Posted on 01/18/2009 2:44:52 PM PST by Libloather
Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails
January 16, 2009
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RUSH: I got a request here from a major American print publication. "Dear Rush: For the Obama [Immaculate] Inauguration we are asking a handful of very prominent politicians, statesmen, scholars, businessmen, commentators, and economists to write 400 words on their hope for the Obama presidency. We would love to include you. If you could send us 400 words on your hope for the Obama presidency, we need it by Monday night, that would be ideal." Now, we're caught in this trap again. The premise is, what is your "hope." My hope, and please understand me when I say this. I disagree fervently with the people on our side of the aisle who have caved and who say, "Well, I hope he succeeds. We've got to give him a chance." Why? They didn't give Bush a chance in 2000. Before he was inaugurated the search-and-destroy mission had begun. I'm not talking about search-and-destroy, but I've been listening to Barack Obama for a year-and-a-half. I know what his politics are. I know what his plans are, as he has stated them. I don't want them to succeed.
If I wanted Obama to succeed, I'd be happy the Republicans have laid down. And I would be encouraging Republicans to lay down and support him. Look, what he's talking about is the absorption of as much of the private sector by the US government as possible, from the banking business, to the mortgage industry, the automobile business, to health care. I do not want the government in charge of all of these things. I don't want this to work. So I'm thinking of replying to the guy, "Okay, I'll send you a response, but I don't need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails." (interruption) What are you laughing at? See, here's the point. Everybody thinks it's outrageous to say. Look, even my staff, "Oh, you can't do that." Why not? Why is it any different, what's new, what is unfair about my saying I hope liberalism fails? Liberalism is our problem. Liberalism is what's gotten us dangerously close to the precipice here. Why do I want more of it? I don't care what the Drive-By story is. I would be honored if the Drive-By Media headlined me all day long: "Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails." Somebody's gotta say it.
Were the liberals out there hoping Bush succeeded or were they out there trying to destroy him before he was even inaugurated? Why do we have to play the game by their rules? Why do we have to accept the premise here that because of the historical nature of his presidency, that we want him to succeed? This is affirmative action, if we do that. We want to promote failure, we want to promote incompetence, we want to stand by and not object to what he's doing simply because of the color of his skin? Sorry. I got past the historical nature of this months ago. He is the president of the United States, he's my president, he's a human being, and his ideas and policies are what count for me, not his skin color, not his past, not whatever ties he doesn't have to being down with the struggle, all of that's irrelevant to me. We're talking about my country, the United States of America, my nieces, my nephews, your kids, your grandkids. Why in the world do we want to saddle them with more liberalism and socialism? Why would I want to do that? So I can answer it, four words, "I hope he fails." And that would be the most outrageous thing anybody in this climate could say. Shows you just how far gone we are. Well, I know, I know. I am the last man standing.
I'm happy to be the last man standing. I'm honored to be the last man standing. Yeah, I'm the true maverick. I can do more than four words. I could say I hope he fails and I could do a brief explanation of why. You know, I want to win. If my party doesn't, I do. If my party has sacrificed the whole concept of victory, sorry, I'm now the Republican in name only, and they are the sellouts. I'm serious about this. Why in the world, it's what Ann Coulter was talking about, the tyranny of the majority, all these victims here, we gotta make sure the victims are finally assuaged. Well, the dirty little secret is this isn't going to assuage anybody's victim status, and the race industry isn't going to go away, and the fact that America's original sin of slavery is going to be absolved, it's not going to happen. Just isn't, folks. It's too big a business for the left to keep all those things alive that divide the people of this country into groups that are against each other. Yes, I'm fired up about this.
Reasons number 249 and 50 why I'm not a Republican. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel has been chosen to introduce Vice-President-elect Biden at a bipartisan dinner in Washington on the eve of the immaculation. Biden was one of Hagel's closest friends in the Senate. "Bipartisan dinners also held that night honoring McCain and Colin Powell. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina will introduce McCain at a dinner." So all these Republicans are being honored on the night before Obama is immaculately inaugurated, as though they're part of the Obama administration. Our presidential candidate is being honored. I can understand liberals honoring their losers, but I just -- (tearing up story)
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Ron Brownstein, National Journal, used to be the Los Angeles Times, on PMSNBC this afternoon with Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, she said, "Ronald Brownstein, you've written about the blue wall and the politics of this, what Democrats have been able to achieve in the last election. Obama is right there in Ohio, which is one of the critical states."
