Newsweek Cover Targets Rush Limbaugh; Uses David Frum to Do Obama's Dirty Work

Sunday, March 8, 2009 | Kristinn

[Fiddlstix]

A 'present' to the Left... always polite to 'return the favor', isn't it?.

LOL!
Always the gentleman you are, Sir.

[Valentine_W]

"I don't celebrate "Republicans" who support Obama's spending agenda, and that is exactly what we get from the RINOs. We can be on the "winning" side by voting with Obama, but that is a Pyrrhic victory. I for one hope Obama fails (although if I were a R leader I would not say it exactly like that)."

Thanks for your response. Well, I don't actually see many Republican members of Congress supporting Obama's spending spree...although I just noticed that a total of 8 Republican Senators voted for the omnibus spending bill. At worst, the Republicans left in Congress were too fatalistic about Obama's spending sprees to really put up a good fight. I think most people within the Party actually want to stop Obama's domestic and foreign policy agenda (really, neither Rush nor Frum support Obama's agenda), and pretty much everyone within the Party understands the only way to really enact change is to start winning elections again...it's just the path to getting there that has been so difficult to untangle internally.

I really hope the Republican Party gets their act together soon. I am getting worried about the prospect of major inflation and political instability around the world.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

I really hope the Republican Party gets their act together soon. I am getting worried about the prospect of major inflation and political instability around the world.

Not to mention Obama's plans to destroy the oil and gas industry and the US military.

[Seadog Bytes]

RE: "Always the gentleman you are, Sir."

LOL! ...Aside from the obvious benefits of a 'civil society', it's always good to be polite... especially around here... since we never know for sure who may be packin'!

[Seadog Bytes]

Thank you Ma'am, but we ALL know that nothing I am posting is likely to be even close to as PRETTY as the ones YOU put up.

...Bless you, and Thank You just the same, however... grin.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Seadog Bytes]

Thank YOU, Ma'am.

[MEG33]

Awwww..BIG grin

[Belle22]

“I agreed with you at the time, and continue to. It was an idiotic appointment, and conservatives were right to fight against it. Defending it to this day seems to me an exercise in mad stubbornness. Hugh Hewitt gave up defending his syncophancy and is glad we got Alito.”

I remember being in some obscure part of Florida trying to listen to Hewitt & Frum debate the Miers nomination on Hewitt’s show. HH believed that if the WH wanted it, it would happen & HH wanted to be on record as being on board.

HH is on during evening drive here & he always seems preoccupied with finding the angle through which he can curry favor & vault himself into the fed. gov’t legal power structure. He tried it with the Romney bio in this last cycle, but that didn’t work out, either. I doubt he’s given up, though. He wants out of CA b/c of the taxes.

[Defiant]

I agree with you about Hewitt. He showed promise for a while. I liked his intellectual style. I wasn't a fan of giving retards like Chemirinsky a platform and the respect he gives to people like that, but I could stand that once in a while. I never could take the Medved schtick of trying to be patient with, and give tons of airtime to, pinheads, who will never agree with you, and who are unreachable. They are good only as an occasional foil.

I don't know what happened to Hewitt, or what motivated him to show that he was less a conservative than a GOP water-carrier. You may be right that he wanted to be in an administrative position, I have no way to know. All I know is he lost his credibility and has no way of getting it back. There are a very few radio hosts who have remained true to principle throughout. Laura Ingraham, Rush, Mark Levin. Guys like Sean Hannity and Mark Gallagher are pretty consistent, but they don't have the intellectual firepower the others do, and are mainly followers.

[Belle22]

“There are a very few radio hosts who have remained true to principle throughout. Laura Ingraham, Rush, Mark Levin. Guys like Sean Hannity and Mark Gallagher are pretty consistent, but they don’t have the intellectual firepower the others do, and are mainly followers.”

Thanks for articulating something I’ve believed for a long time! We need to be able to wipe the floor in debate with the uninformed, knee-jerk liberals, and the first 3 are fearless, ultra-bright & quick. Even amongst friends, the contrast you mention becomes apparent - last night poor, earnest Sean got schooled on torture by 24-yr. old Meaghan McCain.

[1Swashbuckler]

Listened to the Frum/Levin exchange on Levin’s show, and ended up turning it off.

Levin did nothing but shout Frum down, and as usual, had nothing of substance to say that made any difference to the discussion.

He came across as petty and immature, and unable to handle any disagreement.

Frum may be wrong, but who would know it?