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Fox Poll: Obamacare Still Unpopular<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

RUSH: Fox News has got a story they\u2019re running right now that a majority of Americans still oppose Obamacare, and that\u2019s not gonna change. I think they said 33% of independents want Obamacare repealed. That\u2019s not gonna change. It\u2019s only gonna get worse. It\u2019s an abject joke. I mean, there\u2019s nothing to recommend it. It does not have popular support. It never has had. <\/p>\n

Fascinating Piece on Tea Party, Cantor, Graham<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

RUSH: I have a piece here from Real Clear Politics by Sean Trende that has some really timely observations on the Eric Cantor loss, but also on the victory by Senator Graham, South Carolina, who is also identified with amnesty, but yet he won.<\/p>\n

So what is the explanation? There\u2019s a good point that\u2019s made in this piece, and that is, depending on the network that you watch, you can hear within one program that the Tea Party\u2019s either dead or it\u2019s taking over the country. You can watch 30 minutes of MSNBC and you can hear analysts say one or both of those things. “Oh, yeah, Tea Party, it\u2019s finished,” depending on the latest election. So after Brat\u2019s victory, “Oh, the Tea Party is taking over, oh, no, Tea Party this, Tea Party that.” You can hear this full range.<\/p>\n

I think it always helps to remember just who the Tea Party is. I think the most confusing thing for people about the Tea Party is the word “party” in it. There is a Democrat Party, and there is a Republican Party, but there is no Tea Party in the same sense. So who are they? Who are these people that say they\u2019re in the Tea Party?<\/p>\n

Well, as Mr. Trende points out, analysts need to really try be honest with themselves and understand the Republican base is a large part of the Tea Party. And the Republican base is furious with the Republican establishment and, in large part, because of the Bush years. Let me read some excerpts of this piece.<\/p>\n

“From the point of view of conservatives I\u2019ve spoken with, the early- to mid-2000s look like this: Voters gave Republicans control of Congress and the presidency for the longest stretch since the 1920s. And what do Republicans have to show for it? Temporary tax cuts, No Child Left Behind, the Medicare prescription drug benefit, a new Cabinet department,” Homeland Security, “increased federal spending, TARP, and repeated attempts at immigration reform.”<\/p>\n

And this is not what people elect Republicans to do. This is an important point. “The early- to mid-2000s voters gave Republicans control of Congress and the presidency for the longest stretch since the 1920s,” and there\u2019s nothing to show for it. There\u2019s nothing conservative to show for it. There\u2019s nothing particularly Republican to show for it. And this is why there\u2019s a Tea Party. This is why the Republican base is volatile right now.<\/p>\n

“Basically, despite a historic opportunity to shrink government, almost everything that the GOP establishment achieved during that time moved the needle leftward on domestic policy.” That is undeniable. And it\u2019s very frustrating to people, and it\u2019s one reason why four million people who voted in 2008 did not vote in 2012, because they didn\u2019t perceive that Mitt Romney was gonna do anything other than move the country slower to the left than the Democrats would take it.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trende\u2019s exactly right. People in Washington do not understand, and even if they do, they won\u2019t act on it or believe it, that the standard Republican base voter cannot believe the opportunities that have been squandered, cannot believe that there has not yet, even after six years of Obama, they do not make one effort to contrast themselves with liberalism. This is something we\u2019ve spoken about prior on this program. It is the most amazing thing to me. We\u2019ve never, ever, these last six years, had a better opportunity to contrast what we believe in. Because with the Regime that\u2019s in power, we don\u2019t have to talk theoretically. It\u2019s actually happening.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t have to, as part of our discussion, warn people about what will happen if Democrats are elected, because it\u2019s already happening. Half of our job, if not more, is already done for us. The American people can see what happens when Democrats and liberals have unchecked power. And yet nobody on the Republican side wants to contrast what they really believe with what is going on, and it\u2019s made to order. We could have done it when Bush was in the White House, but we didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

