Limbaugh refuses to call prospect of economic recovery under Obama ‘good for the country.’
Limbaugh refuses to call prospect of economic recovery under Obama ‘good for the country.’
Rush Limbaugh has said over and over in recent weeks that he hopes Obama will “fail at everything he’s doing.” As Limbaugh’s argument goes, Obama’s economic policies are misguided and will make the current recession worse. As such, Limbaugh argues, it is reasonable to declare, “I hope Obama fails,” while still hoping that the country as a whole succeeds. Today, however, in an e-mail exchange with Greg Sargent, Limbaugh took the argument a step further by refusing to concede that it would be “good for the country” if Obama’s economic agenda does, in fact, lead to economic growth. After an extended back and forth, Sargent asked:
[P]utting aside the question of what the policies are destined to do, is it true that if they succeed in their stated goal of righting the economy — however far-fetched that may be to you and others — then would that be good for the country?
Limbaugh responded:
I reject your premise. … I will not put aside the question of what the policies are destined to do because that IS THE POINT.
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Rush is a Repugnicant. His loyalty is to his party, not his country.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:13 pmI suspect that weed is in those cigars Rush is smoking. That’s my explanation for all of Rush’s ranting. This dude has definitely caught the vapors! LOL
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:14 pm.
May I just say…
… That the current number of crisis, of which this Nation is facing many, that the way we get there be successful.
It is going to REQUIRE many different approaches…
… There is no “ONE FIX” to all “our” ills.
Therefore, no matter the combination, I choose success over failure…
… For where is the success in choosing failure?
May the chickens of “I HOPE HE FAILS“…
… Come home to roost well for these men.
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March 3rd, 2009 at 3:14 pmRush is an entertainer. he doesn’t care about republicans. He doesn’t care about the country. He only cares about his Dominican underage hookers.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:15 pmI wouldn’t expect anything less from Rush. He’s now the tip of the spear for the GOP and he can’t/won’t admit that anything good could possibly come from President Obama’s plans. It doesn’t make Rush right. He’ll try to justify his stance on any stumble the economy has in the next 9 months. But by then, the GOP will be holding their quarterly meetings at the local IHOP.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:18 pmstateofthedivision Says:
Rush is a Repugnicant. His loyalty is to his party, not his country.
I beg to differ. Rush is loyal only to Rush, nobody else.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:19 pmLimbaugh is a bigot. Not for the fact that Obama is black, but for the fact that he is a very popular black President.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:22 pmThe comedian can’t stand it!
Let’s change Sargent’s question a little:
“Putting aside the question of what the policies are destined to do, is it true that if they succeed in their stated goal of bringing democracy, stability and prosperity to Iraq — however far-fetched that may be to you and others — then would that be good for the country?”
Now does anyone on the left or who was against the Iraq occupation find it difficult to simply answer “yes” to the above?
How more clear cut could it be that the leader of the GOP
his putting political party before country? Before an economic upswing?
Disgusting.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:22 pmbarak obomber is an idiot. Geez lightweight, can’t you get anything straight? If our Presidents policies fail, it stands to reason that the country will suffer even more. That means your family, your loved ones, your neighbors, your boss, YOUR FUTURE. Is it bad enough that your nose is stuck up Limabaughs ass so far you can smell his toothpaste? Geez dipstick. This is your country too, or is it?
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:22 pmI hope the sand that Rush’s head is buried in is adjacent to the slit trench latrine.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:22 pmobomber says:
Apparently, you did not get enough rimjob time to Flush Limpdick’s rectum. By all means, you may return for a second serving of butthole surfing.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:23 pmThis is the Corporate community/ideology declaring war on the civilian populace.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:26 pmshorter obomber ~ Rush is grate! Obama is (insert meaningless label A, insert into vapid label B on tab C. Fold and insert in rectal cavity D)…
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:26 pmActually, that is no surprise, because GOP have always hoped that the average American would fail and stay steps behind them, these so-called men of power and fame, Wizards of Oz, all of them, soon to be exposed for the phonies they really are.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:28 pmPhuck Yoo & Limbaugh, too
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:32 pmgreat shot there of old rushbo sucking on a big brown … … cigar.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:32 pmwouldntadmittingthatbebadforhisparty/cult?
