WHY RUSH IS DISGRUNTLED (Bush is advancing the Democrats most liberal agenda )

Rush Limbaugh ^ | 5/13/2002 | rushlimbaugh

[TLBSHOW]

WHY RUSH IS DISGRUNTLED

On Monday's show, the Doctor of Democracy made a sad diagnosis: "If the Reagan Revolution is not dead, then it's dying." If there was a model that the Bush administration used in establishing itself, it was the Reagan presidency. But now Bush is advancing the Democrats' most liberal agenda items - something particularly frustrating at a time when Bush's popularity would make it easy for him to recruit new conservatives.

Many of you have been critical of Rush's reactions to Bush's actions on spending over the recent months, and we took more calls of this sort on Monday - people who'd convinced themselves that the farm bill made sense or that Bush had some grand strategery at play. Now, Rush could throw his beliefs out the window for a day or two and say things that you might want to hear - like when he endorsed Clinton back in 1992 - but that's not what he does.

Rush can only give you his honest reaction, even when he doesn't like those reactions. That's honesty, folks, and it goes to disprove a key criticism many of the nation's liberals have made of Rush over the years. They've said that Rush is a party hack, and that he'd support the Republican Party no matter what they did. They charged that the EIB Network was simply a tool, that we were in daily contact with the powers that be to get marching orders. Well, that has pretty much been dispelled here: Rush is disgruntled.

[Spiff]

You know, I'm starting to like Rush again. Sounds like he finally woke up. I may start listening to him again now that he's not just a shill for the Republicans.

[galt-jw]

as long as it is YOUR gang who steals your liberty, while occasionally throwing you a bone to pacify, its a-ok.

[lavaroise]

Not only that, but the farm bill is probably unenforceable. What are they going to do if farmers keep growing corn? Send the DEA as was done against kulaks in the Soviet Union? I'd like to see that. After all, they could grow it for fuel too. I think Bush knows that and simply is signing a bill to pre-fix the prices of crops in the market officialy so that prices do not go too low and strategic farming stays alive. Unfortunately there are better methods such as taxing crop and food imports instead or forcing other nations from whom we buy goods lately to buy our crops. However it is hard to do. Even Japan's expensive rice production is heavily subsidised by the Japanese government and the Japanese do not buy US rice because they claim it does not taste good or some other nationalist protectionist bull.

I think what is going to happen is that farmers will get subsidised one way and will sell crops anyway the other way via the internet. It really is irrational policy, but when we see how foreign farmers are being protected by their own nations, you start to think about it. It does tend to the communist regimes of Africa that would buy Chinese rice to "feed" their people at a price 3 times higher than the price that local production could afford, hence leading to peasant virtual strikes on crop growing and famines there. I do not think it will be that bad in the US, but we sure are toying stupidly with deals and police actions like these that any wacko Democrat like Ms. Clinton or Butch Reno would happily use to torture a few gun owners in North Dacota. These people should be careful to see that deals like these with Bush are OK but have their consequences in the future if Dems are elected!!!

[Uncle Bill]

Why Democrats should draft George W. Bush in 2004

The surest way to bust this economy is to increase the role and the size of the federal government."
George W. Bush - Source: Presidential debate, Boston MA Oct 3, 2000.

Gore offers an old and tired approach. He offers a new federal spending program to nearly every voting bloc. He expands entitlements, without reforms to sustain them. 285 new or expanded programs, and $2 trillion more in new spending. Spending without discipline, spending without priorities, and spending without an end. Al Gore’s massive spending would mean slower growth and higher taxes. And it could mean an end to this nation’s prosperity."
George W. Bush Source: Speech in Minneapolis, Minnesota Nov 1, 2000.

"People need more money in their pocket, as far as I’m concerned."
George W. Bush - The Tampa (FL) Tribune Oct 26, 2000.

