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RUSH: The Libyan rebels are now saying that Colonel Moammar Khadafy is “completely surrounded.” So maybe now Khadafy will be forced to give them some details about his new jobs plan. Wait! I’m getting my stories confused. It’s Obama who has the jobs plan, but he’s also surrounded. (interruption) He’s surrounded by events, Snerdley. Obama is
totally surrounded here. They are not going to give any details of the speech because they want ratings. They want people to watch. If they give any details of the speech they are afraid nobody is gonna watch. Although some details have already leaked out: $300 billion more. “Obama Said to Seek $300 Billion Jobs Package.”

Now, you add that to the $800 billion stimulus, and you’ve got $1.3 trillion that will be totally what he’s asked for that’s added to the baseline of the budget. But still, look at this in the New York Times. Jeff Zeleny has the story here and I mention this story mostly for the humor of it. The headline of the story: “A Campaign Challenge: Defining Obama.” They are still trying, at the New York Times, to “define” Barack Hussein Obama. (interruption) I know the $780 trillion didn’t create any jobs, and $300 billion more isn’t. I’m surprised it’s that small. I’m surprised it’s only $300 billion. It’s gotta end up being more than that. It’s gotta be enough that the Republicans will object to it because that’s the whole point: To come up with something Republicans will object to. Oh, do you know that Pelosi’s ticked off?

This is funny, too. Pelosi is ticked off because the Republicans are not gonna respond! The Republicans have decided not to do a rebuttal. “There’s a football game after the president’s speech, and we’re not gonna give a response,” thereby signaling that this is an insignificant event. Pelosi’s all ticked off that they’re not taking it seriously enough. She says there needs to be a response. What Pelosi knows is that all these responses to official presidential speeches before joint sessions, the response looks small. Pelosi, really, is upset that Obama isn’t going to be criticized. She’s upset that Obama’s gonna be ignored. There will be no official Republican response. She’s also forbade the use of the word “stimulus.” Yep, can’t use the word “stimulus” anymore!

It’s because it’s got a negative connotation. Look at all the words liberals have destroyed in our language. Anyway, Jeff Zeleny here at the New York Times: “President Obama may have escaped the burden of a Democratic primary challenger. Yet the battle to define him is rapidly escalating — not only by Republicans competing to run against him, but also within his own team inside the White House.” We’re three years in and we’re getting “Who is Obama?” stories from the New York Times! These are the guys that led the pack on creating the image of The Messiah during the 2008 campaign and all of that. The Times claims “that in trying to lay claim to a broad swath of the electorate, as he succeeded in doing in 2008, he risks pleasing neither the center nor the left,” but by “a broad swath of the electorate” the Times must mean “union members;” anybody receiving a government check.

Who else could he care about? So there’s that, then the “Obama Said to Seek $300 Billion Jobs Package.” This is from Al Hunt at Bloomberg News. “President Obama plans to propose sparking job growth by injecting more than $300 billion into the economy next year, mostly through tax cuts, infrastructure spending, and direct aid to state and local governments.” He wants another stimulus package, by the way, to make sure that teachers don’t get fired — and how many stimulus plans have we had for that? “Obama will call on Congress to offset the costs of the short-term jobs measure by raising tax revenue in later years. This would be part of a long-term deficit reduction package including spending and entitlement cuts as well as revenue.”

None of this is ever gonna happen, and once again what it amounts to is (snorts) the guy who’s done it all — the guy who’s done all the spending, who’s done all the wreckage — now pretending he has just arrived in town, looked at and assessed the damage and decides we’ve gotta do something to fix it. This is sort of like Colonel Sanders walking into the chicken slaughterhouse. There aren’t any chickens alive, and he wants an investigation. “Who did this?” asks Colonel Sanders. F. Chuck Todd at NBC says “our pollsters are concerned.” Did you hear that? Yeah, let me find that bite. It’s around 14 or 17. It’s number 14.

This F. Chuck Todd, he’s the political director, the White House correspondent for NBC. He was on the Nightly News last night. He’s out in Los Angeles or the Simi Valley for the Republican debate tonight. Brian Williams said, “Now we turn to our NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. Some bad news for the president, tied to some very bad feelings about the current state of our economy. Our political director and chief White House correspondent [F.] Chuck Todd here with us in California for tomorrow night’s debate with a look at the numbers.” Now, listen to this.


TODD: This has taken a big hit on the president politically: 44% approve of the job he’s doing, all-time low of this presidency. But an important number that our pollsters say is in
there is this idea that, “Is this a long-term setback for him or a short-term one?” Fifty-four percent said long-term. Our pollsters are concerned. That’s the kind of numbers you have when the public starts to give up on a president as a problem solver.

RUSH: “Our pollsters are concerned.”

“Our pollsters are concerned. That’s the kind of numbers you have when the public starts to give up on a president as a problem solver,” 54% say it’s a long-term setback. Our pollsters! They just come out and say it! Our pollsters are very, very concerned over what this means for Obama. Our pollsters! I’ve told you. (chuckles) You know what this really means? It’s worse than this. It’s worse, because these pollsters are not reflecting public attitude; they’re trying to shape it. These networks use their polling units to make news, but this must be so bad that they don’t dare massage it too much because they do have their own “credibility,” quote, unquote, to worry about. So, the New York Times says they need to “redefine” Obama, and F. Chuck Todd comes along and says, “Our pollsters are concerned.” The public’s catching on to this, the public’s catching on to this. The Tea Party is growing in numbers. The left is in the middle of a conniption fit here. Let’s go to the audio sound bites. This is “The Forehead,” Paul Begala, last night on CNN, Anderson Cooper 43. Cooper said, “Do you believe, [Forehead], that it is in the Republicans’ best interests to get this thing passed?”

