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RUSH: I have never — and I shouldn\u2019t say this — I have never cared about a State of the Union address less than the one I care about today. In fact, my temptation is not even to discuss it, because to discuss it is to fall prey to the whole narrative the Drive-By Media is setting up, which is it\u2019s the most important thing in the news today. <\/p>\n

And I\u2019m sorry, they are not State of the Union speeches anymore. All they are are empty promises. There\u2019s nothing about the State of the Union in this, there\u2019s nothing what it was traditionally meant to be. And it hasn\u2019t been for a while. I understand that. It\u2019s a vote-buying scheme is what the whole thing is. And it\u2019s an insult to intelligence and all that. And you realize that 90% of the stuff that is, well, promised or suggested or offered as a serious intention, never happens anyway. <\/line><\/p>\n

It never comes to pass. And yet here we are, the Drive-By Media is as excited as they\u2019ve ever been about anything because it\u2019s something that\u2019s standard operating procedure, presidents at the State of the Union show up, make it out to be the biggest thing in the world, and maybe at one time it was. And I will allow, maybe I\u2019m getting cynical. I don\u2019t know. It doesn\u2019t mean, folks, I\u2019m not gonna watch it. I\u2019m gonna watch it \u2019cause it\u2019s my job. I\u2019m just telling you, who wants to sit there and look at the TV for an hour and 15 minutes and be lied to? Who wants to sit and look at the TV for an hour and 15 minutes and do nothing but get frustrated? I have to take notes, mental or otherwise. <\/p>\n

But the main thing is falling prey to what I have often referred to here as the daily soap opera script, you know, get looped into it and participating in it even though it\u2019s — I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s not that it isn\u2019t real. It\u2019s the establishment, pomp and circumstance and doing what the establishment does, and it\u2019s basically a night where we\u2019re all told how wonderful government is, how great government is, how much bigger and greater government is, how much more compassionate government can be, how much more compassionate in giving government\u2019s gonna be, and none of it ever matters, positively, or very little of it does.<\/p>\n

And then we\u2019re gonna have the guests up there, guests of Moochelle Obama sitting up in the gallery. We\u2019re gonna have a DREAMer, have a couple of illegal immigrants, gonna have people that escaped Cuba. I don\u2019t know, folks. It probably doesn\u2019t help that it\u2019s this Regime in charge of it. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey, quick little pop quiz. Who said this: “For decades we have known the days of cheap and easily accessible oil were numbered.” Who said that? I\u2019ll give you a hint. It was said in 2010. I\u2019ll give you a second hint. It was said from the Oval Office. If you guessed Obama, you\u2019re right. <\/line><\/p>\n

On June 15th — and I\u2019m just offering this as an opportunity. I want you to keep this in mind as you listen to the State of the Union show tonight. On June 15th, 2010, the president, Barack Hussein O addressed the nation about the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. And the president was wrong. The president was phenomenally wrong. <\/p>\n

He said, “For decades we have failed to act with the sense of urgency that this challenge requires. Time and again the path forward has been blocked, not only by oil industry lobbyists, but also by a lack of political courage and candor. The consequences of our inaction are now in plain sight. Countries like China are investing in clean energy jobs and industries that should be right here in America. Each day we send nearly $1 billion of our wealth to foreign countries for their oil, and today as we look to the Gulf, we see an entire way of life being threatened by a menacing cloud of black crude. We cannot consign our children to this future. For decades we have known the days of cheap and easily accessible oil are numbered.” <\/p>\n

He was dead wrong. He is so wrong. Have you seen the numbers on the economy, the approval numbers on the economy? They are way up, people think the economy is great, and is this the reason why. Gasoline prices are down. By the way, there\u2019s a dirty little secret but why gasoline prices are down, too, and I don\u2019t see a whole lot of people figuring it out. Well, it\u2019s partially the Saudis, but that\u2019s not the primary reason that the price of oil is plummeting and the primary reason the price of gasoline is plummeting. <\/p>\n

My point here is that Obama — and he wasn\u2019t alone — was dead wrong. By the way, that BP oil spill, what was it, just a couple of weeks later they couldn\u2019t find the oil? All that oil that spilled, they couldn\u2019t find it. Remember that? Remember the controversy, they couldn\u2019t figure out where it went? So we got all these cockamamie stories, “Well, you know, it sank,” or it did something, “but it\u2019s out there, it\u2019s polluting.” <\/p>\n

