Cantor Caves: Republicans Will Be ‘Listening’ To Rush Limbaugh, Not The American Public
Cantor Caves: Republicans Will Be ‘Listening’ To Rush Limbaugh, Not The American Public
Last week, Republicans kicked off their National Council for a New America, an attempt to revive the image of the GOP. One of the leading participants, former governor Jeb Bush, said that it was time for Republicans to “listen first, to learn a little bit, to upgrade our message a little bit.” Similarly, on Sunday, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) told CNN that Republicans should be “listening to the people“:
CANTOR: Listen, John, I think there is a lot of blame to go around. And what we’re trying to do here today is kick off a series of town hall forums so that we can get back to listening to the people. [...]
So we’ve got to go out and, again, reconnect and make sure that our policy prescriptions are relevant to the challenges that people in the Northeast are facing, to the challenges that educated, affluent families are facing, as well as those much more challenged in the inner cities and rural areas of our country.
There is a common theme in this country and that is opportunity. That’s what these forums are going to be about, about listening to how we tap into the real challenges and how we allow opportunity to flourish again.
Listening to all this talk about listening, Rush Limbaugh became incensed. He said that instead of taking cues from the American public, Republicans should fan out and spread their dogma through a “teaching tour.” This morning on MSNBC, Cantor backtracked and said that he agreed with Limbaugh:
SCARBOROUGH: So, let’s start with Rush Limbaugh, who seems to be mocking the idea of a listening tour. What do you say to Rush?
CANTOR: You know, Joe, really, this — this is not a listening tour. You know, think about what we saw a couple weeks ago on the TEA parties.
Cantor added that the National Council was actually an opportunity “to go out across this country to talk about our conservative principles and to appeal to as many elements in our society as we can.” Watch it:
Yesterday, Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) had a similar retraction, saying that the GOP’s objective was to help “educate the American people,” even though a week before he had said that “we’re going to listen, we’re going to learn.”
Transcript:
SCARBOROUGH: So, let’s start with Rush Limbaugh, who seems to be mocking the idea of a listening tour. What do you say to Rush?
CANTOR: You know, Joe, really, this — this is not a listening tour. You know, think about what we saw a couple weeks ago on the TEA parties. The American people are very frustrated that they really see a government in Washington that doesn’t hear them, that doesn’t respond to their needs and, frankly, are upset at a government that doesn’t work.
What the National Council for a New America is, is an opportunity for us to go out across this country to talk about our conservative principles and to appeal to as many elements in our society as we can and to really talk to them as a higher level and say, look, there are some transcendental goals that we’re all about in this country, and they can best be achieved through conservative principles of freedom and opportunity.
That’s what this movement is really about.
SCARBOROUGH: But, you know, following up on Rush’s point about how you need to go out on a teaching tour, I look at a budget that’s passed that the CBO says is going to bankrupt America. I look at a lot of policies that — that we’re moving towards that I think are terrible for America.
And then I look at polls that show that this president has 65, 66, 67 percent approval ratings. It seems to me, if you’re right and if I’m right, maybe we do need to go out and explain why and do a little teaching.
CANTOR: Well, you know, look, Rush is talking about conservative principles, and we’re talking about conservative principles. And no question, Joe, this president is extremely popular personally, but it’s his policies, once they — once the details are flushed out — that have proven in the polls over and again to be not very popular at all.
And I think this is where the frustration is coming from, and that’s why we do need, in the Republican Party, to go out and talk about the our conservative principles and how they apply to the challenges that this country is facing and the challenges that people are facing in communities across this country.
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Saw this coming a mile away.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:15 pmSo when you guys said it was a “listening tour” you were lying, right? You really don’t care what Americans have to say. What’s important is what YOU have to say to US.
Glad we got that straight.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:16 pm…
same lipstick.
same pig.
no sale.
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May 6th, 2009 at 12:16 pmWhen politicians talk about a “listening tour” it’s always just PR-speak for a talking tour. They’re trying to be *perceived* as “listening” but don’t want to actually listen to people. It’s a dog-and-pony show.
If they cared about “listening” all they need is to look at elections, at polls, at newspapers.
Instead they listen to Rush.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:17 pmIt only makes sense. Why would someone wanting to be a national political party want to listen to people across the nation?
wait a second…..
May 6th, 2009 at 12:17 pmCantor is a F**KTARD!
May 6th, 2009 at 12:18 pmExcellent plan, bozos.
Put on your best Sunday go to meetin pair of Alfred E. Neumann ears for that listenin enjoyment!
