The obligatory “Rush challenges Obama to a debate” post
posted at 5:15 pm on March 4, 2009 by Allahpundit
The transcript of this afternoon’s stemwinder is up at his site. Will Gibbs take the bait tomorrow, “counterproductive” though it may be? I’m guessing no, but hope for easy content springs eternal.
A choice passage:
But make no mistake about it. Emanuel is the leader of all of this. Carville and Begala are just trying to ride my fame into their fortune and become relevant again. Begala and Carville, don’t confuse them with the power brokers that are managing this. It all Emanuel. Begala and Carville are second-rate talking heads on CNN. CNN has no audience. Rahm Emanuel is the power behind the throne — and don’t let his effeminate nature and his ballerina past mislead you on this. He may look effeminate (he was a ballerina at one time) but he has the feral instincts of a female rat defending its young. Well, take a look. When Emanuel and Carville and Begala are together (and I’ve seen pictures) it looks like a reunion of the Village People. (singing) Y! M! C! A!
And the big finish:
Rahm Emanuel is leading the team going after a private citizen, and the Drive-By Media applaud, get on board and help further the mission. We live in different times. So if you can wipe me out — and, by the way, Mr. President, and Mr. Emanuel: Don’t make the mistake of assuming I’m wiping myself out here in the process. I want to thank you guys for elevating me beyond the stature I already earned and achieved, because now more and more Americans have the opportunity to learn who you really are, what your ideas will really accomplish, and what damage and harm I think your policies will bring for a very, very long time to them and to this country. So I want to thank you for the opportunity. Obviously, it’s a threat targeting me. I’ve extended the invitation. I’m looking forward to hearing back from whoever in your cabal one way or the other on accepting my offer.
RCP has audio if you’d rather listen. Exit question: I’ve been arguing about this all day with commenters and still haven’t gotten a good answer. Why the fixation on Rush as a “private citizen”? The idea, I take it, is that Obama’s bringing the enormous power of the presidency to bear on a poor, defenseless Joe Public, but Limbaugh’s anything but defenseless (as today’s debate challenge proves) and considerably more powerful, I think we’d all agree, than the average congressman who would be considered fair game as a public official. If the White House had picked him out of a phone book or was rooting around in his trash, that’d be an egregious breach of privacy, but he’s one of the most powerful people in American media, with a following in the millions, and they haven’t done anything untoward (yet?). In fact, strictly speaking, they’re not “going after” him at all. They’re going after the GOP, to tar them by association with Rush and they’re willing to inflate his influence to do so. It’s Republicans who are suffering from having to thread the needle between defending Limbaugh and rejecting the “I want him to fail” rhetoric. What harm has Rush suffered? His stature’s never been greater, as he himself acknowledges right here.
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MaverickMuse, go easy on the mixed metaphors. Simple declarative sentences work better.
OhioCoastie on March 4, 2009 at 6:34 PM
Bush got hammered for 8 years straight by any number of private citizens. I don’t remember him or anybody else in his administration trying to depict any one of them as something they weren’t.
And just because Limbaugh can defend himself against an attack doesn’t mean it’s not an attack.
Jim Treacher on March 4, 2009 at 6:38 PM
We will do a side by side match then. Rush can take care of the Louse from the White House and I will take care of the Little Rat. I should be able to finish my part in plenty of time to see Rush’s part of the show.
FeralCat on March 4, 2009 at 6:41 PM
You are indeed correct AP. The Republicans are suffering because they are trying to “thread the needle” which is simply another way of saying “ride the fence.”
The GOP won’t have to worry about riding the fence if they get down off of it and choose a side. They can either defend Obama and attack Rush (a stupid idea if they want to remain a party instead of being eaten by the Dems) or they can defend Rush and take the fight to Obama. When they lead the fight Rush becomes a follower and the voice. Obama will be forced to fight the GOP and Rush will be forgotten once more.
I say keep it up Rush. Push hard! The GOP will either grow a spine or die. Either way, it’s better for the conservative movement than going with whatever populist tide is in.
Pattosensei on March 4, 2009 at 6:48 PM
This is a simple underestimation of Rush’s audience….another immature and premature move by obama’s team of “experts”. I had never listened to him b/c of my job and hours, but now have the opportunity and tune in every day and find Rush to be very forthright and truthful. But that’s just it; libs hate truth – they want to lay blame & receive praise. Brain disease.
