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The other side of the conflict is I am convinced that Obama is a radical, extreme leftist who, like all radicals, is like a flower child. He has all these dreams, all of these visions of a utopia. And, of course, it\u2019s not possible. So the conflict is, does he not really know what he\u2019s doing, or does he know what he\u2019s doing? ‘Cause that speech he gave yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, it spooked everybody. It spooked the Democrats on Capitol Hill, it spooked the markets. It\u2019s like I said yesterday, inside of two months we\u2019ve gone from a nation of people that believe we have to have some discipline in the size of our government and our spending, and now the mainstream thought is government spending as fast as we can and only government can solve the problem. None of that is true. The success of this depends on how fast we spend money, and then he had this little press conference today where he\u2019s answering questions. I listened to this, and I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m sure that he knows what he\u2019s doing. Even if he\u2019s a committed leftist, does he know what he\u2019s doing, does he know what he\u2019s gotten himself into? His whole campaign was platitudes. He\u2019s still speaking in platitudes, as though his very presence will make magic happen.<\/p>\n
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By the way, an alternative headline for this unemployment number. If the media doesn\u2019t want to say Obama saves 93% of the jobs, they could at least do a headline that says Obama\u2019s plans distracted by 7.2% unemployment. 7.2% unemployment, it\u2019s an unfortunate distraction. Let\u2019s go to some of the audio sound bites from today to try to illustrate this. This morning, from his transition headquarters, here is a portion of his opening remarks.<\/p>\n
OBAMA: The unemployment rate is now well over 7%. In addition, we have 3.4 million people who want full time work, but are only able to get part time work. Clearly, the situation is dire. It is deteriorating, and it demands urgent and immediate action.<\/p>\n
RUSH: We have been taking urgent and immediate action since October, the same kind of action that he is advocating now. And since we started taking this action look at what has happened, it has gotten dire. The very prescription he is offering is leading to these dire circumstances. The economy is stimulated by average Americans going about their business. The economy is grown by people engaging in commerce, working. It is not grown by what we are doing with stimuli and bailouts, as we have demonstrated over the past three months. If, ladies and gentlemen, bailouts and stimulus were the only way, as he said yesterday, government\u2019s the only entity that can stop this and fix this, we should already be on the road to being fixed because government has done everything it can. Going to spend another trillion, fine, spend another trillion. At some point it becomes meaningless. It\u2019s meaningless now, in terms of recovery. Its real meaning is the destructive nature of what we are doing and what he plans, and that\u2019s what\u2019s spooking me. What he\u2019s going to do is literally destructive, and I don\u2019t know that he knows it.<\/p>\n
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There is no leadership there. Everybody\u2019s cowed, everybody\u2019s cowering in corners, everybody is afraid. I\u2019m talking about, when I say everybody, elected officials on our side at the retreat. Now, we compound that with the notion that it appears the mantra from our side is we want him to succeed. No, ladies and gentlemen, this can\u2019t succeed, is the problem. His plan cannot succeed in the objective that\u2019s being advanced, that\u2019s fixing the economy, getting us out of recession, preventing depression, getting people back to work, it can\u2019t do that. It\u2019s never been done. If it works this time it will be the first time in human history. We don\u2019t want this to succeed, because succeed means failure, success means failure. If this works, the only way it can work is to cause more damage. And to sit around while there is a golden political opportunity here to reestablish the identity and the differences of the Republican Party to this crowd that\u2019s now running the show in Washington, they got nothing to lose, they can\u2019t stop anything anyway, so why be afraid to criticize it? So fear has taken over our side.<\/p>\n
Now, back to the Obama press conference today. CBS TV reporter Chip Reid says, ‘President-elect Obama, your staff has talked about a high end of about $800 billion, something like that. They say if that\u2019s true, and if 40% of it\u2019s tax cuts that don\u2019t have the bang for the buck that spending has, it\u2019s not big enough. Paul Krugman today said that it falls far short of what they\u2019re going to need to put America back to work. How do you respond to those points?\u2019<\/p>\n
