{"id":35763,"date":"2010-06-29T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:50:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T00:50:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:50:28","slug":"the_disillusionment_of_the_left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/06\/29\/the_disillusionment_of_the_left\/","title":{"rendered":"The Disillusionment of the Left"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: Yesterday spent some time sharing with you my valued insights on the reason for the misery, the unhappiness, the despondency, the depression of all the leftists in this country — and it\u2019s because they got their panacea. They got their guy. They got their ‘clean, articulate\u2019 president. They got every policy wonk in power they ever wanted. They\u2019ve got all the agenda. They got health care. They got stimulus to create jobs. They got people in homes that can\u2019t afford \u2019em. It\u2019s supposed to be utopia out there, and it isn\u2019t working. They are staring their own failure right in the face. They have looked to the past, and they have seen the failure of socialism, Marxism and communism everywhere — and their response to it was, ‘Well, the right people have never been in charge. But we are the ones we\u2019ve been waiting for!\u2019 <\/p>\n

And now, 18 months in, it\u2019s a disaster. Not one aspect of the leftist biblical belief is working as they have fantasized. There\u2019s even more disillusionment coming from the left. Bob Herbert today in the New York Times, a columnist: ‘Wrong Track Distress — It\u2019s getting harder and harder for most Americans, looking honestly at the state of the nation, to see the glass as half full. And that\u2019s why the public opinion polls contain nothing but bad news for Barack Obama and the Democrats. The oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, the war in Afghanistan and, above all, the continuing epidemic of joblessness [epidemic of joblessness!] have pushed the nation into a funk. All the crowing in the world about the administration\u2019s legislative accomplishments — last year\u2019s stimulus package, this year\u2019s health care reform, etc. — is not enough to lift the gloom.\u2019 <\/p>\n

In fact, it makes the gloom worse because it\u2019s these legislative accomplishments that have led to the disaster! ‘Mr. Obama and the Democrats have wasted the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity handed to them in the 2008 election,\u2019 and this gets to the nub of it, folks. It\u2019s exactly what I was saying yesterday. ‘Mr. Obama and the Democrats have wasted the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity handed to them…\u2019 No they\u2019ve not. They have used it exactly as they have intended, Mr. Herbert. It doesn\u2019t work! He writes, ‘They did not focus on jobs, jobs, jobs as their primary mission, and they did not call on Americans to join in a bold national effort (which would have required a great deal of shared sacrifice) to solve a wide range of very serious problems, from our over-reliance on fossil fuels to the sorry state of public education to the need to rebuild the nation\u2019s rotting infrastructure.\u2019 <\/p>\n

What was the ‘stimulus\u2019 all about, Mr. Herbert? It was all about ‘jobs, jobs, jobs.\u2019 It was all about ‘rebuilding the nation\u2019s rotting infrastructure.\u2019 It was all about ‘shovel-ready jobs,\u2019 and it was all about ending our dependence foreign oil. A trillion dollars of it, Mr. Herbert! He hadn\u2019t been focused on jobs? Of course there wasn\u2019t any focus on jobs, jobs, jobs, because this never had a prayer of creating any jobs, jobs, jobs — and extending unemployment benefits is not creating jobs. Extending unemployment benefits is not creating income. It\u2019s not producing economic growth; it is retarding it. Extended unemployment benefits do nothing but incentivize people not to look for work, and it does nothing to add to productivity in any way, shape, manner, or form. <\/p>\n

‘Fifteen million Americans are unemployed,\u2019 laments Mr. Herbert, ‘according to the official count, which wildly understates the reality. Assuming no future economic setbacks and job creation at a rate of 200,000 or so a month, it would take more than a decade to get us back to where we were when the Great Recession began in December 2007,\u2019 but of course Vice President Bite Me has said over the weekend that we\u2019re not going to replace all those eight million jobs we lost. We just can\u2019t do it. Ronaldus Magnus created a 92-month boom, created millions and millions of new jobs with optimism and good cheer. There\u2019s none of that. There\u2019s nobody talking about the greatness of America. There\u2019s nobody talking about the greatness of Americans. All we have is people lamenting about the unfair advantage America has had over the years, the problems that we have caused around the world. <\/p>\n

Mr. Herbert says, ‘Americans struggling in a down economy are worried about the survival of their families. Destitution is beckoning for those whose unemployment benefits are running out, and that crowd of long-term jobless men and women is expanding rapidly.\u2019 Right, Mr. Herbert. He concludes with this. ‘It\u2019s not too late for the president to turn things around, but there is no indication that he has any plan or strategy for doing it.\u2019 Right, Mr. Herbert! Congratulations. It took you near the end of your 750 words but you got it. Let me add to it: There\u2019s no indication he has any plan or strategy or desire to turn things around, Mr. Herbert. That\u2019s what you\u2019re missing. Anybody with half an economic brain would look at what we\u2019re doing and say, ‘This ain\u2019t right. This is not how you go about expanding an economy and creating growth.\u2019 <\/p>\n