Ris4victory on March 4, 2009 at 6:50 PM
MB4 on March 4, 2009 at 6:50 PM
The thing is, Democrats don’t agonize over such things. It’s straight feral-rat-mother for them. Maybe it’s time to do likewise.
ddrintn on March 4, 2009 at 6:52 PM
The democrats said that Rush is the republican leader. It is normal a minority leader to debate with the President.Great move, mr.Limbaugh
Streecar on March 4, 2009 at 6:53 PM
Many of the replies to Allah’s question have nailed the point.
I will add this: is it any wonder that a president who spends his time picking fights with a Santelli or a Limbaugh has gotten his ass handed to him in every single diplomatic effort since taking office? Putin et al. must be rolling over laughing at such a pathetic spectacle.
One other problem is that the singling out of critics makes it seem like there are only a handful of them out there. I mean, it’s not like Santelli or Limbaugh or Joe the Plumber have conveyed anything that millions of Americans just like them have not expressed. Will Secretary Gibbs have an opportunity to spit on my concerns, as well?
cackcon on March 4, 2009 at 6:54 PM
why should they reject that? If Obama fails that does not mean the country fails in fact quite the opposite. Understanding the meaning of the “I want him to fail” is the key here. Obama failing means his policies do not obtain what he claims they will obtain. Obviously we all know that his policies are going to fail miserably in the regards in which he has pitched them.
But to agree with Rush Limbaugh’s statement is only acknowledging what we all already know. We all want Obama to fail because by him failing American is spared the horrible fate of socialist nanny government controlling your lives.
There is no need to be ashamed of this we should not put on the facade of the democrats and say that “we support the troops but not the war.” It was a fallacy then as it is now. We don’t support Obama or his liberal policies because they are the same and they both are wrong for America. They will destroy this country and its foundation to attempt to drive the socialist stake through our heart as in Europe.
I don’t wish to be a Zombie nation taking orders from Big Brother so I want Obama to fail. And Fail he must.
theguardianii on March 4, 2009 at 6:59 PM
RUSH IS CONSERVATISM!!
now that WFB is gone, Rush is the leader of the conservative movement.
ps: I always felt sorry for Bela Lugosi…
right4life on March 4, 2009 at 6:59 PM
Exactly.
Why is the government, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, attacking a private citizen because of something that was said that the Administration just simply doesn’t like? Opens a path I don’t think liberals really want to try and justify in the event they lose power.
theguardianii on March 4, 2009 at 7:01 PM
ACORN and a gamed Census may well try to prevent that from ever happening…
sven10077 on March 4, 2009 at 7:03 PM
Allah……
……… you answered you’re own question.
Seven Percent Solution on March 4, 2009 at 7:10 PM
Totally explains B Hussein 0′s meterosexual look and his lovely shade of lipstick.
OmahaConservative on March 4, 2009 at 7:11 PM
Allah, please invest in a thesaurus–your use of “obligatory” is getting old.
Special K on March 4, 2009 at 7:12 PM
If I were to construct a President I would furnish him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the present one lacks. He would not stoop to ask for any man’s compliments, praises, flatteries; and he would be far above exacting them. I would have him as self-respecting as the better sort of man in these regards.
He would not be a merchant, a trader. He would not buy these things. He would not sell, or offer to sell, material benefits for the product called adulation. I would have him as dignified as the better sort of man in this regard.
He would value no respect but the respect born of his doing well by the Nation; not that born of payoffs contracted for. No fawning adulation would be required or desired or expected of another man.
In his White House there would be no enemies list.
He would not be a jealous President — a trait so small that even ordinary men despise it in each other.
He would not boast.
He would keep private his admirations of himself; He would regard self-praise as unbecoming the dignity of his position.
He would not have the spirit of vengeance in his heart. Then it would not issue from his lips.
He would spend some of the remainder of his presidency in trying to forgive himself for making the country worse off when he could have made the country better off with the same effort and he would spend the rest of his life after his presidency living with his half brother and working as a Peace Corp volunteer in Kenya.
MB4 on March 4, 2009 at 7:13 PM
Obama seems to have a thing for attacking Joes of various types. Very sloppy of him.
unclesmrgol on March 4, 2009 at 7:13 PM
The President is busy but Carville might take him up on the offer.
getalife on March 4, 2009 at 7:13 PM
When Obama fails, the U.S.A. wins.
