{"id":3969,"date":"2016-03-10T17:50:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T17:50:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-06-21T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T15:14:00","slug":"guess_who_obama_blames_for_trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/03\/10\/guess_who_obama_blames_for_trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Guess Who Obama Blames for Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Here are the Barack Obama sound bites. Joint presser today with the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau. White House correspondent question from CBS, Margaret Brennan: Some of your critics have pointed to the polarized political climate under your [Regime] contributing to the rise of somebody like Trump. Do you feel responsibility for Trump, or even some of the protectionist rhetoric coming from the Democrat candidates? Do you have a time line for when you might make a presidential endorsement? Do you feel political heat is constraining your pool of viable Supreme Court nominees?<\/p>\n

OBAMA: The Republican political elites and many of the information outlets — social media, news outlets, talk radio, television stations — have been feeding the Republican base for the last seven years a notion that everything I do is to be opposed —<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n


\nOBAMA: — that cooperation or compromise somehow is a betrayal —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Damn right.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: — that maximalist, absolutist positions on issues are politically advancing —<\/p>\n

RUSH: When you\u2019re involved, yeah.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: — that there is a “them” out there and an “us.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: — and “them” are the folks who are causing whatever problems you\u2019re experiencing —<\/p>\n

RUSH: That would be you.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: — and the tone of that politics, which I certainly have not contributed to —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You own it! You own it! Don\u2019t kid yourself, and don\u2019t try to kid us. Don\u2019t enact the Limbaugh Theorem on us again where none of this is your fault. None of this even has your fingerprints on it? All of this is! You are trying to transform the country, sir. You announced that that\u2019s your purpose, and you\u2019re doing it! You\u2019re flooding the country with future Democrat voters under the guise of “immigration” and making the country stronger.<\/p>\n


\nThere\u2019s no question what\u2019s been going on here. So now here\u2019s Obama unified with many in conservative media who think Trump is the fault of talk radio, for two reasons. A, talk radio created the climate for Trump and talk radio will not take Trump out. Then talk radio is just an entertainment thing. It\u2019s really not serious. It\u2019s a bunch of charlatans. But now look how powerful and serious it is. Talk radio is to blame for everything out there. What is talk radio?<\/p>\n

Talk radio is about the only place in this country that you can find precise opposition to Obama and the Democrat agenda, which they don\u2019t like. They don\u2019t want their there be any opposition. Their objective is to get rid of it. There\u2019s one more continuance here in the sound bite. This is… Ah, I don\u2019t have to time to squeeze it in. I\u2019ll tell you what he says in this bite. He says that he wants an “effective” GOP. He doesn\u2019t like Trump leading this. He doesn\u2019t want a watered down GOP.<\/p>\n

I feel like I\u2019m listening to Senator Schumer all over again here! He wants “a viable and effective” GOP? No, he doesn\u2019t. He wants the GOP to remain as the Washington Generals. He wants them as a foil. These people need villains. Obama, liberal Democrats need villains in order to prosper. He doesn\u2019t want the Republican Party to dissolute itself away. But he does not want it to be “effective.” Do not fall for that.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, it\u2019s not complicated. What I\u2019m saying is the Democrat Party always needs somebody to blame for their failures, because that\u2019s what they have. Everything they try doesn\u2019t work. Even their “successes” are destructive. Whatever you want to call their successes. But let\u2019s put those aside for a moment. Let\u2019s look at Obamacare. They\u2019re touting it as a success. Do you know, by the way… Did I put this on the bottom of the Stack? I bet I did. There\u2019s a new story out from, of all places: “NPR and Harvard Say: Obamacare Is a Complete Failure<\/a>.”<\/p>\n


\nI saw this story last night. “National Public Radio collaborated with Harvard\u2019s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to survey Americans\u00c2\u2019 recent experience with health care. As to the Affordable Care Act,” Obamacare, “the survey\u00c2\u2019s findings are damning. They suggest that Obamacare has been worse than a complete waste of money. This is the survey\u00c2\u2019s only question directly on Obamacare.<\/p>\n

