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Aug. 20, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 20, 2012, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, well, well, ladies and gentlemen, I did something today I thought I would never do again.
I bought a copy of Newsweek.
Bought a copy of Newsweek.
Are pigs flying or what?
Ladies and gentlemen, it's Douglas Rubanski here filling in for Rush.
The phone number is 1-800-282-2882.
Four huge events about to occur.
We have the Republican National Convention.
We have the Democrat National Convention.
We've got the so-called debate show coming up.
And most importantly, in 24 hours, Rush Limbaugh will be back in this chair to guide you through what will be the most dramatic election season you can imagine.
I'm looking at this Newsweek story.
There's a barrage of very fascinating things happening out there.
The whole tide seems to be changing.
Now, the cynic in you might suspect that Newsweek wants to sell a lot of copies, and they will.
Listen, I've often opined that if you wanted to boost ratings on your network, you would go more down the middle, more fair, more right-leaning.
Newsweek is maybe they're experimenting.
I have no idea.
But anyway, the Newsweek story is a fascinating.
I did not imagine ever that I would be buying a copy of Newsweek.
Yeah, they ran a story.
I don't know if you remember this, a few months ago, Romney, the Wimp Factor.
I bet you that issue didn't sell any copies at all.
So they're testing out what to do with Romney, with Obama.
You could have bought, I paid more than that today, Mr. Shirley.
You could have bought the whole magazine for a buck a short while ago.
Boy, I paid more for that today.
I hope conservatives buy this.
If you want to send a message out there to the media, can you imagine maybe the New York Times will learn something and the New York Times will start running stories like this.
It's a whole new marketing model.
Anyway, the headline, if you have not seen it, ladies and gentlemen, is called Obama's Got to Go.
And it's written by a guy called Neil Ferguson.
And it's pretty graphic, the article, and I'm going to get into it, but I'm going to get into it in depth in a few moments.
But there are other related things.
If you connect all the dots, there's this other story out there.
Politico has the other story.
Politico is telling us that there is conflict, enormous conflict inside the Obama campaign.
Now, I mentioned to you on Friday, I mentioned to you on Friday, I love the Obama campaign.
I love it.
I love it.
Should I tell you why?
I daren't.
Well, I love it because it's a disaster.
I want to see more of Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
She doesn't make me mad.
She doesn't make me angry.
I get happy because I watch this person and I know that voters across America are being turned off, are being turned off by the negativity, by the double talk.
So Politico is publishing an e-book about the Obama campaign, saying they're roiled in conflict.
It's called Obama's Last Stand.
It's available online, published by Politico and Random House.
And it goes into some of the detail.
Now, look, there's an old advertising adage.
It's very simple.
That the best campaign on earth will only hasten the end of a bad product.
They've got a bad product.
This is not 2008.
In 2008, let's just turn, let's go back in the time machine for a moment.
In 2008, there were eight years of a campaign against George W. Bush already in motion.
I said to you on Friday, he ran against George W. Bush.
He ran against George W. Bush.
And John McCain was not really a very strong contender, as you all know.
He ran against a man who wasn't running.
It drove a lot of us crazy.
And they were able to paint Obama to be anybody you wanted to be.
He was the man who had voted president.
He was a blank canvas.
And on that canvas, they painted presidentialness.
They had presidential podiums.
They had presidential airplanes.
He went to Berlin and talked to crowds.
He looked presidential.
It was only after he got the job that he ceased looking presidential.
So they're all in a mess trying to blame each other over there at the Obama campaign as to why it's not, they're looking at everything except why it's not going well.
They're over there blaming each other.
They're all stressed out.
It's your fault.
It's your fault.
Except they have a bad product.
Madison Avenue, if you went to an ad agency, they'd say, I'm sorry, folks.
This product is no good.
Go back.
Come with something else that we can sell.
The public doesn't want this.
They're thinking of having, they polled, listen to this, they polled all the different characters inside the campaign that who would poll most negatively.
And the one who polls most negatively was Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
I wonder where David Plouffe was on that scale.
I'd love to see him out there, too, as one of Obama's spokespeople.
Some of Obama's advisors have been questioned whether Wasserman Schultz should be out there.
They feel she comes across too partisan.
All of this is nonsense, folks.
Because the campaign has nothing to sell.
Sorry, sir?
