{"id":4938,"date":"2015-11-06T18:53:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T18:53:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-11-06T18:53:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T18:53:35","slug":"a_liberal_who_thinks_obama_has_failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/11\/06\/a_liberal_who_thinks_obama_has_failed\/","title":{"rendered":"A Liberal Who Thinks Obama Has Failed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Mike in McLean, Virginia. Mike, Mr. Snerdley tells me that you identify as a “progressive.”<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I\u2019m on the opposite side of this as you, but I\u2019m still interested in what you have to say because I see you as the clearest leader of the Republican Party —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you. Definitely.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — conservative moment in the United States. You know, while you… Back in 2009 you said, you know, famously that you hope the president failed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

<\/a>CALLER: And as it turns out, on inauguration day Eric Cantor and Kevin McCarthy and the current Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, they were all meeting with Frank Luntz and a bunch of other people trying to figure out exactly what their strategy was going be. Which turned out to be scorched earth, utter noncooperation and make this president fail. McConnell famously said it was his job to make this president a one-term president. He failed at that. But I\u2019m wondering how you feel. Do you think your efforts to make this president fail have been successful?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Obviously not.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Why? You\u2019ve got —<\/p>\n

RUSH: The president —<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t think it\u2019s obvious. The reason I don\u2019t think it\u2019s obvious is you\u2019ve got this Tea Party. You\u2019ve got a Republican movement that\u2019s swept across the states. You\u2019ve got the House. You\u2019ve got the Senate. Uh —<\/p>\n

RUSH: But wait just a second. Let\u2019s take these things one by one. In the first place, McConnell said his job was to keep Obama to one-termer, but he just said it. He didn\u2019t mean it, and neither did Boehner. They didn\u2019t mean any of that. They\u2019ve been working with Obama. The reason I say I have failed… You know, I said I hope Obama fails; clearly he hasn\u2019t. We are under a major transformation, and he\u2019s almost finished. We\u2019re almost to a point where this country, the way it was 20 years ago and beyond and the way it was founded, will be forgotten. It will be history. It is in the process of being totally undermined, corrupted, overtaken, without a shot being fired, and it\u2019s not gonna be recognizable to people who were born in the forties and fifties and sixties in too many more years. I\u2019d call that pretty much Obama succeeding wildly, maybe beyond even his own imaginations.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, considering the constraints he had, I think there\u2019s reason for success, too — a couple of Supreme Court justices. You guys haven\u2019t been able to get rid of Planned Parenthood yet. You know, today he said no to the KXL pipeline. We\u2019ve got gay marriage. These have been huge changes. But at the same time, don\u2019t sell yourself short. The conservative movement has been empowered by this administration, empowered by the glue that you provide, uhh, through — through your radio show and, you know…<\/p>\n

The stick-to-itiveness of the Republican obstruction agenda I think has been amazing. I mean, record numbers of filibusters. I don\u2019t get where you\u2019re saying… I still haven\u2019t gotten. I mean, I understand you want to rev up the base, the Tea Party, and elect more conservatives. And you can do that by saying we\u2019re not conservative enough. But you set the record for the number of filibusters. You got the Bush tax cuts extended, a lot of them. The sequester, you know, has managed the size of government down.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: This is fascinating to me. You are laying out… In essence, you\u2019re describing areas in which you think Obama\u2019s failed himself. You\u2019re disappointed. He\u2019s not gone far enough. There\u2019s still too many of us around, and we still have too much obstructive power, and I don\u2019t like that, and you think Obama hasn\u2019t gone far enough in wiping out the opposition.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, no doubt! I mean, we\u2019re on opposite sides of this. You say one thing and I say the polar opposite. I mean, I\u2019m a progressive. You are a pretty extreme conservative.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, I don\u2019t want to wipe you out. I just want to beat you. My objective is not to obliterate you or to eliminate your existence as a political force. I just want to beat you all the time. I don\u2019t want the world to ever forget liberals. I want there to be liberals like department store mannequins. I want people to always be able to be reminded how close we came to losing the country, and we need liberals talking and explaining what they think for that to happen. I don\u2019t want you destroyed.<\/p>\n

You guys, Obama and the Democrats, do not want any opposition because they can\u2019t really compete with it in the arena of ideas. And our continued growth in opposition proves that. You guys don\u2019t beat us in the arena of ideas. You don\u2019t beat us in the hearts and minds of the American people. You have to destroy us. You have to destroy the Ben Carsons of the world. You have to destroy Republican candidates like Mitt Romney. You have to… You want to clear the playing field.<\/p>\n

When I say “you,” I\u2019m talking about the Democrat Party and the American left. We don\u2019t try to destroy your people that way. We live that up to you. But we do want to beat you. Maybe to our failing. Maybe our objective ought to be what yours is, but we\u2019re nice people. We realize that people are gonna live and do what they want to do, we have no problem with that as long as it doesn\u2019t ruin the country, culture, and the family. (sigh) And if you don\u2019t do that, fine and dandy, but we still want to beat you. You don\u2019t want us to exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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