Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
So let me see, Obama, Obama took Air Force One.
What state does this stupid bus tour start?
Whatever.
You know, it's Iowa and Minnesota, but he's not going to Wisconsin, which is right next door.
I wonder why.
So he takes Air Force One out there.
I think we've got a good name for this tour.
The Deadman Driving Tour.
Greetings, folks.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh and EIB Network, and we are back in the EIB Southern Command.
Minnesota is where this thing is starting.
Law school graduates in New York are suing over not getting jobs.
New York law school students are suing their alma mater over not getting jobs.
That's right out of NBC.
No, it's right here.
Law school.
It's the senior project.
Law school grads suing their alma mater over not getting jobs.
I don't know what jobs.
Well, they think it is.
I mean, obviously, they think the job's guaranteed once you put in all the time and money to go to law school and on no gigs.
Folks, I got to tell you something.
You know, when we were here on Friday, I was out in Los Angeles.
And I did not hide the fact that I was feeling like I'm coming down with something all morning long.
And I just want to tell you, I've been doing a cram course because I went to bed Friday night at 6 p.m.
And I woke up Sunday at noon.
I kid you not.
I don't, I mean, it just so and so flew home.
I missed the Perry announcement.
That all happened.
I'm crashed out.
We're flying home yesterday afternoon, and I did see Michelle Bachman on with Chris Wallace.
And I guess it was a replay of Fox News Sunday.
I'd say she's good.
She is good, and she's getting better.
Michelle Bachman is really cooking out there.
And I know Palenti, I missed this.
I know Palenti got out of the race.
Also, speaking of Jake Tapper, you know, I love the fact Sarah Palin just sends these people for loops.
Let me find the soundbite here.
Toward the end of the stack here, it won't take me long to find this.
Yeah, grab number 20.
This is from ABC's This Week.
Our old buddy Jake Tapper fill-in host yesterday.
And at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Jake Tapper is following Sarah Palin around.
Listen to this.
Can I ask you a substantive question or two?
Yeah, hold on one second.
I'm going to go meet a heifer first.
A heifer first.
First, yes.
She told Jake Tapper, you hang on, bud.
I got to meet a cow first.
Yeah, I'll answer any question you want, but I got to meet a heifer first.
And Jacob Tapper said, a heifer first?
Yeah, yeah.
She just sends him for loops.
Perry getting in.
I knew Perry getting in would add dynamics to this race.
I said so some months ago.
So this is getting exciting now, and it's percolating, and all kinds of controversy is now simmering up, even on the conservative side as to who's a real conservative and who isn't, who the so-called conservative intelligentsi is going to back.
Who are they afraid of?
Leave it to me, folks, to sort all of this out for you.
It's not as complicated as people might want you to believe.
I don't know if you saw in Saturday's New York Times, the regime is considering creating a new agency, the Department of Jobs.
No, I am not joking.
The regime is considering creating a new agency, the Department of Jobs.
You know, this, did you see the movie Idiocracy?
Oh, you got to see.
You got to rent the movie.
This sounds like something right out of idiocracy.
We already have a Department of Jobs.
It's called the Department of Labor, and it's useless.
Now, the story in the New York Times says that the regime may also merge the Department of Commerce, which is basically the National Weather Service, the Office of the United States Trade Representative, and some economic divisions at the State Department into a new agency.
Possible names include the Department of Jobs or the Department of Competitiveness.
Yes.
Desperation time has set in.
Oh, now, folks, here's some headlines.
Los Angeles Times, Gallup, Obama job rating sinks below 40% for the first time.
National Journal, Obama hits new low in Gallup survey.
Daily Caller, Obama's approval rating reaches lowest point of his presidency.
The Hill.com Obama approval rating hits new low in latest Gallup tracking poll.
And Gallup itself says Obama's daily approval rating and even his disapproval rating are both at new lows.
No, actually Gallup doesn't say that.
You will not find those details mentioned anywhere on their website.
You'll just see the number.
At least I couldn't find it.
And I'm still, I'm still, I'm about 70% here, folks.
I'm in a little bit of a foggy haze.
So you have to bear with me here today.
Probably had I not mentioned that I was ill Friday, you wouldn't have known it, and you wouldn't have known it today either, but honestly, the best policy.
