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RUSH: You know, I\u2019m sitting here, I\u2019m diligently working hard, minding my own business prepping this program and I have these TV monitors on up here. I\u2019ve got PMSNBC on, which I\u2019m actually thinking of dumping. And, hell, C-SPAN would be better, maybe go over to CNN, I mean just for the laugh factor. Anyway, I\u2019m watching this, and here comes Obama with a statement on Afghanistan. For crying out loud, folks, I mean that\u2019s the clearest illustration yet of the circus going on in Washington. It\u2019s so bad that they\u2019re trying to distract us with news from Afghanistan. That\u2019s bad. <\/p>\n

Great to have you here. El Rushbo, the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies where we serve humanity simply by showing up. Our telephone number is 800-282-2882, e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. <\/p>\n

Has anybody actually seen Obama\u2019s vacation itinerary? I mean we\u2019ve heard that Obama is going to Hawaii, but I\u2019m wondering if he and Michelle and the girls might actually be headed to Crawford, Texas on vacation, get in some mountain biking and some brush clearing; drive the pickup around, pick up some junk. Look, folks, it\u2019s becoming increasingly obvious here, Obama\u2019s role model is Bush! Gitmo is still open. Afghanistan is still active, press conferences on how well we\u2019re doing there. Debatable spying on possible terrorists. Yep. We\u2019re doing it. Warrantless wiretaps out there. Petraeus running the war, thank goodness, but I mean that\u2019s a Bush holdover. <\/p>\n

And now the tax cuts, the Bush tax cuts, which have now become the Obama tax cuts. Obama has put his presidency on the line to keep \u2019em. After blaming those tax cuts for every economic problem we\u2019ve got, Obama\u2019s now out there telling Democrats that his presidency is over if they don\u2019t vote to continue the Bush tax cuts. Peter DeFazio, bald-headed liberal from — well, I\u2019m sorry, that doesn\u2019t matter — Peter DeFazio, liberal from Oregon, said Obama said that and the White House said we never talked to Peter DeFazio, we haven\u2019t said that. But at any rate, we all know that Obama is staking everything here to these Bush tax cuts, or the tax rates, staying the same for two years. <\/p>\n

And then today, we learn that Obama is hiring military contractors, i.e., African-Americanwater. He\u2019s hiring Blackwater, Bush mercenaries. That\u2019s what they used to be called, Obama\u2019s now hiring \u2019em. When Bush employed military contractors, they were called Bush mercenaries. Now they\u2019re Obama\u2019s angels. This from the Daily Beast: ‘As American commanders meet this week for the Afghanistan review, Obama is hiring military contractors at a rate that would make Bush blush. Tim Shorrock on the Blackwater heirs.\u2019 Blackwater, African-Americanwater, whatever it is. I don\u2019t know if he\u2019s hiring Blackwater but he\u2019s hiring people like it. The left out there has just got to be fuming. Obama\u2019s giving us George W. Bush for Christmas. That\u2019s what is happening out there.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here\u2019s DeFazio. This is last night on CNN on Spitzer and Ditzer. And Spitzer said, ‘Do you have enough folks standing with you to create a threat that this bill will not pass?\u2019<\/p>\n

DEFAZIO: That\u2019s a good question, because, you know, the White House is putting on tremendous pressure, making phone calls, the president\u2019s making phone calls saying this is the end of his presidency if he doesn\u2019t get this bad deal. I think this is potentially the end of his possibility of being reelected.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Whoa. Now, if you had any doubts about this deal, listen to that. Now, think about it. Why would Republicans want to help save the Obama presidency? Why would they? Now, here you have DeFazio saying, well, yeah, White House putting on tremendous pressure, phone calls, president making phone calls, the end of the presidency if he doesn\u2019t get this bad deal. Well, if it\u2019s the end of his presidency, we don\u2019t take the deal, right? Anyway, that\u2019s just a little review. And speaking of bad deal and end of his presidency, let\u2019s go back almost a year. This is January 25th of this year, World News Tonight, Diane Sawyer talking to the Bamster. She said, ‘Ever in the middle of all this coming at you, do you think maybe one term is enough?\u2019<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I\u2019d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president. And I believe that. You know, there\u2019s a tendency in Washington to think that our job description of elected officials is to get reelected. That\u2019s not our job description. I will not slow down in terms of going after the big problems that this country faces. I don\u2019t want to look back on my time here and say to myself, all I was concerned about was nurturing my own popularity. That\u2019s not why I came.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now he\u2019s calling Democrats, begging them to save his reelection, but just a year ago he didn\u2019t care. He\u2019d rather be a good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president. How about a lousy one-term president because that\u2019s where we\u2019re headed here, already a failure, all these other Democrats are starting to admit it. Now, here\u2019s the thing about this. The way you analyze this, if he means this, ‘I\u2019d rather be a really good one-term president,\u2019 what would cause him to be a one-term president? That would be losing his reelection battle, right? What would cause him to lose his reelection? I mean the public doesn\u2019t like what he\u2019s doing. That\u2019s how he defines great one-term — I\u2019d rather be a great one-term president, get as much damage to this country done as I can do, yeah, I\u2019ll lose, but I\u2019d rather do that than sit around here and just be a mediocre two-term president by going along with the way the country has always been. By the way, that Afghanistan statement, it\u2019s the second time in a week that he left a Clinton at the podium. Hillary was standing there. Listen to this.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I\u2019m gonna turn it over to the Secretaries Clinton, Gates, as well as Vice Chairman Cartwright, and they will be able to answer your questions and give you a more detailed briefing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So he shows up, gives the overview of the briefing on Afghanistan and heads out to another, what, holiday lunch or what have you, and leaves the heavy lifting to Secretaries Clinton and Cartwright. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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