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RUSH: Operation Wet Diaper. That\u2019s what the Obama press conference was yesterday, ladies and gentlemen. In fact, Operation Wet Diaper is what the entire Democrat Party is going through. It\u2019s amazing to watch all this. You know, I\u2019m not all that convinced that the deal is gonna hold up. It could fall apart over something as innocuous as the death tax. It could fall apart over that just as easily as it could fall apart over the extension of tax cuts for the rich, and if it falls apart, Obama will be happy. Make no mistake. He would love to be able to blame this falling apart on Republicans. He would love to be able to blame the fact that there is going to be a tax increase on the middle-class on Republicans. He would love to do so. Obama\u2019s an ideologue. He doesn\u2019t care about the middle-class. He doesn\u2019t care about any class. He cares about himself. <\/p>\n

Anyway, as I told you, we\u2019ve got audio sound bites from the presser yesterday, and we will analyze it as only I can, Operation Wet Diaper. I mean the media is just beside itself over how pathetic his performance was yesterday. One guy from Talking Points Memo — I love it when all these elitist journalists get into their analysis business, and this one guy from Talking Points Memo, I\u2019m gonna have to paraphrase it, said we saw something we\u2019ve never seen before, an Obama we never knew existed, and that is the nonmessiah, the pragmatic — what was the word — well, a guy who will just go along to get something done. We\u2019ve not seen that Obama before, a little bit disappointed. I\u2019ll get to the actual wording of it as the program unfolds. <\/p>\n

Now, this morning on Fox &amp; Friends, David Axelrod, number one advisor to Obama in the White House, said that this deal had nothing to do with getting Obama reelected. He said, and I quote, ‘We just had an election. We shouldn\u2019t be thinking about the next election.\u2019 Now, this is the guy who\u2019s leaving the White House at the end of the month to go back to Chicago to start working on — dadelut dadelut dadelut — Obama\u2019s reelection. But this had nothing to do with the election. The New York Times says this deal started with Biden talking to McConnell. Biden went to McConnell, and I do think that there are some Republicans — you know, they know the cavalry is coming in January, the conservative freshmen, they know that a whole different attitude about this is arriving in January. So the current Republicans, ‘Let\u2019s just get this done now. Let\u2019s not ruffle a lot of feathers. Let\u2019s just extend the Bush tax rates and extend unemployment benefits and get it all done before the new guys arrive, \u2019cause the new guys are gonna want much, much more.\u2019 But if you get this done before the new guys arrive, then the new guys have it even tougher. But if the deal is not done, the new guys, the cavalry, they got a chance to play a much larger role. So Bite Me goes to McConnell, according to the New York Times, and that\u2019s how the deal gets put together. <\/p>\n

Now, Obama, for his part, keeps insisting that he\u2019s just trying to help the American economy, just like when he gave most of the stimulus money to public sector unions; just like when he banned oil drilling for seven years, defying court orders in the process; just like when he tried to ram through cap and trade. He\u2019s just trying to help the American economy, right? He\u2019s not trying to help anybody but himself. He\u2019s not trying to help the American economy. If he was trying to help the American economy he wouldn\u2019t be doing anything that he\u2019s doing. He would have learned that what he\u2019s tried has failed and he\u2019d be reversing it if he really cared about the American economy. He doesn\u2019t even care about the far-left fringe. They always thought he did. They\u2019re running around saying, ‘Gee, we thought he was The Messiah.” Hey, that\u2019s your problem, not his. If you\u2019re stupid enough to fall for, if you\u2019re stupid enough to think that a mortal human being is actually messianic, it\u2019s not his fault. It\u2019s yours. He\u2019s been laughing all the way to the bank. I can see him sitting there with Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett talking, (imitating Obama) ‘Hey, yeah, they think I\u2019m God. I\u2019m close, but they actually think I am one.\u2019 If I had been in the meeting I would say, ‘Mr. President, God is very busy right now, and I wouldn\u2019t belabor him with some of your irrelevant ideas.\u2019 <\/p>\n

