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The Democrats want to make it look like capitalism has failed, so they will have a good pretext for ushering in full-bodied socialist collectivism. And so far, they’re doing a great job killing the economy! They’re doing such a good job, there’s no need or reason to “hope” that they fail to save the economy: Their failure is guaranteed by their own actions, which have either been excruciatingly stupid, or else diabolically clever!
But Uh...Bam...Uh just said it’s a great time to buy stocks on the news update I just heard on the radio!!!!
Someone just got banned for bashing Rush.
This reminds me of the Wayne LaPierre v. Clinton battle when the NRA leader said Clinton wanted to see more gun killings.
People were horrified at the NRA leader LaPierre. I thought he was off base but in the end he was right. Clinton got his a*s whipped in the 1994(?) mid term elections with Newt’s Contract For America.
Most people later said LaPierre was right.
I am a registered Republican, and by your name GOP lady, I see you are one too. Is Rush a registered Republican?
Obama has already failed. I want him to resign before he does anymore damage.
Bashing Rush, sounds painful.
Then he’s either wrong, or hoping that you’ll take his advice, lose money, and blame capitalism.
The time will come to buy. But that time is not yet.
Well, it’s going to be one or the other:
0 wins-country loses
country wins-0 loses
no middle ground.
The question I am asking my liberal friends, an you might want to do the same, is:
“Was it worth half your life savings to see 0bama installed in the White House?”
Rush you got it wrong. The country and the President are one. When Bush failed the country failed. If Obama fails, the country fails.
I am asking them the same.
Hello, fellow Clevelander.
Obama Aims to “Remake” Nation and Stamp It with His Own Emblem
March 3, 2009
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: This is a headline from the Chicago Tribune: “Barack Obama’s Push: Make Rush Limbaugh Appear to be the Face of the GOP.” Here’s the subhead: “Obama gambles that taking on conservative radio host will cow Republicans, benefit president’s agenda.” What do we have here? We have the president of the United States, Barack Obama, gambling on me to benefit his agenda and to cow the Republican Party. Me. He’s counting on me to end up selling his agenda. Fat chance. It isn’t going to happen. By the way, I want to play a couple sound bites off the top, and after that, I want to address, in a different fashion, this whole notion of Obama failing ‘cause I had a fascinating e-mail exchange today with a reporter from the Washington Post, Greg Sargent. And very tricky on the part of Mr. Sargent, and I’m going to read the back and forth to you. I don’t know what he’s going to write, but I’ve got the e-mail trail, I have the record of what I said to him.
His question ostensibly, originally was about Michael Steele. And the way he framed the question, “Do you think Steele didn’t go far enough in his apology to you, to say that Obama should fail?” And I just laughed. I just laughed. These mainstream media people, the Drive-Bys inside the Beltway, they are automatons. They are butt boys for the Obama administration. They simply get their marching orders. There’s a conference call every morning between The Forehead — if you don’t know who The Forehead is, Paul Begala, he’s the guy, the kid that played the banjo on the bridge in the movie Deliverance. So you’ve got The Forehead, Paul Begala, you’ve got James Carville and George Stephanopoulos. Now, Stephanopoulos works at ABC, Carville and Begala at CNN. They have a conference phone call every morning with Rahm Emanuel where talking points are discussed and decided upon.
And so the talking points after my CPAC speech hit first on Sunday morning with Stephanopoulos, where they misrepresented — what they did there was a really neat trick. They posted on their website a supposed transcript from the TV show that was not the transcript of the TV show. When you look at the transcript of the TV show, it’s not what they posted on the website, and the website is what got distributed, and this is the story about how Eric Cantor repudiated me when Eric Cantor did not. Eric Cantor agreed with me on what Republican policy and initiative ought to be in fighting page one of the Democrat liberal handbook here from Barack Obama. I want to get to all that here in just a second. But some sound bites. This was one of my lines, this is one of the points that I made during the CPAC speech Saturday afternoon in Washington.
RUSH ARCHIVE: All politicians, including President Obama, are temporary stewards of this nation. It is not their task to remake the founding of this country. It is not their task to tear it apart and rebuild it in their image.
RUSH: Right on, right on, right on, right on. Right on. Right on. Right on. Right on. Now, let’s go to a couple of Obama sound bites from this morning at the Department of Transportation, the first of two.
OBAMA: In the weeks to come, the signs denoting these projects are going to bear the new emblem of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. These emblems are symbols of our commitment to you, the American people. When you see them on projects that your tax dollars made possible, let it be a reminder that our government, your government, is doing its part to put the economy back on the road of recovery.
RUSH: It is not. There is nothing about Obama’s policies that will generate private sector wealth or that will cause the economy to recover, but they’re going to put on Obama logos. Why not just put pictures of yourself on everything, like they used to do in totalitarian countries? Just plaster your picture all over, just like Che Guevara, Fidel are all over Cuba. Just plaster your picture there. Here’s the second bite. Now, remember, I said President Obama is a temporary steward. It is not his task to remake the founding of the country. It’s not his task to tear it apart and rebuild it in his image.
