Posted on 08/04/2015 1:19:03 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: A new Fox poll out yesterday, last night shows Donald Trump is just soaring. Trump is gaining ground on everybody in the GOP field and over Hillary. It's a Fox News poll, NBC poll, and in both of these polls, Hillary, the bottom is starting to fall out identically, exactly as it started to happen in 2008. And that's why the Democrats are starting to push out these stories about what a great guy Biden is and those gaffes that he makes, why, they just make him more lovable. That's old Joe. Telling the guy in a wheelchair to stand up, you know Joe didn't mean anything by it. That's just Joe.
He's still the same sensitive, good-hearted, big-hearted guy that he's always been. He just makes these gaffes and, you know, it's kind of cute. It's just Joe. So they're setting this up. They're setting everybody up for the entry of Biden into the race, because, make no mistake about it, Bernie Sanders may be drawing these huge crowds, and he may be knocking down the house, but the Democrat Party is not going to, at least with using as much as they have power here, control here, they're not gonna let him get the nomination.
Not unless he starts renouncing some of this hatred for Big Business.
I mean, he's gone beyond the acceptable in the Democrat Party operations manual. You know, in the Democrat Party owners manual, there are examples of approved ways to rip business and still telegraph to business that you really don't mean them any harm, that you're just talking. But Bernie has gone way beyond the owners manual guidelines and the Democrats know that he's serious in his anti-business rhetoric. The problem is that the Democrat Party has become the party of Big Business. The Democrat Party has become the party of cronyism, and the Republicans want in on that. That's what they want.
It used to be that the Republicans used to have this tight relationship with Big Business. But now that it's become full-fledged cronyism between Big Business and government, that's what the Republicans want. They want those chances. They want those opportunities. They want the power to be able to sit there and make cronies and make government crony deals with business for everybody's mutual benefit now that that's the order of the day, now that that's the way it happens.
For all these years the Republicans have been trying to make everybody think they're not the party of Big Business because it was a bad thing. But now that the rules have changed and now that it's out in the open, I mean, if you're a Democrat and you benefit from everybody thinking you got the best of intentions and you love people and you care, whatever you do is perfectly fine. So cronyism has become, as far as everybody's concerned, accepted. Not crony capitalism, crony socialism, just cronyism. Just a mutual association between government and select businesses, not industries, although it may be industries at times, but select businesses.
A business gets in bed with a president. It's cronyism. The government protects that business, and in the process hurts that business's competitors. The politician benefits from all of the money and support from the Big Business and gets immunity from the charge that he is anti-free market economy. If you're in bed with Big Business, everybody still thinks that Big Business is capitalism 101. So if you're in bed with Big Business, cronyism or otherwise, how can anybody call you a socialist and make it stick? 'Cause Big Business isn't socialism. Ahhhh, maybe not. But it could be fascism. But whatever it is, it's cronyism, and the Republicans want in on it.
And that's why Democrats love it. And Bernie Sanders, if he ever became president and had a chance, he would end it. I mean, he would give action to what other Democrats only voice. The Democrats love to stand up and rip Wall Street and rip Big Business, but that's just for your consumption. They don't actually do anything about it. "Wait a minute, Rush, wait a minute. What about Dodd-Frank?" Yeah. Yeah. But who did Dodd-Frank actually end up hurting? It hurts the consumer.
It hurts the consumer. It bottles up regulations. It hurts the consumer. Some businesses have been hurt by it, but not all. Just like Obamacare, there are certain exemptions and waivers and this, that, and the other thing. But cronyism's cronyism. And the Republicans, they want a piece of this action. They want to be in charge of the money. There's no thought now to reducing the size of government or getting rid of a department here or a department there.
I mean, you could look at it... Let's take a department. What's...? Just to illustrate my point here, Reagan. Reagan actually at one time made an effort at closing the department of... What was it, education? Energy or education? Which one? (interruption) He failed. But at least he gave lip service to it. When did the Department of Education come into being? When did it start, and do you remember the president who started it? I'm not sure. I don't remember.
All I know is it's fairly recent within the entire scope of the history of the country. Now, let me ask you this. We have a Department of Education that's sacrosanct. We can't cut it because it's "the children." But what do they do to further education at the Department of Education? What happens? Do they actually do that, or do they impede it? Are there any teachers there? Any professional teachers there? Who are these people at the Department of Education? What do they do?
You're never gonna get rid of these things, especially now that cronyism has come into being; cronyism is now accepted as just a government way of life. (interruption) Okay, Jimmy Carter recreated it in his own image and gave it new power, but it existed before Jimmy Carter. I just can't recall who. He might have started it. I'm not sure. But the point is, what does Jimmy Carter know about education? I mean, nobody's against it, that's not my point. Would Jimmy Carter know how to teach people anything?