And, by the way, have you noticed — I love this — the media, the rest of the Democrats are suddenly asking where the revenue\u2019s gonna come from to pay for tax extension for the rich. Like F. Chuck Todd yesterday worrying about how much is this gonna cost the Treasury, how much is this gonna cost the government? I love these guys all of a sudden worrying about where the money is gonna come from. Did they ask where the revenue was gonna come from with the stimulus bill? Did they ask where the revenue was gonna come from for the bailout of his UAW buddies at General Motors and Chrysler? Do they wonder who\u2019s gonna pay for the subsidizing of the Chevy Volt? Did they wonder where the revenue was gonna come from for the bailout of his Wall Street buddies? And that\u2019s another thing, words mean things to me. I live in Realville, Literalville. I watched Bob Beckel on Fox, last night, the night before, he\u2019s upset because the guys who caused the problem are getting an extension of their tax rates, as in Wall Street, as in Wall Street caused the problem. <\/line> <\/line> Now, I don\u2019t doubt that there are a bunch of lib Democrats on Wall Street who contributed to it, but this problem that they constantly refer to, that\u2019s subprime mortgage, and only the ignorant and uninformed could be convinced that that was a pure and simple exclusive Wall Street deal. That was the government starting with Clinton telling Wall Street and the banks what they had to do or else they\u2019d be investigated. Now, you and I know this. I\u2019ve repeated this a number of times. But anything they can come up with, pure class envy, that and income redistribution, wealth redistribution, they just can\u2019t get past it. Where\u2019s the revenue gonna come from for unemployment benefits extensions? You know, this is gonna be the sixth extension in two years, in 2008. I don\u2019t want to offend a whole segment of the audience, but I\u2019ve talked to some women who say, ‘Rush, you gotta back off on this unemployment business, it\u2019s Christmastime. There aren\u2019t any jobs out there. We love our fellow Americans. It would be one thing if there were jobs and we stood for the elimination of these extensions. But there aren\u2019t any jobs to be had because of Obama, the Democrats. The only way these people are gonna be able to live is if we extend their unemployment.\u2019 But it\u2019s six times in two years. It doesn\u2019t matter to \u2019em. Six times, six extensions in two years, doesn\u2019t matter to \u2019em. It\u2019s Christmastime. This is exactly why the timing of this is what it is. It\u2019s to get to a certain segment of the voting populace. <\/line><\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: I\u2019m sitting here today and I\u2019m not convinced this deal is going to hold. I\u2019m not convinced. Let me put it this way, I won\u2019t be surprised if it falls apart. It could fall apart over the death tax, surprisingly. They melted the White House phone lines. He knows full well that he had a meltdown yesterday. Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. During the Q&amp;A Wall Street Journal\u2019s Jonathan Weisman said, ‘Some on the left have looked at this deal and they\u2019ve questioned what your core values are.\u2019 Now, he has never been asked this question by the State-Controlled Media. What happened in there yesterday, I watched it toward the end of the program during commercial breaks, I was reporting to you, and he was livid. And they were disrespectful in the sense that gone was Mr. Messiah. When Weisman says here, ‘Some on the left have looked at this deal and they\u2019ve questioned what your core values are,\u2019 what he\u2019s really saying is, ‘I am wondering what your core values are.\u2019 <\/line><\/p>\n

