas, we all have to eat our peas. That\u2019s mother talk, for crying out loud. That\u2019s not even daddy talk. That\u2019s mother talk. Is that what Michelle says to him when they eat dinner in the residence quarters? Time to shut up, Barack, eat your peas. For crying out loud, when\u2019s the last time you heard that, folks?<\/p>\n
Anyway, did you notice if you watched it, if you listened to any of it, the suddenly different tone Obama took at today\u2019s presser? This was intended to be a do-over for his last really ugly press conference, wasn\u2019t that long ago. That was the tough guy approach, if you recall, tough guy. It must not have polled too well. So now we got the nice guy Obama today, and, folks, I think he ought give up this showing up every day, every other day, make a speech, do a press conference for 45 minutes, for an hour. Just go the full dictator route and just show up as Castro, do one eight-hour speech once a month and be done with it. This is not thrilling. He\u2019s not converting anybody here. It\u2019s almost like he was trying to evoke sympathy from his own base and supporters about how mean the Republicans are and about how recalcitrant — that may work, but I don\u2019t think anybody wants to feel bad for him. If that\u2019s what he\u2019s trying to do is make people feel sorry for him, and I fully wouldn\u2019t be surprised by that, either. I mean narcissists and people like that think that everybody else thinks about them all the time like they think about themselves all the time.<\/p>\n
This is funny, AP: “A debt-busting deal on the scale that President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner had talked about would have all but guaranteed that people on Medicare would feel at least some of the pain. But on Saturday evening, Boehner said he wouldn\u2019t seek the $4 trillion deficit reduction deal, but would seek $2 trillion in reductions. The exact effects of that shift by Boehner weren\u2019t immediately clear.” Well, they were to us. He-he-he-he. And they were to any of you who listened to this program on Friday. It was patently obvious, was it not?<\/p>\n
Number two. “Last week, Boehner and Obama had private talks that led Democrats to believe the House speaker was willing to entertain revenue increases as part of a full overhaul of the tax code later this year in exchange for Democrats agreeing to stiff curbs on the growth of Medicare and lower increases in Social Security cost-of-living adjustments. But Boehner recoiled and abandoned the idea Saturday night in a move that rattled the talks.” And they\u2019re scratching their heads out there, the AP trying to figure out, what happened? What went wrong? What changed? We thought we had this guy ready to give us everything we wanted, including Obama\u2019s reelection, and then all of a sudden, bam, a total stop and even a reversal.<\/p>\n