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July 12, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 12, 2010, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
Man oh man, is their irony and hypocrisy all throughout.
The news today and uh the news over the weekend.
Great to have you here, Rush Linbohr at 800-282-2882.
The email address is L Rushbo at EIB net.com.
You know, we got to be fair here, folks.
We have to give uh we have to give Obama his uh his proper due.
And Barack Obama has proved the truth of what we were all told when we were growing up.
Anybody can be president.
Any if Obama can do it, anybody can do it.
I told you that in great school.
Little Johnny, what do you want to be when you grow up?
I want to be president of unit.
You can do it, little Johnny.
It's a great country.
Anybody can be president.
Nobody believed it until now.
Thank you, President Obama economists.
See U.S. recovery weakening.
This is from Reuters over the weekend.
The U.S. economy will lose steam.
It has no steam as the year progresses, but will not slide back into recession.
Now, Greenspan said uh last week in congressional testimony that we economy is in a pause.
We're just kind of in a pause here.
And the debt commission, Irksen Bowles and Alan Simpson, babe, appeared on television yesterday, and they have painted a picture of dire consequences.
Um, ladies and gentlemen, all of the details here are coming up, but it is just and and Alan Simpson babe had an interesting quote in his comment.
He said, Yeah, you know, a lot of people hoping we fail.
Who's hoping they fail?
Has anybody said they hope the deficit commission or the debt commission fails?
And then Simpson predictably ripped into a bunch of Republicans for not being on board and uh and ready to get up to speed to do what's necessary, which all this thing was coded language for get ready for tax increases.
And Irks and Bowles said something that's uh patently false.
He said, we can't grow our way out of this.
Uh, excuse me, Irksum, it's the only way out of this.
The only way out of this is to grow our we cannot tax our way out of this.
No society has ever taxed itself to prosperity.
No society has ever taxed away debt, and all you have to do is look at Great Britain or any of the European socialist democracies.
They've been taxing and taxing and taxing, and their debt has been rising and rising and rising.
It's a combination of spending cuts and growth, pure and simple.
But now the the Democrat on the committee says we can't grow our way out of it.
Well, that's not healthy.
I mean, that doesn't sound good if we can't grow our way out of it.
I mean, that's the only way we're gonna make any here's you know the dirty little secret.
I was playing golf uh some weeks ago now with some people who live and work in the financial industry.
And they said, Look, there's no way we're ever gonna pay this debt off.
We can't.
Physically, fiscally, monetarily impossible to pay this debt off.
He said, This is why it's been run up so high.
All this is being done on purpose.
Only thing we can do is to make it look like we're serious about it.
We have to continue to get foreign investment.
We have to have the debt purchased by other countries, other entities, and the only way we can do that is to make it look like we're dealing with it.
And the only way to make it look like we're dealing with it is to raise taxes.
Which that's what's going to happen.
That's why this commission will not report until December, until after the elections, in the midst of a Democrat lame duck session where they are going to attempt.
John Funn had the piece last week in the Wall Street Journal, where they're going to attempt to ram everything they can through Congress, get signed by Obama before the new Congress takes effect.
This is after they will have been rejected.
Even Gibbs, the smartest White House press secretary ever, has said yesterday on Meet the Depressed, yeah, yeah, we really the Republicans take over the House.
The first time anybody in the regime has said that this could happen.
Oh, speaking of regimes, Fidel Castro's out there.
Fidel Castro's going on television and radio.
He's going to make some sort of speech.
The purpose of the speech is to warn everybody that nuclear war is unavoidable.
It's coming.
And it's between us and Iran.
So you have all of that going on.
Plus, you have the Democrats are going to be soundly rejected in November at the ballot box.
The Democrats, before they lose their seats, well, they are sworn out of office.
New Congress doesn't get sworn until January.
In November and December, they're going to go pfft you to the whole country, and they'll do it happily.
Everybody who threw them out, okay, here's what we're going to do.
You don't like us here, we're going to ram cardjack through, we're going to ram camp and trade.
We're going to do all kinds of tax increases.
We're going to finalize this financial regulatory reform bill.
And then come December, here comes Alan Simpson Babe and Irks and Bulls with their recommendations on getting rid of this debt cancer.
It's it's not going to be a pretty couple of months.
Then the Republicans are going to have an option.
They're going to have a challenge.
They had better run in this election cycle on items, agenda items featuring pro-growth, so that when the victory happens in November, they have a mandate.
