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Now, you add that to the $800 billion stimulus, and you\u2019ve got $1.3 trillion that will be totally what he\u2019s asked for that\u2019s added to the baseline of the budget. But still, look at this in the New York Times. Jeff Zeleny has the story here and I mention this story mostly for the humor of it. The headline of the story: “A Campaign Challenge: Defining Obama.” They are still trying, at the New York Times, to “define” Barack Hussein Obama. (interruption) I know the $780 trillion didn\u2019t create any jobs, and $300 billion more isn\u2019t. I\u2019m surprised it\u2019s that small. I\u2019m surprised it\u2019s only $300 billion. It\u2019s gotta end up being more than that. It\u2019s gotta be enough that the Republicans will object to it because that\u2019s the whole point: To come up with something Republicans will object to. Oh, do you know that Pelosi\u2019s ticked off?<\/p>\n
This is funny, too. Pelosi is ticked off because the Republicans are not gonna respond! The Republicans have decided not to do a rebuttal. “There\u2019s a football game after the president\u2019s speech, and we\u2019re not gonna give a response,” thereby signaling that this is an insignificant event. Pelosi\u2019s all ticked off that they\u2019re not taking it seriously enough. She says there needs to be a response. What Pelosi knows is that all these responses to official presidential speeches before joint sessions, the response looks small. Pelosi, really, is upset that Obama isn\u2019t going to be criticized. She\u2019s upset that Obama\u2019s gonna be ignored. There will be no official Republican response. She\u2019s also forbade the use of the word “stimulus.” Yep, can\u2019t use the word “stimulus” anymore!<\/p>\n
It\u2019s because it\u2019s got a negative connotation. Look at all the words liberals have destroyed in our language. Anyway, Jeff Zeleny here at the New York Times: “President Obama may have escaped the burden of a Democratic primary challenger. Yet the battle to define him is rapidly escalating — not only by Republicans competing to run against him, but also within his own team inside the White House.” We\u2019re three years in and we\u2019re getting “Who is Obama?” stories from the New York Times! These are the guys that led the pack on creating the image of The Messiah during the 2008 campaign and all of that. The Times claims “that in trying to lay claim to a broad swath of the electorate, as he succeeded in doing in 2008, he risks pleasing neither the center nor the left,” but by “a broad swath of the electorate” the Times must mean “union members;” anybody receiving a government check.<\/p>\n
Who else could he care about? So there\u2019s that, then the “Obama Said to Seek $300 Billion Jobs Package.” This is from Al Hunt at Bloomberg News. “President Obama plans to propose sparking job growth by injecting more than $300 billion into the economy next year, mostly through tax cuts, infrastructure spending, and direct aid to state and local governments.” He wants another stimulus package, by the way, to make sure that teachers don\u2019t get fired — and how many stimulus plans have we had for that? “Obama will call on Congress to offset the costs of the short-term jobs measure by raising tax revenue in later years. This would be part of a long-term deficit reduction package including spending and entitlement cuts as well as revenue.”<\/p>\n
None of this is ever gonna happen, and once again what it amounts to is (snorts) the guy who\u2019s done it all — the guy who\u2019s done all the spending, who\u2019s done all the wreckage — now pretending he has just arrived in town, looked at and assessed the damage and decides we\u2019ve gotta do something to fix it. This is sort of like Colonel Sanders walking into the chicken slaughterhouse. There aren\u2019t any chickens alive, and he wants an investigation. “Who did this?” asks Colonel Sanders. F. Chuck Todd at NBC says “our pollsters are concerned.” Did you hear that? Yeah, let me find that bite. It\u2019s around 14 or 17. It\u2019s number 14.<\/p>\n
This F. Chuck Todd, he\u2019s the political director, the White House correspondent for NBC. He was on the Nightly News last night. He\u2019s out in Los Angeles or the Simi Valley for the Republican debate tonight. Brian Williams said, “Now we turn to our NBC News\/Wall Street Journal poll. Some bad news for the president, tied to some very bad feelings about the current state of our economy. Our political director and chief White House correspondent [F.] Chuck Todd here with us in California for tomorrow night\u2019s debate with a look at the numbers.” Now, listen to this.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: “Our pollsters are concerned.”<\/p>\n
“Our pollsters are concerned. That\u2019s the kind of numbers you have when the public starts to give up on a president as a problem solver,” 54% say it\u2019s a long-term setback. Our pollsters! They just come out and say it! Our pollsters are very, very concerned over what this means for Obama. Our pollsters! I\u2019ve told you. (chuckles) You know what this really means? It\u2019s worse than this. It\u2019s worse, because these pollsters are not reflecting public attitude; they\u2019re trying to shape it. These networks use their polling units to make news, but this must be so bad that they don\u2019t dare massage it too much because they do have their own “credibility,” quote, unquote, to worry about. So, the New York Times says they need to “redefine” Obama, and F. Chuck Todd comes along and says, “Our pollsters are concerned.” The public\u2019s catching on to this, the public\u2019s catching on to this. The Tea Party is growing in numbers. The left is in the middle of a conniption fit here. Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. This is “The Forehead,” Paul Begala, last night on CNN, Anderson Cooper 43. Cooper said, “Do you believe, [Forehead], that it is in the Republicans\u2019 best interests to get this thing passed?”<\/p>\n
BEGALA: This all (unintelligible) of Republicans. Some truly deeply, uh, want to help, I know they do, but there\u2019s others I think who frankly understand the political physics here — which is if America fails, Republicans succeed. Rush Limbaugh, their intellectual leader, of course famously said he hopes the president fails. So there is at least several Republicans, I think a lot of them, who, frankly, don\u2019t mind seeing the economy fail if it means that they succeed politically.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, you\u2019ve got it backward. I sit here and laugh, but, frankly, folks, I don\u2019t know about you, but I\u2019m just irritated all the time every day about the state of this country and what\u2019s going on. It\u2019s just plain irritating. All of this is so unnecessary. All of this wreckage, on purpose, is so unnecessary, by a rank amateur who now even his biggest supporters are running around saying, “Who the hell is he? We don\u2019t know who he is,” and I\u2019ve known all along who he is, and that\u2019s why I wanted him to fail, and he hasn\u2019t failed! I don\u2019t know how there can be a Democrat intellectually honest, looking at what\u2019s happened to this country, and can somehow still try to focus blame on me for this?<\/p>\n
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<\/a>and it\u2019s only taken him three years. It\u2019s shocking the damage that\u2019s been done to this country in three years, and they talk about Republican obstructionism? There hasn\u2019t been any Republican obstructionism! The Republicans, for two and a half years, didn\u2019t have the numbers to obstruct anything. We\u2019re not even talking about backbone here. They didn\u2019t have the numbers to obstruct anything. Now, here\u2019s Trumka. He was on CNN Piers Morgan last night. He\u2019s the AFL-CIO honcho, used to be the United Mine Workers guy. Piers Morgan said, “Mr. Trumka, Tea Party, sons-of-bitches?”<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/failed-4.jpg\"\/)