OBAMA: Well, look, there are some people who, uh, have said that it\u2019s not big enough; there are others who say it\u2019s too big. Well, the, uh, as I said before, Democrats or Republicans, we welcome good ideas. This is not an intellectual exercise, and there\u2019s no pride of authorship.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Stop the tape. This is exactly what it is. It\u2019s an intellectual exercise. It\u2019s a presentation at law school, it is a presentation of the Harvard Business School. It\u2019s designed to show how smart the guy is. It\u2019s designed to show how well spoken, how open-minded. ‘Well, we could do this or we could do that, a lot of people have good ideas, we don\u2019t care who gets the credit.\u2019 None of this is true. He doesn\u2019t care who gets the credit? Ha-ha-ha. That is big-time BS in a brown paper bag. Forget the ‘B\u2019. Big time ‘S\u2019 in a brown paper bag. He doesn\u2019t care who gets the credit? Here, we\u2019ll listen to it in toto now.<\/p>\n
OBAMA: Well, look, there are some people who, uh, have said that it\u2019s not big enough; there are others who say it\u2019s too big. Well, the, uh, as I said before, Democrats or Republicans, we welcome good ideas. This is not an intellectual exercise, and there\u2019s no pride of authorship.<\/p>\n
RUSH: BS.<\/p>\n
OBAMA: If Paul Krugman has a good idea in terms of how to spend money efficiently and effectively to jump-start the economy, then we\u2019re going to do it. If somebody has an idea at that tax cut that is better than a tax cut we\u2019ve proposed, we will embrace it. If you can show me that something\u2019s gonna work, I will welcome it. If it works better than something I\u2019ve proposed, I\u2019ll welcome it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Look, trying to be respectful here. I don\u2019t believe a word of it. I don\u2019t believe a word of it. In the first place, there is no one who has an idea that will work that equals targeted spending of money to grow the federal economy. The US government is not the United States economy. They are trying to turn it into that, but it isn\u2019t that and it will not work. Paul Krugman, I don\u2019t care who — there is nobody that has any idea — if this were the way, the Soviet Union would have beat us in the Cold War. If this were the way, Cuba could wipe us out tomorrow. If this were the way, Mexico would not need to send half its population here. If this were the way, Kim Jong Il would be running the United Nations. If this were the way, the ChiComs wouldn\u2019t care what\u2019s going on in Tibet. There is a tax cut recipe that works. There are two of them. One\u2019s the Bush tax cuts. The other is the Reagan tax cuts. And do you think either has a hell of a chance of being part of his ultimate plan of action?<\/p>\n
Pelosi and Barney Frank are already demanding that he repeal the Bush tax cuts now, not wait \u2019til 2010 when they expire. Now, he\u2019s just made himself sound here like he doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing. (Obama impression) ‘Well, if somebody\u2019s got a better idea than I\u2019ve got, we\u2019ll listen to it. If somebody\u2019s got a better idea we\u2019ll listen to it. We don\u2019t care about pride of ownership or authorship.\u2019 This is spooky. This is the voice of total inexperience. This is the voice of somebody who is genuinely clueless who yet is a committed leftist. His inconsistency, his lack of specifics, his flowery lingo that says nothing, I\u2019m telling you, folks, it\u2019s dangerous.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: We have where you remember sound bite from President-select Obama\u2019s press conference this morning. Chip Reid of CBS News and the president-select had this little exchange.<\/p>\n
REID: You said earlier you\u2019re going to hone and refine the package.<\/p>\n
OBAMA: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n
REID: Are you open to substantially increasing the size of it as it\u2019s been described, the spending portion on Capitol Hill?<\/p>\n
OBAMA: The — eh — eh — eh, uh, you know, I think that there are going to be a lot of different opinions out there. We\u2019re going to take all of them in, and, uh, at the end of the day we\u2019re going to have a package that Congress passes and I sign.<\/p>\n
RUSH: All right, he continues to offer literally no specifics. Now, folks, I think I have a guess. I have a guess. I have a surmise at what\u2019s really going on here. He hasn\u2019t announced any specifics. Yesterday the Drive-By Media put out a long story, AP. They didn\u2019t question it. They just pointed out, for all the stuff he\u2019s saying about his stimulus plan, there are no specifics. There are no details. In this press conference today, it was more flowery, platitudinous, flower child sort of lingo, and this question and answer here with Chip Reid, ‘Well, are you gonna spend more?\u2019 Well, we\u2019re gonna talk to people, blah, blah, blah. What I think… This is just a wild guess. What I think is that Obama wants to move this country as far left as he can, as fast as he can. But he, while doing it, wants to be perceived as a centrist.