"I think the economy has grown really in spite of government. This is an incredible period of time when productivity has been enhanced, not because of any great initiative of government, but because of the ability for entrepreneurs to stake a new claim."
George W. Bush - Source: Ronald Brownstein, LA Times Aug 13, 2000

I was deeply concerned about the drift toward a more powerful federal government. I was particularly outraged by two pieces of legislation, the Natural Gas Policy Act and the Fuel Use Act. It seemed to me that elite central planners were determining the course of our nation. Allowing the government to dictate the price of natural gas was a move toward European-style socialism. If the federal government was going to take over the natural gas business, what would it set its sights on next?"
George W. Bush - Source: “A Charge to Keep”, p.172-173 Dec 9, 1999

Un El día En El la vida de Jorge W. La arbusto

"Immigration is not a problem to be solved, it is the sign of a successful nation."
George W. Bush - Source: Speech in Washington, D.C. Jun 26, 2000.

"In September of last year, I welcomed my good friend, the President of Mexico, to the White House. Standing together on the South Lawn, President Fox and I spoke of building a hemisphere of freedom and prosperity and progress."

Foolin' them is easy isn't it? Heck yes.

A UNICEF-funded book being passed out at the United Nations Child Summit encourages children to engage in sexual activities with other minors and with homosexuals and animals

Clinton raped Juanita Broaddrick, not once, but twice

"That’s why I’m for instant background checks at gun shows. I’m for trigger locks."
George W. Bush - Source: St. Louis debate Oct 17, 2000

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

GWB killed the Kyoto Treaty on Global Warming, for one.

It ain't dead yet.

GWB Killed the International Criminal Court.

That isn't even close to dead. It's alive and will haunt us.

GWB appointed Ashcroft and Ted Olsen, who just wrote to the Supreme Court that the 2nd Amendment is an INDIVIDUAL right, not the "collective right" that liberals have maintained for decades.

Ashcroft has been a big dissapointment. And why do they NOT want a SCOTUS ruling, instead of just a policy statement that is as easily changed as a crusty pant suit?

GWB signed the bill into law that gives pilots the right to arm themselves with firearms, a pleasant pro-gun victory on a national level.

Where is the implementation of this law? His hacks have not followed through.

GWB killed the Left-Wing ABA's role in vetting federal judges for Congress (again, something so Conservative that even Reagan himself wouldn't do).

Maybe, but where is his support for his nominees?

GWB instituted the first top-down review of our military in years, which concluded (prior to 9/11), that asymmetric attacks were our biggest future threat.

Yet he leaves in place all of the sinkmaster's deployments and covers up his criminality.

GWB killed the $11 Billion Crusader artillery boondoggle.

A lot of conservatives favor the system.

GWB killed federal funding of foreign "family planning" activities.

Again, ain't dead yet.

Rush's points are quite valid. Advancing the agenda of the national socialists isn't exactly moving the country in a conservative direction. He has played cuddle pony with the demoscum far too much for me.

[Night Hides Not]

Rush has done far more for conservatives than GW has done.

No, actually Rush has used far more conservatives than GW Bush.

Truthfully, I wish I were 1/10 as talented as Rush: he's got a loyal cadre of 1 million Dittoheads who subscribe to the Limbaugh Letter and his ever-lovin Rushcam. His annual cash flow from his loyal Dittoheads has to be at least $20 million per year, on top of what he makes for his radio show. Am I a tad envious? Who wouldn't be! But I will never begrudge him his success.

I used to be a Dittohead, and I was a subscriber to his monthly screed up until last year. Thanks to FreeRepublic, I like to think that I've graduated from Limbaugh.

I recall all of those times when Rush would take the time to remind everybody that, first and foremost, he was an entertainer. He has long since crossed the line into focusing on serious political commentary. Now that he has crossed that Rubicon, he won't be able to nimbly jump back and proclaim that he is just an entertainer.

Rush was much more fun to listen to in the early days, with his various updates. Yes, I was right there with him in the 92 primaries as Buchanan was tweaking 41. Little did we know that Buchanan gave us the playbook that the Klintoon gang would later use to win the election. But all was well, once Rush was invited to spend a night in the Lincoln Bedroom. Is Rush giving into a small amount of pique because he hasn't been invited back yet?

Now, on the few occasions that I am able to listen to Rush, I get a dose of golf, tips on raising children (from one who's never been a parent), and now bitching and moaning because Dubya isn't doing everything Rush wants him to.

Sorry, Rush...you just aren't as entertaining as you used to be. I never listened to you solely for your commentary. At least Bush gave me a muffler last year...

