{"id":37575,"date":"2011-02-16T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:05:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T00:05:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:05:05","slug":"while_the_country_goes_bankrupt_obama_plays_petty_political_games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/02\/16\/while_the_country_goes_bankrupt_obama_plays_petty_political_games\/","title":{"rendered":"While the Country Goes Bankrupt, Obama Plays Petty Political Games"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: Have you seen this poll out of CBS News? It\u2019s amazing. Most Americans oppose cutting funding for health care reforms. Do you believe that? I don\u2019t believe it, either. So we dug deep out there. We dug deep in this poll to find out what the samples were, and here you go. There were 1,031 respondents in the sample. The total Republicans: 298; the total Democrats: 345, and the total independents, 388. Folks, you don\u2019t even have to read the article. All you have to do is look at the actual way that this thing has been sampled. It was 28% Republicans, 32% Democrat, and 40% independent, and they didn\u2019t stop there. They weighted the poll to give the Republicans even less of a say, same thing that they always do, and therefore they\u2019re able to come up with a poll result: ‘Most oppose cutting funding for health care reform.\u2019 This is all just a game. Everything in Washington is just a game. <\/p>\n

There is a Politico story today: ‘Has Obama Set GOP Entitlement Trap?\u2019 They\u2019re all concerned, is Obama gonna really snooker Boehner here on this budget proposal? Is Obama just gonna play these guys like a Stradivarius? Meanwhile, we are looking at the utter bankruptcy of our country down the road and these people in Washington in the press corps look at this as just a game. ‘Senior congressional Democrats were plenty nervous on the eve of President Barack Obama\u2019s 2012 budget presentation, fretting that Obama would suddenly gain his nerve and decide to take on the issue … of entitlement reform. They needn\u2019t have worried. White House officials assured their friends on the Hill that Obama wouldn\u2019t broach the subject, Democrats told Politico, and on Monday when he presented his budget the president conspicuously avoided addressing entitlements, despite citing them as the country\u2019s major fiscal problem. … With Obama refusing to offer his own plan for entitlements, congressional Republicans — as the president noted — rushed in to fill the vacuum.\u2019 Talking about entitlement cuts. Is this the trap? Has Obama brilliantly outsmarted these guys once again? Oh, oh. The DC press corps so hopes so. <\/p>\n

Obama in his news conference: ‘I was glad to see yesterday Republican leaders say, ‘How come you didn\u2019t talk about entitlements?\u2019 I think that\u2019s progress.\u2019 ‘One senior Democratic congressional aide of the House GOP plans to release the first detailed proposals to reduce entitlement spending. ‘They are suckers. They have painted themselves into a corner.” Obama didn\u2019t mention entitlements, Republicans rush in to fill a vacuum, and the Democrat congressional aide says they are suckers. ‘When asked whether he was abrogating his responsibility to lead, Obama replied, ‘This is not a matter of you go first or I go first. This is a matter of … ultimately getting in that boat at the same time so it doesn\u2019t tip over.\u2019 But Obama isn\u2019t anywhere near the water\u2019s edge yet,\u2019 much yet the boat. ‘Most Democrats … have no intention of jumping into the debate anytime soon. When asked what Obama should do when the GOP releases its proposal, one Democratic aide, snapped: ‘Nothing.” Just let the Republicans sink, \u2019cause after all, they are suckers. Glenn Thrush at Politico, the stenographer here on the story about the game, it\u2019s all just a big game, everything looked at through the eyes of Obama, just like our old buddy Nic Robertson from CNN reporting from the belly of the beast in Egypt about what the people there think of Obama. <\/p>\n

Now, we have a crisis here. I think everybody that pays attention to this realizes we have a debt crisis. Do you realize Bush\u2019s first budget, $2 trillion, it\u2019s almost doubled now. And when it comes to budget cuts, we\u2019ve still got some tweezers, and we\u2019re picking scabs on the margins of all this. We\u2019re not getting into the nuts and bolts. I don\u2019t even mean before you get to entitlements. You\u2019re talking about a $3.7 trillion budget. Even cutting a hundred billion, yeah, it\u2019s a cut, I mean it\u2019s a start, but folks, it really isn\u2019t much. We have a genuine crisis here. When Lincoln faced a crisis — they said Obama\u2019s the next Lincoln, he\u2019s the next Reagan, he\u2019s the next JFK, he\u2019s the next Hoover, he\u2019s the next whoever — when Abraham Lincoln faced a crisis that shook the country, did he ignore it? Did the press run around marveling at the games Lincoln set for his opponents, or the traps? Did Lincoln bait Congress into dealing with slavery for his own political gain? No, he didn\u2019t. Yet we\u2019re told that Obama\u2019s the next Lincoln. Lincoln didn\u2019t punt on the biggest issue of the day and try to set up a trap. FDR didn\u2019t punt after Pearl Harbor in 1941. He didn\u2019t wait for Congress to tell him to declare war after Pearl Harbor. Well, FDR set traps elsewhere, but on things of crisis magnitude, he was there. <\/p>\n

