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RUSH: Obama\u2019s out there at his press conference yesterday, and it was dripping with condescension. We got some sound bites coming up. F. Chuck Todd says the Democrats are outraged privately that Obama didn\u2019t take any responsibility for this yesterday. Yes. F. Chuck Todd on the nightly news last night with Brian Williams, and the question, “I did hear from Democrats today, F. Chuck, and they think the president needs some new people around him.”<\/p>\n

TODD: I heard from Democrats today that thought the president made a mistake not accepting more responsibility today at that press conference. The president\u2019s not talking about changing either his style or the White House staff.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Of course not.<\/p>\n

TODD: There is some concern among Democrats that there\u2019s no accepting of responsibility and this, by the way, we\u2019re gonna quickly pivot to 2016 very quickly and the Democrats, I think you\u2019re gonna see some outside of Washington beg the Clintons to sort of retake over the party.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Isn\u2019t it amazing the consequences elections have? Isn\u2019t it amazing? Don\u2019t want the Clintons to take over the party. Some guy writing at Yahoo News, which is the perfect place for this story, Yahoo News claims the big winner yesterday was Hillary. Isn\u2019t it fascinating how in the Drive-By Media Democrats win when they get shellacked, and this was a big shellacking. This was a bigger defeat than 2010. This was massive. They\u2019re talking about a hundred-year loss for the Democrats in the House of Representatives. Meaning it may be quite a while before they ever get back to being the majority in the House. Do you know how huge that is? It is huge. This whole election was huge.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I heard from Democrats today that they thought the president made a mistake not accepting more responsibility at that press conference.<\/p>\n

“The president\u2019s not talking about changing either his style or his staff.” Why would he? Do you people still not know who this guy is? It\u2019s not his fault. In his mind, in his head, this isn\u2019t his fault. Have you ever heard of the Limbaugh Theorem<\/a>? Given the right day of the week, he\u2019s not even the president. All this stuff is happening, somebody else is making it happen, and he\u2019s out there trying to stop it just like everybody else is.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m amazed at the people like F. Chuck, who are as close to Obama as the bedroom can allow you to get, still do not know who the guy is. Of course he\u2019s not gonna take responsibility. This isn\u2019t his fault. When\u2019s the last time he took responsibility for anything that went wrong? Always somebody else\u2019s fault. He was raised as a spoiled kid and he never grew out of it.<\/p>\n

But the piece, the piece de resistance — and this, by the way, “Democrats I think, you\u2019re going to see some outside of Washington beg the Clintons to sort of retake over the party”? Well, how\u2019s that gonna work out for \u2019em? ‘Cause everywhere they went they were rejected, too. Everywhere Hillary went to endorse somebody, (Raspberry!) And everywhere Slick Willie went to endorse somebody, (Raspberry!).<\/p>\n

In fact, Arkansas where Slick Willie went, every member of the Arkansas House delegation is a Republican for the first time since Mars was discovered! I mean, folks, this defeat, just a party-line vote defeat. It was a spanking. It was loud. It was deep. It\u2019s broad. It is wide. It is everywhere, and I knew it when I saw that Henry “Nostrilitis” Waxman announced his retirement back in February.<\/p>\n

They knew.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Jacob Tapper, talking to David “Rodham” Gergen, said, “David, you worked for presidents of both parties,” which makes you Mr. Moderate. “What was your big-picture take on Obama\u2019s press conference earlier today?” This is last night. “What do you think, David?”<\/p>\n

GERGEN: There was an air of unreality about it. This is a president who has just taken a shellacking. His party has suffered terribly. Over the six years since he\u2019s been elected, they\u2019ve lost more seats in the House and Senate than any other modern president has done over that time. And I assumed he\u2019d walk in and take personal responsibility, or some measure of responsibility.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why?<\/p>\n

GERGEN: And what I found was he was a little bit dismissive. I mean, it was like, “Not many people voted — and, by the way, all the other elections have had the same message. They don\u2019t like the people in charge, people are not satisfied, and we\u2019ll just wake up every day and try to do better.” I think what people were looking for was more of a course correction.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (snorts) He doesn\u2019t think he\u2019s doing anything wrong! It\u2019s everybody else\u2019s fault. It\u2019s the voters\u2019 fault for being stupid, voting the way they\u2019re voting. It\u2019s the media\u2019s fault for not convincing the voters the way they should vote. It\u2019s you analysts\u2019 fault for not realizing Obama\u2019s true brilliance and what he\u2019s really doing. Why should he change? It doesn\u2019t matter what the voters say with Obama.<\/p>\n

Otherwise we wouldn\u2019t have Obamacare.<\/p>\n

Otherwise we wouldn\u2019t have the debt.<\/p>\n

Otherwise we wouldn\u2019t have the IRS targeting the Tea Party.<\/p>\n

If Obama cared what voters think, Mr. Gergen, he wouldn\u2019t have done 90% of his agenda. Everything Obama\u2019s done has been against the will of the people! Look at the polling data. Nobody wants amnesty. What\u2019s he gonna do? Executive order it. Essentially, he\u2019s gonna drop a nuclear bomb on this country. When he does it, do you think he cares? He doesn\u2019t care. He doesn\u2019t need a course correction.<\/p>\n