The simplest cop-out, cowardly way to ask a question is to dump it on the proverbial ‘some\u2019 on the left or ‘others\u2019 saying. What specifically are your core values? What specifically will you go to the mat on? People are asking. I wonder, Mr. President, if you can reassure them with some specific things in saying, ‘All right, this is where I don\u2019t budge.\u2019 The media was desperate to help him yesterday. They were desperate to find out, (imitating media) ‘Come on, man, we made you who you are. We\u2019re the ones that lied about you and we\u2019re the ones that built you up. You gotta have our back, man. We\u2019re the ones that told everybody you were The Messiah, that you were different, that you were new, that we had never had anybody in politics like you, that you were postpartisan, postracial, and you are embarrassing us, and you are letting us down. You better answer our questions and tell us what it is you stand for, bud. Where are you gonna go to the mat?\u2019 And here is Obama\u2019s answer to that.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: This is the public option debate all over again. So I pass a signature piece of legislation where we finally get health care for all Americans, something that Democrats have been fighting for for a hundred years, but because there was a provision in there that they didn\u2019t get that would have affected maybe a couple of million people, even though we got health insurance for 30 million people and the potential for lower premiums for a hundred million people, that somehow that was a sign of weakness and compromise.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This has been festering. This tells me that he has been festering, this has been effervescing inside him, that he\u2019s unappreciated, that he did something nobody else has done, and they wanted it for a hundred years, and by golly he got it. He didn\u2019t get everything he wanted, he got 99%, and they don\u2019t appreciate me, and in a sense I gotta side with him on this. Health care, I mean he\u2019s taken over one-sixth of the US private sector. This is significant. This has got to change if America\u2019s gonna go back to being the country we all love and knew. Like I keep saying, ‘If I were on the left and I really believed this stuff, I would be as happy as I could be.\u2019 Well, they\u2019re constitutionally incapable of happiness. So let\u2019s turn it around. If I\u2019m conservative, which I am, and one of our guys gets elected president and gets as much done in two years for our side as this guy\u2019s done for the left, we would be throwing parties, we would not be angry. I can understand where he\u2019s ticked off, but Mr. President and all you people, you know this, you\u2019re a lib, nothing\u2019s ever good enough for you, no matter what you get, it\u2019s never enough. You should know this. The left always wants more. And then he continued with this. He continued lecturing Democrats, calls \u2019em sanctimonious.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: If that\u2019s the standard by which we are measuring success or core principles then let\u2019s face it, we will never get anything done. People will have the satisfaction of having a purist position and no victories for the American people and we will be able to feel good about ourselves and sanctimonious about how pure our intentions are and how tough we are, and in the meantime the American people are still seeing themselves not able to get health insurance because of a preexisting condition or not being able to pay their bills \u2019cause their unemployment insurance ran out. That can\u2019t be the measure of how we think about our public service. That can\u2019t be the measure of what it means to be a Democrat.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So he\u2019s essentially telling them, look, I gotta back off on some of this stuff if we\u2019re to get anything done. And that infuriated \u2019em even more because the question was, ‘Where you gonna go to the mat, what are your core values?\u2019 And he withered. He caved. And that made them even angrier. I know it\u2019s hard to comprehend. But these people on the left, they are truly enraged. It is a lifestyle. They are never happy. I looked at the comments on the Daily Kos website, they are hilarious. But they\u2019re real. And it went on for ten pages. I mean they are just fit to be tied because Obama is not what they thought he was, which, again, I maintain is their problem, not his. He\u2019s made this promise that the rich would have their taxes increased when the Bush tax rates expired. He made that promise 10 or 12 times. Now he\u2019s just kinda punted on it. So in that sense I do understand their rage, happened to us. ‘Read my lips, no new taxes,\u2019 and then we got new taxes with Bush 41. But they\u2019re truly enraged, more so each and every day, and more so with every answer he gives.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The press conference yesterday. You know, there weren\u2019t a whole lot of questions from the White House press ‘corpse\u2019 highlighting the importance of compromise yesterday. Heh-heh-heh. No, folks! Those questions were dumping on Obama like he was a dog! And I have to tell you… Stop and think of this now. Think about it. Obama has gone from being treated like a messiah to being treated like a dog just two years into his term. He\u2019s gone from the highest heights to unprecedented lows, in terms of the way he\u2019s been treated by his idols: The State-Controlled White House Press Corps. Such a precipitous fall would have serious consequences even on an emotionally healthy and reasonable man. This guy, by virtue of his answers, is stewing. He is stewing in the privacy of his existence as a narcissist would. <\/p>\n

Being unappreciated, not being heralded, not being treated as the historic figure that he thinks that he is and at one time was. Let\u2019s continue here with the audio sound bites. You know, before we do this, I want to mention something to you. I\u2019m in the process of maybe asking you guys a question again. I remember saying when the ranking Republican called me and told me he expected Obama to moderate, to move to the center because he\u2019d have to do that to get reelected, that he\u2019d hear the American people. I said, ‘Mr. Ranking Republican, I think you\u2019re wrong. I think this guy is just going to double down. He is not gonna move to the center — and he, if he has to, will use executive actions to get what he wants done.\u2019 <\/p>\n

People are saying, ‘Hey, Rush, it looks like he\u2019s moving to the center here on this tax cut thing. It looks like he\u2019s moving to the center on this,\u2019 \u2019cause he could just say, ‘All right, screw it. We\u2019re not doing it. These things are expiring and we\u2019re gonna let these tax rates go back to what they were with Clinton.\u2019 Now, I\u2019ve been thinking about that and trying to figure out how he\u2019s looking at this strategically. I think the way he\u2019s looking at this strategically is get this stuff out of the way now, people will forget about it, and in 2012 he\u2019ll get his tax increase. In fact, Barney Frank, who needs two drains in his mouth now, was just on Andrea Mitchell (NBC News, Washington)\u2019s show, and he said (impression), ‘Two years from now, there clear\u2019wy will not be a we\u2019cession and we\u2019ll be able to w\u2019aise taxes on the w\u2019ich to a more fair w\u2019evel.\u2019 <\/p>\n

