{"id":223361,"date":"2017-02-27T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=223361"},"modified":"2017-02-28T16:36:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T21:36:48","slug":"whats-george-w-bush-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/02\/27\/whats-george-w-bush-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s George W. Bush Doing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Here is Karen in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. It\u2019s great to have you here. How are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Rush, I have to tell you, you\u2019re second only to God in giving me hope and courage on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, I thank you for that. I\u2019m very flattered. I appreciate your saying that.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MRC TV video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/201091\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>CALLER: And for the first time I have hope in an American president that he\u2019s gonna come through for us. So I have a good reason today to be a little more optimistic. But I have a question for you.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yes, ma\u2019am.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Why, why, after all these years of silence does George W. Bush feel compelled to comment on the issues of the day?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Why do you think?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I\u2019m so disturbed. I\u2019m so disturbed. All these years of Obama and he had nothing to say.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Same thing with McCain. McCain has never ripped into Obama the way he rips into Trump or other Republicans. Look, I haven\u2019t spoken to President Bush about Trump, so I\u2019m in the same place you are with coming up with speculation to answer it. And my guess, look, I don\u2019t think any of this is really complicated. We\u2019re talking about the establishment of the world, not just of Washington, and the bull in the china shop over here who is trying to extricate the United States from whatever the establishment of the world has planned for the world. And they\u2019re not happy about it at all.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I\u2019m sorry, folks. I should have explained what our last caller was asking about. George W. Bush was interviewed by NBC. He was on the Today show today and he was asked about President Trump\u2019s visa suspension, the first executive order that the Seattle judge (imitating judge), &#8220;You can\u2019t do that. You said you were gonna ban Muslims and I don\u2019t like that so screw you, Mr. President.&#8221; Then it went to the Ninth Circus. The Ninth Circus said, &#8220;We hate your guts and we\u2019re not gonna let you have this. So fix it your own self and then we\u2019ll deal with the next thing you try.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-221021\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/9th-CIRCUS-Court-Of-Appeals-Logo-B-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/9th-CIRCUS-Court-Of-Appeals-Logo-B-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/9th-CIRCUS-Court-Of-Appeals-Logo-B-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/9th-CIRCUS-Court-Of-Appeals-Logo-B.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>So they asked Bush what he thinks about this, and if I\u2019m not mistaken, I don\u2019t think he mentioned Trump by name, but he said &#8220;I wish our immigration system were more welcoming,&#8221; is what he said. I know he\u2019s got a book out and he was there to sell it. I don\u2019t mind that. But he did not go on television to trash Trump. He went on there to promote his book. And of course if he\u2019s asked about it, that was his answer.<\/p>\n<p>I can understand the question. All the eight years of Obama when Bush was asked repeatedly, &#8220;I don\u2019t do that. I had my time. It\u2019s his time now.&#8221; The protocols and the history, the traditions say that past presidents don\u2019t comment. That didn\u2019t work for Bill Clinton. He couldn\u2019t help himself. Obama is not commenting, but Obama is actively engaged in the sabotage of the Trump administration, with all of these community organizing uprisings. There are 250 nationwide chapters of Organizing for Action, which is Obama\u2019s post-presidency community organizing group.<\/p>\n<p>This is who these people are. Folks, leftists don\u2019t leave it at winning at the ballot box. If they lose at the ballot box, they force themselves on the country or society elsewhere. We take our lumps. If we lose, we say, &#8220;Okay, we gotta change. We gotta improve, come back and win the next election.&#8221; They don\u2019t. When they lose and even when they win, because they know that they\u2019re in a numerical minority. But that numerical minority is a vast majority of pop culture and education environments. And so they just bully their way.<\/p>\n<p>And they have all these embeds in their bureaucracy and in the judiciary. So even when they lose elections they have ample positions of power occupied by career invisibles. Because, to them, government\u2019s everything, controlling it, expanding it is everything. And it\u2019s not to us. So they leave nothing to chance. If you reject them, &#8220;Well, screw you.&#8221; They\u2019ll find a way to either bollix up what defeated them or just overwhelm the system with what they want anyway by bullying so many people at so frequent a time that people just give up, say, &#8220;All right, all right, okay, I\u2019m tired,&#8221; and the left gets what they want. That\u2019s where Trump doesn\u2019t give up and let them have what they want. But people around Trump and some others in the world of politics do.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with Bush not mentioning Trump by name clearly was referring to Trump with the question, but, folks, it\u2019s like I said, the establishment versus an outsider. Sounds simplistic, but it isn\u2019t. I mean, that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s going on here. It\u2019s gonna be this way for four years. I\u2019m telling you, the more success Trump has, the greater the energy poured into opposing him is gonna be. If you are thinking that at some point in these next four years that the opposition to Trump is going to lay down arms, so to speak, and join him, that\u2019s never gonna happen.