“The only unambiguous win for conservatives were the Roberts and Alito appointments to the Supreme Court,” and Roberts is viewed with suspicion today. “The icing on the cake for conservatives is that these moves were justified through an argument that they were necessary –” The moves he\u2019s talking about here are the moves to the left. The icing on the cake, the final straw. What drives Republican base voters batty is when Republicans say that temporary tax cuts, No Child Left Behind, Medicare prescription drug benefit, Homeland Security, increased federal spending, TARP, bailouts, immigration reform, the Republicans say they had to do that in order to continue to win elections. And they had to do that to try to take those issues away from the Democrats.<\/p>\n

Instead, what happened? After eight years of trying to take the Democrats\u2019 issues away from them, what happened? We get “the most liberal Democratic presidency since Lyndon Johnson, accompanied by sizable Democratic House and Senate majorities.” In other words, the Republican way doesn\u2019t work. And this whole defensive posture of doing things to take the issue away from the Democrats, you know how that\u2019s metamorphosed now. “Well, we can\u2019t do the debt limit. We\u2019ll really come at \u2019em on X. Yeah, we gotta let \u2019em have this, but we\u2019ll really hit \u2019em.” We keep kicking cans down the road and never do anything.<\/p>\n

But the real frustrating thing is that this is directly tied to the Cantor loss. The Tea Party, the Republican base, cannot understand why there\u2019s no effort to stop this. Why do we have to do immigration reform to take the issue away from the Democrats? We\u2019re never gonna do it. We can\u2019t outdo the Democrats at being Democrats. We can\u2019t make ourselves loved by doing what Democrats do, just not as much of it. And it\u2019s a very, very frustrating thing.<\/p>\n

Analysts and so forth in the establishment are gonna have to understand that this is why people are mad. It\u2019s not the reasons they concoct. “Well, talk radio\u2019s making \u2019em mad. Talk radio\u2019s pursuing ratings and making them get all riled up.” No. People are mad because substance and ideas matter. It\u2019s real simple. The things that are happening in the country are destroying it, or are doing great damage. And there\u2019s no push-back. There\u2019s no perceived effort to stop any of it.<\/p>\n

<\/a>The tone deafness in Washington on the Republican side not understanding their base is such that it actually makes you think it isn\u2019t tone deafness, that it\u2019s defiance. (interruption) Ah, I can see by your reaction that that\u2019s what you think it is. (interruption) Well, I wouldn\u2019t go that far. Snerdley says, “I think they hate us,” meaning the Republican establishment, conservatives. Hate schmate, they resent deeply. They didn\u2019t like Reagan. In one way they\u2019re just like the Democrats. They want the power. I was talking to Andy McCarthy about his new book, next interview in the Limbaugh Letter, and he said one of the biggest problems with Obama is the precedent that he set. All these executive orders and executive power.<\/p>\n

I mean, the next Republican president can do this stuff, too. I said, “Do you think the Republicans would elect somebody?”<\/p>\n

He said, “Look at Romney.”<\/p>\n

I said, “What do you mean?”<\/p>\n

“Romney was running around saying the first thing he\u2019d do is repeal Obamacare. I\u2019m sorry; he doesn\u2019t have that power. Now, because we want it repealed we supported it, but we shouldn\u2019t have, because no president should have that kind of power.” He said, “See, this is how we all get sucked in. We all want the executive to do our bidding for us, and the Constitution falls by the wayside.”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a good point.<\/p>\n

Melinda Gates Decides Not to Fund Abortion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

RUSH: Cybercast News Service. Melinda Gates. She\u2019s the wife of Bill Gates. “Melinda Gates: ‘Gates Foundation Has Decided Not to Fund Abortion.'” Dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut! Melinda Gates said, “I understand why there is so much emotion, but conflating these issues will slow down progress for tens of millions of women. That is why when I get asked about my views on abortion, I say that, like everyone, I struggle with the issue, but I\u2019ve decided not to engage on it publicly — and the Gates Foundation has decided not to fund abortion.”<\/line>That\u2019s an earthquake in the feminazi camp. That is an earthquake. These are the people building all kinds of health charities. They\u2019re fighting AIDS and malaria and a number of other things as best they think they can in Africa. No more abortion money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. That, I\u2019m telling you, is… Pshew! Check to see if California\u2019s still attached. <\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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