May 6th, 2009 at 12:18 pm.
Those that lick the Oxy sweat from their leader Limpballs are called (R)ushpublickin’s…
… Those who refuse – get teabagged. Just like waterboarding but muskier.
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May 6th, 2009 at 12:19 pmGee, Rush, the last time I heard that a party needed to ‘teach’ its members (and society) how to think was in Moscow in the 50’s. One party, one line, follow or else.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:21 pm” . . . an opportunity for us to go out across this country to talk about our conservative principles . . .”
“Which we did on Saturday by sending three of the best known GOP leaders to talk to 70 people WHO ALREADY AGREE WITH US.”
Very efficient . . .
May 6th, 2009 at 12:22 pmCantor is a spineless coward. Maybe he has a chip in his brain ala SNL.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:22 pmIs there any doubt left that the GOP is for the fascist/authoritarian personality types, and that democracy is inherently repugnant to them?
May 6th, 2009 at 12:26 pmRight wingers still run on the premise that they can fool enough of the people enough of the time.
Such a silly bunch
May 6th, 2009 at 12:26 pmSo the 21%ers are being controlled by a lard assed, flunked out of college his freshman year, drug addled, gas bag, who was caught using someone else’s Viagra while chasing teenage hookers in the Domican Republic. What did I get wrong?
May 6th, 2009 at 12:26 pmNew Contract With America: Shut up and keep working it kneeled.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:29 pmI wonder what it feels like for a man’s balls to retract into his abdominal cavity?
Let’s ask Cantor…
May 6th, 2009 at 12:30 pmCANTOR: Listen, John, I think there is a lot of blame to go around. And what we’re trying to do here today is kick off a series of ass kissing so that we can get back to listening to Rush Limbaugh.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:30 pmLOL! Way to go Cantor! You and the rest of your brethern will follow King Limpballs of a cliff! So, you and your cronies won’t listen to the public, huh? Well, good for you! I guess you’ll be in the minority for the next couple of decades.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:32 pmWhen you put it like that, it’s scary to think that there are still 21% out there.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:32 pmGotta love the lockstep and goosestep routine – only problem is they’re stepping in deep shit.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:32 pmI don’t know if you guys are having this problem but all the videos in the articles are of Eminem. Not my favorite. Can someone fix this?
May 6th, 2009 at 12:34 pmListen to the American people- the first smart thing a Repub has said in years. So, naturally, Rush mocks it & shoots it down immediately. It’s amazing that these wimps buckle so shamelessly to the man who is helping to destroy their party.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:34 pmThe listening tour no force..
Remember BlimpBaughs ‘Chao’ pla? LOL
Remember he carried water for eight years and Bus ratings dropped and dropped. Then in 2006 his effective vitriol ad hominem and spin helped the GnOpe lose in 2006 and 2008
Hilarity ensued.
And they are going to listen to more of the same?
Bwahahhaha
May 6th, 2009 at 12:35 pmThe Republican Party is going underground to operate as an insurgency. Be careful to avoid being kidnapped by them. They will torture you.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:35 pm*Chaos Plan?
May 6th, 2009 at 12:35 pmThe listening tour farce…
May 6th, 2009 at 12:40 pmWhen Rush sits on them they cave like a cheap folding chair.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:40 pmSomeone needs to tell this as$hole that only 21% of the voting public is listening…
…the rest thinks they can just go fcuk themselves.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:42 pmMan, the Rethuglicans are going to be tough to beat in the South.
Let’s see how that work out for them.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:42 pmand the kids in south america sing:
“don’t turn around, uhoh, the commissar’s in town, uhoh”
May 6th, 2009 at 12:42 pmRush’s re-education plan ought to ensure that the conservative permanent “majority” will drop to single digit percentages by next election – rock on Cantor, Rush, and the rest of your ilk.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:43 pmCANTOR: You know, Joe, really, this — this is not a listening tour.
Sounds more like an invitation to a vegetable toss. Anyone got some liniment for my throwing arm?
Maybe they can get sponsorship through Hefty or maybe John Deere manure spreaders…
…or “Limbaugh’s KY: Feel The Rush…“
May 6th, 2009 at 12:43 pmWhat really disgusts me is that he’s from my state. Thank God he’s not from my district!
