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RUSH: We are here on the Left Coast. We\u2019re in Hollywood. We\u2019re in Los Angeles, broadcast excellence for the fourth straight date out here, and one more to go after today. We\u2019re having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have. <\/p>\n

I showed up yesterday, played at a golf course called Saticoy up in Reagan country. You know where it is? It\u2019s up there in Camarillo. So we drove up there, you need meal money to get up there from here. And we show up, go to the 18th hole, it\u2019s a long par five. I, El Rushbo, I\u2019m hitting the ball off the tee as well as I have in I don\u2019t know how long. Bammo, it\u2019s about a 535 yard par five. The second shot, 3-wood, bammo, straight down the middle. I have about 80 yards in, and I sort of yank, come over the top on the gap, wedge ends up in the trap, the green side bunker. And we\u2019re one down here, this is gonna tie it up and not losing any money. And of course everybody thinks I\u2019m in the bunker. I\u2019ve got a reputation for being a bad bunker player. Okay, it\u2019s over. <\/p>\n

So I go in there, I take my first swipe in the bunker and the ball doesn\u2019t move. I whiffed, I got right under the ball, but I kept the pose, I kept the pose as though I had hit the best shot ever. I was just trying to cover my embarrassment in case anybody from high up the hill in the clubhouse is looking. So then I look down, the ball is still there, I bop up, take another shot at it, two hops in the hole, holed out from the green side bunker, for a five, wiping out the opposition. Been a long day, it\u2019s a hilly golf course up and down, just took all the juice out of \u2019em. That was it, another successful, fun day brought to an exciting conclusion. And here we are ready to kick it off again, happy to have you along, folks. Telephone number is 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. <\/p>\n

Now, as I told you during yesterday\u2019s excursion into broadcast excellence, I was not gonna have a chance to watch the Bamster\u2019s speech on Afghanistan. I actually didn\u2019t need to watch it; I knew what he was gonna do. But it\u2019s my job to watch it in large part so that you don\u2019t have to. I would come in here and tell you what you missed, and as an added bonus, sometimes to tell you what to think about what you missed, but even at that, folks, after the sterling day on the golf course we went to dinner, place in Malibu, I forget the name of the place, but high up on the hill overlooking the ocean looking south, beautiful place up there, and got home and I was just exhausted, just zapped. I didn\u2019t even fire up the computer. I toyed around on the iPad for a while, and I came in, I talked to a couple people and found out what happened and we basically put together a summary for you. If you didn\u2019t watch it either, hell, I don\u2019t blame you. We\u2019ve got it summarized here in, what, about a minute and a half? I think that\u2019s about all it takes to summarize what happened last night. <\/p>\n

(playing of spoof) <\/p>\n

RUSH: Pretty much sums it up, right? Did you watch it, Dawn? You didn\u2019t have to. Now you know. I\u2019m sure you have a wonderful idea exactly what happened last night, Obama and his address to the nation. Stumbling through the show prep today, and I do mean stumbling, trying to stay on an East Coast schedule when I\u2019m out here, and if I did that would mean going to bed at 11. I go to bed at two a.m. So that would mean going to bed at 11 here and getting up at four and getting in here at about five. It hasn\u2019t been working out. I\u2019ve been going to bed at two o\u2019clock here and getting up at five o\u2019clock here, after all of these action-filled days doing the program and then hustling outta here and heading to the golf course of the day, and then going out and having a tasty morsel at dinner, then back home, do some show prep before getting to bed. So I\u2019m a little bit on the frazzled side, but you wouldn\u2019t know it if I didn\u2019t mention it to you.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We do have a couple sound bites from Obama, and his own trial balloons here in trying to make this whole claim that the Republicans are purposely destroying the economy; the Republicans are responsible for all of this. Two sound bites, maybe three, from Obama\u2019s White House speech last night on Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: We take comfort in knowing that the tide of war is receding. Fewer of our sons and daughters are serving in harm\u2019s way. We\u2019ve ended our combat mission in Iraq with a hundred thousand American troops already out of that country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah? <\/p>\n

OBAMA: And even as there will be dark days ahead in Afghanistan — <\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah!<\/p>\n

