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RUSH: If you\u2019re just joining us on Rush Limbaugh and Open Line Friday, ladies and gentlemen, you should know that all of a sudden now the Barack Obama transition team is trying to lower everybody\u2019s expectations. David Axelrod (who ran the campaign) and Robert B. Reich are out there saying, ‘Look, we\u2019re encountering problems worse than perhaps at any time in American history since FDR.\u2019 My reaction is, ‘Well, you\u2019re telling us he is FDR! You\u2019re telling us he\u2019s Lincoln. You\u2019re telling us he\u2019s JFK. You\u2019re telling us it\u2019s Camelot. So what the hell is this lowering expectations crap? You can\u2019t do that. You got elected on lowering the sea level and making everybody love us and unifying everybody.\u2019 Lowering expectations? Reich said it could be three years, by the way. Three years up to five. It\u2019s not worse than what Reagan inherited, folks. I don\u2019t care what anybody says, it\u2019s not worse than what Reagan inherited. Reagan didn\u2019t go out there lowering expectations. Barack Obama said he could unify the world! It\u2019s not time to lower expectations now that he\u2019s won. He should start doing what he said he could do: unifying. He should start explaining the reality of the situation in the auto industry: their employees, their retirees, their suppliers. <\/p>\n

By the way, how many of you people are in favor of bailing out hedge funds? A hedge fund bought Chrysler! Chrysler is privately owned. Do you know who runs that hedge fund? John Snow, the former Treasury secretary (or at least he was in charge of it). Cerberus. Now, the CEO, Bob Nardelli, this is a soldier and a warrior. They tried to destroy this guy\u2019s life over the course of his career in the auto business and other places. They\u2019re trying as hard as they can here, but where\u2019s Obama? He had the fixes for all this stuff. He can send signals. Reagan sent signals during his transition period to the Iranians: ‘Don\u2019t mess with our hostages. Don\u2019t you dare mess with our hostages.\u2019 Where\u2019s Obama? He needs to fill the void here. People are waiting on him. They\u2019re not waiting on Bush, and they sure as hell aren\u2019t waiting on Pelosi and Reid. He went around the world! He went around Europe and the Middle East while campaigning, having private meetings, saying anything he wanted. He was trying to arrange troop withdrawal deals when he was in Iraq. <\/p>\n

If this guy is a true leader, where is he? He can at least project his image, his vision. Who would object if he did? Nobody would object. Obama is voting ‘present\u2019 right now. Barack Obama is voting ‘present.\u2019 This is his track record: Avoid the tough things as long as you can; vote ‘present.\u2019 This is a time to do something. Look what Pelosi did to the market yesterday. It was up 200 points, then they went on television with Reid and the rest of the gang. They announced the auto deal fell apart, bammo! They started issuing orders and instructions to the auto companies, and, bam! We end up down 400 yesterday. We\u2019re not up much today, but we\u2019re not down, I don\u2019t think. Citibank is now thinking of selling itself to the Somali pirates. The Somali pirates AAA bond rating just came in from Moody\u2019s. The Somali pirates are a better bet financially than some of our own institutions. Where is Barack Obama? Has Obama spoken with Pelosi about this calamity? Are they working off different playbooks? Are the Democrats in Congress running the show or is Obama going to be running this show? He\u2019s The Messiah and he\u2019s the guy that raised all these expectations. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you what. He\u2019s backing out so that none of this touches him. That is the plan. It\u2019s time for Obama to step into the conversation. He\u2019s sitting on the sidelines out there and he\u2019s making himself out to be phony. Everybody voted for change, unity. How long will it take them to become disappointed? Well, this is going to be the scenario, I fear, for the four years. They\u2019re going to enact the agenda they want on their timetable, independent and without concern for what is happening elsewhere in the country. For example, there\u2019s no way — there\u2019s no logical reason to even talk about raising taxes right now. He wants to do it. There\u2019s no reason to talk about nationalizing health care. He wants to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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