Well, yes, we're going to get to the day.
Oh, let's not get ahead of ourselves.
We'll get to David Plouffe.
David Plouf is out there on the speaking trail, taking big money, I mean $100,000 a speech in Nigeria.
We'll get to why that is in a moment.
Now, Romney, they are saying in this article, is the rallying point for Obama and his team.
Notice that the rallying point, no surprise, is not Obama's record.
I told you on Friday, I wish they would run on the old Clinton campaign.
It's the economy, stupid.
They say Obama does, we've read stories about this.
Obama does not like Romney.
He has no respect for Romney, not even a grudging respect.
This is not me saying it.
This is reported all over the place.
We're told he even has a further disdain for Paul Ryan.
We're told that he had a baseline of respect for John McCain.
Well, of course he did.
He felt he could beat him.
And he was running against a man who wasn't there.
I mean, we know it.
We know it.
So the two things Politico says that Obama fears most about a Romney victory: he fears a 7-2 conservative Supreme Court.
Ladies and gentlemen, every time we talk about any issue, it's another reason to vote against Obama.
He fears a 7-2 Supreme Court.
That's fine.
Keep fearing it.
Keep fearing it.
The Supreme Court is on the ballot.
The Supreme Court is on the ballot.
It's also reported that he cannot stand the possibility that as the economy turns around, follow me here, as the economy turns around due to Obama's policies, he can't stand the idea that Romney may take a victory lap.
Where do I start?
Due to Obama's, listen, the economy will turn around because you'll have an executive CEO in charge who understands these things.
Not because anything Obama's done.
In his mind, which is somewhat delusional, I use the word somewhat.
In his mind, Romney's going to be taking a victory lap for the good work Obama's done.
By the way, I'm short of memory.
Did Obama take any kind of victory lap when Osama bin Laden was dispatched?
I don't remember.
I think he did.
I think he did.
Anyway, Obama sees this recovery just around the corner.
He has said, according to an aide quoted in the story, I'm not going to let him win so that he can take credit when the economy turns around.
Now, listen to this part.
The people around Obama say that Obama is yearning to take the high ground.
I'll leave that for your discernment.
Do you think, I mean, do you honestly think this man is taking the high ground?
And in his mind, what is the high?
He had a dinner.
It's reported that Valerie Jarrett arranged a dinner for some other advisors outside the political scene.
And the main topic they discussed was civility in the world of political discourse.
So, ladies and gentlemen, you've got the Obama team out there.
You've got the Newsweek story out there.
There's a Gallup poll.
There's a Gallup poll that's come out today asking if you're better off now than in 2008.
There is a movement going in the right direction.
A majority of swing state voters say things have not improved for them since 2008, according to today's Gallup poll.
56% of registered voters in a dozen states say they and their family are not better off today than they were four years ago, up from 54% in late 2011.
40% say they were better off, down from 43%.
This is very bad news.
A majority of voters, 52%, also feel that Obama has not done as well as could be expected with the economy.
Ladies and gentlemen, let me take you back again.
This man ran on the idea that he knew what to do with the economy, that he had the answers, that he could fix it.
And then came the excuses.
Well, it was worse than I thought.
You don't know what I inherited.
Things in Europe put the wind out of our sails.
There was an earthquake in Japan.
All excuses.
But he ran telling us he knew what to do.
There is a sense.
Do you get this also?
That Obama is looking more and more like somebody who's hunkered down in a bunker.
I get nervous by people who get that hunkered down sense.
The enemy is everywhere.
They must be thinking.
Look, when you lose Newsweek, even if it's for a day, you've got to start thinking that the enemy is everywhere.
They're closing in.
He's got to wonder why his campaign couldn't control the Newsweek story.
Didn't they obey his orders?
And you've got a campaign of people not getting along, giving contradictory orders.
The bunker must be a very loud place of shouting right now.
Think of this.
They missed the 2010 election.
I said this on Friday also.
The media is still mad that they lost the 2010 election.
Well, Obama and his team missed the 2010 election as well.
That Republican sweep of the House was the that was the biggest failure of his presidency.
And Obama's out there saying to aides and others that he thinks Romney is unfit to lead the country.
Now, where do you begin on that one?
He yearns for the high ground.
You have got to be kidding.
This juvenile campaign, man who uses the words I, I, I all the time, but very inspiring.
