May 24, 2013
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RUSH: We had a bridge collapse, which kind of surprised me because, you know, we spent almost a trillion dollars to repair the bridges in America, and I remember the president talking about it.

Let's go back. November 22nd, 2008. This is after the election. This is his weekly YouTube address. He wasn't president yet, but he was president-elect. And he's talking about his stimulus plan. This is leading up to the stimulus, which he would put in place a few months later.

OBAMA: There will be a two-year nationwide effort to jump-start job creation in America and lay the foundation for a strong and growing economy. We'll put people back to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges.

RUSH: How's that working out? Now, the reason I'm playing this is because they're gonna try to blame Bush for this before the day's over, if they're not already. Well, they'll find a way. Obama's not gonna take responsibility for this. The stimulus was supposed to repair the roads and bridges. I know they blame Bush. That's why I'm saying they'll blame him for this one. They blamed Bush for the Minneapolis bridge collapse. So this is the day that Obama signed the stimulus. This February 17th, 2009, he was in Denver at the Museum of Nature and Science.

OBAMA: Because of this investment, nearly 400,000 men and women will go to work rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges, repairing our faulty dams and levees, bringing critical broadband connections to businesses and homes in nearly every community in America, upgrading mass transit, building high-speed rail lines that will improve travel and commerce throughout our nation.

RUSH: How many of you low-information voters -- and I know you're out there. You know who you are, and I know who you are. You know you're there. How many of you now remember this? These were the heady days, folks, this was February 2009. You go back to February 2009, I mean, we were on the cusp of utopia. We just elected our messiah. Everybody but me believed. No, no, no, no. Leave me out of it. Everybody believed. You go back to January 2009, I'm telling you, the air was crackling with optimism. Everybody was really excited. We had this brand-new, never-seen-before politician, somebody who was going to eliminate partisanship. The racial problems were going to be solved. The country was once again gonna be loved by foreign powers.

I mean, this was it. This was just almost a month after the immaculation. And here came the stimulus, and remember, everybody in the media and everybody that voted for Obama bought into every word of this. I just want you to think back. Remember, 'cause mind-sets today are nowhere near where they were then. The country today is in malaise, it's depressed, it's dispirited, other than certain pockets, but for the most part, it's aimless. It seems like every day there's a new institution crumbling or change in the country taking place that people think is not good change.

But these were heady days, and this was the stimulus, and this was gonna put the economy back on track and get people back to work. And listen to what he said.


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