See, I think Obama believes that, too. I think Obama is confident that the nutjobs of his base will rally behind him two years from now when it matters. It doesn\u2019t matter now. I remember a story Bill Belichick told going into a Super Bowl. The Patriots were playing the Packers or the Rams, I forget which, and they won in an upset. I think it was the Rams. A couple days before the game he got out videotape of a horse race to show to the entire team. He stopped the race one-fourth of the way through and said, ‘Okay, who\u2019s gonna win?\u2019 And the players all started making bets on who was gonna win, based on what they saw. He stopped it at the halfway point and said, ‘Okay, who\u2019s gonna win?\u2019 The players made bets.<\/p>\n

He stopped it three-fourths of the way through. ‘Okay, who do you think is gonna win now?\u2019 and the players all made bets. Finally he said, ‘Don\u2019t you understand, it doesn\u2019t matter. It only matters at the end. All this stuff — the first turn, halfway through, three-quarters — it doesn\u2019t matter. You can\u2019t tell who\u2019s gonna win \u2019til it\u2019s actually over.\u2019 It was his way of telling his guys, ‘You gotta play all four quarters in this game. It doesn\u2019t matter what\u2019s happening at halftime.\u2019 Obama is looking at this in much the same way. It doesn\u2019t matter right now what the base is doing \u2019cause they can\u2019t take it out on him at the polls. It really doesn\u2019t matter — in an electoral sense. Sure, it ticks him off messiah-wise, ego-wise, but it really doesn\u2019t matter. Two years from now it\u2019ll matter. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s when they either will or won\u2019t vote for him — and two years from now, he\u2019ll come out and he\u2019ll refight this tax issue. That\u2019s why this ticks me off, because it ought not come up again. We should be going for cuts. This is a two-year extension. Two years plays right into the electoral theory and plans of the Democrats. Now to his base, most of this is real, and the deal brings \u2019em back under his wing before the election. He already said he\u2019s gonna fight this in two years, and if the Republicans aren\u2019t careful (and they aren\u2019t, let\u2019s face it) this could backfire on \u2019em. He said that he\u2019s gonna try to appeal to Democrats and independents by bashing the rich in two years. He said he\u2019s gonna do it. Now, many on our side confidently say that the public doesn\u2019t buy this class envy stuff anymore, that they don\u2019t buy class warfare, that it doesn\u2019t work. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not so sure. But even so, why test it? Why test it? We won a massive election victory. Deal with this now. The cavalry is coming. I guarantee you, these people arriving in the House in January, you\u2019re gonna love it. They are going to be hell-bent on implementing what they were sent to Washington to do. Now, we\u2019ll be watching. Some of them will probably be courted by the powers that be socially in Washington, and we know that it happens to the best of them. They get caught up in that town and the way things work there. We know that liberals run it. So we\u2019ll see. There\u2019s a lot yet to happen in front of us. Now, back to the audio sound bites. Obama is still answering the question that Jonathan Weisman of the Wall Street Journal asked: What are your core values, man? What are you gonna go to the mat over?<\/p>\n

OBAMA: This is a big, diverse country! Not everybody agrees with us! I know that shocks —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, stop the tape and cue it back up. I told you about this one yesterday. He is talking to the press. This is near the end of the presser. He\u2019s frustrated and angry with the press corps and with the questions. He\u2019s answering this question from Weisman at the Wall Street Journal, and he is speaking not to the people of this country. He\u2019s speaking to the press ‘corpse.\u2019 He\u2019s talking to the White House press people in that room, calling them ‘us,\u2019 for example. Here we go.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: This is a big, diverse country! Not everybody agrees with us! I know that shocks people. Now, the New York Times editorial page does not permeate across all of America. Neither does the Wall Street Journal editorial page. This is why FDR, when he started Social Security, it only affected widows and orphans. You did not qualify, and yet now it is something that really helps a lot of people. When Medicare was started, it was a small program. It grew. Under the criteria that you just set out, each of those were betrayals of some abstract ideal.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He is livid at these guys, but he was talking like a heretic. ‘The New York Times editorial page doesn\u2019t permeate across all of America.\u2019 You know, we run around and we complain about the mainstream media. We complain about the bias, the lack of objectivity and so forth — and so do they, except he\u2019s upset. He\u2019s trying to remind these guys: Look, the Times is our Bible, but it doesn\u2019t permeate all across America, damn it. Not everybody agrees with us. I know that shocks you. ‘Now, the New York Times editorial page doesn\u2019t permeate…\u2019 This is really opening up. This is a clear view into his mind-set, and that of the full-fledged liberal mind-set. They\u2019re ticked off. They\u2019re winning and they\u2019re ticked off. ‘Hey, not everybody agrees with us.\u2019 That makes him mad. <\/p>\n