Apart from that, this is why the Repugs are so marginalized and shrinking fast. They all keep talking about staying in touch with their ‘base’, but that just means listening to what Rush says. They keep crying about our heading for a dictatorship, but are really the ones pushing us into one. I seriously doubt there’s ten percent of Americans that want Rush in any kind of power.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:45 pmif you’re stupid and you know it, show your GOP membership card
May 6th, 2009 at 12:45 pm? Those that can, do. Those that can’t, teach. ?
May 6th, 2009 at 12:46 pmCantor – so slimy, his suit is held on with staples.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:47 pmThese guys are even dumber than we thought. Their going to listen to Rush until they’re all out of jobs.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:48 pmPoor Cantor. He just doesn’t get it does he? People don’t like Limbaugh. Young people, women, gays and lesbians, can’t stand him. He appeals only to white guys who blame everyone else for their own failures. Why blame yourself when you can blame a Hispanic or Straw Man? Just listening to Pence yesterday on ‘Hardball’ was disgusting. He just couldn’t admit he believed in evolution. He was that much of a coward. I thought the repugs were the Party of Balls?
May 6th, 2009 at 12:48 pm.
Cantor Said:
Again, it’s appealing to the top 2%.
The G(no)P will always listen to that base.
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May 6th, 2009 at 12:49 pmCan someone explain to me what the difference is between Limpbaugh (and the rest of the extreme right wing) and the Joe McCarthy era of the 1950’s?
• McCarthy’s communism to Limpbaugh’s socialism
• McCarthy’s communism to Bachmann’s “in-depth expose of patriotism in congress.
In both cases they use scare tactics in order to prove their point:
In both cases they represented the extreme far right of the Republican Party.
How do Cantor and the rest of the sheep look at their self in the mirror and still think they are in charge.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:50 pmThey’re = oops – need more coffee.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:50 pmClose, they are the party of teabagging
May 6th, 2009 at 12:50 pm.
Can’t-or…
… Or waht, Eric?
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May 6th, 2009 at 12:51 pmso who pulls on rush’s strings?
he’s not smart enough to think of this stuff himself.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:52 pmLook, the RNC has trapped itself in its own descriptions. They have to stop calling it a “listening tour” or a “teaching tour”.
A “listening tour” provides the idea that the GOP is out of ideas and that they need to gain seeds of thought by going to Americans and asking for help in identifying what is wrong with the system. It shows that the current GOP has no feedback and will have to examine those grievances to construct an answer.
A “teaching tour” provides the idea that the GOP knows what is right and that they are prepared to tell the public what to do. This might be closer to what they need, but does the public really need reprogramming? They are the ones who should be telling the GOP what to do, not the other way around.
The GOP needs to play the role of the student and the teacher, the conversation starter and the listener, for this tour to be successful. Frankly, I wonder just how effective it could be.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:52 pmYou help progressives by increasing the hit count here and by demonstrating the cowardice and ignorance of the typical right winger. We’ll thank you now. Thanks.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:52 pmRepublicans! Bow down and pledge your total allegience to the Fuhrer, Rush Limbaugh!
May 6th, 2009 at 12:56 pmCFP – ya can’t stomp a roach when he’s hiding in the dark.
if you wanna call that “publicity”, go right ahead.
Here’s a brain-teaser for you:
When lists of sex-offenders are published to help communities identify possible threats to their families, is that “giving sex offenders free publicity”?
May 6th, 2009 at 12:56 pm#47 spearNmagicHelmet Asks:
Young Jamaican boys…
May 6th, 2009 at 12:56 pmConsevative@49, Maybe you’re right. But then again, can’t you feel the love for Limpballs in this chatroom? He’s up there with Savage (or is it Weiner)? Who, by the way, is suing the UK for denying him entrance into England. How proud the Republicans should be!
May 6th, 2009 at 12:56 pmYou who are on the rope
Must have a dope that you can live by
And so debase yourself
And then your past will be your good bye.
Teach your voters lies,
And give them hell they slowly die by,
And feed them on your schemes
The one they believe, the one you’ll fly by.
Don’t you ever tell them why, if you tell them, they willcry,
May 6th, 2009 at 12:58 pmSo just look at them and sigh and know they love you.
ConservativeForProgress, did you know that your name is an oxymoron?
May 6th, 2009 at 12:59 pmI wonder–if there is a protest before a large company, that is certainly publicity, but exactly how much of that publicity is positive? How much of it is wanted by the corporation? How much will that publicity affect business?
May 6th, 2009 at 12:59 pmYou would think these bozos would have learned by now to ask their boss if they can say something.
They haven’t got the hang of the kid’s game where they have to ask permission before doing anything?