’nuff said.
DrStock on March 4, 2009 at 7:14 PM
Point well received…I need a drink.
theguardianii on March 4, 2009 at 7:15 PM
Wow. Where were you during the Shamesty debates in the summer of 2007? I distinctly remember Bush and others claiming the opposers of the bill to be ‘bigots and racists’.
True, Bush was not calling a specific individual those names, but it was rather shocking behavior from the administration nonetheless.
Timothy S. Carlson on March 4, 2009 at 7:18 PM
Turn up the thermostat and get you and the mrs. bloated on hundred buch a pound beef…..
try to empathize with the guy….or smile and understand the New Texas Republic will likely not care what his numbers were….
*wink*
sven10077 on March 4, 2009 at 7:20 PM
Dang, he is full of himself in those quotes.
Carville will debate him and get a taste of the fairness doctrine at the same time.
getalife on March 4, 2009 at 7:20 PM
Exactly!
I look at it this way – just because the guy is Precedent, it doesn’t mean that everything he does is correct, proper, and legal.
If I saw someone raping a woman, I would do whatever I could to stop them. Obama and his minions are busy raping this country, and I have an obligation to oppose his policies at every chance I get.
I, too, hope he fails – in order to save the USA.
Timothy S. Carlson on March 4, 2009 at 7:26 PM
Rush Limbaugh: Alpha Male
Allahpundit: Beta Male
It all makes sense.
carbon_footprint on March 4, 2009 at 7:27 PM
Jimmy C….no he’ll warble in his crap cajun’ accent and speak in platitudes….I’ve seen Jimmy C cornered in person.
sven10077 on March 4, 2009 at 7:28 PM
I don’t think so; Sean Hannity kicked Carville in a debate and Rush is better than Hannity.
carbon_footprint on March 4, 2009 at 7:29 PM
There is not a reason in this world that Republicans need to reject Rush’s “I want him to fail” rhetoric. If asked they should just say “There is no need to hope Obama’s plans fail, they have already failed, they are nothing but a big failure”. “The stock market has lost 18% since Obama announced his big government spending plans, the unemployment rate is higher now than at any time in the last 10 years”. “You cannot spend yourself into wealth and success. The government doesn’t create wealth and can not bring about economic recovery with tax and spend policies”. There really is nothing more to say about it.
Dollayo on March 4, 2009 at 7:41 PM
The baker in the village claims he saw Allahpundit just last week
Galloping his stallion across Central Park
All the ladies an audience with him they did seek
But to that scalawag it was just another lark
PercyB on March 4, 2009 at 7:41 PM
Rush needs to think outside the Box. Pay Per View, on all Satellite and Cable with proceeds going to the poor / the deficit / the needy. I’ll put in $100 while I worry about my job being sucked away. How about you? Rush are you listening?
seesalrun on March 4, 2009 at 7:44 PM
Hey, Rush can run for President on the Republican ticket, easily clean the clocks of his GOP rivals and then debate Obama.
starfleet_dude on March 4, 2009 at 7:48 PM
what the candidates do is hardly “debate” it is a gamed q+a….with non-partisans like Ifill “moderating”….
sven10077 on March 4, 2009 at 7:49 PM
Uh, the President singled him out, telling Congressmen not to listen to him? Ads are being run against him? There’s an ongoing effort to crush freedom of speech on the radio? Haven’t you being attention? :P
R. Waher on March 4, 2009 at 7:54 PM
I’d pay $100.00 on PPV to see this.
Geronimo on March 4, 2009 at 8:01 PM
I think it’s almost necessary – as the fight was picked, the contenders are in their corners, let’s see who comes out fighting. The WH put themselves in a corner, obviously to distract the unknowing public into a cat fight to divert from their agenda, I say I’ll pay if you’ll play. Won’t happen, but I’ll dream of it tonight. God Save the USA.
seesalrun on March 4, 2009 at 8:05 PM
why should Rush debate a has-been wanna-be like Carville?
