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RUSH: Now, before we get to that, I want to offer continuing evidence of my theorem that I put forth last week. I have a couple of stories here. Scott Rasmussen\u2019s latest poll on Obama approval finds that Obama\u2019s approval rating is at 54%. Strongly approve is 33%, and strongly disapprove is 36%, but the total approval (and this is a poll of likely voters) is at 54%. Despite the fact that people disagree with the direction of the country and the deficit, unemployment, gun control and all of that, Obama\u2019s still at 54% approval. Up until last week, when I raised the curtain on this mystery, everybody asked, “How can this be?” <\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how it can be: Over the weekend, the regime leaked their immigration plan to USA Today. “White House Immigration Plan Offers Path to Residency.” It\u2019s in USA Today, and to the point of Obama taking no responsibility, look at how his immigration plan is released. He didn\u2019t release it. Obama didn\u2019t call a press conference with himself at the podium and make a big deal of announcing his immigration plan. There\u2019s nothing tying him to this! This was leaked (i.e., it\u2019s a “mistake”). Somebody said something they shouldn\u2019t. This was leaked out. This was dribbled out to USA Today. <\/p>\n

His chief of staff was on TV pushing this over the weekend while Obama\u2019s playing golf with Tiger Woods for three days down here. So this is how Obama gets his immigration plan in the mix without any of his fingerprints on it. There was not one word of Obama being associated with this immigration plan. USA Today? This is how the regime announces their big immigration reform plan? On the other hand, how do our guys do it? They call a press conference. They get whoever\u2019s involved in it: Chuck-U Schumer, Lindsey Grahamnesty, McCain, Marco Rubio, Gang of Eight. They\u2019re all up there. They do a press conference, all of them standing there, and you know it\u2019s these guys\u2019 plan. <\/p>\n

Here comes “the White House plan.” It\u2019s not even “the Obama plan.” Here comes “the White House plan,” leaked over the weekend in USA Today. This is how Obama is never tied to anything. This is somebody else\u2019s immigration plan. What\u2019s gonna happen now? Obama, I think, leaves tomorrow. I think he\u2019s in town here all the way through today, maybe tonight, but he\u2019ll go back to Washington, and he will complain that Congress has not acted on a balanced approach to budgeting. They haven\u2019t acted on a balanced approach to immigration. They haven\u2019t done anything on the sequester.<\/p>\n

While he\u2019s been down here playing golf and hasn\u2019t been doing anything, including hiding from the media, he\u2019ll get back to town tomorrow and he\u2019ll talk about all of these wonderful things that these mysterious people are trying to do and Congress hasn\u2019t actually done anything progressive on it. But his fingerprints are nowhere to be found. It\u2019s kind of like the way… You know, Obamacare became his because he did try to sell that, but Pelosi and Reid or their staff wrote that. It was in a drawer. The health care plan has been in somebody\u2019s drawer for years waiting for this golden opportunity moment to present it. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s why Obama didn\u2019t touch it. You know, people were asking then, “Why do you think Obama farmed it out to those guys?” It was precisely so that his fingerprints weren\u2019t on it if it failed. During the attempt to pass it, he was distant. He was removed from it in terms of it actually being his. When you leak your immigration reform plan to USA Today over the weekend, this is how he does it. This is how he claimed no responsibility and takes none. This thing just happened. So now it\u2019s out there, but there\u2019s no optic. There\u2019s no picture of Obama. I mean, this didn\u2019t happen on TV so, as far as the low-information voters are concerned, it didn\u2019t happen. (chuckling)<\/p>\n

You think they\u2019re reading USA Today? Ha! <\/p>\n

They may tune in by accident to the Sunday morning shows and see the chief of staff up there talking about it while Obama\u2019s out playing golf. That\u2019s how it happens. Now the Rasmussen poll: 54% approval rating, despite massive disagreement with his agenda. They don\u2019t tie him to the agenda. They don\u2019t tie his agenda to the direction the country\u2019s going. They don\u2019t tie his agenda or his policies to their reality. Look at the gasoline price. The gasoline price is now over $5 in many parts of the country. Gasoline prices have risen for 32 straight days. The gasoline price is 96% higher today than when Obama was immaculated, and it hasn\u2019t attached to him. <\/p>\n

He has nothing to do with this. This is Big Oil doing this. This is Big Oil or some Grand Wizard behind the curtain pulling the levers on gas prices, and Obama is doing everything he can to stop this. Obama\u2019s doing everything he can to keep gasoline affordable! He\u2019s even proposing electric cars. He\u2019s making sure that we don\u2019t pollute the planet and destroy it even more. He\u2019s opposing the Keystone pipeline! He\u2019s doing everything he can — and yet, look! These evil, powerful forces in the private sector keep defying him and screwing you and raising the gasoline price. <\/line><\/p>\n

Well, have you heard anybody blame Obama? Let\u2019s go back when the gasoline price was rising during the Bush years. You heard people in the media and Democrat Party every day demanding that Bush do something about it. Do you hear anybody demanding Obama do anything about this? No, because it\u2019s assumed by the low-information voters that he\u2019s already tying. “He\u2019s just being screwed by these Republicans and the Big Oil people who won\u2019t cooperate with him,” while he\u2019s playing golf for three days with Tiger Woods at the Floridian. His entire governing style is centered around the whole concept of plausible deniability. <\/p>\n

The Democrats are talking about increasing taxes on Big Oil, ending the so-called subsidies that they\u2019ve got. So the gas price is going up and the oil price is going up, but it\u2019s not anything to do with Obama. It\u2019s Big Oil and maybe Bush. You know, \u2019cause Bush and Cheney? Halliburton? They were involved in oil! It\u2019s probably policies that are held over from those guys. Don\u2019t laugh. It is the explanation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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