BEGALA: This all (unintelligible) of Republicans. Some truly deeply, uh, want to help, I know they do, but there’s others I think who frankly understand the political physics here — which is if America fails, Republicans succeed. Rush Limbaugh, their intellectual leader, of course famously said he hopes the president fails. So there is at least several Republicans, I think a lot of them, who, frankly, don’t mind seeing the economy fail if it means that they succeed politically.

RUSH: Yeah, you’ve got it backward. I sit here and laugh, but, frankly, folks, I don’t know about you, but I’m just irritated all the time every day about the state of this country and what’s going on. It’s just plain irritating. All of this is so unnecessary. All of this wreckage, on purpose, is so unnecessary, by a rank amateur who now even his biggest supporters are running around saying, “Who the hell is he? We don’t know who he is,” and I’ve known all along who he is, and that’s why I wanted him to fail, and he hasn’t failed! I don’t know how there can be a Democrat intellectually honest, looking at what’s happened to this country, and can somehow still try to focus blame on me for this?

“Rush Limbaugh, their intellectual leader, said he hopes the president fails.” Well, he hasn’t failed, Paul. He succeeded profoundly! He has done exactly what he intended to do, and it’s only taken him three years. It’s shocking the damage that’s been done to this country in three years, and they talk about Republican obstructionism? There hasn’t been any Republican obstructionism! The Republicans, for two and a half years, didn’t have the numbers to obstruct anything. We’re not even talking about backbone here. They didn’t have the numbers to obstruct anything. Now, here’s Trumka. He was on CNN Piers Morgan last night. He’s the AFL-CIO honcho, used to be the United Mine Workers guy. Piers Morgan said, “Mr. Trumka, Tea Party, sons-of-bitches?”

TRUMKA: Jim Hoffa is speaking for, duh, the anger that millions of Americans have. Uh, these people are taking — playing — political brinksmanship, on, uh, not being willing to help us create jobs; not being willing to help us get the country moving. Some of them even announced that they want the president to fail, duh, in his attempts to get the economy right. That’s wrong, they shouldn’t be doing that, and they don’t have the right to — to say that they’re truly the only patriotic ones out there, when they want the country to fail and 25 million people not to get back to work.

RUSH: Well, this is frankly just absurd. I’m gonna tell you something: Trumka was flown to Detroit for that Labor Party rally on Air Force One. He’s in bed with Obama. He’s part of the destruction. You take a look in this country: Wherever there is severe economic problems, you’re gonna find a union involved. Wherever you go, wherever you go in this country in the private sector, if you’re gonna find problems you’re gonna find either a Democrat president or a union somewhere involved in the mix that’s making the situation worse. (interruption) What? What? (interruption) Snerdley asks, how do I feel about Trumka identifying me as the SOB, as the head SOB? You think that’s what’s happening here? Okay, well, let’s listen to it again. I don’t think about myself very much, and I really — as you know, Snerdley — don’t take anything personally anymore. I don’t give people that power. Okay, the question again, “Mr. Trumka, Tea Party, sons-of-bitches?”

TRUMKA: Jim Hoffa is speaking for, duh, the anger that millions of Americans have. Uh, these people are taking — playing — political brinksmanship, on, uh, not being willing to help us create jobs; not being willing to help us get the country moving. Some of them even announced that they want the president to fail, duh, in his attempts to get the economy right. That’s wrong, they shouldn’t be doing that, and they don’t have the right to — to say that they’re truly the only patriotic ones out there, when they want the country to fail and 25 million people not to get back to work.


RUSH: Okay, so you may have a point. Trumka is calling me the S.O.B. that Hoffa’s talking about. That’s how you interpret it? Because when he says there, “some of them even
announced they want the president to fail,” I’m the only one. I’m the only one that announced that. Okay, so this is still, I’m still living rent free in these people’s heads. The Forehead’s, no doubt Obama’s, and now Trumka’s — and then they talked about this this morning on PMSNBC. Scarborough, during a discussion about Hoffa and his remark that the Tea Party are a bunch of sons-of-bitches, and Jay Carney’s refusal to condemn the remark, Joe Scarborough said…

SCARBOROUGH: It’s very interesting this is the same White House that attacked Rush Limbaugh from that stand for what he said. They have constantly used that bully pulpit to go after people who are on the other side when they say irresponsible things. Now it’s like, “Meh!”

RUSH: What is he talking about that I said? Now, I know that Joe in his own way is trying to come to my defense, but what did I say? What’s he referring to here? “It’s very interesting this is the same White House that attacked Rush Limbaugh from that stand for what he said.” Are they still talking about the failure business? Anyway, he’s got a point. In fact, the Dan Pfeiffer, the communication director at the White House said, “We’re not gonna be the speech police here at the Democrat Party. We’re not gonna be the speech police.” So they’re standing by it, but I said yesterday, “Is Obama gonna repudiate what Hoffa said? Obama wrote it! I’m sure Obama approved it.” This is right out of Saul Alinsky.

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