OBAMA: — the light of a secure peace can be seen in the distance.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, there it is.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: These long wars will come to a responsible end.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Those “long wars,” started long before I got here, “will come to a responsible end,” and he kept going. He wasn\u2019t finished.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Over the last decade we have spent a trillion dollars on war at a time of rising debt —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop tape.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: — and hard economic times.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop tape, stop tape. There you have it. You see where this is going? “For the last decade,” translation: Since Bush, “we\u2019ve spent a trillion dollars…” There\u2019s the magic number. His health care bill cost less than that, see? I mean, it actually doesn\u2019t, but that\u2019s what they wanted everybody to believe. “Trillion dollars on a war, rising debt, hard economic times over the last ten years.” Let\u2019s continue.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Now we must invest in America\u2019s greatest resource: Our people.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape! So now it\u2019s time for change. “I\u2019m Barack Obama, and I just got here! You elected me in November of 2008, but today is my first day on the job; and after ten years of absolute purposeful destruction of the economy by my predecessor and his party — and after wasting a trillion dollars on this war — I have finally shown up, and it\u2019s time to invest in you. So I, Barack Obama, am starting that today,” or in his case, last night. Let\u2019s keep going.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: We must unleash innovation that creates new jobs and industries, while living within our means. We must rebuild our infrastructure and find new and clean sources of energy. America, it is time to focus on nation-building here at home.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right, “I\u2019m Barack Obama, and I just got here! Yeah, it\u2019s time to unleash innovation, new jobs, shovel-ready infrastructure. We haven\u2019t tried that yet. I was elected in 2008, but I\u2019ve been playing golf, you know? I just now showed up. It\u2019s time to invest in you. We\u2019re gonna have shovel-ready jobs. We\u2019re gonna unleash innovation that creates jobs.” See, he hasn\u2019t been doing any of this the past two years. No, folks, he hasn\u2019t been doing it. All stuff that\u2019s the been going on the past two years? They\u2019ve been trying to dig themselves out of the swamp that George W. Bush created — and finally, two years after we get rid of Bush (finally!), as of last night (finally!) it\u2019s time to start rebuilding ourselves here at home.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is David “Rodham” Gergen. Now, this is CNN\u2019s special coverage of Obama\u2019s address on the beginning of the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. And Anderson Cooper, 920, speaking to David “Rodham” Gergen, and he said, “What did you make of Obama\u2019s speech here?”<\/p>\n

GERGEN: It was a very good speech. I thought he summarized very well what he believed and, you know, I thought he was concise and he made his points.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. That was a very good speech out there, Anderson. I thought he summarized very well what he believes. And, you know, I thought he was concise and made his points. Well, there was a problem. Anderson Cooper decided to probe a little deeper. He said, “Do you see this, by any chance, as a victory for Joe Biden?” Now, you see when you ask David “Rodham” Gergen about the substance of the speech, not whether or not Obama made his points and summarized very well, you get into the substance with him then you get a different take.<\/p>\n

GERGEN: There\u2019s no question about that, General Petraeus and Secretary Clinton and Bob Gates all have been reported tonight to have reluctantly accepted this outcome. They wanted them more robust. And I frankly must say, what I\u2019m partly puzzled about is when you\u2019re trying to wind down a war, and everybody agrees you have to wind it down in Afghanistan, you\u2019ve got a general who\u2019s turned around two wars, he\u2019s the most successful general of modern times and he comes to you with a recommendation on how to do it and you say, “No, thank you, I\u2019m gonna do it a different way.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh. So we learn David “Rodham” Gergen is not so happy with the speech when he starts examining the specifics and the substance. The answer to this is actually very simple. Petraeus is a goof; he\u2019s an idiot; all he\u2019s ever been is a military hawk. All he\u2019s ever been is somebody that loves killing people, shooting guns and so forth be. The theoreticians at the faculty lounge at Harvard are much more compassionate than that. We\u2019re much more sophisticated than these warmongers. I\u2019m not gonna listen to some warmonger, I\u2019m Barack Hussein Obama, mmm, mmm, mmm, and I\u2019m not gonna listen to some warmonger. Besides, I\u2019m not out to win this thing, \u2019cause I don\u2019t like victory, makes me nervous. I don\u2019t like having to see Emperor Hirohito show up and surrender. I just don\u2019t like that. Emperor Hirohito, of course, didn\u2019t. <\/p>\n

David Ignatius, a columnist at the Washington Post, basically says it doesn\u2019t matter, Obama is the commander-in-chief, screw the generals. Charlie Rose asked him a question: “Here\u2019s what intrigues me – is the President\u2019s mind. What has happened between the 2009 assessment, that long, drawn out assessment, that everybody who participated said was very interesting and very productive for them? What\u2019s happening between then and now,” when Obama says, screw it, we\u2019re getting out of there?<\/p>\n

