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RUSH: Yesterday in the Washington Post, Douglas E. Schoen — a big-time Democrat pollster who was a ranking guy in the Clinton years. He\u2019s sorta persona non grata with the Democrats these days, not totally, but he\u2019s not the oracle that he was in the Clinton days \u2019cause he\u2019s not singing the song they want to hear — and Patrick Caddell have a piece entitled: ‘One and Done: To be a Great President, Obama Should Not Seek Reelection in 2012 … This is a critical moment for the country. From the faltering economy to the burdensome deficit to our foreign policy struggles, America is suffering a widespread sense of crisis and anxiety about the future. Under these circumstances, Obama has the opportunity to seize the high ground and the imagination of the nation once again, and to galvanize the public for the hard decisions that must be made. The only way he can do so, though, is by putting national interests ahead of personal or political ones.<\/p>\n

‘To that end, we believe Obama should announce immediately that he will not be a candidate for reelection in 2012. If the president goes down the reelection road, we are guaranteed two years of political gridlock at a time when we can ill afford it. But by explicitly saying he will be a one-term president, Obama can deliver on his central campaign promise of 2008, draining the poison from our culture of polarization and ending the resentment and division that have eroded our national identity and common purpose. We do not come to this conclusion lightly. But it is clear, we believe, that the president has largely lost the consent of the governed. … The president has almost no credibility left with Republicans and little with independents. The best way for him to address both our national challenges and the serious threats to his credibility and stature is to make clear that, for the next two years, he will focus exclusively on the problems we face as Americans, rather than the politics of the moment — or of the 2012 campaign. … Obama can and should dispense with the pollsters, the advisers, the consultants and the strategists who dissect all decisions and judgments in terms of their impact on the president\u2019s political prospects.\u2019<\/p>\n

Now, this isn\u2019t gonna happen. I think he\u2019s gonna be a one-termer, but I don\u2019t think he\u2019s gonna announce it. I think he is gonna be rejected, and I\u2019ve said this from the get-go, by the way. One of the early voices, when asked, it wasn\u2019t an out and front prediction. You remember when Obama was asked about this himself, I forget the exact quote, I forget exactly what he said, it was something about, ‘I could either do what\u2019s right or be a great president, and I would choose to do what\u2019s right even if that meant one term,\u2019 which means he\u2019s going to focus on his agenda and his agenda is the problem. He even said about the stimulus that if it didn\u2019t work he would be a one-term president. He is thinking about it, but that notion of being great or doing what\u2019s right, in his mind being great is acceding to public opinion, to listening to columns like this from Schoen and Caddell, but doing the right thing to him means fulfilling his wish list, bucket list agenda items, whatever. And we know what that is. <\/p>\n

I cringe every time I read somebody, particularly educated, intelligent people, saying this: ‘But by explicitly saying he will be a one-term president, Obama can deliver on his central campaign promise of 2008 –‘ central promise ‘– draining the poison from our culture of polarization and ending the resentment and division that have eroded our national identity and common purpose.\u2019 How many of you think that that is the central issue facing the country? That what we have to do is drain the poison from our culture of polarization, and we must end the resentment and division that have eroded our national identity and common purpose. I asked the question last Friday of a caller. Can you tell me when was the last time America was truly unified? I mean by that, can you tell me when there was a period of time when there was no opposition to whatever was happening in the country? And you can\u2019t. There has never been a time, even from the days of this nation\u2019s founding, there has never been a time where there has not been opposition, large or small or significant or insignificant to the direction the country was headed in at the time. It\u2019s part and parcel. <\/p>\n

How do you drain the poison from our culture of polarization? If you ask me — and I\u2019m sure to the left this would be proof positive it\u2019s not possible — to me to drain the poison from our culture means get rid of liberals, means defeat liberalism, means defeat Democrats. They are the poison. You know, what came first, the polarization or the poison? What came first, the disagreements or the policies that cause them? In my mind what came first are the policies, the directions that certain people want to take the country. That spawns the disagreement; that spawns the partisanship. The partisanship doesn\u2019t create it. The partisanship is the result of it. And so if partisanship or the poison of polarization must be gotten rid of, well, what\u2019s the poison? What is poisoning America? I\u2019ll tell you flat-out, the Democrat Party, the American left. That\u2019s the poison. And we see it. The Democrat Party has been running this country for the last four years. Pelosi and the Democrats assuming office in 2007, Obama in 2008, that\u2019s the poison. There are some Republicans who hold responsibility, too, because they behaved like Democrats. <\/p>\n

