{"id":36791,"date":"2010-11-08T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:20:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-06-07T16:37:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T20:37:58","slug":"democrat_reaction_to_thumping_signals_deep_problem_with_obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/11\/08\/democrat_reaction_to_thumping_signals_deep_problem_with_obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Reaction to Thumping Signals Deep Problem with Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"
RUSH: There are a couple of themes that have evolved out there, and I\u2019m gonna add a third to it. Pelosi has announced she\u2019s gonna run for leader of the Democrats in the House again and a bunch of people are suggesting that she should. I mean how tone deaf do you have to be to insist on keeping not just Pelosi, the same party leadership in the House, they want to keep it, the Democrats are gonna keep it. You just had a 69 seat blowout — well, 63 seats in the House, it could reach that high, six seats in the Senate, and they want to have the same leadership back? Here\u2019s Jim Clyburn, TheHill.com: ”Underdog\u2019 Clyburn Says Dem Losses in House had ‘Nothing to Do\u2019 with Pelosi — Outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s (D-Calif.) leadership had ‘nothing to do\u2019 with Democrats\u2019 losses in last week\u2019s election, the No. 3 House Democrat said Monday. Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) blamed the poorly-performing economy for the party\u2019s electoral drubbing, which saw them lose around 60 seats in the House, along with their control of the majority.\u2019<\/p>\n

They also are saying health care had nothing to do with the loss. That\u2019s the big thing. If you\u2019ve watched, if you spent any time watching the Sunday shows, you even saw this develop late last week. Mara Liasson was one of the first out of the box trying to keep her job at NPR after seeing what happened to Juan Williams out there, so she\u2019s leading the charge, Juan Williams following up. Health care had nothing to do with this. The health care bill had nothing to do with the reason the Democrats lost. I hope they continue to think that. They think it\u2019s messaging. They went back and they talked to George Lakoff (rhymes with) to get more information. They think it was lousy marketing, lousy messaging. Well, if they think health care had nothing to do with it, we got a golden opportunity here. The Republicans need to send up to the White House a repeal of the health care law en masse, in toto, every month, send it up every week and make him veto it, make the Democrats defend it. If health care had nothing to do with the reason they lost, make the Democrats defend it. It was all the economy, who\u2019s in charge of that? Make them defend all of these things. In other words, if they just had a better message, then this wouldn\u2019t have happened, because it wasn\u2019t policy.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re out there claiming their policies, I don\u2019t care what it was, spending, debt, health care had nothing to do with their shellacking. They\u2019re gonna keep the Senate leadership, too, Dingy Harry. Now, if the House losses had nothing to do with Pelosi, what, she had no power? Health care had nothing to do with it? There\u2019s a big story in The Politico today, and you can take and analyze this in a whole bunch of different ways. Folks, I always trust my instincts. I read this Politico story today, Obama isolated ahead of 2012, and I\u2019ll give you some of the — and they\u2019re just a story AP, Obama surprised by political cost of health care. I read this Politico story: ‘Obama Isolated Ahead of 2012,\u2019 and the conventional wisdom analyzing this is that it\u2019s a messaging problem, and if they coulda just rearranged some of the ways they were talking about all of this then the outcome would have been different. The narrative is that health care and Obama and all had nothing to do with the election and the Tea Parties had some role in it and so forth. As I read this I\u2019m wondering if there\u2019s a lot more going on in the White House than we know about.<\/p>\n

Look at what\u2019s just happened here. This is the biggest drubbing since the thirties, the biggest drubbing. This is not insignificant. I think the House leadership, the Democrat leadership in the Senate, I think this narrative to keep that leadership in both houses the same is an attempt to cover up something that is far worse. I think this party knows that it is in far greater trouble in the White House and on down than they want to admit. And I think there are members of the media covering the White House who know it. I think that deep in the bowels of the Democrat Party they realize, some people realize that Obama is an utter disaster and that they\u2019re going to have to do something about it. And I think this Politico story, ‘Obama Isolated Ahead of 2012,\u2019 is made to look like a hit piece on Obama. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a hit piece on Obama per se. I think it is the beginning of sort of setting the table for what might happen, set the foundation for what might happen as the months ahead unfold.<\/p>\n

