Cable News Ratings for Wednesday, February 20, 2013

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1. lbsles

   Posted February 22, 2013 at 12:28 PM

   One of the tweets that’s coming out of the Obama account is this: “Fact: Obama’s plan ends tax breaks for companies to ship jobs overseas and rewards companies that hire people here at home.” People hear that, or they read that, and they say, “That’s wonderful! It’s about time somebody is making business play by the same rules everybody else has to play by. No more tax cuts for companies to ship jobs overseas.

   “That shouldn’ta happened in the first place and whoever did that ought to be stopped, and Obama’s trying to stop it. He’s trying to reverse it, and he’s gonna make sure that companies that hire people here at home are going to be rewarded!” He doesn’t say how, he just says they are, and the low-information voter says, “Boy, I can support that. I hope he succeeds. I really hope that he’s able to pull this off.”

   *******

   Now, the fact is that there aren’t any “tax breaks for companies who ship jobs overseas.”

2. lbsles

   Posted February 22, 2013 at 12:29 PM

   Here’s another Obama tweet: “Obama’s plan grows the economy by investing in manufacturing, infrastructure, clean energy, and education without raising the deficit.” But the deficit’s getting bigger. So how does that work? Well, somebody else is doing it. Because Obama said he won’t. Obama said his plan doesn’t. So if John Boehner comes along and says, “Oh, yes, it does,” then, “Well, Boehner, he’s an idiot! Boehner’s a Republican,” and that’s what’s gonna be said about anybody. It doesn’t matter who. Mitch McConnell. Karl Rove.

   “Well, they’re lying!” So there are a lot of factors here that make this possible. This is not easy to do. I mean, Obama, as a cult figure means nobody doubts him. Among his supporters, among the low-information voters, the fact that he might be lying never crosses their mind. It can’t be. So he tweets that his plan that he announced in the State of the Union “grows the economy by investing in manufacturing, infrastructure, clean energy.”

3. lbsles

   Posted February 22, 2013 at 12:29 PM

   Another tweet from Obama: “Cuts to things like education and training, energy, and national security will cost us jobs and slow down our recovery.” The thing is, there aren’t any. There aren’t any cuts. There aren’t even any proposed cuts in anything, much less “energy, training, education, and national security.” There aren’t any cuts! The fact is, the only hope we have is shrinking the budget and shrinking the government. That’s the only hope we’ve got. Yet cuts to things like — and fill in the blank. It doesn’t matter.

   “Cuts will cost us jobs and slow down our recovery.”

   That’s what’s heard.

4. lbsles

   Posted February 22, 2013 at 12:30 PM

   RUSH: In discussing the phenomenon that we have learned about that I told you about the past couple days about the total disconnect between Obama’s presidency and his policies and how he’s never, ever seen as governing, always campaigning, always running against faceless, nameless people, thwarting his attempts to fix what’s wrong. You need a slavish, compliant media to pull that off. In fact, some might say you need more than a slavish, compliant media. You need a media that helps you formulate ways, a media that helps you strategerize.

5. lbsles

   Posted February 22, 2013 at 12:31 PM

   “Folks, do you realize the sequester features no budget cuts? All it does is reduce the rate of growth. It’s baseline budgeting. There’s no difference in this round of so-called cuts and any other. There is no real cut. This is simply a reduction in the rate of scheduled growth.” -Rush Limbaugh

6. 1966

   Posted February 22, 2013 at 1:00 PM

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X-UPmTAWMg&feature=player_detailpage
   r.i.p. cleotha staple

7. usa8888

   Posted February 22, 2013 at 1:04 PM

   ibsles–everyone knows that Slimebaugh tells nothing but lies–that’s why you lost the election BIGTIME. The American people favor Obama and his policies over the right wing GOP, according to all national surveys, but slimebaugh still makes millions off suckers like ibsles…..

8. usa8888

   Posted February 22, 2013 at 1:09 PM

   I invite slimebaugh and ibsles to state the accomplishments of the right wing GOP and tell me how cutting spending in a recession causes economic growth and job creation…..so far no takers…..

9. usa8888

   Posted February 22, 2013 at 1:12 PM

   Slimebaugh is against the moderate GOP who have some sense. slimbebaugh makes his millions off uneducated suckers and so he doesn’t want to endanger his gravy train. Even rove is against slimebaugh and the right fringe because he knows they can not win elections with this fringe element…

10. Matthew

    Posted February 22, 2013 at 1:15 PM

    Correction: Solar Cycle 24 will reach solar maximum this year, not in 2015, long-term projections for Solar Cycle 25 are still preliminary (the trend will become more clear once SC25 is actally underway), and at present there are no official statements from NASA to implicate a 30 year solar minimum. As per data from cycles 19 – 24, correlation between sun activity and average global temperature anomaly remains statistically non-existent.