By the way, he committed another gaffe. ‘This is why FDR, when he started Social Security, it only affected widows and orphans.\u2019 That\u2019s not right. He couldn\u2019t be more wrong. It was ‘Old Age Assistance.\u2019 Social Security was called ‘Old Age Assistance.\u2019 It was specifically about seasoned citizens. It wasn\u2019t about ‘widows and orphans,\u2019 and this is not the first time he\u2019s got this wrong. He\u2019s gotten this wrong many, many times — like 57 states. He campaigned in ‘all 57 states.\u2019 He\u2019s looking at the press, ‘You guys didn\u2019t qualify for Social Security when it started.\u2019 The hell they didn\u2019t. Everybody qualified when they reached a certain age. But it wasn\u2019t for widows and orphans? <\/p>\n

‘You guys didn\u2019t qualify. Medicare didn\u2019t start out for you.\u2019 By design! The only way these things get passed into law is if they\u2019re said to cost very little just to help a small group of people, but look at what happens to all these programs? They finally expand and blow up to the point that nobody can pay for \u2019em. Nobody knows how many people are being treated redundantly, benefiting redundantly from all of this. This chip on his shoulder moment, that\u2019s it. When he\u2019s backed into a corner, the Bamster plays the race card. He\u2019s still answering the question from Jonathan Weisman of the Wall Street Journal: What do you stand for? What are you gonna go to the mat over? What are your core values?<\/p>\n

OBAMA: This country was founded on compromise! I couldn\u2019t go through the front door at this country\u2019s founding and, eh, you know, if we were really thinking about ideal positions, we wouldn\u2019t have a union.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ohhh, the chip on the shoulder becomes visible. The chip on the shoulder is large. ‘This country was founded on compromise\u2019? This is the first paean to compromise that I\u2019ve heard from the Democrats regarding this deal. The press didn\u2019t ask about it. We\u2019ve been told, ‘Bipartisanship and compromise. That\u2019s what the American people want,\u2019 but there hasn\u2019t been any celebration of it with this deal until now. ‘This country was founded on compromise. I couldn\u2019t go through the front door at this country\u2019s founding,\u2019 and, believe me, he still holds that against this country, and that\u2019s one of the reasons he\u2019s got this country in his crosshairs. Make no mistake about it. <\/p>\n