Truman didn\u2019t wait for Congress regarding the Marshall Plan. JFK didn\u2019t wait on Congress to push tax cuts to the moon program. Reagan didn\u2019t wait for Congress to dig the economy out of the Carter mess. None of these presidents who have had greatness attached to them or to various things that they\u2019ve done did not punt on matters of real importance. They didn\u2019t sit around and set traps and then chuckle about it with their friends in the press corps. George W. Bush did not punt on economic recovery or dealing with the acts of terrorism after 9\/11, or Social Security reform. He attempted to tackle this. But punting, voting ‘present\u2019 and then have your slavish media write stories about, ‘Has Obama set an entitlement trap for the Republicans?\u2019 Dealing with things is not the Obama way. Obama uses the biggest issue of the day as a political trap. And everybody knows what Obama\u2019s doing with the budget and entitlements. This is a small, petty political animal who puts his own needs above all the others. He\u2019s a trillionaire. <\/p>\n

Barack Obama is the first trillionaire in American history. He treats the federal budget as his personally. I\u2019m not talking about the Air Force One trips and the vacations and stuff. He uses the federal budget as his own money — well, look, that\u2019s not the way to put it. But he thinks it\u2019s all his money to spend and do with whatever he wants. If you want to rail against the rich, you gotta put Obama at the top of the list there, the first trillionaire, lives high off of our tax dollars. Food prices. Have you seen the wholesale price index? It\u2019s up. The inflation everybody feared, it\u2019s here. It has been for a while, actually. Now it\u2019s showing up in the official measurements. Food prices and shortages are causing a lot of the upheaval around the world. People in Washington want it to be something else. They want it to be an uprising for freedom, an uprising for democracy, an uprising for all the wonderful things, but it\u2019s largely to do with food prices, shortages, a number of other things. <\/p>\n

By the way, 95% of the American media oppose defunding Obamacare. That ought to tell you where we are in this. Ninety-five percent of the media oppose defunding and they\u2019re running polls here that say the majority of Americans oppose cutting funding, which is ridiculous. Clothing prices are gonna go up 10% in the spring. Cotton primarily is the culprit. But natural fibers along with synthetic fibers, prices are on the rise. Inflation is starting to settle in. And we still, everything\u2019s looked at through the prism of Obama and is he winning, will he shellac the Republicans, will he once again humiliate and embarrass the Republicans? <\/p>\n

This is from The Politico piece: ‘Under pressure from about a hundred conservatives –‘ after the Democrat congressional aide says the Republicans are suckers for being sucked into a discussion on entitlements, ‘Under pressure from about 100 conservatives to tackle the issue — possibly through a new privatization plan that was part of the party\u2019s midterm blueprint — the GOP leadership knows it is taking the first bite of a wormy political apple. ‘None of the options polls well,\u2019 lamented one Republican insider.\u2019 Imagine Lincoln saying that. None of these options poll very well. ‘Democrats are likely to portray whatever the GOP produces as the Son of Privatization.\u2019 The Democrats are running around predicting, almost hoping, for a shutdown. In fact, if you look at what Obama\u2019s doing he\u2019s planning for one. All the Democrats are gearing up for a government shutdown. They think that this is the way to get themselves back on top and to set the narrative as it has always been. We got Pelosi saying Republican policies hurt women and children the hardest. The cliches are everywhere. The old playbook has not been updated. It\u2019s all they know to go to and they fail to understand the mind of the public. They fail to understand just how insistent the public is that all this be gotten control of. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: As far as the media look at it everything Obama is doing is a game. We have audio sound bites. They\u2019re trying to play the Clinton game again. Last night on television, Howard Fineman appeared to talk about the president vetoing the plan, the Republican spending plan and so forth. ‘What\u2019s going on here, Howard?\u2019<\/p>\n