No, Gallup just posted their daily tracking chart without any comment on the numbers.
It's 39%.
Others have noted that these are both record lows for Obama, but Gallup doesn't like to trumpet bad news.
Now, we all remember how they refrained from mentioning Bush's record low poll numbers.
In fact, let's go to the audio soundbites.
Grab audio soundbite number five.
Here is CNN American Morning from this morning, Alina Cho, the fill-in co-host Infobabe anchorette, reporting on Obama.
President Obama heading off to the heartland to talk about jobs and the economy.
The three-day bus tour comes as a Gallup poll shows his approval rating at a new low, 39%.
The first time it's dropped below 40% during his presidency.
And that's it.
So far, that's it on CNN.
As far as Obama hitting 39%, let's go back.
March 13th, we have a montage of Wolf Blitzer in just one show talking about Bush's approval numbers.
It's 4 p.m. here in Washington.
You're getting the first look right now at our brand new poll.
The president's job approval rating has taken a downward turn again, falling to only 36%.
This represents his lowest rating ever in the CNN USA Today, Gallup.
The president's poll numbers are pretty bad, pretty awful right now, rock bottom as far as this CNN USA Today Gallup.
The president's a rock problem and his new low point in the polls.
His approval and policies now are at new lows.
The president's job approval number in this new CNN USA Today Gallup poll, rock bottom, the lowest it's ever been.
It's 5 p.m. here in Washington where President Bush takes a beating in our latest poll.
His approval rating at a low ed.
Our latest CNN USA Today Gallup poll just out in the past hour shows the president at an all-time low.
His job approval rating at a new low.
That's rock bottom as far as our poll is concerned.
It's 7 p.m. here in Washington.
The war in Iraq comes home to roost for President Bush.
Our latest poll numbers showing his approval rating at a new low.
Also, President Bush hits a new low in the polls.
Now back to our lead story.
President Bush's approval rating now at an all-time low.
As we noted, a new CNN USA Today Gallup poll shows his job approval rating at a new low.
President Bush's approval rating at a new low, 36%.
That was in one show.
A montage of one show, March 13, 2006.
So far today, Obama at 39%.
This so far is it on CNN.
President Obama heading off to the heartland to talk about jobs and the economy.
The three-day bus tour comes as a Gallup poll shows his approval rating at a new low, 39%.
The first time it's dropped below 40% during his presidency.
You can bet we're going to be monitoring Wolf Blitzer this afternoon on CNN to see if there's a countdown every hour on the new low in Obama's approval number.
We will be monitoring.
Meanwhile, while all this is going on, they're trying to say now that the Tea Party is also losing in the polls, which is not possible.
This is a concerted effort.
Upshot is that independents are leaving the Tea Party.
There is no Tea Party per se.
But they're out there trying to make it look like the Tea Party is not fading out.
It never really was anything to begin with.
And that's fading away.
No big deal.
Today, Obama will go out amongst the peoples on a listening tour to learn after almost three years what is bothering the people.
No jobs.
Then he's going to try to figure out what the people want, jobs.
And then he's going to ask them what they need, jobs.
He doesn't need to leave Washington for this.
Now, all presidents have used photo ops to gain favor, but no president in our history has had such little respect for your intelligence to do something this absurd to go on a listening tour.
You know what they're going to hope to find?
What they're really, and you know, nothing with Obama just happens.
Don't be surprised if they find a bunch of people along the tour who say, you're not being hard enough on the Republicans.
That's what we want.
We want you to cream the Republicans.
We want you to get nasty.
We want you to fight.
But that's what he's going to hear.
You're not going to hear about jobs.
The people on the bus tour, if they cared about jobs, they wouldn't be on the sidewalk while Obama's bus tour goes by.
So anyway, all kinds of potential names here.
The Hell in a Handbasket Express.
The Are We There Yet tour.
Running on Empty.
The Shovel Ready Tour.
The Magical Misery Tour.
Like that one.
The Magical Misery Tour, but the Republicans got to sit in the back tour.
The WTF tour.
Hell on Wheels.
The America Under the Bus Tour.
Debtman Driving Tour.
The Debtman Driving Tour.
Okay.