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:34 pmIs he disappointed that Obama’s effective ideas for economy prosperity won’t add another $100 million to his contract?
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:35 pmSaying that you hope the President’s policies fail but not the economy (as Mr. Obomber claims) is disingenuous.
If the economy rights itself, it will be because of the President’s policies.
Even if somehow the economy would right itself in spite of the president’s policies, the President would still get the credit.
This is what Limbaugh and folks like Mr. Obomber fear — that the President gets credit for an economy succeeding. Thus, it’s clear that they want the economy to fail.
It’s the only way they think they can win.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:37 pmWould the ends justify the means if our children are all slaves to a debt created by this current generation.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:43 pmI think the crux of all of this is the answer to the question “What does a successful America look like?”
Rush Limbaugh, I believe, thinks that the only valid success for America is on a right wing ideological basis – it doesn’t matter if people are destitute as long as it’s not him. It doesn’t matter if there are no jobs as long as he doesn’t need one. He hopes that Obama fails because Obama represents a liberal ideology and that’s what Limbaugh can’t afford to have succeed. They hope America fails because a failed America is a right wing Utopia.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:44 pmDo you know how republicans can win???? PASS SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE!!!! THATS HOW.
Do that and we’ll thank you in 2010.
Common…lets see what you do…go ahead make my day….prove to me your worthy!!
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:46 pmLimbaugh responded:
I reject your premise. … I will not put aside the question of what the policies are destined to do because that IS THE POINT.
Does this stupid fat fu(k realize he just reaffirmed those who have accused him of wanting the country to fail along with Obama’s economic policy ?
This fat blob is truly an ignorant turd and has a tremendously warped self-view and self-worth ……..
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:46 pmAll those Republicans watching their retirement fund value decrease every days surly appreciate Rush’s hoping for that failure. You keep talking gasbag, you’re doing a heckuva job.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:47 pmbarack obomber Says:
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DAMN you guys love Rush as much as I do.
If you listened to him today he said he doesn’t want the economy to fail, just Obamas policies ( communism liberalism and socialism)
But we all know the “non-partisan ” website such as yourself would never post that.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:17 pm
You believe calling out a drug-addicted fat child molesting moron for his lies and idiocy , is a sign of “love” ?
How long have you actually been in your present abusive relationship ?
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:50 pmLets just say it.
The republicans want the economy to fail so they have a chance of winning back some house and senate seats in 2010.
There’s no gray areas here. They’ve made that as clear as they can.
The real crime is the braindead news media, like the writers at Associated Press, the newscasters on tv, etc, who just refuse to report news and instead present this stuff as “two sides bickering”.
Here. Here’s an simplistic example.
“Democrats claim that republicans are stonewalling in an attempt to reduce the success of the president.
Republicans however deny these claims and insist they are avoiding wasteful spending and working for the good of the country”.
See?
Thats not a story.
That’s Miss Sally on RomperRoom.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:50 pmGeorge Bush inherited a budget surplus. It was his deficit and his fiscal policies that handed this crisis to Obama. My child is already enslaved by the money Bush borrowed to fund his ridiculous Iraq war while cutting taxes to the wealthiest among us. Reaganomics obviously doesn’t work or we wouldn’t be in this crisis now. Republicans need to help or get out of the way, understand.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:50 pmRepublicans never work for the good of the country.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:52 pmIf the Republicans keep obstructing the President and continue their constant propagandist rants against his policies scaring the people into hoarding what money they have, then they will not be able to blame Obama if the policies don’t work. They’ll have to blame themselves.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:53 pmnoliesplease….you’re wrong there buddy.