Now, I don\u2019t know anything. This is just my instincts. They\u2019re running around acting like this is not that big a deal, this drubbing that they took last week, it\u2019s not really that big a deal, but it is the biggest drubbing since 1948. The thing that has, I think, become clear in their minds is that at the center of this is Obama. Michael Novak has a piece at National Review talking about how the American people made a moral statement in the election. We don\u2019t want to be European socialists. This was an utter, total rejection of an American president unlike any in American history. That\u2019s Michael Novak\u2019s take and I happen to agree with him. No president has ever been utterly rejected like this on substance, on the basis of policy. It wasn\u2019t marketing. It wasn\u2019t packaging. It wasn\u2019t a lack of proper messaging. It had everything to do with what Obama stands for. It had everything to do with the direction Obama wants to take this country.<\/p>\n

When you have independents moving in such droves against a sitting president, the same independents who elected him, it\u2019s actually a very heartening thing to realize that a large segment of the American population is taking notes, is paying attention, is expressing at the ballot box their utter disagreement, their utter rejection of everything the Democrats stand for, and that is Obama. The Democrats making it clear here that they\u2019re going to stick with the same leadership team is an effort I believe to cover up what is really going on behind the scenes and that is a total shakeup some way to limit the damage of Obama going forward into 2012. Folks, I wish that I could tie this to something substantive that I know, \u2019cause there isn\u2019t anything. Common sense. This kind of drubbing is not reacted to in such a cavalier manner as they are reacting to this. You don\u2019t send the president out of the country for ten days after such a drubbing unless you want him offstage domestically.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m gonna get into this Politico story in greater detail as the program unfolds today, but let me just give you the opening paragraph of this thing: ‘President Barack Obama has performed his act of contrition. Now comes the hard part, according to Democrats around the country: reckoning with the simple fact that he\u2019s isolated himself from virtually every group that matters in American politics.\u2019 Now, you could look at that paragraph and say, ‘Hmm, he\u2019s tone deaf, he\u2019s an elitist, he\u2019s arrogant, he\u2019s conceited, he\u2019s isolated himself,\u2019 or you could look at that paragraph and say, ‘Something is seriously wrong.\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Congressional Democrats consider him distant and blame him for their historic defeat on Tuesday. Democratic state party leaders scoff at what they see as an inattentive and hapless political operation. Democratic lobbyists feel maligned by his holier-than-thou take on their profession. His own Cabinet — with only a few exceptions — has been marginalized. His relations with business leaders could hardly be worse. Obama has suggested it\u2019s a PR problem, but several Democratic officials said CEOs friendly with the president walk away feeling he\u2019s indifferent at best to their concerns. Add in his icy relations with Republicans, the media and, most important, most voters, and it\u2019s easy to understand why his own staff leaked word to POLITICO that it wants Obama to shake up his staff and change his political approach.\u2019 Now, who\u2019s doing the leaking, and why? Who are the adults in this party that have finally come to Jesus and understood this is an unmitigated disaster that we have elected? It\u2019s an unmitigated disaster in the White House. Who is it leaking to the Politico, and for what ultimate purpose? Because whatever\u2019s in The Politico is not the ultimate purpose. The Politico is being used here or is complicit in being used to accomplish something here. We know that this is not just per se a hit piece on Obama to explain what happened. There\u2019s far more going on here. My antenna are sky-high.<\/p>\n

‘It should be a no-brainer for a humbled Obama to move quickly after Tuesday\u2019s thumping to try to repair these damaged relations, and indeed, in India on Sunday, he acknowledged the need for ‘midcourse corrections.\u2019 But many Democrats privately say they are skeptical that Obama is self-aware enough to make the sort of dramatic changes they feel are needed — in his relations with other Democrats or in his very approach to the job.\u2019 They are skeptical that Obama is self-aware enough. Now, that doesn\u2019t mean elitist. That doesn\u2019t mean arrogant. That doesn\u2019t mean conceited. That means, is he all there, period? That means — well, you know what it means. That means, is everything normal? My interpretation here.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m gonna take an obscene profit time-out here. But you sit tight, come back, and I will explain more of this. And again, I want to stress instincts, just a feeling. I\u2019ve never doubted them. I\u2019ve always trusted my instincts, particularly in matters political. But it just strains credulity for me to believe the Democrats think nothing\u2019s wrong here except messaging, that all they need is to go talk to George Lakoff and come up with a different way of presenting their case. They know full well why they got trounced. Now, they\u2019re not gonna admit it. They\u2019re obviously gonna come up with, ‘Yeah, bad marketing, bad packaging, bad messaging,\u2019 but there has never been this huge a personal repudiation of a president in just two years, especially one who was messianic, he has fallen from heavenly heights.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, what I\u2019m saying is… Look, I know this is going to sound strange to you if you base it on some of my previous comments, because on the one hand everything that\u2019s happened here is because we\u2019ve had exactly what Obama has wanted to happen. He has wanted to inflict damage on the US private sector. He knows that single-payer health care is the fastest way to accomplish that. He\u2019s trying to put the private insurance business out of business. Here comes this election, this shellacking, and based on this story in the Politico (and based on the insistence that health care had nothing to do with this), my sense is that there are some Democrats who think Obama and everybody he has brought to Washington with him — everybody who is of like mind with Obama — is doing long-term damage to the Democrat Party. There have to be Democrats thinking that.<\/p>\n