Rush would make your savior look like the moron con-man he is….it would be too funny!!
poor old Rush, doesn’t have a degree, would outdo a harvard-educated twit…
now thats change you can believe in, sucka..can you dig it??
right4life on March 4, 2009 at 8:08 PM
Thinking a 2nd round KO with flustery feathers (Emanuel reference) falling from the ceiling and fawning (MSM) after the poor man child is pummeled without mercy then miraculously raised from the dead for the World to see. Sorry. Fantasizing, but with a rational ending. Not my choice one.
seesalrun on March 4, 2009 at 8:12 PM
Limbaugh would definitely mop the floor with Obama. It will never happen; and even if it did, it would have to be with someone like Chris Matthews as moderator and all sorts of ground rules.
ddrintn on March 4, 2009 at 8:16 PM
I love Rush doing this…..no President should be engaging a radio talk show host, but this President Affirmative Action is a complete Chicago disgrace.
ex-Democrat on March 4, 2009 at 8:21 PM
None has the balls to debate Rush
Viper1 on March 4, 2009 at 8:21 PM
In related news, Rush challenged Tiger Woods to a golf match. Tiger’s response was pretty much the same as President Obama’s.
benny shakar on March 4, 2009 at 8:23 PM
What? Tiger said “no way, I’m a punk”?
Hog Wild on March 4, 2009 at 8:32 PM
I hope Obama fails.
rob verdi on March 4, 2009 at 8:32 PM
Methinks thou doest protest too much. ;-)
First, Oslime-a has the power to change the lives of millions without their approval. Rush can only change the lives of those who CHOOSE to change.
Point two: A congressman is elected by the people to represent their wishes. In that sense, Oslime-a has the same mandate. Ergo equal in responsibility to the public. Oslime-a doesn’t get to CHOOSE which US citizens he represents. He is bound by the constitution to represent ALL Americans. Americans do not want or expect a president to single one out a private citizen for attacks. Attacks carried around the F**KING world by a willing media. Oslime-a is a classless sack of human shit.
Finally, even when these Marxists are caught in the act of attacking a private citizen, conservatives just wave it off. What kind of scum attacks a private citizen? A Marxist scum, that’s who. And if they are allowed to attack Rush unchallenged, who is next? You Allah?
Conservatives would do themselves a favor to remember that the thief doesn’t steal your whole bologna off the table. He just borrows a thin slice over time. Pretty soon, your bologna is gone.
csdeven on March 4, 2009 at 8:46 PM
What really bothers me is not Rush, who certainly can take care of himself, and will probably make them regret starting the whole thing before it’s done.
I’m more concerned about former Bush administration officials who are about to be targeted by a Truth Commission now that they are no longer part of the president’s administration, and can’t be protected.
Obama is already crowding out the competition for Worst President Ever. Just wait. It’s going to get worse.
tom on March 4, 2009 at 8:49 PM
Being singled out publicly would be cause enough for concern; the so-called “Fairness” Doctrine is a very great additional one. The circumstance of the impending return of left-liberal interference in the choices of radio programming managers suggests his being singled out by a Presidential administration is preparatory to that. I don’t understand why you would expect Limbaugh to wait for the likes of Obama and Emanuel to succeed in actually harming him or his effectiveness.
You seem to be thinking as a mere lawyer, rather than thinking strategically, but I resist thinking you’re that obtuse. And the suspicion also comes to me that you’re starting arguments to generate clicks and page-views, but I resist thinking you’re so petty and have no better means.
Kralizec on March 4, 2009 at 8:49 PM
Every “hero” needs an enemy. The Democrats have chosen Rush Limbaugh. What Rush should do is create examples of conservative policies and show how they work better than the government. Everyone will be watching.
WisCon on March 4, 2009 at 8:50 PM
Exactly. AP frets over what the Limbaugh/Marxists-in-Power kerfuffle does the equivocating Republicans, without questioning for one minute why we should care if a bunch of DC elites are having trouble pretending to be conservatives today.
TMK on March 4, 2009 at 8:54 PM
Jimmy Carter must be feeling like a godd*mn hero right not!
DrStock on March 4, 2009 at 8:56 PM
Take what the Dems did that works and turn it against them. Times two.
Or as Patton would put it;
Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more
The Obamunists are oh so eager to have people compare Obama to a past president – let make sure the one in question is Hoover.
18-1 on March 4, 2009 at 9:01 PM
FIFY.
TMK on March 4, 2009 at 9:02 PM
That’s not a problem. It’s an opportunity. An opportunity to call out the questioner for trying to say that the president IS the country. The president is an elected official, not an absolute monarch like the French king who said, “L’etat, cest moi.” Obama can fail while the country succeeds, and vice versa. If Obama’s policies are bad enough, then the country can only succeed if Obama’s policies fail.
