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RUSH: We\u2019re back. President Obama today is out celebrating his first 100 days in orifice. He went to my home state of Missouri. He went to Arnold, Missouri, at Fox High School. I have two sound bites from President Obama. And those of you — and there were hundreds of thousands of you — who attended the tea parties on April 15th, I want you to know that President Obama, the president of all the people, The One, the Most Merciful, was really irritated by what you did. He does not like at all what you did. And he doesn\u2019t think what you did was worth the time you spent on it. We have two sound bites here. Here\u2019s the first.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Those of you who are watching certain news channels, on which I\u2019m not very popular, and you see folks waving tea bags around, let me just remind them that I am happy to have a serious conversation about how we are going to cut our health care costs down over the long term, how we\u2019re gonna stabilize Social Security. Let\u2019s not play games and pretend that the reason is because of the Recovery Act, because that\u2019s just a fraction of the overall problem that we\u2019ve got.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, this is not wise. This is a man who supposedly has great political instincts, correct? Barack Obama. But this is a bitter clinger moment here. He\u2019s looking at you people that went to the tea parties, and he doesn\u2019t like you at all, ‘waving tea bags around, let me just remind them I\u2019m happy to have a serious conversation about how we are –‘ You know, he\u2019s not president of all the people. I mean, he\u2019s cold, and he\u2019s partisan. It\u2019s going to start trickling out. Things that irritate him, he\u2019s going to eventually let it be known how irritated he is. He says let\u2019s ‘have a serious conversation about how we\u2019re going to cut our health care costs over the long term.\u2019 You know how we\u2019re going to do that, we\u2019re going to raise taxes, and then we\u2019re going to have government programs. Health care costs are impossible to come down the way he\u2019s going to do it. Can anybody tell me when government\u2019s lowered the cost of anything? It\u2019s not going to happen. But the tea parties were not even about health care. The tea parties were about his irresponsible spending, his irresponsible growth of government, his irresponsible power grab over individual liberty and freedom. Here\u2019s the second sound bite he had for those of you who attended the tea parties.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: We are going to have to tighten our belts, but we\u2019re going to have to do it in an intelligent way, and we gotta make sure that the people who are helped are working American families and we\u2019re not suddenly saying that the — the way to do this is to eliminate programs that help ordinary people and give more tax cuts to the wealthy. We tried that formula for eight years. It did not work, and I don\u2019t intend to go back to it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Boy, he\u2019s really fit to be tied here. We\u2019re going to have to tighten our belts? What do you call 600,000 people losing their jobs every month, Mr. President? Is that not tightening their belts? We\u2019re going to have to do it in an intelligent way, make sure that people who are helped are working American families, in other words, the only way anybody\u2019s going to get ahead in Obama\u2019s world is if the government\u2019s there shepherding you through your day. It\u2019s just plain wrong, and it will never happen, and if it\u2019s tried, it will fail. Eliminate programs, we\u2019re not suddenly saying the way to do this is to eliminate programs. Listen to this. We\u2019re talking about individual prosperity and success, and he\u2019s talking about government programs. I don\u2019t know about you, folks, I haven\u2019t needed a government program for my success. Now, I know, a lot of people — and I\u2019m not talking about unemployment or any of this kind of thing. I have not needed a government program for my success. And the people who have achieved great things, and many have, haven\u2019t done it with a government program. <\/p>\n

Some business may have gotten tax breaks and so forth, but what Obama means is a government program that shepherds people and does things for them, rather than them doing the work. And that\u2019s an illusion anyway. He just wants people to think that\u2019s going to happen so they\u2019ll continue to sit on their hands and wait for it to happen. Like how many people are still waiting for them to pay their mortgage or find them a home or fill their gas tank? Make no mistake there still are people out there. ‘And give more tax cuts to the wealthy.\u2019 Tax cuts to the wealthy. Do you know that the bottom 50% of taxpayers in this country pay less than 3% of the total tax burden. Would somebody tell me all these tax cuts for the rich, the rich are paying a greater and greater share of the tax burden every year, with a lower percentage. They\u2019re reporting earning more dollars. This is academic stuff. It\u2019s been proven. He\u2019s trying to rewrite history here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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