FINEMAN: What\u2019s gonna happen is the House Republicans will pass Draconian cuts. The Senate, which is still controlled by the Democrats, will not accept it. Then you\u2019ve got a situation coming up on March 4th about whether the government is gonna shut down for lack of funds for this year. The government could shut down! The president is anticipating that and trying to get ahead of the politics of it. That\u2019s what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. ‘So you think the president\u2019s already given up too much of the budget this year, Howard?\u2019<\/p>\n

FINEMAN: It\u2019s very interesting to watch. As you say: Offense on this year, defense on next year. Because, yes, he\u2019s trying to reach independent voters. The progressives see that, and they think that things are going in a bad direction for them. They think it\u2019s bad now, they think it\u2019s gonna get worse for them down the road, and they\u2019re right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So, you see be the whole thing here is a game — and all of you who voted in November, this isn\u2019t a game. This is real. This is your future, this is your kids\u2019 future, this is the future of the country as you know it. And now you hear the press willingly, almost admiringly praise Obama for coming up with this brilliant game to get the Republicans to go first on entitlements just like Bush went first on Social Security, proving that the Republicans don\u2019t care about the little guy and the elderly and the sick. They want to kill \u2019em all! They want to get them out of the homes that they live in and the hospitals and so forth and so on. You know, Shakespeare said, ‘Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.\u2019 Obama is the last of these. The media is doing its best to force greatness upon Obama, because there is no greatness, no genuine greatness. But you hear Fineman and all these other people, Glenn Thrush, ‘Is Obama really spinning a web to trap these Republicans? What a great guy!\u2019 <\/p>\n

They\u2019re thrusting it on him. He hasn\u2019t earned any of it.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: There\u2019s more on this budget cutting stuff. Washington Post: ‘House Speaker John Boehner dismissed concerns Tuesday about the potential for federal job cuts, saying he thinks the government can\u2019t afford to keep so many workers. The Ohio Republican was asked at his weekly news conference about the prospect of federal job cuts if a House GOP plan to trim $100 billion in government spending passes. ‘Over the last two years since President Obama has taken office, the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs,\u2019 Boehner said. ‘And if some of those jobs are lost in this, so be it. We\u2019re broke. It\u2019s time for us to get serious about how we\u2019re spending the nation\u2019s money.\u2019 The reporter who asked the question noted, however, that the government might have to pay federal unemployment assistance to laid-off workers, potentially adding more costs. &hellip; ‘If this is the attitude of Speaker John Boehner when it comes to saving existing jobs, it\u2019s no surprise he\u2019s moving forward with Draconian spending cuts that will cost even more,\u2019 said Jesse Ferguson, a spokesman with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.\u2019<\/p>\n

Democrats are howling. This is exactly what they want. This is what they are setting up. They think that this is gonna redound to their benefit like it did in 1995. They think that all of these federal budget cuts the Republicans propose are gonna come back and just ruin Republican electoral chances. They haven\u2019t the slightest understanding of where the public is on this. <\/p>\n

Dana Milbank, also in the Washington Post, he\u2019s got a column here on what Boehner is doing. (paraphrasing) ‘The dirty truth is that Boehner would stall the economy to help Republicans in 2012 with federal layoffs.\u2019 Yeah. So the Republicans, whatever they\u2019re doing here is designed to slow down the economy \u2019cause that will help them in their election efforts in 2012. How do you stall an economy that isn\u2019t moving? How in the world do you write a piece that the Republicans want to stall the economy when we\u2019ve had two years of a president who has taken aim at the economy? And he has hit the bull\u2019s-eye, for crying out loud. No economic growth, now inflation is settling in. There aren\u2019t any new jobs. Spending is through the roof. The deficits are rising. <\/p>\n