If the Democratic party passes a good single payer system, they will lock in a Democratic majority in every branch for a generation. That’s why you republithugs fight it so hard.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:53 pmjohnfive Says:
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Would the ends justify the means if our children are all slaves to a debt created by this current generation.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Ask the Chimpy administration to explain their Idiotic Iraq Adventure for the answer to that question ………
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:54 pmThey must have photo shopped 20 pounds of fat of that f(ckface in the picture above.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:54 pmPence was just on CNN. The depth of his and Republican GOP is amazing. He refused to even entertain the possibility of criticizing Limbaugh and even went so far as to bring up the Red Herring of the Fairness Doctrine. After eight years of Republican & Bush attacks on the media, and after decades of conservatives attaching the media, Pence had the gall to say he’s troubled by those in power criticizing the media.
Pence then had the audacity to claim that in the midst of the biggest economic downturn since the 1930s, that “free market” capitalism, non-existent regulation, and small government is the the path to economic prosperity. Apparently Pence, like George W. Bush, doesn’t read the papers, doesn’t read the reports from the Labor Dept., etc. It’s astonishing to see the complete denial of the failure of Republican ideology.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:55 pm24. johnfive Says: Would the ends justify the means if our children are all slaves to a debt created by this current generation.
As far as the corporate community is concerned, the answer to that would be, “It depends on who was profiting from the institutionalized and modernized slave market.
Would it be on the NASDAQ? The big board reading “SLAV?”
Would the product market be lucrative enough? Stylish chains, framed decrees of ownership? Indenture manuals (frequently updated, of course.)
Oh, and the advertising! Uniforms, t-shirts, product placement! “My Thrall stays ‘working trim’ with Slimfast.”
The corporate community would no longer have to disguise their legislation to enact their agendas…they could openly admit their view of the American citizen as nothing more than an ATM machine that provides them with disposable bodies to secure raw materials from other sovereign countries and to consume whatever they decide is in our best interests, as long as they render a healthy profit.
(I decidedly took johnfive’s quote in the literal sense, of course… :-)
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:57 pmNow that cigar is definitely not just a cigar.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:58 pmLimbaugh deserves to be a pennyless bastard.
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:58 pmPence had the gall to say he’s troubled by those in power criticizing the media.
Does that mean he drops into seizures during GOP meetings/get-togethers , seeing as how all they ever repeat like the mindless , brainless banshees they all are , is the evil of the (non-existent) “liberal media” ……….?
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:59 pmHanshiro, welcome to the Republican Dream.
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:03 pmThat’s been the case for decades, dude. Sure was a long turnip truck ride, huh?
The only Pres. I know of who made ever some payments toward the principal on that debt was a Democrat, too.
All the R’s in my lifetime just added to it, and hid the fact from the public with shiny words about freedom.
“Yeah -uh -Fool me once, shame on..um..shame on you. Uh, Fool me twice……uhh………won’t get fooled again, heh-heh-heh”
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:05 pmSkepticRising Says
March 3rd, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Rush Limbaugh, I believe, thinks that the only valid success for America is on a right wing ideological basis – it doesn’t matter if people are destitute as long as it’s not him. It doesn’t matter if there are no jobs as long as he doesn’t need one.
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And this is what I don’t understand about the right wing ideology of “I got mine”.
Rush isn’t concerned about poor people as long as he isn’t poor. He’s not concerned about homeless people as long as he has a place to live. He’s not concerned about getting sick as long as he can afford health care.
And this attitude is echoed by many a troll here.
Problem is — when we have so many desperate people begging in the streets that we look like Calcutta, Rush will whine about how he can’t even walk from his limo into the building where he works without being bothered by panhandlers. When corporations can’t make a profit because nobody has any money to spend on their goods and services, Rush will whine about the taxes businesses have to pay. And when housing foreclosures get to the point where virtually every neighborhood in the country (even the upper class ones) suffers from the blight caused by empty homes, Rush will whine about his plummeting property value. Of course, he will blame it all on the Democrats when he does.
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:06 pmSmells of some new troll crap permeates this thread. Phew
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:06 pmIf Rush Limbaugh wants our country’s president to fail in his attempt to right the country after 8 years of “wrong”, then I think that I want the supporters (advertisers) of Rush Limbaugh to fail also.
Where’s the list? I will boycott.
