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RUSH: Hell\u2019s a-poppin\u2019 out there. Hell is a-poppin\u2019, folks. All kinds of things are happening right now as the program begins. <\/p>\n
Fox News is reporting that the Obama administration is going to say “no” to the Keystone pipeline. The State Department is gonna say “no.” They\u2019re gonna allow the Canadians to reapply with a new route that will not upset the precious habitat of Nebraska. Now, the prime minister of Canada said yesterday, I\u2019m paraphrasing, “You Americans are absolutely nuts. If you want to treat your whole country like an off-limits National Park you go right ahead, but you can\u2019t make us treat our country that way. And if we have to we\u2019ll run a pipeline to the ChiComs. We\u2019re gonna move this oil.” <\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Don\u2019t worry. I have all of this under control. ‘Cause if I don\u2019t, nobody else does, or will. And I\u2019ve always told you when it would be time to panic, and it\u2019s not time to panic yet. Nowhere near it. While all this stuff\u2019s going on in the Republican side, ABC\/Washington Post has a poll, the American people\u2019s confidence on the economy is still falling. I don\u2019t care how often Obama tries to blame that on Bush, it isn\u2019t gonna fly. There is nothing Obama can run on in the last three years that he can say, “Give me another four years to do more of this.” There\u2019s nothing he can cite. There\u2019s not one thing that has happened in these past three years that Obama can run on. <\/p>\n
They\u2019re gonna turn down the Keystone pipeline, that\u2019s the news. Fox has it out there. The State Department\u2019s gonna officially reject it because the route that the pipeline takes goes through the lovely pristine wilds of Nebraska. It would upset everything if it broke, which doesn\u2019t happen to pipelines, blah, blah, blah. Now, let me tell you something about this. This is very, very simple, and there have been worldwide surveys on this. This is not my opinion. This is economic fact. One of the primary ingredients, mechanisms, if you will, in lifting people economically is access to affordable, plentiful, cheap energy. In fact, there\u2019s a good ol\u2019 boy from Georgia who said recently — I\u2019ve got it in the stack here — there\u2019s something everybody\u2019s missing here about what happened to the Chinese communists, and one of the reasons that they\u2019re never gonna be able now to hold onto communism is just two words: air-conditioning. <\/p>\n
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Now, I\u2019m here to tell you what the plan is. The plan is to reject this during the campaign. Obama is in trouble. He needs to secure his base. He needs to hold onto the wackos in the Democrat Party base, and he needs to keep their campaign contributions flowing. I\u2019m frankly surprised that they\u2019ve announced their decision this soon on this. I thought they\u2019d try to keep this going as long as they could, extend it to get campaign donations coming from both sides of it, the oil business side and the environmentalist wacko side. They\u2019ve obviously made a political calculation that it\u2019s more important to secure the base right now because they\u2019re in trouble. I don\u2019t care what\u2019s going on on the Republican side. They claim that the Republican campaign, the nominee, the campaign\u2019s gonna be about the Republican nominee. It\u2019s going to be about Obama. <\/p>\n
This election is going to be about Barack Obama. He is the steward of a declining economy that an ABC News\/Washington Post poll tells us that more and more people are feeling more and more negative about. Nobody wants to live in a nation in decline. Nobody wants to live in a nation in decline on purpose. Well, I don\u2019t want to say nobody, but we\u2019re not to the point where the majority of Americans want to live in a plundered, failed, downturned economy forever. That\u2019s not what most people want. Obama right now cannot afford for this pipeline to be approved because it would provide glaring evidence of all the errors he\u2019s made the previous three years. He simply can\u2019t do it. This pipeline, approving it, bringing more energy into this country, would be a great benefit to this country. <\/p>\n
The moment this deal were to be announced it would have immediate effects on people\u2019s confidence. In the business sector, people who plan ahead, it would be demonstrable. Can\u2019t afford for that to happen because it would shine the light on all the failures of this regime in the three previous years, plus it would totally blow up his base. Can\u2019t have that. So what\u2019s going to happen? This will be resubmitted, if Obama wins, in 2013, and it will be miraculously approved. But right now it is purely and simply a campaign issue. Well, jobs was, too. But as far as the jobs are concerned, Obama is hoping just the appearance of interest in creating jobs will be enough to convince people he\u2019s doing something about it. But jobs, at minimum 20,000. Over the long haul hundreds of thousands of jobs would be created as a result of the Keystone pipeline. None of it matters. None of the reality matters. That\u2019s where we are. <\/p>\n
