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To Hell with You People
NRO ^ | 08/02/11 | Jonah Goldberg

Posted on 08/02/2011 11:34:08 AM PDT by freespirited

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To: MrB
As long as this condition persists, leftists will be angry.

Leftists don't support freedom. What they do support always leads to oppression and totalitarianism.

81 posted on 08/02/2011 3:00:53 PM PDT by Bullish (Recovery won't begin until Obama loses HIS job.)
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To: freespirited

This is why sane people cannot abide the Democrat Party. Unbridled hypocrisy fused with a 20-second memory span. Period.


82 posted on 08/02/2011 3:09:07 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (/)
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To: SteveH

True, and an astute observation, but it had to be said, and only a few say it better than Jonah Goldberg.


83 posted on 08/02/2011 3:10:40 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (/)
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To: Syncro
"And on MSNBC, after the hosts there dissing American Exceptionalism for months, Matthews has a commercial for Hardball where he is standing on a hill overlooking the white house and tingle-legging about Obama, ending with American Exceptionalism. Then pointing to where Obama is, the White House"

Bobo is going to lose so bad Matthews will quit on the spot Election Night.

84 posted on 08/02/2011 3:12:43 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (/)
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To: eeevil conservative

I’m quite a bit more fortunate; my Mom can’t stand the fellow! Neither can my Step-Dad, and he was once a Democrat! Or at least a ‘Southern Democrat”. He votes mostly Republican now. Both of them actually liked Obama once. They both talked about voting for him in the early days of campaign. (they didn’t like Hilary, and didn’t want her to get in)Then, they heard more about what he was and how he behaved; then they voted accordingly! They still can’t stand him, even now!


85 posted on 08/02/2011 3:54:54 PM PDT by dsutah
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To: arkady_renko

Pardon my ignorance, but it’s almost 3 am where I am, and I finally have time to take a breather, and do not have any opportunity to listen to Rush. What is he saying that is sobering, and brings you to the conclusion that we are in free fall. Please articulate for at least my benefit.


86 posted on 08/02/2011 5:04:19 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today)
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To: RexBeach

Maybe it’s time for a new generation to take over?


87 posted on 08/02/2011 5:32:32 PM PDT by SpringtoLiberty (Liberty is on the march!)
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To: redgolum

Don’t forget this. After they collapse America they will have...

http://sadhillnews.com/2011/07/18/us-stability-police-force-obamas-brown-shirts


88 posted on 08/02/2011 6:05:27 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (The democRATS—just doing the groundwork for al Qaeda?)
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To: StAnDeliver
...o is going to lose so bad Matthews will quit on the spot Election Night.

We should be so lucky.

Obama can do no wrong in Crissie's glazed over tingly eyes, he is American Expectoration.

Matthews will hang on until he is totally humiliated, and then stay around longer as a punching bag.

Plus if the GOP doesn't do anything about voter fraud, Present Obama will steal his way into another 4 yrs in the white house.

89 posted on 08/02/2011 6:22:08 PM PDT by Syncro (Sarah Palin, the unofficial Tea Party candidate for president--Virtual Jerusalem)
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To: Eleutheria5
I usually listen and missed most of today. You can usually find transcripts of most of the show at: www.rushlimbaugh.com

You don't need to be a member to access almost all of the content in transcript form, here's the first one from the top of today's show. More at the link.

A Total Waste of Time and Effort
August 2, 2011

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Well, the Senate is prepared to vote on the bill. It's a fait accompli. It is going to happen, and depending on where you look, everybody's claiming to be winners, and in other places you look everybody's claiming to be losers. If everybody lost, it means it's probably a pretty good deal. If everybody's unhappy, it's that line of thinking. I look at this, ladies and gentlemen, and I see an absolute, total waste of effort, a total waste of time. It's gonna come down now to how dispirited people are and just how much they want to continue to fight for this, because what happened here is typical Washington. It's the same old, same old. There's nothing really new in this in the way it all happened when you boil it all down.

We're gonna reach a new debt limit here today sometime, and then we're gonna reach another debt limit in three or four months, and then we're gonna reach another debt limit, and we're gonna keep spending, and we're not gonna change the baseline any at all. And we're gonna be told it's the best we can do with just one-third of the government, meaning the House of Representatives.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, how many of you believe that there are budget cuts in the new debt ceiling bill? You've heard that there are cuts, have you not? We're cutting here, we're cutting there. Yeah, well, what I want to know is why would anybody believe that this deal includes any significant cuts in spending? If it really cuts spending, why would we have to raise the debt limit by $2.4 trillion? Why? And we're still gonna get downgraded, and the markets are still not happy, and all the reasons we were sold for doing this have turned out to be bogus. Vladimir Putin, he's out hunting. He says the United States is "a parasite on the world economy." A parasite, meaning our growth is all phony.