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:19 pmThe republicans are fighting for their political lives at this point and I’m enjoying watching them tear the party apart from the inside and Rush is leading the depth charge. It was republican policies that created this giant mess and if democratic policies turn the economy around people are going to have a hard time accepting any republican policies in the future in fear that it could bring us down again. So the republicans are betting the house and hoping that Obama fails so that they can be there at the end to say “I told you so”. But I think the republicans reached the point where even if the current policies only manage to stop the bleeding but don’t bring much prosperity beyond the current state that they are still in trouble because it’s obvious to most of the people in this country that they are doing nothing to help anyone other than their own party even at the cost of sacrificing many of their own constituents.
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:26 pm“Communism
Socialism
Liberalism”
Trolls should just leave the song-writing to the professionals. This one is a poor attempt at being John Lennon.
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:30 pm48. Art Says: Where’s the list? I will boycott.
Go Here for a Start
Here’s a partial list:
Overstock.com
1-800-989-0135
(customer comments and service email)
otherinfo@overstock.com
eharmony
300 N. Lake Ave., Suite 1111
Pasadena, CA 91101
media@eharmony.com
Web contact form
626.795.4814
FAX 626.585.4040
Inverness Medical (maker of stresstabs)
51 Sawyer Road
Waltham, MA 02021
1-800-899-7353 weekdays, 8 am. – 6 p.m. (Eastern Time.)
Onstar
Online comment form
Hotwire Corporate Headquarters
333 Market Street, Suite 100
San Francisco, CA 94105
advertising@hotwire.com
1-877-HOTWIRE (468-9473)
415-343-8400
Sleep Number Bed
1-800-438-2233
The Neptune Society of Northern California
Stewart Enterprises
12070 Telegraph Road #107
Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670
Oreck Upright Vacuum Cleaners
Oreck Corporation
100 Plantation Road
New Orleans, Louisiana 70123
Online contact form
1-800-289-5888
Smart & Final
Customer Relations
PO Box 512377
Los Angeles, CA 91001-0377
(Heard on KFI 640 in Los Angeles)
Mid-West Life Insurance Company of Tennessee
9151 Grapevine Hwy.
North Richland Hills, TX 76180
Phone (800) 733-1110
(web banner ads on rushlimbaugh.com)
AutoZone Inc.
P.O. Box 2198
Memphis, TN 38101
Phone (901) 495-7185
Fax (901) 495-8374
investor.relations@autozone.com
UPDATED – Citracal – Mission Pharmacal
Bennett Kennedy – Citracal Product Manager
Mission Pharmacal
P.O. Box 786099
San Antonio, TX 78278-6099
Phone:(800) 531-3333
Blue-Emu
Blue Emu refuses to give a contact other than their generic “info” box:
1-800-432-9334
http://www.blue-emu.com/
Red Lobster
customer comment form: CLICK HERE
Or Write to:
P.O. Box 593330
Orlando, FL 32859-3330
Guest Relations Hotline
1-800-LOBSTER (1-800-562-7837)
Lumber Liquidators
Toll Free: 877-645-5347
Contact list: http://www.lumberliquidators.com/contact_us.html
Avacor (hair loss treatment)
(customer comments email)
comments@avacorusa.com
There are several lists at the link, and you can compare them to divine who has stuck with Limbaugh the longest, such as Overstock, and Onstar.
Seal their economic fates.
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:33 pmArt Says
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Where’s the list? I will boycott.
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I’m not so sure that any comprehensive list exists, because most of Rush’s advertisers are local to whatever station is broadcasting his program.
Therefore, the only boycott that could have an effect is a local one. Find out who’s advertising on Limbaugh in your market and boycott those sponsors. If local sponsors don’t advertise on Limbaugh’s program, the station will fill that slot with a program that fetches more advertising revenue. And if enough stations drop Rush, he’s toast.
A longshot, to be sure. But possible. I personally think the success of Obama’s stimulus package and other policies will make Rush irrelevant a lot faster.
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:33 pmWhy does this unpatriotic fat man hate the troops? Sound familliar?
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:33 pmWant more proof the press is complicit here in helping ruin our economy and Here. Here are the top two stories currently on “YAHOO” news.
