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Story #1: Rasmussen: Obama Approval Rating Sinks to 49%
RUSH: Obama job approval is below 50% for the first time. "The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 30% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-eight percent (38%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -8. … Overall, 49% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. Today marks the first time his overall approval rating has ever fallen below 50% among Likely Voters nationwide. Fifty-one percent (51%) disapprove." Now, a lot of people aren't going to cite the Rasmussen poll, but just know that the Rasmussen poll was the most accurate in predicting the final outcome of the 2008 presidential race.
 Story #2: Barbara Boxer, Chris Dodd Reelection in Doubt
RUSH: As I mentioned, today Obama slipped below 50% in the Rasmussen poll. It's a three-day downward trend that is happening and Democrats around country -- Barbara Boxer only up four over Carly Fiorina in California. Dodd's way down, and Corzine's down 15 points in New Jersey. And of course the culture of corruption, 44 mostly Democrats -- I don't know about the rabbis -- but 44 Democrats have been charged by the United States attorneys office in a corruption sweep in New Jersey.
Story #3: Blue State Governor in Spitzer Hooker Scandal?
RUSH: There's also some news that another governor has been tagged as a client of the same hooker that Eliot Spitzer used. Well, I know who it is. I know who it's being reported, but I don't have a source that's firm enough. Yes, it's a blue state, a lot of eagles in this state. Not an inordinate amount of eagles. What, Snerdley? Well, what do you think? I'm not going to mention any names. It's a blue state, lots of eagles. These birds don't fly, but there's still lots of eagles.
Story #4: GOP Not Allowed to Say 'Government-Run Healthcare'
RUSH: By the way, Connie Hair at Human Events reports that House Republicans... Get this: House Republicans are now barred by Democrats on the Franking Commission -- that's in charge of mail -- from saying "'government-run health care' in the communications with their constituents." They have to pay for the postage themselves if they want to be able to say "government-run health care." The Democrats on the Franking Commission have refused the Franking privilege, free mail to constituents, if they use the term "government-run health care." This is a perfect illustration of the authoritarian -- or as Mark Levin calls them, the statist.
Story #5: Dallas Tea-Party Crowd Ambushes MoveOn Rally
RUSH: This is funny, too. This is from a blog in Dallas. "Local MoveOn.org members had penciled in on [yesterday's] schedule a protest in front of Senator John Cornyn's Spring Valley Road office, during which they had hoped to pressure the senator to support President Barack Obama's public health care legislation. But when Paula Anderson, a MoveOn.org member and spokeswoman, showed up at 11:30 a.m., she found another contingent had beat her to the proverbial punch: A large number of Dallas Tea Party members were already set up, voicing their opposition to the proposal," and this MoveOn.org babe "was stunned: 'We really did not expect them to show up.' She estimated the crowd at about 130. ...
"Tea Party-hearties also showed up to health-care legislation rallies in Austin and in San Antonio. ... Q Coleman, a Tea Party member, estimated the crowd swelled to at least 200. 'The vast majority of people here didn't want this,' Coleman said. 'We beat them 10 to 1,'" and the MoveOn.org babe said, "I'm just amazed they are so strong in what their beliefs are. With people being without health care, it's just hard to imagine people could be so against the plan Obama is trying to put in place." MoveOn.org was "stunned" that there is so much hardened opinion against the plan. The MoveOn.org people are idiots. They don't understand. This is not about insuring people that don't have health insurance. It's not about that at all. It's not even about health care. I'm blue in the face describing this.
Story #6: Michael Jackson's Prosthetic Nose Goes Missing
RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, the prosthetic nose of Michael Jackson is missing. This is from the New York Post. "Michael Jackson wore a prosthetic nose, according a report -- and it was missing from his surgically mangled face as he lay in an LA morgue. Left behind was a small, dark hole surrounded by bits of cartilage, Rolling Stone magazine." This is morbid. Wouldn't you like to be the person that has the nose? Can you imagine, Michael Jackson's nose on eBay someday? "I'm holding the nose of Michael Jackson, and you can have it for..."
Story #7: Perry Mulls States-Rights Resistance to Obamacare
RUSH: Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, appeared on our blowtorch affiliate in Dallas today, WBAP, 820 AM with Mark Davis, and he said is "that he would consider invoking states' rights protections under the 10th Amendment to resist [Obama's] healthcare plan, which he said would be 'disastrous' for Texas. ... Perry said his first hope is that Congress will defeat the plan, which both Perry and Davis described as 'Obama Care.' But should it pass, Perry predicted that Texas and a 'number' of states might resist the federal health mandate. 'I think you'll hear states and governors standing up and saying 'no' to this type of encroachment on the states with their healthcare,' Perry said."