I, I'm motivated to run.
I'm going to win.
There's a lot of people out there who say that the election may come down to likability.
This is a thing that has always puzzled me about Obama.
It's puzzled me from the beginning.
He's an orator.
He's a speaker.
Ladies and gentlemen, in my real-life day job, I produce motion pictures and sometimes Broadway shows.
I know what an orator is, and I know what likability is.
I never saw it here.
I don't, I'm not trying to tell you that John McCain bounced off the screen, but in your home on the television, because he did not.
But if this election even comes down to likability, do not let the psyops mechanism convince you that Romney and Ryan are not likable.
You've got Obama out there.
Somebody over there must know he's unlikable because he's not talking to the press.
And in their view, Debbie Wassim and Schultz is likable.
I mean, here's the thing.
Obama, if he's learned anything, he's learned one thing from this recession.
The American people will blame whatever president is on duty when the economy goes down.
And they will give credit to whichever president is on duty when the economy goes up.
The problem that he has trying to sell the bad product a second time around is that he told us he knew and that he was the man to fix it.
He knew how to fix it.
It would be fixed.
I've got stacks of the promises, which we will be in short order getting to.
It's Doug Urbanski.
I'm filling in for Rush Limbaugh.
Short break.
We'll be right back.
I was just wondering why the Nobel Committee didn't give him a prize for economics in advance.
Makes as much sense as anything else that I've seen with this guy.
Look, the media has got to be wondering, have they backed a loser?
They didn't like losing themselves.
Can they live with Romney and Ryan?
I'll get to the answer to that in a little while.
But it's got to be very stressful to be inside that campaign.
Got to be very, very, very stressful.
If Obama views Romney with contempt, just stop and think of this for a moment.
If Obama believes Romney is unfit to run the country, as he has said, I mean, it's got to be some kind of a joke.
But sadly, it is not.
I mean, who could at this moment who has proven that they could be possibly more unfit to run the country than Obama?
He has run unemployment to the highest levels since the Great Depression.
He has added trillions of dollars to the debt, run the deficit over a trillion dollars a year.
There is no end in sight to this stuff.
Spends all of his time dividing the country into groups based upon your race, your sex, your age, your income level.
Sets everyone against each other.
He has made more Americans wards of the state than ever before.
And there's millions more Americans out of work.
And he's afraid that Romney is unfit for office?
I mean, what is it that Romney will do that so scares him?
Balance the budget, perhaps?
Maybe even write a budget.
How about we start there?
That is something Obama and his own team have been unable to do in four years.
Stop paying off the unions.
The Obama administration has been a failure since he took office.
And for the most part, you've got still a left-wing, very compliant press.
And even they have figured that they may not be able to cover it up.
So the Obama campaign is fraught with tension, Politico tells us.
That is because the campaign is foundering.
The poll numbers, as I mentioned a moment ago, are dropping ever so slowly, but the trajectory is clear.
He has not offered the country any plans for his second term.
None!
No plans for the second term.
He said on Saturday, this is one of the outrageous quotes.
This is his theme.
He said, we have a choice between two fundamentally different visions of where the country is going.
He thinks that's a winning theme.
He thinks that reminding us of his vision is a winning theme.
Keep doing it.
He's got no proposals to save Medicare.
He's got no proposals to save Social Security.
He hasn't met with his jobs board all year.
Disorganized.
Disorganized is the word.
So the message is gone from hope and change, which is now owned completely by the Romney-Ryan ticket, to divide and conquer.
They have done one thing successfully.
One thing.
They have transformed half of America to be totally dependent upon the government.
And the sad part is that the country will not be able to sustain itself much longer.
I mean, can you doubt, even for a second, that when Romney is president, that the economy will not get better?
This thought strikes fear into the heart of Obama.
We'll have a president who is not stuck in the Keynesian economics model.
A president who understands the danger of uncertainty in the economy.
A president who already contrast this with the current president.
President Romney will already have a roadmap to a balanced budget.
They will already have a roadmap to paying down the debt.
That's what they want.
Trillions of dollars.
Trillions of dollars is where we are.
Obama looking through his Keynesian glasses.
The way that he can fix the economy is by putting on the Keynesian glasses.
These ideas are tired.
They are old.
They do not work.
They never have worked.
