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July 14, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 14, 2011, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
The Republicans remain very nervous, ladies and gentlemen.
As idiots at Moody's, or as Stuart Varney says moods.
The rating service clearly joining with the Democrats to put pressure on the House Republicans and the Senate Republicans as well by claiming we don't raise a debt limit, then all is lost.
The U.S. reputation gone forever.
So the pressure mounts on the Republicans in the House.
And so far they're standing firm.
I think Obama's cracking, folks.
I think he cracking up.
I that the way I interpret this, this guy's had road paved for him from the get-go.
He's turned C's into A's, or had people do that for him.
He believed his messianic businesses is up there.
Look, I'm going to take the Casey American people.
Please do.
You got about 30% of them who agree with you on this.
Hi, folks, how are you?
El Rushboat here.
And uh three hours, broadcast excellence straight ahead that'll seem like 10 minutes.
Telephone numbers 800-282-2882, the email address, L Rushbo at EIB net.com in a little known, little reported story.
Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton sent a letter yesterday to House Speaker Kurt Zellers and the Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch saying that he reluctantly agrees to accept the Republican budget proposal from June 30th if it'll end the government shutdown in Minnesota.
Dayton said that accepting the offer would bridge a 1.4 billion dollar gap between him and the Republican leadership.
The governor says that he has a serious reservations about the Republican plan, but Minnesota's government shutdown must end.
If this gets resolved and gets Minnesota back to work in the next few days, then it doesn't matter what people say about me, said Dayton.
So the Democrat governor, I I look at uh I don't want to pour salt in the wound here by using the word K, but clearly the Republicans in Minnesota, they held firm.
This has been going on for two or three weeks now, and the usual threats were being bandied about in the Minnesota press just as they are here in the national press, and the usual accusations and the usual doom and gloom, and the usual Minnesota senior citizens are going to end up ice fishing.
Nobody's gonna cut the hole in the ice for them, so they're not gonna catch anything.
It's gonna be disaster out there.
Uh and still the Republicans held firm in Minnesota.
Now, if an agreement is in place, Dayton says he's ready to call a special session to end the shutdown within three days.
And here are the conditions that he made to make a deal.
Remove policy issues, drop 15% across the board in reductions to state employees in all agencies, and uh pass a $500 million bonding bill.
The Republican offer from June 30th, which he says he'll accept now.
Included a shift in K through 12 school aid payments from 7030 to 6040, issuing tobacco bonds to cover the remaining gap, increasing the per student formula by $50 per year to cover additional borrowing costs, adding 10 million more to the University of Minnesota to equalize cuts and to restore funding to the Department of Human Rights Trade Office.
So anyway, and they got a copy of the letter here.
So it's a headline.
Governor Dayton agrees to Republican budget to end Minnesota shutdown.
special session could be called within three days.
Yeah, tiny little headline, tiny little story.
Drudge does have it on his page.
Well, have you seen it anywhere else?
Have you, Sterley?
Nor have I. And at the same time of Wisconsin, Ohio.
And in throw Indiana in there.
Another thing That uh this illustrates, folks, the whole concept here of federalism.
It means that the states do remain a backstop against whatever the Obama regime tries.
Uh, all therefore not lost.
But how about how about I thought this guy was Mr. Kalman Cool, and I thought this guy was the one who was the adult in the room, and I thought this guy was um uh well, he's none of what they told us he is, and I believe Obama is uh is starting to crack.
I I look Snerdley is right.
I had him pegged when I called him man child at the very beginning.
I look at I hate say this, but if I don't, who will?
I've had him pegged since before the election.
And I'll admit, folks, like there was uh Michael Daly in the New York Post had a column a couple days ago, which you've heard on this program two years ago.
Which is good.
I mean, don't misunderstand.
I'm not I'm just where were you two years ago?
Why'd it take you two years to figure this guy out?
It's a great column by Mr. Daly.
He says, I can't stand, I I can't watch him anymore.
I turned off that press conference every 15 minutes.
He's just is is is uh I don't have the column right in front of me, but I'll get excerpts here in just a second.
But it was everything you've heard here on this program for the last two, two and a half years.
Can't be trusted, uh immature, childish, uh, boring speaker.
Uh yeah, just uh all this all the things, you know, not honest, doesn't have the economic answers, stubborn, childish, all these things.
And as I say, uh that's that's good.
And Mr. Daly was featured all over television yesterday, so he'd written a masterpiece, and that's good too.
He's out there.
