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RUSH: Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day: Rush Limbaugh — trying to stay sane, trying to stay well adjusted, trying to stay grounded, trying to stay rooted just like all of you are — and, folks, I promise you I will. I am gonna be the last person to cave. I can\u2019t ever imagine myself caving, not like I see happening. I see people falling by the wayside and it\u2019s not just people on my side. I see people everywhere. Despite polling data! I mean, this is the most confounding thing. <\/p>\n

Look here. We got a new poll from New York Times\/CBS<\/a>. It\u2019s dire news for the Democrats. Obama\u2019s job approval is back down to 41%, a five point drop. This ties his lowest ever rating in this category, this poll. Public esteem for the president\u2019s party is down to 42%. That level hasn\u2019t been seen since … 2010. You guessed it! Not since the last midterms that we had. Planned Parenthood said they\u2019re going to dump $16 million into the midterm races.<\/line><\/p>\n

“Most Americans Disappointed in the Obama Presidency,” a poll says. This is… It didn\u2019t print the source, but it\u2019s big. It\u2019s not some fly-by-night website here. Amid continued pessimism about the economy and direction of the country, 59% of Americans say they are disappointed in Mr. Obama\u00c2\u2019s presidency (including 37% who are very disappointed); 40% are satisfied. Much of this discontent comes from Republicans and independents, but” it is growing.<\/p>\n

“More specifically, Mr. Obama gets low marks for his handling of both foreign policy and the economy. …<\/p>\n

“The president gets low marks for his handling of both foreign policy and the economy. … By a wide margin, more continue to think the country is off on the wrong track [63%] rather than headed in the right direction.” No matter where you look, there\u2019s opposition to this, but there\u2019s no action behind it! Wherever you look, the president is held in disfavor. Presidential approval, policy by policy. There\u2019s universal opposition, and yet there\u2019s no push-back to any of it. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s abject fear of pushing back. This is one of the most amazing things. We\u2019ve got people caving left and right. There\u2019s no desire to stop this and fight back against it, despite the polling data. I held a story from yesterday, in yesterday\u2019s Stack<\/a>. Daniel Horowitz <\/a>wrote a piece about something I\u2019ve been saying since the 2010 midterms. The sum hotel of his piece was you had this massive landslide defeat for the Democrats. <\/p>\n

They lost over 760 seats nationwide! It was huge. Tea Party. The Republicans were the sole beneficiaries of this, and it was about the debt and it was about Obamacare. Mr. Horowitz says (summarized), “Can you imagine what would have happened if the Republican Party and the Tea Party, if these forces had unified? Can you imagine the powerful coalition and force opposing the Democrat Party? Can you imagine what it would be?”<\/line><\/p>\n

Instead, the Tea Party was ostracized by the Republicans and Democrats. The Republicans wanted no part of the Tea Party, and Republican establishment types started doing everything they could to deemphasize, to beat, humiliate, and basically render irrelevant the Tea Party. Can you imagine what would have happened? This was my point. Here you have this massive majority of people opposing Obamacare! It\u2019s a built-in constituency just waiting to be connected with politically. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s made to order for the Republican Party, something they oppose anyway, Obamacare. (Or did they? That remained the big question.) Now we\u2019re the same circumstance here. I have predicted that this is gonna be a huge landslide defeat for the Democrats again. But that doesn\u2019t mean much if there isn\u2019t any opposition, if there isn\u2019t any push-back. Okay, the Democrats lose — and we know that wouldn\u2019t think they\u2019re going to, if you look at the retirements. <\/p>\n

John Dingell, although that seat is set to stay in the family with his wife, Debbie. But, anyway, he\u2019s getting out. He doesn\u2019t want to be part of minority. Neither does Waxman, neither does George Miller. A bunch of \u2019em are saying, “So long, we\u2019re outta here. It\u2019s no fun.” They don\u2019t think they\u2019re gonna win. In fact, they probably think gonna lose big. So they have no desire to be there. On the one hand you\u2019ve got that; then you\u2019ve got the Republicans, who, once again, are gonna be the beneficiaries of this. <\/p>\n

But that doesn\u2019t mean much unless there is an actual agenda that is rooted in the opposition, that is rooted in opposing Obama and the Democrats. It really… When you look at it that way, it can make you cry, the opportunity that has been squandered — a number of times, not just 2010. There have been any number of other occasions where had the Tea Party been embraced by the Republican Party… It was a natural coalition; it was a natural mix. <\/p>\n

Now we\u2019re in a circumstance where no matter where you go in the country (except in little enclaves of Democrats), everything happen is universally opposed. We are genuinely being governed by a smaller and smaller minority, which somehow is able to bully everybody in the majority into shutting up. They\u2019re able to bully people into not only shutting up, but caving. <\/p>\n

It seems like every day or every week we get another example of somebody on the Republican side giving up the fight, and whenever a Republican stands up and wants to carry the fight, the forces of opposition to that descend and try to destroy that guy — Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, are two names that come to mind, Rand Paul and others. It\u2019s just amazing to me. So you got most Americans disappointed in Obama\u2019s presidency, opposing Obamacare and want no part of it. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s another little blurb here. This is one line story. It\u2019s so small, I wonder where I put it. Something like 6% of people support Obamacare. Here it is. New York Times, CBS poll: 6% say Obamacare is working well and should be kept in place. Six percent! In terms of the will of the people, in terms of public opinion, in terms of what the people this country want, what\u2019s happening isn\u2019t it. I\u2019ve never seen this before, and I mean that.<\/line><\/p>\n

I have never seen circumstance where two of the three bodies of government lay down and allow themselves to literally be trampled and have their power taken from them. I\u2019ve never seen this kind of docile, lackadaisical, uncaring attitude about this, and I\u2019m here to assure you: I don\u2019t care what happens, I am never gonna be in that group. I can\u2019t foresee a circumstance. I literally cannot foresee the day where I come to this program behind this microphone and begin speaking to you in a manner that would indicate I have given up what I believe.<\/p>\n

I just can\u2019t see it. I don\u2019t understand how others can do it. But it\u2019s happening. It\u2019s undeniable. A genuinely small minority of people are bullying their way through the Constitution, the culture, and they are bending and shaping public opinion in their way. I know, “media this.” I\u2019m not gonna sound like a broken record. We all know the reasons why. But it shouldn\u2019t be this easy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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