<\/p>\n<p>The real leadership of the opposition is never, ever gonna do anything but continue to ramp up efforts to stop Trump or destroy Trump. Now, common, ordinary, everyday Democrats, not leftists, there may be &#8212; if the agenda gets implemented and this country starts humming on the domestic side and if jobs come back and if the economy gets up to 3% growth and is sustained and the job market expands accordingly and people\u2019s wages go up, it won\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n<p>But if you think that people today, like Hollywood, are ever gonna sing Trump\u2019s praises, it\u2019s never gonna happen, folks. It\u2019s only going to get worse. And they know it at the White House. They\u2019re not expecting these people to be won over. That\u2019s not why Trump\u2019s doing anything he\u2019s doing. They don\u2019t expect the establishment types to one day say, &#8220;You know what? You\u2019re right, Mr. Trump, this is great. We like what you\u2019re doing.&#8221; It\u2019s never gonna happen. They don\u2019t expect that to happen.<\/p>\n<p>There may be, as I say, average, ordinary everyday Americans who come home to the cause, but the leaders of the establishment and the power brokers in it and the global establishment, they\u2019re never, ever gonna say, &#8220;You know what? We were wrong and Trump is right. And we need to get behind him.&#8221; They\u2019re never gonna become what they think Trump is, a populist, a nationalist or what have you. It\u2019s gonna be a battle. That\u2019s why you better be glad Trump\u2019s the guy waging it. He\u2019s the one guy you could have elected who\u2019s not going to cave on this stuff, certainly not in the first month, first six months, first year. They\u2019re just getting warmed up.<\/p>\n<p>I still am of the opinion that the establishment types and the left, they still don\u2019t know what they\u2019re dealing with here. They\u2019re still trying their time-honored blueprint for destroying political figures they don\u2019t like, primarily Republicans. How many years did people hate Obamacare? Now there\u2019s a poll out there that says Obamacare\u2019s never been more popular. Really? Really? Just how stupid do you think we all are? After whatever it is, six years of rising premiums, lost coverage, horrible treatment, no access, now all of a sudden, and there hasn\u2019t been any improvement in enrollment. The Obamacare enrollment numbers are nowhere near what was needed or what was projected.<\/p>\n<p>But now we\u2019ve got a poll out there saying that Obamacare has never been more popular? Well, maybe it\u2019s people like at 25% and it\u2019s only gotten to 23% before, who knows, but the headline is so misleading, it\u2019s fake news. And that\u2019s gonna continue. I know it\u2019s tough, folks, because you\u2019re good people. You want to unify America with a sense of culture and decency and all of this that reasserts and reaffirms the concepts of American exceptionalism.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-223374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DUBHIL.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DUBHIL.jpg 594w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/DUBHIL-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>But the left and who they are, you watch Hollywood, you watch the Oscars, you watch any left-wing, it\u2019s not even Democrat. It is ultra left-wing radical. You know I ask myself, when did this happen? Because the left, George Bush won two elections, 2000 and 2004. So 2008, we didn\u2019t see. It was obviously there. We saw effervescence and this bubbling up of this extreme left-wing cultural revolution, so to speak, but it seems like with the inauguration of Obama, outward appearances, it seemed like the country flipped and did a 180 overnight.<\/p>\n<p>And I talk to a lot of people about this, when did this happen? And it turns out it didn\u2019t. Obama won two elections but certainly the first one not because people wanted that agenda of his. He never told them what his agenda was. Not as it played out. Obama was something other. After eight years of it, look what happened in this election. Did the country flip again? No. I maintain it didn\u2019t flip in 2008-2009, and we were not a 60% radical leftist population like they tried to portray it as.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re never been a majority. We just fell for one of the greatest illusions in modern politics. And this election has exposed that. So who are these people? I go back to Robert Reich and his appearance on Stephanopoulos\u2019 show. The Democrat Party has not been in this bad a shape since the 1920s. Well, how in the hell can that be?<\/p>\n<p>If during the eight years of Obama they won and they had converted this country into this radical, leftist, extremist culture and country, and if that was the trend, and if that\u2019s what Obama\u2019s elections meant, then how is it that the Democrat Party, which is the home of all of that, has lost 1,200 seats since Obama\u2019s second year in office? How is it that Reich is right? How is it that the Democrat Party has less power today?<\/p>\n<p>You have to go back to the 1920s, almost a hundred years, to find the Democrat Party as weak and out of power as it is today. Well, how did that happen with just one election? Well, it didn\u2019t happen in one election. The fact is the Democrats have been losing elections, except for the White House, for the last eight years in numbers that have not been reported, other than on programs like this. Now, what\u2019s becoming of them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CALLER: Why, why, after all these years of silence does George W. Bush feel compelled to comment on the issues of the day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What&#039;s George W. 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