One of conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh's most important assets -- a great memory.
While telling his listeners yesterday that he didn't waste time watching the laundry list of alleged accomplishments and proposals that seldom get enacted, aka the State of the Union speech, he did catch an excerpt afterward that conveyed a sense of deja vu.
His power of recall triggered, Limbaugh first played a clip from a speech given by Obama on the federal response to the British Petroleum oil spill off the coast of Louisiana in the spring of 2010 (audio) --
LIMBAUGH: This is June 15 of 2010. Now I quoted him yesterday on this, but here is Obama actually saying it. This is after the BP oil spill the Gulf of Mexico, Obama in the Oval Orifice --
OBAMA: For decades, we have known the days of cheap and easily accessible oil were numbered.
LIMBAUGH: All right, now that's five years ago, four and a half years ago, and Obama's admitting it -- hey, been there, done that, folks. If you like cheap gasoline, sorry, not happening. We have known for decades the days of cheap and easily accessible oil are numbered. So that was it. From that day forward, oil is going to be priced sky high and that's why he said that. Why? To move on global warming, to move on alternative energy, to buck up what he was doing with solar and wind and all those other losing things.
OK, let's listen to last night. This is an illustration of exactly why I didn't want to put up with this last night. We just heard him say five, four and a half years ago that the days of cheap and easily accessible oil were over! But last night --
OBAMA: We believed we could reduce our dependence on foreign oil and protect our planet and today America is number one in oil and gas. (9:28 in video of the entire speech). Thanks to lower gas prices and higher fuel standards, the typical family this year should save about $750 at the pump.
LIMBAUGH: Right, and he's the last guy in the room to know about it. He's probably the most surprised guy in the room. This is not exactly what he intended. He didn't want the gas price coming down. He didn't want easily affordable fossil-fuel energy because that would stand in the way of whatever he wanted to do with climate change and a carbon tax and moving onto solar and wind. So for decades we've known the days of cheap and easily accessible oil were numbered, four and a half years ago. Last night -- we believed we could reduce our dependence on foreign oil and protect our, no you didn't! You stood in the way of that! You stood in the way of decreasing our dependence on foreign sources, with the Keystone pipeline and all that. Today America's number one in oil and gas -- not because of anything you've done. It's called fracking which you and your buddies on the left steadfastly oppose. But presidents get to do this, I understand that. I just didn't want to watch it. I just didn't want to sit through an hour and a half of having my intelligence insulted and all this obfuscation and all this phony credit-taking and so forth.
Limbaugh wasn't done and revisited the folly of Obama as rooster taking credit for the sunrise (audio) --
There was nothing new, it was as predictable as anything in politics is. I did say that he was a con man, I said that yesterday. That hasn't changed. Why? ... Oh, Snerdly's telling me that the whole thing last night was a big con. Well of course it is. Here you have a guy who hasn't, in terms of policy, there hasn't been anything to generate any economic boom. And yet, the gas price plunge is enough to do it. I mean, the percentage decrease in the price of gasoline and what that means for people's disposable income, that alone is enough to boost an economy. And there he is, having had nothing to do with it. In fact, if he'd had his way, the oil price would not have come down. Don't doubt me on this. Anyway, he gets to take credit for it, fine and dandy, but that's part of the con as well.
C'mon, Rush, be fair. After all, wasn't it candidate Obama back in '08 who kept urging us to "drill, baby, drill"? Oh wait ...
