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<\/a><\/p>\nBut there\u2019s more. Here\u2019s a quote from Woodward: “With the president taking charge, though, Obama found that he had little history with members of Congress to draw on. His administration\u2019s early decision to forego bipartisanship for the sake of speed around the stimulus bill was encapsulated by his then-chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel: ‘We have the votes. F— \u2019em,\u2019 he\u2019s quoted in the book as saying.”<\/p>\n
We got the votes on the stimulus. Screw these guys. In fact, after the 2010 midterms, they were so shocked — and they\u2019re still reeling from this, by the way. After the 2010 midterms, they were so shocked, they didn\u2019t even have Boehner\u2019s number; they didn\u2019t know how to get a hold of him. That\u2019s how out of the picture the first two years the Republicans were. It was screw them, they weren\u2019t consulted, and Republicans couldn\u2019t stop the Democrats on anything, health care, you name it, stimulus, they didn\u2019t have the votes to stop anything. And that\u2019s why all this talk about the mess that we\u2019re in being caused by Republicans… for the first two years of the three-and-a-half we\u2019ve had Obama, he had total political control of Washington. The Republicans could not stop him. None of this, therefore, can be blamed on the Republicans. They weren\u2019t even factors. Obama didn\u2019t even have their phone numbers, for crying out loud. <\/p>\n
From Woodward\u2019s book: “Obama\u2019s relationship with Democrats wasn\u2019t always much better. Woodward recounts an episode early in his presidency when then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid were hammering out final details of the stimulus bill.” Obama didn\u2019t even do that. He made them write that, told them what he wanted, ditto health care. “Obama phoned in to deliver a ‘high-minded message,'” Woodward writes. This is not a compliment. What he means is that Obama called \u2019em and started big-timing \u2019em. <\/p>\n
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Now, let\u2019s move on to Michael Lewis. And don\u2019t forget, again, 2010 midterms they were so surprised by the outcome, they were so detached from Republicans they didn\u2019t even know how to get hold of Boehner, didn\u2019t even have his number. Vanity Fair profile of President Obama. “For months we\u2019ve known that Michael Lewis\u2019 Vanity Fair profile of President Barack Obama would be something special — the access he was being granted was unprecedented.” This is from Business Insiders, by the way.<\/p>\n
“Today, we obtained a copy of Vanity Fair\u2019s October issue to read Lewis\u2019 moving piece, which is called Obama\u2019s Way. Lewis describes a man whose brain is wired to subvert the establishment and to think outside normal parameters. This deeply affects the way he makes decisions. Take Obama\u2019s decision to invade Libya, for example. Lewis had the privilege of learning how the President sends American troops into battle. Lewis describes a scene in which the normal cast of characters had been assembled, either physically or virtually, in the Situation Room in March of last year (Think: U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff).<\/p>\n
“They had set out to decide if the U.S. would intervene in Libya. Then-dictator Muammar Qaddafi was racing across the desert in jeeps and tanks heading for the rebel stronghold of Benghazi, a city of 1.2 million. He had threatened to ‘cleanse\u2019 the country house by house. Naturally, as Obama\u2019s advisers described in the meeting, that meant a massacre. Before the President goes into a meeting, he is told who will be there, and what they will contribute.” He\u2019s told who\u2019s gonna be in the meeting. His meeting. <\/p>\n
“It\u2019s a road map. In this particular meeting, after each attendee shared something about Libya, Obama would decide if he would do nothing or, as European leaders had proposed, create a no-fly zone over the country. According to Lewis — and as is Obama\u2019s practice when decisions are truly difficult — he went off the road map and asked, ‘Would a no-fly zone do anything to stop the scenario we just heard?\u2019 After it became clear that it would not, Obama said, ‘I want to hear from some other folks in the room.\u2019 And so Obama changed the question. It became ‘Should we act in Libya?\u2019 — the details would come later. The President heard from his speechwriter, who would have to explain Obama\u2019s decision to the American people.”<\/p>\n
Now, stop and think of that. <\/p>\n