But most of all, it’s an opportunity to talk about which policies of the president are harmful.
tom on March 4, 2009 at 9:03 PM
Rush vs Tiger Woods on the golf course? Tiger would clean Rush’s clock. Rush vs Obama in a debate on ideas? Your guy would look like about 3 inches of cigarette ash.
ddrintn on March 4, 2009 at 9:07 PM
First, of all that’s not what Rush said, as has been pointed out numerous times.
Second, Larry King already tried to pin Jindal down and Jindal neatly sidestepped him. There was a thread on it earlier this week:
INC on March 4, 2009 at 9:08 PM
As Ed commented on the King-Jindal exchange:
INC on March 4, 2009 at 9:09 PM
I for one am surely glad that the only visible opposition to Obama will be from a fat insane megalomaniac.
- Tonight’s news. Obama’s proposing a new plan. Rush (close up) is against it. Again. Also, he said he deserved his personal jet, while the President should be ashamed of using Air Force One. We report. You decide.
radiofreevillage on March 4, 2009 at 9:19 PM
Why is it wrong to hope the President fails? My well-being doesn’t necessarily depend on the success of Dear Leader. Quite the opposite, in fact.
ddrintn on March 4, 2009 at 9:22 PM
When did Ted Kennedy get out of the hospital?
18-1 on March 4, 2009 at 9:23 PM
This evening Comrade O’bama is dining on a fine meal of roast duck, arugula, and 600 a bottle chardonnay….
his approval is at 165% and the proles are thrilled with their soy rations….
CBS News, goodnight….
sven10077 on March 4, 2009 at 9:24 PM
listen to the fat piece of trash calling rush names…oh and you’ll NEVER be as rich as rush…loser.
right4life on March 4, 2009 at 9:27 PM
That “fat, insane megalomaniac” also has quite an army of listeners…enough to attract the attention of our faux Savior. And of you.
ddrintn on March 4, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Except this is not true. And that Rush thinks God envies him is a factually accurate statement.
McCain has been doing what needs to be done, which is to highlight and ridicule pork. As HotAir has reported, even Matthews is onboard. Why doesn’t this stupid fat pig shut up and let Senators do their job? Who needs this circus?
radiofreevillage on March 4, 2009 at 9:28 PM
I listened to him once for 10 minutes. Too much ego, too shallow. I listen to right wing talk radio every morning and night when I’m in my car, but never Rush. So no, he doesn’t have my attention at all.
radiofreevillage on March 4, 2009 at 9:30 PM
conservatives…
look dude McCain’s fetish on earmaks aside if Bambi were smart he’d have fallen on his sword reached out to the RiNOs by chainsawing the pet peeve and would have the GOP gang of five on board for nuking the 1st, 2d, 4th, and 5th amendments….
as it is I think having Limbaugh hold wobbly elephants to task is a good thing…
and Bambi fans, backers, and apologenzia may want to refrain from mocking people with alleged God complexes m’kay?
sven10077 on March 4, 2009 at 9:34 PM
He has your attention enough to post here. And why don’t you try refuting something Limbaugh has said, or do your analytical abilities stop with “fat, insane megalomaniac”?
ddrintn on March 4, 2009 at 9:37 PM
I listened to his speech for a minute or so. He said, we are conservatives, we don’t divide people into groups. I immediately remembered “the Heartland” and “the real America” and turned it off. Stupid, fat propagandist on drugs who lies. I know he’s got adoring fans. So does Jenna Jameson.
radiofreevillage on March 4, 2009 at 9:43 PM
LOL. Hilarious (in ways your don’t realize…which makes it even funnier).
ddrintn on March 4, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Answer to the exit question:
All questions referring to this issue should be directed to Samuel Joseph Wurtzelbacher, aka Joe T. Plumber.
Sakaki on March 4, 2009 at 9:45 PM
Which, being the point, means that maybe your “Wow” is misplaced.
I don’t remember Bush saying that, but otherwise it sounds like you know what you’re talking about.
Jim Treacher on March 4, 2009 at 9:50 PM
Your right-handed fantasy?
OmahaConservative on March 4, 2009 at 9:55 PM
If your getting angry while listening to Rush.
You doing it wrong.
I was laughing my butt off every time I got the chance to tune in today, The Obama administration and they’re minions are toast and they only have Pres. Obama to blame.
Life is good!
