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Feb. 12, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 12, 2015, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, sir, Rebob greetings, my friends, and welcome.
It's always great to have you here.
It's always great to be here.
It's a well, it's a great opportunity every day.
It's a delight.
And it really is great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, the Limbo Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, the telephone number if you want to be on the program.
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Man, I'm you know, every day.
Now it's ISIS.
You know, now now that the regime has got us talking about ISIS.
Yesterday it was something else.
The other day was the growing economy.
I mean, it just it I it's all smoke and mirrors.
There is no strategy to defeat ISIS.
There's no def we I mean, I heard what Obama said.
He doesn't think they're anything.
He doesn't think they're a thing.
They're they're just a bunch of random uh criminals running around like in his hometown of Chicago.
But despite that, Obama's use of uh military force request.
Have you seen it?
It actually reads like a request not to use military force.
In fact, I'm kind of surprised that Obama didn't just say he was gonna do a hashtag campaign against ISIS and leave it at that.
Really, it's it's I don't know, to me it's I mean, it's not funny, but parts of this are, you know, watching the media, I mean, just glom onto it, you know, the dear leader goes in a direction every day, and the media just gloms the most important thing.
Meanwhile, over here we got Scott Walker, who all of a sudden is disqualified for the presidency because he didn't go to college.
Well, he didn't finish.
He we did he abandoned college in his senior year, I think.
And so now he didn't go to college, so he's not qualified, which is absurd.
Most of the people who've gotten this country in deep trouble have come out of college.
They have been taught how to mess things up in college.
They have been instructed in bureaucracy and sustaining bureaucracy and never solving problems and getting credit for solving problems, they never solve anything.
They came out of college.
And then back in 2012, it was contraception that led to the war on women, the question of mint Romney, and all of a sudden they're asking Scott Walker what he thinks about evolution.
It's about time the Republicans started turning the tables.
Whenever they have a chance to talk to Democrats, uh guy uh Twitter put together a uh a list, and it's very helpful list.
Some of the crazy things Democrats say that they are never asked to either defend or explain that they ought to be.
And I, ladies and gentlemen, have that list.
And I, of course, have added to it.
Uh that's coming up later on the uh on the program.
Now, now seriously, Obama says he isn't gonna use ground troops against ISIS.
Against these random whatever they are, apart from special ops.
Oh, yeah, we're gonna use special ops.
You mean like snipers?
Snipers?
Are we gonna use snipers, these inherent racist murderers in our military?
And he says it's all gonna be over in three years.
But what's the threat?
They're just a bunch of random actors that we Well, we can't stop crime in the streets of Chicago.
We can't stop crime in the streets of any city.
We do our best to stay even.
What is this three years business?
He's gonna be gone, hopefully, in two years.
So ISIS only has to hang on.
What for two years or three years?
Obama's PSAs about violence against women carry more weight than what he plans to do against ISIS.
I mean, all this violence against women stuff and abuse.
I mean, he really, you can tell he cares about that stuff, or at least he does.
He thinks it's a political opportunity for him.
But the the the stuff he says about that, he says with more force and more conviction that he's saying about ISIS.
Speaking of that, you know, I wish women would make up their minds.
I wish the feminazis have made up their minds.
Okay, so the feminist movement kicks off in the late 60s, and it's all about unleashing the women inside that have been held back whatever.
And that they're free now to go do anything they want to do.
And so here comes our evolution, and we come Fifty shades of gray, and there's bondage and stuff in it.
And women are all upset about their portrayal in Fifty Shades of Grey, which I thought was all about freedom and being who they were and what they wanted to do.
It's tough, folks.
It's tough to keep up with these people on the left.
And you know why?
You know why it's tough to keep up with liberals and progress?
Because they lie.
They have to lie in order to advance their agenda.
The problem is most people, I mean, you and I know that they lie.
Most people are not going to make just a dead certain conclusion like that.
So they accept what these people say.
They mull it over.
They consider it, they believe it, they pay no attention to whatever, but they don't zero in on the fact that pretty much all of what the left says by and out of necessity is uh is a lie.
You know, if I were Scott Walker, what I would say about college.
I mean, I he won't do this, because he's a real candidate, but I would.
Mr. Limbo, it's been learned here.
You seek the presidency, and you think you're eminently qualified, but we're looking in your past.
