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RUSH: This is just classic for you Obamaites, for you Obama supporters: ‘President-elect Barack Obama and his inner circle fear that some voters expect him to turn around the economy, wind down the war in Iraq and, perhaps, cure cancer — all by the Fourth of July.\u2019 This is a CBS story. ‘President-elect Barack Obama and his inner circle fear that some voters expect him to turn around the economy, wind down the war in Iraq and, perhaps, cure cancer — all by the Fourth of July. They know they must manage and lower those expectations, CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery reports. A top economic advisor to Obama had a glum warning for the rest of us Thursday morning: Neither the job market nor the stock market will be turning around any time soon.\u2019 Here is David Axelrod, the campaign director for Barack Obama, last night in Chicago on CBS 2 Eyeball News.<\/p>\n

AXELROD: We are inheriting a, um, array of problems unlike any that any president has faced, maybe since Franklin Roosevelt —<\/p>\n

RUSH: BS.<\/p>\n

AXELROD: — in 1932. It\u2019s not going to be easy, and it\u2019s not going to be quick. One of his great strengths is he\u2019s never too high, he\u2019s never too low, he\u2019s very focused.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ronald Reagan inherited problems in 1980 that were far worse than the problems we have today, not that these won\u2019t replicate the problems of Jimmy Carter, but until we get to interest rates at 14%, unemployment at 23% or whatever it was, and everybody being told to wear sweaters, I can\u2019t see — I mean, to compare themselves to FDR. And they knew what was coming, they lifted everybody\u2019s expectations on purpose. They played The Messiah game. Here is former Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h, also yesterday in Chicago on the incoming Obama administration.<\/p>\n

REICH: This may be a long haul. 2009 is going to be a very, very hard year. Some economists are saying we\u2019re not going to get out of this for two years. Others are saying it\u2019s going to be three or four, maybe five years. We all have to be very careful about the expectations that we are putting on this man, our president-elect. If we all assume that it\u2019s going to be the first hundred days, we\u2019re going to be disappointed.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What the hell is this? I\u2019m serious about this, I\u2019m not trying to tweak you Obama voters, but I know that you\u2019re out there. By the way, you Obama voters may not know, Robert B. Reich served in the Clinton administration and David Axelrod ran Obama\u2019s campaign. I mention it because exit polls of Obama voters show that they know diddly-squat about anything. Obama voters are the new Rio Linda. Rio Lindans have IQs three times as high as Obama voters. We know this. Exit poll data, not mine. Now, we are not going to let these people get away with lowering expectations like this. We have to lower our expectations? Promises were made, Obama. What was this mindless chant at that creepy acceptance speech? ‘Yes, we can, yes, we can, yes, we can,\u2019 and now all of a sudden it\u2019s become ‘no, we won\u2019t, no, we won\u2019t, no, we can\u2019t.\u2019 Expectations were set, Senator Obama, promises were made. And, by the way, your buddies are still making promises. You\u2019re Lincoln, you\u2019re FDR, you\u2019re Martin Luther King all rolled into one. You\u2019re the reason the world loves America again and you haven\u2019t even assumed office. <\/p>\n

Obama said that he was the one we were waiting for, that he was going to lower the seas, fix the earth\u2019s weather. He was going to transform America. He could have stopped the dramatic erosion of the stock market a week ago, if he wanted to. All he would have to do is say that he\u2019s going to suspend his tax increases, just give some indication that there is going to be stability in government when he takes over, and you can watch this bottom out and start to rebound, but he\u2019s not going to do that because he is going to raise taxes, he is taking advantage of this crisis. Everybody got upset with me when I was telling them that he wants this crisis, that he\u2019s thriving on this crisis. Let me just play for you Rahm Emanuel again Tuesday night in Washington, DC, at the Wall Street Journal\u2019s CEO council. Here is Rahm Emanuel basically saying this crisis is made to order for the Obama campaign to advance their agenda.<\/p>\n