The Republicans are also part of the poison because they wanted to get along with the Democrats; they wanted to drink the poison; they wanted to share it. They thought that\u2019s what the American people wanted: share the poison. This notion we\u2019ve gotta get along? This is nothing more than an ill-advised or naive or maybe purposeful suggestion to make us go away, to make us shut up, to make us calm down. ‘Just stop opposing all this stuff, Rush.\u2019 When we ban some little kid from driving his bicycle with a flag up, ‘If you\u2019d just shut up, Rush, there wouldn\u2019t be any problem with it. You just let us take the guy\u2019s flag off his bicycle, if you wouldn\u2019t say anything, you and Drudge, then we\u2019d be fine. If you wouldn\u2019t oppose what Obama is doing with the health care bill, just agree with Pelosi, Rush, it doesn\u2019t matter what\u2019s in it. We don\u2019t have to read it. We don\u2019t need to know what\u2019s in it \u2019til we pass it. If we just agree with that stuff, Rush, we get rid of the poison. Rush, if you just shut up, if you just agree that we need to raise taxes on people, that we need to reorder the American economy. Rush, if you would just shut up and realize that we need to redistribute the wealth in this country \u2019cause the rich have come by it unfairly and in an ill-gotten way. Rush, if you would just shut up, why, we\u2019d all be happy. Rush, if you would just shut up about all this, if you would just let us ruin the country, Rush, then everybody would be happy, and there wouldn\u2019t be any poison. Just get out of our way, Rush, just shut up, just let us go ahead and remake this into a socialist, Marxist country like we want it to be, and everybody would be fine, and there won\u2019t be any disagreement because then the people that disagree we\u2019ll put in jail. So if you\u2019d just shut up, Rush.\u2019 <\/p>\n

So where\u2019s the poison? The poison — and it\u2019s literal poison, Schoen and Caddell have this right — the poison is the American left. The poison is the Democrat Party, because the American left control it more so than they ever have. You and I are the antidote. If we get bitten by a snake that has poisonous venom are we supposed to say, ‘Okay, snake won. We don\u2019t want to disagree with the snake. We certainly don\u2019t want to make the snake any angrier. Let\u2019s just die.\u2019 Is that how we react to poison? ‘Mr. Limbaugh, Mr. Limbaugh, you are totally incorrect. We are not the poison, you are.\u2019 Okay, fine. There\u2019s the argument. They think we\u2019re the poison. So what are they supposed to do, just sit down and let us win? Neither side\u2019s gonna do that. So this notion of draining the poison from the culture of polarization, the only way to do that is one side has to lose and profoundly, and they have to keep losing. This country has to reassert itself as a nation of freedom, a beacon of liberty, a constitutional government, a representative republic as founded. Anything less is unacceptable. That\u2019s why people are fighting. That\u2019s why there is a Tea Party. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s why there was a landslide election against the poison on November the 2nd, and it will continue. Because the American people now have realized that what Obama promised was not an elixir. He wasn\u2019t the medicine man. He did not have the magic potion that was going to rid the country of this partisanship and all of these disagreements and this friction and uncomfortableness. Obama is a phony, totally unlike that which he was portrayed and as he portrayed himself. So Messrs. Schoen and Caddell, this whole premise that we\u2019ve gotta drain the poison, yeah, but the poison is not the disagreement. The disagreement arises from the poison. And until we all agree, or a vast majority of us agree what the poison is, all of this is gonna continue, by definition. I mean if I believe in my heart and mind that the left, the Democrat Party is poison, why am I gonna give that up? What\u2019s gonna come along and make me compromise that away? Nothing. Others maybe, but not me. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Okay, all kinds of people are asking, ‘What do you mean poison?\u2019 I knew that was gonna get \u2019em. I knew. You go out and you call the Democrat Party poison. Even that some people don\u2019t want to hear. A lot of you are cheering it, don\u2019t misunderstand, I understand that. ‘But gosh, Rush, that\u2019s kind of harsh, calling Obama\u2019s presidency ‘graffiti on the walls of history.” What else would you call it? What else would you call this presidency? It\u2019s an absolute disaster. It\u2019s graffiti on the walls of history. We\u2019ve got a veritable, in terms of experience, a juvenile delinquent here. We got the least qualified guy in any room he walks into. Public and private property is under assault. His own gang isn\u2019t making much of an effort to protect him. I mean you see some efforts in the media flailing away, but this is graffiti on the walls of American history. <\/p>\n