Either that or they enjoy making themselves look like idiots.
Is it required to have half your brain removed and be castrated to join the Republican Party or is that just an urban legend?
May 6th, 2009 at 12:59 pmno need to assume when you demonstrate it here every time you post with your dittohead ramblings
but thanks for showing everyone that reads this site just how ignorant the typical right winger is
May 6th, 2009 at 12:59 pmA Teaching Tour? Well yes, that’s it! That’s just what America needs. It was very effective back in 1955 during the ‘National Council for A New China’…oops, I mean the Cultural Revolution and it’s ‘re-education’ program.
‘The National Council for A New America’? What a joke! Note to Cantor, Bush, Romney, and the rest of the reich-wingers… IT ALREADY IS A NEW AMERICA!!! IT BECAME A NEW AMERICA LAST NOVEMBER!!! You might as well call yourselves the ‘CIRQUE DU GOOSESTEP TO OBLIVION’!!!
Not only is the Cirque incredibly entertaining; but as long as Rush remains their ringleader, Democrats will continue winning elections! KEEP TALKING RUSH, PLEASE!
The only way to re-brand the GOP is to extract the arrogance, ignorance, obstinance, and hate; but then nothing would remain needing re-branding. So, it’s plain- the GOP must destroy itself to save itself; simple!
May 6th, 2009 at 12:59 pmCSN in the house.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:01 pm.
Dear CFP,
Savage is banned from Great Britain…
… But if you want to bash a Christian, I suggest you keep on hitting on the President of the USA like you keep doing.
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May 6th, 2009 at 1:01 pmshoeless,
Oxymoron…?
… I thought that was (R)ush.
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May 6th, 2009 at 1:02 pmI feel like I’m in a race through an obstacle course. I am negotiating all the obstacles fairly well, and I’m in the lead.
I look back, and I see my gloating, trash-talking opponent has gotten hopelessly entangled in the barbed wire obstacle. Watching him flail around like a gill-netted fish is rather hilarious, but at the same time I feel some compassion for the trouble he’s experiencing.
So I yell over to him with some suggestions on how he might disentangle himself and get back on track. He yells back at me to go to h*ll, that he will win the race doing just what he’s doing, and that he hopes I fail.
I shrug my shoulders and go back to focusing on my race and my goal — leaving him behind in my dust.
And this is what we need to do. We need to focus on our goal of cleaning up the mess in this country and making it a better place. The Republicans are hopelessly ensnared in a trap of their own making, but they don’t want to listen to any suggestions on how to disentangle themselves (step one — quit marching to Limbaugh). Yes, we will be entertained by the spectacle. But we mustn’t allow it to distract us, nor should we allow ourselves to get sucked into it.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:03 pmOK, so now they’re going to go out and talk about conservative principles?
How to lie.
How to cheat.
How to torture.
How to be a rascist.
How to make better socialism, fascism signs.
How to combat ‘teh gay’ storm.
How to teabag.
How to call people Joe.
You betcha!
May 6th, 2009 at 1:03 pmThe Republiscum channels new show is “NO and CAN`T……..with commissar Flush Limpballs as the star.
Vote NO
Can`t come up with any new ideas
May 6th, 2009 at 1:03 pmJust like Hitler educated his people ???? Instilling the values of a fascist leadership (gov and corp working to beifit eachother own person gains..ie..Bush presidency).
Is this what you want to educate us on???? Here is what I want to educate you with….these two words…FU** OFF!!!
May 6th, 2009 at 1:04 pm…says the guy who said he’s not a typical right-winger!!!
you are funny, CFP.
got a little latent racism problem there, do ya??
Kloset Klansman?
May 6th, 2009 at 1:04 pmAchtung!
I haf decided dat der vill be a Republikaner listening tour afterall. However, all of you vill be listening only to me!
Verstehen?
Love and kisses (to my big white butt),
May 6th, 2009 at 1:04 pmOberführer Limbaugh
WOW!!
May 6th, 2009 at 1:05 pmDoes Cantor have to put on kneepads before he assumes the position? I mean he knows he’s going to be down there working on “it” for a long time. I wonder if he takes his Buddy Holly eyes off or he just lets them fog up
You can’t teach people if you don’t listen to them.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:05 pm.
LIE-CHEAT-STEELE
The “NEW” G(no)P
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May 6th, 2009 at 1:06 pmBut will Mittens bow down to herr Limpballs? and how about the Jebster, will he do the same?