It's not enough just to sit there and be against Obama or to be the recipient of an anti-Obama anti-democrat vote.
It's a golden opportunity, and it has been for a year and a half.
And we will see how they uh how they utilize it.
Now, one thing, Castro knows that there's an opening at CNN.
You know, Larry King is going to quit his job.
Well, retire, uh, sometime this fall.
And then a lot of names have been thrown into the mix at CNN.
Ryan Seacrest is one.
Piers Morgan is another, Katie Korick, and now Castro, obviously with his speech is auditioning for CNN.
I mean, hell, if CNN will hire client number nine, Elliot Spitzer, who has Zilch Zero Nada experience, hosting a television show or any kind of media show.
Then Castro's got to think he has a chance.
Castro can speak for four or five hours, or used to be able to when he made speeches, without guests, without commercial interruptions.
He talk radio material too.
I mean, if it doesn't bomb out, I'm sure that uh uh certain broadcast networks in this country would kill figuratively speaking, of course, to have uh an opportunity to get Fidel Castro translated, of course, into uh into English.
So you have to figure this is what Fidel is up to.
Uh also in this lame duck, and you can read this is buried in the story uh in the Alan Simpson Irks and Bowl's uh debt panel crisis story.
They are looking to do away with the mortgage deduction.
And that they might turn that over to the lame duck Congress.
This is this is uh uh this is something that only a lame duck Congress could do.
Only a bunch of guys who've already been defeated, who do not have to run for re-election.
The only bunch of guys that can do it, that's gonna be the Democrats.
So look for that to happen too.
Look also for all of your health benefits to be taxed as income.
I mean, everything is on the table, and everything the American left has wanted to tax, which is veritably everything, is going to be on the table.
You don't think so?
Uh yeah, it's it's maybe true.
Castro may not be far enough left for CNN.
He'll have to, he might have to moderate his uh well, not moderate, he might have to ramp up uh his uh his opinions to actually maintain the flow that is CNN.
Anyway, uh Reuters U.S. economy lose steam as the year progresses, but will not slide back into recession, even though unemployment's unlikely to fall significantly, according to a new survey released Saturday by the Blue Chip Economic Indicator Survey.
It's a survey of private forecasters.
They found analysts increasingly glum about the outlook.
Unemployment is likely to fall.
Unemployment likely to fall significantly.
That means unemployment.
That means people are gonna be getting jobs.
You know, they never get anything Right, and they're always surprised by reality.
Reuters and their team of economic analysts and uh who whatever survey takers they go to, every week, every month when there's economic news, they're always surprised.
Whether it's good or bad, it's always unexpected.
So they never get anything right, and they're always surprised by reality, so you can use that to assess just how accurate this story is.
Now we've got Eric Holder.
Uh Eric Holder is uh is not through.
Eric Holder is going to sue Arizona for racial profiling.
In addition, they're gonna sit around and wait for it.
They're gonna sit around and wait for it to happen, which they can manufacture it anytime they want.
All they have to do is get some acorn person driving a car, create a crime, get pulled over by the cops, and then charge racial profiling, and mammal, they've got their case.
Uh this is this is insidious, what this administration is doing, and Democrat governors are now very concerned about this.
There's a story in the New York Times, which is flabbergasted that the Democrat governors are worried about the suit against Arizona.
I mean, we're effervescing all over the place here today.
Quick timeout, come back, get started with all the rest of it right after this.
And we are back, Rush Limboy, as usual, kicking off a brand new week of broadcast excellence.
Great to have you here.
By the way, Mr. Snerdley is out sick today.
Uh, what was he?
Lost his voice, got some kind of a uh fever, voice was going sounds like a good old-fashioned uh fake flu.
Anyway, uh we good.
I'm glad you sent him out of here because we don't want to catch it.
Uh HR screening calls today from uh from uh our counter location up north.
Um Robert Gibbs yesterday on Meet the Press.
I'm sorry, yeah, it was Meet the Press.
David Gregory said, uh, I want to get a prediction from you.
Back on the political debate.
Is the House in jeopardy?
The majority for the Democrats in the House, is it in jeopardy?
I think there are no doubt that there are a lot of seats that will be up, uh, a lot of contested seats.
Uh I think uh people are gonna have a choice to make in the fall, but I think there's no doubt there are enough seats in play that could cause Republicans to gain control.
There's no doubt about that.
Whoa, now wait a second, wait a second.
These things aren't said by accident.
I don't know that the question was an accident or happenstance.