We have just tried one of the largest Keynesian experiments ever.
And ladies and gentlemen, you know, and I know it has failed in a magnificently grand way.
Six trillion in debt.
And he's not even gotten back to zero on the job front where he started.
He bailed out Wall Street.
And as someone said, he left Main Street holding the bag.
Now, the housing market we have not even started to talk about.
So this had to happen.
Whenever you have a utopian socialist and their policies, they are toxic to a nation.
But time and truth become enemies to a character like this.
So I want to go back to this Newsweek story that I mentioned at the top of the show.
Obama's got to go.
Now, this is the shocking thing.
Obama's got to go.
As I said, I have bought a copy of Newsweek for the first time in ages.
Perhaps you will too.
Maybe they'll learn something.
They like a profit as much as the next guy.
So the writer, Neil Ferguson, has written this piece, and he goes back to something I was talking about a few minutes ago.
He talked about Obama's promises.
And these are the promises that Obama ran on.
This is exposed to Newsweek.
I mean, that's the shocking part.
I mean, very few people read Newsweek.
That may be different this week because I bought a copy already.
But he goes back and he quotes Obama's inaugural address where he says that Obama promised not only to create jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth.
He promised to build roads, bridges, the electric grids, and digital lines that feed our commerce and bondist together.
He promised to restore science to its rightful place.
I could do three hours on that one alone, ladies and gentlemen, because they have no interest in restoring science, unless it serves a political purpose.
Always remember that.
Restore science to its rightful place, wield technology wonders to raise health care's quality.
Something we were doing better than anybody in the world prior to his inaugural.
He promised to transform the schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of the new age.
And what Mr. Ferguson is saying in Newsweek is that he failed to meet every single one of those pledges.
He points out that earlier this year, Obama was asked in an unguarded moment how the economy was doing, and he said, oh, it's doing fine.
Doing fine.
Now, I quote from Newsweek.
Welcome to Obama's America.
Nearly half the population is not represented on a taxable return, almost exactly the same proportion that lives in a household where at least one member receives some type of government benefit.
We are becoming the 50-50 nation, half of us paying taxes, the other half receiving benefits.
The article goes on.
It says the president's poor performance cannot be blamed on him.
That's what his supporters say.
They want to finger his predecessor.
They want to finger the economists who advised him, or Wall Street, or Europe, or anything other than the man's performance itself.
Larry Summers, who would advise the president, said to the others, to Peter Orzog and others, he says, don't march in and say things to the president that are strong.
He said, and I quote from the Newsweek article, he said, you can't just march in and make an argument and then have President Obama make a decision because Summers told Orzog, because he doesn't know what he's deciding.
And Ferguson goes on and he says that he had heard similar things off the record by key participants in the president's interminable seminar on Afghan policy.
And you hear these things again and again and again.
He goes on, he says, ironically, the core Obamacare concept of the individual mandate, that is where you're forced to buy health insurance or pay a fine.
He reminds us that this is something, the thing that cost him the 2010 election, the thing that is center stage this time, that this is something Obama opposed when he was vying against Hillary Clinton for the Democrat nomination.
They even wish they could call it Pelosi Care instead of Obamacare.
He then sets up the commission.
Ferguson goes into this.
This was the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility in the Forum.
That's always the thing presidents do when they don't want responsibility for something.
They set up a commission.
The commission does a study.
They make recommendations.
And the president says, look, I'm just doing what the commission said.
In this case, the guy didn't even do what the commission said.
They had $3 trillion in cuts, $1 trillion in added revenues.
He had no interest in it.
He had no interest in it.
So we've got a financial train wreck.
Newsweek admits this.
It's the cover story.
That's why it's newsworthy.
He finishes the story this way.
I cannot put it any better.
He says, America under this president is a superpower in retreat, if not retirement.
Small wonder 46% of Americans and 63% of Chinese believe that China has already replaced the U.S. as the world's leading superpower and eventually will.
Now, that's a true statement, my dear friends.
That's a terrible thing for all of humanity.
It's a terrible thing.
He goes on, he says it is a sign of just how completely Barack Obama has lost his narrative since getting elected, that the best case he has yet to make for re-election is that Mitt Romney should not be president.
He quotes the famous speech that still haunts this president, that you didn't build that speech.