Saul Alinsky taught that community organizers, the agitators, should not have core principles. They should just try to get done what they\u2019re told to get done, and Obama was a community organizer. You have to be flexible. You have to be able to roll with the flow. That\u2019s what Alinsky said. Alinsky said you have to be willing to give up everything and anything to accomplish your larger goals — and Obama is ticked off here at the media not knowing that about Alinsky. He thinks everybody on the left knows the bible. He thinks everybody on the left ought to understand what he\u2019s doing here. He can\u2019t believe that they don\u2019t. It sounded like he was starting to channel his inner Reverend Wright there towards the end of this press conference. The anger. Finally, still answering the same question, he tells the liberals he tried to keep his promises. Listen to this.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Take a tally! Look at what I promised during the campaign! There\u2019s not a single thing I have said that I would do that I have not either done or tried to do — and if I haven\u2019t gotten it done yet, I\u2019m still trying to do it. And so the — the — the — uhh, to my Democratic friends, what I\u2019d suggest is, ‘Let\u2019s make sure that we understand this is a long game; this is not a short game,\u2019 and to my Republican friends, I would suggest, uhhh, ‘I think this is a good agreement,\u2019 \u2019cause I know that they\u2019re swallowing some things that they don\u2019t like as well and I\u2019m lookin\u2019 forward to seeing them, uh, on the field of competition, uh, over the next two years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, well, again: ‘Look at what I promised during the campaign.\u2019 He promised these tax rates would expire. He promised it ten times, maybe more. And then he says, ‘There\u2019s not a single thing that I\u2019ve said I would do that I have not either done or tried to do.\u2019 So they get a dose of ‘creating or saving\u2019 jobs. He gets credit now for doing it or ‘trying\u2019 to do it, and he\u2019s trying to increase these tax rates. He\u2019s trying. He just can\u2019t get it done and wants credit for it. So he tried. He tried to keep his promises. He\u2019s a liberal. His intentions should be all that matter. That\u2019s what he\u2019s trying to tell us: Hey, I\u2019m trying here! But even the country was founded on compromise. Hell, I couldn\u2019t walk in the front door when this country was founded.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, all you liberals that are mad at Obama, I understand it, but Obama did not write the health care law. Reid and Pelosi wrote the health care law. Well, their staffs did. That health care law has been in a drawer. It\u2019s been in Henry Waxman\u2019s drawer; it was in Pelosi\u2019s door; it\u2019s been in Harry Reid\u2019s desk drawer. They\u2019ve had this thing written up for years. You think they\u2019re gonna put together 2,000 pages on the day after Obama gets elected, or immaculated? That thing\u2019s been sitting around collecting dust. It was written years ago by the staff, but if you\u2019re gonna get mad at Obama you gotta get mad at the people who wrote it because they\u2019re the ones that ultimately caused all the delays with it. These guys, ‘We don\u2019t need to read this thing, we never read the bills.\u2019 Well, that caused a delay. You people mad at Obama, I understand it, but be mad at the whole Democrat Party. For crying out loud, look what you gave the guy. You gave him the White House. You gave him a supermajority in the House. You gave Obama — I\u2019m talking about you Democrat voters — 60 votes in the Senate. You gave him everything he needed to get everything he wanted (snapping fingers) like that. <\/p>\n

There was nothing the Republicans could do to stop anything. That\u2019s why most of the Republican Party was just depressed as they could be. There wasn\u2019t one thing they could do legislatively to stop anything Obama was going to do, and yet look where we are in two years. Now, he\u2019s got a lot done. But there\u2019s a lot that didn\u2019t get done, and the left is livid. You gotta hand it to \u2019em. I mean, look what the unions did for this guy. Not just unions, let\u2019s look at the left. The unions, the media, African-Americans, Hispanics, illegals, homosexuals, educated elites, the government employees, they invested billions of dollars into getting The Messiah elected. They got him total control over this government, total control. I mean total. Republicans couldn\u2019t do one thing with votes to stop him. He was supposed to do everything they wanted. This was their great moment, just like they\u2019ve been trying to pass health care for a hundred years or 50. They had been waiting. They had been masturbating at night to this whole notion. They had been having orgasms. I\u2019m describing it that way, folks, because I want to be literal. I want you to know what the election of this guy meant to the left. <\/p>\n

Put yourself in their shoes. Imagine that Ronaldus Magnus 2 surfaces. Imagine there is somebody. And this guy wins in a landslide, gets 60, 61 seats in the Senate, 150-seat majority in the House, imagine what you\u2019d be expecting. You would be expecting the RINO Republicans to get rolled or to come around. You would expect all kinds of things to happen. And if it didn\u2019t, you\u2019d be saying, ‘What\u2019s the point?\u2019 You\u2019d be suspicious, you\u2019d be wondering what\u2019s the point of getting everybody elected, what\u2019s the point of spending all this money, what\u2019s the point if it\u2019s not gonna happen? That\u2019s where they are. That\u2019s why they are livid. And despite all of this, he barely got Obamacare through, barely got it. He didn\u2019t get everything he wants yet. We\u2019re still having another presidential election in two years. After all, there will be another election. There was a question about that. There was some question about whether there would be elections again. But there will be one in two years, after all. <\/p>\n

They don\u2019t have card check. They don\u2019t have amnesty for illegals. They don\u2019t have gay marriage. They don\u2019t have Gitmo closed. They don\u2019t have tax increases on the rich. There is no more majority in the House. They barely have one in the Senate. They should be mad because he had it all. They gave it all to him. You could say that they paved the road in rubies and diamonds for this guy. They paved the roads in gold. He was taken to the White House without his feet getting dirty by touching the ground. He has not taken advantage of all that he\u2019s been given, and now it\u2019s gone. <\/p>\n

