Posted on 03/05/2009 3:42:03 AM PST by Kaslin
"You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done," the newly installed President Obama told Capitol Hill Republicans.
Chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, just days ago, called the popular conservative radio talk show host "the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party." Then Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele appeared on a CNN show hosted by comedian-turned-pundit D.L. Hughley. When Hughley called Limbaugh "the de facto leader of the Republican Party," Steele stepped right on top of the trap. "No," said Steele, "I'm the de facto leader of the Republican Party," and called Limbaugh an "entertainer" whose show can be "incendiary" and "ugly." Steele later apologized to Limbaugh. Game, set and match.
As the tax-and-spend policies of the Obama administration extend and deepen the recession, the new administration's strategy to deal with the fallout becomes clearer and clearer.
Blame Rush Limbaugh.
The Democrats, according to Politico.com, took a poll and discovered that Limbaugh polled higher "negatives" than those of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and radical "reform educator" William Ayers. Given the departure of their reliable pinatas -- former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney -- Democrats believe they've found a new Darth Vader.
Blame Rush Limbaugh.
In the waning, pre-TARP days of the Bush administration, the national deficit stood at about $500 billion. A panicked Bush and Congress then voted for the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program to "bail out" the banks. Obama signed a $789 billion economic "stimulus" package, and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner announced a $2.5 trillion "rescue plan" for the financial system. Even CNBC's Jim Cramer, a former Obama supporter, called the administration's approach the "greatest wealth destruction I've seen by a president."
Blame Rush Limbaugh.
Obama, as part of his $3.6 billion budget, intends to spend -- strike that -- "invest" on things such as creating "green jobs," combating the effects of "climate change," health care and enabling "homeowners" to remain in their unaffordable homes. How does the President intend to pay for all these things? He wants to tax "the rich" -- those earning $250,000 or more. He also promises to close "tax loopholes" taken advantage of by the wealthy. What to do when this European-style redistribution of wealth fails to achieve its desired objectives?
Blame Rush Limbaugh.
The U.S. government already controls nearly 50 percent of health care spending. The Obama administration, through regulation and mandates, intends for government to control the rest. What happens when -- as in Canada, France and elsewhere -- this fails to achieve its stated goal of accessibility, affordability and accountability?
Blame Rush Limbaugh.
The 20 banks that received the most of the original TARP money actually reduced, not increased, their lending. And some used the money to buy other institutions. So how does the administration explain the failure of the "bailout" money to "unfreeze" lending?
Blame Rush Limbaugh.
The government now holds equity positions in several institutions, including, but not limited to, the giant insurer AIG. Since taking these positions, the government's market value has dropped, placing the taxpayers deeper and deeper in the hole. General Motors, one of the Small Three, received -- so far -- some $13.4 billion in federal loans. But its losses continue, and GM now says it needs an additional $16.6 billion.
Blame Rush Limbaugh.
The president promised to eliminate pork, earmarks and/or special projects designed to please constituents. The $789 billion spending spree plan he recently signed is larded with pork-barrel projects. How does he square this legislation with his promise to end pork spending?
Blame Rush Limbaugh.
Republicans deserve harsh criticism for failing to rein in non-defense, non-homeland security spending when they controlled the presidency and both houses of Congress. Republicans helped gut the Freedom to Farm Act (designed to wean farmers from subsidies); OK'd pork-riddled energy and highway bills; expanded the federal government's role in education through, among other things, the No Child Left Behind Act; passed -- with the prescription benefits bill for seniors -- the largest expansion of Medicare in decades; and increased government regulation as much as or more than under Democratic administrations.
But the Obama administration now puts spending on steroids, and all but three Republicans voted against the latest legislation. How does the Obama administration explain its failure to achieve its vaunted "bipartisanship"?
Blame Rush Limbaugh.
RNC Chairman Steele needs to focus on the merits of the Republican approach -- lower taxes, less government domestic spending, and fewer regulations. Punishing high achievers by taxing them destroys incentive and thus destroys jobs. Transferring money from one pocket to another destroys the initiative of the giver and the given. Private capital knows best whether, how and when to "invest." The private sector "creates or saves" jobs, not government. When Obama's "new New Deal" fails to achieve the desired objectives, we already know what happens next.
Blame Rush Limbaugh, who, by the way, is not just laughing all the way to the bank. At today's bargain-basement prices, he probably owns several.
"No," said Steele, "I'm the de facto leader of the Republican Party," and called Limbaugh an "entertainer" whose show can be "incendiary" and "ugly."It doesn't matter that he apologized later. He said it and he meant it when he said it and he said it for a reason, because he believes it.