So here's Gibbs saying, Oh, yeah, no question about it.
Uh Republicans could uh could be caused to uh gain control.
No, no doubt about that.
Almost sounds like Gibbs wants that to happen.
Can I give you the scenario?
Here's the scenario.
Lame duck session.
Republicans win the house.
As Gibbs, oh yeah, yeah.
Pretty likely, I think out there, Dave.
Yeah, we and Obama, we've been talking about it.
Yeah.
Pretty good possibility of that.
Fine and dandy.
So they win the house, Republicans do.
Then here comes the lame duck session, ramming through all of this rot gut that we talked earlier about.
And here comes the Alan Simpson Irks and Bowles debt commission report, recommending the end of mortgage interest deductions, uh, a VAT tax, uh, all kinds of new taxes, maybe some spending cuts.
Uh add to that, no improvement in the economy, and voila.
Republicans assume control in January when things are going to get worse, because once January arrives, we've got the Obama tax increases associated with health care and the sunset of the Bush tax uh tax cuts.
So we have a tsunami, a potential tsunami of disastrous proportions, waiting to become reality, starting in January 2011.
And the Republican Congress would be inaugurated right about the time all this stuff is kicking in, and they would be in power whenever anything and everything starts to get worse.
Obama, as president, will be proposing fixes and solutions.
And they, of course, will be anything but they will be proposals to make things worse.
The Republicans, being who they are, as they should do, will oppose all of it.
Uh writing to Obama's rescue will be the media.
And the media's trying.
Poor old Obama.
Look at look what he inherited from Bush.
He only got two years to implement his stuff, and then the Republicans have taken control again.
And the Republicans are roadblocking everything, which is what they've been saying these two years.
Or this year and a half.
Republicans can't stop and haven't been able to stop diddly squat.
But still, all of the so-called, and the media can't have it both ways.
Look at this.
There's a story here in the uh one of the stacks I've got.
Democrats in Congress gained victories, but not acclaim.
In a risky strategy to win back voters, Democrats could push high-profile issues, such as immigration and energy, even if their efforts are almost certain to fail.
And here's it's the LA Times.
Democrats have pulled off one of the most productive sessions of Congress in decades, but have yet to win much in the way of approval, even from voters in their own party.
Now wait a second.
You cannot have it both ways.
You cannot run out there and say the Republican Party's the party you know and blocking everything, and then come around and write this story say, Oh, look at all the good the Democrats are doing.
Why?
What is the most major achievements in the history of Congresses?
Why, this is incredible.
One of the most productive sessions of Congress in decades, and yet all the while the Republicans stopped it.
Huh?
How is that?
How does how does that work?
And this is the third time I have seen this template or this narrative in a in a news story.
So this is already said.
The Republicans have been blocking.
And Democrats have been doing great things, but they're not getting any credit for it.
No.
The reason they're not getting any credit is because nobody likes anything that they're doing.
So back to the scenario.
All of the excrement hits the fans starting in January, coinciding with the Republicans taking control of the House, maybe even the Senate, and being sworn in, and Obama proposes all these fixes.
And debt commission, by the way, can't do anything on its own.
The debt commission can make recommendations, but then they have to be uh enacted into law, the legislation or executive order or what have you.
So let's say the Republicans say, we're not going to do all this, it's going to destroy what's left of the country.
There's Obama saying, see, see, we have been quite appointed this commission.
I got people that really care about this.
We're going to fix this country.
I inherited a mess, and the same people from whom I had inherited a mess are now in charge.
Over in the House of Representatives.
And you can bet that the media chorus would uh would just line up and uh and follow the same thing.
I mean, I think the Democrats, Obama, might actually hope the Democrats lose so big that they might as well go for broke and get everything they can during the lame duck session.
And then with the help of our one-party media, all the things ram through the lame duck Congress, blamed on the Republicans, and if not that, when things go to hell in a handbasket starting in 2011, guess who's running the House gets to run in Congress?
Guess who gets the blame for it?
And that sets up Obama's re-election in 2012.
Now, this for this to succeed, it depends on one, maybe two things.
It depends on an absolutely ignorant electorate.
It requires an actually dumb, stupid, ill-informed, uninformed electorate, is a majority, in order for this scenario to work.
Because I mean, this is a biggie.
Here you have the utter destruction.
Do you realize the largest deficit every year of the Bush presidency was 200 billion dollars?
Well, so I'm told it may be let's let's uh let's see.