May 6th, 2009 at 1:07 pmIf I walk into my local pizzeria one weekend and find these three stooges taking up a table first off it would be the last time I ate at that place and secondly I’d order the largest fruit punch that they have and “accidentaly” spill it all over their sorry @sses. Jeb Bush…wasn’t he the one suggesting that the Repubes form a shadow government? Ha, this fool’s war criminal of a brother has relegated Jeb’s future political aspirations to the sidelines! Cantor? This Newt sucking obstructionist has never had an individual thought in his short political career and don’t even get me started on Romney and his magic undergarments! The New Republican Party, this ship of fools is drifting off toward the horizon and I hope for their sake that their flat earth constituents are wrong or they’re in for one helluva fall!
May 6th, 2009 at 1:07 pmThe listening tour er I mean the teaching tour er I mean the .. Rush Reinforcement Tour. If you close your eyes can you see The Far Side cartoon where the dog and the master are side by side. The dog hears only its own name repeatedly and the supposed master keeps rambling on and on. The dog is Rush Limppaw and the supposed master are these ignorant, foolish and inept Repubs.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:07 pmmisscoleopteramolly Says:
I feel like I’m in a race through an obstacle course. I am negotiating all the obstacles fairly well, and I’m in the lead.
A pretty good argument, I suppose, but the pundits out there would probably claim they are the spectators, and even though 80% of the crowd likes what they are seeing, the other 20% is demanding that the referees check the leader’s birth certificate.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:08 pmRush must be laughing all the way to the bank as he leads the Republican Party over the cliff…
May 6th, 2009 at 1:09 pmNever underestimate the power of the farce….
May 6th, 2009 at 1:10 pmSo why doesn’t Rush run for President? Is he still a coward as he was when he ducked Vietnam because of a pimple on his butt?
May 6th, 2009 at 1:11 pmRush is a racist American hating goon. Yes he hates all Americans that don’t make at least $250,000 per year!
49. ConservativeForProgress Says: You guys sure give a lot of free publicity to Rush. I’m sure he’ll send you a thank you bouquet some day.
You’ve just proven that TP and the progressives are a bigger tent than the republican’s. We’ve allowed you in without even the republican requirement to tow the “party line.” Our tent stakes have to be longer and harder…
*Colbert grab hand* “I’ll take that P. T. Barnum Education Award now.”
You’re welcome!
May 6th, 2009 at 1:12 pmConservativeForProgress Says:
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You guys sure give a lot of free publicity to Rush. I’m sure he’ll send you a thank you bouquet some day.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:15 pm=============================================================
I missed the part where the democratic opposition drops to it’s knees and begins licking the Rush’s privates each time he gives a command. Now I do see every wingnut left in the 21% take back their comments approximately 24 hours after they offer a disagreement with their drug addled leader. Keep it up, you look like an ass clown.
ConservativeForProgress Says:
You guys sure give a lot of free publicity to Rush.
I hope we do. The more he speaks, the better Democrats look.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:15 pm“But Rush is my hero and I love him so much I’m his personal ball washer.”
May 6th, 2009 at 1:16 pmectoendomezo , PLEASE COPY YOUR POST TO USE FOR FUTURE REFERENCE!!!!
GREAT POST TO DISCRIBE THE TRUTH ABOUT THE REPUGS!!!
May 6th, 2009 at 1:16 pmEric should really change his name. Can’tor is just too easy to laugh at.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:16 pmSlowly the old Republican elephant, with it’s prehistoric talking points, will begin it’s desolute march from the East Coast to California. Upon arriving there, it’s tired old remains will join the other fossils by sinking into the Brea Tar Pits. Good riddance.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:17 pmRepublicans are well represented by the mascot of an elephant.
They were scared by a mouse and went into a panic, stomping all over the place and freaking out in fear. Now that it has been pointed out that they are all afraid of a mouse, some are calming down, others are demanding that we all freak out a little harder.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:18 pmI don’t get it.
You guys didn’t vote for us in the last election. Therefore we are gonna tell you what to think.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:18 pmI have watched many of Canor’s interviews. It would be hard to find anyone more devoid of ideas and personality than Cantor. When I have staff meetings, those who say things like, I am concerned about … or I have trouble with this or that … are told that we are seeking solutions not problems. All that Cantor ever does is list issues without offereing anything positive.
I can only assume that the expression on his face is indicative of what goes on in his mind (blank).
May 6th, 2009 at 1:18 pmWould love to know what LimpBoss has on these clowns…. Please let some reporter find the black book….. please.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:22 pmSyre, they’re going to listen — listen to Lintball!
