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RUSH: All right, from TheHill.com: ‘Liberals furious with a White House they view as constantly telegraphing compromise with Republicans are pressuring President Obama to get tougher, arguing that is the only way he will win both progressives and independents in 2012.\u2019 Now, let\u2019s examine this. This is a popular sentiment out there on the part of the American left, that Obama just didn\u2019t go left enough, he didn\u2019t spend enough, he didn\u2019t go far left enough. The brilliant political wizard Bill Maher happens to subscribe to this theory. So they say he didn\u2019t go far left enough. Had he gone far left enough, the only way to win progressives and independents is to stop caving on the agenda and go pedal to the metal left.<\/p>\n

Now, what did the independents do? The independents ran away from Obama. Now, I don\u2019t care what degree you want to assign it, Obama moved left big time. Obama took this country in a direction that many of the people voting for him had no desire to go and had no idea that\u2019s what they were voting for. Now, how the left can sit there and say the way to get the independents back is to go even further left is insane. But that\u2019s what they\u2019re telling themselves. <\/p>\n

‘Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) and an outspoken critic of the White House, said liberal anger has less to do with fears of a Clintonian move to the middle by Obama and more with a misreading of the election results by the administration. ‘It\u2019s less ‘Oh no, they\u2019re triangulating,\u2019 and more ‘Boy, their political instincts are really stupid,” said Green. … The White House ‘fundamentally\u2019 doesn\u2019t get that ‘the only way to get Republicans to deal in good faith is to fight them, crush them and teach a lesson that if Republicans are on the wrong side of an issue there will be consequences &hellip; so it makes sense to negotiate,\u2019 Green said.\u2019<\/p>\n

You know, you people on the left, you really are certifiable. I have said it repeatedly. If conservatives elected somebody who got as much of our agenda done in a year and a half as Obama got of your agenda, we would be happier than we\u2019ve been in a long time. It is incomprehensible to us on the right that you people on the left are miserable, other than you always are. It\u2019s a state of mind. But how you can be unhappy at the fundamental destruction of the country that you have sought for all these years? The US economy is in a shambles, you\u2019ve got national health care just waiting to be implemented. You\u2019ve got Obama skirting Congress to try to do cap and trade. You\u2019ve got takeover of the automobile industry. You\u2019ve got a manufacturing of crap cars. <\/p>\n

Oh, by the way, did you see that Motor Trend magazine has named the Chevrolet Volt the car of the year? Folks, of all the cars, no offense, General Motors, please, but of all the cars in the world, the Chevrolet Volt is the car of the year? Motor Trend magazine, that\u2019s the end of them. How in the world do they have any credibility? Not one has been sold. The Volt is the car of the year. Anyway, you leftists, you\u2019ve got a US economy in shambles; you\u2019ve got the union built up with all kinds of power; you\u2019ve got redistribution of wealth going on in amounts and measures that you previously only dreamed of. And you\u2019re mad at your guy \u2019cause he\u2019s not doing enough sooner. <\/p>\n

I hope people are taking note of this because it\u2019s the best evidence yet that no matter what you give these people, they\u2019re never happy and therefore compromising with them is senseless. It makes no sense anyway to compromise with these people. There\u2019s nothing about what they believe in that we have anything in common with. There\u2019s no reason to compromise with them, unless they\u2019re the ones caving. ‘It\u2019s also clear the White House is concerned about the migration of independent voters.\u2019 Yeah, well, they ought to be concerned. The only reason they got the independent voters is because they lied to them, and that\u2019s over. You can\u2019t go back and repeat that lie. Nobody\u2019s gonna believe it anymore. So the independents, it\u2019s up to the Republicans to lose. That\u2019s where the independents are. This is the great opportunity that we have. There is no way these blessed independents and moderates want anything of the like Obama has delivered. It\u2019s not what they voted for. That\u2019s a huge upper, by the way, for those of you wondering about where the mind-set of the country is. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Jim in Miami, you\u2019re next on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Mega dittos from Miami. I got some questions for you as one of your eternal students. First of all, one comment and a question. My first comment is, Obama\u2019s people on the left, he\u2019s gone so far left and all his left devotees are incensed that he\u2019s being forced to compromise on some of his issues now. But he\u2019s now in the same place the conservative, far conservative right was when they wanted all their issues met and had to be compromised. And I can remember you talking about it again and again. ‘You guys, if you\u2019re not gonna get everything you can\u2019t throw out the baby with the bathwater,\u2019 you know? But what they\u2019ve done here is he went so far left with Obamacare and everything else that even a compromise to him only puts him halfway back to center. <\/p>\n