Now, I know we look at them and we see them as invincible, as unafraid, as not concerned that they lose this kind of power. Folks, it\u2019s not just Washington. They have lost state legislatures. They have lost governorships. The Democrat Party took a drubbing. It was a wipeout the likes of which this country has not seen, and it is owing to one man. One man made this happen, Barack Obama, and I\u2019m suggesting to you that there are Democrats somewhere — it may not be very many, but there are Democrats somewhere — who know it and are asking themselves if they can survive two more years of this as a party. I know that balances weirdly with the assessment we\u2019ve all made that they\u2019re about destroying, on purpose, the institutions and traditions of this country — and I believe that the far left has co-opt the Democrat Party in many ways. But there are some adults in that party, I\u2019m convinced, who don\u2019t want what they want so badly that they\u2019re willing to destroy their ability to have power for generations.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Folks, I\u2019m gonna have to double-check this, but I\u2019m pretty certain the last time that there were less than 200 Democrats in the House of Representatives was 1947 — 1947! This is the worst drubbing since 1948. I erred when I said it was in the thirties last week. But it\u2019s not just that, it\u2019s not just less than 200 Democrats in the House since 1947. It\u2019s the governorships. It\u2019s state legislatures. You may not know this. The Republicans are making a move on West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin to switch parties. He sounded like Ronald Reagan in his campaign. There\u2019s no way Joe Manchin can vote with the Democrats the next two years and have any hope of being reelected. The Republicans are making a move in there to get him to switch parties.<\/p>\n

Now, in addition to all the governorships and less than 200 Democrats in the House (since 1947, first time for that), there were 680 state legislative seats that switched hands. You know what this means? This means if the Republicans have the guts (and we\u2019ll have to wait and see on this), they could redistrict the Democrat Party into permanent minority status for who knows how long. Well, ‘permanent.\u2019 Nothing\u2019s permanent in politics. There\u2019s any number of steps that Republicans could take to weaken much of the power base that has built the Democrat Party. Republicans have control of the rewriting of 195 congressional districts. One hundred and ninety-five can be rewritten now — gerrymandered, if you will (‘Jerry-mandered\u2019 if you prefer that pronunciation) for perpetual Republican elections, compared to 45 for the Democrats.<\/p>\n

So my point here is: This is huge what happened last Tuesday, and it is a rejection of one man and his policies. Now, the Democrats are out there trying to say it had nothing to do with health care, it had nothing to do with policy, it was all messaging. That is to co-opt everybody and to fool everybody. They\u2019re also out saying, ‘The Tea Party cost the Republicans the Senate.\u2019 The Tea Party is what gave this massive defeat to the Democrat Party. The Tea Party is what has vaulted the Republican Party to where it is. The Tea Party\u2019s responsible for 60 some odd seats in the House of Representatives. The Tea Party is responsible for victories in the Senate. Yeah, there were three that didn\u2019t go the way they wanted \u2019em to go, but the effort here to blame the Tea Party for this is part of the narrative and template.<\/p>\n

This Politico story shows there is something bubbling up way below the surface and it\u2019s getting closer and closer to reaching the surface — and if it does, I think people are gonna be shocked and stunned at what might happen. Listen to this again: ‘[A]nd in his icy relations with Republicans, the media, and most important most voters, and it\u2019s easy to understand why his own staff leaked word to Politico that it wants Obama to shake up his staff and change his political approach.\u2019 Icy relations? Let me tell you something: His own staff leaked word to Politico that ‘it\u2019 wants Obama to shake up his staff? That means they\u2019re making efforts behind the scenes to get Obama to shake up his staff, and he is rejecting it, and so they\u2019re going the route of the media.<\/p>\n

This could be — and we\u2019ll just have to wait and see. This could be near mutinous what\u2019s happening here. ‘His own staff,\u2019 and who is the staff? Who is running the show? Emanuel\u2019s leaving. The economic team\u2019s gone. Axelrod\u2019s leaving in the spring. Who is running this show? Well, Valerie Jarrett\u2019s still running the show and Michelle (My Belle) Obama\u2019s still running the show, and this man makes it clear he\u2019s being nagged by women whenever he goes out and makes public statements. Who is running this show? Now you\u2019ve got The Politico saying that the staff is calling them, asking The Politico to publish the fact that they want him to change his political approach. ‘It should be a no-brainer for a humbled Obama…\u2019 That\u2019s not possible.<\/p>\n

