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RUSH: Last night in Iowa at a town hall event, more from President Obama.
OBAMA: We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, got the economy movin' again, created two million private sector jobs over the last 17 months, but over the last six months we've had a run of bad luck, some things that we could not control. The question is: How do we manage these challenging times and do the right things when it comes to those things that we can control? See, the problem we have is not with our country.
RUSH: (groans)
OBAMA: The problem is that our politics is broken.
RUSH: Boring.
OBAMA: The problem is -- is that we've got the kind of partisan brinkmanship that is willing to put party ahead of country.
RUSH: Yeah, you.
OBAMA: That's more interested in seeing their political opponents lose than seein' the country win.
RUSH: The two go hand in hand: You losing equals the country winning. But now it's a run of bad luck. Aw. Poor guy! Hope and change has transmogrified -- or transmogrified, transmogrified, trans -- it trans to something out there into bad luck. Poor old Obama and his bad luck. Let's catalog, folks, this run of bad luck that Obama had. The Democrats controlled Congress for four years. Obama got his $800 billion not-so-shovel-ready stimulus bill, he jammed job killing Obamacare down our throats. He got the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform bill signed into law. His EPA has been on a regulation-crazed rampage. He's got 99% fawning media coverage. Ben Bernanke prints trillions of dollars that Obama says is totally awesome. The media has ignored the Fast and Furious scandal. Business media gets kickbacks from Obama's stash every time they use the word "unexpected" in a news story -- and the only color available to paint Obama's current campaign bus was mortuary black! That's his bad luck. He made his bad luck. All of that is Disaster 101. "Yeah, we had a run of bad luck." So our man-child president and his arrested development state of mind confuses making excuses and laying blame on others with leadership. Then he said, "But don't worry, don't worry..." (laughing) By the way, it's no wonder Jon Huntsman liked working for this guy. Get this next bite.
OBAMA: Moving forward my basic attitude is: We know what to do. I'll be putting forward when they come back in September a very specific plan t'boost the economy, t'create jobs, and t'control our deficit -- and my attitude is, get it done.
RUSH: Okay, so I'll have a plan in September. It's about the same time Huntsman said he'll have his economic plan. Now, how many plans has Obama had? "I'll be putting forward very specific plan to boost the economy, to create jobs, to..." Well, what was the $800 billion stimulus? We know what it was. That was a plan. But what was it? It was actually just a money laundering scheme. Money from his stash went to state and federal government workers who pay dues that go back to Democrat Party. Let's see. He had a plan, Obamacare, that was supposed to lower premiums, lower costs, expand coverage, reduce deficit. Dodd-Frank financial regulatory bill. He's done all these things; every damned one of them has been an abject failure. Unemployment extension. What's left, folks? What's left? Loan modifications, mortgage modification, he's done all kinds of stuff!
He's acting like he hadn't even been inaugurated yet.
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RUSH: You know, this whole business of "we reversed the recession" until bad luck hit, he shoulda started that story with "Once upon a time..." Sounds like a bedtime story to his two daughters. "Once upon a time there was this great president, an historic president -- a man loved, worshiped, and idolized by nearly everyone -- and then a rash of bad luck hit!" He said three things. Obama said three things set back the economy: The Arab spring uprisings, the tsunami in Japan, and the European debt crisis. Now, he took credit for the Arab spring. Do you remember Tahrir Square, which is not a square, in Egypt? When that uprising started, Obama and the regime gang took to the television cameras and tried to make it look like the people in Egypt were replicating his 2008 campaign.
They tried to make it look like Obama was responsible for the Arab spring. It was a wonderful thing -- and we had our own conservative intelligentsia, our own media, "Yes siree, Bob! It's democracy in full flower," when all it was was the Muslim Brotherhood taking over in Egypt. But tell me, how did the Arab spring uprisings, a tsunami in Japan, and the European debt crisis -- how did those events -- contribute to the bankruptcy of the solar panel company in Massachusetts? Wait 'til you hear about this.
All kinds of green energy companies have gone kaput. How did the Arab spring uprisings, the tsunami in Japan, and the European debt crisis contribute to the pathetic sale of the Chevy Volt, and how did they contribute to the horrible economy before any of these occurred? He wants to run on these excuses. If the so-called Arab spring is destroying the American economy, why did Obama try to take credit for it? Is that why Obama hasn't demanded that murderous thug in Syria step down and is looking away from the daily slaughter? It's simply Obama's brilliant plan preventing America from a triple-dip recession? Is he gonna blame that on Bashar Assad?
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