{"id":33233,"date":"2009-08-17T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:00:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T02:00:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:00:38","slug":"obama_s_credibility_problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/08\/17\/obama_s_credibility_problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s Credibility Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, do you remember Barack Obama assuring everyone that if you like your health care plan, if you like your doctor, you can keep it? If you like your plan, you can keep it. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Do you remember Obama saying that? Well, Friday in Belgrade, Montana, at a town hall.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Everybody here who still has — who has currently private insurance, you know, you would more than likely still be on your private insurance plan.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, now it\u2019s more than likely. It used to be definitely, now it\u2019s more than likely. He\u2019s lying through his teeth about this. You know, I\u2019m actually kind of stunned at this White House. They know that the bloom\u2019s off the rose here. They know people know this isn\u2019t true. They know this is one of the many reasons people are showing up opposing it, and yet they still keep saying it. I don\u2019t know why they think they can get away with this. Do they think Obama still has the gift? Do they not see the poll numbers? Because they know full well that people are gonna lose their private insurance. They know that\u2019s the objective. And now making big deals with Big Pharma, that\u2019s got the left all upset, that\u2019s extortion money. I don\u2019t understand them. We always thought they were smarter than this. This is really dumb to have him go out there and keep saying this because it makes him look like he\u2019s detached from reality, that he has no clue what\u2019s going on, like he\u2019s just a robot programmed with whatever is on the teleprompter out there, or if it\u2019s not a prompter they\u2019ve made him memorize it. He goes out and says it regardless of the reality. <\/p>\n

These town hall performances are getting worse and worse and worse. He had a student at Colorado Springs just literally run rings around him on the specifics of private sector competition. Obama was forced to agree with him. (imitating Obama) ‘But we can do something about that, we can do something about that,\u2019 and used the post office example again, which does not help his case. Now, let\u2019s go to Sunday on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Jake Tapper filled in. Kathleen Sebelius, the hapless and clueless Health and Human Services secretary, was on there, and Jake Tapper said, ‘Now, look, that doesn\u2019t get into the whole issue of employers dropping health care coverage in general and all the people that will be added to the rolls, and I understand that, but how can the administration make the promise that if you like your insurance plan, you can keep it when CBO and other analysts estimate that some people will be switched from private to public?\u2019<\/p>\n

SEBELIUS: Well, I think, Jake, if you — if you think about a marketplace option and new plans being created in Toledo, Ohio, or in California or in Florida, the network of doctors is likely to be pretty identical. A lot of plans exist in the same marketplace, and doctors are part of a variety of networks. So the idea that you would keep your own doctor is highly likely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s highly likely again. It used to be automatic. It used to be definite. Now it\u2019s highly likely. And, by the way, I have a question. You know, all these State-Run Media people, from NPR, to CNN, to MSNBC say that I am racist, that I am sponsoring racist behavior by ginning up opposition to Obama\u2019s health care plan. The CBO has come out and said, ‘Your plan is going to break the bank. Your plan is not what you say it is.\u2019 Is the CBO racist? Is everybody who criticizes Obama racist, because the CBO has, Congressional Budget Office. I\u2019ll tell you, that racist charge, they\u2019re trying to change the subject, that means they\u2019re losing the argument, it\u2019s an old play out of the playbook, and it hasn\u2019t worked. And yet they keep trying to make it work. It ain\u2019t gonna work. <\/p>\n

Virginia Beach next. Chip, you\u2019re next, EIB Network. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, an honor and a pleasure to speak to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: Thank you. I\u2019m not nervous. It\u2019s like talking to an old friend like talking to my friend Wayne on the phone.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: I appreciate that.<\/line> <\/line> CALLER: You\u2019re welcome, sir. I was calling about the fellow from Boston that called to take you to task about the removal of the end-of-life counseling. I didn\u2019t make this point with your screener, but the previous doctor did. I think hospice care is available in Medicare, and certainly end-of-life counseling is part and parcel of hospice care.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, my mother got hospice care when she had terminal cancer, and she was on Medicare. So, yeah, it happens.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely. But his point was not — it was part of what it was but what really had him fired up was that by that going away, the government paying for it was going away. His enthusiasm for that program seemed to me to be that somebody else was going to pay for it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, exactly right. That\u2019s how they\u2019re trying to sell this whole thing, that it\u2019s not going to cost anybody, the beloved government\u2019s going to do all of this and that\u2019s not possible. But I don\u2019t think that\u2019s even working. You\u2019re right, that\u2019s why the guy loved it because the government was going to start paying for it in toto as though that was somehow justice. And I asked him, ‘Well, whatever happened to the concept of paying for it yourself?\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, with a great group of people, the fact that the government — the point that the government is us and it\u2019s our pockets that are going to get empty to pay for this doesn\u2019t dawn on them. Maybe they come back to, ‘Well, it will cost somebody else more than it will cost me.\u2019 But while I was sitting there listening, if I could make one last point.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And this may be an overgeneralization. But, you know, in life, it\u2019s kind of truth and fiction, and in life, it\u2019s not so much who is saying it, but what is coming out of their mouth. And over the course of time, people and businesses either continue to make and engender and build credibility, or they continue to just blow it and lose their credibility. One of the reasons for your growth and success has been everything that comes out of your mouth is credible and true and you can understand it just kitchen table economics. And the reason for the anger at these town meetings is when these politicians, Dingell and Connors and all the rest of these people get up there and say things, it just makes no sense. It has no credibility.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s even worse. By the way, thank you very much, but it\u2019s even worse than that. In addition to them not knowing what\u2019s in the legislation versus the degree of education of their constituents, they then tell constituents, ‘No, that\u2019s not true, that\u2019s not in the bill, you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about, that\u2019s innuendo, that\u2019s rumor, that\u2019s a vile rumor that\u2019s going around.\u2019 But, see, you make a good point because Obama had that. Obama had the exact kind of credibility you\u2019re talking about. In fact, it was magic. That gift, he had so much credibility, that it was almost like a cult with a whole lot of his voters. But his problem was he was speaking in platitudes. He would do generalities and very few specifics. He would just talk about we\u2019re going to end disagreements, we\u2019re going to have unity, we\u2019re going to get rid of the blue state divide, we\u2019re going to lower the sea levels, we\u2019re going to save the earth, we are going to have a new era of economic prosperity in this country. All of these wonderful platitudes, but then came the specifics. <\/p>\n