Speakup on March 4, 2009 at 10:24 PM
1. No, I don’t like her.
2. There’s nothing wrong with masturbation if you’re a healthy male or (typically to a lesser extent) female.
radiofreevillage on March 4, 2009 at 10:37 PM
When someone misreads Rush’s obvious irony as being serious to the degree you do, calling you anything less than a supermoron would be a grave injustice.
Your terrible sense of humor is as laughable as when Hillarity told us about her corkscrew landings. Get some common sense, and for the public’s sake, shut up until you do.
Bizarro No. 1 on March 4, 2009 at 10:59 PM
I want to add that if you are merely playing the role of an typically bad-humored, utterly clueless, Rush-hating Leftie, I commend you for job a well done!!! :)
Bizarro No. 1 on March 4, 2009 at 11:05 PM
This statement is proof that liberals are psychologically damaged. They are only capable of gobbling up the little balls of shit that roll out of Oslime-a’s mouth.
csdeven on March 4, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Rush said that the one weakness in Alinsky is what to do when you won. Alinsky tells you how to get there but not what to do when you’re there. Hence, all team Obama knows is Alinsky tactics.
Rush also performed the most beautiful judo move ever in politics. He challenged them to do something they will never agree to using their Fairness arguments. He can heap scorn on them forever, calling them cowards every day in creative ways.
When all this crap the Marxists are doing falls apart, we will hear the loudest I-told-you-so in history. Thanks to team Obama many, many more people will hear the told-part of the I-told-you-so.
casel21 on March 4, 2009 at 11:17 PM
Where’s the obligatory picture of Emanuel in his ballet leotard?
caygeon on March 4, 2009 at 11:57 PM
After a 17 year hiatus from being a Limbaugh listener, I think I’m going to become one of Limbaugh’s fans. This is great stuff. I wish we had some elected leaders that were were willing to confront “The 0ne” like this.
Rush, Levin and our gracious hostess Michelle seem to be about the only people with a national audience that have the ‘malkins’ to take the fight to the enemy and really get in his face. For that, they have my admiration and appreciation
LegendHasIt on March 5, 2009 at 12:03 AM
:lol Go Rush…..he is taking the offensives armed
with Conservative values and the truth…..
God has made Rush for these times….to wake up the US
back to sanity.
dec5 on March 5, 2009 at 1:52 AM
I just love how lefties admit to never listening to Rush and them proceed to tell us what is wrong with him. They are just happy as a dog with two peters to admit their ignorance before giving their opinion on a subject. It’s clear they hate him because they are told to by the media. It’s utter partisan hackery.
It’s kinda like hearing someone say “I’ve never seen and episode of Star Trek but here is why it’s a terrible show…” Thanks for making your opinion irrelevant.
Ampersand on March 5, 2009 at 2:42 AM
And Obama actually really truly believes he is from Krypton and was sent here to save the planet earth……
Ampersand on March 5, 2009 at 2:46 AM
With regards to Rush, what the Democrats call abrasive, Rush calls passionate. What critics call arrogance, Rush calls self-confidence. What the media calls controversy Rush calls conviction.
technopeasant on March 5, 2009 at 3:07 AM
Assuming Rush would say something like that about Obama flying Air Force One, he would be justified in that he never blamed climate change on man made CO2, and would be paying for his jet out of his own money.
.
If he gets to debate Obama I hope he didn’t promises to tie half his brain behind his back. He wouldn’t need it of course, but i want blood on the walls.
darktood on March 5, 2009 at 4:16 AM
Amazing! lefties can make “factually accurate statements” about what someone else is thinking.
What has happened to the troll quality around here lately? Is a new supper-duper conservative site commanding the attention of the best trolls or the public school system has deteriorated that much faster since Obama took over?
neuquenguy on March 5, 2009 at 8:49 AM
Rush is, as usual, DEAD ON CORRECT! He has called out The Messiah, he has called to bullies bluff… The White House has watermellon all over it’s face… The One singled out a private citizen, told folks to ignore him… The private citizen answered with FACTS, proof of the danger of Socilist, the far left radical cloak was removed and The King was found to be wearing no clothes. A tyrinical ego driven Leader, a radical, a man destine to be a disaster for freedoms, The Constitution and our personal rights. Rush pinned him to the mat by his huge ears and beat him with the “might of right”. Now it’s time for us real Conservatives to stand with Rush. It’s time to RUMBLE!
