RUSH: What happens when things go south for the Democrats? When things go wrong for the Democrats, what happens? For example, Benghazi. Well, that was the fault of some stupid filmmaker, some stupid videomaker. Hillary losing the presidency, that was Putin\u2019s fault. Obamacare\u2019s miserable problem, that\u2019s because of the Republicans, and they won\u2019t come up with something new. It\u2019s the Republicans\u2019 fault because they won\u2019t fix it. And America\u2019s problems? Well, that\u2019s all Trump\u2019s doing. So the Democrats are 100% blameless always.<\/p>\n
There are no Democrat ringleaders for example. Yippee. Open Line Friday, the last hour of the busy broadcast day, hosted by me, Rush Limbaugh, your highly trained broadcast specialist. Do not try this at home. We who are great at what we do make it look easy. Make everybody think they can do it. Look at the number of Democrats who\u2019ve tried to do this, and there still isn\u2019t one that succeeds. And that\u2019s my fault, by the way. Or the Fairness Doctrine\u2019s fault. That\u2019s what it is. The Fairness Doctrine. That\u2019s why talk radio succeeds, the Fairness Doctrine, so it\u2019s Reagan\u2019s fault. The Democrats are always totally blameless. Have you noticed? When they mess things up, it\u2019s never anything they have done.<\/p>\n
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I mentioned before the previous hour came to a screeching halt that the truth of the Trump administration is that there have been beaucoup promises kept. There have been vast improvements. You know, folks, I have to tell you, I had a post-show meeting. I\u2019ve gotta be very careful with this. You know what the biggest problem for me doing this show has become? There\u2019s less and less I can tell you about things I run into, things that happen.<\/p>\n
When the program was early and new, first four, five years, I could tell anybody anything that went on without worrying that it was going to compromise anybody\u2019s privacy or security, even if I didn\u2019t mention their name. But now I find myself in circumstances that if I share the details, the people about whom I\u2019m speaking will find out and hear about it and their feelings will be hurt or they\u2019ll misunderstand or they will think I\u2019m mean or some such thing.<\/p>\n
And so the safest route is not to even discuss it. But I had the most amazing — even if I just tell you what I did after the program yesterday, I\u2019m already running the risk of angering somebody. I would die to tell you. I would love it tell you, but I\u2019m hamstrung. It\u2019s almost like I\u2019ve become too famous to do the show. It\u2019s like the Stick-to-the-Issues Crowd is winning because when I veer away from it and want to describe — I know what of you are saying, “Rush it\u2019s your show. Say whatever you want to say, tell whoever you want to tell what.” I understand that.<\/p>\n
But people that talk to me, some of them have a reasonable expectation it\u2019s not gonna be blabbed about all over the radio, even if I don\u2019t mention their names. (laughing) Anyway, I just got a note from Kathryn \u2019cause I told her about it and she said, “You want to talk about the blah, blah, right?” I just got an alert on my watch. “Yes, sweetie, that\u2019s exactly right, and I can\u2019t.” Snerdley\u2019s looking at me like, “What are you afraid of?”<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not afraid of anything, it\u2019s just manners, folks. I mean, you don\u2019t blab about other people. Well, you might and they\u2019ll never know you\u2019re doing it. I can\u2019t. Every time I talk about somebody, they\u2019re going to find out. You don\u2019t realize how it hamstrings me. You don\u2019t realize the limitation it places. Now, I suppose I could make it up, but even if I make it up, the next day somebody may be close enough to whoever was involved is — and of course the details of this, they\u2019re hilarious. They\u2019re funny.<\/p>\n
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I got an economic briefing yesterday. And if I comment on this at all, folks, I\u2019m not gonna do myself any favors. Suffice to say that the Trump administration is off to a rollicking start. The economy is booming, and there are real jobs being created. In fact, some of the most recent presidential approval data that just came out today is that Trump\u2019s unfavorable numbers are very high, except the economy he is kicking butt. The American people profoundly approve of the way Trump\u2019s handling the economy. But they disapprove of most everything else, according to this poll.<\/p>\n
It used to be that if the economy was chugging, all the other stuff took care of itself. But it is. There are real jobs being created. Trump is also focusing, his administration is focusing on reviving the old concept of the vocational tech school. This I happen to believe is crucially important. This country has been… I think it\u2019s been hampered by this notion that everybody has to go to college, that the ticket is college. Parents have bought that hook, line, and sinker.<\/p>\n