My question is why is it taken, and a bunch of bloggers, a bunch of bloggers, and it even I guess before the petulant walkout yesterday of the White House, this week and last week, I've noticed some some conservative bloggers starting to say, yeah, this guy's an abject failure.
Everybody's now calling him a failure, and every proudly and happily.
And they're talking about how the uh this guy's dishonest and he's this and that.
Where was this two years ago?
Why is it taking two years for everybody to figure this guy out?
And I'm not please don't misunderstand me here.
It's a little frustrating if we'd have these, because I believe everybody that's writing now about what a failure, what an abysmal embarrassment, what a bore, all these things that Obama is.
They knew this.
At least the conservatives did on our side two years ago.
Now, maybe they didn't want to believe it.
Maybe they didn't want, maybe they were trying to impress people with their open-mindedness, and let's give the guy a chance after all he was elected.
But none of what's been learned about Obama this week or last week is unknown.
It didn't, it wasn't just revealed about this guy.
Where was all this two years ago?
You realize the aggravation and damage the country could have been spared had people had the guts two years ago to write what they're writing now and to say what they're saying now.
I mean, it's practically everywhere.
Yeah, so Eric Cantor has his version of what happened.
Obama says, okay, Eric, don't make me call my bluff.
Now, folks, I don't want to nitpick here, but I'm gonna nitpick because we're told this guy's smarter than everybody else in the room.
We're told for three years that nobody keep up with this guy.
He's so far ahead of us that it's pointless to even try to understand him.
We should just try to position ourselves so that we bask in the glow as well.
Right?
Don't make me call my bluff.
I thought that the whole point, and I don't play poker, well, I don't know, I don't play poker.
I've I know how, but I haven't played poker in a long time, but I always thought that the point of a bluff was to hide that you're bluffing.
Don't make me call my bluff.
I'm I could be charitable here.
And uh see what happened, the Republicans called Dayton's bluff.
Dayton was bluffing.
The governor of Minnesota, the Republicans called his bluff.
It would be Cantor would be the one to say, don't make me call your bluff, Mr. President.
That's who should have made the statement.
But Obama making it, don't make me call my bluff.
Um Glenn Reynolds wrote, said, I'd love to play poker with this guy tonight.
He doesn't know what he's doing.
But I think probably being charitable, what Obama meant to say was, I'm not bluffing, Eric.
I'll go to the American people.
That's what he meant to say.
I'm not bluffing, Eric.
Uh what's that?
Well, because I don't I well, I don't know why he didn't say it right.
I just I I'm living off an image.
We're living off of a crafted, manipulated image of the guy.
You take the teleprompter away and he's lost.
You don't know what the next word is going to be because he doesn't.
So here's Cantor.
And by the way, I'm told Cookie tells me that the audio that we have here that nobody else really is playing.
Took her till three o'clock this morning to track it all down.
That they're playing excerpts of it.
Uh and and maybe that they have it, they're just not playing it because it's more impactful this way.
Let's see.
This is uh this is Eric Cantor speaking with reporters about the talks last night in Washington.
The White House meeting just ended, and it ended with the president abruptly uh walking out of the meeting.
He got very agitated, seemingly, and said that you know he has sat here long enough uh and uh that no other president, Ronald Reagan, wouldn't sit here like this, and uh he's reached the point that something's gotta give.
So he said you either got to compromise on your dollar for dollar insistence, or you compromise on the big deal, which means on raising taxes.
Ronald Reagan wouldn't sit here like this.
Yeah, don't you just love it?
Here's Obama, who in his books talks about how he hated Reagan and his minions, and that his political objective was to undo everything Reagan had ever done, and now Reagan's the gold standard for these guys.
All week long, all we've heard about is the Democrats telling the Republicans what Reagan wouldn't and wouldn't have done.
So Cantor says, you either he told him you either gonna compromise on your dollar-for-dollar insistence or you compromise on the bit.
I thought Obama said you gotta leave your ultimatums at the door.
Well, he did.
I don't just think it he did.
Last week, when all this stuff revved up again, he said, everybody you gotta leave your ultimatums at the door.
Well, no, he didn't say to leave his because he obviously hasn't left his.
Mr. President, we knew Ronald Reagan.
Ronald Reagan was the president of ours, and you, sir, know Ronald Reagan.
In fact, Barack Obama's the anti-Reagan, and by his own admission.
Here's more Cantor speaking to reporters.
After saying that Obama became agitated in the meeting, Cantor then said this: He said to me, Eric, don't call my bluff.
