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dmbfan
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 Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 5:29 pm Post subject: Limbaugh Responds to Obama [Byron York] |
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| According to an account in the New York Post, President Barack Obama yesterday told Republican leaders, "You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done." With George W. Bush now off the stage, it may be that Obama and some of his fellow Democrats view Limbaugh, and not John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, or any other elected official, as the true leader of the Republican opposition. This morning I asked Rush for his thoughts on all this, and here is his response: |
There are two things going on here. One prong of the Great Unifier's plan is to isolate elected Republicans from their voters and supporters by making the argument about me and not about his plan. He is hoping that these Republicans will also publicly denounce me and thus marginalize me. And who knows? Are ideological and philosophical ties enough to keep the GOP loyal to their voters? Meanwhile, the effort to foist all blame for this mess on the private sector continues unabated when most of the blame for this current debacle can be laid at the feet of the Congress and a couple of former presidents. And there is a strategic reason for this.
Secondly, here is a combo quote from the meeting:
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| "If we don't get this done we (the Democrats) could lose seats and I could lose re-election. But we can't let people like Rush Limbaugh stall this. That's how things don't get done in this town." |
To make the argument about me instead of his plan makes sense from his perspective. Obama's plan would buy votes for the Democrat Party, in the same way FDR's New Deal established majority power for 50 years of Democrat rule, and it would also simultaneously seriously damage any hope of future tax cuts. It would allow a majority of American voters to guarantee no taxes for themselves going forward. It would burden the private sector and put the public sector in permanent and firm control of the economy. Put simply, I believe his stimulus is aimed at re-establishing "eternal" power for the Democrat Party rather than stimulating the economy because anyone with a brain knows this is NOT how you stimulate the economy. If I can be made to serve as a distraction, then there is that much less time debating the merits of this TRILLION dollar debacle.
Obama was angry that Merrill Lynch used $1.2 million of TARP money to remodel an executive suite. Excuse me, but didn't Merrill have to hire a decorator and contractor? Didn't they have to buy the new furnishings? What's the difference in that and Merrill loaning that money to a decorator, contractor and goods supplier to remodel Warren Buffet's office? Either way, stimulus in the private sector occurs. Are we really at the point where the bad PR of Merrill getting a redecorated office in the process is reason to smear them? How much money will the Obamas spend redecorating the White House residence? Whose money will be spent? I have no problem with the Obamas redoing the place. It is tradition. 600 private jets flown by rich Democrats flew into the Inauguration. That's fine but the auto execs using theirs is a crime? In both instances, the people on those jets arrived in Washington wanting something from Washington, not just good will.
If I can be made to serve as a distraction, then there is that much less time debating the merits of the trillion dollar debacle.
One more thing, Byron. Your publication and website have documented Obama's ties to the teachings of Saul Alinksy while he was community organizing in Chicago. Here is Rule 13 of Alinksy's Rules for Radicals:
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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Franken had it right. Limbaugh is a big, fat idiot.
As Olbermann on Countdown and Jon Stewart on The Daily Show have also noted, he constantly makes reference to "bending down and grabbing his ankles".
I don't wish death on anyone, but the sooner he chokes on one of his pork sandwiches, the better. |
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dmbfan
Joined: 09 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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Franken had it right. Limbaugh is a big, fat idiot.
As Olbermann on Countdown and Jon Stewart on The Daily Show have also noted, he constantly makes reference to "bending down and grabbing his ankles".
I don't wish death on anyone, but the sooner he chokes on one of his pork sandwiches, the better. |
LOL!
Ah yes, more insults rather then discussing the points made in the article.
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 12:46 am Post subject: |
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| and it would also simultaneously seriously damage any hope of future tax cuts. It would allow a majority of American voters to guarantee no taxes for themselves going forward. |
Was there maybe a bad editing job or something? Those two consecutive sentences don't make sense to me. |
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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| Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 7:20 am Post subject: |
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| and it would also simultaneously seriously damage any hope of future tax cuts. It would allow a majority of American voters to guarantee no taxes for themselves going forward. |
Was there maybe a bad editing job or something? Those two consecutive sentences don't make sense to me. |
The two sentences make perfect sense, whether or not they are true, and no matter what side you take regarding the policy indicated.
Rush believes that Obama's plan will make it possible for 50% of American income earners (presumably low income earners plus politically connected Democrats) to avoid paying any income tax and, as a consequence, prevent some unspecified higher income group from ever getting any tax cuts. |
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