This week's, as I say, the talking points from the Democrat National Committee, which basically is Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz, who?
Who, by the way, got heckled?
We have the audio on this.
And we do have audio of Rick Perry's I'm Getting in Erase speech, which I haven't heard yet.
Again, so I'll be hearing it for the first time.
You've probably heard it.
So we've got four or five soundbites of that coming up.
But this week's DNC talking points are out.
Over the weekend, we were treated to two oversampled push polls that proved, quote unquote, proved Americans are turning against the Tea Party.
The polls were from the New York Times in conjunction with CBS and CNN.
Now, what can possibly be dubious about that?
The New York Times, in conjunction with CBS and CNN, say that Americans are turning against the Tea Party.
Now, these outlets carry so much water for the Democrat Party.
They should be officially labeled aqueducts because that's what they are.
Anyway, turns out Americans are now demanding more government spending and higher taxes.
Do you know that's what the latest polling did?
I mean, the Tea Party is standing in the way.
And then Dingy Harry.
If you doubt this, a coordinated attack, Dingy Harry also claimed the Tea Party's fading fast.
In fact, he said the Tea Party was the result of the terrible economy.
So the economy must be dramatically improving, right?
Who knew?
I mean, the tea party is in disfavor.
Oh, three buses in the tour.
Three buses in this tour?
Well, a debt man can only be driving one of them.
Three buses in this tour.
Turns out the Secret Service just spent more than a million dollars for these three buses that Obama's using until now they just rented buses.
Well, I don't know what's in the other two.
Catering, obviously security, nuclear codes, wardrobe for the kids, pipeline to China.
Did you get everything you needed, by the way, from our helicopter in Pakistan?
You hear that Pakistan, yeah, Pakistan let the Chikons see our stealth chopper.
Walk off with parts of it.
Yeah, they just walked off with parts of it.
Okay, folks, it's obscene profit break time here on the EIB network as we kick off a brand new week of broadcast excellence.
Sit tight.
Be back right after this.
Okay, it appears there's two buses.
Two buses for a three-day tour and they bought them.
Normally go out there and rent them.
They bought two new buses, it appears, for Obama, and they're going to be using them both.
So even though the bus trip is a campaign swing, the White House is billing the three-day tour as official, which means that the taxpayers are picking up all the costs of the trip.
Well, that's the thing.
I've been wondering this myself.
Are these buses solar-powered?
Are they wind-powered?
Do the Obama buses get better mileage than the Beast?
That's his limo.
Cadillac limo.
Armored limo.
Maybe it does.
I mean, the beast gets some of the worst miles per gallon on the planet.
But what's the point of going around on a bus again, except maybe to try to look like one of the people?
When's the last time you think Obama ever rode a bus in real life?
He wants everybody else to, but when's the last time he did?
You know what?
I hope somebody slaps a bumper sticker or two on the back of that bus.
Something like, we shall overspend.
Instead of we shall overcome, we shall overspend.
Now, the Tea Party, this is, folks, this is actually hilarious what they're trying to do with the impression that Tea Party is fading.
But here is actually first the Gallup story.
Gallup tracks a daily percentage of Americans who approve or disapprove of the job President Obama doing as president.
Results are based on telephone interviews with approximately 1,500 adults, margin of error plus or minus 3 percentage points.
And it clearly shows him here at 39% approve and 54 percent disapprove.
It's a new low in the daily approval rating at Gallup.
Gallup doesn't even mention that.
They just the number in there, 39 percent.
Just posted their chart, their boilerplate text, and they left it at that.
So the casual reader would have no way of knowing this is actually a new low for Obama.
In fact, 39% approval rating and 54% disapprove are the worst numbers of Obama's presidency, both categories.
Now, I'm sure Gallup refrained from trumpeting Bush's low numbers in exactly the same way, right?
Nope, just kidding.
I couldn't find any actual article on the Gallup site about these latest numbers.
They simply post this chart that you're familiar with seeing and the boilerplate text above it.
In the meantime, from thehill.com, Tea Party's heyday may be coming to an end, say political experts by Alexander Bolton.
The reign of the Tea Party may be coming to an end in Washington, according to academic political experts who say polls show a backlash against the conservative movement.