I have here in my formally nicotine-stained fingers a statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on the tax cut deal. ‘Two years ago, working Americans had high hopes that we would ultimately emerge from the deep, punishing financial debacle with a sharp focus on a fundamentally stronger, fairer and more balanced economy. Today, that vision has dimmed. The tax cut deal rewards Republican obstructionism by giving the wealthy the tax breaks they demanded. It throws away precious resources needed for investments in jobs and our economy on upper income tax cuts that will do very little to propel economic growth — setting up excuses for the deficit hypocrites to argue for even more cuts to programs serving working families. It lards the tax cuts for the top 2 percent with an indefensible cut in the estate tax — giving yet another bonus to the super-rich. Taken together, this package locks in the growing income inequality that has plagued our country for at least another two years — and quite possibly much longer.\u2019<\/p>\n

Of course, Dick, there is no cut in the estate tax. It\u2019s right now zero and it\u2019s going up to 35%. But that\u2019s a minor little detail. ‘It is unconscionable that the price of support for struggling middle class families and workers who have been unable to find jobs for months and months and months is yet more giveaways for our country\u2019s wealthiest families. Millions of jobless workers have lived in fear for months while Senate Republicans had the gall to use their hardships as political leverage for the benefit of the rich. … How do we use our power to escape caving in to Wall Street and moneyed interests? And how do we create the millions of jobs we need now and move toward a future of broadly shared prosperity?\u2019 He doesn\u2019t say it, but what he means is how do we do this since we can\u2019t count on Obama? They do feel betrayed, and in this statement Trumka just admitted income tax is all about income redistribution. It\u2019s not about raising revenue. It\u2019s about income redistribution. Everybody\u2019s talking about the hissy fit that Obama threw in his press conference. He did, but the press corps threw one too. It was a bunch of children; it was Romper Room; it was kindergarten at the White House press conference yesterday, pure and simple. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Scott, Tyler, Texas, thank you for calling, sir. You\u2019re next on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. Texas-sized, gun-toting, nine mile-per-gallon Hummer driving dittos.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I love you, man. I love the nine mile-a-gallon Hummer.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Probably about that number. Common sense and 20 years of your training tells me that this tax deal is a setup. Now, don\u2019t get me wrong, I think he hates every bit of it. But, knowing three things that Obama\u2019s needed to get elected and to get his socialist agenda done, is number one, discredit capitalism; two, increase the hatred for the rich; and three, continue to blame Bush and the Republicans for everything. Now, this last election and the latest polls on the Bush tax cuts show him losing the battle. I mean we\u2019re blaming him now. We\u2019re blaming the Democrats. And he\u2019s lost that momentum. He\u2019s gotta get it back somehow. So I see him, and your training has always taught me to look — they always gotta have an upside. And the upside for him is to only extend the cuts for two years, extend unemployment to three years. Now you\u2019ve got fewer people dropping off the end of unemployment, more people getting on it, and I can see right in the middle of the election cycle next time around unemployment rising to 12, 13%. The uncertainty about the tax cuts are still there. Nobody\u2019s gonna hire anybody. And he can come up during the elections and say, ‘See, you all threw a fit, made me do it. Bush\u2019s tax cuts didn\u2019t work then –‘<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, now, there is something to this theory. We took a little while to get there, but there is something to this. Stop and look at it this way. The last thing Obama wants is for this to work if it does get implemented. Now, it\u2019s not a tax cut. It\u2019s an implementation of the current tax rates. He\u2019s calling it a stimulus, but it\u2019s not. Nothing\u2019s going to change. So he\u2019s counting on, with more unemployment benefit compensation, more high unemployment. He\u2019s counting on that. He\u2019s counting on it being made to look like this doesn\u2019t work. The worst thing that could happen to him is if it does, \u2019cause it discredits everything he\u2019s trying to do. If it is perceived as a tax cut, and in one way we could say that because they have been talking about letting these cuts expire, which would be a tax increase, so if we were facing a tax increase and they don\u2019t go up, call it a tax cut. Actually nothing will change, because of that how stimulative will it be, two years? Another point, is that enough for businesses to make long-term plans regarding tax policy? Many people say that it isn\u2019t. <\/p>\n

So these two extensions of the tax rates and the unemployment benefits guarantee the Democrats can run for the next two years on class warfare. They guarantee that at least, that the rich got an unfair thing here, and we really shouldn\u2019t have been helping them at all, got meager assistance for the unemployed, that\u2019s why I\u2019m proposing a retirement plan for the unemployed, called inertial security<\/a>. So the unemployment benefits will end in time for Obama to use that as well as his class warfare campaign. This is his inner Reverend Wright calculating things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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