BROWNSTEIN: Democrats have now won, Andrea, 18 states for at least the last five elections consecutively, plus the District of Columbia, 248 Electoral College votes. They haven't won that many states over that long a period since Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. They also now hold, if Franken maintains his lead, 33 of the 36 Senate seats in those 18 states, over two-thirds of the House seats, two-thirds of the governorships. They have built their strongest Electoral College base since the days of Roosevelt and Truman, and that is an important foundation for Obama. It's going to be very difficult for Republicans, I think, to systematically challenge Obama and the Democrats over time if this much of the country is virtually off-limits for them.
RUSH: The Democrats own the country. There's nothing anybody can do to stop it. We should just lay down and accept it.
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We’ve all been there. :)
Yup. That's what the conservatives who keep asking, incredulously, "But don't you want him to succeed?" are not getting. Obama's success would be the destruction of this country and its values. To take an extreme example, in January 1933, when Hitler became chancellor, should decent Germans have wanted him to succeed?
Should a Russian have wished 1917 that Stalin would have great success? Stalin, in the end, defeated Hitler. Yet what sane person should have wished Stalin success?
Good.
Simple question. How should a German have dealt avec Monsieur Hitler in 1933?
Sorry, but it is not the same when they have to resort to character assassination and outright lies. I believe in eye for an eye and it is right to dish out what they have given. At least it will be based on truth and what they are. 0bama and his ilk are ghouls who have dished out hate and are about to face their justice. Submission is not good when fighting evil. These people want to destroy conservatives and any opposition. I believe with Reagan’s peace through strength and this is war on the domestic front. Deal with it.
Obama has set this country up to fail. So, it comes down to this, do we want the country to fail, or do we want Obama to fail? It’s not a difficult choice.
Obama has said, no promised, to do things that are not right for this country. He has gone on to prove that he has no respect for the system of government or other institutions by the people he has appointed to help him.
Obama has appointed people who believe in post modernist revisionist history and judicial restoration. They believe that laws can be ignored if they think the law is unjust or unfair. (fairness is big thing to post modernists) Eric Holder negotiated with Marc Rich’s lawyers even though he knew that it was against the law to do so, while Rich was a fugitive. Now, Holder will be in charge of enforcing the laws for the whole country.
He appointed as his chief of staff a man who tried to arrange the sale of Obama’s senate seat, and then Obama lied about it. Apparently, since the pay back to Blago was to come from Obama’s favored union, the SEIU, Obama does not consider it to be a crime. Again, judicial restoration, at work.
He put someone in charge of the IRS who doesn’t pay taxes.
He put in a hard core socialist as labor sect’y, who belongs to a foreign organization that openly advocates world government (that would cause a revolution in this country)
He put Hillary Clinton in as Secretary of State, a person who never supported Israel and is so compromised that no other head of state can trust what she says.
We all know about the Commerce Dept appointment. I think that the only reason that he resigned was pressure from the Clintons.
As long as Obama talks out of both sides of his mouth, as he has done recently on Gitmo and taxes, no can trust him.
I am praying for our country and for the President Elect that he will do the right things. I am not going to continue with the back and forths on this issue. You are free to believe and do what you like as well. So, I will continue to pray that the President Elect succeeds for all of us in this country. That is my hope and my prayer.
What? This is nuts. You can't play chess games with your morals. You oppose what's wrong, period.
Right, you work within the frame that you know at the time — and you act morally based on that knowledge. If you have deep reservations about a leader, based upon who he hangs with, based upon policies he has enacted, or supported as a legislator — you see a good number those policies which he has supported as immoral, you see some of supporters as evil unredeemed — should you wish that leader success?
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I’m rooting for him to fail on his domestic policies but hopefully the country will be kept safe.
I’m not sure that appeasing terrorists and opening dialogues with them will prevent attacks, but I sure dont want to see more attacks on this country.
I want socialism to fail, I want higher taxes to fail, I want a welfare state to fail, I want efforts to make this country a third world nation to FAIL.
I want the MSM’s credibility with sheeple to FAIL, and I want the sheeple to realize that their utopian dreams of a communistic, global world will fail.
Here are a few ideas;
Which way to Galt’s Gulch?
Join the Cash-Cow stampede!
No taxation without representation! ( sounds familiar )
Obama, where is my IRA?
You need me more than I need you!
Thank you for your positive thoughts in the face of it all.
Use your head!
Low senator counts and high representative counts place most of the electoral votes in densely populated areas. If you reduce the representative count, and increase the senator count, you spread the electoral votes across the map a little more evenly.
Obama’s gaem has just begun. He is starting a new Party, for which he already braned the new Logo
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2009/01/obama-to-start-new-political-party.html
That should be made into a tool for Myspace and Facebook.
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