Two national polls released this month, CNN, the New York Times, in conjunction with CBS News, showed the Tea Party's unfavorable rating at an all-time high.
Well, folks, it must be so then.
The great thing about the Tea Party is it can't really fade away because it really isn't a party.
It's a state of mind.
And as long as the American people want a smaller and less intrusive government, the Tea Party is always going to be popular and it's always going to be large as long as a guy like Obama's in the White House.
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Seriously, the left is expressing, illustrating their utter ignorance with Tea Party heyday maybe coming to an end, say political experts.
Political scientists say the data shows a backlash of independent voters against conservative lawmakers who've taken a hard line against bipartisan compromise in Washington.
Well, if that's the case, how come Obama's at 39%?
None of this makes any sense mathematically.
So the independents have abandoned the Tea Party.
Fine.
Where are they now?
Obama's at 39%.
The Tea Party is supposedly being abandoned by independents.
Where are these precious people?
We need a search party to go out and find the Independents.
Just out of nowhere, the end of, we're back to the same old thing.
Looky here.
The Independents have taken a hard line against conservative lawmakers who have taken a hard line against bipartisan compromise in Washington.
Notice how it always works whenever there is not compromise in Washington.
It is as predictable as the sun coming up.
And we're going to get stories of the independents don't like the conservatives.
And what are they going to do?
They're going to make a mad dash back to what?
The meanest, most foul-mouthed, extreme bunch of negative people in American politics, the American left.
That's a narrative.
It is a template, and it isn't true.
People are furious because the Tea Party opposed the bipartisan Boehner-Reed debt ceiling deal.
I thought everybody disliked that deal.
But again, the Tea Party is a state of mind.
Now, there are people who call themselves Tea Partiers, and there's email fundraising efforts under the Tea Party banner.
But the Tea Party is a state of mind.
As long as there are Americans who want a smaller and less intrusive government, the Tea Party is going to always be popular.
I just, I find this laughable, predictable, and laughable.
And then Dingy Harry gets in on the act.
The Senate's top Democrats told a home state newspaper he expects the conservative activist movement's grasp on the GOP to diminish.
A bold prediction, given the influence that group showed Saturday in Ames, Iowa, where Michelle Bachman, the Tea Party darling, won an influential presidential straw poll.
Dingy Harry told a Las Vegas Review Journal that Tea Party was the result of a terrible economy.
I've said that many times, and I believe that.
The Tea Party will pass.
They'll lose a number of seats next year.
This from a guy who literally had to steal his own reelection.
A man who represents a state with the worst economy in the nation.
The Tea Party is fading away.
Meanwhile, let's pay a little of attention.
You have to hear this.
This happened yesterday on CNN, Fareed Zakaria GPS.
His guest was the New York Times columnist Paul the Ferret Krugman.
And Fareed Zakaria said, Wouldn't John Maynard Keynes say that if you could employ people to dig a ditch and then fill it up again, that's fine?
They're being productively employed.
They'll pay taxes.
So maybe Boston's big dig was just fine after all.
Now, that's the question.
So here is in the form of a question, a definition of work, the left.
You hire some people to dig a ditch and then fill it up.
You pay them.
They then become taxpayers.
And they are productively employed.
Productively employed digging a ditch and then filling it up again.
That's the question of Paul Krugman.
Here is Krugman's answer to this.
Think about World War II, right?
That was actually negative social product spending, and yet it brought us out.
If we say, look, we could use some inflation, which is, of course, anathema to a lot of people in Washington, but is in fact what the basic logic says.
It's very hard to get inflation in a depressed economy.
But if you had a program of government spending plus an expansionary policy by the Fed, you could get that.
Okay, so now the ferret, the ferret-like Paul Krugman wants inflation.
And he's saying there's a good way to go out there and get it.
You just need more spending plus more expansion by the Fed.
We haven't done enough of it.
But he wasn't through.
Here's the next claim to fame, Paul Krugman, New York Times on Farid Zakaria GPS.
If we discovered that space aliens were planning to attack and we needed a massive buildup to counter the space alien threat and really inflation and budget deficits took secondary place to that, this slump would be over in 18 months.
And then if we discovered, whoops, we made a mistake.
There aren't actually any space aliens.
There was a Twilight Zone episode like this in which scientists fake an alien threat in order to achieve world peace.
