The Father of Modern Talk Radio, Rush Limbaugh, has never been afraid of telling it like it is.  Yesterday, his expert tweaking of Liberal sensitivities reached a whole new level.

America’s lovable little fuzzball referred to President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) as a “jackass,” an “economic illiterate” and an “idiot, where capitalism is concerned.”

This hammer hits the nail on the head moment happened during a monologue on the president’s ill-informed position on extending the Bush tax cuts to all but the top two percent of wage earners.

According to Rush, Scooter is an “economic ignoramus” for not understanding how a “tax increase” on the wealthy won’t stimulate growth.

Reading excerpts from an AP article from Monday, El Rushbo pointed out Obama’s remarks at a meeting of his Economic Recovery Advisory Board that the wealthy would “take our ball and go home” if their tax cuts aren’t extended.

Rush then informed the president as to how the cow ate the cabbage:

Mr. Obama, our imam-child, they have already taken their trillion dollar ball home, and they’re sitting on it, you jackass.

Rush continued to take the former collegiate guest lecturer to school, saying that added degree of certainty would free business to spend some of the capital they’re holding onto and hire people

Extend the tax cut to everybody, and you’ll inspire confidence.  Which, once upon a time, we were told, was Obama’s top priority.

For not getting this, Rush said:

He’s a jackass.  He’s an economic illiterate.  He’s an economic ignoramus.  And that’s being charitable.

29 million people, including yours truly since 1988, listen to Cape Girardeau’s favorite son every weekday.

Rush is far from alone in his opinion of the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Desperately searching for jobs, coping with a lousy economy, and unimpressed by President Barack Hussein Obama, working-class whites are supporting Republican candidates in record numbers, turning a group long wary of Democrats into impetus for a Political Massacre on November 2nd, 2010.

An Associated Press-GfK poll shows whites without four-year college degrees preferring GOP candidates by twice the margin of the last two elections, when Democrats became the majority party in the House and Senate. September’s poll found these working class Americans favoring GOP hopefuls 58 percent to 36 percent, a whopping 22 percentage-point gap.

When Scooter won the presidency in 2008 (a looong time ago), they favored GOP congressional candidates by 11 percentage points, according to exit polls of voters. When Democrats won the House and Senate in 2006, the Republican edge was 9 percentage points.

Compared with whites who stayed longer in the education system, working-class whites tend to be older and more conservative.  These are groups that traditionally lean Republican and do not care for the tone-deaf president’s activist governing.  Their discernment is reinforced by a clueless economic policy producing a prolonged economic funk that has disproportionately hurt the working class and shown scant signs of improvement under Obama and Congress’ majority Democrats.

Even though they are used to trailing among working-class whites, Democrats can’t afford further defections from a group that accounts for about 4 in 10 voters nationally. Their GOP preference is in contrast to whites with college degrees, who the AP-GfK Poll shows are split evenly between the two parties’ candidates, and to minorities, who decisively back Democrats.

These working-class voters were called Reagan Democrats in the 1980s, when some in the North and Midwest who had previously voted for Democrats began supporting conservative Republicans. Scooter insulted these Americans during the 2008 presidential race, when he said some bitter small-town residents cling to guns and religion for solace. They preferred Hillary Rodham Clinton, his rival for the Democratic nomination, by 2-1 and in the general election backed Republican nominee John McCain by 18 points.

Jennifer Moore, 40, a school bus driver from Amherst, Va., said of Democrats:

They try to make everybody think the economy is better, and it isn’t.  Gas prices are going up, food is going up and people working for the minimum wage can’t make it.

In the AP-GfK poll, working-class whites were more likely than white college graduates to say their families are suffering financially and to have a relative who’s recently lost a job. They are less optimistic about the country’s economy and their own situations, pessimistic about the nation’s overall direction and more critical of how Democrats are handling the economy.

Lawrence Ramsey, 56, a warehouse manager in Winston-Salem, N.C., said:

Democrats are more apt to mess with the middle class and take our money.

 Working-class whites are more likely than better-educated whites to dislike Obama personally and are more negative about his leadership. Over half say he doesn’t understand ordinary Americans’ problems. They are also likelier to disapprove of Obama’s performance as president, including more than two-thirds who are unhappy with his stewardship of the economy.

According to Barbara Schwickrath, 64, a clothing store employee from Brooksville, Fla.:

The country hasn’t come up the way it should have under Obama.

Polls from around the country back up the fact that working-class Americans are fed up with Obama and the Democrats.   While a Marist Poll shows both of New York’s Democratic senators running strongly, one trails and the other is even among white working-class voters. Quinnipiac University polls show clear advantages with this group for GOP Senate candidates in Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio.

To try to con working-class Americans into believing that he actually cares, Obama has used nationally televised chats in people’s backyards to boast about his efforts to lift the economy. The Democratic-led Congress passed legislation with tax cuts and loans for small businesses before breaking for the election. On the campaign trail, Democrats whined about Connecticut GOP Senate candidate Linda McMahon’s refusal last week to rule out reducing the minimum wage to help ailing companies.

Democratic pollster Dave Beattie voiced his concern:

Democrats have to make it a choice between two individual candidates, not a referendum on do you like where things are or not, because no one likes where things are.

Republicans countered Scooter with their own message, unveiling a “Pledge to America” that broadly promised tax and spending cuts and criticizing congressional leaders for adjourning without voting to extend expiring income tax cuts.

A TV ad by Wisconsin Republican House contender Sean Duffy shows a man in an orange hardhat and safety vest getting flung off a rolling log into a pond. “Our working folks have been tossed aside,” Duffy says in the ad.

One glimmer of hope for Democrats is that 28 percent of working-class whites in the AP-GfK Poll say they may still switch candidates. (Yeah, and Scooter may walk through the doors of a Southern Baptist Church in Mississippi to attend Sunday morning service.)  Republicans say it’s too late.

The AP-GfK Poll was conducted Sept. 8-13 by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Corporate Communications and involved landline and cell phone interviews with 1,000 randomly chosen adults. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 4.2 percentage points. Included were interviews with 416 whites without college degrees, for whom the error margin is plus or minus 6.6 points.

Rush is exactly right.  And Americans’ lack of confidence in this president is cemented by moments like this: