At the beginning of Obama’s second term, we’ve learned something about Obama’s first term. According to Roll Call, members of the Congressional Black Caucus felt snubbed during the last term.

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RUSH:  Every day takes us one day closer.  It's a quirk of the calendar.  Every day we get closer to it.  And I'm gonna tell you, I don't know what's gonna kill more people now -- assault weapons, global warming, or the sequester.  If you listen to Obama and his minions in the news media, they're all running neck and neck.  

RUSH: The idea is to get the public used to it. The idea is to get the idea in the public domain so that it is discussed, so that the idea is considered, so that they can then gin up support for it. They can then go poll it and report on the poll results and show that an ever-increasing number of people actually favor it.

RUSH: He promised to veto any effort to stop the sequester.

RUSH: The Republicans support the sequester.  They're on record as supporting it.  Even though it's Obama's idea, they support it.  It's the only way we're gonna get some budget cuts, and they're infinitesimal anyway.  But the question is, why would Republicans support something that does what Boehner says it's gonna do?  Threatens US national security, thousands of jobs could be lost. Boehner's calling the cuts deep, when they're not.

RUSH: You gotta hand it to Rand Paul.  He's out there explaining the sequester only cuts the rate of growth... These are not actual cuts.  They're not cuts from a zero baseline.

RUSH: The media in Chicago is beating themselves up for allowing this to happen. They saw the dots. They just didn't connect 'em. 

RUSH: On the Drudge Report, you have a big picture of Obama with his facial expression grimaced in pain, and the giant headline: "800,000 PENTAGON LAYOFFS," and that's exactly what Panetta wanted. There's your visual aid.

RUSH: I'm sure that she was just wishing them a happy Thanksgiving. I'm sure that that's all that was going on.