The Drudge Report,  The headline:

“Flashback: Carville Wanted Bush to Fail“

…but that is only half the story.

“The press never reported that Democratic strategist James Carville said he wanted President Bush to fail before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. But a feeding frenzy ensued when radio host Rush Limbaugh recently said he wanted Obama’s, policies to fail.“

“On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, just minutes before learning of the terrorist attacks on America, Democratic strategist James Carville was hoping for President Bush to fail, telling a group of Washington reporters: ‘I certainly hope he doesn’t succeed.‘  Carville was joined by Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg, who seemed encouraged by a survey he had just completed that revealed public misgivings about the newly minted president. ‘We rush into these focus groups with these doubts that people have about him, and I’m wanting them to turn against him,’ Greenberg admitted.”

Greenberg wanted to do a poll that would cause the American people to turn against Bush on the morning of 9/11.  The standard operating procedure for the Democrat Party to not do things in the best interests of the country, but rather in the best interests of their party.

Rush Limbaugh is not the Republican Party and he didn’t say what he said for the benefit of the Republican Party.  He said what he said because he loves America and our people, and want everyone to succeed.

Greenberg:

“‘We rush into these focus groups with these doubts that people have about him, and I’m wanting them to turn against him. They don’t want him to fail. I mean, they think it matters if the president of the United States fails.”

So the people in the focus groups did not want Bush to fail, but they turned around and ginned up, or were prepared to gin up a bunch of research designed to convince the American people that Bush should fail, and they did, you have to admit it.

“Minutes later, as news of the terrorist attacks reached the hotel conference room where the Democrats were having breakfast with the reporters, Carville announced:

‘Disregard everything we just said! This changes everything!’“

What did they change it for, three weeks?  What was it, three or four weeks, the Democrats,‘Bush isn’t doing anything, Bush isn’t responding.’

Three weeks and they were back on the case of Bush this and Bush that.

“The press followed Carville’s orders, never reporting his or Greenberg’s desire for Bush to fail. … That omission stands in stark contrast to the feeding frenzy that ensued when radio host Rush Limbaugh recently said he wanted President Obama to fail.“

RUSH:

“The difference between Carville and his ilk and me is that I care about what happens to my country.  I am not saying what I say for political advantage. I oppose actions, such as Obama’s socialist agenda, that hurt my country.  I deal in principles, not polls.  Carville and people like him live and breathe political exploitation. This is all a game to them. It’s not a game to me. I am concerned about the well-being and survival of our nation. When has Carville ever advocated anything that would benefit the country at the expense of his party?”

Another great example of the failing media and the failed ideology of the Left.  Just shocking, isn’t it?

I want to recognize something that I don’t think the White House seems to understand, or maybe they do.  It’s always problematic to characterize these people because you really don’t know what they know, what they understand, because they are so inwardly focused.  I understand just how much fear there is in this country among people who have seen over half of everything they had saved vanish, and there is no indication that it is going to start building again.  The whole notion that the American dream of hard work, ambition, combined with dreams can make things possible, more and more people are losing belief in that, understandably so.  Not everybody is, but a lot of people are, more than you know.  There is palpable fear.

Let’s talk about elderly citizens first.  Some of them have only their Social Security, but others have more or had more.  They had retirement accounts, various places that their portfolio was diversified.  Whenever anybody’s portfolio was, however it was diversified, half of it’s gone in six months with no end in sight, and certainly no rebound in sight.  And people are wondering what to do.  Should they take their money out of the market?  They see everybody else shorting the market.

So people are wondering should they actually pull their money out, convert it to cash and put it in a safe somewhere?  There is fear of the banks not being solvent.  More banks in Georgia were shut down late last week or over the weekend.  It’s something that happens now with a predictable frequency.  And generally people are talking, “Where is the bottom going to be?”  Nobody can tell you where the bottom is going to be.

The president of the United States is not inspiring any confidence whatsoever. All of this economic tumult is really the result of a banking crisis with no effort to fix it.  There is no plan.

Geithner doesn’t know what he’s doing. He just got three assistants that were nominated to serve with him, but he doesn’t know what he’s doing.  There’s nobody in this administration inspiring confidence that there is an end in sight to this.  The only people being inspired are those who simply believe the words of Obama because he’s Obama, the same people that voted for him, because there’s certainly nothing of substance.