• Senate votes to keep thousands of earmarks in spending bill
• GM, Ford and Toyota sales plunge as rebates fail to spur buying
Notice there’s no mention of the massive 200 BILLION dollar lending fund President Obama announced today that will be made available on March 25th for auto loans?
Perhaps if the press focused on the new “Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility” created by President Obama to inject 200 BILLION into lending for autos and other things, instead of DAILY posting LOSSES from the banks or in this case the Auto manufacturers, then maybe the DOW would be a bit more stable?
Panic breeds panic, and all the brain dead press writers over at Associated Press want to do is spread that panic.
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:33 pmThe corporate community is angry that we’re not willfully supporting the lifestyle to which they’ve become accustomed.
They’ve sent Limbaugh-The-Hutt to compel and shame the hoi polloi.
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:41 pmRush sounds alot like Osama Bin Laden, wants America to fail, hates America, wants to see Americans lose jobs. Wants to see poor people selling apples in the street. Kids going hungry.
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:45 pmRush had BDS, what he accused people of having when Dubya was in office, but different.
Barack Derangement Syndrome
Your a hypocrite Limbaugh
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:47 pmAmongst Republicans, this is what passes for “sticking to your principles.”
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:47 pmI hate to say this but Obama is not going to succeed. Look around and pay attention to the media, just the fact that entities like Rush and Fox news are getting so much attention in the press is a dead giveaway. There is no way that big business and the wealthy are ever going to allow Obama to succeed. They will do anything; including sacrificing their own children if that is what it takes. These people do not care; they are selfish, arrogant and hate filled sociopaths that feed on their thirst for power and money.
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:47 pmI fear that this great Nation has only limited time before it, like all the others in history falls prey to its own greed and corruption. We the People has become we the wealthy!
Yea, we might as well just “give up”, huh Mike?
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:51 pm
thanks, hanshiro!
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March 3rd, 2009 at 4:53 pm:|
Yea Mike. I’ll bet you “hate” to say that.
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:53 pmThe debt was always there, this is the dirty hidden Bush secret that Limbaugh wont admit:
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:54 pm
The media tried the same thing with Clinton and it didnt work mike. we had more jobs under Clinton.
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:57 pmRich S Says:
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Has obama appointed anyone who has actually paid their taxes?
Is spreading the wealth considered socialism?
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Is supporting the last administration which committed crimes against the Constitution , and is hereby guilty of treason , considered to make you an anti-American shithead ?
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:58 pmEd Schultz had someone on (sorry, was in car and didn’t catch name) who thought the White House was deliberately calling out Rush to attach his wingnuttery to the Republicans, and to attach all this “FAIL” to the Republicans. No biggie for Rush, of course, because it just puffs up his ego and his visibility, but it seems like a great strategy in dealing with the Repubs.
No one but dittoheads really listens to Rush, so most Americans probably don’t realize what a radical gasbag he is. He’s getting publicity, but he’s also being exposed to the public at large, most of whom will be disgusted, and they’ll associate that disgust with the obstructionism of the Repubs.
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:59 pmIs spreading the wealth considered socialism?
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:50 pm
I think banksters call that credit, isnt this supposed to be the problem with the markets?
March 3rd, 2009 at 4:59 pmIsnt no bid contracts to Halliburton spreading the wealth?
Isnt privatization about spreading the wealth to private industy?
Isnt the private bank bailout spreading the wealth?
March 3rd, 2009 at 5:02 pmIs spreading the wealth considered socialism?
March 3rd, 2009 at 5:05 pm—
Does it lift all ships?
I notice those who voted against Obamas stimulus still took the money arent they, then, spreading the wealth?
Didnt Sarah Palin raise taxes on big oil so she could spread the wealth to Alaskans?
March 3rd, 2009 at 5:16 pmRich S is not Rich H. Rich S is a republican stooge. Don’t confuse him with me. Thanks in advance.
March 3rd, 2009 at 5:16 pmSeems Americans have decided that the Repub policies, which have created this mess, are no longer wanted. If the best they can come up with is, “Failure” of the current American leadership is our hope for the GOP than voters will continue to not vote for them!
March 3rd, 2009 at 5:23 pmThis b@stard is getting to be more and more like a fat Hitler leading his ignorant country club brownshirts into a class war.