And we see here that you quit the University of Southeast Missouri in your second semester of your freshman year after refusing to take ballroom dance taught by a lesbian drill sergeant in the wax.
That happens to be true.
What in the world are you thinking, Mr. Limbaugh?
Why would you ignore and quit college if you had grandiose designs to become the president?
I would answer would be I left college because I didn't want to be accused of rape someday.
Now he can't say that, of course, but I mean that's the guy.
Just ram it right down there.
Well, I quit because you know I don't want to be accused of rape down the road.
It seems like any man that goes to college could randomly be accused of committing rape.
And whether the story is true or not doesn't matter.
The people who write the story goes, well, I may not have gotten it right here, but we know it happens.
So I wanted to remove myself from this culture that might have turned me into a very mean guy.
And just see what they say.
Well, we claim, you know, my cram what they believe, what they claim to be right down their throats.
Democrat Party, ladies and gentlemen, has, I'm told, chosen Philadelphia as the site of their convention in 2016.
Now, I understand the politics of this.
Pennsylvania is an important swing state.
But I also I see a lot of irony here.
I see a lot of contradictions here.
In fact, I'll go even further.
I see a lot of hypocrisy here.
Who do the Democrats think they are?
Picking Philadelphia.
Philadelphia is where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were written, debated, refined, and approved.
And especially a constitution.
What in the world are the Democrats going to the site of a creation of the Constitution for their conventions like ISIS holding a convention in Bethlehem.
It's an odd choice.
Bill Cosby's hometown to boot.
The Democrats in Philadelphia, the home of the Constitution, the thing that Obama's treating like toilet paper?
Well, let's say post-it notes.
Toilet paper.
It is.
It'd be like ISIS telling us they're going to have a you know a mid-campaign strategy session in Bethlehem.
It just wouldn't work.
So jamming unconstitutional Obamacare down our throats after wiping the southern border off the map for all intents and purposes.
After the executive branch grants de facto amnesty to millions of illegals, the Democrats head to the birthplace of federalism, federalism in our constitutional republic, Philadelphia.
And we need to create a new bell.
You know, Philadelphia, the Liberty Bell.
Put one right beside it just in time, get it ready, and ring it every day.
The Democrats are in town called the Tyranny Bell.
To make the Democrats feel welcome.
I know you people of Philadelphia can do this.
That's a that's a better fit for the Democrats.
Philadelphia politics, 21st century.
Fox News poll.
73% say Obama does not have a clear strategy to defeat ISIS.
It ought to be 100% because he doesn't.
He doesn't have a strategy to defeat ISIS.
All of this is smoke and mirrors.
Why is he asking for authority anyway?
He never asks for congressional authority for boots on the ground wherever he wants to go, anywhere else.
Why now?
Because he wants to rope Congress in on this with whatever happens.
Fox News poll released uh yesterday finds voters doubt.
The White House has a clear strategy for dealing with ISIS, and a majority calls its emphasis on diplomacy a half-hearted effort to deal with the problem.
73% of voters say the White House does not have a clear strategy for defeating ISIS, which is up from uh 64% who felt that way less than five months ago.
You know, I see a poll like this, and I've I frankly I'm shocked.
And in a way, part of me is surprised that Fox could find enough people who know what ISIS is.
Well, no, that's not it.
They can find enough people who know enough to be able to answer a question about Obama's strategy regarding ISIS.
I mean, I'm I hope it's true.
I wish it were 100%.
You don't see 73% of the population agree on much of anything.
But in this case, how can they not?
It was uh I think 2012 elections.
Obama used to get his highest approval ratings for his handling of terrorism and his foreign policy in general.
I'm not kidding.
Three years ago.
That's that what do you mean?
Why why what now?
Why is Obama going after ISIS now?
Well, one thing, um, ISIS continues to kill Americans.
And it turns out that the regime had a rescue plan ready to go and delayed it a month.
Uh the reason escapes me.
I had to do a cram course on this right for the program.
I've got it here in the stack, but I don't recall right off the top of my head why they delayed it, but the delay led to the death of uh Caleb Mueller.
Uh and I think I don't know that that's a factor.
Uh it it whatever it is, it's not real.
There is no strategy to defeat them, so the real reason he's doing it is obscured.
It's obviously rooted in uh in in PR and polling data focus groups and that kind of thing.
But there could it's it also uses it as a distraction.
You know, the there's a there's another story.
