{"id":32726,"date":"2009-06-18T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:15:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T02:15:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:15:29","slug":"who_s_regulating_obama2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/06\/18\/who_s_regulating_obama2\/","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s Regulating Obama?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: Is there one thing the government runs that makes a penny of profit? Is there one thing? They can\u2019t deliver mail with a profit. FedEx can, and does. They cannot run a railroad with a profit. Amtrak is a horrible money pit. I know even some of our favorite people love to ride the Acela train, the Speed Merchant from Washington to New York. But they\u2019re losing money and it continues to be subsidized. They can\u2019t run most states with a profit. California with its population and its natural resources ought to be drowning in money and they are bankrupt. <\/p>\n

The whole government should be profitable. It should be earning money on our money. You know, Obama has announced all these sweeping regulations of the banking sector and the financial sector and more regulators here. Would somebody tell me who\u2019s regulating Obama? Who\u2019s regulating Congress? There\u2019s a poll out today which I\u2019m going to get to in greater detail as the program unfolds. It\u2019s an NBC poll. I think they\u2019ve asked, ‘Who\u2019s responsible for the deficit?\u2019 Twenty-six percent say Congress; 46% say Bush; 6% say Obama. Now, that\u2019s its own lesson, and it dovetails with the call we got from Jeremy yesterday. You remember that call? Jeremy, an Obama voter, is unhappy with him. Why? <\/p>\n

Because he sees Obama giving money to the big guys. He sees Obama bailing out big business. He thought he and others in the ‘little guy\u2019 strata that voted for Obama were going to get the money, and a fascinating perspective. They don\u2019t see Obama destroying the private sector they see him building it up. They\u2019re still mad at him. That\u2019s why only 6% blame him for the deficit. But let me tell you where 100% of the deficit belongs, blame Obama and Congress. And if you want to get really constitutionally technical, it would be Congress. Not one penny in this country can be spent without the House of Representatives first authorizing it and the Senate agreeing and then the president signing. So the blame for the deficit is literally Congress — and, of course, right now it\u2019s Democrat, and Obama\u2019s running that. <\/p>\n

So it\u2019s the Democrats in Congress and Obama, \u2019cause the Republicans can\u2019t stop anything. They don\u2019t have the votes in either house to do it. They are responsible for it. Who\u2019s regulating them? These clowns that can\u2019t turn a profit with any government enterprise they run — in fact, that\u2019s not even the question. How many things do they run that they do not destroy? They destroyed the black family with Great Society and the war on poverty. They\u2019ve destroyed countless lives with all these so-called good intentions. Well who the hell is regulating them. Well, we are supposed to every two years at the ballot box. But that\u2019s a long time when you\u2019ve got dominant one-party rule this way that doesn\u2019t even care about following the Constitution when enacting many of its proposals and laws. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I was just talking about the call we got yesterday. We\u2019re going to get to the phones very quickly. If you\u2019re on hold, hang on. I was talking yesterday about the call we got from Jeremy. He was from Ohio, 33 years old. Family tricked him into voting for Obama. Well, they pressured him into voting for Obama. Now he\u2019s upset, he doesn\u2019t like Obama, but not for the reasons we all would think. He sees Obama helping the private sector. He sees Obama spending and sending all kinds of money to these places. He didn\u2019t see — until I told him — that Obama was destroying it. What he wanted, what he expected was Obama sending him money, the little guys. And here\u2019s another story. Same thing the caller said yesterday. It\u2019s as if every time Obama takes over a company, his voters see him as some kind of a super capitalist instead of a super socialist. No wonder his approval numbers — by the way, they\u2019re coming down. Fifty-eight percent in one poll, 56% at NBC, 58% in another, coming down, dude, leveling off. <\/p>\n

Chuck Todd, F. Chuck Todd at NBC says the honeymoon\u2019s over. I wonder if it was good for Chuck as it was for Obama. Seriously. Every time he takes over a section of the private sector these people think he\u2019s some super capitalist. There has to be a fundamental ignorance or lack of understanding of what Obama is doing. I guess the State-Run Media is doing a far better job than I assumed, because Obama is taking over, he\u2019s depleting funds from the private sector, just the opposite is perceived. This from the Wall Street Journal today: ‘Laura Zamora, 40, of Orange, Calif., voted for Mr. Obama but says she is frustrated by the economy and finds her support for the president waning. She says she\u2019s facing a possible layoff as a local government worker in California. ‘He\u2019s bailing out the private sector. He\u2019s putting all kinds of money into the private sector,\u2019 says Mrs. Zamora. ‘The money should be going to social programs, not to bailing out banks and GM. It should go to people who are unemployed.”<\/p>\n