May 6th, 2009 at 1:22 pmGood, see how far that gets them – they will remain at 20%.
shediac Says
May 6th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
So why doesn’t Rush run for President? Is he still a coward as he was when he ducked Vietnam because of a pimple on his butt?
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While I’m sure cowardice is a factor, the biggest reason is that the POTUS doesn’t make as much money.
He’ll never give up a gig where he gets obscene amounts of money criticizing others in favor of a job that pays less and expects him to perform at a much higher level.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:22 pmRush would never run for any public office, least of all the presidency. He sees himself as the Gray Eminence, the power behind the throne who answers only to himself. Like Karl and Dick.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:27 pmRemember to have somebody with a camera!
May 6th, 2009 at 1:27 pmAh, yes, re-education camps for the American people. Now that is the ultimate big brother approach to governance. It’s the stupid people that are the problem. Now how stupid is that? Are Republican’s really this tone deaf? They need to stop digging but Rush Limbaugh won’t let them.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:28 pmThe GOP remakes itself in the image of the intolerant hate radio king by the day.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:29 pmRethuglicans continue to demonstrate their spinelessness in the face of the biggest schoolyard bully on the planet……what miserable cowards they all are. And Limpbauh is an oozing boil on the face of the Rethuglican party. A few more instances like this, and they will be wandering in the wilderness for 40 years.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:31 pmIt never even occurs to Scarborough and Cantor that maybe they’re the two who don’t get it. Of course Scarborough believes he taught the Wright brothers how to fly.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:32 pmDoodlebug Shayne Says:
It never even occurs to Scarborough and Cantor that maybe they’re the two who don’t get it. Of course Scarborough believes he taught the Wright brothers how to fly.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
You mean Morning Joe doesn’t put the sun in the sky every morning…?
I’m so disillusioned…
May 6th, 2009 at 1:34 pmIt makes ya wonder if the Democrats are secretly paying Rush to force the Republicans to continue to cling to their failed ideology, therefore keeping the Republicans marginalized for the foreseeable future.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:34 pmThe leader of the Republican party and fierce proponent of teaching dropped out of Southeast Missouri State University after two semesters. His mother attested to the fact that he failed every class, even modern ballroom dancing.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:35 pmOh please, don’t any one tell Crazy Michelle her party is talking about re-education tours.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:37 pmAt least Casey Kasem graduated from Wayne State University.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:38 pmCANTOR: Listen, John, I think there is a lot of blame to go around.
John who?
Keep it up repugger. your widdle club is becoming the club of oxy-morans.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:39 pmHell, Howard Stern graduated from Boston University with a 3.8 GPA. The dean of the shock jocks, if you will.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:42 pmAnd a great, big set of shiny, red wax lips is awarded to Kiss-Ass Cantor. Put them in your mouth and apply them directly to Rush’s big, fat, sweaty asscrack. Gotta love them repugs, going down on Rush like lemmings over a cliff.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:42 pmSo we’ve got to go out and, again, reconnect and make sure that our policy prescriptions are relevant to the challenges that people in the Northeast are facing, to the challenges that educated, affluent families are facing, as well as those much more challenged in the inner cities and rural areas of our country.
I’m glad eric is worrying about the rich, his priorities are in order. Who would want this club of NO-commonsense?
May 6th, 2009 at 1:44 pmOh he does, just ask him.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:50 pmIt would make her head assplode. Is that a bad thing?
May 6th, 2009 at 1:51 pmZooey, Joe doesn’t put the sun in the sky, but he does put the interns in the ground.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:53 pmIs anybody keeping score on the repugs Ass-Kissing tournament? I can’t keep track of who has played and who’s on the bench, ready to get into the game.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:58 pmha ha, whatta tool.
May 6th, 2009 at 2:01 pmIf the National Council for a New America is truly a listening tour, then why didn’t the news clips of their pizza party show any of them “listening”?
May 6th, 2009 at 2:06 pmAll of the talking seen in the coverage was done by the leaders of the council.
Where is the footage of them getting dressed down by the attendees?
Where is the outrage from their constituents about how screwed up the party seems to be?
Don’t tell me its not out there.
More and more I am beginning to think that the Republican party is made up of a bunch of yo-yos. The way they keep getting all strung out and have to be rolled back in. And Rush Limbaugh is holding the string.
“Around the world” or “walk the dog” anyone?
May 6th, 2009 at 2:08 pmKantor is such a damn disaster the trolls won’t even show up to defend him…That says it all.