March 3rd, 2009 at 5:47 pmThe prospect of the economy recovering under President Obama will, of course, be good for the country. It will not be good for the Republican’t party and if Rush Limbaugh was capable of honesty (which he isn’t) that is what he would say.
March 3rd, 2009 at 5:56 pmYankeluh Says:
This b@stard is getting to be more and more like a fat Hitler leading his ignorant country club brownshirts into a class war.
Fortunately for us leading 20% of our population off a cliff isn’t going to have the dire consequences he would like them to have. Personally I would be happy to watch them all walk off a cliff. Better yet, why don’t they move to a country that doesn’t have a functioning government and where the citizens don’t pay taxes, because that’s what they really want.
March 3rd, 2009 at 5:58 pmRich S Says:
Has obama appointed anyone who has actually paid their taxes?
Is spreading the wealth considered socialism?
I find it refreshing that President Obama is putting his appointees through this level of scrutiny. Bush didn’t ask his appointees anything about their finances (i.e. taxes) and blocked news outlets from doing so. I’m betting if all his appointees had been vetted for their finances, it would have the results would far outweigh the few problems with Obama’s appointees. I’m betting that they would have found that many of Bush’s appointees had most of their money in off-shore tax shelters to avoid paying any US income taxes.
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:00 pmWAYNEBRO Says:
Panic breeds panic, and all the brain dead press writers over at Associated Press want to do is spread that panic.
Of course they do. If they didn’t keep up the clarion call of “Wall Street is tanking” and consumer confidence started to raise, they wouldn’t be able to blame President Obama for all the financial ills we are suffering from even though he has only been President for a little more than a month.
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:03 pmLimbaugh responded:
I reject your premise.
These right-wingers are always rejecting premises. What a pussy way of avoiding the question.
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:17 pmLimbaugh must be one of the most repugnant Americans ever. But to call him “American” is an insult to any American who loves the country & what it stands for.
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:34 pmIs spreading the wealth considered socialism?
Nope.
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:37 pmLimbaugh, like a lot of Republicans today, is a lot like Fidel Castro. A man who clung to the ideology of Communism despite his countries failure and the suffering of his people. Clinging to failed ideology is a sure sign of a person who is stupid and not intellectually flexible enough to offer good governing ideas. People like that should be ignored because they are dangerous.
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:38 pmsee number 90 and ask him…
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:44 pmThen why not try #76?
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:51 pmConcerned Kenyan. It is spelled “dbadass”. d-b-a-d-a-s-s. See it is spelled just like it sounds
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:52 pmDoes anyone happen to remember the 8 years under President Clinton? Every day Limbaugh started his radio show with the same thing: “Day ’such and such (whatever number)’, America held hostage..”
He did it every day of the Clinton presidency. Never mind that we came out of that presidency with a huge budget surplus…
From Wiki:
I wasn’t a huge Clinton fan, and it wasn’t a perfect presidency, but at least he made strides to pull us out of the debt and try and point us in the right direction.
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:10 pmKeep on talking Druggie, so people will realize how perverted you are! It seems the drugs have sent Rush on a bad trip.
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:30 pmDon’t worry. When anything good happens in an Obama presidency, the right will say it was due to Bush. Anything bad, and, of course, it was due to Obama. I have heard this for the past 28 years. I don’t think they are gonna stop now. They will spin anything into anything.
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:34 pmfake Kenyan,
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:38 pmWhen productivity goes up and up and up for decades, yet all the results of the increased productivity just go to the corporations and not the workers—-is that okay in your philosophy? Wages for the average worker actually went down under Bush (when adjusted for inflation). First time that has happened since the Great Depression. Wages have increased very little since Reagan.
That sounds about right.
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:31 pmI wonder if Blackwater Mikey will loan me one of his guns. I will take the Traitor ELRusho-Fatto out myself.
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:50 pm“Just do it!”
Hi ralph.
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:15 pmI’m bummed. I can’t keep any of them on the playing field
Chin up, dbadass. It’s not you — it’s them.
They’re pussies.