Well, this time we don't need it.
We need it in order to get some fiscal stimulus.
Well, that's all.
So the next thing we need to do is have an alien invasion.
Somebody out there needs to figure out how to create one of those.
He just had, there's the answer.
If we discovered that space aliens were planning to attack and we needed a massive buildup to counter the space alien threat and really inflation and budget deficits took secondary place to that, this slump would be over to 18 months.
So there it is.
There's the left's answer, folks.
A space alien attack.
Now, in absence of a space alien attack, which is not likely to happen, maybe we talk the Chikoms into attacking us.
And if the Chikoms say, no, we're already beating you to smithereens without firing a shot, maybe we go to Kim Jong-il and say, hey, bud, how about you attack us?
We need some inflation.
Kim Jong-il says, nope, I'm fine.
Then we go to Iran and go, okay, Mamu Dakma Dinizad.
Would you play the role of space alien and attack us so we could really, really ramp up and fix our economy in 18 months?
So what does Krugman say?
Krugman is really putting the nail in the coffin that the New Deal ended the Depression.
What Krugman's actually admitting here is that World War II, and he doesn't, I don't think he's aware of what he's doing.
But Krugman's saying, give war a chance whether some space aliens or wherever.
But that's the trick.
That's a ticket, folks.
A space alien.
And this is on CNN Farid Zakari GPS.
And these people sitting there nodding their heads and stroking their chins.
Yes.
Yeah, very, very, very deep thinking, Mr. Krugman.
Why?
Very impressive.
That's why we have people like you on our network.
Very, very impressive.
Very few people would conjure up such a scenario, but that's it.
That's a ticket.
Space alien attack.
Space alien attack.
And that's how we get out of the wall.
We would ramp up like we've never ramped up before.
Yeah, that would, yeah, to get us out of that ditch digging.
No, we'd have to people dig a ditch and fill it in and call it.
You know what?
We only have people do that.
Where does that happen?
Well, yeah, Shane Gaskin.
Where else do people dig ditches and fill them in?
No, not New York.
Graveyards.
New York.
This is what happens.
So this.
If you employ people.
This is Farid Zakaria's question.
If you employ people to dig a ditch and then fill it up, that's fine.
They're being productively employed.
Somebody doesn't know what productive is here.
Krugman, New York Times columnist, Nobel Prize winner, I believe, clearly has no idea what it means to be productive.
A product's a product.
A bomb is a product, whether it's a good thing or bad thing.
But it is a thing of economic value.
And in his endless arrogance, Krugman doesn't seem to realize that we really were the world's arsenal.
People bought weapons and tanks from us with real money.
Space alien invasion?
I mean, that's just as good an idea as extending unemployment benefits.
In fact, some people would say we're already under attack by aliens.
Not space aliens, but illegal aliens.
But I marvel.
This is what passes for advanced superior thinking on the left.
Now listen to this.
Last Friday, PMS NBC Martin Bashir, the afternoon show starts at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
Phill-in host, Jonathan Capart of the Washington Post interviewed a blogger from the Huffing and Puffington Post, named Frank Schaefer.
Capart said, do you think that either Michelle Bachman or Rick Perry can really give the president a run for his money on Election Day?
As the first African-American president, he has been up against a racist white bloc in the Republican Party that has come dressed as the Tea Party, the religious right.
What they really want to do is see him fail.
Most Americans understand he hasn't been given a chance to succeed because he hasn't been dealing with a normal political opposition of loyal opposition that has been putting the country first.
He's been dealing with a group of Republicans who have been bound, as Rush Limbaugh said from day one, wanted to see him fail.
So the most powerful man in the world is not the president, it's me.
Obama can't overcome me.
I said I wanted him to fail.
So we're not being a loyal opposition.
What does that mean?
We're not grabbing the ankles, just bending over?
That's exactly what that means.
Brief time out here, my friends.
We'll be back and continue before you know it.
I still can't.
Space alien attack.
Paul Krugman, space alien attack, and build up and repel that, and we'll be out of this in 18 months.
So he would have us create a fake war to stoke the economy.
But he and his people are the same ones who were opposed to fighting a real one in Iraq, saying it crippled us with deficits.
