RUSH: Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, as you know we had a couple of phone calls from two very nice women who expressed something that's becoming more and more frequent here, somewhat to my distress, expressing more and more dissatisfaction with the lack of a sufficient role that I am playing in saving America from both liberal politicians of both parties, that doing a radio program and reshaping the entire media landscape, destroying the media monopoly, causing the Democrats to want to shut me down, is not enough. I need to be doing more. I need to be going out there on television. One woman says, "Look, I'm a professional, my husband is a professional, we're doing quite well but all these increased costs for food gasoline and so forth, we're now living paycheck to paycheck. I'm scared. What's going to happen if Obama's elected and so forth?" I confided to her that I have the same concerns. I mean, we all look at liberals, and we think if they get the chance they're going to take away everything that we have, with increased taxes, restricted liberty and so forth. And then I came across something that a little light turned on in my, again, large, unique, exceptional fertile brain, about how to deal with this. And it coincides, this little light that went off, coincided with the latest Rasmussen Report poll that shows for the first time ever, Congressional approval rating is now in single digits.
The US population gives 9% approval rating to Congress -- The percentage of voters who give Congress good or excellent ratings has fallen to single digits for the first time in Rasmussen Reports tracking history. This month, just 9% say Congress is doing a good or excellent job. Most voters (52%) say Congress is doing a poor job, which ties the record high in that dubious category." Now, amidst all of this, with a 9% approval rating, an all-time low, the media template is still what? That the Democrats are going to pick up all these seats in the House and they're going to pick up all these seats in the Senate. It's a foregone conclusion. Now, if people are this upset with Congress, and the president's numbers are higher -- you know, this is a risky thing to try to analyze. You have to ask how many Americans understand that Congress is now run by Democrats? How many of them think that Congress is just an extension of the White House and are blaming it on Republicans? Well, you don't know. But I think one of the keys here in every call I get, and every comment I get from people talking about this, whether it's here on the program or in my highly focused personal and private life, it's the gasoline price. The gasoline price is the root of everything because that affects the cost of food, the cost of leisure time activity, the cost of entertainment, and it's a gold mine. It is simply a golden opportunity for the Republican Party here to really make some big hay.
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