He said, I'm going to the American people with this.
So again, you know, I was I was somewhat taken aback.
He shoved back and said, I'll see you tomorrow and walked out.
Okay, don't make me call my bluff.
Or Eric, don't call my bluff.
I'm uh I'm gonna go to the American people with it.
I what what has he been doing?
But going to the American people, it isn't working.
I was fully I'm as frankly expecting a speech this morning or an appearance this morning to counterbalance whatever this was.
Of course, you've got Democrat operators saying Eric Cantor, little punk kid, Eric Cantorney, what he's talking about.
Barack Obama lit Eric Cantor up like he'd never been lit up before.
That's what a Democrat operative said.
Obama lit.
Well, frankly, I'm gonna choose to believe Cantor here because everything we've been told about Obama is a pack of lies.
Everything we've been told about Obama's brilliance, his image is economic.
All this is a bunch of BS.
Dingy Harry.
Dingy Harry's so upset that he wants Cantor removed from the process.
He said so this morning on the Florida Senate.
Speaker Boehner and Minority Leader McConnell seem to understand the seriousness of the situation.
They're willing to negotiate in good faith, which I appreciate, and the country appreciates.
Meanwhile, House Majority Leader Eric Canner shown that he shouldn't even be at the table.
And Republican Legend shouldn't be at the table.
One Republican told political last night at hell publication, quote, he lost a lot of credibility when he walked away from the table.
It was childish.
End of quote.
He's walked out on the meetings with the vice president of the United States.
It was childish.
Oh, why was this Cantor walked out now?
A meeting would bite me?
When did that happen?
Last week.
Cantor walked out meeting would bite me.
All right.
Well, I've Okay, fine.
Okay, impasse walked out.
That's what Obama did yesterday, shoved back Obama.
Apparently, the story is the Democrats, hey, Obama, he kicked ass in there, folks.
Let's just be out.
He kicked ass.
He lit Cantor up like Cantor had never been lit up before.
And he's ending the meeting, and then Cantor rudely interrupted him three times.
Little little creep kid has no business being in Obama wouldn't stand here and lit him up.
They're cracking up in there.
And then another thing, Jay Carney.
Jay Carney told the press corps in the White House, by the way, you guys cannot ask any more questions when everybody's gathering for the meetings.
No questions for the press pool going in there.
And Chip Reetsa, what?
You saying we can't ask any questions, and Carney said, yeah, because you're shouting them, and Obama doesn't want to be shouted at.
Obama doesn't want to be shouted at.
What would Reagan do?
Reagan was shouted at all the time.
He just pretended he couldn't hear him and moved on.
Or Reagan would say, when his friends got upset, he said, that's just Sam, meaning Donaldson.
That's just Sam.
Like the Pittsburgh Steelers today say that's just James.
James Harrison, men's journal.
You ought to hear some of the stuff this guy.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, this James number 92, defensive end Pittsburgh.
Well, he's an outside linebacker for the uh for the Pittsburgh Steelers, and he's just oh, fined 100,000 last year by the league.
He's got some legitimate complaints, people say, but he just unloaded on everybody in his men's journal piece that comes out Friday.
He greeted on the web.
He called Goodell a commissioner a gay slur, a puppet, a creep and a liar, and said if Goodell was on fire, he wouldn't pee on him.
He ripped into Ben Rothesberger, the quarterback, blaming him, blaming him for the loss of the Super Bowls.
If you're going to throw interceptions, at least do it on the other side of the field so we don't have to bail you out all the time.
And he called Rashard Mendenhall, a number 34 of the running back, a fumble machine.
And Mendenhall said, I don't care.
I know him.
He can say what he wants.
I'll tell you, uh, Eric Cantor.
Oh, folks, I got to take a break.
I just know they're going to panic up the control central.
James Harrison, number 92 of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
After the Steelers won the Super Bowl some years ago, was invited to the Obama White House.
James Harrison refused to go.
He said, I'm not going to go to White House.
We're only being invited because we won.
Invite us when we lose, and I'll think about it.
He also said he was hoping the Steelers won the Super Bowl last February against the Packers, because in the winner's locker room, he wanted to whisper into Goodell's ear, hey, why don't you quit the NFL and go start your own flag football league?
Be the commissioner of that.
These are just the top of the line that I remember from this piece.
Anyway, so what do we have here?
Eric Cantor is demoing some Guts.
Eric Cantor demoing some fortitude.
And Paul Ryan has done this.