It's all based on borrowing, it isn't real, and we are gobbling up all the resources around the world just to sustain our spending. We're really not the rich country that we are is what Putin means. It's all borrowed, it's all fake, it's all phony. We're parasites. All the numbers in this deal are just government math. Government math's even crazier than Farrakhan's Million Man Math Made Easy. Rand Paul has an open letter on his website: To paraphrase Senator Jim DeMint: When you're speeding toward the edge of a cliff, you don't set the cruise control. You stop the car. The current deal to raise the debt ceiling doesn't stop us from going over the fiscal cliff.

"At best, it slows us from going over it at 80 mph to going over it at 60 mph. This plan never balances. The President called for a 'balanced approach.' But the American people are calling for a balanced budget. This deal does nothing to fix the overreaches of both parties over the past few years: Obamacare, TARP, trillion-dollar wars, runaway entitlement spending. They are all cemented into place with this deal, and their legacy will be trillions of dollars in new debt. The deal that is pending before us now," get this, "Adds at least $7 trillion to our debt over the next 10 years." Not $2.4 trillion; $7 trillion. "The deal purports to 'cut' $2.1 trillion, but the 'cut' is from a baseline that adds $10 trillion to the debt."

As you well know, because we've been we've been explaining this in easily understandable detail all wee. I love the illustration. We could prepare a budget that is a freeze next year that doesn't spend a dime more than this year, and it would be scored as a nine and a half trillion-dollar cut because of the baseline, because of how the budget is expected to grow. "This deal, even if all targets are met and the Super Committee wields its mandate - results in a BEST case scenario of still adding more than $7 trillion more in debt over the next 10 years. That is sickening." Folks, I'm gonna give you a little history. I remember when this program started -- well, even before it started here, when I was in Sacramento and the show started in 1984 -- getting phone calls throughout the years from people concerned about the national debt, and I pooh-poohed it.

I told these people, "You know I've been hearing about the national debt my whole life." My grandfather was telling me about the national debt. My dad told me about the national debt. Everybody talked about the national debt and how it's gonna consume us one day and it's outta control, and I said, "I've been hearing it for years and years and years, and we're still here. I've been hearing this national debt business for years and years and years, and we're richer as a nation, and we're more prosperous than ever." So I said, "This national debt business? Big deal. We owe it to ourselves, so it's really not any big deal." Now, at the time that I was saying that, it was still manageable in size.

Now here I am an old fuddy-duddy, and I don't have that attitude about the national debt anymore. Now this national debt is $14.3 trillion plus the $2.4 trillion that's gonna be added, so we're just under $17 trillion, and another $10 trillion's gonna be added in ten years, maybe as much as the number 13. We could be looking at a $27 trillion national debt, and now I am no longer of the attitude that it doesn't matter, because we owe it to ourselves. I don't know when the change came. Well, I do know when the change came. It came during this particular regime and administration, when I was able to detect that a number of these things are being done on purpose, to purposely inflict harm on the private sector. This amount of debt has to be serviced. I mean, the idea of paying it off is impossible, but it has to be serviced.

That's gonna require tax rates that nobody will be willing to work in order to pay.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: By the way, folks, this doesn't end anything. The next thing that's going to happen is that President Obama is going to ask for more stimulus spending as part of his reelection campaign. You watch. More stimulus spending and the Federal Reserve will probably print more money. There probably will be a QE3. These next months leading into the presidential campaign, the president is going to do what all presidents do. He's going to use every bit of presidential power at his disposal to orient the government toward buying votes, doing things for people, without regard to the budget, without regard to any fiscal sense or sanity whatsoever, it doesn't matter. Particularly we know it doesn't matter to Barack Obama because he's gotten us here in the first place.

It's why holding the line on this bill was so important and why it could have really put the brakes on Barack Obama. But now that he's got the authority to run that debt up real fast, how he chooses to do it, create a slush fund, send the money to unions, people that pay dues so the money comes back to him in the form of campaign contributions, you ain't seen nothing yet. The things that are sickening to all of us about the way the ruling class and politicians use government for their own benefit is about to go on steroids. If you're ticked off now, you don't know what ticked off is. From Rand Paul's open letter on his website after he mentions that it adds at least $7 trillion to the debt over the next ten years, probably ten trillion because of the baseline, best case scenario, it never, ever balances. I mean no pretense to balance, doesn't come close.

"The Super Committee's mandate," the six Republicans and the six Democrats, "is to add $7 trillion in new debt. Let's be clear: $2.1 trillion in reductions off a nearly $10 trillion,10-year debt is still more than $7 trillion in debt. The Super Committee limits the constitutional check of the filibuster by expediting passage of bills with a simple majority. The Super Committee is not precluded from any issue, therefore the filibuster could be rendered most. In addition, the plan harms the possible passage of a Balanced Budget Amendment. Since the goal is never to balance, having the BBA as a 'trigger' ensures that the committee will simply report its $1.2 trillion deficit reduction plan and never move to a BBA vote.