The only thing in his way is the Constitution. Not you, and not F. Chuck Todd, and not the voters — and once he figures out a way to get past the Constitution without any punishment, then it\u2019s, “Katie, bar the door.” The Republicans have basically said they\u2019re not gonna punish him \u2019cause they\u2019ve taken impeachment off the table. He doesn\u2019t care. He never has cared. If he cared, he would fix Obamacare so that people could afford medical care.<\/p>\n

He doesn\u2019t care, Mr. Gergen!<\/p>\n

You know, and I can understand. You know, I can imagine these guys sitting here listening to me say this, and because my voice is raised, “Oh, there goes Limbaugh again. You know, this guy, he just gets off on these tangents. He just sounds like he\u2019s really extreme.” I\u2019m not being extreme at all. This is mainstream. This is intelligence guided by experience. He doesn\u2019t care. He doesn\u2019t think he\u2019s doing anything wrong.<\/p>\n

Take a look at the way he\u2019s being raised. Take a look at his character-personality type. It\u2019s never his fault. He\u2019s the smartest guy in the room. We can\u2019t keep up with him. It\u2019s not his problem if we can\u2019t follow what he\u2019s doing if he\u2019s 15, 20 steps ahead of us. I mean, he\u2019s the guy that got the Nobel Peace Prize without having done a thing for it. What else do you need to know about him?<\/line><\/p>\n

I would have turned it away. I would have turned it away. I\u2019d have said, “I don\u2019t want to accept this until I\u2019ve actually done something to deserve it.” (interruption) Well, that\u2019s another. Well, see this is good point. Snerdley says, “What difference would it make if he claimed responsibility?” It\u2019s an excellent point. Okay, so Obama goes out his press conference.<\/p>\n

(impression) “I\u2019m sorry, you know what? Everything that happened yesterday was my fault. I blew it. As such, I got two years left, and I\u2019m gonna fire everybody. I\u2019m gonna put in a new chief of staff, Supreme Court, do everything.” Applaud? What happens if he accepts responsibility? This is another one of these touchy-feely, wring-your-hands-in-anxiety, liberal outbursts. What would it have meant if he had claimed responsibility or taken it?<\/p>\n

What would it have meant if he had acknowledged he needs to make some changes? What\u2019s the big deal? He isn\u2019t gonna do it anyway. I\u2019ll tell you, that press conference? Did you see it, Snerdley? (interruption) It was dripping with condescension here. You know, he said that he heard the two-thirds of voters who didn\u2019t even vote. (interruption) “What should I take anything away from this?<\/p>\n

“You know what? Two-thirds of the country didn\u2019t vote. Those are the people that love me. They hate Republicans. Why should they vote?” Okay, so he heard that two-thirds of the voters that didn\u2019t vote. He heard them. What did they say? Did those voters complain about losing their careers and being relegated to part-time work? Did they complain about unaffordable health care? What did these two-thirds of the voters that you heard who didn\u2019t vote, say?<\/p>\n

Did they complain about losing their doctors?<\/p>\n

Did they object to weaponizing the IRS?<\/p>\n

Did they object to open borders, letting in virus-carrying illegals? Did they object to amnesty? What are these two-thirds of voters telling you that you say you heard, Mr. President? Did you hear them whisper in your ear something that you can\u2019t repeat to us? Or are these two-thirds saying, “Mr. President, you\u2019re the greatest man who\u2019s ever lived and we worship you and we didn\u2019t vote because we knew you didn\u2019t need it”?<\/p>\n

What did they say, Mr. President? He said he heard the two-thirds of voters who didn\u2019t vote. He said, “I heard \u2019em. I hear \u2019em. I know what they want.” Well, what did they say? What could they have possibly said? He said he heard \u2019em. I mean, I know it\u2019s an expression. I use it myself sometimes, when somebody\u2019s complaining to me. It doesn\u2019t happen much, but when they do, I say, “I hear you, I hear you, I hear you.”<\/p>\n

Well, Obama said I heard \u2019em. All right, well, what\u2019d they say?<\/p>\n

Give me my doctor back?<\/p>\n

Screw amnesty?<\/p>\n

So President Obama can hear nonvoters. He just can\u2019t hear the ones who do vote. Isn\u2019t it amazing?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I checked, folks, the turnout, because Obama\u2019s out there saying two-thirds of the votes didn\u2019t happen, two-thirds of the voters didn\u2019t happen. I heard \u2019em, I hear \u2019em, I heard the two-thirds that didn\u2019t vote. And this is always the case after a landslide Republican win, same thing happened in 2010. But I mean this is even bigger, because this is on top of 2010. They lost 700 plus legislative seats all over the country in 2010. This is on top of that.<\/p>\n

They won some of those back in 2012. But I looked it up, the turnout in the 2014 midterms is not that much different from the turnout in 2006. Now, you might be saying, “Well, what\u2019s the big deal about 2006?” Well, the big deal about 2006 is when the Democrats took back control of the House for a while. It put Pelosi in charge of the House of Representatives to go along with Dingy Harry. And of course the 2006 midterms, as far as the media was concerned, was huge. Oh, oh, I can\u2019t tell you how important the 2006 midterms were. They were just, oh, like manna from heaven. The 2006 midterms were some of the most important midterms in American history because it got rid of the Republican majority and reinstalled the Democrats in their rightful place running the House.<\/p>\n

Okay, so we have 2014, midterm turnout almost the same as 2006, it doesn\u2019t mean anything, see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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