The last, no, here's the way to put it.
The last time Republicans controlled spending, the deficit was under 200 billion.
That's that's the way to put this.
The last time Republicans controlled spending, the deficit was under 200 billion dollars.
Look where we are now.
And yet Obama says he inherits this mess.
The last time Republicans were in Charge was 2006.
And uh Pelosi and and uh and her gang took over 2007, and that's when the debt started skyrocketing.
So we're going to have to Democrats are going to have to have an absolutely ill-informed, ignorant electorate in order to pull off this scenario.
And is it possible?
Some people in this country believe the current economy is Bush's fault, even though the Democrats have been in charge of it since 2007.
The next thing they're going to need for this scenario to play out is a docile Republican Party that does not offer an agenda of growth, an agenda that is in direct and stark contrast to what is Obamaism and the Democrat Party starting now.
And they can't use the excuse.
Well, the media is not going to report it.
Don't worry, we will.
There's a way to head all this off at the pass, but it's clear.
With Gibbs, oh yeah, Republicans are going to win, no question about it.
They're setting us up.
Executing assigned host duties flawlessly, Rush Limbaugh.
Talent on loan from God.
Zero mistakes.
Look at this headline of Politico.
This is from a couple days ago.
Liberals analyze their Obama despair.
I wonder if Kathleen Sebelius has a shot for this.
Any H1N1 vaccine shots left.
For many liberals, this is the summer of their discontent.
Really?
You know, it's really hard to see why the Democrats in the media getting so weeweed up here just when Obama's war against prosperity is finally beginning to show results.
What is there to have any despair about?
Look, folks, an informed electorate would realize that after three and a half years, it's safe to say this is the Democrats' economy.
Obama didn't inherit anything.
This is this is not Bush's economy.
There's no Republican on Earth.
Not one.
Not even the worst rhino you can imagine.
There's not one Republican who in the last 18 months would have implemented even one of Obama's ideas.
Stratagems or policies, not one.
An informed electorate would, I mean, Obama ought to be in the 30s.
Obama's approval ought to be at best 25 with an informed electorate.
Because they would realize after three and a half years, this is what you get with Democrats.
This is what you get with socialists.
So liberals analyze their Obama despair.
Well, let's not confuse this with the discontent the majority of the country has had for them and their legislation for a year now, which is the fuel behind the Tea Party movement started last summer.
Two recent essays framed the debate, and this is a fascinating piece to read.
In fact, before I get to this, let me go back to Gibbs, because it ties together here.
In addition to the soundbite we played where, oh yeah, oh no question, Republicans could win the House back.
Oh yeah.
Really?
What is below that bit of news, what's not in the sound bites that you're hearing about Gibbs, is this.
Well, we understand people are frustrated.
Everybody's frustrated.
Look, the president's frustrated that we haven't seen greater recovery efforts.
But that doesn't stop us from doing what we know is right, instituting the policies that we know will bring the country back.
Which is an out and out lie.
These are parties or policies of utter destruction.
We're in the midst of a war on prosperity.
And a general is Barack Obama.
And the press spokesman is Robert Gibbs.
Well, Gibbs, we understand people are frustrated.
Everybody's frustrated.
Look, the president's frustrated, we haven't seen greater recovery efforts.
Well, now that's that sounds like somebody commenting from afar.
Yeah, I'm not sitting here, I'm president, but I'm a little frustrated too.
Well, I haven't seen more recovery effort.
Effort being the key word here.
And remember, Gibbs doesn't go on these shows and ad lib.
This is not coincidence.
This is not a slip of the tongue.
The president's frustrated we haven't seen greater recovery efforts.
Now to listen to Obama, we've had, I mean, he's worked harder than anybody ever has.
Even Clinton.
He's done everything to bring this recovery back.
Their ideas are great, but he hasn't seen enough effort.
He clearly is not talking about the American people.
He doesn't want to see a lot of effort from the American people.
What's he talking about here?
We haven't seen a greater recovery effort, doesn't stop us.
So the lack of recovery effort, somebody else's, but still, even though there's a lack of people helping us, is what this means.
Even though nobody's helping us, we're going to continue to do what's right.
This is setting the stage for blaming the Republicans for all of this.
Gibbs is talking about the economy here.
And he's not talking about Obama's efforts, even though the statement may have been made while the president was on the golf course again.
And I don't think Gibbs is talking about the Democrat-controlled Congress, because they're being praised all over the media for having one of the greatest sessions ever.