This all started in the Great Depression. The idea that the only way — well, not the only, but the absolute best way to have a solid economic future is to have a college degree. That started in the Great Depression when nobody could find work. Jobs were nowhere to be found and the only people that got them were the educated. And this has survived generation after generation after generation to the point now where every American parent has as the primary goal for their kids that they go to college. And it\u2019s just not made for everybody, particularly with what has happened on the American campus today, it probably is more advantageous for a lot of people to never set foot on one.<\/p>\n
Remember what I said. I think this is a profundity. It didn\u2019t get any reaction from people, but I think this is profound. All this talk about artificial intelligence, these guys like Elon Musk and Bill Gates and Buffett and all these other clowns in the high-tech business say, “We need to be very worried about artificial intelligence. It\u2019s going to overrun humanity. AI, robotics, if we\u2019re not careful it\u2019s going to swallow us up.” And I think that\u2019s just bogus. It\u2019s typical sci-fi panic on the part of a bunch of tech nerds.<\/p>\n
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We already are surrounded by a bunch of artificial intelligence. It\u2019s called college-educated Millennials. We already have mind-numbed robots. They are graduates of major American universities today. They\u2019re not being taught to think. They\u2019re being programmed, they\u2019re being propagandized. They come out all thinking the same, all feeling the same. White students are being turned into people that think they have eternal guilt over being white.<\/p>\n
They now have discussion rooms on many campuses where you can discuss the dangers of white privilege and the problems of being white. It\u2019s hideous what\u2019s passing as an excuse for an education today. We have robots already. They\u2019re human beings. They\u2019re out there among us. They don\u2019t know anything, and all they want to do is shut down everything they find uncomfortable. They don\u2019t believe in free speech. They don\u2019t believe in liberty or freedom. It\u2019s dangerous. The intelligence is artificial. It\u2019s not genuine. There\u2019s no thinking involved. It\u2019s a huge problem. Long before robots take over.<\/p>\n
So what the Trump administration is doing — and this is extremely wise — is to rebuild, reestablish the concept of the old vo-tech schools. When I was in high school, there was a vocational tech center. That was part of the high school. And it was where kids who were going to, say, work on auto assembly lines or learn skills that involve manufacturing and engineering, this is where they went. And when they finished vo-tech, they were sufficiently educated to get decent jobs that would raise a family of four or provide for a family of four for a long time.<\/p>\n
Now, I know that there is this automation is happening in certain factories and this kind of thing. But there are still plenty of jobs that need to be done that do not require a college education and that the training for that has been totally abandoned. The schooling for that\u2019s been abandoned in exchange for the idea that everybody needs to go to college. And everybody doesn\u2019t need to go to college. In fact, I would maintain that some people today would be far better off if they\u2019d never go to college, given what\u2019s gonna happen to them there, depending on the college they choose.<\/p>\n
The point is that real, constructive economic things are occurring in the Trump administration. And Trump had a meeting today with the National Association of Manufacturers. Now, you might think, “Well, big deal, Rush. Trump\u2019s been meeting with all these different groups.” Manufacturers\u2019 optimism, according to a survey of themselves, manufacturers\u2019 optimism is at a 20-year high. And these guys met with Trump this morning.<\/p>\n
This survey has been taken for 20 years. It has never been as high as it is. The survey shows a dramatic shift in sentiment with more than 93% of manufacturers feeling positive about their economic outlook. This is the highest in the survey\u2019s 20-year history, up from 56% one year ago and 77% in December. In just three months it\u2019s gone from 77.8% to 93% optimism among manufacturers.<\/p>\n
Folks, it\u2019s just a year or two ago that people were complaining about the — well, two years and 15 prior to that. I mean, for 20 years basically, but intensely the last two years, three years, people have been complaining about the loss of manufacturing jobs, NAFTA, trade deals. They\u2019ve lost their jobs. These manufacturers are feeling more optimistic about the return of their business in the United States, an all-time high in 20 years.<\/p>\n
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“Fresh off the heels of the third straight month of manufacturing job growth, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) today released the first Manufacturers\u2019 Outlook Survey since President Donald Trump took office.” It\u2019s up from 78% to 93%.<\/p>\n
“Across America, manufacturers\u2019 optimism is soaring, in no small part because of President Trump\u2019s laser-like focus on pursuing bold action, particularly on rethinking red tape to address regulatory reform, to accelerate a jobs surge in America,” said Jay Timmons, who\u2019s the president and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers.<\/p>\n