[MJY1288]

Thank You!, My opinion of Rush Limbaugh is that he is a showman, (PERIOD) Why don't Rush Limbaugh wattle his fat ass down and put himself on the ballot if he thinks he has all the answers. HE won't though, because he would have to present a income disclosure. And right now he is raking in the Liberal bucks just like Laryy Klayman is.

[MJY1288]

Oh my...You did so much better than I did :-)

[seanc623]

Please take it from one who's been down the same path you're going down now... the Republicans will never change because they don't have to. Believe me they've done the math (just like the Democrats have done with respect to Nader and the Green Party) and they know that conservatives, Constitutionalists and Libertarians are expendable in the grand scheme of things. Respect yourself and start voting for the people you really want and agree with. Don't make the same mistake I did and waste any more time voting for people who don't want the same things you do. Vote Libertarian!!! Check us out at www.lp.org.

[galt-jw]

remember this: limbaugh, like the welfare state, cant actually solve problems, or he will be out of a job.

[ricer1]

One thing that keeps me off Libertarian turf is the drug issue. But that's a L O N G debate that shouldn't be posted here...

[jackbill]

The title of this thread is misleading. I expected to see ana rticle stating that Bush as in favor of abortion, raising taxes, taking your guns away or expanding welfare. .

Perhaps you didn't hear the President in Chicago TODAY asking for more welfare spending, as the Welfare Reform bill is "reauthorized".

[Willie Green]

Rush is disgruntled.

Battery on the golf cart run low???

He oughta use one of those propane models.

[Dogs in the field]

The Democrats hurt you, the Republicans hurt you a little less. There's the difference. And that's not much.

[TLBSHOW]

It doesn't look like The President will be on The Rush show much anymore, does it?

[MJY1288]

The key word is REFORM slick, he is asking for it to be even togher to remain on welfare

[quidnunc]

On 9/11 the world shifted on its axis and the mindset of much of middle America changed.

Now we are more worried about security, the Middle East, Europe and a whole host of things which we barely acknowledged previously.

But Rush is largely singing the same tune as he started with in 1988.

To my ears his riff is sounding old, tired and boring and Rush is beginning to get on my nerves.

When I've been listening Rush has never mentioned the political and social mess in Europe, which is having and will continue to have consequences for us here in the U.S.

Nor has he mentioned the problem of Muslim infiltration of the U.S.

Or the rising anti-Americanism and anti-Sematism on American campuses.

Or the growing signs of an alliance between Islamists, anarchists and other extremisdt groups worldwide.

Rush is like a prehistoric insect frozen in amber, forever trapped and ossified by his immediate environment..

He needs to broaden his horizons, but he seems increasingly oblivious to anything beyond domestic partisan politics, the culture war, golf, cigars and the lovely and gracious Marta.

I'm very much afraid that Rush's time has come and gone.

[MJY1288]

And the more critical Rush is of ANY president, The more money he rakes in, Rush is a whore

[lavaroise]

See how seductive liberalism can be? All you have to do is feel! You don't have to be consistent or stick to your morals. If it feels good to say farmers should get money from other taxpayers, you just say it should be so!

I agree with that. This taxation scheme to do things for which taxation is not meant for, abusing its powers and jurisdictions, is plain toying with communist and socialist rationalisation fire. These people not only get taxpayers in a bind, but they get themselves in a bind if one day the government has to cut the spigot or encourages instead -directly or indirectly - people to buy foreign crops.

Last but not least, they get this welfare money with their very own farms as collateral in case they are suspected on not complying appropriately. At least with banks they can file for bankruptcy and hope to get something back from the farm. With the government they will get nothing back, except a law suit slapped at their face and even costly jail time in a jail cell instead of the farm they once had. Worse their stuff could fall under BLM schemes that "saves" farms for farmers from banks if the famers allow wildlife to run around.

I mean, for goodness sakes, this BLM and farm bill stuff is right out of the collectivization schemes in the former Soviet Union with law enforcement taking over people's lives and properties, sending entire families to jail and their children to CPS, simply because they decided to grow crops on property a day the nation was starving or prices of crops went up, making farming viable again. It really is shaping to create some really irrational and unworkable contracts, turning the nation either into a contract breaking culture or into a contract enforcing culture of horrifying proportions.

[TLBSHOW]

He didn't really word it that way. These people have to work he said.