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RUSH: By the way, black church leaders are not happy with Obama over the tax rate extension bill, but the media has some advice for Obama and he gets the START treaty done. They don\u2019t want him to do a news conference about it. They say he\u2019s lost his luster in news conferences. This morning on Morning Joe, PMSNBC, the cohost Mika Brzezinski spoke with Andrea Mitchell (NBC News, Washington) about Obama and his legislative victories, and she said, ‘There\u2019s talk about a news conference, end-of-the-year news conference. Does that seem to be a risk at this point or a good way to put a marker down and say, here\u2019s where we\u2019re gonna go?\u2019<\/p>\n

MITCHELL: Perhaps news conferences are not the president\u2019s best format, but the bottom line is if he gets the START treaty and has come to a lame duck session — which as Al and Eugene and you have been pointing out — has been so much better than advertised, better than any of us thought it would be. They have one ‘don\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell,\u2019 they will have a continuing resolution, although they\u2019ve lost the big spending bill, which was really a blindsiding of the Senate leader by the — by that on — on the earmark issue. But given everything that they\u2019ve accomplished so far he goes out of town before he leaves for vacation, has his own forum, and I think it\u2019s, uhhh — it\u2019s exactly what he ought to be doing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But don\u2019t do the press conference. It\u2019s not his best format. What about this better lame duck session than advertised? What media bias? He\u2019s had a better lame duck session than advertised? Better than any of us thought it would be? There\u2019s no media bias. These people still insist that there\u2019s no bias. ‘Yeah, he\u2019s won really big here! He\u2019s won! Oh, yeah, he got the Bush tax rates extended! He didn\u2019t get the omnibus because the earmark thing, but he got the START treaty. He got ‘don\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell\u2019! My, what a great guy,\u2019 but don\u2019t do a press conference. It\u2019s not his great format. Eugene Robinson, the Washington Post, and Mika Brzezinski have a conversation about all of these victories.<\/p>\n

ROBINSON: This has been a really (snickers) good stretch of time for him, and from the lame session he gets something for everybody, right? The tax cut deeeal for the — the — the — those who want to — <\/p>\n

BRZEZINSKI: Yes!<\/p>\n

ROBINSON: — see him move towards the middle can say, ‘Ah, he\u2019s moving toward the middle. We like that. Don\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell goes through with something for the base that really — it — it — it — it — that needed a — <\/p>\n

BRZEZINSKI: Yeah!<\/p>\n

ROBINSON: — victory to cheer them up. So y-y-you\u2019re doing fine. Why…? You know, why — <\/p>\n

BRZEZINSKI: Why mess with it? (giggles)<\/p>\n

ROBINSON: Why risk it? Just… Why mess with it? <\/p>\n

RUSH: The great orator? The greatest speaking president we\u2019ve ever had? ‘Why mess with\u2019 all this and go destroy it by Obama having a press conference or an announcement? You can\u2019t use a teleprompter at a press conference? What is the ‘lame session\u2019? Lame session? That\u2019s like hate speech. But now the next bite, this is interesting, from The Forehead. Paul Begala. He\u2019s not thinking that this is all that big a deal. Sanjay Gupta filling in for Anderson Cooper on Anderson Cooper 04, said, ‘You know something about the term ‘comeback kid,\u2019 you worked closely with Bill Clinton. What do you think of the comparison here, Forehead?\u2019<\/p>\n

THE FOREHEAD: The vital signs, uh, Dr. Gupta —<\/p>\n

GUPTA: (snorts)<\/p>\n

THE FOREHEAD: — are not political polls. The vital signs here are jobs. can he create more jobs. We don\u2019t have enough jobs being created, uh, in his presidency. I think he\u2019s doing all he can, I agree with his economic theory, but the reality is we need more jobs. Move the needle on jobs and raise incomes and then all of this punditry is just contributing to global warming as far as I\u2019m concerned.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, The Forehead is not climbing on the bandwagon here of what a great ‘lame session\u2019 it was. Nah, there\u2019s nothing really to crow about here, says The Forehead. Until he starts getting jobs, there\u2019s nothing to crow about. Now, who does The Forehead really work for? Hillary. The Forehead works with Carville for the Clintons. I find this analysis from Begala to be quite interest and fascinating. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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