This is another thing to throw in the mix: It\u2019s not possible to ‘humble\u2019 Obama. Obama has done everything he intended to do here. See, this is the problem they\u2019ve got. He doesn\u2019t look at this as brand destruction. This is… You think Jeremiah Wright cares about the Democrat Party? You think Bill Ayers cares about the Democrat Party? You think any of the people that mentored Barack Obama care about the Democratic Party except as a vehicle? You think there\u2019s any brand loyalty to the Democrat Party? I don\u2019t think there is, and there\u2019s no such thing as ‘a humbled Obama.\u2019 I think it\u2019s another thing that bothers them. No such thing as a man capable of humility, and if you\u2019re not capable of humility, then you\u2019re not capable understanding where you\u2019re going wrong.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s always somebody else\u2019s fault, and then paranoia sets in. ‘It should be a no-brainer for a humbled Obama…\u2019 Should be a no-brainer; should be, meaning anybody ought to be able to figure this out, ‘to move quickly after Thursday\u2019s thumping to try to repair these damaged relations, and indeed in India on Sunday he acknowledged the need for mid-course corrections.\u2019 In India? ‘But many Democrats privately say they are skeptical that Obama is self-aware enough to make the sort of dramatic changes they feel are needed in his relations with other Democrats or in his very approach to the job.\u2019 Many Democrats privately say…? Look, The Politico is famous for all these private people saying things without attribution. It\u2019s a political technique.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m taking all this into account in this analysis I\u2019m engaging in here. ‘Many Democrats privately say they are skeptical Obama is self-aware enough to make the sort of…\u2019 Do you understand what this could mean? He\u2019s taken a giant thumping, huge, not just in Washington, in the states, throughout the country. ‘Democrats privately say they\u2019re skeptical that Obama\u2019s self-aware enough to make the sort of dramatic change,\u2019 it hasn\u2019t dawned on Obama how big the drubbing is? If it hasn\u2019t dawned on Obama, why? Why could possibly explain that? ‘[S]keptical Obama is self-aware enough to make the sort of dramatic changes they feel are needed in his relations with other Democrats or in his very approach to the job.\u2019<\/p>\n

They question his self-awareness to the point they ask: Is he capable of doing the job? Folks, this is not lightly thrown out there by the Politico. The Politico is clearly State-Controlled Media, clearly sympathetic. You throw a paragraph like that out there? You got somebody detached, not even aware what happened, not capable of doing the job. Folks, put that in context with this giant, huge drubbing on Tuesday — which I think they were shocked at. I don\u2019t think the Democrats had any idea it was gonna be this bad. They live in denial. But now, now… (interruption) No, they didn\u2019t think it was gonna be this bad, Snerdley. They knew they were gonna lose some seats. They didn\u2019t think it was gonna extend down to dogcatcher, which it has.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: There\u2019s a companion story here, and I want you to grab audio sound bite number nine. AP: ‘Obama Surprised by Political Cost of Health Law.\u2019 Now, let\u2019s go back here. Many Democrats privately say they are skeptical that Obama is self-aware enough. Folks, you\u2019re telling this to the Politico. This is the kind of thing they would say about Newt Gingrich. It\u2019s the kind of thing they would say about George Bush. He\u2019s off his rocker; he\u2019s lost his marbles; that he\u2019s gone nutcase; that he\u2019s drinking again in the White House. There were all those stories out there that Bush had lost it, he\u2019s back on medicine for anxiety and all that kind of stuff. That\u2019s the kind of stuff they always say about Republicans. You don\u2019t see this about Democrats. ‘Many Democrats privately say they are skeptical that Obama is self-aware enough to make the sort of dramatic changes they feel are needed … or in his very approach to the job.\u2019 Self-aware enough to do the job? And then this next headline: ‘Obama Surprised by Political Cost of Health Law.\u2019 What are they setting up here? Are they setting up somebody totally out of touch, clueless, doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s going on out there? And he\u2019s helping. Last night, 60 minutes, Steve Kroft. You know how they promo\u2019d this? ‘Obama\u2019s First Postelection Interview.\u2019 Big whoop. It\u2019s about his one millionth interview. What\u2019s the big deal about it being his first postelection interview? Anyway, here\u2019s Kroft. ‘Are there things that you wish you could do over?\u2019<\/p>\n