Okay, so you want to know what a poison is. There are all kinds of poison. There\u2019s not just one poison out there, but here\u2019s one, and it\u2019s not the poison of partisanship in Washington. Partisanship is the result of the poison. Our culture of personal responsibility, our culture of rugged individualism, our entrepreneurial spirit, pursuit of excellence, that culture has been poisoned. We now have people looking to government, not for help, but for their existence. We now have government determining people\u2019s outcomes by limitation. Anybody depending on government is going to be limited. Would you rather be limited by yourself or by the government? I have a philosophy that I evolved as a result of growing up. As I used to listen to people complaining about how life passed \u2019em by or they had an opportunity to do that or this, but it just never happened because of X, and the X was always they didn\u2019t want to do something. Such as leave their hometown. Which is all fine and dandy, but that\u2019s a limitation that you put on yourself. <\/p>\n

Most of the limitations that Americans face, up until Obama, are the limitations they placed on themselves. But now, in addition to those self-imposed limitations, we got government limitations on everybody, and to the extent that you become dependent, you are totally limited because there is no panacea. There is no dream at the end of a life provided for by government. The power in your life is in you, but when you become a ward of the state, the power in your life is the government. And to the government, you are not a human being. You\u2019re a number. You\u2019re a Social Security number or a statistic or an entry on a loss and balance sheet. You\u2019re not part of a population of accomplishment and perseverance anymore when you are dependent on government. So one of the poisons that\u2019s flowing throughout our culture has caused people to be focused on seeking benefits and entitlements from somebody else other than themselves, and the poison is that their humanity is being destroyed under the guise of compassion. And nobody that can do better for you than you can do for yourself, because I don\u2019t care where you go and who you are, there\u2019s nobody that\u2019s going to care as much about you as you do. <\/p>\n

Nancy Pelosi doesn\u2019t care about you one-tenth of 1% as much as you do, no matter what she says. Barack Obama cares less than Pelosi cares about you. Ditto, Harry Reid, Barney Frank, Chuck-U Schumer, any Democrat who you believe cares about you. Nobody cares about you more than you care about yourself. Sadly, you care about yourself sometimes is called selfishness, which it\u2019s not. It\u2019s self-interest. Big difference in the two. Why would you willingly give away the person most interested in you to a bunch of people that you don\u2019t know, you will never meet, and in truth look at you as an incompetent and hold you in contempt? I.e., the Democrat Party, the Social Security Administration, the employment compensation office, the Veterans Affairs, I don\u2019t care who they are, you\u2019re looked at as a problem. Oh, no, here you come again. <\/p>\n

You think the people working at the Social Security office really like to see the doors opening there every day? You\u2019d be treated a lot better if they did. Do you think the people at the Transportation Safety Administration at the airport really love seeing you get in line to get on an airplane? They happy to see you? They happy to see a citizen that they can serve, or, oh, God, here comes more work I gotta do. I gotta frisk a nun. I gotta feel up some teacher. Some of them like it; some of them don\u2019t. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Lee in Convoy, Ohio, you\u2019re next on the Rush Limbaugh program. Thank you for calling, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, it\u2019s a woman. I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s good to talk to you, Rush. And I just wanted to make a comment about your comment on when the last time, if ever, our country united together. I have some examples of when it was pretty close to that. I was thinking back in World War II, the war effort, war bonds and the factories where we united together towards fighting the war and winning it. I was thinking of —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Are you aware — and I know what you\u2019re saying, but I mean genuinely unified like these people are dreaming of, are you aware that there were Americans who wanted us to lose that war?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yeah. I didn\u2019t say perfectly united. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I said for the most part.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, what are the other three times that you think we were pretty much unified?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, actually I thought of another one in the meantime. But another one was the assassination of John F. Kennedy. That was just, you know, time of shock —<\/p>\n

RUSH: We were so unified there that LBJ didn\u2019t run for reelection.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) Well, still, it was over all the radios and TVs and — <\/p>\n

RUSH: I know what you\u2019re saying. I\u2019m not trying to be a smart aleck here. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, right. Okay. And then also landing on the moon. That was a scientific breakthrough that we were all —<\/p>\n

