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RUSH: ‘Voters Unhappy with Bush and Congress.\u2019 We\u2019re all depressed, but personally we\u2019re fine. ‘Deepening unhappiness with President George W. Bush and the U.S. Congress soured the mood of Americans and sent Bush\u2019s approval rating to another record low this month, according to a Reuters\/Zogby poll released on Wednesday. The Reuters\/Zogby Index, which measures the mood of the country, also fell from 98.8,\u2019 which happens to be my accuracy rating, ‘to 96 — the second consecutive month [the ‘mood of the country index\u2019] has dropped. The number of Americans who believe the country is on the wrong track jumped four points to 66 percent. Bush\u2019s job approval rating fell to 24 percent from last month\u2019s record low for a Zogby poll of 29 percent,\u2019 but Congress\u2019 number is a ‘paltry 11 percent.\u2019 You know, my numbers are higher than this. I\u2019ve got approval numbers in Nevada, and I\u2019m at 32. I\u2019m higher than the president. I\u2019m higher than Congress. I\u2019m higher than Harry Reid out there in Nevada — and he\u2019s been an elected official from Nevada for 30 years! <\/p>\n

‘The bleak mood,\u2019 it says here, ‘could present problems for both parties heading into the November 2008 election campaign, Zogby said. ‘Voter turnout could still be high next year, but the mood has turned against incumbents and into a ‘throw the bums out\u2019 mindset,\u2019 Zogby said. The national telephone survey of 991 likely voters, conducted October 10 through October 14, found barely one-quarter of Americans, or 26 percent, believe the country is headed in the right direction.\u2019 Now, keep that figure in mind: only 26% think the country is headed in the right direction. ‘The poll found declining confidence in U.S. economic and foreign policy. About 18 percent gave positive marks to foreign policy, down from 24 percent, and 26 percent rated economic policy positively, down from 30 percent.\u2019 BUT: ‘A majority of Americans still rate their personal financial situation as excellent or good, although the number dipped slightly this month to 54 percent from 56 percent. … ‘Americans are still feeling good about a number of things in their lives, but not about the government\u2019s leadership,\u2019 Zogby said. ‘They are giving up on this government.” Well, look, this sort of illustrates the point that I have been trying to make over the many, many countless years of service from behind the Golden EIB Microphone. I wrote about it in one of my books. ‘My success, my happiness is not determined by who wins elections.\u2019 Now, I can understand being all bummed out about government now and then. <\/p>\n

Thank God! We all ought to be bummed out about government. That\u2019s a good sign. The answer to it is not, ‘We need more!\u2019 If there\u2019s any evidence that we don\u2019t need more of this, this is it. People are happy with government? Fine. Do something about it. Put some new people in there. Shrink it. Make it more efficient or what have you. But the idea that people can have their national mood determined by the government is a frightening thing. You don\u2019t have to wake up every day and face your state or national capital and pay homage and salute. If you\u2019re happy in your personal life, that should be enough. That should be fabulous. What\u2019s going on in government is something that we can all participate in changing, but the idea that it\u2019s going to affect people\u2019s mood? Frankly, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s government, although I wish it were. I think it\u2019s a combination of government and what people see on the Drive-By Media day in and day out, like this story out of Iraq. The deaths all over the country of citizens and US military personnel are plummeting, and so the Drive-Bys have a story today that this is really putting a pinch on the Iraqi funeral business! They just have to find the negatives, have to find it. When 10,000 kids go to the hospital every year because of bicycle accidents, ‘Oh, no! It\u2019s so sad!\u2019 We\u2019ve got this killer germ out there wiping us all out. I don\u2019t even have a ribbon for it. It\u2019s killing more people than AIDS. We\u2019re all going to get fat and we can\u2019t do anything about it because it\u2019s simply life itself that\u2019s causing it. <\/p>\n

There is a drumbeat of news every day — radio and television, newspaper, magazines, whatever — that some people might say, ‘Why should I even bother trying? Why should I even get out of bed? The odds are, I\u2019m going to fall down the steps based on the latest statistical evidence.\u2019 I haven\u2019t even gotten to the scare tactics being bombarded by the global warming hoax and crowd. So if you\u2019re happy in your personal life, why, that\u2019s 80% of it. ‘Well, I know, Mr. Limbaugh, but I see the news. I see how unhappy many people are. The economic news for people is not as good as I…\u2019 Don\u2019t believe it! Most people are like you. They\u2019re feeling good about themselves, and they\u2019re being made to feel guilty about it, and so they say, ‘Well, I\u2019m fine with myself, but I think I\u2019m going to temper that because it\u2019s not fair for me to be feeling good when there\u2019s so much misery out there.\u2019 There\u2019s not that much misery out there, and the misery that\u2019s out there has been manufactured. Misery, by the way, is something that comes natural. A lot of people think that there\u2019s virtue in it, because misery leads to suffering, and suffering is considered virtuous. Some suffering you can\u2019t avoid, but the suffering you bring on yourself — worrying about things you can\u2019t possibly know, telling yourself stories about what\u2019s going to happen tomorrow or the day after, and start worrying about it — that\u2019s a waste of energy and time, because you can\u2019t possibly know. It\u2019s self-induced suffering. There\u2019s nothing virtuous about it. In fact, it\u2019s just the opposite. It\u2019s a waste of time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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