It's just a damn fortunate unshame, nobody's getting any credit for it.
Maybe what Gibbs is talking about here is Obama's frustration with the Republicans.
Because that was fit, wouldn't it?
I mean, the Republicans are blocking everything.
The Republicans are not on board for anything.
Republicans want Obama to fail.
Obama for the last 18 months have been saying Bush made me do it.
And after the death panel reports, in December, it'll be the Commission made me do this.
And after the 2010 elections, he'll say the Republicans made me do it.
See how this is all shaping up?
Barack Obama is personally conducting a war on prosperity.
And even now, in July of 2010, setting the stage and the table for the Republicans to get blamed for what Obama knows is going to happen.
A continued decline of the U.S. economy.
And so in the midst of this, we have this liberals analyze their Obama despair from the politico.
Two recent essays framed the debate raging within the progressive community over why the promise of Obama's candidacy has not lived up to their expectations and how liberals should proceed in what they fear will be difficult months ahead.
In a 17,000 word plus piece, 17,000 plus word piece published in The Nation last week.
The journalist Eric Alderman calls the Obama presidency a big disappointment for progressives.
Blames a broken system in Washington that he says allows the minority party to rule with impunity and special interests and big money to dictate legislative policy.
So, according to the far leftist Eric Alderman, we've got Obama's this a failure, is a huge disappointment.
The Republicans, the Republicans are winning the day.
Republicans are getting whatever they want, and they're doing it with impunity.
And the special interests in big money are dictating legislative policy, such as Wall Street is writing legislation that will hurt itself.
Wall Street's in charge of writing legislation that will punish itself.
And the healthcare industry is writing legislation that will destroy itself.
Does he believe this?
Do these crackpots really believe that the special interests are writing these laws that are going to destroy these industries.
Face it, Alderman concludes, the system's rigged and it's rigged against us.
His essay is subtitled Why a Progressive Presidency is Impossible for Now.
But writing in Democracy a Journal of Ideas, Editor Michael Tomasky, or Tomasky, not sure how he pronounces it, counsels patience, arguing that American history has shown that change always takes time and continued effort against untrenched conservative opposition.
The changes we want to see are not going to happen in 18 months or in two years, or four or probably even eight years, he concludes in his essay titled Against Despair.
These guys, I don't know what planet they're on.
We've had more destruction of the American private sector in 18 months than ever in the history of this country.
I mean, FDR may have done greater damage, but he didn't get it all done in 18 months.
This is a record, and these leftist progressives are upset.
So what are they upset about?
What isn't happening that they want to happen?
How can any progressive or leftist be anything but giddy?
We know they're not giddy.
We know that they're constantly enraged and angry and upset.
But how can they be disappointed?
I mean, they're never happy.
I mean, they can look down there, they can see the destruction of the capitalist system.
Straight ahead, they're in the middle of it happening.
The essays suggest it's a time of reckoning for a liberal community whose relationship with Obama's had a series of ups and downs since the moment of hope and expectation when he claimed the presidency in Chicago's Grant Park on November 4th, 2008.
Katrina Vandenhoe, editor and publisher of the nation said, you know, it's really not just about Obama, it's about the state of our country.
Every day you have a sense that people are wondering where this country's headed.
Yeah.
We do.
But Katrina, you ought to know where it's headed.
It's headed in your direction, which means you ought to be happy.
The elation of that night in 2008 quickly gave way to the realization that the number one issue, the economy, and the ensuing fight over an $800 billion stimulus bill would make Obama's agenda different from the one he had described in his campaign.
Oh, oh, so that's it.
They're upset.
They're upset that the economy's being destroyed.
But isn't this what they actually want?
Are these people deranged or what?
They ought to be ecstatically happy.
Well, why aren't they?
I'll tell you why.
It's not that Obama hasn't done their bidding.
It's that they got their stimulus.
They got their panacea.
They got their utopia.
And it doesn't work.
There are no new jobs for the quote unquote workers.
There is no affordable new health care for the workers.
There isn't enough punishment of big business for the workers.
All of these panacea items.
All the things that they know have been tried in previous years, decades, countries have all failed because these people all said, yeah, well, the wrong people were in charge of implementing them.
But now we, the ones we've been waiting for, we're here.
And Obama's our leader.
And finally, the right people, the ones we've been waiting for, us, are going to implement our utopian ideas.
And they see an economy crumbling.
For the workers, too.
I mean, it's the workers, quote unquote, their terminology, who are unemployed.