Story #8: Big-Time Dissension in Democrat Ranks in House
RUSH: Now, Obama said also that people haven't been talking about health care, which I'm sure he's happy about. But, ladies and gentlemen, we have been talking about health care, and I have a couple of stories here that I have been holding in reserve for just this purpose. The first story is from state-run, state-controlled Associated Press from about a little over an hour ago. "Dissension within Democratic ranks over President Barack Obama's health care initiative all but paralyzed the House Friday, typifying just how many political land mines are littering the path to enactment. The Obama White House figured on some pushback from congressional Republicans, but leaders of his own Democratic Party struggled to get things moving. A powerful House committee chairman threatened to force a floor vote to break the impasse within Democratic ranks -- a drastic step that could roil the House. Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said negotiations with fiscally conservative Democrats on his panel cannot continue indefinitely."
All right, now, just now state-controlled Associated Press: "The head of a group of fiscally conservative Democrats says negotiations with House leaders on health care have collapsed. Rep. Mike Ross, D-Ark., who heads the Blue Dogs’ health care task force, told reporters Friday that after a week of talks, the effort to reach agreement between the leadership and the conservative to moderate Democrats fell apart. He said that leaves Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., without the votes to advance the health care bill out of his committee. However, Waxman has threatened to force a floor vote to break the impasse within Democratic ranks on President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority," health care. So this has not been a smooth week for President Nifong continuing to have trouble here on all kinds of fronts. He has now left the White House briefing room and turned it over to the smartest, the most-well equipped, best ever White House press spokesman, Robert Gibbs.
Story #9: More Job Killing: States Raise the Minimum Wage
RUSH: We haven't talked about this today but I want to bring it up before we get outta here. A lot of states are going to raise the minimum wage today. More job killing in the US economy. Heritage Foundation, and I got this at AskHeritage.org -- folks, I have to tell you, it is a daily routine. It's part of the show prep roster now, AskHeritage.org. It's just amazing what all is available and what you can ask, what you can learn, what you can find out. These people, the smartest people inside the Beltway, the most reliable people inside the Beltway. These are scholars, some of them are wonks, but they're just right on the money, and the things that they publish are understandable, and they're influential. It's just great the things they've done in making their work available to the public. You know, in the old days the Heritage Foundation, they dealt with other think tanks and members of Congress, lobbying groups and so forth, but now they're making their work available to the public, selecting input from the public. All you have to do is join AskHeritage.org, it's 25 bucks.
Now, one of the things I found here today: "According to the United States Department of Labor, the nation’s unemployment rate has already risen to 9.5%. The Obama administration is predicting that the nation’s unemployment rate will soon rise above 10% and the Federal Reserve predicts unemployment could stay above that 10% mark for sometime." Jobless recovery. I don't know how you have a recovery without jobs, but that's what they're saying. "One would think, therefore, that the Obama administration would do everything in their power to stop federal government policies from causing even more job losses. You’d be wrong. Today the Obama administration is not just allowing, but celebrating, a job- and opportunity-killing raise in the federal minimum wage. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis told the USA Today that the federally mandated raise to $7.25 per hour will create 'extra disposable income [that] comes to about $120 a month.'" Not when they get laid off!
"Solis expects 'workers to spend much of that cash in their local communities.'" We're talking $7.25 an hour. It's not enough to improve anybody's life. It's just enough to cause them to lose their job in this economy. "Where does Solis think this 'extra' $120 a month comes from? Does she think it falls from the skies or grows on trees?" I must answer the Heritage Foundation's question here, and they print it in Washington, but they can't anywhere else. "Here in the real world, when governments force firms to pay some workers more money, it has to come from somewhere. And that 'somewhere' usually is lost jobs and lost opportunity," people end up getting fired. They're not bottomless pits of money in small businesses not being used, especially in an economic climate like this. So minimum wage is going up, they're celebrating, "Oh, it's more disposable income for our citizens." You know, praising the minimum wage and even an increase in it is tantamount to thinking you're doing something good for a homeless person giving him a shopping cart. But there they are, celebrating it.
Story #10: Millions Wait Months for Delayed Jobless Checks
RUSH: There's this companion story, ladies and gentlemen, I hold here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. And this is from state-controlled New York Times. The headline says it all: "'Millions Wait for Delayed Jobless Checks.' -- Years of state and federal neglect have hobbled the nation’s unemployment system just as a brutal recession has doubled the number of jobless Americans seeking aid. In a program that values timeliness above all else, decisions involving more than a million applicants have been slowed, and hundreds of thousands of needy people have waited months for checks." So we're dealing with unemployment, nine-and-a-half percent, the government can't cut checks in a timely fashion. And the same bunch is telling us they can run our health care. "And with benefit funds at dangerous lows even before the recession began, states are taking on billions in debt … Sixteen states, with exhausted funds, are now paying benefits with borrowed cash, and their number could double by the year’s end." California's tax returns are IOUs. I've actually seen one. The unemployment system is overwhelmed and they want us to believe they can handle 40 million people dumped into a health care insurance program. Or try 80 million dumped into a health care insurance program.
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