MANUEL: You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that, it\u2019s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before. This is an opportunity, what used to be long-term problems, be in the health care area, energy area, education area, fiscal area, tax area, regulatory reform area, things that we had postponed for too long that were long-term are now immediate and must be dealt with. And this crisis provides the opportunity for us, as I would say, the opportunity to do things that you could not do before.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So Tuesday night you got Rahm Emanuel in Washington going, yeah, yeah, baby give us this crisis. A crisis is a terrible thing to waste. So whereas we couldn\u2019t get national health care because it was too big a step, now it\u2019s going to be easy \u2019cause people are panicked and they want solutions right now, and we want to raise taxes, and we want to regulate even more, we want to control education even more, and this crisis is going to give us the opportunity to do so and that\u2019s why Obama is not going to come out and offer any words of encouragement to the stock market or the economy in general by offering a promise of stability when he takes office. This volatility is going to continue because nobody knows what\u2019s going to happen, and there are great fears. The stock market, the greatest historical plunge, the largest historical plunge in the stock market postelection has now occurred after the election of Barack Obama, it is down 20%, and that doesn\u2019t count how much it was down prior to that, anticipating Obama\u2019s election. <\/p>\n

So now we\u2019ve had all these expectations. He was going to lower the seas; he was going to fix the weather; he was going to transform America; he was going to unify everybody. And now they\u2019re saying, forget that, forget that, you heard Reich. It could be two to four years of this misery. They have no answer. So now that Obama, for the first time — this is important — for the first time in his life, is responsible for something. He\u2019s the one lowering expectations. He was a community agitator. Now he\u2019s a financial market agitator. Our expectations for this country and our economy — you know, I never have been able to understand why it is that the left wants to continue to trample on this whole notion of American exceptionalism. They don\u2019t believe it. And they got elected on that basis. Maybe because we didn\u2019t have a candidate who believed in it, either, or wasn\u2019t able to talk about it that well, but here these guys are actually telling the American people that voted for them, hey, hey, hey, drop all these messiah expectations you had. We\u2019re not going to get this fixed. We\u2019re in for the long haul. This is going to be really, really, really bad. <\/p>\n

And it need not be that way at all. This is the United States of America. If you just get Barney Frank and Chris Dodd and Harry Reid and Pelosi, get them out of the way, cut some taxes or at least say that the tax rates that we have now are going to be maintained, the Bush tax cuts are not going to be tampered with, give some stability and let the people who make this country work begin this economic rebound. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Mary Ellen in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Hey, Mary Ellen, is that near the Mass Turnpike?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s actually about 40 minutes south of Boston.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, great. Okay. Well, it\u2019s great to have you on Open Line Friday. You\u2019re up first, and you know what that means.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, I know Rush, I\u2019m going to say something that\u2019s probably not so respectful, but I don\u2019t know why you got your shorts in a knot over this Obama and backtracking and Robert Reich. It doesn\u2019t matter what he does. He\u2019s going to be the best president we\u2019ve ever had, barring none because there are too many people who have too much riding on this. He\u2019s the first black president. They will not let him fail.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, I\u2019ve made that point. Are you an Obama supporter?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. No. No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I didn\u2019t think so. But I must tell you, Mr. Snerdley thought that you were.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, God no. No, no, no. They will not let him fail. He will be a hero.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you\u2019re right. I had a famous journalist who was writing a book send me a couple questions yesterday afternoon asking my thoughts on a couple things. He gave me a couple questions, he said, ‘How long is it going to be before the Drive-By Media turns on Obama?\u2019 I said they never will. They\u2019ve got too much invested. He is too big to fail. They have made too much about this, he\u2019s The Messiah. They got him elected, they think, this is historical, first black president and so forth. They\u2019ve got four years to blame Bush for everything that goes wrong during the Obama four years. So, yeah, I know what you mean.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And, you know, I\u2019m Italian, I\u2019m a hundred percent Italian, and in the summertime my skin get very dark. So, you know, I may not be black enough to attack Obama, but in the summertime I\u2019ll call back and say this again and make it really work.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: But, you know, he\u2019s black. That\u2019s the end of it. It\u2019s like anything else, when you have people who are in a job, who cannot perform the job, but they are of color, they get preferential treatment.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, in this case it\u2019s not. It\u2019s far more than that with Obama. Sure, the fact that he\u2019s the first African-American president is major factor, and that\u2019s what, as far as the media is concerned, makes his candidacy historic. That\u2019s why it didn\u2019t matter who he is, what he is, what he\u2019s accomplished, which is nothing, it didn\u2019t matter what his experience is, which is dubious, because here was an opportunity for an historical achievement. What you have to remember is that most of the Drive-Bys that have big influence grew up in the sixties and they were informed and influenced by the civil rights battles back then and they have trained the younger Drive-Bys. This election was about a lot of something else, too. The Drive-By Media lost their monopoly in 1988. This was a chance for them to prove that they could still move public opinion and make a candidate of their choice win. Now, how did they do it? They did it by hiding every bit of information about Obama that was damaging. <\/p>\n