This story is filled with other people who look at Obama\u2019s movements exactly the same way. We\u2019re going to have to recalibrate the way we comment on this. If the guy from yesterday was representative of a large number of people, and if Mrs. Zamora here is also, people that voted for him are starting to get unhappy with him, but not for the reasons that they ought to be. We\u2019ll take it, don\u2019t misunderstand, we\u2019ll take the anger. But it\u2019s disappointing in many ways. It does show these people expected Obama to send \u2019em money. That was the hope and change, money on social programs to help them. Oh, well, we\u2019ll comment further. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Linda in Louisiana, welcome to the program. Great to have you here. How do you pronounce the city where you live? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Marrero.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Marrero.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. I\u2019m on the West Bank, on the other side of New Orleans.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh. Cool.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Katrina land. (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: I knew that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Of course. I was sitting here, and just, I can\u2019t believe I\u2019m talking to you. I have been trying for ten years to get through, but anyway, to make my point, your screener said get to the point quick, so I\u2019m reading in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers: ‘Obama lays down the law to Wall Street, Federal Reserve to police large firms judged a potential risk to the financial system.\u2019 Of course now he has given new power to the Treasury department and the Federal Reserve, put major restrictions, all to do what? To clear up the credit crisis. I thought the credit crisis was caused by people like Barney Frank. This isn\u2019t going to help. But I do think if they\u2019re going to start checking all these things through the Federal Reserve, who we can\u2019t even look at, like credit cards, credit interest, savings accounts, mutual funds, and all that stuff, then they\u2019re going to wind up with a whole lot more information than we really want them to have.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, not just that, they\u2019re going to be able to control what you can and can\u2019t do and the way that they are selling it, the way they\u2019re selling this is, they\u2019re complaining and whining about the unfair practices of lenders, banks, credit card companies, and this is to get even with them. This is to make sure your credit cart company doesn\u2019t jack up your interest rate without your permission an exorbitant level. So while everybody thinks that Obama is clamping down on the lenders with these new regulators, what he\u2019s doing again is expanding more federal power to where the federal government\u2019s going to be in charge of the lending industry in this country — banks, credit cards, you name it. It breathtaking to watch. Every day, every day this little man-child reaches out and grabs something else. It\u2019s mine, it\u2019s mine, it\u2019s mine — I won\u2019t make him sound like a child because he\u2019s far more dangerous than a child but, you see, this kind of fear that\u2019s arrived, invasion of privacy, they\u2019ll know everything about me. They\u2019re going to know that when they get your medical records digitized, which is going to be part of national health care under the guise of facilitating your care. But the purpose will actually be for them to know and to be able to blackmail you or use whatever information they have about you and your treatment, denying you treatment for this that and the other thing. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you, the left is solidifying its control over as many public aspects of this country as quickly as possible. And the American people, they\u2019re starting to understand. They still like him, at least in the New York Times poll, not so much now in the NBC poll. But 2010 is where this Waterloo is going to be next met. What aspect of your private life aren\u2019t they going to be into? Well, I don\u2019t imagine they\u2019ll be in your bathroom. Not with cameras. They might be, who knows. They\u2019re trying to get into as many aspects of people\u2019s private lives as they can for the purpose of control. You know, you say that and people don\u2019t understand why somebody wants to control America, why would somebody? It\u2019s almost like back in the eighties, if you started throwing the word ‘communist\u2019 around to describe certain Americans, it wouldn\u2019t persuade anybody because Americans didn\u2019t want to think there were communists running around in the country, with any power. So to say now there are these authoritarians that are out there trying to wrest control — I harp back on these two events, the call yesterday and the story in the Wall Street Journal today. <\/p>\n

People that voted Obama who are getting upset but they don\u2019t understand what he\u2019s doing. They misunderstand totally. They were expecting Obama to throw shovels of money at them. Instead, they think he\u2019s bailing out Wall Street and big business. They think he\u2019s just another typical Washington Republican Democrat conglomerate politician who cares about big business. They don\u2019t see what he\u2019s doing to big business. They don\u2019t see that he\u2019s destroying future job opportunities, creativity, competition. They don\u2019t see the destruction the man is wreaking. They see him playing favorites, and they thought they were going to be the favorites, and now they\u2019re not. That\u2019s why they\u2019re upset. So that\u2019s at least a baseline from which to start. They\u2019re upset, not for the reasons they should be, but at least something there to build upon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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