IGNATIUS: This president has become commander-in-chief. This is the president who took a very gutsy decision to send the SEALs in to take out Osama Bin Laden, and I think that changes you —<\/p>\n

ROSE: Becoming commander-in-chief changes you in what way?<\/p>\n

IGNATIUS: Well, what he\u2019s deciding is, I\u2019m gonna make up my own mind, despite what the generals are telling me, and General Petraeus, a pretty aggressive arguer, and he\u2019s deciding what I think works is counterterrorism, and I\u2019m gonna have the force that supports that and I\u2019m not gonna send in the COIN force as the generals want, and I\u2019m gonna set the policy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, there you have it. So he\u2019s a commander-in-chief, screw the generals, screw Petraeus, there, Mr. Gergen, is your answer. Obama\u2019s a commander-in-chief, Obama\u2019s maturing right before our very eyes, Obama single-handedly — we\u2019re back to this now — can handle all of this. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s no question this speech last night was a campaign speech. What better way to fire up the Democrat base than to announce you intend to lose the war in Afghanistan? That\u2019s what the Democrat base wants. So Obama essentially says, I\u2019m out to lose, and the Democrat base is happy. They\u2019re all excited about it. You know, what do General Petraeus and Gates, the defense secretary, what do they know? They were both opposed to Obama when he made his gutsy call, don\u2019t you remember that? Only Obama knew how to go out and get Bin Laden. Only Obama understood all the pratfalls. Only Obama was able to see all the things that could go wrong. So he\u2019s a brilliant guy getting Bin Laden, and now he\u2019s a brilliant military strategist. You know, Hitler\u2019s generals tried to argue with him, too, fools.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: President Obama, in a nutshell, now says we cannot continue to fight in Afghanistan. It\u2019s too expensive. But what is the logic here? Doesn\u2019t he insist that massive government spending is the only thing that will lift us out of recession and that we have to do a lot more of it? But somehow all that spending on the military in Afghanistan, that won\u2019t cut it. As we speak, Dingy Harry and Senate Democrats are pushing for yet another round of stimulus spending. But the war in Afghanistan would suffice. In fact, it was World War II that got FDR out of the fire. It was Paul Krugman — just to remind you, New York Times, Paul Krugman — saying just a few months ago, back in September, 2010 that we needed another World War II to get us out of the recession. <\/p>\n

Even Krugman was finally admitting that it was only World War II that finally lifted us out of the Great Depression. It was not the New Deal. So if massive government spending is good for the economy, how come the war in Afghanistan isn\u2019t actually helping the economy? I\u2019ll tell you why. I\u2019ll tell you why. It\u2019s real simple. Don\u2019t doubt me on this, folks. You\u2019re going to think that this is over the top; it\u2019s not. It\u2019s reelect time. It\u2019s run-for-reelection time. Obama is losing his base; he\u2019s lost the independents. He has got to get the base down. He\u2019s gotta get \u2019em back. You don\u2019t get the base of the Democrat Party by winning wars. You do not hold the far-left fringe of the Democrat Party as ardent, energized supporters manning phone banks for you and running around bundling funds and raising funds. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s not gonna happen among the base if you go out and win a war. Lose a war? Ah, now we\u2019re talking! Go out and lose a war, and maybe humiliate a general or two in the process, then you have a chance of reclaiming the Democrat base. Don\u2019t doubt me. “Mr. Limbaugh, that\u2019s simply ‘unassistable\u2019 that you can say something like that about citizens of the country of the United States.” It\u2019s true, Mr. New Castrati, and you know it as well as I do. I mean, you\u2019d have to admit Obama\u2019s campaign speech last night was, for what it was, one of his most impressive so far. It was clear that Obama needed and wanted to shore up his anti-American base, known as the Democrat Party. <\/p>\n

If I had to guess, I\u2019d say that most of Obama\u2019s fringe is not all that happy he killed Bin Laden. He\u2019s probably been paying a little bit of a political price. Maybe not so much for killing Bin Laden, but he\u2019s been out there doing this Tarzan business, “Ahhh!” and beating his chest and claiming credit as a big-time warrior now, “I killed Bin Laden,” that doesn\u2019t sit well with the Democrat base. Announcing he\u2019s now planning to lose the war in Afghanistan was may be one of the best moves he coulda made to reconnect with the Democrat base.<\/p>\n

END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

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