OBAMA: Throughout our history, there have been times when a generation of Americans seized the chance to remake the face of this nation. It’s what we’re doing once more, by building a twenty-first century infrastructure that will make America’s economy stronger and America’s people safer. That’s the reason we’re here today. That’s the purpose of our recovery plan. That’s the cause of my presidency.
RUSH: To remake the face of the nation. He is making me look like a genius, which, of course, some would not dispute. Ah, ah, sorry, little humorous pomposity there, maybe a little sarcasm. You know, I figured out, Snerdley, from our first women’s summit, I figured out everybody says the women that don’t like me, it’s pomposity, or pompousness, or that that’s not what it is. People don’t laugh anymore. People don’t understand sarcasm as a form of humor. Sarcasm is not permitted anymore. Sarcasm is considered mean. I do sarcasm and irony aimed at liberals better than anybody. They don’t get it, because political correctness has taught people, can’t laugh, can’t laugh. People might think ill of you.
All right, here we go. Let’s start with this Los Angeles Times story. It’s by Peter Nicholas today. Headline: “’Painting Limbaugh as GOP’s Leader’ — The White House is pushing the message that the provocative radio host is pulling the party’s strings. The Obama White House has begun advancing an aggressive political strategy: persuading the country that real power behind the Republican Party is not the GOP leaders in Congress or at the Republican National Committee, but rather provocative radio talk show king Rush Limbaugh. President Obama himself, along with top aides and outside Democratic allies, have been pushing the message in unison.” Yesterday Gibbs at his press conference — we’ve got these sound bites coming up, sit tight. Gibbs: “I think it would be charitable to say he doubled down on what he said in January in wishing and hoping for economic failure in this country.” And, you see, that’s the nub of it. Economic failure is what I want to avoid.
Ladies and gentlemen, I said at CPAC in one of the segments where I professed my love for this country and devotion to, my awe for, the United States of America, when you said I want and we conservatives want the best for everyone, we want everyone to succeed, we want everybody to have the opportunity to use their God-given talents and ambition to the best of their ability, depending on their ambition and desire. And this is going to choke that off, because it’s going to punish those who achieve trying to use those characteristics. I said, “Look at me, look at what’s happened to me. My parents would not understand my life. They would not believe my life. They came out of the Great Depression. They wouldn’t think this is possible for their son.” And I said at CPAC, “I wish everybody could experience this, and I mean that from the bottom of my heart.” I really do.
It’s so glorious, it’s such a wonderful thing that has happened to me, and it hasn’t happened in a vacuum. All of you are part and parcel of making it happen, and my appreciation for you is boundless, my inability to properly thank you has been duly noted by me over the course of 20 years. Why in the world would I, having been fortunate to prosper as I have, why would I want the economy to fail and destroy everything I’ve produced? Well, of course I don’t, I don’t want the economy to fail. I want just the opposite. I want to get out of this mess. These people are sitting around doing nothing. We have lost $3 trillion of wealth in the stock market alone since Obama was elected. Three trillion dollars of personal wealth is gone. What he’s doing is not going to bring it back in any way, shape, manner, or form. It’s going to refocus all of that wealth back to government.
Now, any other president standing by while the market plunges to this degree would have said something by now to try to halt it, to try to inspire confidence in the American people, to go out and engage in commerce, to once again invest in the businesses, large and small that make the country work. Not President Obama. He stands mute. He says nothing. In fact, he does worse. He sends the Fed chairman out this morning to say we need tax increases. Well, Obama already said that, Mr. Chairman. So this is piling on, is it not? He said we need tax increases, we need socialized medicine. The president’s already proposed that last Tuesday night in his speech in the House chamber. And the market duly starts going south again.
Investor’s Business Daily today with a really nice op-ed editorial: “Capital on Strike.” Money is on strike. People with money are on strike, and the Obama administration sits back and does nothing but attack a guy on the radio? Claiming this is what I want? I have no control. I am not in charge of one Republican policy. I have not authored or advocated one policy that is in play today used by either party. I’m no different than you, I’m an average citizen, I have a microphone, I’m sitting around here watching all this, I’m watching my wealth dissipate just like every one of you are. It is fatuous, it is ignorant, and it is irresponsible for journalists to claim I want this to happen. My question would be to the journalists who are acting as total butt boys for this administration, you all have your own degree of wealth. You all have your own 401(k)s and your investment portfolios. Are you people happy to see them vanish before your very eyes? Is the idea of the remaking of America into a so-called socialist paradise so important to you that you will sit around and happily, without any concern, watch your wealth dissipate and everybody else’s?
This is Obama’s economy. They’re trying to slough this off on Bush. They’re trying to say all these deficits are Bush. They’re not going to get away with that. They’re not going to get away with that here. Nobody has spent like Obama, nobody has piled up debt like Obama. And it’s not over. This notion that I am for economic failure, or that anybody is for economic failure, is crazy. There’s one person who might be. Barack Obama. The one guy that could do something about this at least attitudinally is standing mute. Who benefits from this plunging economy? Ask yourself. Who gets more power? Who gets more curiosity? Who gets more panic? Who gets more anxiety? Obama does. And what does the panic and anxiety mean? How does it manifest itself? It manifests itself thus: “President Obama, please do something, please do something, Mr. Obama, please do something.” He goes out and makes a speech for national health care, “Ah, I feel better, Obama is on the case.”
