{"id":11479,"date":"2013-09-03T18:34:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T18:34:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-09-03T18:34:14","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T18:34:14","slug":"a_bad_labor_day_weekend_for_lib_elites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/09\/03\/a_bad_labor_day_weekend_for_lib_elites\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bad Labor Day Weekend for Lib Elites"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: This, folks, was the Labor Day weekend. And in suburban Washington and at the Hamptons where all of the New York-Boston-Washington power elite go in the summer for their vacations, there\u2019s a big wrap-up to Labor Day weekend. I guarantee you, all these Obama elites and supporters — I don\u2019t mean members of the regime, I\u2019m talking about the donors and the supporters — were talking to them saying, “What the hell is going on?” <\/p>\n

They, too, could not believe this bumbling level of incompetence. ‘Cause Obama last week had them believing, “We\u2019re gonna launch our strike! We\u2019re gonna stop this guy from nerve gassing his own people and move on.” Then on Friday he changes and wants Congress to get involved, and I guarantee you: These people that donate money to him and support him hate Congress; they hate the Republicans.<\/p>\n

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And all of a sudden now he wants to defer to them, and they didn\u2019t understand. Fareed Zakaria, the Global Positioning Satellite host at CNN, I don\u2019t know what his qualifications are other than… I really don\u2019t. He\u2019s one of these egghead theoreticians from the facility lounge who got a TV show, who writes occasionally in magazines and highbrow magazine articles. And he does. He has an audience with Obama now and then about foreign policy. <\/p>\n

Even this guy, even Fareed Zakaria, could not believe what Obama was doing. It did not make any sense. We\u2019ve got the bites. Let me just play these for you. Here\u2019s the montage first of the media in Washington over Labor Day weekend wringing their hands. There\u2019s a little frustration, a little bit of anger at Obama \u2019cause this red line thing to them was a gaffe. You look at Kerry and Hillary and Biden and Chuck Hagel and Obama. These guys used to tout Bashar! They used to sing Bashar\u2019s praises, and it wasn\u2019t that long ago that they did. <\/p>\n

Bashar was a great reformer.<\/p>\n

Bashar was the future hope, a stabilizing influence in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

MARTHA RADDATZ: Go back to that red line comment the president made. Everyone heard that.<\/p>\n

CHRIS CUOMO: The president\u2019s red line comment got him into trouble.<\/p>\n

ALAN COLMES: I\u2019m disappointed that we\u2019re drawing a red line and now talking about war.<\/p>\n

GORDON ADAMS: He put himself in a box when he drew the line.<\/p>\n

CHARLES RANGEL: The president has drawn a red line. Well, constitutionally I have no clue what that means.<\/p>\n

RICHARD GRENELL: …drew this red line and put himself into a corner.<\/p>\n

NICK GILLESPIE: Declaring a red line, he clearly did that as a kind of ad-lib.<\/p>\n

DON LEMON: Why are chemical weapons a red line? What makes them so bad?<\/p>\n

JASON JOHNSON: He talked himself into it by saying there was a red line.<\/p>\n

MIKE JERRICK: Is it all back to that red line comment?<\/p>\n

FREDRICKA WHITFIELD: You wonder if the president even regrets ever using those words “red line.”<\/p>\n

DOUGLAS BRINKLEY: The red line could haunt him.<\/p>\n

DAVID “RODHAM” GERGEN: The drawing of the red line, clearly they had not thought it through. He really does not want to do this, it\u2019s obvious, but were it not for the red line, I don\u00c2\u2019t think that he would be.<\/p>\n

TAVIS SMILEY: You don\u2019t draw a line, red or otherwise, and then dare somebody to cross it and then call that diplomacy. In my neighborhood, we call that playing a game of chicken.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Let me tell you who you heard in there. That\u2019s Tavis Smiley here, David “Rodham” Gergen, Fredericka Whitfield, Douglas Brinkley, Don Lemon, Nick Gillespie… I mean, they\u2019re all in it. It\u2019s this red line thing just… They know it\u2019s amateur hour. These people, these media people, they didn\u2019t know what they were gonna do. They were beside themselves, and you heard David “Rodham” Gergen say, “The drawing of that red line clearly hadn\u2019t been thought through.” <\/p>\n

That\u2019s right. It\u2019s just Obama puffing and huffing.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m a big, tough guy! I\u2019m a tough guy, and they\u2019re gonna be scared of me! I mean, I\u2019m gonna tell them, ‘If you cross that line…'” Obama was so full of himself, he didn\u2019t think Assad would cross the line. He doesn\u2019t know how they look at him. Anyway, they were just beside themselves, and if the line hadn\u2019t been drawn, then none of this would be happening. That\u2019s probably true. Grab sound bite number eight. This is Andrea Mitchell (NBC News, Washington) Sunday night on the NBC Nightly News.<\/p>\n

MITCHELL: Tonight the Arab League is meeting again. The Saudis this time are pushing for a vote to support military action, but the president\u2019s reversal has clearly further damaged the perception of him as a decisive leader abroad.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Further damaged? That means there was preexisting damage, Andrea? Further damage? What do you know that you haven\u2019t told us? Why, she just said here, “the president\u2019s reversal.” It\u2019s the red line business and then deciding not to show \u2019em who\u2019s boss but instead turn it over to the Republicans. See, that\u2019s how they all saw this. “You\u2019re gonna turn this over to Republicans? You\u2019re gonna give the Republicans this story?<\/p>\n

“You\u2019re gonna give them the opportunity to be the big huffer and puffer, blow-the-house-down guys?” That\u2019s what they couldn\u2019t believe. “You\u2019re gonna let the Republicans look like Arnold Schwarzenegger here? What the hell are you doing?” So Andrea says, “[T]he president\u2019s reversal has clearly further damaged the perception of him as a decisive leader abroad.” That means there must be some already existing damage out there that this guy\u2019s not decisive.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Fareed Zakaria and his GPS locator on CNN Sunday morning.<\/p>\n