No, it\u2019s just that it was eaten. It was eaten by seawater. Powerful stuff, seawater. But, anyway, the president said, “For decades we\u2019ve known the days of cheap and easily accessible oil were numbered.” And look at us now. The price of gasoline average across the country, $2.14. That means in some places across the country it\u2019s under two bucks. And right on schedule, what are governments doing? Bellyaching. Yep. Tax revenue plummeting, uh-oh, need some emergency action. Raise taxes on gasoline, because in some places it isn\u2019t — the federal tax is static, it\u2019s 18 cents no matter what, but states, sometimes the tax rate floats, and revenue may not be the same when the gas price plummets like it\u2019s doing. <\/p>\n

Now, the real reason — and this is the unspoken reason, and it\u2019s not the sole reason, but one of the leading or primary reasons why the price of oil is down and gasoline is demand. Demand is down. And the demand is down because the US economy\u2019s in the tank. With 92.8 million Americans not working, fewer and fewer people are traveling. You won\u2019t find very many experts acknowledge this because it contradicts the idea that the economy is roaring back. It\u2019s not just the Saudis artificially lowering the price, trying to damage fracking and all that. I mean, they could do only so much, but the power of the US economy can either add to that or overcome that, depending on how many other oil producing outfits participate with the Saudis. <\/line><\/p>\n

But the demand being down is a massive factor here that nobody\u2019s talking about, and the fascinating thing, or interesting thing about that is the demand is down because the US economy is not chugging along, the US economy is not going gangbusters. Contrary to what the Washington establishment and Drive-By Media and everybody else would have you believe. <\/p>\n

Let me take a quick time-out. We\u2019ll come back, review some past State of the Union stuff just to show you what I mean about how so little of what is proposed in States of the Union actually ever comes to pass. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: From the Washington Times<\/a>, the headline: “Obama Has Worst State of the Union Record Since Ford, Study Shows — Judging by his recent history, it doesn\u00c2\u2019t really matter what President Obama says in Tuesday\u00c2\u2019s State of the Union address — Congress is going to ignore him anyway. Mr. Obama has the second-worst record of getting his State of the Union policy requests enacted into law of any president in the last five decades, according to an analysis by two scholars that puts him only above the unelected two-year presidency of Gerald Ford.”<\/p>\n

Now, you might look at this as good news. I\u2019m not sure the country could have survived with Obama getting much more of what he proposed in these speeches, because he\u2019s proposed the sink and everything else. But, see, we\u2019re not out of the woods yet, because these last two years, I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve begun to see even half of what\u2019s headed our way in these last two years. And I know I\u2019ve said this over and over again, so I\u2019m not gonna beat the dead horse, but the Republicans have made it clear they\u2019re not gonna take any steps to stop him.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s got two years to complete this fundamental transformation, and it\u2019s clear the Constitution is an impediment or an obstacle that he doesn\u2019t think is a serious one now. He\u2019s not gonna have much trouble going past it. So this State of the Union address, it doesn\u2019t matter whether Congress authorizes some of this stuff or not, what\u2019s to stop him from doing it? <\/line><\/p>\n

You might say, “Well, he just can\u2019t just go out and raise taxes willy-nilly. I mean, you gotta have Congress do that via regulation.” Don\u2019t reject this just out of hand. I mean, there\u2019s so many things going on now that people said were not possible because of the Constitution. There\u2019s so many violations of the Constitution taking place now, and it\u2019s become something that happens with such regularity that people have stopped noticing and have just begun to accept it.<\/p>\n

Even on our side they say, “Well that\u2019s just what Obama\u2019s doing, and as usual we have to wait \u2019til he\u2019s gone to address any of this. We have to wait \u2019til he served out his term, and then whoever\u2019s next elected will begin the process of reversing some of this stuff.” <\/p>\n

But that isn\u2019t gonna be easy, either, because Obama\u2019s not just gonna leave town and let everything he\u2019s done to transform the country be unraveled. That\u2019s one of the reasons why he\u2019s gonna maintain a home in Washington. But all that\u2019s for down the road. It\u2019s a fact that he has promised time and again to do a whole bunch of things, and very little of it has actually happened. But now in these last two years where he\u2019s not concerned whether Congress goes along and passes anything, we\u2019ll just have to keep a sharp eye. <\/p>\n