You remember in a budget meeting at the I guess some somewhere near the White House on Medicare.
And Ryan just ran rings around Obama on policy.
And it was televised.
And Obama's sitting there with that middle finger on his face, flipping Ryan off, looking just ticked as hell.
That Ryan would dare disrespect him, Obama.
And after that, they all said Ryan, Ryan disrespected President Obama.
He doesn't deserve to be in the same room with Obama.
He is not up to Obama's level.
And now Cantor needs to be kicked out of the room.
He is not up to Obama's level.
He doesn't be there, deserve to be there because he doesn't show the proper respect.
So in other words, anybody who speaks up and stands up for us, the people, is not up to the job of being in the same room with Barack Hussein Obama.
I guess I guess we're going to have to call it even more disrespect for Obama.
The White House suggested that the conferees get together at Camp David to talk about the debt limit and raising the uh debt limit and all of this, and John Boehner has just stated that he doesn't see any need to go to Camp David to talk to Obama, that they can talk in the White House.
Speaker has told the White House he sees no need to go to Camp David this weekend, said Maynard spokesperson Michael Steele in a statement.
So Obama says uh Camp David and Boehner says, nope.
They're hanging tough.
You got to add North Carolina, by the way, to the list of states that have forced in a responsible budget.
What happened in North Carolina?
The Republican legislature cut spending.
They did not raise taxes, and that was vetoed by their dim governor.
What is her name?
Bev Bev Purdue or some such thing.
She anyway, she vetoed it.
The Republicans got the needed four votes from Democrats to override her veto.
So Republicans in North Carolina succeeded in implementing their budget versus a Democrat governor, overriding her veto with four Democrat votes.
So he got the state of North Carolina, like Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, probably more, New Jersey, in terms of the unions.
Standing up to all these people, acting as shields from the arrows being flung by the BAM regime.
Think of this.
You see the movie 300.
You didn't see the movie 300.
Well, uh, it's it's about the Spartan, 300 Spartans uh holding off thousands of Persians.
Now the Spartan culture is an amazing thing to learn about in uh in Greece.
But anyway, they just held up the shields.
The sky was black with arrows being launched by the Persians.
And the 300 Spartans that just stood there with their shields and they blocked those arrows that protected, and that's exactly what the Obama regime is.
We're the Spartans, our states are the Spartans with the shields, last line of defense, and the Republicans in these states are standing tall and they're holding firm, and they are beating the Democrats down and beating them back.
Well, forget North Carolina, she was overridden, but uh we got Republican governors in Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Governor Dayton and Minnesota's a Democrat, and he has caved, essentially he's gonna accept the Republican budget in order to avert or end rather the government shutdown there.
Mitch McConnell on the Senate floor today saying the Republican Party is not going to be the tax collectors for the Obama economy.
Republicans will not be reduced to being the tax collectors for the Obama Economy.
We won't be seduced into calling it a bad deal a good deal.
And we won't let the White House fool around with the full faith and credit of the United States.
If the president wants to threaten seniors or veterans or rattle a world economy by pretending he can't pay our bills, he of course can do that.
But he's not going to implicate Republicans in these efforts.
That's why I propose, as a last resort, a plan that would force the White House to really show its hand.
So they're dead serious here.
They know what they're up against.
They know they've got a media ready to blame them.
Everybody.
The world knows this.
The world knows it.
And they're still going to be blamed.
Everybody knows it.
And they're still going to be blamed.
And so the Republicans are taking a proactive stance here.
We're not going to be the tax collectors.
We are not going to be blamed for this.
He's this is his.
He owns it.
Pure and simple.
Dingy Harry is not happy.
I think Dingy Harry's losing it too.
I thought I'm serious about Obama.
I think it's I don't think it's a healthy circumstance that we have, folks, um in the uh Oval Office.
I don't I don't, I just I'm worried.
You know, Republicans are nervous about what they think is going to happen to them.
I'm nervous too.
I'm I'm worried.
I I you look, his whole economic team left.
A bunch of the czars have left.
Gates left, the defense secretary.
Uh a greater exodus than is common.
I mean, all presidents lose key members of their staff.
It's hard work, long days, it's intense, you burn out quickly.
You want to parlay what you've done and make some money in the private sector while there still is one.
And I think a lot of people, the Obama White House understand they're not going to be much of a private sector.
The way I'm reading it, I think some of the people, the economic team, I think some of the economic team probably told Obama, look, this isn't working, and we're going to have to do something different.
And I think he said, No, I'm Barack Obama.
