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RUSH: I keep reading stories (and you know them as well) every day of more news of a declining, slowing economy which never really did pick up in recovery. More and more people are losing their jobs. I ask myself: What happened to all of those ‘shovel-ready jobs\u2019 we were promised a year-and- a-half ago with the stimulus bill and Porkulus bill? Well, now, they were holding it for this year. Bite Me said that they were going to be producing all of these jobs. The fact of the matter is, I don\u2019t care what Bite Me said about when or how or what. We\u2019re not doing it. We\u2019re not producing any jobs and yet all we heard about was all of these shovel-ready jobs that we were promised a year and a half ago. It looks to me like the only shovel-ready job is going to be the job of burying the Democrat Party. Because I\u2019ll tell you who\u2019s got the shovels is us and who\u2019s shovel-ready is Democrats, and there\u2019s Obama out there raising money ostensibly for the mid-term elections. He\u2019s not raising money for Democrats. He doesn\u2019t care. If you listen to his speech to those fat cats in Hollywood, it\u2019s all about him. (imitating Obama) ‘Why, I brought the most progressive legislative agenda in decades, I\u2019ve done this and I\u2019ve done that. I brought more socialism than FDR.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Yeah, and look where it got us! <\/p>\n

He\u2019s not talking about the nation. He\u2019s not talking about his fellow Democrats. He\u2019s talking about himself. Everything is viewed through the prism of Imam Obama. And yet everybody thinks he\u2019s out there doing what he\u2019s doing to try to help the Democrats. This from Bloomberg: ‘China cut its holdings of Treasury notes and bonds by the most ever, raising speculation a plunge in U.S. yields that sent two-year rates to a record low has made government securities unattractive. The Asian nation\u2019s holdings of long-term Treasuries fell by $21.2 billion in June to $839.7 billion, a U.S. government report showed yesterday. Total Chinese investment in U.S. debt declined 2.8 percent to $843.7 billion, the least in a year. … China, America\u2019s largest creditor, is cutting back after scrapping its currency peg in June, giving it less reason to buy dollars and invest them in Treasuries. China is also turning more bullish on Europe and Japan, purchasing bonds of both nations.\u2019 Does anybody ask: Why is it the ChiComs are the ones buying? Are we buying up ChiCom debt? Do they have any debt? They\u2019ve got debt, but they\u2019re buying ours. <\/p>\n

‘The shift comes as President [Imam] Obama increases U.S. debt to record levels…\u2019 (interruption) I know, I know. It\u2019s the Media Tweak of the Day. We\u2019ll see. You know, yesterday I said he\u2019s the ‘first anti-American president\u2019 in history. That worked. They had cows over there at MSNBC. I mean, it\u2019s fun, don\u2019t misunderstand, but it\u2019s getting to be too easy. I mean it\u2019s getting to be too easy to tweak. Guest hosts, regular hosts, I don\u2019t care who it is at MessNBC. With a snap of the fingers I can send them into a tizzy. I can send them into a tailspin of anger and incredulity, and they can\u2019t believe it, and they go out and they get all these quasi-Republicans, ‘Do you agree with what Limbaugh said that Obama is the first anti-American president?\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Oh, no! Oh, no! I wouldn\u2019t say that! We don\u2019t want to anger the independents.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Anger the independents? I\u2019m sorry, it\u2019s Imam Obama who\u2019s done that. The independents are fleeing Democrats in droves. You know, some of these Republicans are so formulaic that they just don\u2019t see the forest for the trees or whatever the phrase is, and they\u2019re as easy to play as these Democrats. Michael Smerconish does mornings at our Philadelphia blowtorch affiliate. I met Michael the last time I was in Philadelphia for Rush to Excellence Tour. I met him and his father backstage. He knows what we do here. He knows what we do on the EIB. He wrote (and I actually thanked him for it) a tremendous column reviewing my Rush to Excellence appearance. But he\u2019s sitting in for Matthews on Hardboiled, and he was talking to GOP strategerist John Feehery, who… I think this guy has had problems with me in the past. I don\u2019t recall specifically; the name rings a bell. I confuse him with a former catcher for the New York Yankees: John Flaherty. Feehery, Flaherty. <\/p>\n

At any rate, here\u2019s the exchange.<\/p>\n

SMERCONISH: Does the Republican Party benefit by having Rush Limbaugh, who\u2019s really the titular head of the organization as far as I\u2019m concerned, say that he\u2019s an anti-American? He\u2019s the commander-in-chief. He\u2019s all of our president. I mean, I hear moderates and independents turning away when they hear such a thing.<\/p>\n

FEEHERY: Let me state clearly that I do not believe that President Obama is the first anti-American president. I think that comment\u2019s ridiculous.<\/p>\n

SMERCONISH: Okay. I think that\u2019s enough.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. I mean, this is just too easy. The Republican Party hurt by this? (imitating Feehery) ‘Let me be the first to say that Obama is not the first anti-American president.\u2019 Well, then who is? If Obama is not the first anti-American president, who is? Maybe I should have been more respectful to Imam Obama, peace be upon him. <\/p>\n

(Let\u2019s see what they do with that tonight.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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