Obama listed what he considers the greatest achievements of the government, the internet, the GI Bill, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Hoover Dam, the Apollo Moon landing.
He even suggests that government created the middle class, and Ferguson points out that this is a bizarre claim.
But he did not mention anything that this administration has done.
So now he's going head-to-head with someone who he detests, someone who is interested more in content than reform.
Newsweek points this out.
The guy Romney is interested less in rhetoric than Obama.
And of course, you've got the Ryan factor in there, someone who Obama has not a lot of patience for.
If you remember, let me take you back to the George Washington University talk last one, it was April, when he lectured Ryan.
He sat him in the front row.
You could see right then, that was the speech where Obama alluded to the fact that the money you earn is not yours.
In fact, that all the money in the United States belongs to the government, and they just decide how much you get to keep.
So we had a transparent presidency promised.
That didn't happen.
You had a stimulus that failed.
He was going to close Gitmo.
That didn't happen.
You've got a guy who promotes class warfare, divides the country.
He was going to get us out of Iraq.
Yet he's gotten us into other things.
He has gone after states that tried to enforce their own immigration laws when he has refused to discharge his own duty in the matter.
Now, if you sit back and think about this, and I said earlier, it's the economy stupid, and it very much is, there's another thing at play here that is a little more subtle and doesn't affect you on a daily basis in the same way the economy does.
And of course, what I'm talking about is liberty.
The biggest issue on the ballot this time just may, just might be liberty.
More important than jobs, more important than Iran.
The economy won't take place without liberty anyhow.
What protects the liberty?
Well, the Constitution of the United States protects the liberty.
Today's liberals, in essence, the Democrat Party, has an unspoken declared war on the Constitution.
You see it in their words.
You see it in their deeds.
They have not, since this administration has been in, they do not respect the separation of powers.
They do not respect the balances that are ingrained in our funding, founding fundamental documents.
So when you've got radical leftists who ignore the Constitution, ignore the rule of law, who think nothing of creating legislation merely by decree and doing so outside the prescribed written authority.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's the economy stupid for sure.
But when Obama says that we're going to choose between two different visions, please listen to him.
Please listen very closely.
I've got to take a quick break, ladies.
Jemmy Scoot Stugger Bansky filling in for Rush Limbaugh right there.
So it's almost every place you turn, you see the same thing.
The Boston Herald has another story similar to the Newsweek story.
I mean, you're wondering if they're all coming out now so that they can write the hit pieces on Romney next month.
But I don't think that they want to keep their wagons hitched to Obama.
You've got Howie Carr, the wonderful writer in the Boston Herald.
He goes through and he lists.
He lists all of the failures of Obama in yesterday's Sunday's Boston Herald.
That's in addition to the Newsweek.
And he points out about rising gas prices.
He talks about Obama's tone deafness, story after story.
You're going to start seeing them.
Then you've got Mark Halperin.
He goes on the Today show and he says, look, the media is doing whatever the Obama campaign wants them to do.
You and I have watched how true that is in many quarters, but can you imagine the temper tantrums today inside the White House and in Axelrod's office about the Newsweek cover?
You know, Obama last week described Romney as looking unhinged.
Well, how hinged do you think Obama and Axelrod are looking these days?
They don't look very hinged to me, my friends.
All right, let's go to the phones.
John in La Habra, California.
Welcome to the show.
It's Douglas Zhabanski filling in for Rush.
How are you today, sir?
I'm good.
How are you, Doug?
Excellent.
I'd just like to say that I think the likability debate is one we want, you know, and one that will keep the Obama campaign on the defensive.
The president isn't truly likable.
You know, it's a fallacy enabled by the media.
Are you suggesting, John, are you suggesting that all he is is a really dazzlingly good orator?
Well, I think he's a good reader.
I don't think he's a great orator.
To me, an orator is someone who can speak off the cuff well and contemporaneously.
And I don't believe he's all that good at that.
I was joking anyway with the question.
Oh, I'm sorry.
That's all right.
I think the comeback team, you know, they can have people from myths past introduce the country to the man and the values behind the successful executive.
And there are plenty of good personal stories of him and his service to others over the years.
And Ryan can introduce himself and his family.
If he's not a likable politician, then who is?
When's the last time he ever went negative on anybody?
He beats people at the policy game.