May 6th, 2009 at 2:15 pmFirst, I want to thank most of you for giving me some of the
May 6th, 2009 at 2:18 pmbest belly laughs I have had in a long time.
Second, please seriously consider some of 86’s comments.
The name-calling will get us nowhere. We must work hard to make sure the Obama agenda gets passed.
Arrogance and pride will take us the way of the Republicans.
I just got a cool Incredible Hulk yo-yo. I wonder if Rush will sign it.
May 6th, 2009 at 2:26 pmZooey Says:
I wonder what it feels like for a man’s balls to retract into his abdominal cavity?
Let’s ask Cantor…
Wouldn’t that require the assumption he had any balls to begin with?
May 6th, 2009 at 2:26 pmYou better not let him hear you say that. You’ve seen what happens then.
May 6th, 2009 at 2:28 pmThe problem for the last eight years was that Bush was your leader and the direction was down.
May 6th, 2009 at 2:32 pmWhen they have these meetings is it at Chuck E. Cheese? Do they come out in that giant rat costume. Do they simulate waterboarding in the ballcrawl? Can you win tickets?
May 6th, 2009 at 2:32 pmConservativeForProgress Says:
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Rush is not the leader of the Republican party.
Better call Rush’s show and kiss his ass…
May 6th, 2009 at 2:34 pmConservativeForProgress Says:
Rush is not the leader of the Republican party. The problem is that at the moment, the Republican party has no clear leader and no clear direction.
I would disagree, it’s clear who the leader of the GOP is…because the Republicans keep on lining up to bow down to him and kiss his feet.
May 6th, 2009 at 2:35 pmI wouldn’t call that a problem, I’d call it progress.
May 6th, 2009 at 2:38 pmthe Republican party has no clear leader and no clear direction.
Rush, and down.
May 6th, 2009 at 2:38 pmThe American people have had a real education about “conservative principles” over the last 8 years. We learned how to start a war, we did need to fight. We learned about foresaking responsibility in about a million ways. We learned about fearmongering. We learned about lies. We learned about violation of the constitution. We learned about political prosecutions. We learned about what happens when you put a smirking frat boy in charge that couldn’t get a job managing a car wash if it wasn’t for his Daddy. We also learned what happens when we elect a new leader and those same conservatives try to stop him from fixing the mess they left behind. We have learned all we need to know.
May 6th, 2009 at 2:40 pmThis makes sense to me now. I accidentally turned on Morning Joe (I refuse to watch Joe) and heard him ask if he could go back to the republicans a half hour earlier. He said I would like to tell the Republicans to stay off the stage until they get some ideas. He said they are only hurting themselves going on shows with no ideas to offer.
Joe is not as dumb as I thought he was…well most of the time his is.
May 6th, 2009 at 2:43 pmRush-bound and down, keep that party sucking
May 6th, 2009 at 2:45 pmThey gonna do what they say can’t be done
They got a long way to go, and a short time to get there
Cmon Rush Limbaugh, make your party ruuun
Cmon Rush Limbaugh, make your party ruuun
Rush got the gold mine, republicans got the shaft…
May 6th, 2009 at 2:52 pmRush and his magic nose rings are locked deeply into the flesh of the Christian Values GOP.
Its been said before but can be said again…
Is it any wonder they’re called SHEEP?
Rush. Keeping watch over his flock by night, by day, by any means possible. Rush is the new GOP religion.
What an amazing thing to watch.
May 6th, 2009 at 2:58 pmConservativeForProgress Says:
“Rush is not the leader of the Republican party”.
Do we have to wait until tomorrow for a retraction on that statement?
May 6th, 2009 at 3:04 pmLet’s Draft Rush for President. Can’t you see it….
Limbaugh and Palin in 2012! Wow awesome!
May 6th, 2009 at 3:05 pmListening to all this talk about listening, Rush Limbaugh became incensed. He said that instead of taking cues from the American public, Republicans should fan out and spread their dogma through a “teaching tour.”
Gee, WHY would they even THINK about actually listening to the American people? After all, they have nothing at all to do with this discussion; they’re only the voters who elect them!
I can’t believe lily-livered cowards like Cantor, Pence, et al, actually choose to take their marching orders from a drug-addled TALK SHOW HOST! The simple fact they they choose to do so, only shows us that they are in NO position to lead this country.
No SANE person wants a Government Of The Rush, For The Rush and By The Rush. NOBODY!