The same people that were all bent out of shape about spying on terrorists are the some people that encouraged government officials in Ohio to investigate a private citizen who couldn\u2019t do anything to anybody, Joe the Plumber. Government computers were used to investigate this guy, and all he did was ask a question, and the Drive-By Media joined in trying to destroy Joe the Plumber because he represented a threat, since Obama had made a gaffe and admitted to everybody what his ideology is: spread the wealth. Call it what you want. Socialism, collectivism or what have you, they had to protect him. And so you\u2019re right, it goes much more than just the skin color. What it also has to do with is full-fledged, undiluted, raw liberalism. These people have been thwarted ever since Ronald Reagan. They have been dying to amass power in the White House and Congress that they will have for years, like FDR did, so that they can implement a pure leftist agenda, and Obama is the vehicle for that. And as such, he\u2019s too big to fail. The Drive-By Media will not abandon him. They will coach him, but they will not abandon him. They are starting to get concerned, however. <\/p>\n

From the Chicago Tribune blog — thanks, by the way, Mary Ellen, for the phone call — from the Chicago Tribune blog, it\u2019s called The Swamp, William Neikirk, ‘Obama Should be in White House Sooner.\u2019 I cannot tell you how amazed at myself even I sometimes am, being on the cutting edge of societal evolution. Yesterday I began the chant, ‘Where\u2019s Obama?\u2019 And so today in the Swamp at the Chicago Tribune, ”Obama Should be in White House Sooner\u2019 — President-elect Barack Obama is having to wait more than two months before taking charge as the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression rages. He has said little while a lame-duck president and divided Congress try to cope.\u2019 You go to the end of the story, it says, ‘It seems strange to have Obama sitting there in Chicago for so long with so much going on. It leaves the lame-duck government in place entirely too long. Dec. 1 might be a much better inauguration date in times like this.\u2019<\/p>\n

Not all times, just in times like these when we have Obama in waiting, and then the New York Times today: ‘Looking to Washington Amid Turmoil, So Far in Vain.\u2019 Obama, in resigning from the Senate before the latest session, has missed an opportunity to exert leadership. They, too, are asking, ‘Where is Obama?\u2019 The Drive-Bys want him there. And then let\u2019s go, ladies and gentlemen, to the audio sound bites. The Drive-Bys, as I said, they\u2019re starting to get a little nervous about where\u2019s all the change because all they\u2019re seeing is Clinton people being appointed to the cabinet. Here is the Today Show today, a montage of David Gregory\u2019s report about the Obama transition.<\/p>\n

GREGORY: Well, you remember the campaign slogan for President-Elect Obama that he was going to turn the page in Washington. Well, critics and allies alike are looking at his appointment so far and complaining that he seems to be stuck on the same old chapter. A lot of his most stalwart supporters, a lot of liberals in the party beginning to wonder whether this is what they signed up for, whether they\u2019re getting enough change as he promised.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, he\u2019s not even there yet and he\u2019s lowering expectations. He sent Axelrod and Reich-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h out to lower expectations, saying it\u2019s going to be a big problem, two or three more years at least, we\u2019re in deep doo-doo here. And now they\u2019re worried about the change. But they\u2019re going to find ways to cover for this because he\u2019s too big to fail. Another one. This was on MSNBC\u2019s 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. David Gregory the host speaking with Michelle Bernard of the Independent Women\u2019s Forum. The question, ‘Now, this is a line they\u2019ve been threading all week and last week, too, is they\u2019ve named these Clinton veterans to positions of prominence, and of course if Hillary becomes Secretary of State, doesn\u2019t get any more prominent than that, the Clinton era is back.\u2019<\/p>\n

