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Democrats Know the Damage Obama Did
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | December 23, 2016 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 12/23/2016 5:57:01 PM PST by Kaslin

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RUSH: You know, folks, not only is Biden dumping on Hillary, Joe Biden's out there saying (paraphrasing), "Well, you know, she never really knew where she was running. You gotta cut her some slack. She didn't really know. Maybe wasn't even really sure she wanted to. She did it 'cause she thought she had to to break the glass ceiling." And they're trying to cover for her loss. They're starting to dump it on her now.

This is only a matter of time. You can only blame the Russians for so long. Now they're starting to blame Hillary, some people are. Not everybody yet, but some are. And Biden, as an agent of Obama, Biden's purpose is to make sure that Obama remains the power figure in the Democrat Party going forward, not Hillary. In the normal scheme of things, Hillary would be the power figure. She ran for president, even though she lost, and Obama's leaving the office.

But he wants to be the power figure, he wants to be the face of the Democrat Party going forward. So all this stuff that is designed to blame it on Hillary for whatever reasons is designed literally to take her out as the face of the party. And there's another story about this. I think this is the Clinton camp fighting back, because the headline, this is the Wall Street Journal: "Candidates for DNC Top Job: Obama Failed Us."

I love this, folks. The long knives are coming out. Now, let me give you the dirty little secret. Everybody in the Democrat Party knows this. They would never say it while Obama is still in office, and many wouldn't say it even after he left. But there isn't a Democrat in politics alive who does not know what the Obama presidency has meant for the Democrat Party around the country.

They've lost 1,500 seats. The Democrats only have five states, ladies and gentlemen, where they control the governorship and the state legislature, only five! This election, this presidential election was supposed to cement Democrat rule for two generations, the Supreme Court, it was supposed to wipe out the Republican Party. This was going to be the end of it.

Trump as the nominee losing was to be the end of the Republican Party. The Democrats were gonna have basically one-party rule for 50 years, and look at what actually has happened. It's practically the reverse. The Democrats are not a national party. They have lost governorships, state legislatures, mayoralties. They have lost 1,500 seats since elections, 2010, '12, '14, and this one, it's been devastating. And it's all Obama.

It's the rejection of the Obama agenda, and it's inarguable because he campaigned on it for Hillary. (imitating Obama) "If you want to protect my legacy, you'll vote for her." It was incredible what he did. He really put his agenda on the record because he believes he has the same kind of connection to the American people that Trump has.

He thinks he's universally loved and adored because of that approval rating, which is a lie or a misrepresentation. It's mainly people that don't have the guts to tell a pollster that they disapprove of the job because of the racial component, because whenever Obama's policies are on the ballot, they get skunked! If he's on ballot with them, not so bad.

Well, this story in the Wall Street Journal, "The painful truth is that despite President Obama's strong victories in 2008 and 2012, the Democratic Party has lost enormous political ground over the past eight years," said Bernie Sanders at a rally for the socialist Muslim Keith Ellison, who wants to run the Democrat National Committee.

Whatever the leadership of the Democrat Party's been doing over the last many years has failed, and we need fundamental change. Mo Elleithee, a top DNC official under Debbie "Blabbermouth" Schultz, said of party officials, they don't want a chair -- get this, now. Mo Elleithee: we don't need a chairman who's gonna disrespect or critique Trump. We need somebody that recognizes things have not been going well for us, and we have to fix some things. The future is not about destroying Trump. The future is about rebuilding the Democrat Party.

This is all coming out now. And some people, you know, as the race for power in the Democrat Party intensifies, this is where the honesty begins to surface. Obama destroyed this party, folks, literally has destroyed this party while elevating himself to whatever heights, if he's really achieved them, I still don't believe it, but I'll go along with the flow for now.

But the party has bitten the dust. It was happening right in front of our faces, and we didn't have the confidence to believe it 'cause of the media. We believed the media was convincing 80% of the American people of the opposite, and it turned out that wasn't true, either.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: falseapproval; obama; ratings; rush; worstpresident
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1 posted on 12/23/2016 5:57:01 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

2 posted on 12/23/2016 5:59:00 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin
What a bone head....

What a bone head

3 posted on 12/23/2016 6:04:06 PM PST by ptsal
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To: Kaslin
Please Dems, elect Keith Ellison for DNC Chairman.

Go Islam go!

4 posted on 12/23/2016 6:06:28 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy is the backup QB to a dictatorship)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

....Please Dems, elect Keith Ellison for DNC Chairman.
Go Islam go!...

Yes, push for peaceful Islam and especially eminently fair and just Sharia law. Guaranteed a winner.


5 posted on 12/23/2016 6:15:32 PM PST by Sasparilla (I 'm Not Tired Of Winning)
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To: Kaslin

“we don’t need a chairman who’s gonna disrespect or critique Trump. We need somebody that recognizes things have not been going well for us, and we have to fix some things. The future is not about destroying Trump. The future is about rebuilding the Democrat Party. “

Never gonna happen. They’d have to give up their dreams of absolute power.


6 posted on 12/23/2016 6:56:16 PM PST by Luircin (Dancing in the streets! Time to DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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To: Kaslin
It seems to me that Obama/Hillary groups are entrenched in Dem power hierarchy. Once entrenched, rabid well-organized fanatics are difficult to remove, however discredited they are.
7 posted on 12/23/2016 7:31:29 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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TigerLikesRooster :" Once entrenched, rabid well-organized fanatics are difficult to remove, however discredited they are."

An example of that is the union leadership.
The higher up the leadership chain they go, the more removed they are from the general membership.

8 posted on 12/23/2016 7:52:09 PM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt (Immigration is a priveledge ,.... not a right ! Tell that to O'Bungler and the U.N.)
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To: Kaslin
" not only is Biden dumping on Hillary, "

In about a month biden can start dumping on obama (you were vice president, joe, how could you let him get away with some of that stuff he did?)
9 posted on 12/23/2016 8:46:22 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt; TigerLikesRooster; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; ...

TigerLikesRooster :"It seems to me that Obama/Hillary groups are entrenched in Dem power hierarchy. Once entrenched, rabid well-organized fanatics are difficult to remove, however discredited they are."
An example of that is the union leadership.
The higher up the leadership chain they go, the more removed they are from the general membership.

Thanks Tilted Irish Kilt and TigerLikesRooster.

10 posted on 12/23/2016 8:49:48 PM PST by LucyT (>>>> "YouÂ’re not paranoid, they want you dead." <<<<)
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To: BenLurkin

1. elect Keith Ellison, a must
2. Have Obama out there every day as the leader of the Democratic party
3. Nuff said...Obama- we love you!!!!! keep it up :)


11 posted on 12/23/2016 8:51:51 PM PST by Cannonball Bill
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To: Kaslin

it wasn’t all bad for the Dems.

they picked up a net of six federal spots.

including two in the US Senate
and six in the US House


12 posted on 12/23/2016 11:51:19 PM PST by RockyTx
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To: RockyTx

Both GOP Senators who dissed Trump lost. Coincidence? LOL

The guy from Illinois was gone no matter what.

The Senate Seat in NH could have been saved, but no.

I believe that next time around the Rats have to defend 23 Senate Sears. The GOP only has to defend 9. Hoping for 60!


13 posted on 12/24/2016 12:19:20 AM PST by Kickass Conservative ( Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

in 2018,
I see 5 or 6 easy pickups for the GOP in the US Senate.
a net of ten in not impossible.


14 posted on 12/24/2016 12:47:40 AM PST by RockyTx
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