Some um some economist has written, just he's had it.
He said, this this talk about a roaring economy, none of it's true.
There isn't any economic recovery, and there hasn't been since Obama has been in office.
There is literally no economic recovery.
And he goes through the numbers just like we have on this program.
The unemployed and how much ticking up, the number of people on food stamps.
By the way, the USDA is bragging about how many Americans are on food stamps at the UN.
Do you realize it wasn't that long ago?
It was 28 million Americans on food stamps, now it's close to 50 million Americans.
They're bragging about it at the UN.
As a it's a it's a it's a gold star moment for them to show how much they care.
And how much help they're providing.
You know, Democrats define compassion by how many people are on the federal dole.
All right, take a break, come back.
Uh Obama's ISIS speech.
Got some sound bites, and it's really all about what he's not going to do to defeat these quote unquote folks.
What is this anyway?
Folks' business.
Just a bunch of random folks.
ISIS?
Random for what you think I you think Obama uses that word when he's talking to people in the in the White House's family and his Oh, by the way, welcome back, Dawn.
I didn't know you were still here.
I was expecting to see Wendy in there.
Wow.
Okay, well, anyway, uh a brief time out here, my friends, and we'll be back.
We'll roll on, we'll continue right after this.
Your phone calls obviously part of the mix.
Sit tight, back before you know it.
Yeah, here it is.
It's a daily beast story, which is it's a left-wing website.
White House stalled ISIS rescue, Foley Sutlov and Mueller died.
The U.S. did not think British intelligence was good enough to act on, and so waited a month to launch a mission to rescue ISIS hostages.
And by then it was too late.
U.S. government obtained intelligence of the possible location of American captives held by ISIS in Syria last year.
But regime officials waited nearly a month to launch the rescue mission because of concerns.
The intelligence was not conclusive, and some of it had come from a foreign service.
Britain can't trust them, you know.
British officials, while private security contractors said they were frustrated by the regime's hesitance to give a go-ahead for a rescue attempt, which was eventually carried out anyway on July 4th last year, by which time the hostages have been moved.
Then in August of 2014, ISIS began beheading its American and British prisoners in a series of grisly internet.
And here we go to the audio sound bites.
This is yesterday afternoon in the White House, President Obama speaking about his request to Congress for authorization to use military force against the folks that randomly behead people and kill them in the Middle East.
The resolution we've submitted today does not call for the deployment of U.S. ground combat forces.
It is not the authorization of another ground war.
Like Afghanistan or Iraq.
I'm convinced that the United States should not get dragged back into another prolonged ground war.
I do not believe America's interests are served by endless war or by remaining on a perpetual war footing.
Right.
It is not a timetable.
It is not announcing that the mission is completed at any given period.
You know, it's almost it's amazing.
Like almost every Obama speech about war.
It's always all about what he's not willing to do while we go out and do it.
It's the limbaugh theorem.
We are gonna have a ground war.
How else are we gonna do this?
I don't know what you call it.
It's the authorization for the use of force, but it's not.
The resolution we submitted today does not call for the deployment of U.S. ground combat forces, but it will.
It's not the authorization of another ground war like Afghanistan or Iraq.
Well, then what are we doing?
Well, we are we I this is also.
It really is infantile.
And then the I'm convinced the U.S. should not get dragged back into another prolonged ground war, and then he authorizes three years.
That's prolonged to a lot of people.
Now a lot of people think if you really wanted to, you can wipe out ISIS inside of two months.
We are the United States of America for Christ.
We can project power unlike any nation on Earth.
Well, I don't know if the people are right.
There are people saying we could do this in two months.
Wipe them out.
We know where they are, find out where they are, we could do it.
We're just unwilling to project the power.
We're unwilling to use the uh the force that we have.
Politically correct reasons.
So Obama goes out and makes a speech, and it really is an insult to everybody's intelligence.
He's gonna go do ABC and D while giving a speech telling us what he's not gonna do.
And it's gonna be pretty much what is going to happen.
But does even if you disagree with that, here we have the president requesting from Congress an authorization to use force, and Obama goes on television to make a speech about it and talks about what it isn't.
And what we shouldn't do, and what we're not gonna do.
So don't get the wrong idea, he wants to say to us.
Yeah, I'm asking Congress for permission to go kick butt, but don't think that's what we're doing.