It seems to me Mr. Herbert is not even the same room as reality. But alas, he does represent a kind of thinking that\u2019s popular with Obama\u2019s most valued intellectual peers. If Obama\u2019s losing Bob Herbert and if he\u2019s losing Paul Krugman on the economy, it could be likened to Lyndon Johnson losing Walter ‘Klondike\u2019 on the Vietnam War. That is, it would be similar if anybody still gave a rat\u2019s rear end what the salons in the New York Times opined about anything, but they don\u2019t even care that much anymore what the Times says (except on the Upper West Side). So Bob Herbert: After a year and a half, we\u2019re supposed to be in a panacea; we\u2019re supposed to be in utopia. People that can\u2019t afford homes were supposed to be in homes, uhhhh, paying their mortgages, or having them paid for them. We\u2019ve taken over the car industry. That shoulda rebounded; it hasn\u2019t. <\/p>\n

We\u2019ve taken over student loans, but the cost of an education is skyrocketing way out of proportion. We\u2019ve taken over and punished Wall Street, the markets continue to plummet. We have spent a trillion dollars to create jobs. Obama\u2019s urged the rest of the world, ‘Keep spending! More debt, more debt, more debt.\u2019 The rest of the world said to the G-Whiz meeting over the weekend, ‘Ain\u2019t no way! We tried it your way for 30, 40 years. It\u2019s not working.\u2019 So there is dissatisfaction, there is disillusionment, there is disappointment all over the left because nobody can stop them. They have the ability with their majorities in Congress to do anything they want, and if they don\u2019t do it that way, they can do it by ‘deeming\u2019 it to be done or by executive order — and after all these years, these 50 years block that they have been dreaming of this very moment like Herbert says, ‘a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,\u2019 and they are witnessing the utter failure of their own sacred beliefs. I, in one sense, love that. I hate what they\u2019re doing to the country. I despise and I resent it deeply, but I am happy in one small way, that people, including those on the left, can now finally see the utter destruction that comes from unchecked liberalism. Look at Detroit. Look at any red or blue city or blue state run unchecked by liberals for how many years, what are they doing? Bulldozing houses. Former corporate office towers occupied by ‘government workers.\u2019 They\u2019re not just bulldozing houses, 12,000 houses! They\u2019re shrinking cities that they have run, that they still run, that they control — and some of them still harbor this hope that Obama will turn it around, when the dirty little secret is Obama has gotten precisely what he wanted.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Susie in Spokane, Washington. This the right side of the state. Great to have you on the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Boy, you got that right, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: As I do most things.<\/p>\n

CALLER: A couple of sweet things. First of all, Mr. Snerdley is the sweetest guy, love him — and secondly congratulations on your marriage.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much. Appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I like that a lot.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. I\u2019m calling because how come nobody has compared the recovery after 9\/11 and the dot-com bubble burst and how good a job George Bush did compared to today?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well-ll-ll (laughing), because Bush is responsible for the depression that we\u2019re in!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, and I want you to know, I checked a few statistics, and as of — I think it was February 2002 this would have been, let\u2019s see, seven months after 9\/11.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Bush created 850,000 jobs that month.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just find it ludicrous that nobody seems to remember that, and all because of the tax cut.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Precisely. Because the template is that tax cuts led to where we are now.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And the economic disparity, the rich getting richer, the poor getting poorer. They only have three TV sets and one air-conditioned car now instead of two. <\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: And all the other tumult and chaos — the oil spill, Hurricane Katrina — it\u2019s all Bush\u2019s fault. You can\u2019t go back and look at the economic success. You can\u2019t go back and look at Reagan\u2019s success. You can\u2019t go back and look at the success of Reagan\u2019s means of coming out of that recession in 1980 and \u201982.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Well, that and this whole oil spill is so mismanaged, I\u2019m beside myself. It\u2019s just too much.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It is said ‘criminal neglect\u2019 the other day.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That may be strong, but this is outrageous, and they think we\u2019re going to be mollified by sending Vice President Bite Me down there to hang around the command center and look at TV monitors?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, he\u2019s got all the plugs, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I know, but despite all the thousands of plugs Biden has, all of them together would not plug the leak.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (giggles) Yeah. Well, hey, that\u2019s all I have to say.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey, Chuck, let \u2019em see you! Get out of that wheelchair, Chuck! Oh, God love you. Aw, gee. Bite me, Chuck. <\/p>\n

CALLER: (giggling)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, Vice President Bite Me is down there in the command center in New Orleans looking at monitors and so forth as experts explain, ‘Yes, what\u2019s happening, Mr. Bite Me is there\u2019s a hole and there\u2019s oil in the hole. There\u2019s a lot of pressure in natural gas and the oil is coming out of the hole, and it\u2019s getting into the Gulf of Mexico. That\u2019s water. The Gulf of Mexico is water and the oil\u2019s getting in there. It\u2019s been going on for 60 days.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘You don\u2019t have to be a smart ass about it,\u2019 Biden said. <\/p>\n

You know, if you want to plug the hole, send Gore, folks. Apparently that may be the trick.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: No country has ever been able to grow out of a recession through tax increases or deficit spending. The Germans told that to Obama the other day. I think the Germans also said, ‘You know, Obama, you\u2019re really the first American president to do what you\u2019re doing. You got two wars going. Normally people with wars have expanding economies. You\u2019re the first president to kill an economy with two wars going on!\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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