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s going to let the people who write the legislation take the hit for this. He\u2019s going to let Democrats in the House and the Senate be tagged with the ‘socialist\u2019 label or the ‘extremist\u2019 label or the ‘transfer of wealth\u2019 label. He\u2019s gonna sign it. There has to be a reason why he\u2019s not being specific here. All during the campaign, he said he had a plan, to get us out of this. And he\u2019s been talking about his plan, but he will not tell us what the plan is, other than: We gotta do it now, and it\u2019s gotta be big. Well, yeah, he\u2019s thrown some things in about infrastructure and all of that, but still, ladies and gentlemen, this is not cool, and this is also not cool. CNN — to the extent that we can believe this because CNN is running phony, doctored pictures from Hamas on its website.<\/p>\n
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As a man of action, I just don\u2019t understand sitting around waiting for somebody. My whole life when I have waited for somebody else to do something, I\u2019ve waited and I\u2019ve waited, and even when a person I was waiting on to do something did it, it wasn\u2019t satisfactory. I learned over the course of my life… You know, the old adage, ‘You want it done right, do it yourself,\u2019 there\u2019s truth in that, but it\u2019s not just if you want it done right you do it yourself; if you want it done, you do it yourself. This notion of sitting around waiting for somebody to do something is what got us into this circumstance now. After all these years of class envy and the Democrats growing government and putting more and more people on the federal dole one way or the other, more and more people are sitting around waiting for something, in a country that was not built by people waiting on anything. By the way, the layoff numbers? Do you know how many of the 500,000 or so are media? Let\u2019s see. It\u2019s 28,083, and about 22,000 of them have been hired by the government so far.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Clandestine meetings with Hamas. The Obama administration is letting it out that that might happen. There are also reports today that Obama, even though he said Iran poses a great threat to the United States, that he might meet with them. Now, remember during the campaign, Obama… Look, folks, here\u2019s the way to answer this, or the way to look at it. I think he is in so over his head that it scares me. I don\u2019t think he has the slightest clue. I do believe he is possessed with an enormous ego and arrogance that is conflicting with his awareness that he doesn\u2019t have the slightest clue. That\u2019s why he\u2019s all over the board, from day to day, answering the same questions. He doesn\u2019t have the answers to the questions yet (certainly not so that they are programmed in his memory, that he can call them up by default) and it\u2019s scary. Here. They\u2019re letting it out that they\u2019re going to talk to Iran even after he said that Iran is the greatest threat to the United States.<\/p>\n
Remember during the campaign, he said, ‘Yeah, we\u2019ll talk to them without preconditions. What\u2019s wrong with talking to them?\u2019 Well, guess what? The mullahs heard about this, and they have established preconditions before they\u2019ll talk to Obama! ‘Iran\u2019s Vice President Sets Two Preconditions for Talks with\u2019 Obama. Those preconditions are: ‘[A]s long as US forces have not left the Middle East region [i.e., Iraq] and continues its support for the [Israel], talks between Iran and US is off the agenda.\u2019 Now, that\u2019s what the Iranians are doing. They\u2019re putting preconditions on talks! After The Messiah goes out there in the campaign, ‘Sure, I\u2019d talk to them. No preconditions.\u2019 Now they\u2019re the ones putting preconditions on the United States! (crumbles up article) This is just rank amateurism.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Hi, Rush. What a great honor.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: The pressure is on. First call of the day. Hey, I just wanted to comment on Obama trillion-dollar stimulus package and it kind of baffles me why it\u2019s called a ‘stimulus\u2019 package. It\u2019s a huge spending program, but yet you asked why people support it. Well, they\u2019re thinking of their $600 stimulus checks that people got or their $1,200 checks, and I think that\u2019s why people will support it, because it sounds like, you know, ‘The check\u2019s in the mail.\u2019<\/p>\n
RUSH: That may be an element of it, I\u2019ll grant you that. But there\u2019s a far larger, more dangerous, depressing reason, and that is that there are people out there who just want somebody to do ‘something,\u2019 and they really believe that spending this kind of money will bring back the economy, will take the stock market back to 13 to 15,000, will get their jobs back. Imagine where we would be with all this if the price of gasoline were still $4 a gallon. You throw that into this mix. Well, folks, the price of gas may not get up to $4 a gallon, but a whole lot of other things are going to get up there as a result of this. You talk about inflationary — or deflationary, whichever one happens here, but this happens to be inflationary when you start printing money like this. No, the sad thing is that too many people just want ‘something\u2019 done, and they do believe there\u2019s magic waiting to happen!<\/p>\n