Now the next soundbite, which will come up after the break here at the bottom of the hour.
We just heard all the stuff that he's not going to do.
And in the next soundbite, you will hear how he twists himself into pretzels not to identify our enemy as Islamic.
Oh no, no way, no how that isn't going to happen.
If you can't even do that, then it's a tantamount admission there isn't a strategy to deal with this.
But we had the soundbite earlier this week where he has indeed referred to them as Islamists, but that's a couple of years ago.
Be right back, folks.
And welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
Here at the distinguished and prestigious Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Yesterday afternoon in White House, President Obama speaking about asking Congress for authorization to use military force against the folks that are randomly beheading people in the Middle East.
It's going to take time to dislodge these terrorists, especially from urban areas.
But our coalition is on the offensive.
ISIL is on the defensive, and ISIL is going to lose.
Its barbaric murders of so many people, including American hostages, are a desperate and revolting attempt to strike fear in the hearts of people.
It can never possibly win over by its ideas or its ideology, because it offers nothing but misery and death and destruction.
And with vile groups like this, there is only one option.
With our allies and partners, we are going to degrade and ultimately destroy this terrorist group.
Whoa!
Oi, they've moved up from folks.
Now they're a terrorist group.
That's progress.
They didn't say Islamist.
It didn't say Muslim, didn't say Islamic, but he said they are a terror group.
That's a step up because prior to that speech, they were just a bunch of criminals.
Running around randomly attacking people in France.
And wherever.
But the question how are we going to do all this with our allies and partners?
We're going to degrade and destroy the group, but we're not going to deploy ground forces.
We are not going to get dragged back into another prolonged ground war.
America's interests are not served by that.
Well, uh what do you what are we going to call this if that's not what this is?
So it's it's the president wanting things both ways.
He's he wants to do something against the group, but he wants his progressive buddies to not think that we're going back to war.
We have been at war ever since this guy took office.
Big anti-war president, big anti-club gitmo.
Didn't like what happened at Abu Ghrab.
Gets elected on the premise he's going to end war.
Gets elected on the premise of going to unify everybody.
Gets elected on the premise that there isn't going to be any war because all the countries in the world that hate us are going to love us because he's the president.
And countries around the world are going to realize we're not an enemy anymore.
We have uh somebody that they can love and like and appreciate and understand, somebody unlike we've ever had as president.
So there's going to be any need for war.
We're going to move on to serious things like climate change.
We're going to move on to solving real, real, real problems.
Like gay marriage, free pot, whatever, you know, the things that this bigoted country has denied its citizens for years.
And then we're going to we're going to make sure that the oppressed of the world get to come to the United States any time they want.
May take a while for that to happen, but that's what we're going to do.
People are going to love us after I get through.
They're going to love us in the process.
And yet here we've been at war, and we have ramped up.
Outside of Iraq, we have ramped up.
Speaking, speaking Of war and uh related story, NBC News.
Ah, I take it back.
NBC is not a news organization, as I pointed out yesterday, but regarded they're under fire from Iraq war veterans.
They are really under fire.
It happened over on uh MSNBC on Scarborough's show in the morning, which I just saw has an audience of 350,000.
It's near the bottom of the list of rated programs on cable news networks.
And yet, to listen to the left talk about it, it's the only thing that's happening in the morning.
It's where you gotta be if you want your finger to the pulse.
If you want to know what's going on, you want to know what to think about what's going on, you've got to be watching Morning Joe, but only 350,000 people are.
And don't give me this business, well, they're streaming it on their iPhones and iPads the next day.
No, they're not.
It's not an appointment show.
Anyway, some some wacko typical left-wing so-called journalist reporter on MSNBC named Amon Moyhelden, just lit into Chris Kyle, picked up the meme that has evolved on the left ever since American snipers started cleaning up at the box office.
And by cleaning up, I mean setting records, and the American people were showing up to the theater from in many cases, first time in years for people, and they were sitting there totally transfixed at the end of the movie, and then standing and applauding.
A genuine American hero.
And so the left sees this, they see this unabashed, unstoppable force of love and power and support, and they can't stand it.
Why, if the U.S. military being cheered, it's a sniper being cheered.
So immediately they create a narrative that Chris Kyle was a bigot and a racist and a murderer in a place where there was a war going on, declared hostilities.
You cannot have murder in a war.
Declared hostilities.