Now, you know presidents, when they go to the State of the Union show, they try to list and rattle off their accomplishments from over the last year or during their presidential terms. So what will Obama point to as his accomplishments since the last State of the Union show? Is he gonna brag about the rise of ISIS? Is he gonna brag about how we\u2019ve lost Iraq and we\u2019re the on brink of losing Afghanistan? <\/p>\n

Did you see that ISIS killed 13 young boys because they watched a soccer game? Yeah, so is Obama gonna talk about how he has stopped the rise of ISIS? Is he gonna brag about how we\u2019ve lost Iraq, gonna brag about we\u2019re on the brink of losing Afghanistan? Is he gonna brag about freeing dozens of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay? Is he going to brag about trading five of the worst of them for a man who may have deserted his post, that would be Bergdahl? Is Obama gonna brag about swapping five Cuban terrorists, a couple of whom were actually convicted of murder, for some American hostages the Castros were holding for bargaining chips? <\/p>\n

I mean, yeah, he\u2019s got a lot to brag about here, doesn\u2019t he? Is he gonna brag about 92.8 million Americans not working? Is he gonna brag about the absolute mess that HealthCare.gov has been from the get-go? Is he going to brag about all the states he has sued who have attempted to pass legislation in those states to enforce already existing immigration laws? Is he gonna brag about how he has stopped deporting almost anyone except the most hardened criminals? Is he gonna brag about getting to the bottom of the IRS targeting of the Tea Party? Is he gonna brag about getting to the bottom of what happened at Benghazi? Is he gonna brag about finally finding out what happened with the VA scandals and straightening that out? <\/line><\/p>\n

Or is he gonna skip listing all of these accomplishments and just move on to listing even more ways he wants to buy votes for Democrats in the future? Again, a study out today by a couple of scholars that reports that Obama actually has the second worse State of the Union success rate for any president over the last 50 years, and that would be Gerald Ford, who wasn\u2019t even elected. <\/p>\n

Look at what Gerald Ford faced. Gerald Ford faced a country and a media still wallowing in Watergate. Ford\u2019s success rate was 28%, Obama\u2019s is 30, 30% of what Obama has proposed has actually happened, and it\u2019s going to be probably more of the same tonight. And don\u2019t forget that for two years of his tenure, Obama even had a Democrat-controlled Congress, which makes this 30% success rate somewhat unimpressive. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So I checked this e-mail during the break, and it\u2019s, “Dear Rush: I\u2019m getting worried. It sounds like you\u2019re getting burned out. It sounds like you don\u2019t care anymore. That would be horrible, Rush. Please say it ain\u2019t so.” It\u2019s in reference to the fact that I\u2019m not interested in watching the State of the Union, and I\u2019m not. I\u2019m not. It\u2019s because I\u2019m burned out on this stuff, folks. I know what\u2019s gonna happen. <\/p>\n

I do not like watching this guy. I do not like watching having my intelligence insulted. I know what\u2019s gonna happen. I know the moon\u2019s gonna be promised. I know he\u2019s gonna be applauded from left and right with standing ovations and all this stuff. At the end of the day, none of this may ever become law in the traditional sense, but that\u2019s no solace for me. One thing that\u2019s true about the ratings for State of the Union shows (I talked this yesterday) is they are plummeting. <\/p>\n

Now, to me, this is actually a blessing, in the current circumstance. It\u2019s still a lot of people that watch, but these ratings are way down, particularly compared to when Obama was first inaugurated back in 2009 and 2010. The numbers are way down. People are just not as fascinated. They know in advance what\u2019s gonna be said, those that follow the news and pay attention. Obama\u2019s been driving all over the country and flying all over the place doing appearance after appearance because the ratings with down. <\/p>\n

So he\u2019s not relying on just one speech on one night to get the propaganda out. He\u2019s going a lot of places in advance, and he\u2019ll go a lot of places tomorrow and the rest of this week afterwards and try to get as many media events out of this as possible. And of course the thing about it that distresses me is not the nuts and bolts or the guts of it. This is just… We\u2019re gonna have a solid hour and 15 minutes tonight of how the Democrat Party is filled with compassion, loves people, only wants the best<\/p>\n