The reality is there\u2019s no way to pay off this debt that we are in now, there\u2019s literally no way it will ever be paid off. There has to be another objective. The economy is not moving. There is no recovery. Still hasn\u2019t started. And yet the Republicans are trying to stall the economy for their own election benefit in 2012. It just isn\u2019t gonna play, Mr. Milbank. You guys, this is 2011. This is not 1995. It\u2019s not 1980. You\u2019re dealing with a public that is far more informed than you think because they know what you\u2019re not reporting. They know what you\u2019re not telling them. They already know it and your attempts to effect their negative outreach here is not going to work.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Let me put this in perspective. Eight hundred billion dollars in stimulus spending wasted. Not one dime in return for it. A hundred billion dollars in cuts. One-eighth of it is a disaster? Come on, media. Get with it. You\u2019re better than this.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Rolling Meadows, Illinois, this is John. Thank you for calling, sir. You\u2019re next on the Rush Limbaugh program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. It\u2019s an honor to talk to you. I\u2019ve been listening to you since before you had a toll-free number.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) We did. I remember we did not have a toll-free number when we started.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We made the callers pay. That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The reason I\u2019m calling was to add on to what you said earlier about we added 200,000 new bureaucrats in Washington, and John Boehner says on cutting that: If some people lose their jobs, then so be it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So be it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, Nancy Baloney turned around and took bits and pieces of it, made it sound like he was talking about the general public and said maybe — her quote — you know, so be it so I am but not for the people who are losing their jobs. She made no mention that it was bureaucrats, and that just ticked me off so much. I was just aggravated beyond control.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s the same thing. You remember how the Democrats took Newt Gingrich out of context when he was talking about Medicare, and they claimed that he wanted Medicare to ‘wither on the vine.\u2019 They made a TV commercial out of it, and it was not at all what he was talking about. Look, what you heard Pelosi say, the Newt example I gave you, is more evidence that there\u2019s not a shred of honesty associated with liberalism. They can\u2019t be honest about what they believe, they can\u2019t be honest about their agenda, and they have to lie about ours. Pure and simple. And that\u2019s what Pelosi was doing. They\u2019re at their wits\u2019 end. They\u2019re trying to recapture power using an old playbook and an old series of templates. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what Pelosi said, by the way. She said, ‘Just today, Speaker Boehner said that if jobs are lost as a result of Republican spending cuts, ‘So be it.\u2019 So be it?\u2019 Pelosi, D-Calif., asked incredulously. ‘Democrats do not subscribe to Speaker Boehner\u2019s verdict that if jobs are lost in this Continuing Resolution, ‘So be it.\u2019 Maybe ‘So be it\u2019 for him. But not ‘So be it\u2019 for the people who are losing their jobs. Instead, we support President Obama\u2019s budget to ‘out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world.” There\u2019s no such thing in Obama\u2019s budget as any out-anything. The only thing we\u2019re outdoing is out-debting anybody else, including the Western European social democracies, but he was talking about… <\/p>\n

The thing she\u2019s leaving out here, and it\u2019s pretty important: Since Obama was inaugurated, 200,000 federal workers have been hired. Two hundred thousand bureaucrats have been hired. Boehner simply is saying (paraphrased): ‘Look, if some of these people lose their jobs as a result of trying to get the budget under control, so be it.\u2019 Ms. Pelosi, how many millions of Americans have lost their jobs because of your policies over the years, and Obama\u2019s? For crying out loud! Your policies have led to unemployment — and if not by design, then it\u2019s even worse. It\u2019s by virtue of stupidity! So they create this mess, the mess has to be fixed, and the people that roll up their sleeves and try to fix it are gonna be tarred and feathered as the mean-spirited extremists. <\/p>\n

Part and parcel. As I say, it\u2019s the same page from the same playbook over and over and over again. There\u2019s a difference this time. The general public is far more informed and educated than even Pelosi is about what\u2019s going on in this country. They are far more educated about what the Constitution says than is Pelosi. They are far more informed than average journalists are about what is happening in this country. Now, we\u2019ve had people that work for government who call here. These 200,000 jobs that Obama created in the federal government are high-level jobs. Obama\u2019s out there hiring top-level bureaucrats. Pelosi claimed being unemployed is great for the economy, remember that? She talked about employment benefits being a great boon. <\/p>\n

Unemployment benefits stimulate economic activity! Remember that? So why is she worried that some people might lose their jobs? It was Pelosi running around saying unemployment is good, because unemployment benefits are paid. (summarized) ‘Unemployed benefits allow entrepreneurs. Artists don\u2019t have the worry about health care and benefits associated with jobs now. They can go ahead and sit in their pajamas in their basement and draw on their canvases and be totally creative and not have to worry about anything.\u2019 So unemployment was good. Unemployment compensation was great! It was an economic stimulus. It freed the creative juices. Now, all of a sudden, she\u2019s dead set opposed to it. Well, we know the answer to all this is that every bit of what she says is calculated political garbage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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