It's the workers who are running out of unemployment benefits.
It's the workers whose health care is hanging by a thread.
And it was supposed to be the other way around.
The workers were supposed to be wealthy and rich, and the rich were supposed to be on chain gangs.
This is not happening.
And yet the dichotomy is they're getting what they want.
Because the only way the left can get what they want is to destroy our capitalist system.
We're in the middle of that war.
A war on prosperity, and you might also say a war on optimism.
And the optimism, the war on optimism is succeeding because not even the winners at this point of this war are happy.
Quick timeout.
Back with much more after this.
Hey, we're back.
It's Rush Limboi and the EIB Network.
And an audio soundbite here from David Axelrod.
From this week yesterday on the ABC.
Now, Axelrod is already Dusting off Bill Clinton's old speech and putting it on Obama's teleprompter.
All he'll have to do is change a few words.
This is Clinton.
February 15th, 1993.
I had hoped.
Now this is, remember, Clinton had promised a tax cut.
And Clinton, this is February 15, 1993.
I had hoped to invest in your future by creating jobs, expanding education, reforming health care, reducing debt, without asking more of you.
And I've worked harder than I have ever worked in my life to meet that goal, but I can't.
I can't because the deficit has increased so much beyond my earlier estimates and beyond even the worst official government estimates of last year.
Listen to Axel Rod yesterday and this week.
Jake Tapper says, so the president's popularity among independents is sinking.
It's a real problem for him politically.
One year ago he was at 56% approval with independence.
Now it's 38%.
Why do you think independent voters are turning away from the president?
Remember, elections uh the presidential election is an eternity away.
Elections are about choices, though.
They're not referendum.
And on the other side of the ballot in November will be a party uh that has an economic theory, and it was tested and it led to catastrophe.
So you see, they're setting it's clear as a bell what they're setting up.
And they're they're depending here on an uninformed, ignorant electorate to pull this off.
All of this that's happening now, all of this that's happened since 2007 is the Republicans' fault.
All timed for them to hopefully, in the White House, hopefully take over control of the House in 2011.
It's uh it's an amazing thing to sit here.
Now, the fiscal year 2007 budget, this is the last one passed by a Republican Congress and Bush had a deficit of 161 billion dollars.
The next year, under Democrat control, and this is the budget created before the recession began.
The deficit was 459 billion.
This is after the Pelosi Congress.
In 2009, it was 1.4 trillion.
The last Bush budget produced a budget deficit of 161 billion dollars.
And yet they're out there trying to say that all of this is the Republicans' fault.
That's what they're setting up here.
Now back to these unhappy libs.
You know, they are the most hyphenated Americans that we have.
And first and foremost, they are whiner Americans.
There has never been a group or a collection of people who whine more than the American left.
And they're probably afraid that Obama's blowing the revolution because he isn't doing it right.
He's not holding it right.
He's not doing it fast enough.
It's not happening fast enough.
They want it all now.
And they want their cut.
And they don't see it happening.
E.J. Dion Jr.
It simply took too long to pass health care.
He wrote this in the Washington Post.
What should have been seen as an important progressive victory didn't feel like it was as much of a victory because it took so damn long.
He said the bad economy creates a mood in which everything looks a bit more bleak than it did before.
The economy helps to create the less than wonderful poll numbers for Democrats, and it conditions the national mood, and all of that affects the way progressives feel.
The list of grievances includes a slew of agenda items yet to be meaningfully addressed.
Climate change, immigration reform, don't ask, don't tell, the card check employee free choice act, not to mention the war in Afghanistan that many liberals opposed.
So they're miserable.
They always are miserable.
They're never happy, no matter when they're in the midst of getting what they want, because now it isn't happening fast enough.
They got health care, but it's not going to destroy things fast enough.
All the while setting Republicans up for what they know in their hearts is an utter disaster.
Just waiting to unfold once January 2011 comes around.
So this is all of this, my friends, is the challenge, the political challenge the Republicans have if they're going to arrest all of this and see to it that the Democrats and the one party media do not get away with all of this.
You know, isn't it uh it's it's kind of interesting, isn't it?
All of this media attention to a tape made by the actor Mel Gibson, in which he engages in racist rants, and yet the same media doesn't see fit to air audio of King Zulu Shabazz, whatever his name is the guy that wants to kill cracker babies, who were part of the new Black Panther Party, blocking voters from entering the polling place in Philadelphia in 2008.
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