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RUSH: This is from Gallup. Somebody in the Drive-By Media is not doing their job. And they\u2019re really trying, by the way. Folks, we have unemployment news today. It\u2019s unexpectedly high. Claims for new unemployment assistance, unexpectedly, way, way up. And so if you read the story from State-Controlled AP you find out it was the snow. Really? So we looked at the Labor Department\u2019s report. The Labor Department is the official agency announcing unemployment numbers. So we read it. We scoured it. The Labor Department doesn\u2019t say anything about snow in their report. People get fired when it snows, people can\u2019t get to work when it snows. I guess the way they have to do this is if you have a job but you can\u2019t get there you are counted as unemployed that day as far as the AP steno pool is concerned. The only thing I don\u2019t know is if they call the White House first and get clearance to run this story. But the Labor Department makes no mention of snow. So AP just put it in there. We\u2019ve got that. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got contradictory stories: ‘The economy, it\u2019s on afterburners, really racing.\u2019 Next story: ‘No. No, it\u2019s not. The reverse thrusters are on, the economy is slowing down.\u2019 And then here from Gallup: survey finds more Americans approve of Republicans than disapprove of \u2019em for the first time since 2005, after Tucson, after the State of the Union. Well, I don\u2019t know after the State of the Union, but certainly after Tucson, after the first two years of the regime. The numbers are 47-43. ‘Americans\u2019 opinions of the Republican Party have improved to the point where now more have a favorable than unfavorable opinion of the party. The last time more Americans viewed the GOP more positively than negatively was in 2005. These results are based on a USA Today\/Gallup poll conducted Jan. 14-16.\u2019 From the Weekly Standard blog by Jeffrey Anderson: ‘The January Kaiser Health tracking poll, conducted jointly with the Harvard School of Public Health, now shows Obamacare to be less popular than at any time since its passage.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Now, put those two things together. Republican Party more favorable than unfavorable for the first time since 2005, and ‘For the first time since Obamacare became law, Kaiser now shows 50 percent of respondents holding an ‘unfavorable\u2019 opinion of it (up from a previous high of 45 percent in this poll), with only 41 percent holding a ‘favorable\u2019 opinion of it. The Kaiser Health tracking poll has always been an outlier poll, showing unusually favorable results for Obamacare. Previously, the largest margin of opposition in this poll was just 3 points.\u2019 But a nine-point jump in opposition seems like a bit more than an uptick, almost a ten-point margin. Doesn\u2019t seem all that roughly divided. ‘Kaiser\/Harvard\u2019s political leanings are evident in its write up, as a shift from 41 percent opposition last month to 50 percent opposition this month is described as an ‘uptick.” Almost ten points. It\u2019s not an uptick whatsoever. And this is a poll, as I say, traditionally favorable to the regime. <\/p>\n

Now, we know in most polls the number of people that oppose Obamacare, want it repealed, are in the mid- to upper fifties, in some polls low sixties. So here, Republicans more favorable than unfavorable first time since 2005. Obamacare less popular than any time since it became law. Let\u2019s see, what\u2019s next in the Stack of Stuff here? Well, interesting numbers. Going back over the past State of the Union addresses, when George W. Bush gave his State of the Union address in 2007, unemployment was 4.6%. When he gave his last State of the Union in 2008, it was 5%. That\u2019s up .4%. Compared to when Obama gave his State of the Union address in \u201909, 7.8%, and in 2010, 9.7%. So Bush\u2019s last State of the Union, 2008, 5%, in Obama\u2019s State of the Union, 9.7%. And the president is touting the growth of government and more government programs as a way to grow the economy. <\/p>\n

