{"id":15850,"date":"2012-04-27T17:18:49","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T17:18:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-27T17:18:49","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T17:18:49","slug":"federal_government_favorability_hits_15_year_low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/04\/27\/federal_government_favorability_hits_15_year_low\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Government Favorability Hits 15-Year Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Is it any wonder government favorability is at a 15-year low?  A decade ago Americans felt pretty much the same about their local, state and federal governments.  But no longer. <\/p>\n<p>Now, a decade ago, George W. Bush was president.  There was not a TSA.  There wasn\u2019t Obamacare.  Well, wait a minute.  Yeah, there was a TSA.  Bush did it.  So there was a TSA, but there weren\u2019t thousands of IRS agents being hired.  States weren\u2019t being sued. The deficit was $10 trillion less than it is now. First ladies were not taking lavish vacations. The president wasn\u2019t &#8220;slow-jamming&#8221; the news.  Look at all that\u2019s happened the last ten years, and is it any wonder that government favorability is at a 15-year low?  And, folks, I know what the media is gonna do, blame this on a Republican Congress.  They\u2019re gonna tell us that that\u2019s what\u2019s this means.  Government now is Congress, yes, because the House is what the Republicans control, so that\u2019s the government. But Barack Obama is the most hyped, the most visible, the most protected president in history, so who\u2019s he gonna blame for this? <\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_61844\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/BushMissMeYet585.jpg\"\/><BR\/>All you need to know is a decade ago, Americans felt the same about state, local and federal government.  Now federal government favorability is at a 15-year low.  And just to review again the last ten years.  George Bush was president. We had no Obamacare. We didn\u2019t have 4,000 new IRS agents being hired to make sure you buy your health insurance policy or pay a fine.  The states were not being sued by the federal government.  The deficit was $10 trillion.  There\u2019s no question, folks, it dovetails with what we were talking about yesterday, my vision of where this country is, or the people are, and what the November election could end up being, a <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/?p=15865\">landslide<\/a>. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t care where you look, you\u2019ve got economic growth at 1.7%, basically, no jobs, five or six trillion dollars in new debt, all these new IRS agents, a health care bill that 70% of the people don\u2019t want.  The federal government is suing the state of Arizona. Michelle Obama, $500,000 vacation to Spain and all these others. I don\u2019t care what they try to tell us, government favorability at a 15-year low is a direct correlation to Barack Obama\u2019s presidency. <\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_61827\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Obama-arm.jpg\"\/><BR\/>&#8220;Today, just one in three has a favorable view of the federal government &#8212; the lowest level in 15 years, according to a Pew survey. The majority of Americans remain satisfied with their local and state governments &#8212; 61%  and 52%, respectively &#8212; but only 33 percent feel likewise about the federal government.&#8221;  And that\u2019s about the percentage of people who vote for Obama.  The Democrats own the federal government.  The only thing they don\u2019t have is the House.  They can try to blame this on Bush, but that\u2019s not what\u2019s happening.  They can try to blame it on Boehner and the Republicans, but that\u2019s not what\u2019s happening. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>As things stand, more than three years into the Obama disaster, Americans are fed up. They have had enough, and every poll that is a legitimate, honest poll about that, tells the truth.  In 2002, 64% viewed the federal government favorably.  Americans held their local and state governments in similar esteem, 67 and 62% respectively.  Who was president in 2002?  The supposedly reviled and the hated George W. Bush. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Is it any wonder government favorability is at a 15-year low? A decade ago Americans felt pretty much the same about their local, state and federal governments. But no longer. Now, a decade ago, George W. Bush was president. There was not a TSA. There wasn\u2019t Obamacare. Well, wait a minute. 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