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\"Listen<\/a>\nRUSH: Tyler in Lima, Ohio. Hi, Tyler. Great to have you here, sir.<\/p>\nCALLER: Hey, Rush, mega dittos. Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\nRUSH: Appreciate that.<\/p>\nCALLER: I guess the main line of my call here in Lima, Ohio, is for Governor John Kasich, wanted to give kudos for Kasich. But then more specifically, I wanted to give kudos, I guess, more or less — I know the recovery isn\u2019t quite where we want it to be, but just imagine where we would be without all of these Republican governors since 2010. Every time I hear and I see Kasich on, and specifically he was over in Europe at a conference, I think the end of last year, the beginning of this year, and from what I do know while he was over at the conference he actually got to sit down and talk with several companies basically promoting the state of Ohio and the United States to bring some of their manufacturing over here. When do you ever hear Obama or anyone else making the case for —<\/p>\n<\/p>\nRUSH: You don\u2019t. I\u2019ll tell you what this means. This is exactly what I was talking about toward the end of the program yesterday. Some people ask me on the phone (you\u2019ve heard it), “Is it time to panic?” I\u2019ve always said, “I\u2019ll tell you when it\u2019s time to panic,” and in fact, I can\u2019t pinpoint it, but I\u2019m feeling optimistic, and it\u2019s not phony. It\u2019s not wishful thinking. It\u2019s not phony hopefulness. I just have a sense in me that this country is not gone, that the people of this country not gonna put up with this. I don\u2019t know how this is gonna manifest itself.<\/p>\nObama\u2019s devastating this country. The policies put in place and those that are gonna be put in place are gonna do even more damage. I mean, it\u2019s serious what he\u2019s doing. Did you see this? The IRS announced that the family health care premium, once Obamacare is implemented, is $20,000 a year. You were told your premium was gonna go down $2,500 a year! The average family premium is going to be $20,000 a year. I guarantee you, people didn\u2019t vote for that.<\/p>\nThey didn\u2019t think they were voting for that, the ones that voted for Obama, and there are going to be a number of things that wake people up. Now, I don\u2019t know what those people are going to think about it. I wish I could give you more specifics. I can\u2019t. I\u2019m not dreaming. I\u2019m not fantasizing. I just have too much faith in the people of this country. We\u2019re not gonna put up with this. Obama\u2019s not ultimately gonna get away with totally destroying this country. His damage already done is brutal and he\u2019s gonna do more and we\u2019re gonna have an incredible amount of hard work ahead of us.<\/p>\nBut your comment about Kasich, the governor of Ohio, that\u2019s where all this resistance is happening, folks. The states! The states is where resistance is opposition to Obamacare is taking place. The states is where tax reform is taking place, starting. The states is where whatever opposition to the latest crisis of the day is, be it health care, immigration, or guns. The states — the majority of which have Republican governors — are where this is all being dealt with, and you\u2019re not hearing about it. They don\u2019t get a lot of press coverage, but that\u2019s where this is happening. I feel good about it, so I like the fact that he called here and wanted to praise Kasich.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nThese people deserve it.<\/p>\nThere are a number of governors and other officials and people at the grassroots level in states all across the country. I mean, you look at California. More and more athletes are coming out, I saw the story, and leaving because of taxes. Liberalism has consequences. It has never worked, folks. It has never worked! It has never fulfilled its promise. Obama has wreaked a lot of damage on this country already, and there will be more. There\u2019s gonna be more to come. He\u2019s devastating. His policies and his presidency are devastating.<\/p>\nBut I have this confidence that he\u2019s not gonna succeed in total transforming this country into a Western European socialist democracy where the vast majority of the population just lays down and accepts it.