Meanwhile, the next day, zippo, another 200 points down. Ask yourself who benefits. It isn’t me. I’m not benefiting from what’s happening here. Mr. Snerdley is not, Dawn’s not. Brian, you’re not. Who’s benefiting right now from what’s going on? None of us are. The banks aren’t benefiting, the automobile companies are not benefiting. Well, yeah, you could say people being allowed to stay in their homes and not having to pay for it, they may be benefiting, but how is that America? Ask yourself who’s benefiting. Who said a crisis is a terrible thing to waste? That would be Rahm Emanuel. Who, again, orchestrates talking point phone calls with media members at ABC and CNN every morning? Does somebody have a problem with that, by the way?
END TRANSCRIPT
I Don’t Want the Economy to Fail
March 3, 2009
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: I know it’s sort of like spitting into the wind here but I want to make another point on this failure business. Remember back in 2002 when we had a plummeting Dow Jones Industrial Average and Dick Gephardt was happy? Dick Gephardt, then the Democrat leader in the House, gleefully said, “Every hundred-point drop in the stock market, we pick up another seat.” You’d think Dick Gephardt was hoping for economic failure? Yes, Dick Gephardt was hoping for economic failure, and he was publicly gleeful when the economy was tanking. In fact, talking about wanting the economy to fail, the Democrat Party tried to engender Democrat collapse for six-and-a-half years, telling the American people the future was dismal, it was gloomy, that people were losing their jobs, that there wasn’t any real progress being made in the gap between wage earners. The Democrat Party and you people in the media ought to be ashamed. You tried to talk the people of this country into believing that we had a bad economy. You were rooting for economic failure, and in some cases in the Democrat Party were trying to bring about economic failure in order to win elections. This notion that I want Obama fail, I want everybody to succeed. This is not hard to understand, and the fact that they won’t report the truth on this shows to what extent they have become butt boys for the Obama administration.
Back to the phones, to Chicago, this is Art. Great to have you on the program, sir, hello.
CALLER: Rush how you doing?
RUSH: Good.
CALLER: Congratulations on your mother of all bombs presentation at CPAC.
RUSH: Thank you, excerpts from that coming up soon, by the way. Thank you very much, Art.
CALLER: Yeah, Ann Coulter rocked CPAC in 2008 and I think you set the global warming high-water mark this year, so I’ll get to my question. Mr. Obama, I want him to succeed, he’s the guy that probably says nothing more eloquently than even Paul Harvey, I want him to succeed so that even his Obamutts would realize that on-the-job training is really not any way to run a presidency. Would I be wrong in wishing that?
RUSH: What exactly are you wishing?
CALLER: I’m wishing that he would succeed in so much that even his Obamutts that voted for him would realize that on-the-job training is not a way to run a presidency.
RUSH: It sounds to me you’re hoping for economic failure so that people realize just how inexperienced and poor a President Obama is.
CALLER: That’s pretty much it, yeah.
RUSH: See, I don’t want that. I don’t want it to happen that way. I’m afraid that it will. I don’t want economic failure. I don’t want the kind of pain and suffering that we have now to get any worse. It’s the exact opposite. I don’t want this economy to get worse just so people learn the truth about Obama. It may take that, I hope not, because if it takes that, we may not have enough power left to gain control of our economy the way it was. But I don’t want the economy to fail. I don’t want people losing their jobs and being kicked out of their houses. I don’t want people going on welfare and unemployment just for people to realize what a mistake they made with Obama. I want Obama to fail, not the country. I want Obama to fail in being successful with his economic plan. Now, if Barack Obama all of a sudden came out and said, “You know what? I think we need to do something here in the midst of this recession. I’m going to resend my capital gains tax increase and I’m going to suspend capital gains. And, you know what, I think we can really improve the economic circumstance if I would cut the corporate tax rate in half, and maybe just suspend capital gains for three months. Maybe have a tax holiday on FICA, Social Security withholding.”
Well, I tell you, I would become Barack Obama’s biggest cheerleader in this country. If he actually proposed ideas to jump-start this economy, so there isn’t any more economic pain amd we can bottom out at some point and start building this back. But, folks, his plan doesn’t do that. Government spending does not elevate the private sector. It does not stimulate the private sector. It does not in any way, shape, manner, or form expand the private sector. But here me, and hear me loud. Look at me. I don’t want the economy to fail. That’s why I’m sticking my neck out here. I actually care about the people who are seeing their financial lives damaged and in some cases ruined. I’m the one, among many on my side, who are truly worried about this. Some of you are hoping that the words from Obama’s mouth will magically bring you back. It ain’t going to happen. I do not want economic collapse. This is it for me. This is enough. It’s got to stop. The problem is this administration has no interest in it stopping right now.
END TRANSCRIPT
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What part of town are you from again?
That is frickin' brilliant...what a great sign for all those upcoming tea parties.
I, too, would like to see Obama fail in many of his efforts, i.e. shutting down talk radio, increasing abortions, instituting socialized medicine. . .
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