<\/a>And the opposite\u2019s gonna be thought of and said about the Republicans, subtly or directly. It\u2019s just gonna add up to more of a PR mess. I\u2019m gonna have to deal with it in the ensuing days anyway, and all I\u2019m telling you is, there are things I\u2019d rather do. Like Justified premiers tonight. I just got a note from Nick Searcy<\/a> who plays Art as one of the marshals, the head marshal on the show. <\/p>\n

He says, “Hey, Rush, you don\u2019t have to watch State of the Union. We got the season finale premier tonight.” This is the last season premier, final season premier. That\u2019s true. But there\u2019s always TiVo. Don\u2019t fret it, folks. I\u2019ll watch enough of it to be able to show up here and speak of it in a informed way. But my instincts are telling me that to do that is to fall into the trap of helping Obama and the Democrats convey what they want conveyed. It\u2019s all smoke and mirrors. <\/p>\n

This is an interesting. I\u2019ve been holding this story for couple of days. It\u2019s a Reuters story<\/a>. “Barack Obama enters the final two years of his presidency with a blemish on his legacy that looks impossible to erase: The decline of the middle class that he has promised to rescue.” What is this from Reuters? A little truth here? Right here, that open is exactly why the State of the Union is being done the way it\u2019s being done tonight and why all of these talks of tax increases on the rich are taking place. <\/p>\n

Obama has fixed it so that the only way the middle class benefits is via the redistribution of wealth (and that means government benefits) instead of going out and working and getting jobs. “Barack Obama enters the final two years of his presidency with a blemish on his legacy that looks impossible to erase: the decline of the middle class he has promised to rescue.” In reality, it is impossible to erase. It is what it is. But that\u2019s what tonight\u2019s gonna be about: erasing this and making it look like things have never been better. <\/p>\n

Frankly, folks, I don\u2019t want to be lied to about it. Things are not looking better than ever. There\u2019s nothing Obama has done that sets this country up for vast growth and improvement. It\u2019s the exact opposite. “The revival of middle-class jobs has been one of Obama\u2019s mantras since he took office in 2009 fighting the worst economic crisis in generations. It was a major theme of his last State of the Union address and is expected to feature in the one scheduled for [tonight].<\/p>\n

“Administration officials said on Saturday the president would propose higher capital gains taxes…” Yeah? How\u2019s that gonna help anybody in the middle class? “[N]ew fees on large financial firms”? They\u2019re not gonna help anybody in the middle class. “[A]nd other measures to raise $320 billion for programs and tax breaks aimed at the middle class.” Somebody explain to me: What “program” has anybody in the middle class become a member of the upper middle class by utilizing?<\/line><\/p>\n

This is what insults me. Government programs do not make a career. Government programs do not improve your standard of living. Sitting around and waiting for government to tax people that you think have too much money and getting all happy when you think they\u2019re harmed, and then sitting around for whatever Obama decides to redistribute to you? That\u2019s called “growing the middle class”? Sorry, it\u2019s insulting. It\u2019s not how you grow anything.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s how you create voters and dependency and you destroy people\u2019s lives, actually, by taking away from them their dignity and their humanity and their self-confidence and everything else. You create a bunch of people — as many as you can — sitting around, waiting for a benefit from government here, a benefit from government there, access to a new program over here. That doesn\u2019t lift the middle class up. It lifts the Democrat Party up. It doesn\u2019t lift people. It doesn\u2019t lift the middle class at all. <\/p>\n

This has never worked. <\/p>\n

This is what really grates me. <\/p>\n

For thousands of years, as often as it\u2019s been tried, socialism is a miserable failure. And here we\u2019re gonna sit through an hour and however many minutes listening to yet another presentation on how wonderful it is, how filled with compassion it is, how it\u2019s the only thing that\u2019s fair and all of that rotgut. And it\u2019s a failure! It does not work; it does not improve people\u2019s standard of living. There\u2019s no way government taking money out of the private sector can improve standards of living. <\/p>\n

The only thing that grows after Obama works this magic is the government. Look, I just fell into my own trap. I mentioned “private sector” after spending a bunch of time yesterday saying we need to broom the term. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So the bottom line is that they know, they were reporting a couple days ago that Obama\u2019s heading into the State of the Union show with a big blemish, and that is the decline of the middle class. The whole point of this thing is to put a lie to the truth and talk about the massive expansion of middle class. You know, I do get a little mad, probably sound angrier than I really am. But to me it\u2019s common sense. Here\u2019s the government and it is what\u2019s called the public sector. And over here is the rest of the economy. And over here is where the United States is the greatest superpower in the world, not over here in the government, except for the military. Over here, this is the free enterprise economy. <\/p>\n