BERNARD: Absolutely. This is, I believe, could be a socially very significant problem for the brand-new Obama administration. I mean, think about it, we just had the election on November 4th. Most of us are talking not so much about the president-elect but about former President Bill Clinton and about Hillary Clinton. The same thing happened after Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination. All of the media was talking about Hillary Clinton. You know, there is so much drama surrounding the possibility of Hillary Clinton becoming the next Secretary of State that for anyone who ever suffered Clinton fatigue, they now have it in a very major way.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And then this morning on C-SPAN\u2019s Washington Journal, the guest is Michael Isikoff of Newsweek. An unidentified caller from Georgia says, ‘I understand that the various arguments made for needing people with prior experience. Even so, I was hoping we would see new and fresh faces with The Messiah. And I\u2019m starting to fear that we won\u2019t get the change that we were hoping for.\u2019 Now, this is an Obama voter. And here\u2019s Isikoff\u2019s reply.<\/p>\n

ISIKOFF: Look, I think that is a very legitimate point that, uh, you\u2019re gonna hear, uh, more and more. Um, uh, Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State; Rahm Emanuel as Chief of Staff; Eric Holder as Attorney General. These are all people right out of — Jim Steinberg, who is being talked about as national security advisor, although that hasn\u2019t been confirmed yet. But these are all people right out of the Clinton administration, the second Clinton term in particular, and, you know, when Obama campaigned as an agent of change. Uh, uh, so I think if you see a cabinet and White House staff overstocked with — you know, with Clinton retreads, um, you\u2019re gonna hear criticism about where\u2019s the fresh thinking, where are the fresh faces that we had hoped for when we elected Barack Obama?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, here you have it. So there\u2019s some rumblings here of disquiet over The Messiah not fulfilling this promise for change. But they will end up covering for him \u2019cause he\u2019s too big to fail. But here we go. I know it\u2019s very unseemly and it\u2019s really sometimes not very classy to remind people I told you so. I told you, there\u2019s no change. He\u2019s a hack liberal Democrat. Barack Obama has less experience than any other Democrat that\u2019s ever been nominated, if you look at who his friends are, who his alliances are, the things he\u2019s written about and says he wants to do, he\u2019s a hack leftist, almost radical. Why anybody is surprised — there\u2019s no change. Liberalism isn\u2019t change. We\u2019ve had liberalism since FDR. We\u2019ve had collectivism since FDR. We\u2019re just going to get more of it. That\u2019s going to be the change. And we\u2019re going to have ostensibly a president who can speak and people are going to be comforted by the fact that he doesn\u2019t sound like an idiot, even though they\u2019re going to ignore what he says. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want to go back to this Rahm Emanuel bit because another thought hit me last night about this. This is Tuesday night in Washington at the Wall Street Journal\u2019s CEO council, Rahm Emanuel, the new Chief of Staff for Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

EMANUEL: You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. What I mean by that is it\u2019s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before. This is an opportunity. What used to be long-term problems — be they in the health care area, energy area, education area, fiscal area, tax area, regulatory reform area — things that we had postponed for too long that were long-term are now immediate and must be dealt with. And this crisis provides the opportunity for us, as I would say, the opportunity to do things that you could not do before.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, basically again what Emanuel is saying here that this economic crisis is the best thing that could ever happen to us because no crisis should ever go to the waste. You never want a serious crisis to go to waste, so we\u2019re not going to let this go to waste. We\u2019re going to let this get as bad as it can get and that will give us an opportunity to fix everything. If these guys ever do get national health care done, folks, do you realize if they get national health care done, the prospect of rolling that back, i.e., conservatism, that is going to be a major challenge. This is going to have to be stopped. National health care is going to have to be stopped. If it happens, that\u2019s going to be a long time rolling that back, even amongst all the failures that will result from it and all the harm. I know we haven\u2019t rolled back Social Security, that\u2019s the big one. If they get that done, we are in heap, heap big trouble. Here\u2019s what Emanuel is saying. This crisis, this economic crisis, your suffering, your anxiety, that\u2019s going to help us get our agenda forward. <\/p>\n

Now, can you imagine the reaction if John Boehner in the House had said that a recession would help Republicans in 2010? Can you imagine if any Republican came out, imagine if Sarah Palin said, ‘We\u2019ve gotta take advantage of this crisis. You can\u2019t let a serious crisis go to waste. This crisis is an excellent opportunity for us to have it demonstrated just how rotten the Democrats are.\u2019 Can you imagine what the media would be doing to any Republican who was applauding, eagerly anticipating economic tumult and chaos? And it\u2019s not the first time. I remember back in 2002, Dick Gephardt in the House of Representatives, every time the stock market fell during the dot-com bubble 100 points, he\u2019d clap and say, ‘Oh, boy, that\u2019s another seat in the House of Representatives for us.\u2019 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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