Posted on 03/31/2009 9:59:51 AM PDT by lewisglad
As one White House official explained it to me Limbaugh became an issue not because he is the most prominent Obama critic but because the talk show host embodies “hyper-partisanship.”
Limbaugh became a stand-in for White House view of Republicans as a party that is not constructive, not willing to seek common ground and out of touch with a bipartisan thirst for solutions to pressing economic problems. Obama’s aides connect the dots and see a picture of a dark, unappealing political landscape on the right in which Republicans have become so in-grown that not one of them felt free to repudiate Limbaugh for saying he wants the new American president to fail.
Right now, an administration official said, “the American people are not ideological…they are pragmatic. They are interested in beating the recession. Politics will take care of itself.”
White House officials say they don’t have to push too far for the public to get the idea that Limbaugh is the personification of Republican opposition that allows the GOP to be marginalized as the party of “no” and even as the president’s spokesman Robert Gibbs said recently the party of “no new ideas.”
The White House was giddy last week at the sight of a GOP alternative budget that lacked numbers and was little more than an 18-page expression of opposition to any tax hikes for anyone but with few hard numbers about how they would put together a budget.
“We are pleased with where we are…and we are amazed at where the other guys are going,” said the president’s aide. Later he added: “Our numbers are moving up not down and the numbers for Republicans in Congress are bad because they are not acting in good faith, they are not offering constructive opposition.”
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They are weak and spineless, and I think they like it that way. Nothing easier than being in the minority opposition.
You’re right. Most of them are spineless, liverlillied rhinos who are just happy getting a pay check and getting along. Although there are some who give me hope. Lord, I wish we could get a good conservative Senator to kick Mary Landrieu in her pompus. egotistical, leftist butt. She votes whatever Obama wants and the stupids in North LA and NO still vote her in.
If they take Zero's advice and make nice with the new dictator, the Republicans will continue to slide into irrelevancy.
“the talk show host embodies “hyper-partisanship.”
No Juan: Rush embodies AMERICANISM AND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AMERICAN!!!! You dolt.
When I hear the GOP say with a united voice -
"No one is too big to fail. 'Bailout' is a word that should be used only in the context of parachute jumping."
- then I'll take them seriously.
Not one single Republican in the House of Representatives voted yes on that $800 billion stimulus package. And the Republicans have not okayed the US Treasury’s Turbo Timmy to print money, nor are they going to vote yes on the $3.6 trillion budget.
I was referring to the TARP plan, which could not have passed without a Republican president and Republican votes. And if you are certain that all Republicans will oppose any TARP II, please give me a source. I’d be happy to learn that it’s true.
Bull.
If you watch CSpan one quickly realizes the liberal media has decided to blackout/ ignore any spirited dissent to His Excellency Barack Hussein Obama, Head of Government, Duce of Fascism, and Destroyer of Capitalism.
Just for clarity sake, the last part was Mussolini's official title, polymorphed for BHO.
Hussein worship continues unabated.
Limbaugh’s increased ratings doesn’t mean it is a “loss” for Dems. Clearly, we are dealing with a dirty, corrupt, Chicago-thug, 100% politics-all-the-time, leftist in the White House. Obama thinks he can trash and smear private citizens for his own political gain. Juan Williams thinks he will succeed. We’ll find out tonight in NY-20. If Murphy beats Tedisco, the Limbaugh-Palin strategy will have been vindicated.
Rasmussen is the only poll showing Republicans gaining. I know he has been accurate in the 2008 election, but it needs to be pointed out that most polls show otherwise.
Juan Williams seems to be reporting, not expressing his personal views.
“hyper-partisanship” was in quotes - he was quoting a source.
Why are repeating Obama White House talking points? Why are you doing exactly what Obama wants you to? Do you work for them?
“Bull.
If you watch CSpan one quickly realizes the liberal media has decided to blackout/ ignore any spirited dissent to His Excellency Barack Hussein Obama, Head of Government, Duce of Fascism, and Destroyer of Capitalism.”
Correct.
Are you kidding? The dumb masses who voted for Obama didn't even realize that Sarah Palin was not his VP candidate and that the GOP didn't run Congress.
They know Rush's name (even if they wouldn't recognize his voice).
Michael Steele goes on talk radio (subbing for Bill Bennett) and slams Obama but he's black and a faceless head of the GOP.
Bob Michel all over again. Where are the Pub Hannans? Why doesn’t more that Michelle Bach. , Mike Pence and other guys like that speaking out? No Pub Senator has enough national cred to do it. So it takes the CSPAN Pubs in House Special Orders to make any small sounds of opposition.
If people fall for this, they are just stupid. The Democrats have been viciously partisan and lacking in any sense of compromise with Pres. Bush for the past eight years.
Morning Joe was ridiculing the republican alternative as embarassing.
The rare air of the DC deziens had no clue about the the real world. The live in DC, report about DC TO DC, without any reference to ouside DC.
Juan Williams does not even register the tea parties or illegal immigration amnesty outrage.
He is just by DC for DC and ONLY DC.
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