In the past, high school dropouts and other low-skilled workers could find work in the fast food industry or in retail outlets. No more. Times are tough, and those jobs are now being taken by people with college degrees and work experience. So the low-information, low-skilled workers are up Obama’s Creek without a paddle.

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RUSH: The Democrats have made, in terms of my life, a lifetime policy out of this. Revenge... Take it out on the rich. Take it out on the successful. Take it out on the people that have more than you do. 

RUSH: I'm not trying to be defeatist. This has been realistic. There's no common ground here. There is no bipartisanship to be had. Isn't gonna happen. There is no compromise. None! There is only concession. That's all that can happen, and that's what will happen.

DEMINT: I believe that I can do more good for the conservative movement outside of the Senate in leveraging the assets of the Heritage Foundation to communicate a more positive, optimistic message to the American people.

RUSH:  When your grandchildren start grade school in a few years, what will they be taught?  Tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 and tax cuts in the 1980s led to the Great Recession of 2007 through 2009.  It's gonna be in the history books.  That's what Obama is aiming for here, and an entire generation of students will grow up learning this, and thus believing it.

RUSH: Imagine the excitement, something you couldn't capture at home even on high definition, the excitement of the team captain in full uniform bowling. 

RUSH: William Kristol, Editor of the Weekly Standard, seems to have decided that retreat is the way forward for the Republican Party.