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RUSH: From TheHill.com: “A new poll finds a trio of controversies raising public concerns about the ‘honesty\u2019 of the Obama administration,” not the president. “A new poll finds a trio of controversies raising public concerns about the ‘honesty\u2019 of the Obama [regime], even as the president maintains his approval rating.” Limbaugh Theorem again. “A Wall Street Journal\/NBC News poll released late Tuesday shows 55% believe the IRS targeting of conservative groups raised questions about the administration\u2019s ‘overall honesty and integrity…'”<\/p>\n

But Obama had nothing to do with it.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t associate Obama with what the IRS did. <\/p>\n

He had nothing to do with it. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

“A plurality, 43%, also see the IRS missteps as a part of a ‘widespread effort\u2019 to investigate Tea Party groups to 29% who blame the scandal on a few tax officials who were acting on their own.” Get this, now. Given all the news, and even the congressional hearings on the IRS and the inspector general report and the targeting of Tea Party groups, only 43% — not even half the country — sees that as a purposeful effort to investigate the Tea Party. It just happened, say 43%. <\/p>\n

That number ought to be 75, 80%. “Fifty-eight percent say the administration\u2019s handling of the attack on the Benghazi, Libya, diplomatic post also raises questions about the honesty of the White House. The same number say the Justice Department\u2019s subpoenaing of reporter email and phone records in national security leak investigations also raises concerns. But the poll also finds that the controversies have not damaged President Obama\u00c2\u2019s personal standing. Obama holds a 48% approval rating with 47% disapproving. Those numbers match his rating in the same poll taken in April.”<\/p>\n

Limbaugh Theorem.<\/p>\n

So people in increasing numbers don\u2019t like what\u2019s happening in the country. They don\u2019t associate Obama with it at all. He\u2019s not tainted by it. His “administration” has problems. His “administration” may be dishonest. His “administration” is very, very troubling. Not him, according to the polling data. So… (interruption) See? Here\u2019s Snerdley saying, “At some point this has got to stop.” I\u2019ve been saying that for 25 years about the cultural rot. I have, for 25 years. Longer that than that. I\u2019ve been saying about the cultural rot: “At some point it\u2019s gotta stop. At some point it\u2019s gotta bottom out. It\u2019s gotta reverse.” <\/p>\n

It hasn\u2019t. <\/p>\n

It continues to plunge deeper and deeper, get worse and worse.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Immigration bill. You know, The Politico had a story that Dingy Harry said that Mitch McConnell told him they\u2019re not even gonna try to block the vote. They\u2019re not even gonna force cloture on it. McConnell\u2019s office sent an e-mail out and said (paraphrased), “No, no, no, no. Politico got that wrong. We\u2019re not gonna get that immigration vote without cloture, 60 votes.” But there are rumblings that the Republicans in the Senate aren\u2019t going to do all that much to prevent this vote from taking place on immigration. <\/p>\n

So, folks, we\u2019re not gonna stop Obama from being Obama. If he wants to gouge us in the eye by appointing Rice and Samantha Power, that\u2019s what he\u2019s gonna do. Show me the evidence where any of the things he\u2019s done — from economic policy to foreign policy, to anything — you name it, has hurt. You can\u2019t find any polling data (which all they care about in Washington) where he\u2019s been damaged by it at all. His approval number still sky-high. Well, not sky-high, but it\u2019s not dropping. It\u2019s not plummeting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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