I mean, you're not not of combatants.
Not unless the left gets hold of it.
And so in the process, this reporter, Middle East reporter, Eamon Moheldon, which is one of many, by the way, that picked up this team, started ragging out Chris Kyle as a murderer, racist, bigot, thug, killer, no heart, no compassion, and goes on to point out how this is typical of what the U.S. military is and what it's become.
And Iraq war veterans are outraged.
More than 20 retired generals and admirals have written a letter to Comcast, which owns NBC.
This particular interview on Morning Joe happened on January 29th.
Now, this reporter said some of what people have described as Kyle's racist tendencies towards Iraqis and Muslims.
When he was going on some of these, you know, killing sprees in Iraq on assignment.
Now to be fair about it, Scarborough was taken aback by this and clearly was uncomfortable by it.
Anyway, the Washington Examiner got hold of the letter.
It was sent out Tuesday.
It demands an on-air apology from this Middle East reporter at MSNBC.
But it doesn't matter whether they apologize or not, which they probably will not, just the fact that it happened, the military has playing a prominent role in the exposing of NBC news for what it is and isn't.
And this is just the latest example and illustration.
Okay, back to the audio.
Sounds right, somebody's here with Obama and his request for the use of force that wasn't.
Well, no, it is a request of use of force.
But the speech accompanying it spelled out what we're not going to do for three years.
Well, we're not going to do anything.
We're not going to do ground troops.
There won't be boots on the ground.
We're not going to really.
We're not going to do anything that make it look like a war.
We're warred out.
The American people don't want any more war.
We've been prolonged ground war too many times.
Yet that's what we're going to do.
So after this is yesterday afternoon, CNN, after Obama's speech, a reporter, Jim Acosta was on with Wolf Blitzer, and this is one of these instant instances when a reporter blurts out the truth right after a speech, before the spin and the narrative and the template have been said.
This guy had his real emotional reaction to what Obama had said before he had time to figure out what the real liberal media response is going to be, and this is what he said.
Wolf, I think more notable than anything was the president's uh I guess acknowledgement to these nervous Democrats at the very end of his comment saying that this new authorization would not bring about what he called endless war.
Uh that is uh almost off of uh liberal bumper stickers uh that uh maybe driving around uh you know in support of the Obama campaigns of 08 and and 2012.
Uh-oh, uh Obama's speech like a liberal bumper sticker from 2008, meaning a pro-Obama bumper sticker, the kind of stuff that Obama was not gonna let happen anymore, kind of stuff Obama was gonna stop, endless war.
So here's a reporter, state control CNN acknowledging that Obama is committing endless war.
This is what happens.
Sometimes these reporters, when they haven't had time to figure out what the official liberal media reaction is, he blurted it out before he had a chance to talk it over.
And his point is well taken, liberal bump it stick bumper sticker.
Brief time out, my friends.
We'll uh start uh inserting your calls in the program when we come back.
Don't go away.
Welcome back, Rush Limboy.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
And to the phones we start in Palm Bay, Florida, this is Keith.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Great to have you with us.
Hello.
Uh I appreciate you taking my call, brush.
Uh since you've mentioned the UN in the first segment, I just can't keep I keep thinking where are the cries and the demands from the drive-by media for the uh UN Security Council resolution for this action.
Um, that's not necessarily uh that big a deal.
I'm sure you're reacting or comparing this to Bush getting a use of force authorization for Iraq.
That was that was about deposing a foreign head of state, and that was about going to war with another country.
This is just about some random folks that behead people now and then and blow up uh delis in Paris.
And so the uh the contention would be that the the UN we don't need to have a allied force or a uh bunch of allies helping us out.
We don't we don't need to go to the UN for this.
Uh not necessarily.
I don't think anybody's gonna make that point either.
Well, technically he's crossed the border of a UN member without permission or anything, bombing and killing people.
What UN member you're talking about?
Syria?
Syria, the one that sits on the human rights council.
Right.
Yeah, but everybody hates Syria right now.
Everybody hates Bajir Assad.
I I uh I just can't believe the difference, though.
I'm I I I hate when people say back Bush, but no, no, no.
Even even if there are two things here.
Um even if such a thing were required, the media's not gonna point out any hypocrisy.
The media's not gonna demand Obama go get a approval from the UN.
It's a Democrat.
They're not they're not they're not gonna that would be embarrassing.
