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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I do not “hope” anything. Socialism always fails. It is the nature of the beast. Sounds good doesn’t work. It will fail.
You don't listen to him much - do you?
“Why do we have to play the game by their rules?”
Which is EXACTLY WHAT HE IS DOING! He is making himself out to be the same US hating punks the left did under Bush. Pathetic.
I can’t hope and pray for O. I hope and pray for the ‘office of the presidency’.
I think the way they tally the congressmen is outta whack. We need to up the senator count, and cut back on representatives.
Could you imagine how different the world would be if Bush was given the same support as Obama? The press don’t even realize the reason we’re not particularly liked around the world is because of THEM.
[I hope Obamanation is a complete and total failure,]
A bit of semantics, I don’t hope he will fail, I KNOW he will fail. I HOPE he will be held accountable for the disaster heading down the tracks.
There is no way to become prosperous throwing money into the wind.
Oh I already know he’s going to fail. The failures have already begun. Pulling back on hallow promises right and left after promising sunshine and lollipops for all. So my hope for the Jackal is that he will be man enough to own his failures as the happen one right after the other. So thats my hope for him. Can I hope Tuesday gets rained out? LOL
Think about Palin.
Bingo-- this is my response.
Ahhh..., the map shows Oklahoma as the *only* completely red state in the United States, even in the two largest cities in the state. Good state to be in...
So could a total failure. I'm trying to repress thoughts like that, but it's difficult, but I'm not going to come right out and say it publicly.
Let's put it this way. I don't see how he can possibly succeed, because we are in such a deep mess on so many fronts plus I believe something unexpected is going to happen, not necessarily terrorists but possible and not necessarily some of the gloom and doom conspiracy people are spouting (most of them don't like Republicans either). It's just the realities we are facing.
1. Too high expectations by those who should know better (even if it had been my candidate the world was fawning over).
2. The economy.
3. The wars and foreign policy.
4. Unhappy campers once the euphoria wears off and reality sets in.
5. Some poor cabinet picks.
6. Need I go on?
I’m proud of my home state of Oklahoma. Not a single county went for 0.
For once, I am looking forward to a 12-hour shift. Too busy to watch the "festivities."
bump
Yeah, but there is virtually no blue in OK. Not even pockets of blue. It's so minute it doesn't register.
Why?
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