It's like there might be better examples. I mentioned the Department of Energy. Do they...? Does the Department of Energy make any? (interruption) They don't. All they do is tell the people that know how to do it what they can't do. Right? That's all the Department of Energy does is tell the people that are experts at creating energy what they can't do. Peter principle? I don't know whatever you want to call it.
But we have people rising to the top of incompetency at these so-called federal departments that don't know diddly-squat, and Obama fits that to a T. I don't think there's anything he knows how to do, other than community organize. And he knows cronyism. Cronyism to Obama is protectionism for himself, and he's engaged in it. My point is the Republicans want in on this. That's why they want their economy chairmanships in the Senate! They want to be in charge of the money.
My overall point is that gone from all of these discussions, political arguments, debates, is the concept of reducing all of this and making it smaller and getting it out of people's lives. I mean, a couple candidates come along and may provide lip service to it, but it's just act opposite. Now, this is the reason... No, I've not lost my place. This is the reason why Bernie Sanders isn't gonna be the nominee, because he would rip this cronyism apart. He really would try.
He's not just uttering lip service to get Democrat votes; he really believes it. Hillary, Biden, Algore, whoever, they would all give lip service to being anti-business but they're in bed with everybody in business. Clinton! I just saw something, and I think I printed out it out, too... Speaking of the Department of Education, some educational institution, nonprofit, paid Bill Clinton $16 million for speeches over a short period of time, number of years.
I forget what the number of years is. But this is a cesspool, and all these people are in it with each other. The idea that the Republicans are pro-business and the Democrats are anti-business is a formulation from way back that everybody's still trying to make everybody believe, but it isn't true. The Democrats... Obama owes his election to Wall Street and to major American corporations, and yet the Democrats are the biggest anti-corporate talking crowd you'll ever run into.
But it's all just for show in order to placate the lunatic fringe base. Now, the fact that we're talking this way about Bernie Sanders means that Hillary is in trouble. She is continuing to lose. In fact, in the latest analysis of this data, her favorability with white women is plunging. It's the Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. "Many Democrats have long hoped that Hillary Clinton might expand Barack Obama's electoral coalition by drawing in more white women voters."
Hold Obama's coalition of the African-Americans, hold his coalition of the Hispanics, hold his coalition of the young, and build on women as "the first female candidate." Get all these white women supporting her and build on the Obama coalition. But the problem is, white women are abandoning her, and these other groups are just not that excited. This new "poll suggests she may have a tough time pulling it off," this expansion of support from white women.
"Mrs. Clinton is losing ground with white women and many other important slices of the electorate, the poll shows, amid a spate of reports about her email practices, speaking fees and foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation. ... Mrs. Clinton, of course, is a white woman. She was raised in the suburbs and earned both college and law degrees. She's fared well among voters with a similar background in past polls, but this month's survey shows that’s no longer the case."
She's losing ground fast with every group, but especially with the group of white women.
"By a five-point margin, suburban women had a negative view of Mrs. Clinton." Now, I don't pretend to know the explicit reasons, but I have a theory, and I think it's the these e-mails, in part. I think it's also her dryball, dull personality coupled with her arrogant condescension of expectation. This e-mail business, I think it's hurting her more with people than anybody inside the Beltway understands, 'cause I think this is something, despite it being tech, that more people understand than Washington gives credit.
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Some questions come to mind :
1. Do we have a better energy situation in this country since we have had a Dept of Energy?
2. Is the state of public education markedly improved since Jimmy Carter created the Dept of Education???
I’m sure other questions come to mind, as to whether federal intervention in various areas has improved the situation in those areas.
I think Nixon created all or most of the alphabet agencies.
Hillary and the ‘Rats are dead wood along with th GOPe, all demagogs.
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world...................
I’ve been tired of Hillary since the 90s.
Had I lived in Arkansas I would have been tired of her far sooner.
"It's kind of cute" Is that what Robert Kessler said the female secret service people thought after seeing Joe skinny-dipping?
You’ll have to elect me before I’ll you what I’m going to do!
She’s like a well worn tire alright....
I wrote earlier today on another of shillary’s threads...I’ve been so tired of the Clintons since he was gov. of Ark. and I didn’t even live there..
I’m so tired of their ‘3 a day’ scandals..
And who cares who bill is screwing...and who is taking care of shillary when Huma isn’t around....
Done, Over, Go Away, just get the hell out of Dodge!!!
Biden-Obama 2016
I think that the great Milton Friedman said it well: “If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years, there’d be a shortage of sand”.
...You must be out of your mind...
Biden-Obama (Zer0’s “wife”) would be no surprise for libs to pull as Hillary tanks.
She doesn’t bore me, she sickens me.
Thanks Kaslin. There sure are some nimrods.
Don’t look at her, you liable to turn tuh stone fer sho!
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