They've got the Nobel Peace Prize.
This is this shouldn't.
And the and the second thing, they were never gonna give Bush the benefit of the doubt, no matter how he ran that war.
No had it been victorious, it was going, I mean, overwhelmingly, had it been as victorious as the first Gulf War was, it was gonna be portrayed as a as an absolute mess.
It's just the world uh that that that we live in now.
Uh but Obama himself was this is not even a war out there.
Keith, this is a police action.
Now, I I I misspoke.
Everybody doesn't hate Syria.
Uh Russia does not hate Syria.
Iran doesn't hate Syria and North Korea.
You know, hate is a very, very strong word, and I I I need to withdraw that because not everybody hates Bashar Assad.
Putin loves him.
Uh the Norks love him.
I think even the Chicoms have uh little open affection for Basher Assad and Iran, of course.
Uh Eric and Houston, you're next.
Thank you for calling, sir.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Uh thank you for taking my call, sir.
Um I just want to say that uh I believe this is all a scam of of Obama's.
He's already got a declaration of war.
He doesn't need any more.
What he's trying to do is he's trying to end the war that's already been declared.
And in my opinion, he's trying to castrate the next president that's going to come in that'll actually do something.
Um he just wants to fly around and pretend like he's doing something now.
But it's a crock.
I mean, I'm driving down the road screaming at my radio yesterday when he's making that announcement.
I I cannot believe people are that stupid that they would honestly believe this guy.
Oh, believe it.
Yeah.
It's pretty sad, isn't it?
Yeah.
Yeah.
It has been for seven years.
But now what what do you mean he's hamstringing, you said castrating.
What do you mean hamstringing the next president?
You mean committing this guy by the way.
I believe I believe uh, I mean, I I'm an American and I'm sick and tired of this guy, and and he hasn't done anything.
He he's he's got what, two thousand or three thousand troops in Iraq.
Um he's we're not doing anything to fight the terrorists.
Um we're supposedly training terrorists to fight each other, basically training them to fight us.
It's worse than that.
We he won't even admit who we're really fighting.
It's it's worse than all.
Amen.
I agree with you, but what he's doing is the next president, he they just got a resounding defeat a few months ago.
And they're, you know, they're looking to he knows that they're not going to win the next election, or at least he's he's probably assuming they're not going to, and then we're not going to be able to do that.
I don't know, wait, I don't I don't think that at all.
If that's really now serious, I I don't think the Democrats think they're gonna lose the next election.
Look at Reagan when Reagan came in.
Um the Iran Contra uh debacle that happened over there, as soon as um it became apparent that Reagan was gonna win, all of a sudden our hostages were freed, trying to make Jimmy Carter look good.
I think we have a ho ho ho ho what that did not I I had to mishear you.
The hostages were not released until Reagan was inaugurated.
When when when Reagan took office, they were released right away.
Right.
That did not make Jimmy Carter look good.
Well, yeah, you're right.
I mean but but but the timing is I'm talking as I'm talking about when when they so your point is taken.
That's right.
They did not think they were gonna lose.
But as soon as it became apparent that that they lost, the the uh No, no, wait, wait, wait, where you've you've misunderstood my point.
You you have as a premise for believing that the next president is gonna be hamstrung by what Obama's doing is they don't think they're gonna they don't think they're gonna win.
So you think Obama's trying to screw the next Republican president by saddling him with this, and I'm telling you, they do not think they're gonna lose the White House in 2016.
They think they're gonna win it in a landslide.
They do not think they're gonna lose, they think they're gonna get the Senate back.
The Democrats in 1980, two weeks before the election knew they were gonna lose it.
The polling data was there, just nobody wanted to believe it.
Election night nineteen eighty.
Carter conceded before the polls in California had even closed.
Now the media people, the pollsters had had tried to keep this race a toss-up right up until the election, but they gave up the ghost two weeks out.
They knew it was gonna be a landslide long before they acknowledged it with the polling data they released.
But no, I was just saying what you your premise that Obama's whatever he's doing here is to is to shackle somehow the next president is based on the fact they think they're gonna lose it.
I don't think they think that at all.
I don't I I uh I don't think they go into any presidential election thinking they're gonna lose it, including 2012.
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The staple story.
Staples announces that because of Obamacare, they're having to make some changes in the structure of their employees.
And Obama does not like it, and he takes out after them.
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