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:19 pmWow, looking at all the posts here does remind me of orwell’s animal farm. Ya’ll seem to be not much more than the sheep, grouped tightly, bleating in unison, “two feet bad, four feet good” over and over and over in the echo chamber that is the small world of the liberal/progressive.
Ummm….how many here wished for President Bush to be successful?
Didn’t think so.
March 4th, 2009 at 12:03 amTime to re-re-re-define words so reality fits the world of the angry, self-loathing liberal/progressive.
Chowda, two points: one, I wished for Bush to be successful, because I recognized that his failure would be the nation’s. I believed at the time that going into Iraq was a huge mistake, but I didn’t hope it failed. I think most of the others here felt the same.
Two, of course a group of comments will sound like “bleating in unison” if you’re eager to dismiss them. But in fact TPers often disagree with each other, and most of us have distinctive voices all our own.
Of course, as authoritarian wingnuts well know, nothing unifies a group like a common threat, so the arrival of trolls tends to unify progressives and downplays our internal differences. But I suspect you wouldn’t care anyway; you’re eager to read “bleating sheep” and so that’s what you’ll convince yourself you see.
That’s why Republicans will never solve complex problems — an innate willingness to allow desired perception to trump reality.
March 4th, 2009 at 12:09 am.
Q U E S T I O N:
What kind of person holds a position; Rooting for his Nation to fail?
Well, if it was 2006, you would be known by the GOP as a “Liberal” Democrat.
But that was 2006. Now it’s 2009 and look who’s the failure!
But really, why don’t these people see that rooting for the president’s policies to fail, policies that will determine the direction this Nation takes for the next four years, is rooting to take America farther down a road of failure. I mean…
… REALLY!
At best, they could admit that the last path America has been following hasn’t yielded positive results, NO? Yet, (R)ushpublicans seemed determined to see to this ideological destined end rather than trying alternate ideas to curb the inevitable, should nothing be done. WHY IS THIS?
I mean…
… Would a mother hold her newborn under water for a two minute rinse?
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March 4th, 2009 at 1:19 amI hope Rush helps the Repubs fail. I can see it now:
1) Rush polarizes his “base”. This extreme bunch-o-right-wingers (I would guess somewhere between 5 & 15% of the population) continue to criticize moderate Republicans for not hanging off the extreme right edge of the political fence like they do on every single issue.
2) Moderate Republicans finally realize that the party is going to be unrecoverable unless it returns to more traditional conservatism.
3) The chasm grows between these two segments of the GOP, until it is forced to split into separate parties to accompany both groups.
I will celebrate if this comes to pass, because we liberals would then be able to hold power for quite a long time. Hopefully enough time (even though there’s tons of work to be done) to fix a lot of what’s broken in our country. What a future we could have. :oD
And even though he’s a complete dog turd of a human being, Rush would be remembered in history, even if it’s only as being a catalyst.
March 4th, 2009 at 2:00 amIs Obama’s recovery and policies good for Rush’s imagined America or a realistic approach to be enclusive to Americans and their betterment?
I really can’t see why Rush, in his house with its private golf course would be bothered with the economy and Obama’s policies. Rush never seems to leave the safety of his gated community except for such appearances at CPAC or the private jet to the exclusive island where he can abuse viagra at an exclusive hotel.
As I read somewhere, Rush was absolutely silent when Bush asked for and got his TARP funds and handed it to Paulson to secretly hand out. Not even TARP II did he make even a meow. But when Obama asked for the Recovery funds for regular Americans. Well, only then did Rush try to imitate a roar of discontent…
Rush’s America believes in corporate rule and corporate welfare. Not in unemployment benefits and such.
March 4th, 2009 at 3:51 amblockquote>Limbaugh responded:
I reject your premise. … I will not put aside the question of what the policies are destined to do because that IS THE POINT.
This is when his oxy kicked in.
March 4th, 2009 at 5:07 amOh, the arrogance.
Rush KNOWS the policy will fail (remember, his talent is on loan from God). He doesn’t even consider the possibility he might be wrong. He just KNOWS. Incredible!
March 4th, 2009 at 12:40 pm