<\/p>\nBREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\nRUSH: It\u2019d be interesting to see a calculation of where this economy would be right now without fracking, the new way of getting oil. Other than areas of high-tech, fracking is probably one of the largest areas where concentrated growth in this economy is taking place. There are oil booms in the Dakotas, in North Dakota. They are having to build entire cities, towns, to house employees showing up to work in fracking. The left is trying to shut it down under some claim that it destroys the environment. Natural gas and oil, of course, are the evil twins of opposition to the mainstream environmentalist wacko movement.<\/p>\nBut without that, there wouldn\u2019t be any economic activity to speak of, and the governors are resisting every Obama effort to shut it down. Look at the Keystone pipeline! Why not build it? It\u2019s after the election. It\u2019s not gonna harm Obama\u2019s reelection. Why not authorize it? You know, even if there is something to alternative energy, it isn\u2019t gonna be for 20 years! We\u2019re still going to need oil. But guy and the Democrat Party are so religiously opposed to oil, it it\u2019s irresponsible. The Keystone pipeline would add to our domestic supply. It would help us with energy independence. It would help lower fuel prices. Why not do it?<\/p>\nWell, if you\u2019re Obama there are specific reasons why you don\u2019t want to do it, and you\u2019ve heard \u2019em all before.<\/p>\nBREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\nRUSH: I mentioned in the last hour and I mentioned yesterday, too… I can\u2019t give you specifics. It\u2019s just a feeling — and I assure you, it\u2019s not just blind hopefulness. It isn\u2019t wishful thinking. I just have a sense that Obama\u2019s not going to ultimately succeed in totally transforming this country into something other than how it was founded. Now, I\u2019m not denying what he\u2019s done so far has been devastating, but there are signs out there.<\/p>\nI keep talking about the states. In addition to fracking, do you know what else is booming? Fracking would be probably number one, and it\u2019s the most unreported characteristic that is responsible for economic growth. There literally is a boom in the oil industry in this country where fracking is taking place. The other thing that is growing this economy is the manufacture and sale of guns, and you know that.<\/p>\nYou may not have put it in proper context, but you have seen all the stories about people lining up, buying guns and ammo left and right. That has a profound economic impact. Then you hear 8.5 million jobs vanished. The labor force participation rate? We\u2019ve lost 8.5 million jobs since Barack Obama took office — and, sadly, that\u2019s not by accident. Sadly, it\u2019s not a quirk of fate.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nThey may talk today about 157,000 new jobs were created last month. Guess what? Well, 169,000 people left the labor force. So we have a net loss when it comes to jobs. That\u2019s why the unemployment rate went up to 7.9%. Then there\u2019s this. I had this story late in the day yesterday. It\u2019s from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. It\u2019s another poll, but this one actually has good news in it.<\/p>\n“As Barack Obama begins his second term in office, trust in the federal government remains mired near a historic low, while frustration with government remains high.” Now, I know what you\u2019re saying. “Wait a minute, Rush! What do you mean, ‘trust in the federal government remains mired near a historic low, while frustration with government remains high\u2019? We just reelected a guy who\u2019s promising more and more government!”<\/p>\nI know. It seems like cognitive dissonance. Maybe it\u2019s worse. Maybe a lot of people are willing to give up their rights for government freebies. You know, you cannot underestimate — and I did, by the way. But I\u2019m never making this mistake again. I feel a little chagrined that I made this mistake in the last campaign. When Obama was running these ads that were accusing Romney of essentially murdering some guy\u2019s wife, my reaction privately to myself and here on the radio, too, was:<\/p>\n“Nobody\u2019s gonna believe that. That\u2019s so outrageous to say about Romney. It\u2019s silly.” I was wrong. People, even if they didn\u2019t believe it specifically, it worked in combination with everything else Obama was doing in terms of trying to define Romney. The dog in the cage on the roof of the station wagon on the family vacation, all the “hidden money” in the Caymans and Swiss bank accounts.