Rush Quote Of The Day
For those of you who are sports fans, this analogy hits home.
I believe Barack Obama’s like an 0-4 NFL head coach, brand-new head coach, first time, first season, and he’s like he started out 0-4. The economy is going nowhere, despite all these grand promises, our allies won’t give Obama anything he wants; Guantanamo Bay is now a mess, made so by Obama. Guantanamo Bay was fine, functioning just as it was designed ’til Obama brought a political calculation to virtually every national security issue that he can.
That’s what that speech was yesterday, nothing more than turning national security into an issue of politics, which it’s not. Obama is destroying business after business after business. So, given the mess that Obama has made, what does he do? He trashes Bush. He blames the previous administration. He blasts them all over the place. He smears ‘em. He slanders ‘em out there.
Like a spoiled child, it’s everyone else’s fault.
He makes everybody think that he’s got nothing to do with the 0-4 start. Even though he picked the team; he calls the plays; he conducts the practice sessions; he’s the one that talks to the media. He didn’t come in mid-season, no, no, no, no. He came in the off season, he put his own team together, got his own coaching staff, did it all, and we’re 0-4.
The US is out of the starting gates, if we’re a National Football League team, at 0-4. Yet, his approval numbers remain sky-high. People love him. Now, I want to address all of you rookie coaches in the National Football League. Josh McDaniels in Denver, Jim Schwartz in Detroit, Tom Cable in Oakland, Eric Mangini, new coach in Cleveland, Rex Ryan, new coach at the New Jersey Jets, and Todd Haley, the offense coordinator from the Cardinals hired as the head coach for the Kansas City Chiefs. And there may be some other new head coaches out there for the first time this year. Oh, Mike Singletary, but Singletary took over with four or five games left in the Fort’iners’ schedule last year. I think I’ve covered it. So all of you rookie NFL head coaches — Josh McDaniels, Jim Schwartz, Tom Cable, Eric Mangini, Rex Ryan — take notes, especially those of you who have barely coached before.
If your team — if the Broncos, if the Lions, if the Raiders, if the Browns, if the New York Jets instantly implode, if you open the season 0-4 or 1-3, it’s very simple what you do. You blame your predecessor. Todd Haley, head coach, Kansas City Chiefs, you new coaches, Obama is showing you how to survive if you come out of the gate 0-4 like he’s brought the country out of the gate 0-4, you just blame ownership, you blame the previous coach, you blame the previous coaching staff, you blame the players.
That’s the equivalent of Obama blaming Americans for being greedy. I mean, blame Bush. Yeah, blame Bush, in addition to the previous coach. What do you mean it won’t work? The fans are going for it with Obama, why wouldn’t they go for it with a new head coach? Okay, Jim Schwartz, the Detroit Lions. Let’s look at him. Jim Schwartz, he’s coming off a season where the Lions went 0-16. They did not win a game. They’ve got the number-one draft choice. They’ve got that big QB, Matt Stafford, all right? Say they come out 0-4, Jim Schwartz, all you gotta do is blame Rod Marinelli, previous coach, and then blame Matt Millen, the previous GM, blame everybody on his staff for rotten drafts, lousy game plans, blame the training facility, blame the owner, and then blame George W. Bush for added measure saying the Bush administration depressed the whole organization.
Blame the pregame meal. Blame anything. Blame the nutritionist. That’s all you have to do. Get off to a bad start, blast away at the prior coaching staff. It’s the team the hometown loves. They still have jerseys from last year’s players, bad form, it might keep the heat off you if you bash everybody else saying, “Look, it’s not my fault.” Make speeches all the time. Instead of holding team meetings make speeches out there, address the media every day on how rotten the situation was you inherited, how none of this is your fault. Trade away the number one draft choice the next thee years.
That’s what Obama’s done by putting us all in debt. So the blueprint is there for any of you who get a new job and you flunk right out of the starting gate, you blame the person who had it before you, and George W. Bush. And you blame the organization. And, hell, blame AIG. That will work.
Let’s see if the new coaches get cut the same slack Obama has thus far. The new coaches don’t have the power to audit those that criticize them.
May 28th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
I suppose that could also be a score of O’s game — 0-4. Two plays that ended up in safeties — The economy and Gitmo — but he thinks he actually scored.
May 28th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
from the rush quote:
Yet, his approval numbers remain sky-high. People love him.
so when the un-employment rate hits 30% and you get a notice from the social security admin saying that money we took from you all those years has gone bye-bye.
you know what’s gonna happen in 2012???
hussein in a landslide.
my money says oklahoma is the only state hussein doesn’t carry.
this country is leftist.
it is we who are in the minority.
rush may have numbers going through the roof, but the country is lazy and full of entitlement syndrone.
it is we who are the minority and we will never be the majority again. john adams said something about liberty once lost cannot be regained. that is what is happening to us. as we live and comment here.
the major and vocal labor unions (read as UAW) are all going to be subsidized by the federal gov’t come 2012. the nea already is. state labor unions will be subsidized by the federal gov’t by 2012. who they gonna owe their jobs to then?
even bob has started referring to this as hussein’s first term.
where am i going with this?
hussein could be 0-48 and he’d get a contract renewal and a 200% raise.
nobody cares.
it doesn’t matter.
nobody cares.
May 28th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
very interesting analogy from Rush, wasn’t aware he was into football. I think my late grandfather (if he were still around) would’ve gotten a little smile out of the Mike Singletary mention
anyway, yes it is indeed childish to blame Bush for EVERYTHING. Apparently, The O isn’t aware of Clinton’s past involvement with AIG just before his 2nd term was up, like you’d mentioned weeks back.
May 28th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
No O and the MSM keep blaming Bush. I mean for 8 years he had control of the government. Well except for the first two years when the dems controlled congress. But still it is W’s fault for 6 years, well except for teh last two years when the dems contrilled congress. Hmmm Well umm uh you know the fact of the matter is….
May 28th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Blaming everything on Bush while his own Treasury Secretary was in one of the drivers’ seats, along with the fact that as a member of Congress he didn’t do squat to stop any of it…except to maybe saying Bush was being miserly, and in a party that reeks to high heaven with their involvement in the downfall of the economy. Good thing for him there are so many taxeaters in this country willing to vote for the jackasses.