"There’s something pathologically wrong here."
RUSH: We have a couple of sound bites from Obama, as he’s out in Galesville, Illinois, blaming Washington for paying not enough attention to the economy. We’ve actually got one, two, three, four, five, six sound bites here. We’ll get the last two that I want to play for you right now. This is Obama talking about his vision for rebuilding the economy.Distractions? They are of his and his Big Media ilk's makings! Phony scandals? I'm not even gonna begin to list the multitude affected by this man and his administration's very REAL scandals...some of whom have died as a result of them! And those RINOs who agree with his statist policies, well, they're no more in the shadows than illegal aliens these days. They've been emboldened by five (actually seven) years of a resilient Left. So much easier to cast aside conservative principle and become a neo-statist, you see.
OBAMA: With this endless parade of distractions and political posturing and phony scandals, Washington’s taken its eye off the ball. And I’m here to say this needs to stop. There are Republicans in Congress right now who privately agree with me on a lot of the ideas I’ll be proposing. I know because they’ve said so. But they worry they’ll face swift political retaliation for cooperating with me.
RUSH: Oh, jeez. Folks, I can’t react to this without… there’s something pathologically wrong here. In the first place, “Washington has taken its eye off the ball, and I’m here to say this needs to stop.” Now, I mentioned, I told you I heard that bite, I heard him say it live. He is Washington! This is the Limbaugh Theorem. He’s articulating it himself. It’s coming out of his own mouth. He’s out there in Illinois claiming Washington hasn’t been paying enough attention to the economy. They’ve been looking at the IRS. They’ve been looking at Benghazi. They have been looking into Obamacare, and they haven’t been working on the economy, and (imitation) “I’m here in Illinois to make sure that they refocus in Washington,” as though he has had nothing to do with it.
Rush continued to explain how there is no 'building from the middle out'...that's how we got Detroit! Furthermore, there's no formula for it, "It's just a bunch of words designed to sound good to a bunch of ignoramus, low-information people who don't pay enough attention to be fully informed about what's going on, and have been so woefully, ineptly educated on economics that it all sounds good, but it's meaningless." Obama doesn't have a clue what makes this country special, what makes it great, what makes it exceptional.
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Later this evening, Levin responded to Obama's remarks with more than a few facts about five years of statist results:
“Obama’s economic growth record is the worst in sixty years.”
Obama’s debt creation record is the greatest in American history. The Food Stamp program, which is supposed to make sure that people don’t go hungry, now has fifty million Americans, as well as foreigners, on its rolls. The real unemployment number, when you take into consideration temporary, part-time work, people who've dropped out, is 15%. Economic growth is anemic, always under or hovering around 2%. People are losing their health care because of Obama's policies. It's a disaster, an absolute disaster.But don't listen to Levin, who's promoting the free market...no, not while the Great Obama lies about the real state of the economy, pushing an old new way, and says it's "back to where we were." Shameful. Yet, 5 years later, you've still got people, Americans, sucking up this Marxist clap-trap. It's no stretch to say that's even more shameful.
We have a Marxist ideologue, and on top of that, an incompetent, in the White House; and I can't even say 'in the White House,' since he's rarely in the White House, physically. He's out giving speeches.
He increased taxes about 8 months ago by $600 billion dollars with the support of the Republican Party. Republican members of the Senate, who've been meeting with his staff, five or six times, have already agreed to raise them again $600 billion, if only Obama will agree to some cuts. So if Obama has his way, and the Republican mush-heads have their way, that's $1.2 trillion in tax increases in 12 months. We've never seen anything like that before."
As long as this guy, and these policies are in place, and there's little-to-no real opposition to truly push back against it, hang it up on the economy, or the Nation for that matter, improving on whole.
As Levin accurately expressed the other night, 'Get ready for 1200 more days of Hell.'