RUSH: What I don\u2019t understand is, why the paranoia? Where is he compromising?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, no, I agree with you there, but that\u2019s the whole point. I remember the far right conservatives were incensed about Bush not putting prayer in school and not slamming down abortion and everything else, but Obama went all the way out into left field here and got his Obamacare and a complete socialist agenda, and now, yeah, you\u2019re right, where has he compromised, but he can\u2019t tell them that, he can\u2019t tell them I\u2019m gonna compromise on this and that, and he also can\u2019t tell them I\u2019ve already gone —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait. I may be misunderstanding you, but when you talk about Bush did compromise with the left. He gave \u2019em a new entitlement, Medicare Part B. He did give \u2019em No Child Left Behind. He did let Ted Kennedy write the education bill. He did compromise with them.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, I understand full well that —<\/p>\n

RUSH: And there\u2019s a reason why people are upset about that. That\u2019s not what conservatism is. The left doesn\u2019t compromise like that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, but Obama\u2019s not compromising to his base the way Bush compromised the conservative base, you know, the far right conservatives had to compromise a lot more than the far left have had to with Obama\u2019s socialism agenda, if you will. That\u2019s just an interesting parallel, but it used to be so far right when Bush was president. Now it appears everybody\u2019s so far left because of Obama. I don\u2019t see Obama compromising the way Bush had to. It\u2019s not gonna happen.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. So the point is?<\/p>\n

CALLER: The point is that basically the same thing\u2019s happening on the left right now. It\u2019s not happening on the left the way it happened on the right. On the left they\u2019re not compromising. Obama hasn\u2019t given it back, and the people who — I guess my point is, he can\u2019t tell them I\u2019ve given you all this stuff. You can\u2019t come right out and say all this stuff is so far left —<\/p>\n

RUSH: He can. He certainly can. If I\u2019m Obama and my left flank is complaining at me, I\u2019d get right in their face, ‘What the hell are you unhappy about? You got health care. You got more redistribution. You got more poor people. I\u2019m taking more from the rich. Wall Street\u2019s scared to death. What the hell more do you want?\u2019 That\u2019s what I would say to them.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You\u2019re exactly right but he\u2019s already — look what happened to him in the midterm elections because he\u2019s pretty much conceded all those points. The midterm elections have destroyed his base. He\u2019s basically finished. Nobody on the far left can even get what he\u2019s done for them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. No, no, no, no, no, no. His base was never that big. What he lost were the people he lied to. The people he lost were the independents, the moderates, the people who believed all these panaceas. His base didn\u2019t abandon him and his base isn\u2019t abandoning him now. If his base ever does abandon him, they\u2019re not gonna come to us. They\u2019re not gonna move our direction. But the dirty truth is Obama\u2019s base is tiny when you get right down to it. His base is professors, whatever students, Hollywood and the media. That\u2019s his base. And the Congressional Black Caucus. We\u2019re being governed by a genuine minority made to look like a majority because they do control academia and the media. That\u2019s why I said these people being upset with Obama, he hasn\u2019t compromised on anything yet. And whatever they\u2019re afraid he\u2019s gonna compromise on, the tax cuts for the rich, by extending them, I look at \u2019em and laugh. This is my point. They can never be happy, no matter what they get. You can\u2019t compromise with them. They\u2019re genuinely lunatics. And they\u2019re not smart to begin with. I mean it\u2019s a double whammy for these people. They\u2019re stupid and they\u2019re lunatics. I wouldn\u2019t wanna be them at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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