There's more from Rand Paul.

END TRANSCRIPT


90 posted on 08/02/2011 6:34:25 PM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.")
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To: barstoolblues
The Democrat Party - Party of Slavery™ at its founding two centuries ago; Party of Slavery™ today.
91 posted on 08/02/2011 6:49:51 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: lurk

Me for one


92 posted on 08/02/2011 6:50:15 PM PDT by W. W. SMITH (Islam is an instrument of enslavement)
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To: freespirited

This is all by design folks, every bit of it.

Ask yourself WHY the ceo’s of the lamestream media attend the Bildeberger meetings?

Then ask yourself why the power players from the worlds governments all belong to the CFR. (this includes members of our own congress and ANYBODY whose run for President for their parties ticket?

After you’ve answered those, ask what the worlds bankers do with the trilateral commission?

These folks all have the same agenda...... a New World Order!

They are all being orchestrated by the Illuminati who are also members of the above organizations.

We blame our media, our politicians for ill’s, they are just accomplices.

Is it not strange that countries across the globe are also in just as much a mess economically, or is that just a coincidence?

The beast is on the move and the stage is set for his entrance.

Biblical prophecy is fulfilling itself before our eyes.

Before that beast can make himself known a few more things need to happen, the current systems of the world need to be crashed to make way for one that will bring order from the chaos and offer solutions to the worlds problems with the clincher being a seven year peace deal to the middle east.

It’s happening........It’s coming........BE READY!


93 posted on 08/02/2011 7:42:33 PM PDT by diverteach (If I find liberals in heaven after my death.....I WILL BE PISSED!!!)
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To: andy58-in-nh

Bump.


94 posted on 08/02/2011 7:48:13 PM PDT by GVnana (Have you worn your NOBAMA pin today?)
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To: Noumenon

Scary, but true.


95 posted on 08/02/2011 7:49:51 PM PDT by GVnana (Have you worn your NOBAMA pin today?)
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To: papertyger

At one point he was arguing against sending up a bill because it would get amended with stuff that we would not like. Of course, it would. But no bill would not be treated the same way. He knows better.

Another of his deceptions is the nonsense about this bill containing increased taxes because the Bush tax cuts are still scheduled to expire. He knows of and cheered on the Republican decision to make Urkel defend higher taxes during the campaign next year. Now we are supposed to forget that effective tactic and get mad because something THAT NEVER WAS GOING TO BE IN THE BILL was not in it?

His complaint that “victors don’t compromise” is totally deceptive because NO final victory was won in 2010. At best it was the first quarter. So we are not in a position to impose our will over the Democrats and Congress like MacArthur over Japan or Ike over Germany.

He is wildly exaggerating the power of the hard Right in the House and that generates unnecessary animosity towards solid Republicans who have defied enormous pressures in this conflict.

There are sufficient reasons to oppose this deal without these cheap tricks. But to act like deals are not the essence of the political world is a pretense we don’t need.


96 posted on 08/02/2011 9:02:52 PM PDT by arrogantsob (Why do They hate her so much?)
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To: arrogantsob

You are a glittering example of the truth that cowards only start fights with their own side.

Your “analysis” is laughable if for no other reason than it presumes Rush’s lack of cowardice is “deceptive.”


97 posted on 08/02/2011 9:13:10 PM PDT by papertyger
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To: papertyger

There is no “presumption” about it. I know what I hear.

I am interested in fighting Urkel not Alan West.


98 posted on 08/02/2011 9:28:07 PM PDT by arrogantsob (Why do They hate her so much?)
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To: arkady_renko

Thanks for the info


99 posted on 08/02/2011 9:40:14 PM PDT by woofie
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To: arrogantsob

Point one: Rush was spot on in predicting the Speaker’s plan would get thrown back into his own lap rather than leave Reid holding the bag.

Point two: so what was Reid talking about today?

Point three: where were you during the Bush administration? Rush is not deceptive just because you lack the guts to press an advantage the way the Democrats have ALWAYS done...majority OR minority.

Point four: how enormous can the “pressure” be when the Democrats preach compromise, but don’t even have to outline a position to be compromised with?

The only pressure they had to endure came from Bob Michael Republicans, or should I say “Quislings?”

Point five: Von Clauswitz said “war is politics by other means.” The converse is also true.

What wizards like you don’t seem to understand is “compromise” is what you offer your enemy as an acceptable alternative to complete victory...It’s not the frickin’ goal!


100 posted on 08/02/2011 9:41:25 PM PDT by papertyger
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