From the stenographers at the Associated Press: ‘Employers will hire more workers this year, and the economy will grow faster than envisioned three months ago, according to an Associated Press survey that found growing optimism among leading economists.\u2019 Now, these are the economists that have been predicting this ever since January 20th, 2009, and are going, ‘Whew.\u2019 ‘But unemployment will stay chronically high — nearly 9 percent by year\u2019s end, the latest quarterly AP Economy Survey shows. A majority of economists say it will be 2016 or later before unemployment drops to a historically normal rate of around 5 percent.\u2019 Now, I\u2019ve read the story front-to-back. AP tries to avoid mentioning the extension of the Bush tax cuts as part of the cause for any of this supposed optimism. But Obama\u2019s out there trying to take credit for it. Obama\u2019s out there, (imitating Obama) ‘Look what I did, look what I did, we\u2019re cutting taxes.\u2019 The AP wants to leave all that out. Also, the pie-in-the-sky projections don\u2019t even add up. For instance, how can you double the number of jobs added and not lower the unemployment rate? And that\u2019s what the story says they\u2019re gonna do, they\u2019re gonna double the number of jobs added. So headline says it all: ‘AP Survey: Outlook for 2011 Economy is Brightening.\u2019<\/line> <\/line>What\u2019s next in the Stack of Stuff? From the Wall Street Journal: ‘Deficit Outlook Darkens — The federal budget deficit will reach a record of nearly $1.5 trillion in 2011 due to the weak economy.\u2019 Now, what is your average news consumer to do here? ‘Outlook for 2011 economy brightening,\u2019 AP. Wall Street Journal: ‘The federal budget deficit will reach a record of nearly $1.5 trillion in 2011 due to the weak economy, higher spending and fresh tax cuts,\u2019 this according to congressional budget analysts, the beloved nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. But according to the previous story, what weak economy? And what fresh tax cuts? Haven\u2019t been any tax cuts. And this is blasphemy here to talk about a weak economy. <\/line><\/p>\n

What\u2019s next in the stack here? Let\u2019s see. Ah. From the AP. Okay, let\u2019s just do this in chronological order here as we have done it. ‘AP Survey: Outlook for 2011 Economy is Brightening,\u2019 ‘Deficit Outlook Darkens, Slowing Economy,\u2019 Wall Street Journal. Back to AP: ‘The economy isn\u2019t growing fast enough to lower unemployment,\u2019 still needs help from the Federal Reserve, $600 billion Treasury bond purchase program. That was the assessment yesterday of Fed policy. What is a news consumer to do here? ‘AP Survey: Outlook for 2011 Economy is Brightening.\u2019 ‘Federal budget deficit, record high, one and a half trillion, weak economy, economy isn\u2019t growing fast enough to lower unemployment.\u2019 <\/p>\n

And here we have the previously mentioned unemployment news: ‘The number of people applying for unemployment benefits rose sharply last week, but the figures were largely distorted by rare snowstorms that swept through the Southeast. Applications surged last week by a seasonally adjusted 51,000 to 454,000, the highest level since late October, the Labor Department said Thursday. A government analyst said that a major reason for the spike was the harsh weather in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. That forced many companies to shut down temporarily&hellip;\u2019 Did they fire people? ‘&hellip; and also prevented many people from applying for benefits.\u2019 Oh, no. My God, failure, couldn\u2019t apply for benefits. Man, if you can\u2019t apply for benefits, your world is empty. ‘When state offices, which had closed, reopened and people were able to file applications that pushed the number of requests up sharply.\u2019 As I say, there\u2019s no mention of snow or any weather anywhere in the Department of Labor\u2019s press release reporting this week\u2019s jobless figures. But we\u2019ve compared and contrasted this with the earlier news article from the same writer, Jeannine Aversa. So AP\u2019s contradicting itself all over the place. <\/p>\n

Did it ever snow during the Bush years? Did we ever hear about snow and any impact it had on the unemployment numbers during the Bush years?<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Tracy, Dayton, Ohio. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. Thank you so much for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just wanted to make a comment on the unemployment numbers as someone who has been unemployed for about three years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hm-hm.<\/p>\n

CALLER: One thing. I think this is a little skewed, because don\u2019t most people apply for unemployment online?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I have no idea. I don\u2019t have much experience with it, but I\u2019m told that\u2019s true. I\u2019m glad you mentioned that because one of the things I was wondering, they say unemployment rate went up, or the applications for unemployment went up because of snow. Now, it seems to me that snow would keep people away from the benefits office. But they try to tell us that because of snow, more and more people pile into the benefits office. None of it makes any sense. There\u2019s no logic to it whatsoever — <\/p>\n

CALLER: No, not at all.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — especially now if you say it\u2019s all done online.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you can apply for jobs online. I\u2019m not saying that\u2019s the best way to get a job, but that is kind of the way things are now, so why wouldn\u2019t they have time to apply for jobs at the same time?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, because there\u2019s this thing called the interview.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) This is true.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But, really, unemployment benefits, you file for it online, you don\u2019t have to do unemployment office necessarily or Walmart?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. I actually applied myself within the last month for benefits and was turned down.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why? Why were you turned down?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I apparently have exhausted my benefits, although —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. What in the world happened to all these extensions? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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