This is just the latest. The automobile guys have been up to meet with Trump. CEOs in general have been up to meet with Trump. All kinds of different groups from various aspects of the economy have been up to meet with Trump. And they all walk out, and they all say: “Best meeting I\u2019ve ever had. Best meeting I\u2019ve had in 10 years.”<\/p>\n
Real jobs are being created. There is real wage growth. You know how you know? Even if you don\u2019t trust it and you think that\u2019s just partisan BS, take a look at the possibility of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates. They always do that when the economy starts growing because they are deathly afraid of inflation.<\/p>\n
So there isn\u2019t any doubt that it is happening. And throughout the Trump administration and his time so far, there are numerous achievements like this and promises which have been kept. But, again, it isn\u2019t being reported, nobody knows it, and therefore there is no aura around it. There is no image that we\u2019re winning. There\u2019s no image that Trump is progressing and keeping his promises. There\u2019s no image that America\u2019s rebounding, because everything in the news, the hot take is, “That doesn\u2019t look good. That doesn\u2019t look good. That doesn\u2019t sound good.”<\/p>\n
Every day, whatever\u2019s in the news, it\u2019s negative for Trump.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Now, here\u2019s some other things that have happened, are happening with the Trump administration that are rousing successes and that are at least things heading in the right direction, that it\u2019s just infuriating the left. It\u2019s making them livid precisely because Trump is succeeding. The first thing Trump\u2019s gonna do is appeal this injunction of the Trump revised travel order. That Hawaii judge has now made it permanent.<\/p>\n
Judge Watson has made his temporary stay permanent, and the Trump Justice Department is gonna take a poke at it. Now it\u2019s gonna at the happen Ninth Circus Court of Appeals, so it\u2019s up grabs as to what happens. The Daily Caller has a story: “ICE Report Dumps Cold Water on a Favorite Defense of Sanctuary Cities — An Immigration and Customs Enforcement report puts a damper on the argument that sanctuary cities aren\u2019t a problem because they only shield non-violent illegal immigrants.”<\/p>\n
Have you heard that advanced as their argument? The sanctuary city people say (summarized exchange), “We\u2019re not a problem! Look, we\u2019re not shielding criminals here! We\u2019re not shielding ringleaders here. We\u2019re not shielding bad guys! We\u2019re only shielding the decent and the law-abiding.” So here comes ICE saying, “Oh, yeah?” They have just thrown cold water on it with a “weekly declined detainer report shows, however, many county and city law enforcement agencies regularly release criminal aliens who have been convicted of violent crimes, including domestic battery and sexual assault.”<\/p>\n
They\u2019re released back into the community. They\u2019re not turned over to ICE as the law requires. They are not detained and put in jail. They are released in these sanctuary cities. “The report, which covers February 4-10, tallied 47 declined detainer requests from two dozen jurisdictions across the country.” What this means is there are 47 different requests from ICE to detain specific violent, illegal criminals, and those 47 requests were rejected by various sanctuary cities. “New York City accounted for 12 of those rejections, far more than any other jurisdiction.”<\/p>\n
This just one week, folks! Forty-seven is just one week, and Trump\u2019s not accepting “no.” He\u2019s continuing to target them. “Sessions: Convictions Likely Needed to End Government Leaks,” and they\u2019re going to seek the leakers and they\u2019re gonna prosecute them. The only thing that\u2019s gonna stop the leaking is actually finding and convicting these people. He said, “This is not right. We\u2019ve never seen this kind of leaking. It\u2019s almost as if people think they have a right to violate the law. This has got to end, and it will probably take some convictions to put an end to it.”<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no “probably” to it. There is no question.<\/p>\n
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But the Trump people are pursuing it. “Jeff Sessions Moves to Speed up Deportation of Federal Inmates — Illegal immigrants convicted of a federal crime may be deported more quickly under a policy move announced by Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday.” My point is the Trump administration is getting up every day and going to work, and they are trying as hard as they can to keep the promises that they made during the campaign, and in many ways, they are succeeding. But you don\u2019t…<\/p>\n
Even that story — the success that Trump is having in targeting illegal immigrants, sanctuary cities — it\u2019s all portrayed in the media: “This doesn\u2019t look good! This looks really mean. This seems really intolerant. Trump must really hate Mexicans.” All that kind of thing is the way it\u2019s characterized. But it isn\u2019t stopping him. It isn\u2019t stopping Sessions. They\u2019re moving ahead with cleaning out the barn and they\u2019re moving ahead with the wall and shoring up the border, and all the caterwauling and whining and moaning by these children in the media is not stopping Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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