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RUSH: I want to play you a sound bite. It dovetails exactly with my stirring monologues in the second hour about the golden opportunity to contrast and to provide an alternative with what Obama is doing out there. It\u2019s a great, great, opportunity right now. They had a roundtable on the Charlie Rose Show last night, and of course my name came up all over it. This was the greatest press conference ever; Obama is the greatest ever. In fact, they said White House has polling data that says Americans love Obama running around apologizing for the country. It makes them feel really good. It was about time. There\u2019s love for this. At some point, they brought up the question that Jeff Zeleny of the New York Times asked about what do you find ‘enchanting\u2019 about the presidency? And a guy from New York Magazine named John Heilemann said this is what he thinks Obama should have said in answering the enchantment question.<\/p>\n

HEILEMANN: I think if he\u2019d been honest tonight when he was asked by Jeff Zeleny about what most enchanted him, I think he would have said Rush Limbaugh. <\/p>\n

ROSE: Yeah.<\/p>\n

HEILEMANN: Because it\u2019s true. I don\u2019t want to repeat what Al just said, but, I mean, it\u2019s an astonishing thing, because they are without a compelling leader and without a compelling set of alternative ideas, and that has allowed him to have an enormous amount of running room.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, this is where they\u2019re wrong. Carville was out there saying the great Rush Limbaugh is, you know, the leader of the Republican Party and so forth. So there\u2019s no real political leadership, and everybody is scared of me in the Republican Party. They\u2019re afraid to disagree with me. So he\u2019s right: wide latitude, lots of running room, nobody with any alternative ideas out there. ‘But, Rush, I\u2019ve heard that the Congress Republicans are proposing alternative budget ideas.\u2019 Yeah, yeah, yeah, but that\u2019s in acceptance of a premise that\u2019s already been advanced. I\u2019m talking about genuine contrast. I\u2019m talking about standing up and saying, ‘This budget is a disaster! Now, we can\u2019t stop it right now, but it\u2019s a disaster, and somebody\u2019s going to have to stop this stuff down the road,\u2019 and make the case. <\/p>\n

I mean the press all knows it. The press knows he\u2019s getting a free ride. What they\u2019re wrong about, is they think Obama is getting a free ride because the Republicans are afraid of offending me. That\u2019s not at all the case. The Republicans don\u2019t think anybody likes \u2019em. The Republicans think they\u2019re just going to get laughed at if they stand up and provide a real alternative. You can see it in the crack-up of the conservative movement. For crying out loud, we\u2019ve got a bunch of so-called smart conservatives who think the worst thing that ever happened to the party was losing Arlen Specter, who think the worst thing in the Republican movement is the Club for Growth. It\u2019s okay to have MoveOn.org; it\u2019s okay to have all those left-wing groups. <\/p>\n

But the Club for Growth? It\u2019s killing the Republican Party. No, we gotta go be more like Democrats and so the Republicans think they\u2019ve gotta sound like Obama sounds — just a little different, a little smarter — rather than contrasting. Has nothing to do with me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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