See, this is the hypocrisy with these people.
They're all running around saying, well, we got all these fake phony wars.
We got Iraq.
We got Afghanistan and they're a net cost to the economy.
We've got to get out of there.
Those things are a trillion dollars apiece.
And yet, if we were attacked by space aliens, that would be legit.
Thank you, CNN.
We can count on you people at CNN for something on this program every Monday to get us laughing and feeling good.
We're in four wars.
That's right.
Libya.
Look at that.
Libya.
That really ended the recession, didn't it?
We've got an endless war going on in Libya.
We may be in Syria soon.
Although I doubt that.
Where are we?
We're in Afghanistan.
We're in Iraq.
We're in Libya.
Where else are we?
We're four wars out there.
And we are.
We're in four.
What's the four?
We have Afghanistan.
We got Iraq.
We got Libya.
There's another one somewhere.
Oh, it's the war on America.
I forgot.
Yeah.
Neither of these wars.
Neither of these wars are getting us out of the recession.
Okay.
Let's see.
We're going to go to the phones.
Mark in Warren, Ohio.
We're going to start with you.
Great to have you.
It's great to be speaking with the most powerful man in the world.
Well, thank you, sir, very much.
I appreciate that.
You know, I was listening to you talk about how the media is saying that independents are leaving the support of the Tea Party.
And I've heard that kind of thing before.
You know, independents are leaving the conservative, independents are leaving the...
It's a crocodile.
It's a total crock.
Well, I'm here to tell you, I'm not leaving anybody.
And the implication is that the independents are leaving, let's say, whoever conservatives and are going to board Barack Obama.
I'm here to tell you right now, if he was the last man on earth, I would never vote for him.
Never.
And do you, now I just want to, do you consider yourself an independent?
Yes, I do.
You do.
And you'd never vote for Obama.
Whoa, now, what is it in your mind that makes you an independent?
Does this mean you're not a registered Republican or Democrat?
Yes.
Okay.
Why is that?
Well, you know, I used to be a registered Democrat, and that's how I was brought up.
But as I saw what the Democrats stood for, you know, I couldn't identify myself any longer with the party.
And the Republicans have moved so far away from what this country is truly about, I can't necessarily sign myself up as a Republican either.
So that leaves me as an independent.
Well, okay.
I appreciate that.
But I got to tell you something.
Republicans are far closer, even in their worst days, to the original intent of this country than the Democrats are on their best.
I do agree with you, Bob.
And I do tend to vote for Republicans.
Right.
All right.
Mark, I appreciate the call.
Really do.
Thanks so much.
Go back and play soundbite number three here.
This Frank Schaefer guy from Friday's MSNBC.
As the first African-American president, he has been up against a racist white bloc in the Republican Party that has come dressed as the Tea Party, the religious right.
What they really want to do is see him fail.
Most Americans understand he hasn't been given a chance to succeed because he hasn't been dealing with the normal political opposition of lawyers.
All right, that's it.
Stop it.
I knew that got that zoomed by me.
Obama in his first two years did not have any opposition.
He had super majorities in the House and the Senate.
He did not have any opposition.
The only opposition he had was me.
And look, I don't say this for any other reason than it's true.
I was the only one out there saying, I hope this guy fails.
I don't agree with his policies.
They're not good for the country.
The Republicans were scared to say that.
They were all on the bandwagon.
Well, yeah, first black presidency.
We hope the president succeeds.
It was an idiotic thing to believe.
We didn't want this guy.
We don't want socialism to succeed here.
I didn't anyway.
So this idea that I, my memory playing tricks on me here, but Obama didn't have any opposition for his first two years in office.
He had super majorities in both chambers, right?
So what loyal opposition is this clown talking about here?
My point.
We seek, let me just put it out there, clear as a bell, one more time.
We seek to defeat Obama in a landslide because he is a disaster.
Pure and simple.
He is a political disaster.
You liberals, why don't you support Herman Cain for president?
As the second black woman, is it because of his race, maybe for you liberals?
I have a theory about independence.
I think a lot of independents are just Democrats who are afraid to admit it for some reason or another.
I really do.
But not Mark, not the previous caller.
He was legitimate.
So they're kind of like moderates.
They're just Democrats that don't want to admit it.