So you match up what happened with the stimulus bill with the platitudes and they don\u2019t go together. There aren\u2019t anything but three million jobs lost. There aren\u2019t any jobs created. They\u2019re now having to resort — I\u2019ve got some stories here in the stack — they\u2019re having to resort to saying the stimulus worked by saying, ‘Look at all the jobs saved, look at all the layoffs that haven\u2019t happened.\u2019 Well, there\u2019s no way to calculate layoffs that haven\u2019t happened and make it sound successful, but that\u2019s what they\u2019re reduced to doing. Even the bailouts, bailing out General Motors ended up with the government owning it, with Obama firing the CEO. And now we see Obama attacking the American people right out of the Oval Office and with the snitch website. So all of those wonderful platitudes — you remember people were actually saying, folks, in the media, ‘We\u2019ve never had anybody like this before. There\u2019s never been anybody like this in American politics,\u2019 and the American people, enough of them, number of them, ‘Yeah.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Most people are disgusted by politics. Most people look at these town halls and they think that\u2019s what politics every day is, a bunch of lying, conniving members of Congress who will say anything to get constituents off their back, head back to Washington and do whatever they want to do and somehow getting rich personally in the process. And we had somebody who was going to come along and just be something unlike anything we\u2019ve ever seen. And what do we learn? We have discovered that this is the most radical of what we have always had. The platitudes do not match the specifics. We\u2019ve lost three million jobs. There is no sign that that is slowing down. There is no sign it\u2019s going to change, and the more Obama takes over the private sector, the fewer opportunities for private sector jobs there will be. We don\u2019t see signs of economic growth. We don\u2019t see upbeat attitudes, and we don\u2019t see any inspirational, positive attitudes from people. It\u2019s still very negative. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Obama\u2019s out there still speaking in these platitude generalities. ‘We\u2019re going to rebuild our economy, it\u2019s going to take some time, but we\u2019re going to make it stronger than ever so that this never happens again.\u2019 Right now people aren\u2019t worried about it happening again. They want this over with, and they\u2019re learning, more and more, that the thing standing in their way is Barack Obama and his administration and Democrat Party policies. They are not helping. They are not fulfilling any of the promise. So Obama has a credibility problem. The more he goes out and does these town hall meetings and appears as detached from reality as he is, to keep using this post office example, to keep saying you get to keep your doctor and your insurance plan. Well, now it\u2019s highly likely you\u2019ll be able to. Whatever the gift was, it\u2019s gone and we have your standard run-of-the-mill politician. Stop and think of this. Think of all the popularity this guy had. Think of the trust, think of the hope that was invested in this guy by the people that voted for him.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Our previous caller was right on the money with this whole notion of credibility — and trust. Obama has squandered an amazing amount of it. On every issue that matters to him, he\u2019s losing big in the polls. And look at this headline from Politico: ‘GOP Gains Steam as Health Bill Sputters … ‘Republicans have quickly recovered their voice,\u2019 Rep. Mark Kirk, whose Senate campaign in Illinois has many Republicans eyeing a pickup told Politico.\u2019 Republicans have recovered their voice? Let\u2019s be clear what\u2019s happened here: Conservatives and a liberty-centered message has prevailed in this argument. The Republicans didn\u2019t counter Obamacare. The Republicans\u2019 ‘counter\u2019 was with a version of Obama\u2019s premise! What\u2019s happened here is that conservatism is causing the Republican Party to get some credit here for whatever is gaining steam. There are a lot of good conservatives in the Republican Party in elected positions, don\u2019t misunderstand. But it is a conservative, liberty-centered message that is prevailing in this argument. It\u2019s a substantive, real message over a scam; something that is widely seen as a scam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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