“Most respondents say that Obamacare hasn\u00c2\u2019t affected them; where it has affected them, most say the law\u00c2\u2019s impact has been harmful.” There\u2019s a bunch of charts here. The promise that Obama made about cheaper premiums, lower copays, lower deductibles, better coverage? Failed, failed, failed. None of it has materialized. They were just lies. Now, my point here is (because you already know that): Who do they blame for this? That\u2019s why they need villains. That\u2019s why Obama needs a Republican Party. They need somebody to blame for their failures.<\/p>\n

They never blame themselves, whether they utilize the Limbaugh Theorem or just lie. That\u2019s why I exist. I exist as a foil. They blame me for their failures. They blame me for opposition. They blame me for ginning people up and disliking them or opposing them, and they blame me for their failures by convincing people that things that are true aren\u2019t true and vice-versa. And that\u2019s why Obama wants a GOP around. He doesn\u2019t want an “effective” GOP.<\/p>\n

He needs a villain and he needs a scapegoat.<\/p>\n

If talk radio ever went away, who would they blame for their failures? The GOP. If the GOP went away be with who would they blame for their failures? It would have to be you. Because leaders, authoritarians like Obama never are at fault. They never blame themselves. They never blame their party. They never blame their henchmen. Name something else besides Obamacare. How about the stimulus? The stimulus didn\u2019t work. They don\u2019t blame themselves. In fact, they don\u2019t even proclaim these things as failures, but everybody knows they are.<\/p>\n


\nSo when they hear complaints about it they have to blame somebody. They blame the Republicans, and they blame the Republicans for not helping them, for not working with them. They blame the Republicans and talk radio for ginning up opposition to them. But it\u2019s never them. There isn\u2019t anything they\u2019ve done. You might say, “Hey, Rush, they succeeded in ramrodding gay marriage down our throats.” Well, yeah, but that\u2019s not good. That\u2019s not a cultural positive. And the anger there — and there\u2019s plenty of it, folks.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not a universally supported issue. The opposition to it, they need somebody to blame for that. They sow discord. The Democrat Party, liberalism, sows chaos. They thrive on it. They need chaos. They need people angry. That\u2019s why every day there\u2019s always a “crisis” of something going on, because what they do doesn\u2019t work. This is why they never campaign on what they really want to do. Everybody knows that what they really want to do won\u2019t work and doesn\u2019t work. So they lie.<\/p>\n

And they use grandiosity to explain their great plans. “Hope and change! We\u2019re gonna make America change from its rotten founding: Racism, sexism, bigotry, all these sort of things,” and all that happens is that various groups of Americans end up at war with each other, which they love. They love to feed off of that because that gives them enemies and villains, because none of liberalism works. Take a look at liberals themselves. Take a look at the people that voted for Obama. You see happiness there? Do you see them running around all jocular and happy and having a great time?<\/p>\n

No.<\/p>\n


\nBecause they know that it doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re faced with seven years of evidence. Now into our eighth year. It doesn\u2019t work. It makes things worse. We have 94 million Americans not working, wages stagnant. People are working fewer hours because of Obamacare requirements. We have an absolute mess, as they try to transform this country because they resent the founding principles. They resent much of the founding documents. So they\u2019re trying to transform it and get even. They hate American foreign policy. They hate American domestic policy. They love dictators. They love the Castros.<\/p>\n

They admire the Stalins and the Brezhnevs and the Gorbachevs — and they\u2019re even fascinated with Mao Tse-tung, some of them. And what they envy is the total power. What they envy is the authoritarian, total power that all of those people had. And they don\u2019t have that. In that sense I don\u2019t think they actually want that full fledge, because we still behave under the guise of democratic principles. They need a foil. They need an opponent. They need a villain, and they need somebody to blame for their failures.<\/p>\n

