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\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: Go to the sound bites coming next and you\u2019ll hear them: They think they\u2019ve turned the corner. Like on April 15th, everybody\u2019s gonna file their taxes. <\/p>\n

Is Obama gonna do a Rose Garden ceremony to talk about how persuasive he\u2019s been and how many people love the income tax? “My God, look at this, folks! Look at how many have complied this year. Look how many people love the income tax, and the income tax is making our country and a transfer of wealth possible. Look at how many millions and millions and millions of people file their taxes.”<\/p>\n

Yeah. Of course they\u2019re not gonna do that \u2019cause it\u2019s mandatory. It\u2019s the law. It made what happened in the Rose Garden yesterday<\/a>, A, disingenuous; B, dishonest; and, C, irrelevant. In fact, it\u2019s embarrassing. You\u2019ve got a deadline that some people think has been extended and some people don\u2019t know it hasn\u2019t been extended. Some people do. It\u2019s the individual mandate. <\/p>\n

The law of the land “is,” as far as most low-information people are concerned.<\/p>\n

You either gotta have health insurance by yesterday or you have to pay your penalty. Only seven million — and that\u2019s not even a real number<\/a>, as we have come to learn and as our instincts yesterday guided us. It\u2019s not even the real number. Let\u2019s start on the audio sound bites, and we\u2019ll mix your calls in with all this stuff as well, so those of you on hold are not gonna be languishing forever out there. <\/p>\n

This is a montage from yesterday, last night, and this morning of the Drive-Bys orgasmically reveling in Obama\u2019s “victory lap.”<\/p>\n

DIANE SAWYER: President Obama took a kind of victory lap.<\/p>\n

WOLF BLITZER: President Obama called reporters to the White House for something of a victory lap.<\/p>\n

JIM ACOSTA: …what was basically a victory lap here in the Rose Garden<\/p>\n

ERIN BURNETT: …the president\u2019s victory lap.<\/p>\n

MICHAEL SMERCONISH: The president taking a victory lap…<\/p>\n

TRISH REGAN: … bit of a victory lap.<\/p>\n

GLORIA BORGER: … a victory lap or crowing and saying, “We told you so!”<\/line><\/p>\n

LISA KENNEDY MONTGOMERY: …the president\u2019s health care victory lap.<\/p>\n

BILL SCANLAN: A chance to take a victory lap.<\/p>\n

CHRISTINE ROMANS: A victory lap?<\/p>\n

ED HENRY: It was a pep rally as much as a victory lap.<\/p>\n

BRIAN WILLIAMS: And that is what a victory lap sounds like.<\/p>\n

FRANCES RIVERA: The public victory lap…<\/p>\n

STEVE DOOCY: …the president\u2019s victory lap yesterday in the Rose Garden.<\/p>\n

JOHN KING: It\u2019s hard not to call this a victory lap.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Really? Do you think one of you people, just one of you could have called it something else? A “celebration”? You all called it a “victory lap,” every one of you? Every single Drive-By reporter called it “a victory lap.” So it didn\u2019t matter where you watched the news yesterday, that\u2019s what you got. Well, let\u2019s go back to the Grooveyard of Forgotten Favorites, shall we? <\/line><\/p>\n

January 2005. Here is a Drive-By Media montage of condemnation of George W. Bush, for displaying “hubris” at the beginning of his second term for daring to claim a mandate. If you recall (you may not recall, so I will tell you), after Bush\u2019s reelection in 2004, he first met the press in 2004-2005. This is from January 2005, and he said he was gonna “start spending his political capital,” is how he said it.<\/p>\n

Meaning: He had a mandate.<\/p>\n

He won by a large margin; he had a mandate. He ran on a campaign of specific things, and he was gonna start doing them. And the Drive-Bys were not happy and decided to condemn Bush. Now, when you win an election, the aftermath is a victory lap. But this is not what they called that. Oh, no, no, no! This was Bush being braggadocios and filled with “hubris,” and it was very, very bad.<\/p>\n

TIM RUSSERT: … a president thinking that he has more of a mandate than he does — hubris, if you will.<\/line><\/p>\n

LANNY DAVIS: He has a hubris issue.<\/p>\n

DAVID GERGEN: Hubris can also reach to overreaching. Hubris. A scandal often is a product of hubris.<\/p>\n

GWEN IFILL: Hubris in the second term? Do you agree with the hubris?<\/p>\n

MACK MCLARTY: Well I think the hubris…<\/p>\n

KEN DUBERSTEIN: The hubris is certainly the problem.<\/line><\/p>\n

ELEANOR CLIFT: … or whether he\u2019s going to be captured by hubris.<\/p>\n

RICHARD SHENKMAN: The other problem is hubris.<\/p>\n

JIM PINKERTON: You just have to be careful about what the Ancient Greeks called “hubris.”<\/p>\n

WILLIAM KRISTOL: The president is susceptible hubris.<\/p>\n

FRED BARNES: When somebody accuses Bush of hubris…<\/p>\n

BRIT HUME: … used the word hubristic, meaning hubris.<\/p>\n

MORT KONDRACKE: It approached the edge of being hubristic, filled with hubris.<\/p>\n

TRENT LOTT: (b-roll noise) But you can\u2019t get caught up in hubris.<\/p>\n

BILL HEMMER: (b-roll noise) Have you seen hubris in the past four years?<\/p>\n

BILL SCHNEIDER: (b-roll noise) No, no. This wasn\u2019t about hubris.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Only one guy. It was Bill Schneider. Whatever happened to Bill Schneider? Did he move to Moscow, finally make it official? He used to wear one of those big Moscow hats when it was wintertime in New England. He put on the hat like the old Soviet leaders wore and reported from outside the polling place. Bill Schneider, remember him? He\u2019s the guy at the end there who said, “No, no, no, no, this wasn\u2019t about hubris.” And of course remember when Bush celebrated victory on the deck of the aircraft carrier when he landed after the invasion of Iraq. Oh, they hated that. They didn\u2019t permit any victory lap there. But when Obama does it, oh, yeah. And let\u2019s not forget, what was the mission of Obamacare? Was the mission of Obamacare to sign up 7.1 million people? <\/line><\/p>\n

No, ladies and gentlemen. Obamacare was supposed to insure 40, 43, whatever number millions of people who didn\u2019t have insurance. That\u2019s what Obamacare was supposed to do. Obamacare wasn\u2019t supposed to sign up seven million people. Signing up seven million people\u2019s chump change, irrelevant, it\u2019s embarrassingly insignificant. And yet they\u2019re all throwing themselves a party there in the Rose Garden. They\u2019re deluding themselves. I mean, you take the most rosy figures, they\u2019ve only insured about six million, and I don\u2019t even think that\u2019s an accurate number. They don\u2019t even really know. But we\u2019ll give \u2019em benefit of doubt. They\u2019ve insured six million, 4.5 million of \u2019em are Medicaid, that\u2019s not Obamacare. <\/p>\n

So the mission was to insure 43 million uninsured, and they\u2019ve got seven million signed up on a day dictated by law. They\u2019re actually celebrating people complying with the law as though this is some great sales job or massive job of great persuasion by Obama. Is it 47? The AP today are saying 47 million uninsured. “Status Update as Health Law Marks a Milestone.” See? There you go. What milestone? We got 47 million uninsured! The number is growing after three years of Obamacare. Well, three years since passage. They\u2019re deluding themselves. They\u2019re again creating and living in a false reality. And they end up believing it, folks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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