Last Friday, less than 90 minutes after Air Force One landed on the way back from Columbus, Ohio, President Obama called the New York Times about the interview he gave them earlier.

One of the things that he was upset about, they’d asked him about whether he was a socialist, and apparently his handlers thought that his answer wasn’t any good, because he says, (paraphrasing) “I’ve been thinking about this socialist thing that you guys at the New York Times asked me about, and I thought you were joking, but if you were serious, I want to give you a serious answer to this.”  Clearly the accusation that he’s a socialist is bothering him, and if you call a news agency back to try to set the record straight.

The New York Times reporter says,

“So who’s watch are we talking about here, sir, when it comes to this socialism business?”

OBAMA:

By the time we got here, there already had been an enormous infusion of taxpayer money into the financial system, and the thing I constantly try to emphasize to people is that if coming in the market was doing fine, nobody would be happier than me to stay out of it.

REPORTER:

Right.

OBAMA:

You know, I have more than enough to do without having to worry about the financial system.

Now, that’s an inspiring thing to say.  I have more than enough to do without having to worry about the financial system.  This does not inspire confidence among people who listen to what this man says.  This frightens them.

The dirty little secret is, Mr. President, we had stimulated the banks.

We stimulated Wall Street, and it didn’t work.  Aren’t we about out of time now?  Don’t we have enough evidence that these political solutions don’t work?

We bailed out General Motors.  Their auditors are talking about bankruptcy.

We bailed out Chrysler, ditto.

We bailed out banks, they continue to go south, they continue to lose their share price.

Anything that they have touched, anything the US government’s bailed out is not working: AIG, Citibank, Citigroup, whatever, any of these banks, the vast majority of them, not all, continue to have trouble.

All of this stimulus, quote, unquote, is not stimulating, it’s not causing confidence.  It’s not creating confidence, it’s not causing a rebound, it’s not causing an uptick in any market indicator.

And the president says,

“You know, I have more than enough to do without having to worry about the financial system.”

Mr. President, the financial system is all there is right now to people.

The financial system is the root of every other failure that’s going on here, from the housing to the car industry to wherever you want to look.

OBAMA:

What I — I don’t think people should do is to suddenly stuff money in their mattresses and pull back, you know, completely from spending.  I don’t think that people should be fearful about our future.

You don’t think people should be fearful about the future? Well, they are.  They are because they’re losing it.  They are losing their future each and every day.  They see their future dwindling away and they’re wondering how to save what’s left.

There’s no inspiration coming from the White House on this.  There’s no motivation, there’s no uplifting whatsoever.

And, by the way, the last time a president said,

“Go out there and spend, engage in commerce.”

It was George W. Bush, and the Democrat Party raked him over the coals for being insensitive.  There’s supposed to be shared sacrifice because of the war in Iraq, it was supposed to be shared sacrifice.  Well, hello.  You’re getting shared sacrifice.  This is what they meant all along, everybody gets poorer.  That’s shared sacrifice.

The Great Society, which spent trillions of dollars trying to level the playing field, the rich have gotten richer, the poor have gotten more numerous and poorer, and we’re trying to do the same thing all over again!

Rich people get rich because they don’t roll over and play dead for the government.

The actual number that we’ve transferred is $11 trillion. The war on poverty is the longest war in American history. You may not have heard too many people talk about this. The war on poverty actually started in the thirties. It was in the ’60s, ’65, that Lyndon Johnson actually gave it a name.

This is the longest war in American history. It cannot be won.

We lose it each and every day. Eleven trillion dollars since the sixties has been transferred from the producers, redistributed from the producers to the non-producers.

There’s a picture of Michelle Obama at a homeless shelter in Washington… She’s on the other side of the glass and she’s serving food to the homeless, and the homeless and the poor are showing up taking pictures of her with their cell phones!

— with their cell phones!!!

This is the poor… this is the war on poverty.

President Obama’s approval ratings are going to skyrocket.  President Obama announced that he is “saving jobs.”

Yes! He’s saving jobs! Is yours one of them?

No.

But he’s saving jobs.  He went out to Ohio and here’s a portion of his remarks to the Columbus police graduation ceremony.

