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RUSH: I want to ask those of you in this audience — those of you liberals and especially those of you in this audience who are moderates — who voted for President Obama on the basis that you thought we\u2019re getting somebody truly different and magnanimous. We were going to get a new president that was going to wipe away all of the old arguments and trivialize all the old disagreements and were going to truly become a country on the upward move to lofty new heights not before realized. That\u2019s really what you believed, that you thought that\u2019s what you were voting for. I want you to ask yourselves honestly, because I\u2019m asking you to do so: Do you think that\u2019s what you\u2019ve gotten here? <\/p>\n

We have a stock market down over 2,000 points since the election of Obama. The stock market has plunged more since Obama was elected than it did during the Bush period of September and October. We are bailing out losers with money that we are printing. We are punishing achievers. But more importantly, the first people to raise the specter of race since the immaculation have been Obama people: James Clyburn from South Carolina, chairman, Congressional Black Caucus; and Eric Holder. What about all this magnanimity we were going to have? What about all this love and unification, all these things that you genuinely believed would happen if we would just cross this barrier and finally admit once and for all our sins and elect this articulate, clean black gentleman who speaks so well, as Joe Biden pointed out? How do you feel about all this now? <\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you what I\u2019m sensing out there, not just among people on our side. I\u2019m speaking to the conservatives in the audience. I\u2019m sensing the effervescence, the pulse of a backlash, of a revolution. The people — the mob, the great unwashed, the people who make the country work, whatever you wish to call them — they\u2019re going to turn. They turn slowly, and after they\u2019ve made the slow turn, it\u2019s going to be like the tide coming in. It\u2019s unstoppable. I am talking about those of you who both pay your mortgages and pay your taxes, the vast majority of the workforce, the kind of people who voted for and loved Ronald Reagan, the kind of people who voted for Obama thinking lofty new heights were just ahead, that a new era of love and unification all over the world was ours if this man simply became president. <\/p>\n

These people are starting to realize that, while they\u2019re working hard and while they\u2019re playing by the rules, there were a lot of idiots spending more than they had and getting in way over their heads, and now those idiots are having to be bailed out by the people playing by the rules. I am hearing it all over the place. Despite all of this PC BS that the left has tried to shove down people\u2019s throats, most people in most parts of the country understand the traditional value of hard work and living within their means; and now they\u2019re starting to ask, ‘Why in the hell should I pay for somebody else\u2019s bad decisions? Why should I reward their bad behavior?\u2019 <\/p>\n

It was proclaimed loudly on the Chicago Board of Trade yesterday by CNBC\u2019s Rick Santelli, the Chicago Tea Party. There is an extension here of what the left has been doing with youth sports for the past 20 years. We, on this program, every time we\u2019ve seen an example of this, we\u2019ve chronicled it for you. One team at a youth sports league is better than all the others, so they stop keeping score, because we don\u2019t want to humiliate the losers. We don\u2019t want to make them feel bad; we don\u2019t want to hurt their feelings. Well, contrary to what the PC bosses might understand, these kids still keep score even if nobody hears about it, but they\u2019re keeping score, and you know why? Because kids, the United States, is made up of competitive people. <\/p>\n

You can have all the politically correct tree-hugging lefty liberals tell \u2019em not to keep score and they will keep score in their heads. It\u2019s what drives them. It\u2019s what drives all of us. We are all competitive, and it is in our genes to want to improve our lives for our families. It is called working in our own self-interests. I\u2019ll guarantee you, these kids in these youth leagues who are told not to keep score, when they get in their parents\u2019 cars at the end of the game they can tell their parents exactly what the score was. They keep score. Well, the same thing is happening with their parents. Their parents are keeping score. They may be afraid to say so publicly, because they don\u2019t want to be called cowards by Eric Holder. <\/p>\n

But here\u2019s the translation: No matter how many times the Obama administration tells us that we have to step in and rescue the losers so they\u2019re not humiliated — the ones that either bought too much house or didn\u2019t read the fine print on their loan that, that we have to step in and bail these people out — the rest of us are growing increasingly suspect. We\u2019re starting to talk to each other. Snerdley told me he walked out of his house the other day and his neighbor came out just to tell him how mad he was about all this that\u2019s going on. People are starting to talk to each other about this, and we are keeping score. Biden may say that this is a recovery based on fairness. In fact, grab that sound bite. I think that\u2019s sound bite number three, is it not? Yes, it is. Joe Biden, this morning in the White House, introducing Obama, who is about to address the US conference of mayors in the East Room.<\/p>\n

BIDEN: President Obama has put our nation on the path for greater recovery; not only greater recovery, but greater decency, greater fairness, greater opportunity, along with economic recovery.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What\u2019s last in his list? Economic recovery. What\u2019s first? Decency, greater fairness. Fairness defined by liberals as spreading misery equally. That\u2019s what this bunch is about: fairness! That\u2019s why they\u2019re content to let the market plunge because only the rich are in the market, they think, and it\u2019s about time the rich found out what it\u2019s like. I guarantee you there is rage and anger in this administration that is behind some of the lack of attention. There\u2019s not even the slightest bit concern of what\u2019s happening in the market. You can\u2019t find this administration expressing any concern over the investor class and what\u2019s happened to them, not one, not a syllable. You can\u2019t find one stated concern. <\/p>\n

All you\u2019ll find is statements about how we\u2019re going to control these people, after we bail \u2019em out and nationalize them or what have you. But people are keeping score. This is what Obama doesn\u2019t know. Barack Obama and his administration cannot kill the American some people. The stimulus package cannot kill the American spirit. We are keeping score. We have compassion for those who were truly blindsided by this, but we don\u2019t want to bail out loser after loser after loser who decided to play fast and loose while we played it straight. And make no mistake, that\u2019s how people look at this. A lot of people, the vast majority of people in this country think they\u2019ve played it straight. <\/p>\n

Now they\u2019re being told they have to make good for those who didn\u2019t. It\u2019s no different than what the left has done in schools with outcome-based education. ‘We can\u2019t put people in advanced placement classes, and humiliate those who were not suitable for admission.\u2019 The majority of the American people at the end of the day are competitive. This is why we\u2019re a nation, for example, obsessed with our sports teams. I\u2019m a Steelers fan. You think I don\u2019t care who wins when they play? Hell, sometimes I\u2019ll even take a call from a referee wrong that goes in my favor. I don\u2019t want to charge out there and say, ‘Hey, ref, you blew it. Give the other team the ball. They deserve it.\u2019 I\u2019ll take it. <\/p>\n

Well, the referees are giving everything to the losers, under the premise that they\u2019re only losers \u2019cause the winners are winners. Tax-paying people who make it all work will not put up long rewarding failure, being forced to reward failure. Beware this huge backlash. It\u2019ll turn. It\u2019ll turn slowly, and like the tide coming in, it is unstoppable. It has already started, in fact. The pulse of the backlash has begun. The pulse of revolution is out there, and at some point the anger that you know is there will surface and you will see it and you will hear it. People will overcome their fear of opposition to this because at the end of the day they will not sit there and let everything they\u2019ve worked for be destroyed, particularly on the basis that they deserve to be destroyed because it\u2019s been unfair in the first place that they succeeded. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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