<\/a>Now, for government to get bigger, \u2019cause it doesn\u2019t produce anything, it doesn\u2019t make anything, for government to get bigger, it has to take away from the free enterprise economy. Now, you tell me how in the world there can be growth for anybody in the free enterprise economy when the government continues to take things out of it? Health care, one-sixth of it\u2019s now gone, just in health care alone. But every program that raises taxes and takes money out of the pockets of people that work or people that run businesses makes the free enterprise economy shrink. <\/p>\n

And as the total economic output of this country becomes dominated more and more, or a percentage of it is taken greater and greater by the government, then the economy cannot possibly be growing, and people in it cannot experience the kind of wild upswings that we\u2019ve known in the past. So Obama, while daily chipping away at the free enterprise economy and growing the government is telling everybody that this is how you raise the middle class, this is how you elevate the middle class, by taking money away from them? Don\u2019t kid yourself. Raising taxes on the rich with the so-called — you talk about trickle-down, you talk about trickle-down never works, raising taxes on the rich and somehow government\u2019s gonna give that money back to the middle class and everybody, how — it\u2019s never happened that way. <\/p>\n

The whole thing is so bogus, and everybody should know it by now. Obama should be a laughingstock proposing this stuff. I guess that\u2019s what\u2019s really frustrates me, that it still works. And I know why it works. It\u2019s an emotional pitch. People have been conditioned to be happy when they think people that have more money than they do are suffering or being targeted and what have you. It\u2019s despicable stuff, these people on the left have done. <\/p>\n

In the meantime, I\u2019m gonna go to the phones and start with Jim in Brookfield, Illinois. Hi, Jim. Thanks for calling, sir. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I appreciate that. I\u2019m on WLS, home of the Rush Limbaugh Show in Chicago. And I just wanted to say I\u2019d noticed a really odd juxtaposition. On one side you have Obama talking about everyone\u2019s getting a piece of this and getting a little something, and just the other day the Bears hired a new coach, John Fox from Denver.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And his words were “earn” “compete” “try out.” So in 24 hours you get a really interesting juxtaposing between Democrat verbs and Republican verbs. And I\u2019m a teacher, I teach with the city colleges. It\u2019s something I had to point out. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, we gotta be very careful. We don\u2019t know if John Fox is a Republican or conservative.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I\u2019m not speaking for his politics; I spoke for his verbiage.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You just have to be very careful. I don\u2019t want to make any assumptions about that. But I get your point, I mean, here\u2019s the new coach of the Bears and he\u2019s talking about how this team is gonna improve, and everybody on his team is going to have to compete, and they\u2019re only gonna take the best. It\u2019s gonna be about showing up on time and it\u2019s gonna be working hard and it\u2019s gonna be competing against people. If you get a roster spot on this team you\u2019re gonna be the best we can find for that position. <\/p>\n

And over here is Obama, promising giveaways and freebies and getting even with the success stories. If John Fox were to be consistent with Obama what he would say was, “Okay, our highest paid player here is our quarterback, Jay Cutler. Jay Cutler is under contract for $127 million over so many years, but we\u2019ve looked at the way Jay Cutler\u2019s played, and he\u2019s nowhere near worth it. So what we\u2019re gonna do, we\u2019re gonna take a couple of million from Cutler here and give it to a free agent backup tight end. <\/p>\n

“And then we\u2019re gonna take another couple million from Cutler, we\u2019re gonna give it to a guy we hope to draft in the first round out of college that we don\u2019t even know can play yet. Then we\u2019re gonna get another couple million from Cutler, and we\u2019re gonna give it to the center, who is threatening to bolt for another team \u2019cause he doesn\u2019t like having to have to snap the ball to Cutler, whose hands are on his butt every game. So that\u2019s how we\u2019re gonna make things fair on this team. We\u2019re gonna take away from our highest-paid guy, and we\u2019re gonna give it away to other people, and that\u2019s how we\u2019re gonna get great.” <\/p>\n

That\u2019s what John Fox would have said if he wanted to employ the Obama Democrat Party policy of success. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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