    #SunTalk #Obamaquester #tcot

11. mikey O

    Posted February 22, 2013 at 1:17 PM

    @hillbilly zero hour down but it beat NBC

12. AppleStinx

    Posted February 22, 2013 at 1:18 PM

    1966 wrote: “r.i.p. cleotha staple”

    Sorry to hear that. Pops died a while back, so that leaves us Mavis and the other sister?

13. mikey O

    Posted February 22, 2013 at 1:28 PM

    @ibsles yes 88 billion less out of a 3.1 trillion dollar budget. For 88 billion we will lose air traffic controllers, meat inspectors, TSA agents , DEA agants, border agants, and a partridge in a pear tree. So what are getting for rest of the 3.1 trillion dollar budget.

14. lbsles

    Posted February 22, 2013 at 1:35 PM

    The New York Times just wrote one abysmal editorial on raising taxes

    What a misguided yet clarifying editorial on taxes from The New York Times. I think we are going to have to take this one apart sentence by sentence:

    1. “To reduce the deficit in a weak economy, new taxes on high-income Americans are a matter of necessity and fairness; they are also a necessary precondition to what in time will have to be tax increases on the middle class.”

    http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/02/the-new-york-times-just-wrote-one-abysmal-editorial-on-raising-taxes/

15. lbsles

    Posted February 22, 2013 at 1:37 PM

    A quick reminder of the Democrats’ endgame on taxes

    Former US Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman offers a sequester escape route (via the FT):

    Unblocking the impasse should follow three principles. First, further deficit reductions are necessary. Second, they must incorporate both reductions in entitlement spending, which is growing too quickly, and increases in tax revenue, which is growing too slowly. Third, they should be phased in to protect the still fragile economy.

    Later in the piece, Altman says he would raise more tax revenue by reducing the value of tax deductions for high earners. The Obama White House is pushing for about $500 billion in such tax hikes.

    http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/02/a-quick-reminder-of-where-the-democratic-endgame-is-on-taxes/

16. lbsles

    Posted February 22, 2013 at 1:38 PM

    US oil output increased last week to the highest level since August 1992, more than 20 years ago

    The Department of Energy reported today that the US produced an average of 7.118 million barrels of oil per day (bpd) during the week ending February 15, which was the highest level of domestic oil output since August 1992, more than 20 years ago (see top chart above). Compared to a year ago, US oil output increased by 22.3% last week, marking the sixth straight week of annual increases in domestic oil production above 20%. In just the last 18 months, US oil output has increased by1.6 million bpd, from 5.5 million bpd in August 2011 to more than 7.1 million bpd last week. That increase of 1.6 million bpd in America’s oil output over the last 18 months would be the equivalent of adding Norway’s entire oil production (1.8 million bpd in October 2012) to the US oil supply.

17. lbsles

    Posted February 22, 2013 at 1:41 PM

    5 ways to improve Obamacare

    1.Delay. Many of the ACA’s most controversial aspects will take effect in January 2014, but the preparations for this implementation are in chaos. Many employers, states, and health care sector participants would welcome a delay of implementation to ensure a smoother transition.

    2.Repeal IPAB. IPAB represents a top-down, unaccountable model for cost control that will drive suppliers out of the program and leave beneficiaries on waiting lists. Plus, it’s politically unpopular. A clean IPAB-repeal bill, with nothing else attached, could draw significant Democratic support.

    3.Reduce premium-credit subsidies. The ACA entitles all Americans with incomes between 133% and 400% of the poverty line to subsidies for health insurance. That’s over 110 million Americans under the age of 65. Reducing the rate to 300%, as very-liberal Massachusetts does, would save taxpayers billions.

    4.Repeal the individual mandate. It may be constitutional, but it can still be removed. According to the CBO, repealing the mandate would reduce the deficit by nearly $300 billion over ten years.

    5.Repeal the medical-device tax. The new tax on the medical-device industry is already slowing research and innovation. It’s also causing job losses as companies try to save money by letting workers go. A straight repeal of this tax could draw in many Democratic votes and would improve our future health care by allowing innovation to flourish.

18. AppleStinx

    Posted February 22, 2013 at 1:41 PM

    HLN is again full-on the Jodi Arias trial. Can’t blame them, they beat CNN on Wednesday and even Hardball at 5pm.

19. Gabriel

    Posted February 22, 2013 at 1:42 PM

    lbsles
    Posted February 22, 2013 at 12:28 PM

    Now, the fact is that there aren’t any “tax breaks for companies who ship jobs overseas.”

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    Companies can in fact deduct the costs of moving jobs overseas. Btw, do you make love to the Pillsbury Doughboy or does he make love to you? Hahaha. This is ridiculous.

20. Gabriel

    Posted February 22, 2013 at 1:54 PM

    Does the Vatican routinely host gay orgies? According to a scathing new report by an Italian newspaper, the pope didn’t resign because of medical reasons.