{"id":18841,"date":"2011-04-25T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:20:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-20T00:20:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:20:53","slug":"fineman_gop_drags_down_obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/04\/25\/fineman_gop_drags_down_obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Fineman: GOP Drags Down Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125111.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"340\" class=\"alignleft\"\/>RUSH: This is hilarious. This is hilarious. This was Friday night on PMSNBC, The Last Word with Lawrence O\u2019Donnell. Now, Howard Fineman used to be at Newsweek. Now he is at the Huffing and Puffington Post. He\u2019s a senior political editor there. And we were discussing the new poll from CBS\/New York Times that was just devastating for Obama, 70% think the country\u2019s in the wrong direction, 52% think Obama\u2019s wacko, whatever it was, it\u2019s bad news. So O\u2019Donnell said, &#8220;Howard, the president does have some high disapproval numbers in there for a president running for reelection, but the Congress has a disapproval number, 75%. Now, how do you think voters are balancing that out? How do you explain it?&#8221; Listen to this, folks.<\/p>\n<p>FINEMAN: People are a little disappointed in the president because he hasn\u2019t been able to change the way Washington works at all. Indeed, Congress is even more poorly regarded. Everybody wanted a bigger deal than was done on the last budget go-around. And so in an odd way the fact that the Republicans and Congress are so poorly regarded, that the whole system is so poorly regarded, drags everybody down, including the president.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: See, there you have it. The reason Obama showed so poorly in the New York Times poll is \u2019cause the Republicans are doing so poorly in the polls. The Republicans happen to win big in the election. Now, Congress was at 14, ten, 12% approval when Bush was in the thirties, did they ever say that Bush, low approval in the thirties, was due to Pelosi being low? Of course not. But, see, as far as these sycophants are concerned, and I hate to say it, folks, these people, if they keep it up are going to die of animal poisoning. As far as they\u2019re concerned everybody thinks that Obama\u2019s the end of the world like they do. Everybody thinks like they think that Obama is The Messiah, and so it doesn\u2019t compute that 70% think the country\u2019s going in the wrong direction. How can this be? It doesn\u2019t compute that 52, 55 percent don\u2019t approve of what Obama is doing. It doesn\u2019t compute because a hundred percent of them love Obama. So it has to be the Republicans. 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