OBAMA: There are some that argued, well, you should just stop and let people digest all these changes and so you shouldn\u2019t take on something as big as health care. It\u2019s a huge, big, complicated system. I made the decision to go ahead and do it. And it proved as costly politically as we expected, probably actually a little more costly than we expected politically.<\/p>\n

RUSH: From that we get an AP headline: ‘Obama Surprised by Political Cost of Health Law.\u2019 I don\u2019t believe that for a second. I know that Obama intended to do exactly what he did. He intended to do everything that he has done, and yet two separate stories. We\u2019re getting a picture of somebody clueless, outta touch, and in The Politico not self-aware enough to even do the gig. And now, he\u2019s out there saying, ‘I had no idea it was gonna be this costly politically.\u2019 BS. You knew damn well it was gonna cost this much politically. He doesn\u2019t care what happened to the Democrat Party. This is what I\u2019ve been trying to tell everybody for as long as he\u2019s been president. He doesn\u2019t care. He told the Blue Dogs, he sent Clinton out to confirm it, ‘You vote for this health care bill or you don\u2019t have a chance of being reelected.\u2019 They said, ‘Well, wait a minute, what happened to Democrats in \u201994? ‘ Obama said the difference is this time you\u2019ve got me. Well, look where that got \u2019em. The difference is this time you\u2019ve got me. Yeah. This time you got Obama, and you lost 60 seats. You have less than 200 members in the House since 1947, you\u2019ve lost state legislatures, you\u2019ve lost the governorship, the Republicans can redistrict Democrats out of power for who knows how long, and if they\u2019ve got the guts they can disempower some unions with right to work laws, if they\u2019ve got the guts to. And the Blue Dogs are now saying, ‘You know what? We\u2019re gonna stick with the same leadership in the House and the same leadership in the Senate.\u2019<\/p>\n

Folks, I wasn\u2019t born on a turnip truck, and I didn\u2019t fall off of one. But even if I had been born on a turnip truck and even if I had fallen off a turnip truck, you\u2019re not gonna make me think this is just standard old politics-as-usual after a political defeat. ‘In his effort to change Washington, Obama has failed to engage Washington and its institutions and customs.\u2019 I told you. He doesn\u2019t care what he leaves in his wake as he sets out to reform, transform America. He doesn\u2019t care about the wreckage. ‘In his effort to change Washington, Obama has failed to engage Washington and its institutions and customs, leaving him estranged from the capital\u2019s permanent power structure –‘ Well, we\u2019ve spoken of that on this program, the elite ruling class. They are liberal Democrat. They run that town politically. They run it business-wise, they run it socially, and he has failed to engage them. He is estranged from them? Right here it says so in The Politico. ‘– right at the moment when Democrats say he must rethink his strategy for cultivating and nurturing relations with key constituencies ahead of 2012.\u2019<\/p>\n

So, Obama\u2019s not Washington enough? Hell, he\u2019s not American enough. That\u2019s what they\u2019re saying here. He\u2019s not Washington enough? Because to these guys, Washington\u2019s America. San Francisco\u2019s not America. St. Louis is not America. Kansas City is not America. Washington is America. To the people that run that town, to the people that run that show. Here\u2019s a Democrat official — as usual in The Politico, unnamed — Democrat official who deals frequently with the White House. Quote: ‘This guy swept to power on a wave of adulation, and he learned the wrong lessons from that. He\u2019s more of a movement leader than a politician.\u2019 He\u2019s more of a movement leader than a politician. Meaning, he\u2019s above all of this. In his own mind, he\u2019s not of the soil. He\u2019s messianic. He\u2019s a movement leader. He doesn\u2019t care about our party. He\u2019s a community organizer. He\u2019s a movement leader. He won\u2019t come down to our level. This guy\u2019s final comment was, I\u2019m just quoting him, now. Hide the women and children, folks. Three, two, one, hide the women and children. Final quote, this political advisor, unnamed: ‘He needs someone to kick his ass on things large and small and teach him to be a politician.\u2019 Now, is Politico part of Reverse Operation Chaos? I ask you, folks, I ask you.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Boy, how times change, folks. I mean just a few weeks ago it was Obama looking around for asses to kick, and now it\u2019s his ass being kicked by unnamed Democrats in The Politico. Somebody needs to tell whoever leaked this all to the Politico that Obama\u2019s 9,000 miles away in India. If you want to make a change now\u2019s the perfect time. He\u2019s 9,000 miles away. If you think the adults need to step up here, this is the perfect time to do it. Change the lock on the Oval Office or worse.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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