What I do will work.
Well, I'm Barack Obama.
What I think is what is.
I've talked about this with the faculty at Harvard.
I know what works.
I've seen it.
We're not going to do anything different.
And I think a bunch of them just leave.
I think some of the economic team has left because they don't want to be tied to this.
You talk about Mitch McConnell not wanting to be implicated in all this.
I think a lot of economic team members of Obama don't want to be implicated in what's happening or what has happened.
Both.
When I hear Jay Carney talk about can't ask him questions, he don't want to be shouted at, uh something not right there.
Here's Dingy Harry, who I also think is not all there lately.
Default won't just roil the financial markets, pushing interest rates higher, and tank the stock markets.
It will affect every American's wallet as well.
Here are a few things that will happen.
Social Security checks and veteran benefits and paychecks to our troops would stop.
Yeah, well, let me tell you something.
Democrats have been claiming for decades that Social Security is fully self-funded.
Remember the lockbox.
And they have been claiming for decades that Social Security doesn't add one cent to the deficit.
That it is to be paid out of our quote unquote contributions, which are held separately from the rest of the general tax revenue.
This is what they've told us.
Now we know it's not true, but they've told us it's in a lockbox.
They've told us that Social Security contributions are not coming with the general fund.
But by not paying Social Security, the administration would finally be admitting if if they do this, if Obama really withholds Social Security checks, and it's in his power to do, if he really does this, he would be admitting that our political leaders have been lying to us all these years.
That there really isn't any real retirement fund.
That all we've got here is Bernie Madoff running the U.S. government.
That's what Social Security is.
That's what they're going to end up admitting if they're not careful.
Dick Durbin Last night on Charlie Rose, Senator Turban, of course, from Illinois.
Charlie Rose from whatever communist capital he last visited said Senator McConnell seemed to be looking at the political dimensions of this when he said the Republicans, if a default happened, would have co-ownership of the economy, and that would ensure the re-election of Obama.
Is he right about that?
There's some truth to that.
I've been around Washington long enough to remember when Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh and a few others said, listen, we could close down the federal government, no one would notice.
Well, people noticed and they weren't very happy about it.
They blamed uh Speaker Gingrich and uh his membership for that result, and he was uh spirited away from that position as speaker not long after.
I think that uh Senator McConnell has that same memory.
Um Durbin's essentially right uh in that the Republicans are scared to death about 1995.
They think of they're thinking history is going to repeat here.
Even though everybody knows the game, everybody knows what's coming.
Uh they still think that the Republicans are going to successfully be blamed.
So Newton and I, according to Turbo, we shut down the government, we didn't think anybody would care.
Well, how wrong were we?
And I wasn't wrong, by the way, and this is it it the whole 1995 budget shutdown was about much more than just a budget shutdown.
I'm gonna tell you something.
This is what a lot of people have forgotten this, but the Gingrich government shutdown is what eventually led to balanced budgets the Democrats now brag about.
Um Pelosi been bragging about uh uh Barbara Boxer has been bragging about Diane Feinstein, they've all been bragging about these balanced budgets.
It was the Republicans in the House that brought that about.
It was John Kasich that balanced the budget.
Now the governor of Ohio.
John Kasich and Newton, all those guys from that that leadership back then, they balanced the budget, and it was the 1995 shutdown that led to it.
And the Democrats now brag about it.
Uh here's here's uh F. Chuck Todd this morning on Morning Joe, Scarborough, said if if Boehner can't take control at this critical juncture, very cantor, who seems to be undercutting him every step of the way, Republican caucus, when does he take control?
A senior leadership aide, I asked, who's a veteran of this, I said, compare ninety-five to now.
And this person said to me, in 95, we actually did educate the members.
We had members that when they went home, they had two sources of information.
They had CNN, the only cable news channel in 1995, and they had one guy on talk radio who was driving the conservative point of view, Rush.
That was it.
Now, as this person said to me, they're all informed.
Okay.
Now, some of the information's not good information, but there's no chance to educate your members.
They're really of their own mind.
You hear that?
You hear that, folks.
Here's a member of the media.
There's no chance to educate your members.
What that means is we don't any longer have the ability to shape the outcome of events with our coverage.
We no longer have the ability to influence the way these guys vote and think.
They are too informed now.
They really are of their own mind, and that we just can't have.
We can't have members of Congress thinking for themselves.
And that F. Chuck doesn't like that.
Members of Congress thinking for themselves now.
And it used to not be that way.
