RUSH: Okay, part of my letter to Obama last week. I said this while in Las Vegas, and I told him, "Man up."

RUSH ARCHIVE: Let me be the father that you never had or never really knew, 'cause I think you need some guidance. It's time to man up. It's time to grow up.

RUSH: All right, Jake Tapper on February 1st, four days ago, during the White House press briefing with Robert Gibbs they had this exchange...

TAPPER: Isn't the whole point of being president and controlling the House and Senate to man up and make these tough decisions.

GIBBS: Yes!

TAPPER: Whether or not --

GIBBS: Absolutely!

TAPPER: Whether or not it costs at the ballot box in November?

GIBBS: (stammering) We're... We're... We're not -- we're not... The commission --

TAPPER: You're saying, "We're not going to do it unless we have sign off from the Republicans."

GIBBS: No, no, no. W-we're not going to make progress unless we have sign off from the Republicans but again, Jake: There's not unanimity in one party on either way forward.

RUSH: Gibbs doesn't like that, either. Jack Tapper said, "man up." So I said that on January 28th. Ahem. And Jake Tapper said it on February 1st. Okay.