{"id":12555,"date":"2013-04-30T16:13:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T16:13:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-04-30T16:13:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T16:13:59","slug":"boring_obama_employs_the_limbaugh_theorem_at_press_conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/04\/30\/boring_obama_employs_the_limbaugh_theorem_at_press_conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Boring Obama Employs the Limbaugh Theorem at Press Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I\u2019d like to know, is Barack Obama boring on purpose or is that just who he is? Did you see this press conference at all? I expected a fireball coming out here today. I thought he\u2019d lead off with Jason Collins. He got to him eventually. I thought he would lead with Jason Collins<\/a> and a number of other things. I thought he\u2019d be a fireball whipping up the Democrat base. But he was flat. <\/p>\n

Glenn Thrush of The Politico sent out a little tweet this morning about 45 minutes before the press conference, said the whole thing is rigged. I\u2019m not quite sure I understand this, but Glenn Thrush said that a press conference that\u2019s announced this late, as in just an hour or two before it\u2019s to occur, means that the game is rigged, means that the reporters he\u2019s gonna call on have already been briefed. When you don\u2019t give the press time to work up questions, you say, “Okay, I got a presser here in an hour,” and the reporters that know about it have been briefed and therefore Obama knows the questions he\u2019s gonna get, I guess that was the point that The Politico guy was making in his tweet. <\/p>\n

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You know, this actually felt more like a real press conference to me than what we\u2019ve had in the past. Now, I thought the media suck-up factor was at an all-time low. Now, that could just be me. It was boring, but it was not kissing-up boring. It kind of surprised me how low-key it was. He was boring until he got to Jason Collins, and then he came alive, the NBA player who came out. I don\u2019t know, just to me he seemed a little flat and disengaged. His comments about Obamacare were bizarre. They were boilerplate, and again, I think the Limbaugh Theorem was on display here. <\/p>\n

Whatever happens in Boston, happening in Boston, did happen in Boston, nothing to do with him, in any phase. Pre-, post-, nothing to do with him. What happened in Boston, don\u2019t look here. Keep your eyes focused on Boston, maybe Texas where Bush is, but don\u2019t pay any attention to me. The same thing when Obamacare came up. You know, we have major, major implementation problems with Obamacare. You\u2019ve got Democrats left and right running away from Obamacare. We had the story last week that Democrats in Congress are trying to carve out<\/a> — well, everybody in Congress is trying to carve out exemptions. Oh, there\u2019s a revision to that story, by the way, and it is that you and I were too stupid to understand what that story really was. <\/p>\n

They were not, as it turns out, trying to carve out exemptions for themselves. They were trying to do something else I\u2019m too stupid to understand. But that\u2019s not what they were doing. Obama said that the sequester was damaging the economy and needs to be lifted. The fact of the matter is the sequester was not damaging the economy, which was the intention, and so then Obama decides to do things that had the economy damaged so that he could blame it on the sequester. The sequester happened, and nothing deleterious happened at all. So then they get into furloughs at the FAA and flight delays, and the other things that they did to make people think that the slightest, the tiniest, the smallest of budget cuts have major, profound impact on life in America because the first week or 10 days afterwards nothing happened. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s a great piece on this today in USA Today by Glenn Harlan Reynolds, in fact. I have it here near the top of the Stack. This piece, “Democrats Lose Sequester Battle — The whole sequestration gambit has failed, to the point where even the Washington Post\u2019s Ezra Klein admits that ‘the Democrats have lost on sequestration.\u2019 The idea was that even the comparatively minor cuts in spending caused by the sequester would be so painful that voters would demand higher taxes rather than endure cuts in spending.<\/p>\n

“Problem was, when the spending cuts came, nobody noticed. This led the Obama administration to try to up the pain by focusing cuts in places where people might feel the pain: canceling White House tours for schoolchildren<\/a>, or furloughing air traffic controllers. That didn\u2019t work either. The tour-canceling just looked mean, and the problem with targeting air travel is that members of Congress fly a lot.” (laughing) And they were affected by it, so they had to shut that down. Lickety-split. “Huge bipartisan majorities in Congress thus quickly passed legislation forcing the FAA to make cuts elsewhere instead.”<\/p>\n