I think donations from the environmentalist wackos must be down. I\u2019m guessing here, but I\u2019m just assuming that the money coming in from the wacko side is not what they thought. I think they\u2019re lagging behind. I think that\u2019s what this indicates. ‘Cause right now everything Obama\u2019s doing is oriented toward money. And it always is, about everything. But now it\u2019s specifically campaign money and reelection money, and so forth. The calculation is that if you don\u2019t have your base you don\u2019t have a chance. If your base loses energy, if your base is demoralized, if your base is mad at you and the proverbial threats to stay home pop up, then you have no prayer. No matter the fraud, no matter the cheating, no matter how much walking around street money you\u2019ve got, if you lose your base… frankly, the Republican Party runs this risk every four years. They purposely irritate the base. <\/p>\n
I think Obama is probably losing his. On the Keystone pipeline, the unions are on both sides of it, too. Unions are on both sides. Some union people don\u2019t want the pipeline, others do, because it\u2019s jobs. And so the union donations on the anti-pipeline side are not automatic. They\u2019re not gonna go to Republicans, but they don\u2019t have to give. There\u2019s a lot of single-issue constituencies on the Democrat — part of their coalition, a lot of single-issue constituencies, and they\u2019re just like our side. If they\u2019re not satisfied, they\u2019ll get all humpty-hump and sit around and not participate, and threaten not to participate. Wall Street Journal: Seven charged in insider trading probe including some of Wall Street\u2019s biggest money managers. That\u2019s a guaranteed campaign show trial. Wall Street on trial. We can all see how this is going to shake down. (interruption) It\u2019s not illegal. They can do insider trading, yeah, there\u2019s no proscription against them. <\/p>\n
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This is from TheHill.com: “Top White House officials are warning liberal and labor leaders to brace themselves for President Obama\u00c2\u2019s budget proposal. Gene Sperling, director of the National Economic Council, sought in meetings last week to lift the left\u00c2\u2019s gloom about Washington\u00c2\u2019s crackdown on spending by promising that the president this year will focus on job creation rather than deficit cutting.” How many times now have we been promised a laser-like focus on job creation by this president? What is this, the ninth or tenth time now? “Obama staffers sought to present their budget plan as a glass half full. According to sources familiar with the briefings, they promised that the president will focus on jobs and the economy, instead of deficit-cutting, which dominated last year\u00c2\u2019s debate on Capitol Hill.” Now, the translation of that is that Obama is going to push for spending, stimulus, instead of cutting spending. <\/p>\n
So what is there for labor unions and the rest of the left not to like? What is this? You won\u2019t like the budget? I think what\u2019s really going on here is that the regime is warning the left that they\u2019re going to have to offer a budget that sounds like there are cuts, but they don\u2019t want them to have to worry since there really won\u2019t be any cuts. Do any of us really think Obama or any Democrat\u2019s gonna present a budget with cuts? I mean real cuts? It isn\u2019t gonna happen. But now that Obama\u2019s laid it out, “Hey, get ready, we\u2019re gonna have to really cut this budget.” And the media will carry that along, but there won\u2019t be any cuts. We are coming up on the 1,000th day without a budget. The 1,000th day that the Democrat Party has not offered or presented a budget. <\/p>\n
But this article from The Hill repeats several times that Obama is gonna focus on jobs and the economy instead of deficit cutting, never mind the deal he made back in August to get the debt ceiling raised. So what he\u2019s really doing here, just to translate this for you again, Obama is telling his base he\u2019s gonna push for more spending, more stimulus, instead of cutting spending. He\u2019s telling the labor unions and the rest of his foot soldiers he\u2019s still gonna find ways to funnel them money, despite the supposed spending cuts. When he tells them he\u2019s gonna focus on jobs, the translation: “I\u2019m sending you money.” That\u2019s what it means. “Don\u2019t worry about the cuts in here, don\u2019t worry about whatever appear to be cuts. I\u2019m focusing on jobs.” And every time Obama focuses on jobs, that means stimulus. Jobs equals federal spending, according to Obama. And that\u2019s the message he\u2019s sending to his troops here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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