OBAMA: There are 153 structurally deficient bridges that need to be repaired. Four of them are near here on or around the Beltline. Why would we wait to act until another bridge falls? (applause)
RUSH: When did the last one fall? What was the first stimulus for? What was the first trillion dollars for to fix all these bridges, 153 structurally deficient bridges. He's admitting that during his reign, he hasn't done anything about any of these deficient bridges. You've got this little bill he's waving around. He hasn't filed a bill. There is no jobs bill of Obama's that has been filed in Congress. Louie Gohmert filed his own two-page job bill, and it's called the American Jobs Act. They stole little Barry's title, stole his name, stole the name of his bill. Little Barry's out there waving this thing around as though there are millions of jobs in that 155-page thing he's waving around. And Gallup, I just saw this, Gallup's got a poll result apparently out there that a majority of Americans want the jobs bill passed. Sorry, majority of Americans, it isn't gonna be passed. There's no intention for this thing to pass in all or in part, there's no way.
How many Democrat senators are up for reelection in 2012? That's the main reason it's not gonna be passed. Well, it's over with 20. There are a lot of Democrat senators up for reelection in 2012. There's no way this jobs bill is even gonna get a vote in the Senate. There's no way Dingy Harry is gonna subject his people, not after what happened in New York 9, not after what happened in New Jersey and what happened in Virginia and Scott Brown's election in Massachusetts.
RUSH: So what we have here: Here we have a guy who said that we're gonna get rid of politics as usual, gonna be unified -- all of the utopian stuff. And what do we get? Nothing but a continuing of the usual politics of fear, crisis, and panic. So now Obama says there are 153 bridges out there on the verge of collapse. Once again, grab audio sound bite number seven. Listen to this one more time, folks.
OBAMA: There are 153 structurally deficient bridges that need to be repaired. Four of them are near here on or around the Beltline. Why would we wait to act until another bridge falls? (applause)
RUSH: People are cheering this! Why would we have to wait for another bridge to fall? The question is: Why didn't you fix these bridges with the first trillion dollars that you spent? But more importantly than that -- more importantly than that -- if there are bridges about to fall down, shouldn't the Secretary of Transportation shut them down? If there are 153 bridges...? Did he say here on the verge of collapse? No. Hundred fifty-three "structurally deficient bridges" need to be repaired. Where? We need to be told where these 153 bridges are, because if he doesn't tell us, then the regime -- Obama -- is holding drivers hostage. He's letting us drive over 153 bridges that could apparently fail and people could plummet to their deaths at any moment.
Name the bridges! You remember how they demanded specifics from Bush and Tom Ridge on terror threats 'cause they accused those two guys of politicizing terror threats? Well, here. The Bamster says he knows of 153 bridges that could fall down at any moment, and four of them are "near the Beltline in North Carolina," four of them. name 'em so that people can avoid them. It is his job to shut them down, not hold their repairs hostage to passing his little tax bill. Do you understand? If he's serious, 153 bridges are structurally deficient, and rather than fix 'em, he's holding the repair hostage and endangering the lives of people that drive on these bridges just so he can get his nonexistent bill passed?
RUSH: How do we think we can fix 153 bridges Obama says are at risk when after ten years we still haven't rebuilt the World Trade Center?
Below that is his comments from today.
RUSH: Obama, I'm told, ladies and gentlemen, is taking his American jobs bill to the Brent Spence Bridge on the Ohio-Kentucky border, some bridge that is not falling down, a bridge that is already getting federal funds, so why was it chosen? Well, it was chosen to be a slap in the face to John Boehner and Mitch McConnell who are from Ohio and Kentucky respectively. But, see, this is Obama's idea of civility. This is how he thinks that you get bipartisan support. He's not trying to get bipartisan support. He's taunting.
Now, if I were Boehner and McConnell, and I know this isn't gonna happen, because we got a sound bite here from Boehner, how he didn't want the president to fail, gonna work with him, and we got a similar thing from Eric Cantor, they want to work with the president, they want to join everybody here in having a bunch of success. Do you remember Ronaldus Magnus at the Jimmy Carter debate where he said, "I paid for this microphone"? When Obama pulls this latest Chicago stunt at the Brent Spence Bridge that spans Kentucky and Ohio, Boehner... it will never happen. What am I talking about? Boehner and McConnell, it would be fun if they were both there, stand up and say, "We paid to fix this bridge. We gave you $800 billion to fix this bridge back in 2009. You asked us for money to repair it three years ago, we gave you the money; where's the fix? And where's the money? If you didn't intend to fix the bridge then, why should we believe you're gonna fix the bridge now? In fact, we know you're not here to fix the bridge." It's already getting federal money anyway.
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RUSH: Some conflicting news here. This is Bloomberg, a Bloomberg national poll: "More Americans blame Republicans for the political fighting in Washington," according to a new Bloomberg national poll. "Forty-five percent of those surveyed said they blame Republicans in Congress for what's gone wrong in Washington; 20% blamed Obama; 19% blamed congressional Democrats, in the poll that was released yesterday." You know, speaking of which, the Washington Democrats, House and Senate quarterback it's been a long time since I have seen them this quiet. You know, Pelosi, the bird brain of Alcatraz, she's had a couple of things to say, but where's Dingy Harry?
You know, Chuck-U Schumer is out there. Wait 'til you hear this. Chuck-U Schumer is, apparently, the don of the super committee, and he's out there saying if there aren't any new revenues here, if there aren't any tax increases then there's nothing happening here at this super committee. But more importantly here, I think this explains why we're getting the words we're getting out of Boehner and Cantor. I think in the Washington establishment, they believe conventional wisdom. They believe polls, they believe this stuff. So Bloomberg's got a poll out there that says voters blame the Republicans more for Washington's political fighting. Okay, fine and dandy. But, sorry, folks, I can't just leave it there.
My next story, AP, another poll: "President Obama's disapproval rating has soared to 54% in Virginia, a battleground state that the Democrat took from the GOP to win the White House in 2008 and will likely need to carry next year to win reelection, and most troubling," this the pull quote from this story, "for Obama is his poor performance among independents. Sixty-three percent of unaligned voters, independents, disapproved of the way Obama's handling his duties. Only 29% approve. Obama's approval number in Gallup is 39%," yet we get a Bloomberg poll that says voters blame the Republicans more for Washington's political infighting? Let me ask you a very important question.
Explain to me why, in election after election for three years, Republicans are winning in near landslides. Chris Christie, Bob McConnell, Scott Brown. (He eked that one out, but it doesn't matter.) The midterm elections in Washington, November 2010; Bob Turner in New York, New York 9 this past Tuesday. I need this explained to me. How can you have a poll that says most people blame Republicans for the infighting in Washington, which our guys obviously have read and believe, and yet Republicans win election after election after election, and that is the only poll that matters, is the one that takes places on Election Day. I really wish our leaders in Washington would just stop paying attention to this poll data crap.
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