{"id":13234,"date":"2013-02-13T17:17:59","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T17:17:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-02-13T17:17:59","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T17:17:59","slug":"it_finally_hit_me_barack_obama_will_never_be_held_responsible_for_anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/02\/13\/it_finally_hit_me_barack_obama_will_never_be_held_responsible_for_anything\/","title":{"rendered":"It Finally Hit Me: Barack Obama Will Never Be Held Responsible for Anything"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: So yesterday I was openly complaining, some might even say whining, that I was gonna have to watch the State of the Union show. It was gonna be sickening to listen to what was being said and then to watch members of Congress stand up and essentially applaud the destruction of the country. And I talked to a bunch of people who said, “I\u2019m not watching. I\u2019m not gonna watch it. Not gonna spend any time on it.” And I said, “Well, I have to.” It reminds me of the days when I was in school and everybody told me they weren\u2019t doing their homework, so I didn\u2019t, either. Turns out they were lying. They all did their homework and I got D\u2019s and F\u2019s. Well, everybody that told me they weren\u2019t gonna watch the State of the Union ended up watching it. <\/p>\n

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I\u2019ll tell you what I thought of it, folks. I disagreed with everything the president said pretty much, in terms of his policies. I disagreed with everything he said, but it was a great speech. I liked the speech and you know what I really liked? I liked that part where he said that we all have to get along and work together to help people. I really liked that. That really scored with me. And I was watching the Frank Luntz focus group after the State of the Union speech and after Marco Rubio\u2019s response, it was on Hannity on the Fox News Channel. He had this focus group, and, if you didn\u2019t see it, it\u2019s too bad. If you did, you were looking at the very definition of low-information voters. It\u2019s amazing. They had the same reaction I had. <\/p>\n

They disagreed with pretty much everything Obama said, policy-wise, but they supported him, and they thought it was a great speech, and they liked the part about everybody working together to get along. They liked the fact that he\u2019s gonna tackle the deficit. They liked the fact that he\u2019s gonna create jobs. They didn\u2019t agree with how he was gonna do it, but they liked that he\u2019s going to. They liked that he\u2019s gonna reduce the deficit. They liked the fact that he\u2019s gonna bring the debt down. They liked the fact that health care costs are gonna come down. Did you know that? Health care costs are already coming down and I found myself agreeing. I thought it was cool. I disagreed with, you know, how the president said he\u2019s gonna do it. <\/p>\n

Look, I had a bit of a problem with the president on global warming where he basically said that if Congress doesn\u2019t act, he will. But I do think we need to deal with global warming. Everybody knows that. I didn\u2019t agree with much, but I liked the speech. I was very, very supportive. And Obamacare, the costs are coming down. That\u2019s good. I\u2019m very happy about that. The debt, deficit is coming down. We\u2019re already over halfway to the targeted debt reduction of $4 trillion. So at least somebody\u2019s working on this stuff and somebody\u2019s trying to make it happen. I wasn\u2019t crazy about some of the things I heard the president say on taxes, but I had to acknowledge that the rich have been getting away with murder all these years. It\u2019s about time somebody tried to make everything fair, and who could oppose fairness. <\/p>\n

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You know, yesterday we had the Gallup poll<\/a>, and on every issue except one — and I forget what the one issue was — every issue, every policy, by vast majority numbers, the American people disagree with Obama. A vast majority disagree with Obama on every policy. I mean, it\u2019s not close. In some cases, the numbers of people that disagree are in the 60 percentages, and the people agree with Obama are in the forties. But they liked the speech last night. They thought it was exactly what was called for. <\/p>\n

Now, the New York Times has a story today. “Polls Show Dissatisfaction With Country\u2019s Direction, but Support for Obama\u2019s Agenda — Just ahead of President Obama\u00c2\u2019s State of the Union address Tuesday night, new polls find continued public dissatisfaction with the direction of the country, yet support for several of the policies the president has said he will push in his second term.” And that\u2019s what I saw in the focus group last night on Frank Luntz. They don\u2019t like the way the country\u2019s going but, man, they love what Obama\u2019s doing about it. Well, I know folks, don\u2019t ask me. I\u2019m just telling you what I saw, what I heard, and what\u2019s in the news. It\u2019s a little conflicting. The Gallup poll people do disagree with Obama issue by issue by issue.<\/p>\n

The New York Times says there is support for Obama\u2019s agenda but dissatisfaction with the way the country\u2019s going. See, those are two separate things. This is what we are going to have to learn to understand. Obama\u2019s agenda doesn\u2019t have anything to do with the country\u2019s direction. As far as the low-information voter is concerned, they\u2019re two separate things: support for Obama\u2019s agenda but dissatisfaction with the country\u2019s direction.<\/p>\n

Now, you and I might say, “Well, wait a second now. The country\u2019s direction is precisely related to Obama\u2019s agenda.” But no! We would be terribly wrong. Obama\u2019s agenda has nothing to do with the country\u2019s direction. Obama\u2019s agenda is about fixing it, and people support it. Now, this is also a mendacious media<\/a> at work because this is exactly the opposite of what Gallup reported the day before that we discussed.<\/p>\n

According to Gallup, the American public disapproves of every Obama policy except for his handling of defense. But the New York Times has this story that\u2019s just the exact opposite. Polls show dissatisfaction with country\u2019s direction but support for Obama\u2019s agenda. Two separate things. The Frank Luntz focus group was pretty much the same thing. They pretty much disagreed with what they heard last night in policy, but they liked the speech and they like what Obama said.<\/p>\n