Folks, here we\u2019re in a meeting at the highest levels to decide what to do about Libya, and we go to the speechwriter who is going to have to explain Obama\u2019s decision. Yet we\u2019ve got quotes in the Woodward book of Obama saying he\u2019s smarter than his speechwriter. Whoa. Wait, not the Woodward book. I just read it earlier this week, maybe today. Last night. Anyway, Obama says he\u2019s smarter than his speechwriters. He\u2019s smarter than his political director. He\u2019s smarter than everybody. He\u2019s quoted as saying these things.<\/p>\n
So the speechwriter and an adviser to Biden tell Obama: Yeah, I suggest we gotta go. “Lewis writes: ‘His desire to hear from junior people is a warm personality trait as much as a cool tactic, of a piece with his desire to play golf with White House cooks rather than with CEO\u2019s and basketball with people who treat him as just another player on the court; to stay home and read a book rather than go to a White House cocktail party…'” What kind of BS is this?<\/p>\n Anyway, I don\u2019t know what Lewis thinks he\u2019s done here, but the people who quote from this piece obviously think that they have uncovered this great bit of news about Obama. He\u2019s such a wonderful guy! He talks to the underlings and would rather play golf with the White House cooks than CEO\u2019s. A road map for decision? He doesn\u2019t know? He\u2019s told who\u2019s gonna be in the meeting and what they will contribute? He doesn\u2019t determine who\u2019s gonna be in the meeting?<\/p>\n A no-fly zone? A no-fly zone! That\u2019s only half a loaf? The point of this is the guy can\u2019t make a decision! It\u2019s the same thing Boehner says in the Woodward book. A speechwriter giving an opinion on whether or not we go to war? Uhhh… It\u2019s like, take your car to the car wash and ask that guy if you need a lube job. What will European leaders think will happen now if this guy calls their bluffs?<\/p>\n They were embarrassed how cocky he was. Remember we discussed this yesterday, the day before. Wait\u2019ll Dmitry Medvedev and Putin get hold of this. Remember Obama was at some G-whatever meeting, a G-whiz meeting, and he said to Medvedev: “Just give me some latitude here, some flexibility here. After the election I\u2019m gonna have a lot more flexibility.”<\/p>\n Which meant: “Look, just tell Vlad to cool it. I\u2019ll be able to get rid of all the nukes after I\u2019m reelected,” or something, a little help with Israel, too. Yeah. So now here\u2019s Putin. (Nobody ever leaves the KGB.) Putin and these people are gonna read this. The Iranians are gonna read this, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is gonna say (impression), “The speechwriter? The speechwriter will determine whether or not they come after our nukes? Ha-ha-ha!”<\/p>\n Oh… (sigh) We… We are in deep doo-doo here, folks. This is not good.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Hey, here\u2019s another passage about the Bob Woodward book, The Price of Politics. “Woodward portrays a president who remained a supreme believer in his own powers of persuasion, even as he faltered in efforts to coax congressional leaders in both parties toward compromise. Boehner told Woodward that at one point, when Boehner voiced concern about passing the deal they were working out, the president reached out and touched his forearm. ‘John, I\u2019ve got great confidence in my ability to sway the American people,\u2019 Boehner quotes the president as having told him.”<\/p>\n Boehner quotes the president as having said that to him: “John, I\u2019ve got great confidence in my ability to sway the American people.” This guy obviously suffers from high self-esteem. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RUSH: I want to get into the Bob Woodward and Michael Lewis stuff that I mentioned in the first hour of the busy broadcast. Bob Woodward has a new book out with detailed access to Obama. What\u2019s been reported so far has been the near breathtaking success on the verge of happening on a debt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Obamaspeech.png\"\/)
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<\/a>European leaders are gonna read this piece and they\u2019re gonna think, “My God, all we gotta do is get to the speechwriter, or some lackey for Biden.” It was Jodi Kantor with that devastating piece Sunday in the New York Times called “The Obamas,” where Obama said he could do everything better than anybody else. The name of Woodward\u2019s book is The Price of Politics. <\/a>That Sunday New York Times piece (we talked about this) <\/a>where talked about how people were not impressed with President Obama at all.<\/p>\n