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RUSH: Mitch McConnell, the minority leader, went over to the Heritage Foundation today to make a speech, and I watched a little bit of the speech. There also was a Q&amp;A, and he was asked to explain the mandate.<\/p>\n

MCCONNELL: Tuesday\u2019s election was not about Republicans; it was about the Democrats. They got a report card. They got an F. We\u2019ll see how they want to change direction. And, look, I\u2019ve said repeatedly and I\u2019ll say it again today, I don\u2019t want the president to fail, I want him to change. We weren\u2019t sent here to do nothing and if he wants to address spending debt and private sector job creation he\u2019ll find a willing partner in Senate and House Republicans.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, you know what he means here. Do you think he\u2019s taking a slap at me, Snerdley? I don\u2019t think he\u2019s taking a slap at me, \u2019cause a lot of people told me he said this, ‘Rush, McConnell\u2019s coming after you.\u2019 No, no, no, I don\u2019t think he\u2019s coming after me with this. When he says I don\u2019t want the president to fail, he\u2019s not talking about me. He said I want him to change. He is failing is what\u2019s happening. And McConnell says, ‘Look, we weren\u2019t sent here to do nothing. ‘We weren\u2019t sent here to do nothing,\u2019 McConnell said. ‘If Obama wants to address spending debt, private sector job creation, he\u2019ll find a willing partner.\u2019 But if he doesn\u2019t, we\u2019ll be willing to do nothing. That\u2019s called gridlock. (interruption) Okay, what\u2019s so funny in there? Tell me what you\u2019re laughing about. Hm-hm. No, no, no. Brian, he didn\u2019t seek approval from me to say what he said here. I didn\u2019t even know he was gonna be at the Heritage Foundation. No, he did not call me to seek approval to say, ‘I hope he doesn\u2019t fail.\u2019 And for those of you at The Politico, McConnell did not call and seek permission to disagree with me on this. McConnell also vowed to keep bringing up Obamacare for repeal.<\/p>\n

MCCONNELL: On health care, that means we can and should propose and vote on straight repeal repeatedly. But we can\u2019t expect the president to sign it. So we\u2019ll also have to work in the House on denying funds for implementation and in the Senate on votes against its most egregious provisions.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And about the Democrats, moving to them and compromise, McConnell said…<\/p>\n

MCCONNELL: Republicans have a plan for following through on the wishes of the American people. It starts with gratitude and a certain humility for the task we\u2019ve been handed. It means sticking ever more closely to the conservative principles that got us here. It means learning the lessons of history. And above all, it means listening to the people who sent us here.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, they\u2019re saying this over and over. Other than Lindsey Graham and Trent Lott, this is what they\u2019re saying. Lindsey Graham and Trent Lott are blaming Sharron Angle and Christine O\u2019Donnell for having lost the Senate. But everybody else saying, ‘Okay, we heard you, and we\u2019re not gonna make the mistake we made last time.\u2019 Has Obama invited some people up for dinner? Oh, is this after he gets back from the exile? When he gets back from exile in India he\u2019s invited the House and Senate leadership, eight in total. Oh yeah, we called that the Slurpee Summit. We had a beer summit, we\u2019ve had jobs summits. Let\u2019s have the Slurpee Summit. There it is: ‘Obama Invites Republican Leaders to Dinner.\u2019 It\u2019s in the New York Times. <\/p>\n

By the way, look, I only wanted Obama to fail insofar as I want America to succeed. Everybody knows this. This thinking I said something controversial, that\u2019s just an effort by these people to muddy the waters. Everybody knows what I meant by that. Well, it was controversial because I was the only one saying it. Everybody else at the time was, ‘Okay, he\u2019s just elected, honeymoon, let\u2019s go along to get along.\u2019 But I mean the people that were ripping into me, they knew what I was saying, they knew that I didn\u2019t want the country to fail, they knew that. Well, there might be one person that didn\u2019t. Let\u2019s go back to the audio sound bites. Going back, gotta find Scarborough, I think it\u2019s number five. Once guy persists in either not knowing what I said or really doesn\u2019t get it. Joe Scarborough was at the Kennedy School for government at Harvard Monday night during a forum entitled, ‘Beyond the Midterms, a New Way Forward.\u2019 And Joe Scarborough, who was a member of the freshman class of 1994, and I was an honorary member of that class, I went up there and spoke to them during their orientation. Somebody asked me, ‘Rush, have you been invited to come speak to the freshman orientation for this class?\u2019 No. ‘Are you expecting to be, Rush?\u2019 No. ‘Does it bother you?\u2019 No, it doesn\u2019t. Been there, done that. Anyway, here\u2019s Scarborough talking about me and ‘I hope he fails.\u2019 You be the judge. He either is challenged or is purposely distorting it.<\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: It\u2019s stunning to me that Rush Limbaugh would say that he was cheering against the president. I would be hard-pressed to find many things outside the area of education that I agree with Barack Obama on, but I want him to succeed.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop tape. Now, that\u2019s just stupid. That is stupid, or maybe there\u2019s something else going on. Let\u2019s take this literally. I would be hard-pressed to find many things outside the area of education that I agree with Obama on, but I want him to succeed. That\u2019s not even cogent. It\u2019s not even coherent. There\u2019s not very many things I agree with Gorbachev on but I really hope he succeeds over there. Here\u2019s the rest of the bite, go back to the top of it and I will translate this for you in four words. The Wall Street Journal said, ‘Could you write for us 200 words on what you hope for Obama?\u2019 I said, ‘It won\u2019t take 200, I can do it in four: ‘I hope he fails.” I\u2019ll translate Scarborough. This is a 38 second sound bite. I will translate what he says here in four words.<\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: It\u2019s stunning to me that Rush Limbaugh would say that he was cheering against the president. I would be hard-pressed to find many things outside the area of education that I agreed with Barack Obama on. But I want him to succeed. I grew up with a grandmother that I saw, not cheering against the president of the United States, but praying for the president of the United States, praying for her country. I saw her even praying for Jimmy Carter. If you can pray for Jimmy Carter, you can pray for anybody. This is a vicious cycle. It\u2019s a vicious cycle, and voters are the only ones who will be able to break it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, four words to translate that sound bite from Joe Scarborough: ‘I work for MSNBC.\u2019 I can offer more words if you want, but that sound bite translated, ‘I work for MSNBC. I have to keep my job. I make really good money now, more than I made in Congress. My bosses are really liberal, and my bosses hope I fail. I am living on their good graces so I have to kiss their butt. I have to fit in. It\u2019s a vicious job, but I need it. Therefore, I pray for Barack Obama.\u2019 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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