May 6th, 2009 at 3:08 pmNice catch Think Progress. I was hoping someone from “Moring Joke” would call him on it, but sadly no. Oh well, Cantor the Coward will get what he deserves. Palin will suck what little wind there is out of this group’s sails and it will become the “Sarah Palin for President 2012 Early Tour.”
May 6th, 2009 at 3:25 pmRUSH LIMBAUGH = THE PIED PIPER OF HAMLIN.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY = THE CHILDREN OF HAMLIN BEING LED INTO THE SEA.
KEEP TALKIN’ FATSO!!!!!!!!!!
May 6th, 2009 at 4:00 pmRush Limbaugh fired back at Colin Powell for his critical comments earlier this week, saying Wednesday that the former secretary of state should join the Democratic Party.
May 6th, 2009 at 4:01 pmOnce again, Amanda deserves a medal for listening to these guys, but she has produced a piece that for the umpteenth time shows how Unintentionally, Grossly Hilarious these Rushboot-lickers are. The party of UGH!
The Constant Weader at http://www.RealityChex.com
May 6th, 2009 at 4:04 pmI posted on this on my site:
http://blahgblog.wordpress.com/
May 6th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Eric Cantor is a guy I totally despise. I think the most descriptive word is prick. He reminds of a boss who knows nothing but takes all the credit and he reminds of Eddie Haskell on Leave it to Beaver.
Cantor is nothing but a whiny coward who not even stand up for what he believes.
May 6th, 2009 at 4:08 pmthe demos have to love this
rush in control of the repub party.
and to think all those americans lined up to vote for reagan economics
tax cuts anyone
how about free trade
lessons learned the hard way
but then that is how we humans learn most of our lessons
the hard way
the end result: bye bye middle class
hello have mores and have nots society in america.
oh the fruits of capitalism
the rich get richer and here comes the gated communities and children being kidnapped for money from the rich.
go to south america to see the future of america.
May 6th, 2009 at 4:21 pmConservative principles kill people and rob people of income at the workplace due to extreme cheap labor ideology.
Oh and the crash of the economy did not happen in hot potato format as Mitt Romney said. The Republiklan party for the last 29 years with their antiregulation and antiworker and antipoor people ideology built this house of cards which fell. The Republiklan party deserves most of theblame for the second greatest depression.
May 6th, 2009 at 4:26 pmwhen did limbaugh, hannity, beck, o’reilly and all their acolytes actually listen to someone who didn’t already agree with them one hundred percent in the first place.
some conservatives and republicans will actually listen to opposing or just different views and respond by engaging the other person and trying to persuade and even, on occasion, will even be open to being persuaded themselves. or at least open to not demonizing someone who doesn’t believe exactly as they do.
but so many seem not only unwilling but somehow fundamentally unable to hear and really listen to different perspectives. this is true of some on the left and in the middle as well of course. but it seems to be a trait particularly rampant on the right.
it’s like the conservative geniuses from the OSU study who actually think colbert is making fun of liberals and progressives…
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May 6th, 2009 at 5:13 pmCantor: “PLEASE back that big sweaty ‘ole zit covered ass up so I can give it a great BIG smooch, Rush (Ocy) LimpBalls!”
Rush: “TeaBag my sh*t Jew boy.”
Cantor: “Ja, mein Führer!”
May 6th, 2009 at 5:53 pmEvery time an elected official in the GOP discusses the irrelevance of Rush “to judgement” Limbaugh, it plays like a well-known movie:
Welcome to Groundhog Day.
May 6th, 2009 at 7:44 pmTo Hoodathunktick,
A parallel example still exists in North Korea, where everyone must pledge allegiance (and even willingness to starve) to their “Dear Leader.”
Hoodathunktick Says:
May 6th, 2009 at 10:34 pmGee, Rush, the last time I heard that a party needed to ‘teach’ its members (and society) how to think was in Moscow in the 50’s. One party, one line, follow or else.
RIP GOP! Good riddance…
May 7th, 2009 at 2:03 amWhat? I can’t hear ya! I’ve got a Rush Limbaugh in my ear!
May 7th, 2009 at 10:43 amGuess it wasn’t a joke. GOP does stand for Grand Old Poligizers.
May 7th, 2009 at 1:44 pmWow! What a party. They let a radio talk show host bully them into irrelevance. Why don’t they declare Rush the Emperor and they can tithe him as I don’t think $400 million is enough for his ego. Maybe they can bathe his feet in oxygenated water and anoint his little toes with oil of Olay.
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