Posted on 01/23/2009 5:22:49 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
I was never this furious with Clinton.
I don't think that' it. I suppose it has more to do with poor republican leadership. We need a Newt and we got a McCain.
When is the last time you remember the Republicans as a whole in Congress showing any courage or backbone????
An interesting comparison, but Rush doesn't buy his air time ... he's paid for it!
You're right. He doesn't. He thinks:
"You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
He doesn't know it has nothing to do with race or xenophobia, or 'clinging' to anything other than the principles upon which this country was built. Principles that he knows little about and cares even less. He wants to reprinciple it in his own socialist principles. Which is why, Rush and us want him to fail in that effort. That's what he doesn't get. And the fact that 'he won' tends to reinforce his ideas of course. But the fact that this isn't a 'pure democracy' and _why_ it isn't is something he can't fathom or doesn't care to fathom.
I bet Rush is actually quite surprised that O'bummer has singled him out. In the eyes of O'bummer I suppose he sees Rush as his most alarming and vocal Critic.
Rush will be both honored and saddened at the same time.
Exactly! It wasn’t Ayers and Wright that sought him out, it was the other way around. That one spot where he talks about ‘negative and positive rights’ and how the civil rights movement made a mistake by going through the courts, convinced me of that.
I think PBRcat was referring to this article http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/us/politics/30law.html?_r=1&ref=politics&pagewanted=all
“The Chicago faculty is more rightward-leaning than that of other top law schools, but if teaching alongside some of the most formidable conservative minds in the country had any impact on Mr. Obama, no one can quite point to it.
“I don’t think anything that went on in these chambers affected him,” said Richard Epstein, a libertarian colleague who says he longed for Mr. Obama to venture beyond his ideological and topical comfort zones. “His entire life, as best I can tell, is one in which he’s always been a thoughtful listener and questioner, but he’s never stepped up to the plate and taken full swings.” “
I understand he has ditched it and is now using a Dingleberry to communicate with is advisers.
Congress is very responsive to the public mood, Rep or Dem. There is a hard core left among the Democrats in Congress, but if things keep going the way they look like they're going, a lot of Rats could go overboard. Look at how fast the press got slapped. Obama thinks it's all over because "he won."
"... it's just starting, now." - Firesign Theatre
I don’t listen to Rush, but I think I will on Monday to hear how he deals with this. If I can get him in my city, that is.
Surely you jest?
Rush is probably the least surprised. Obama prefaced this with his 'childish things' in his inaug. speech, which imo, was directed at Rush (and others perhaps - Hannity, et. al.) and I assume Rush got that too.
Might be a good idea for Rush to make sure he has no more legal skeletons in his closet and that his taxes are in order... Because I fully expect Obama to go after him and other outspoken Conservative-type folks who are outspoken critics of THE ONE.
“I think PBRcat was referring to this article http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/us/politics/30law.html?_r=1&ref=politics&pagewanted=all
“The Chicago faculty is more rightward-leaning than that of other top law schools, but if teaching alongside some of the most formidable conservative minds in the country had any impact on Mr. Obama, no one can quite point to it.
“I don’t think anything that went on in these chambers affected him,” said Richard Epstein, a libertarian colleague who says he longed for Mr. Obama to venture beyond his ideological and topical comfort zones. “His entire life, as best I can tell, is one in which he’s always been a thoughtful listener and questioner, but he’s never stepped up to the plate and taken full swings.” “
Thank you...I remember Rush talking about this
I would love to know if any of you are posting your feelings to the WH’s website, you know, in the special “Love Letters to Our Arrogant Fraudident Obama” section.
I would love for Rush to run for president in 2012...
screw everybody else
this is who we need...
although i know he never will take the paycut and I don’t know if i would either if I made 50 million a year doing what rush does
Deregulation under Reagan was a huge boost to Free Enterprise. Look at the airlines, and above all, look at the demise of Ma Bell. What was it other than a state supported monopoly? A very fine example of one, to be sure, but a state supported monopoly, nevertheless.
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