OBAMA:

There were those who argued that our recovery plan was unwise and unnecessary.  They opposed the very notion that government has a role in ending the cycle of job loss at the heart of this recession.  There are those who believe that all we can do is repeat the very same policies that led us here in the first place.

Who are these people?  Whoever said government has no role? Government has a clear role, and that’s rolling back its involvement!  It’s gonna take government action to make it smaller, Mr. President.  See? He makes up people, who he doesn’t name, who apparently have positions they don’t have, and that keeps his voters all ginned up. “Yeah! Yeah! There are people who don’t want us to get jobs! Obama’s going to take care of us.”

OBAMA:

But I also know that this country has never responded to a crisis by sitting on the sidelines and hoping for the best.

Nobody is saying to do that!

OBAMA:

I know that throughout our history we have met every great challenge with bold action and big ideas.

Exactly, just not these — and nobody is saying “sit on the sidelines.” Except maybe some weird-looking Libertarians, nobody is out there saying, “Don’t do anything.”

You know who’s sitting on the sidelines?  You want to know who’s sitting on the sidelines? The investors, the people that would grow a job and hire you. That’s who’s sitting on the sidelines.  This is not a market to put your money in, hope it grows, ’cause it ain’t through falling yet.

Here’s the big finale where the president regales the audience at the Columbus police graduation with all the jobs that his stimulus plan has “saved.”

OBAMA:

For those who still doubt the wisdom of our recovery plan, I ask them to talk to the teachers who are still able to teach our children because we passed this plan.  I asked them to talk to the nurses who are still able to care for our sick and the firefighters and first responders who are still able to keep our communities safe.  I ask them to come to Ohio and meet the 25 men and women who will s-s-soon be protecting the streets of Columbus because we passed this plan.

Twenty-five jobs “saved” in Columbus, Ohio because of the stimulus bill. One caveat, for those of you in Columbus, Ohio, the police jobs are not funded past one year, under the Obama plan. So next year those 25 jobs will be gone if the city doesn’t have the money to continue with their employment, and when there’s no PR value in these 25 jobs being saved, the funding is just for one year.

We had a trillion-dollar stimulus package. Barack Obama in Columbus, Ohio, today proclaimed — and he said this very dynamically — we have lost an astounding 4.4 million jobs. Like he’s happy about it.  He sounded triumphant.

Then he announced he saved 25 jobs, but nobody knows it’s just for one year in Columbus, Ohio. Out of a trillion dollars, 25 jobs divide into a trillion dollars, means we spent $40 billion per job.

Government does it again… nice bang for the dollar guys!

Election Day, 11/4/08.

That was the day of hope.  The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 9625.  At this moment, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is hovering around 6580.  It is down over 3,000 points.  That means that just since November the 4th, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has lost a third of its value, $3 trillion of wealth has been wiped out.

Is this what you voted for?

A record 31.8 million Americans receive food stamps at the latest count.  That is an increase of 700,000 people in one month with the United States in recession.  Food stamps, which help poor people buy groceries and People magazine and Pop Tarts are the major US anti-hunger program forecast to cost at least $51 billion in this fiscal year ending September 30th.  That’s up $10 billion from 2008.  So we have 31.8 million Americans on food stamps.

Is that what you voted for?

The new government unemployment figure, and it is 8.1%, over 600,000 jobs lost last month.

“The nation’s unemployment rate bolted to 8.1 percent in February, the highest since late 1983, as cost-cutting employers slashed 651,000 jobs.”

Is this what you voted for?

As predicted and predictable, both these figures, 8.1 and 651,000,

“Both figures were worse than analysts expected and the Labor Department’s report shows America’s workers being clobbered by a wave of layoffs.”

Is this what you voted for?

Charles Krauthammer in his column in the Washington Post makes the case.  As you know, the Obama administration conducted another summit, a health care summit.  They had their breakout groups, and then the groups came back and reported in to President Obama.  President Obama has been saying that in order to get jobs back, in order to start creating employment, we need health care reform, energy reform, and whatever else he wants to throw into the pot.  It’s something irrelevant to why people are losing their jobs.  People are not losing their jobs because of health care; they’re not losing their homes because of energy concerns or any of that.  This is all happening because of a banking system that is in disarray, and the administration has offered no plan whatsoever. Timothy Geithner, the Treasury secretary, can’t even find a deputy assistant to take the job.