Like I\u2019ve been saying all week, you know, the way to win elections is not to win arguments, sadly to say. If winning arguments won elections, I would be president for the past 20 years. Giving the people what they want, finding a way to say — and this is where the education of the American people is crucial. This is where getting hold of the pop culture and getting rid of the stranglehold the left has on it is important. What people think matters, and when they want something and you have the best way of telling them you\u2019re gonna give it to them, they\u2019ll vote for you. At least the majority will. Not every American, but a majority will. We\u2019ve just seen it happen. We see it now in these polls. I mean, the dirty little secret here is that the people who make this country work…<\/p>\n
Let me try this a different way. I don\u2019t care whether it\u2019s AIG. I don\u2019t care whether it\u2019s Lehman Brothers. I don\u2019t care who it is. I don\u2019t care if it\u2019s the Mom and Pop Widget Company on Main Street in Oshkosh. If they\u2019re bankrupt and losing money, that\u2019s bad business, and they should fail. You don\u2019t bail out failed enterprises, and you certainly don\u2019t do it by taking money from the people who are succeeding, and that\u2019s exactly what we are doing. We\u2019re going to bail out failed small businesses, large businesses, failed banks, and we\u2019re going to do it in part by taking money from people who are successful. If anybody needs to be stimulated during a recession, it is the people who are succeeding so that they can succeed more! We\u2019re doing the exact opposite. We are rewarding bad decisions. We are rewarding failure. We\u2019re propping up losers. It will not work.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: In Temple, California, we say hi to Trent. Great to have you here on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush. This is Temple, Georgia.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh. It\u2019s this cheap call screen program and I didn\u2019t have my glasses on, the GA looked like a CA.<\/p>\n
CALLER: That\u2019s okay. (laughing)<\/p>\n
RUSH: I apologize for that. I know it\u2019s an embarrassment to have a Georgian pretend to live in California.<\/p>\n
CALLER: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: It\u2019s okay today. It\u2019s Friday. Look, you said you were conflicted about Obama. My wife and I have had a running debate about Obama. We\u2019re conflicted about one thing. We agree that he is a turtle on a fence post, that he was put there by handlers, but my wife thinks that sooner or later he\u2019s going to revolt against his handlers. I\u2019m not so sure because I think he never expected to win the nomination, he never expected to beat Hillary in the first place. I genuinely don\u2019t think he knows what he\u2019s going to do. I think that\u2019s why he\u2019s been behaving the way he is. You\u2019re not hearing anything coherent; you\u2019re still not hearing any details simply because he never expected to be here in the first place.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I have spoken to some who share your point of view on this and of course I\u2019ve spoken to others who tried to persuade me of the turtle on a fence post analogy to this, because obviously if you see a turtle on a fence post, how the hell did it get there?<\/p>\n
CALLER: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Somebody had to put it there, and people are asking, ‘How did Obama get there? Somebody put him there.\u2019 I\u2019ve speculated on that myself. I think it\u2019s possible that early on he didn\u2019t expect to win this year.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I thought he bought — like everybody else bought into the notion — that this was Hillary\u2019s coronation. But I think as time wore on, I think he wanted it so bad he could taste it. I think he had every expectation of winning this thing, and then when the Ohio and Texas primaries were over and he had to go down to the wire, don\u2019t kid yourself, he fully wanted and fully expected to win this thing after Iowa, if not before. See, but the conflict for me is, is he really in over his head, or is all of this right now just a show to try to avoid being pegged as anything, \u2019cause Obama has been a show throughout the campaign. His election is a triumph of symbolism over substance. It\u2019s not what he said, it\u2019s how he said it. Regardless, this country\u2019s going left faster than you\u2019ve ever seen it go, whether he knows what he\u2019s doing or not. There are enough people in power in enough places to take it there, and he may well be the conductor on the train. So get ready, in any event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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