<\/p>\nThe fact of the matter is, Obama and the Democrats did a number on Mitt Romney\u2019s reputation and his character and his image with outrageous commercials that I thought nobody in their right mind was gonna believe. I know they\u2019re gonna appeal to somebody, but they appeal to far more. People may not have believed it specifically, but it did enough damage to make people say, “I don\u2019t know. I just don\u2019t like this Romney guy. Stick with what we got.”<\/p>\nI think there were a lot of people with their hands in the air in that election just gave up. You know, Obama\u2019s vote totals were down from 2008. The Republican vote totals were down from 2008. In fact, there were three or four million people, Republicans, who did not vote in 2012, who did in 2008. If they\u2019d shown up, we\u2019d be talking about an entirely different future today, and it would be dramatically, positively different.<\/p>\nBut there was no robust endorsement of Barack Obama and his policies in the 2012 election. Look at the inauguration crowds. They were down by half. The exuberance, the excitement, the near cultlike status Obama had in 2008? That\u2019s gone. He\u2019s not that messianic figure anymore. But still people voted for him. I think, looking back on it now with what we know now, there are some reasons for it.<\/p>\nThey may not make a whole lot of sense, but they are still reasons, and I think they did a good enough job of Romney\u2019s reputation that people said, “Ah, the hell with it! I don\u2019t like that guy. He\u2019s a rich Republican. He doesn\u2019t care about me.” Look at the exit poll data. “Cares about people like me?” Obama, 81% agree; 19% agree with Romney. All of that is the negative ad campaign that Obama ran that the Romney people didn\u2019t respond to \u2019cause they didn\u2019t think it would stick, either.<\/p>\nNobody in their right mind would think an ad accusing a candidate of committing murder would stick! So you got this poll from Pew, which says that “trust in the federal government remains mired near a historic low, while frustration with government remains high,” and yet the guy responsible for both of those got reelected. It\u2019s enough to make you pull whatever hair you have left out.<\/p>\nAlso according to the poll: “And for the first time, a majority of the public says that the federal government threatens their personal rights and freedoms.” That is excellent news. It\u2019s surprising to me that it\u2019s the first time most people realize this, but I\u2019ll take it. And I\u2019ll tell you why. It\u2019s about guns, and it\u2019s about contraception. It\u2019s about the Catholic Church. It\u2019s about religious freedom. People are noticing.<\/p>\nYou circle back and say, “Yeah, but Obama still won.”<\/p>\nYeah. That still remains largely inexplicable. But it doesn\u2019t change the results of the poll. It doesn\u2019t change it. In fact, it reinforces my gut instinct here. Now, I don\u2019t think that all of us just sittings around waiting for something to happen is what\u2019s gonna effect change. Don\u2019t misunderstand. There are all kinds of people as I mentioned that I working to stop what\u2019s happening and to reverse course.<\/p>\nYou don\u2019t hear about them, but they\u2019re out there. Governors, people in the states, average Americans. “The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, conducted Jan. 9-13 among 1,502 adults, finds that 53% think that the federal government threatens their own personal rights and freedoms,” I\u2019d actually like it higher but I\u2019ll take the 53%, “while 43% disagree. …<\/p>\n“The growing view that the federal government threatens personal rights and freedoms has been led by conservative Republicans. Currently 76% of conservative Republicans say that the federal government threatens their personal rights and freedoms and 54% describe the government as a \u00c2\u201cmajor\u00c2\u201d threat. Three years ago, 62% of conservative Republicans said the government was a threat to their freedom; 47% said it was a major threat.”<\/p>\nThree years ago, it was 62% of conservatives. Now it\u2019s 76%. While 47% said it was a major threat, as opposed to 54%. There hadn\u2019t been much change among Democrats, 38% to 38%, but most of this 38% still vote for more government, which tell you this how much they value their rights, despite all their lip service to civil liberty. They just want the free stuff. I mean, there\u2019s 38% that we can count on for voting for Santa Claus.<\/p>\nThat\u2019s what the poll tells us.<\/p>\nBut it\u2019s not 47%, at least according to this polling data. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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