The failing health of Senator Kennedy is already being used as an inspirational effort, or technique, to get national health care on the fast track.  This is supposed to get you a job.  You’re losing your job and losing your house because of health care costs.  And I asked you to think, you’re expecting to be out of work until November or December, whenever they can get this done, if by then, and then all of a sudden once health care reform is done your job’s going to come back?

Krauthammer says:

“Forget the pork. Forget the waste. Forget the earmarks. … Forget all of this. This is run-of-the-mill budget trickery. True, Obama’s tricks come festooned with strings of zeros tacked onto the end. But that’s a matter of scale, not principle.”  Krauthammer is accusing Obama of a brazen deception being at the heart of Obama’s radically transformative economic plan.  “The logic of Obama’s address to Congress went like this: ‘Our economy did not fall into decline overnight,’ he averred. Indeed, it all began before the housing crisis. What did we do wrong? We are paying for past sins in three principal areas: energy, health care and education — importing too much oil and not finding new sources of energy–” even though we have our own all over the place, “–not reforming health care, and tolerating too many bad schools. The ‘day of reckoning’ has arrived. And because ‘it is only by understanding how we arrived at this moment that we’ll be able to lift ourselves out of this predicament.'”

“Amazing. As an explanation of our current economic difficulties, this is total fantasy. As a cure for rapidly growing joblessness, a massive destruction of wealth, a deepening worldwide recession, this is perhaps the greatest non sequitur ever foisted upon the American people.  At the very center of our economic near-depression is a credit bubble, a housing collapse and a systemic failure of the banking industry. One can come up with a host of causes: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pushed by Washington (and greed) into improvident loans, corrupted bond-ratings agencies, insufficient regulation,” it goes on and on and on.  “But the list of causes of the collapse of the financial system does not include the absence of universal health care, let alone of computerized medical records. Nor the absence of an industry-killing cap-and-trade carbon levy.

“And yet with our financial house on fire, Obama makes clear both in his speech and his budget that the essence of his presidency will be the transformation of health care, education and energy. Four months after winning the election, six weeks after his swearing-in, Obama has yet to unveil a plan to deal with the banking crisis.  What’s going on? ‘You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,’ said chief of staff Rahm Emanuel. ‘This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before.’  Things. Now we know what they are. The markets’ recent precipitous decline is a reaction not just to the absence of any plausible bank rescue plan, but also to the suspicion that Obama sees the continuing financial crisis as usefully creating the psychological conditions — the sense of crisis bordering on fear-itself panic — for enacting his ‘Big Bang’ agenda to federalize and/or socialize health care, education and energy.  Intellectually dishonest to the core.”

Obama deceiving the American people and it’s working.

The latest Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll has an approval rating at 63% over the previous reporting period a week or ten days ago, at 60%.  Does this puzzle you?

Your economy is tanking all around you, your president is deceiving you as to why.  Your president is further deceiving you as to the solutions.  Yet his approval numbers go up, they slightly uptick to 63%.

You see, Barack Obama benefits from a truism here.  It is not what he accomplishes.  He doesn’t have to accomplish anything to keep his poll numbers up, and this he knows.  All he has to do is give speeches about what he cares about.  Yesterday he cared about health care.  And who doesn’t?  It’s like the environmentalist nuts making you think they care about saving the planet, making you think they care about clean water and clean air.  Who doesn’t?  So if you oppose clean water and clean air, you must want what?  Dirty water, dirty air.  If you oppose Obama on health care, you must want what?  People to get sick and not have any way to get well.

So it’s not what he says, it’s not what he accomplishes.  It’s what he says he cares about.

There’s another poll, I think from Rasmussen.  Thirty-four percent of the American people believe that they can’t get a good job without the government being involved.  Thirty-four percent believe the government is important to getting a good job.  Not with the government, but outside in the private sector.

But is this what you voted for?

Somebody who says he cares about certain things, accomplishes nothing on them, deceives you as to the real problems, and in the process, takes no steps to fix them.

We have a banking and a credit crisis.  Obama and his team had a show gathering to focus on the problem, but they have done little, if anything, to so much as start fixing it.  Any leader would keep focused on fixing that mess, but that’s not the stuff that makes approval numbers rise, because there really isn’t much he can do except shift people’s attitudes about it.