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RUSH: Well, you knew this was coming. You knew it was coming. ‘The Obama administration will issue a new revised moratorium on offshore drilling today, two administration officials told The Associated Press. Both officials requested anonymity so as not to pre-empt the official announcement.\u2019 Here\u2019s Gibbs at the White House press briefing this afternoon. Bill Plante, CBS: ‘New offshore drilling moratorium coming out later today, eh? What\u2019s different about this that allows you to believe you can escape another court turnover?\u2019<\/p>\n

GIBBS: First and foremost, the president, uh, has and continues to believe, uh, that we have to be careful with what we\u2019re doing, given the uncertainty around what happens 84 days ago. W-w-we know that that is not without, uhh, some economic consequences to the region. But it\u2019s imperative that, uhhh, we have a sense of what happened before we it be to do this, uhhh, again.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So, ‘To hell with the law. We\u2019re just going to have another moratorium. Screw it. We\u2019ll make the court turn us down again. We\u2019ll make the court overturn us. We\u2019re not gonna stop this moratorium. We\u2019re gonna stop this drilling — and, by the way, it\u2019s not because we gotta find out what caused this. It\u2019s because we want to shut down the industry. We want more economic pain.\u2019 The first rig has already left the Gulf. It\u2019s in the Houston Chronicle. It\u2019s on the way over to Egypt. There is no question whatsoever what\u2019s going on. This is a question admitting it. Same thing here with…. If Obama succeeds in blaming others for his disastrous policies or not — and you know he\u2019s gonna try this. I mean that\u2019s not even a brilliant conclusion, folks. He\u2019s doing it! He\u2019s been doing it for a year and a half, talking about the mess he ‘inherited.\u2019 He wants to keep it up. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard, though, to blame Bush. I mean, Bush isn\u2019t on the ballot. Bush isn\u2019t running anymore. They\u2019re gonna run against Bush in 2010, gonna help \u2019em, but 2012 come along, Obama can\u2019t run against Bush. There will have been four years of Obama. But if the Republicans are running things, ah, it\u2019s easier. So what do we need? We need a presidential candidate who has the ability to articulate conservatism and insist that Obama is the problem, that he has had one-party rule and he now has a record, and his record of disaster is wide and deep and will do him in. That\u2019s easier said that done, \u2019cause right now there\u2019s not a Republican conservative out there saying it, and it\u2019s gonna take guts. I think they\u2019re still a little afraid to do so. They were afraid to criticize him the first because his candidacy was ‘historic,\u2019 first black presidential candidate — and now first black president, and every bit of criticism of Obama they\u2019re calling racist. <\/p>\n

You saw what Howard Kurtz did to me yesterday on Reliable Sources, totally mischaracterizing what I said. Anybody criticize Obama is a racist, sexist pig and they\u2019re laying in wait for whatever person is nominated by the Republicans. But all that nominee has to say, whoever the Republican nominee is, is, ‘Mr. Obama, you destroyed the job market. You chased investment offshore. Your regulations are smothering small business. Your spending policies have amassed an unprecedented debt. This is all on you.\u2019 It\u2019s easy to say it. It\u2019s true! All a Republican nominee has to do is utter the truth. The question is: Will we have one with the fortitude to do so? It\u2019s going to be a while before we know. <\/p>\n

This is Gibbs, the White House press secretary, this afternoon. Reporter: ‘You have had some days to digest what the Business Roundtable said, things the administration is doing as an obstacle to growth in hiring. Are you having second thoughts either about the direction of your policies,\u2019 bashing big business? <\/p>\n

GIBBS: No. I — I — I — I — I — I — Again, I — I — I\u2019m happy to compare the environment that business operates in now and the environment that they operated in, say, [in] the end of 2008. I think corporate profits are a pretty good example.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, the business community\u2019s doing fine. This is Obama\u2019s spokesman justifying continuing to target business. Look at their profits! Corporate profits are pretty good example. They\u2019re making evil profits. ‘We gotta go out and seize \u2019em,\u2019 is what Gibbs is saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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