\"original\"<\/a>Now, concomitant<\/a> in this is Obama\u2019s arrogance when he says that he wants an “effective” GOP. Let\u2019s play the sound bite. It\u2019s number 30. Let\u2019s actually hear this from his mouth.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: What you\u2019re seeing within the Republican Party is, to some degree, all those efforts over a course of time creating an environment where somebody like a Donald Trump can thrive. He\u2019s just doing more of what has been done for the last 7-1\/2 years. What I\u2019m not going to do is to validate some notion that the Republican crackup that\u2019s been taking place is a consequence of actions that I\u2019ve taken. There are thoughtful conservatives who are troubled by this, who are troubled by the direction of the party.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Don\u2019t you love that?<\/p>\n

OBAMA: I think it is very important —<\/p>\n

RUSH: See?<\/p>\n

OBAMA: — for them to reflect on what it is about politics they\u2019ve engaged in that allows the circus we\u2019ve been seeing to transpire and to do some introspection, because ultimately I want an effective Republican Party.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, God bless him. He wants a nice child! He wants an effective, successful child. Yeah, he wants… This arrogance and this condescension! In order to have that attitude where you can just say, “I want an effective Republican Party,” you have to believe that the Democrat Party and your way of thinking are so vast and so large — it\u2019s such a majority — that the Republicans are almost on the verge of not existing. They\u2019re that tiny, that few in number. They\u2019re that ineffective.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s this arrogant condescension he has about the success and the widespread tentacles of the Democrat Party which have woven their web of deceit throughout our culture. And I think it\u2019s a myth. I don\u2019t think the majority of this country is anywhere near like Obama. I don\u2019t think the majority of this country is anywhere near like the Democrat Party. We are being governed by a very powerful and effective minority with a president who can\u2019t be criticized because of his race. Now, Obama\u2019s right about one thing. Look, I can\u2019t…
\nI\u2019m not gonna be hypocrite here. The Republican Party has in its own way, by not opposing Obama, set the stage for a Trump. I\u2019ve said that. I\u2019m not gonna back off of that. There\u2019s absolutely truth to that.<\/p>\n

But which came first, the Republican inaction or Obama? In this case Obama\u2019s at the top of whatever has gone wrong here. It\u2019s all coming from there, and Obama is at the top. Everything is descending from Obama. The Republican Party\u2019s ineffectiveness, its behavior, it\u2019s choices are all because of Obama and Obama\u2019s policies and his executive orders and his transformation of America is all happening essentially unopposed.<\/p>\n

Because the Republican Party, for reasons we previously discussed, is afraid to stop the guy. They\u2019re afraid to even say they want to stop the guy. We don\u2019t need to rehash that. That\u2019s why we\u2019re getting Republicans for amnesty. But you note here Obama saying there are “thoughtful conservatives troubled by this”? How proud are you conservatives of yourselves today? Who\u2019s he talking about? The David Brookses of the world who marveled at the crease in Obama\u2019s slacks? Who are some of these other conservatives that Obama is all of a sudden heralding as bright lights?<\/p>\n

And how proud are you conservatives? And I bet you that these conservatives he\u2019s talking about know who they are, and I\u2019ll bet you they\u2019re proud. But look at this. They are the ones that find themselves now cited by Barack Obama. They are the ones telling us that what\u2019s going on in the Republican primaries, what\u2019s going on in Republican presidential election process is demeaning, and it\u2019s embarrassing, and it\u2019s beneath us. Obama is now siding with those guys. I am so happy I have never, ever be considered to be in that group.<\/p>\n

Snerdley, can you imagine what would happen to my audience if I were perceived…? At any rate, folks, this illustrates the vast divide that we have here. And I think these two sound bites from Obama actually indicate the… I think there\u2019s a little fear on the Democrat side of what\u2019s actually going on here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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