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Why Win If You're Going to Wimp Out? (Rush Limbaugh asks Republicans)
rushlimbaugh ^
| January 2, 2003
| Rush Limbaugh
Posted on 01/02/2003 5:26:45 PM PST by TLBSHOW
Why Win If You're Going to Wimp Out?
January 2, 2003
There is no reason for going soft on the Bush agenda, yet we're doing that more and more on everything from ending racial discrimination (aka: affirmative action) to tax fairness to Saddam. If we'd already dealt with him, we wouldn't be faced with this supposed dilemma over whether North Korea or Iraq should be our primary focus. It's not a dilemma, anyway. They're both going to be dealt with, so there's no reason to create these openings.
Reuters reports that President Bush plans to unveil an economic stimulus package expected to reach up to $300 billion, including "targeted" tax cuts, but only a 50% cut in taxes on corporate dividends to shareholders. The original proposal was to eliminate them, because it's immoral to tax earnings twice. It's double taxation. It's ridiculous. For crying out loud, why do you win the White House and Senate if you're only going to water down your agenda?
I love this administration when it comes to foreign policy and protecting us from terrorism, but I continue to scratch my head over some of this on the domestic side. If this Reuters story isn't just wishful thinking, the White House is going to shelve tax cuts because they fear the Democratic lie that it's "for the rich." They don't have the sand to go out there and cite the IRS figures we have on this site, proving that only the rich are paying income taxes.
Who are "the rich," anyway? It used to be millionaires. Today it's any family that earns $100,000 a year - and we have multimillionaires like Kerry and Edwards and Rockefeller and Kennedy saying, "I have my wealth, so I don't favor a wealth tax, but I'm going to tax income so you can't get wealthy."
The White House is also said to be staying out of the Supreme Court case of a woman kept out of the University of Michigan because of her skin color: white. Admission based on race is wrong, but the administration fears taking the woman's side because it would damage White House counsel Alberto Gonzales' Supreme Court confirmation.
They're also ready to extend unemployment insurance yet again which means paying people not to work by taking the money from those of us who are working. Folks, the Democrats are going to criticize us no matter what we do. It's absurd to back down on our agenda. As Senator Mitch McConnell told me in our upcoming Limbaugh Letter interview, the Senate only has six months to get things done. The Democrats want to bottle things up so they can have issues. Why help them out?
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: deadhorsealert; republicans; tlbwantfries
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To: TLBSHOW
No matter what else I do in life, asking Laura to marry me was the best decision I ever made Thank god she said YES
To: TLBSHOW
You're getting yourself on the freeper wimmin's "other" list. LOL Good grief!
To: justshe; Mo1
READ POST 121 FOR THE WORDS RIGHT OUT OF HIS MOUTH!
everything he has done and wants to do is there.
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posted on
01/02/2003 9:21:45 PM PST
by
TLBSHOW
Comment #144 Removed by Moderator
To: Jhoffa_; jwalsh07
I have posted my own idiosnycratic view as to where I would come out on the case (absent being on SCOTUS and really having to think it through, although on this one, my views are something more than off the cuff), supporting the U of M in part, and not in part. What praytell is the "above." I hope and trust it is not the spam.
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posted on
01/02/2003 9:22:46 PM PST
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Torie
To: Fred Mertz
You have freepmail! LOL
146
posted on
01/02/2003 9:24:13 PM PST
by
TLBSHOW
To: Torie
What praytell is the "above." I hope and trust it is not the spam.
its Bush!
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posted on
01/02/2003 9:26:00 PM PST
by
TLBSHOW
To: sinkspur
And Howard has done wonders for lesbians.
To: Torie
The "above" was refering to an excerpt from the article stating:
"The White House is also said to be staying out of the Supreme Court case of a woman kept out of the University of Michigan because of her skin color: white."
I was hoping there was some action taken by the administration on this, contrary to what's written in the article.
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posted on
01/02/2003 9:29:22 PM PST
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Jhoffa_
To: FreeSpeechZone
Let's make sure the Northcomms are good and fattened up before we have to war with them...unbelievable.
To: TLBSHOW
"Bush was given a landslide in November and he has no excuss to go left."On the contrary -- Dubya may go even further "left" or centrist if polls indicate conservative support isn't appreciably affected by his administration's lack of implementing any semblance of a conservative agenda thus far.
Someone's got to hold Bush's "feet to the fire" - if not Rush, then who??
To: TLBSHOW
OK .. and what's your point ..
Does this mean today you like Bush?
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posted on
01/02/2003 9:31:52 PM PST
by
Mo1
To: TLBSHOW
...The notion that it was never about Lott, but rather about tarring every Republican and conservative as a Ku Klux Klansman in the Robert Byrd mold, was not recognized immediately by as many people as it should have been.
Rush Limbaugh ...and when it sinks in to white southern' pubs that in effect they have all been slandered as closet racists by the RINO Republican establishment, who just knew the evil in Lott's heart because he was raised in the south and therefore had to be at least a separatist no matter what he said, and thereby justified their abandonment of him, there may well be many less votes in the GOP column for many elections to come......
To: Jhoffa_
doesn't look good for the republicans does it? They want to run scared but Rush will be there to trip up their gutlessness.
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posted on
01/02/2003 9:32:41 PM PST
by
TLBSHOW
To: Jhoffa_
I would hope the administration would take a view, or explain why it is in absolute equipoise on this matter, and thus will not for that reason. This is too important an issue to take a bye. That would not find favor in this direction. In the end though, I don't think SCOTUS will give a hoot what the administration thinks. This is one of those hard wiring issues. But my comment stands.
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posted on
01/02/2003 9:32:52 PM PST
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Torie
To: F16Fighter
Maybe Bush's are only given 1 term draws from the new world order string pullers?
To: Mo1
"Does this mean today you like Bush?"He won't know until Coulter tells him.
To: Stew Padasso
You make a pretty good wine.
Thanks,
L
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posted on
01/02/2003 9:34:23 PM PST
by
Lurker
To: Torie
We are now the party of ideas and innovation ... The party of idealism and inclusion.
Georeg Bush
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posted on
01/02/2003 9:35:13 PM PST
by
TLBSHOW
To: TLBSHOW
You rarely respond to a direct post to you--if the poster disagrees with you, I see.
You simply obfuscate and point to something different (as in the speech you posted) in response to who-knows-what.
So...am I to assume that you don't (won't) think for yourself but blindly follow whatever columnist or radio personality you read or listen to--as in Rush and Coulter? Why are you willing to believe these two are NEVER wrong? Or am I to assume that you CAN think for yourself and respond to points made to you on this thread?
I, for one, tire of your tap dancing. You seem to only want to stir the pot against the current administration WITHOUT actually engaging in any dialogue with those who take the time to address you.
Your form of response, to those who disagree with you, is to take the thread off on yet another tangent with 'cut and paste' jobs that are meaningless in the context of the poster's points. But those who agree with you get your immediate and direct responses.
This debating technigue of yours certainly keeps YOUR feet away from the fire, doesn't it, TLB?
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posted on
01/02/2003 9:36:02 PM PST
by
justshe
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