{"id":19238,"date":"2011-06-20T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:17:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-20T00:17:57","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:17:57","slug":"golf_with_bam_a_flub_for_boehner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/06\/20\/golf_with_bam_a_flub_for_boehner\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf with Bam a Flub for Boehner?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: Ken in Detroit. Thank you for waiting, sir. I really appreciate it. How are you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Doing great, Rush, and thanks for taking my call. Yeah, I just wanted to comment that John Boehner made a really big political mistake this past weekend playing golf with the President. When we conservatives went and voted the Republicans back into power back in November, we sent a strong message that we wanted them to be a clear opposition to the President and the Democrats. We don\u2019t want them to be drinking buddies. So I think that for Boehner to be going out and playing golf sends a bad message to the voters. Another thing is, also, our country is at war, Rush, and just as George Bush gave up golf —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — when he was president —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — I think that we should also take an example from that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you something: You have a point. I think one of the problems with Boehner playing — and I understand the lure. Boehner loves to play golf. I myself have played golf with Boehner. Boehner is a six handicap, six or seven. He\u2019s a good golfer. I\u2019m sure he would never admit this, but I\u2019m sure that Boehner in part relished the opportunity to go out there and just shellac Obama on the golf course. But aside from that: The President calls you and says, “Let\u2019s go play golf,” and you\u2019re the Speaker of the House, it\u2019s tough to say no because then the media is gonna rake you over the coals.<\/p>\n

“Refusing to be civil! Refusing to get together with the president and solve the nation\u2019s problems,” as though that\u2019s gonna happen on the golf course. But I think it\u2019s just a matter of respect, too. The President calls you to go play golf, you do it. Two problems: One is now you can\u2019t criticize Obama for playing golf, \u2019cause Boehner did it, too. So if we start making jokes — this 13 weekends in a row he\u2019s played golf! — the retort is, “Well, so did Boehner.” But the thing to me is, we\u2019ve got people losing their jobs left and right. People\u2019s homes are underwater. We have dire economic circumstances. We have wars in four different places around the globe. <\/p>\n

If these guys are going to get together, do it in a place and under the auspices of actually working on these problems, rather than photo-ops playing golf, trying to show that everybody can get along — which only helps Obama. Showing that everybody can get along, that\u2019s another premise they put forth that we somehow think we have to respond to, that people “not getting along” is our fault and our problem because of the way we are. This is the guy, Obama, who refused to meet with Boehner or any other Republican leader for the first year, maybe even longer. If you\u2019re gonna get together, get together and read the Riot Act to this guy over what his policies are doing to the country. Now, maybe that happened on the golf course; I don\u2019t know. (interruption)<\/p>\n

Well, I know. The golf course is really not the place for that would happen, but you don\u2019t know. I have no idea. What I… (interruption) It wouldn\u2019t happen. Obama is not gonna invite me to play golf. It\u2019s already been floated. Outside my auspices, against my wishes the second time. Somebody already tried to make it happen. (interruption) Yeah, and it\u2019s that… (sigh) Gosh. (interruption) No. I\u2019m not concerned about that, but if I… (interruption) No. No. No further. I\u2019m not gonna lock my… (interruption) No. I don\u2019t know what I would… (interruption) I\u2019m not gonna respond to a hypothetical with another hypothetical answer. Snerdley\u2019s badgering me here on the IFB. I know what you want. You want me to go say, “Go pound sand, Mr. Obama! I wouldn\u2019t dare waste my time.” That\u2019s what you want. (chuckling) Everybody wants me to go do their dirty work.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Kathryn, Boca Raton, Florida, hi, and welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush, and thank you for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Congratulations, and I hope you do extremely well with your upstart company, business — and I\u2019m sure you will, and I\u2019m sure we\u2019ll get some of your tea. But on a more serious note, as I said to the call screener, I am personally outraged by the golfing outing. I don\u2019t know how many of your listeners… I\u2019m sure you know, but what truly was even far worse than yesterday was the President of the United States played golf on Memorial Day. I am almost… My voice cracks when I hear that — and, in full disclosure, I come from a military family. I cannot believe that he could take a wreath to Arlington for a photo-op and play golf while our sons and daughters… Mine included. My father served in World War II, I\u2019m just about your age. So my brother and my brother-in-law served in Vietnam, and I watched this fraud being played out in front of us. The absurdity, the outrage out here. I am so upset. I\u2019ve had it now with Boehner, and I liked him. I\u2019ve had it with Kasich, and I liked him. I thought he was one of the most outstanding governors — and the reason I liked him was, when he served in the Congress, he knew when to go home. I cannot believe —<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, he knew when to go home! He knew when to go home. He knew, as our Founding Fathers put it, “We represent our district,” and as you know, we have a fine representative: Lieutenant Colonel Allen West from our district here in Boca Raton.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m telling you, people are outraged. This is beyond now — this is truly beyond — Democrat or Republican. This is about the —<\/p>\n

RUSH: But Kathryn, do you not understand that our president needs a relief from the stressful —<\/p>\n

CALLER: No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — situation of being president?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, because I don\u2019t think he knows how to work.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All the media experts are telling us he needs to do this in order to stay focused on his job.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019m really sorry about that, but he\u2019s not representing me or what our family has given to this country and loads and loads of other people that I know — and, like you said, people are trying to hold onto their houses. Fortunately both my husband and I are hardworking people — i.e., we do live in Boca — and we are conservative people. We are active in the Tea Party movement. I am very pro-life. What I liked about Sarah Palin so much was her vigorous defense for the Second Amendment of the United States.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. Well, I\u2019m gonna tell you: There are more people like you out there than you know who are silently seething over that photo-op on the golf course. You\u2019re not alone on that. Don\u2019t doubt me.<\/p>\n

END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

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