RUSH: It was the birth of the environmental movement. It was the birth of destroying the planet with emissions.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I understand, but we\u2019re talking about the individual event and not the results of those —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. I mean we still have Sheila Jackson Lee wondering if we ever do go to Mars if astronauts will land in the same place where the flag was the put there by our early rover.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I didn\u2019t say I was in favor of it or anything.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) All right, I admire your perseverance. What\u2019s the fourth one? You were gonna say right after 9\/11.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. Yeah, I had 9\/11 down, but I also had —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me tell you, within six hours of 9\/11, certainly within 24, the Democrat Party was plotting how to make a political hay out of it, because already Peter Jennings, the late Peter Jennings was ripping Bush and how he reacted that first day. He said, I\u2019ll never forget this —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, I know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: ‘Some presidents are just better at this than others.\u2019 He was talking about Clinton. They\u2019re already making fun of Bush reading the book to the kids, didn\u2019t have the guts to come back to Washington. There wasn\u2019t unity then.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, I am totally disgusted with what the Democrats did there, and I think Bush acted heroically and phenomenally patriotic. I think it was one of the most stirring moments I\u2019ve ever seen, but I\u2019m talking about events that, for even a brief moment, had people united behind that event or in similar thought towards that event, whether there\u2019s that party or group of people that want to decry the moment, you know, you\u2019re always going to have that. But I think there are times in our history where the massive body of the United States really were impacted by certain things.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, maybe for a couple minutes, but it doesn\u2019t last. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, it happens.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, it does. Look, I\u2019m not trying to be a cold shower. I live in Literalville. I\u2019m sorry. You know, this is what gets me in trouble as much as anything else I do, living in Literalville, because most people don\u2019t want to be in Literalville. Most people look at reality, they say, ‘No, no, no,\u2019 and they sugarcoat it and things like that. But I appreciate your call, Lee, I really do. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Lawrence, Jacksonville, Florida, hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Jacksonville Jaguars hail Mary mega dittos.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much, sir. Yeah, I know what you\u2019re talking about. I saw that, can\u2019t believe it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Cannot believe it. Rush, I want to go back to a point you made regarding the poison that is the ideas of the left and your thoughts on whether or not we need the left to be around forever, because in my gut I feel like if there\u2019s not anything for us to be railing against, for us to be fighting against, then we become complacent and we lose sight of the reason that we are the right people to be running the country or —<\/p>\n

RUSH: What are you saying?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, in your earlier segment I got the feeling that, you know, that we want to extinguish the left or we were kind of going down that track —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, we want to defeat them politically, yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, but do you think that we still need them around? Even in defeat I think I\u2019ve heard you say many times that they\u2019re not gonna go away, but do you think that we need them around, do we need something to keep our attention on the track the country needs to be on?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah, how long have you been listening to the radio program, Lawrence?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think about five years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, then you may not have heard me say this because I think I said this many, many years ago. We always need to keep some liberals around so people never forget what they were. You know, keep a couple on every college campus doing what they do, put a couple in as museum curators, keep a couple liberal think tanks around. I wouldn\u2019t want to totally get rid of \u2019em because you want people to never forget.<\/p>\n

CALLER: If the liberals go away, what do you think would take their place in the vacuum that would be then liberalism?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Conservatism.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The founding of the country, the constitutional freedom would take its place because that\u2019s what\u2019s under assault.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay fair enough. And I am a very busy business traveler, and I will try to do the reverse sex pat down request next time I get a chance.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Give it a shot and see what happens.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ll let you know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You never know. Be prepared to be arrested. You never know what\u2019s gonna happen. Don\u2019t tip \u2019em. No, do not offer to tip \u2019em. I don\u2019t care whatever else happens, do not do that. Whoever has that idea, scrub it. And, look, I\u2019m gonna be realistic here. The left is never gonna go away, folks. Nobody here is under any illusion. There\u2019s always gonna be people who reject modernism, and there\u2019s gonna be people that reject progress. There are always going to be people who are not gonna want to take care of themselves. There will always be people who are gonna be obsessed with this notion of equality of outcome defined as fairness. No, it\u2019s a good question. If the pat-downs are not sexual, why does it matter who pats you down? Really, if this is purely devoted to security, why does it matter? Why does it matter what the gender of the patter-downer is? It\u2019s just the way I think about things. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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