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RUSH: Obama is making a few of his own. Yesterday, he claimed to be a ‘fiscal conservative.\u2019 The way he says he\u2019s a fiscal conservative is that he\u2019s gonna eliminate 10% of government contractor payments, which is about $40 billion. But why is he out there trying to say he\u2019s a fiscal conservative? I thought ‘hope\u2019 and ‘change\u2019 and all this unbridled liberalism was what people wanted. I thought people wanted bigger government! In fact Obama is all upset. Where is the sound bite? (shuffling papers) I\u2019m all over the place today. Let\u2019s see. Yeah. Grab 18. Here\u2019s Obama. He\u2019s out there and trying to make himself out to be a fiscal conservative, now. He was on the Today Show with Matt Lauer, and Matt Lauer said, ‘Look, if I\u2019m a voter and I\u2019m trying to decide whether I want to vote for you or McCain, don\u2019t I have a right to know — right now, from you — which of these things are going to get hit by the budget ax before I vote for you?\u2019<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Although we are potentially providing $700 billion in available money to the Treasury, we don\u2019t anticipate that all that money gets spent right away and we don\u2019t anticipate that all that money is lost. How we\u2019re going to structure that in — in — in budget terms, it still has to be decided. Does that mean that I can do everything that I\u2019ve called for in this campaign right away? Probably not. I think we\u2019re going to have to phase it in and a lot of it is going to depend on what our tax revenues look like.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Whoa! You\u2019re going to be shocked. If you start raising people\u2019s taxes, you\u2019re going to have to less revenue, sir. So the bailout could delay Obama\u2019s spending. Now all of a sudden he\u2019s gotta start talking about being a fiscal conservative. But the piece de resistance for Obama yesterday was that he promised to put every piece of legislation that crosses his desk up on the Internet so everybody can read it, five days before he signs it. The only problem is Clinton started that back in the nineties! Obama promised to do what\u2019s already being done. Now do we ask ourselves, ‘Does he really not know this?\u2019 I guess he hasn\u2019t been in the Senate long enough to know that they do this, that the Clinton administration started this whole process of legislation going up on the Internet so everybody can look at it, whoever wants to — and he doesn\u2019t even know that, or if he does, he\u2019s just pandering. Who knows?<\/p>\n

But regardless, the bloom has certainly come off of the Obama rose. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I saw something, and this is how the conventional wisdom in the media works. It was either Saturday or Sunday, days run together. I do show prep every day. It was a political story by my old buddy Jonathan Martin, who was very fair and first out of the box with my response to Obama\u2019s Spanish-language ad that was full of lies and out of context quotes and so forth. He ran this piece that this economic collapse and financial mess was going to give Obama a boost because Democrats just naturally benefit from economic decline. And of course then McCain had been out there saying something different every day, but guess what? It hasn\u2019t translated into big support for Obama. None of the rules are working here. None of the conventional wisdom is working. The Democrats ought to be winning this by 20 points, the Republicans ought to be having no chance whatsoever in the House and the Senate, according to the conventional wisdom. And everything\u2019s in play. The Senate\u2019s in play, the House is in play, the White House clearly in play, Obama in big trouble, but they have these axioms, these narratives that a souring economy, when a Republican president is in office, will naturally lead. Problem is, that they\u2019ve been on this tack for seven years. They\u2019ve been trying to run down the US economy for seven years. People are tired of hearing it. <\/p>\n

The economy is actually fine. It\u2019s just when Wall Street has these crises happen, people\u2019s emotional reservoirs are empty. I mean, we\u2019ve already been told we\u2019re in a recession for all these months and years when we haven\u2019t been in one. Michael Barone has a piece, ‘The old economic rule doesn\u2019t work. Financial distress does not push voters to Democrats.\u2019 It\u2019s at Creators Syndicate. A lot of reasons here he gives. I don\u2019t have time to read the entire piece to you, but we\u2019ll link to it at RushLimbaugh.com. Interestingly, post-convention polls show McCain\u2019s running at least as well as Bush in 2004, in Michigan and Ohio. Ohio was supposed to be impossible this year, folks, because of Republican corruption there. The governor, Bob Ney with Jack Abramoff, member of Congress. We\u2019re supposed to lose Ohio by 20 points, and McCain\u2019s up four. So recent state tax increases have failed to bolster ailing economies, Michigan and Ohio. Gallup shows Democrats with only a three percentage point edge in the generic House vote, used to be double digits. Rasmussen shows Democrats ahead only five percentage points in party affiliation. The old rule that economic distress moves voters towards Democrats doesn\u2019t seem to be operating, and of course there are reasons why they\u2019re not operating, many and varied reasons. One is that there are other factors. You talk about weight. Other factors weighing more on people\u2019s minds. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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