I am feeling more and more comfortable in my decision to never again vote R just for the sake of R.
It's conservative for me. For every future vote.
The GOP has earned it. The GOP "investments" are really paying off now.
Well now that we have moved on to Blam Ruch ... the Oboma administration is looking very DUMB and CHILDISH. Even his DUMB supporters are starting to see the light. Some Demoncrats are becomng concerned. All I can say is THANK GOD for RUSH LIMBAIGH!
Is not the public targeting by the White House of a radio personality unprecedented in our nation's history? Is this not what gangsters do to neutralize a threat? Are we now being governed by a bunch of tax cheats and people with shady pasts and connections? What is going to happen to Rush's sponsors and radio syndication executives with the White House displeased with him? It may not happen overnight, but Rush will fade into the twilight is my guess.
“It’s conservative for me. For every future vote.”
Agreed. Now the task is to find some.
It sure seems that way.
Maybe it’s me but It’s hard to understand the White House singling out Limbaugh or any citizen is going to distract people from the increasingly socialist policies Obambi is inflicting on American citizens. The tea parties prove that strategy is a failure.
Rush. Keep whoopin Obamas behind like the little boy he is. Your ideas are mine. His are Stalins? Hey, Rush......if you open a bank soon, I need a job!
It is because of people like you, that the rats have control now and that we have a Marxist in the White House
We should tell these asshats that it doesn’t matter what we conservatives think. It doesn’t matter what Rush thinks. All that matters is that they have a majority in Congress and the Senate and that their guy sits in the Black House. They get to make all the decisions. That’s what they wanted.
It’s not acceptable for them to ridicule our people. I expect Bambam to sit at his desk every day, in the Oval Office, like any good old president would and figure out a responsible way to get us out of this mess. If Bambam can’t do that, and chooses instead to waste time in going after Rush, then we need to be in their faces.
Maybe time to start protesting at major intersections in all cities across the country. Heck we got so many unemployed people, it should be no problem to organize such a thing.
Yeah, they’ve done such an excellent job, haven’t they? You can’t find fault with the GOP leadership. Just look at their long list of accomplishments.
Hey, A-hole. I said “from now on”. Until now I’ve been holding my nose and voting R no matter what.
I voted for McStupid. I contributed money to his campaign.
So it’s not “people like me” that brought us Obama. So keep your personal slurs to yourself. Or look in the mirror.
It’s “people like McCain”. And “people like Bush”. And “people like the RNC”.
That’s who elected the Big Giant Zero. Not me.
http://www.dakotavoice.com/2009/03/full-rush-limbaugh-speech-to-cpac/
The One is scaring the hell out of business owners which in turn only leads to more decline. The One is an idiot.
No. It's not unprecedented. It's just what lying Democrats do. Clinton started it back during his term. See http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19940625&slug=1917319:
Clinton's other target was Rush Limbaugh, the rabble-rousing conservative talk-show host.
"There is no reason to be cynical," the president said. "But the American people keep being told that things are bad and politicians are corrupt and the system is broken. That's just not true."
Clinton, who conceded that he sounded belligerent, vowed: "I'm going to be aggressive from here on in."
Actually, his responses to such attacks are nothing new. In the past year, Clinton has publicly displayed his temper with increasing frequency, causing even some prominent Democrats to wonder why such a consummate political campaigner is so unnerved by the kind of criticism that is standard in modern politics.
"(Ronald) Reagan would just laugh some of this stuff off," said one Democratic Party official who asked not to be named.
William Kristol, chairman of the Project for the Republican Future, said it was politically unwise for Clinton to spar with Limbaugh.
"Even if you're not a Limbaugh fan, it looks ridiculous for the president of the United States to attack a radio talk-show host," Kristol said.
Clinton accused talk-show hosts of fueling rampant cynicism.
"There's too much cynicism and too much intolerance," he said. "Much of talk radio is just a constant unremitting drumbeat of negativism and cynicism."
". . . After I get off the radio today with you, Rush Limbaugh will have three hours to say whatever he wants," Clinton said. "And I won't have any opportunity to respond. And there's no `truth detector.' You won't get on afterward and say what was true and what wasn't."
"There is no need for a truth detector," Limbaugh quipped later on his show. "I am the truth detector."
If Rush is the leader of the Republican Party, then I say Chris Matthews is the leader of the DemocRATS.
This is just a distraction from seeing the failures of that illegal immigrant who is now our president.
Now is not the time for us to be sniping at each other. What’s done is done. We need to think about what we do next.
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