What do you think about these people, John, who are comparing Romney to McCain, and they're saying, well, his choice of Ryan is a bit like Sarah Palin.
I don't see any similarity of Romney to McCain in the slightest.
No, no, not at all.
And I just think, you know, his tenure at Bain Capital and his private sector experience, I think that the country needs an executive to come in and, you know, like an efficiency expert to come into a company and see what works and keep that and streamline it and get rid of what doesn't work.
As you watched, John, as you watched the Republican debates taking place, was Romney always your choice or were there others who you preferred?
No, you know, I'm a pretty far-right conservative, really.
You know, I have a lot of libertarian leanings, you know, small L libertarian.
And I felt that, you know, initially that there's some people maybe a little more who've had more of a history of being conservative all along, farther conservative.
But, you know, there's a very stark contrast here.
We've got one choice between two people, and it couldn't be any different.
Right.
But my question was, was Romney was gathering Romney was not your guy during the debate time, yeah?
No, but you know, I didn't, none of the guys that I would necessarily have wanted were there, and so I've never been anti-Romney, but I think the Ryan pick certainly.
So does the Romney nomination meet the Buckley standard of the most conservative candidate who is electable?
Oh, well, he's definitely our only choice.
And, you know, the more they've talked and the more the campaign goes on, the more I believe that he may be the right man at the right time.
Exactly.
I think he has the potential to be a dazzlingly great president.
Look, the man has led his life.
His life.
I'm not talking about his politics.
His life as a conservative.
Look at how he's led his life.
And a dazzling success.
There's nothing like John McCain to be compared.
And I do not feel that the Ryan addition is the act of desperation, as I've heard some people opine.
He didn't need an act of desperation.
I thought it was an act of bravery, actually.
Yeah, there I go.
Being a cheerleader again.
Look, it's election time, and you go into battle with the army you've got, as I think Rumsfeld said.
And this is the army.
I'm not disappointed.
All right, John, anything else?
Yeah, just, you know, the last thing is that I'm sure there's scores or hundreds of thousands of people that will come out of Romney and Ryan's past to vouch for them and tell stories about how they interacted in their lives and helped them and their service and their achievement.
Where are those people in the president's life?
If they're not forward by now, then who are they going to bring forward now?
And I think that's very telling that we just still don't really know enough about the president's past.
And so that's why I think it's a good debate for us to have.
But we should be on the offense with it.
So you, for one, do not think that the entire future of the Republic is dependent upon seeing Romney's tax return?
On seeing Romney what?
On seeing Romney's tax return.
You know, if IRS hasn't found a problem with him, then it certainly must be legal.
Thank you, John.
You put your finger right on it.
The accusation is not made that there's something illegal here, but the insinuation is meant to linger in the air.
I watched Ed Gillespie defending this on television with Chris Wallace over the weekend, and Wallace asks the question, and he throws in all the words, shelters and Switzerland and Cayman Islands.
And I would have jumped all over him and said, just wait a minute.
Is your suggestion that there's something amiss here?
Is your suggestion?
And then they go out and they say, well, Romney's father gave 11 years of tax returns.
I wanted to know how thick the tax code was then.
I think it's 53,000 pages now.
Maybe it was a little less than that at that time.
All right, John.
Thanks for calling the efficiency and his intelligence that he's been able to make his way through that labyrinth of our tax code and be successful.
And to say that he shouldn't take advantage of that, I think, is foolish.
We want someone who knows how to do the best with the situation they're given.
I'm sure that he takes as much advantage of the tax code as Mr. Baggy Suits Buffett and all the rest of them do.
Thank you so much, John, for calling the Russian Lamore Show.
It's Douger Bansky filling in for Rush.
Take a short break.
We'll be right back.
You know, one of the saddest things, one of the saddest things is that when this administration came in, they were full of potential.
They had been given the green light to do almost just about anything that they wanted to do.
They had both houses of the legislature.
If you had an experienced leader, even one who knew how to execute his own vision, you had the public support.
You had the enthusiasm of being a transformational president.
You had both houses of legislature.
You could achieve just about anything.
That's the great sadness of what has happened or not happened under this administration.
There was nothing the Republicans could have done to stop you.
The only thing this administration accomplished was spending money at the federal level beyond any precedents that existed before.
They enacted that, they wasted the political capital, as it is said, in the health care bill, which was a colossal mistake.
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