Used to just, it just used to be a competition between CNN and the rest of the media and me, which they loved because there was just me and the rest of the media.
They loved that.
And now these guys think for themselves.
Damn it.
And it just ticks them off.
I'm going to tell you something, folks.
This whole thing, if Barack Obama thought he had a winning hand, he's talking about, hey, Eric, don't make me bluff or show my bluff, whatever he said, if he thought he had a winning hand.
We would hear about his plans, the specifics of his plans every day, 24-7.
If Obama's plans, what he really intends, if his if if the specifics are if he really thinks taking this to the American people's gonna cause him to win reelection and take him back to 60% approval, he'd be doing it.
But he's not.
He is not being honest about his plan.
He doesn't present it.
He does not detail it because he knows, just like all liberals know, if they are ever honest about what their intentions are, they don't even win elections.
Oh, who's can you tea?
See, I got a soundbite here.
I'm uh Yeah, we got the Carney sound by saying Obama doesn't like being yelled at.
I think that's it.
Uh yep, that's it.
Hang on just a second.
But I got to show I give you the example here.
You know, F. Chuck Todd worried that members make up their own minds now.
Members of Congress, it's not like 1995.
Hey, wait, 1995, we could control what they thought.
1995, we, you know, it's just it's just us in the media and rush.
But now everybody's informed and they have they make up their own minds.
They have their own minds.
We are very big problem.
I tell you something else.
These guys want to keep hearkening back to 1995.
This is not 1995, folks.
In 1995, and and Obama's not Clinton.
And in 1995, the nation was not on the edge of disaster.
You remember 1995.
Many of you are around and we were not.
We were not at all.
I mean, our concern in 1995 was we're going to end up here where we are now.
If Clinton was unchecked.
This is not 1995.
The nation was not on the edge of disaster.
But I want to play for you.
This is a guy, uh, Joe Walsh.
This is what F. Republican from Illinois posted a video message to Obama about the debt talks.
Republican from Illinois, and and this on YouTube, I think.
Yep.
On his YouTube channel.
This is the kind of thing that uh F. Chuck Todd was talking about.
These members have make up their own minds.
They're informed now.
Uh and ruling class can't control members of Congress anymore.
President Obama quit lying.
You know darn well that if August 2nd comes and goes, there's plenty of money to pay off our debt and cover all of our Social Security obligations.
And you and only you have the discretion to make those payments.
I know you have a willing media that protects everything you say and do, but have you no shame, sir?
In three short years, you've bankrupted this country and destroyed job creation.
You're either in over your head, you don't understand what makes this country great, or you're hell-bent in turning us into some European big government wasteland.
Probably all three, and with a proper emphasis on the latter.
Harvard faculty love Europe.
They admire Europe.
That's the way to go.
But anyway, see, this does upset the media.
They can't control members anymore.
The ruling class, irritated.
That's Republican Joe Walsh, member of Congress from Illinois, and a video message to Obama on his uh YouTube channel.
And here's here's Jay Carney.
This is the bite I was talking about earlier, where Obama doesn't want questions being shouted at him anymore.
This is uh daily press briefing yesterday, and a reporter said, Can we have TV cameras in the top of the meeting today?
Here's the answer.
We are doing a photo still spray today.
I would remind you that the last time we had TV and cameras in the meeting, it was less than three hours after the president had given a press conference, and people shouted questions at him, including people who had just had questions in the press conference.
So the purpose of the meeting is not to create a circus, but to negotiate.
So today we're doing stills only.
Are you telling us we can't ask questions?
He asked questions.
He did a 70-minute press conference last week.
He had a 45-minute press conference three hours before people walked in.
You telling us we can't ask questions.
He's saying questions are a circuit.
That was Mark Noller, CBS.
Are you telling us questions or a circus?
That's what he said.
So we're just doing a still spray.
That means still photographers from the pool are allowed to go in there and snap pictures at the opening of the negotiations, but no video.
Obama doesn't want questions shouted at him.
He's taking enough questions from you boobs.
No more.
Okay, programming note, ladies and gentlemen.
I will be out tomorrow and Monday and Tuesday.
It's um annual member guest golf tournament time at a secret undisclosed location in the vast Great Northeast.
So Snerdley, we might want to toy around, maybe do an open line Friday on Thursday today.
You have to leave early anyway, so it's not all that tortuous.
And uh not even two full hours of it, since I'm just now announcing it.
So Mark Belling tomorrow and Mark Stein will be sitting in on Monday and Tuesday.
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