Let’s have the RNC Chair say the following and have it echo’d over and over and over and over by every single talking head that Conservatives have… Pound the following into the American peoples minds, have them saying it to their friends… Pound it, pound it and pound it again:
Do we want Obama’s cap and trade that will cost the average homeowner and business MILLIONS in higher energy costs, electric bills, gas bills, and gasoline prices to suceed?
NO! Conservatives want it to FAIL! We want to protect the American people from huge burdens to the family budget.
Do we want to stand in lines, have third world Health Care provided by The Messiah and his thugs, rationed care for our elderly, loss of choice of our own personal Doctors as is proposed… Do we want this Socilist Health Care to suceed?
No! Conservatives want it to FAIL! We want the American people to have freedom of choice of Doctors, personal responsibility for our health choices and affordable coverage that people control, not big Government.
**** Do you guys see how affective this can be? Take every single point that The One is currently proposing and ramming down our throats… Go line by line and simply ASK Americans if this is what they voted for, if this is the Hope-n-Change they expected… We take the fight to them, on their own agenda… This WOULD BE a huge campaign, radio, TV, every single pundit and every Conservative guest on TV would hammer the “facts”, not talking points…
Let’s get a list going and send it to the RNC and our Congressmen… Let’s give them the ammo that is already stockpiled to the rafters… Let’s stand with Rush and America.
Mark Garnett on March 5, 2009 at 8:50 AM
Prayin’ for just that every day.
ExTex on March 5, 2009 at 8:54 AM
From TIME mag:
ExTex on March 5, 2009 at 8:57 AM
There’s no needle there. It’s a broad open space, more like a platform…
hawksruleva on March 5, 2009 at 8:58 AM
Whats the harm? The harm is that the most powerful office in the world is giving the appearance of being intimidated by a media figure. Media figures are supposed to discuss what the White House does, not the other way around.
Its petty, its weak, its underhanded. All of which dminishes an office that America needs to lead, not follow. The fact that other talking heads are following suit on this one is a terrible precedent, what they ought to be talking about is thats an abuse of power for the Presidency to go after a public figure who isnt in an office, no matter how well connected they may be. Enemies list indeed, Gibbs isnt even being vague, hes just going after people.
Opportunity Costs on March 5, 2009 at 9:03 AM
If they don’t know what comes next, they’re morons. After Alinsky is Lenin. Or Marx.
“Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and mechanical products, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to the bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalized, and the State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.” Karl Marx, Das Kapital, 1867
hawksruleva on March 5, 2009 at 9:05 AM
Ok – I’m a little loopy because I tried to cram Atlas Shrugs into a one-night reading session. Anyone wonder what Francisco D’Anconia would think of Rush?
hawksruleva on March 5, 2009 at 9:07 AM
Rush represents the 1st Amendment, and our possible fate of losing it. He is a private citizen; his career and money shouldn’t matter. Obama and his lib trolls in congress (with the help of senators Snowjob and Collins, no doubt) seek to stifle free speech.
AP, if you or any of the house trolls on this blog think this is acceptable, then you should reconsider. Everyone’s free speech is at stake… they’re just coming for conservatives first.
ErinF on March 5, 2009 at 9:12 AM
He would have admired his ambition and would be both envious and admiring that he (Francisco) himself did not get the opportunity to build something from nothing with nothing but pure desire and talent, as Rush has done. This is how he felt about Hank Rearden.
True_King on March 5, 2009 at 9:25 AM
Obama’s not attacking Rush, he’s attacking Americans in this country who agree with Rush on anything.
This is an attack by an unqualified, corrupt and incompetent wanna be despot on his own people.
The sooner Obama-Mugabe gets thrown bodily out of the White House, the better for everyone.
NoDonkey on March 5, 2009 at 9:28 AM
I wish some Republican, when ask if he “wants Obama to fail”, would turn the question on the MSM fool and ask him the following; “Did you want George Bush to fail???” and it would all be over in that second…exposed for what it is..a racist, bigoted question.
I WANT OBAMA TO FAILNo bones about it, anything less ruins the country far worse than any depression….
colonelkurtz on March 5, 2009 at 9:38 AM
Clinton claimed to be the first Black president…I think uhbuhma is the first Black Clinton…exact same traits…just plays basketball…otherwise…no different
winston on March 5, 2009 at 9:45 AM
Amazing! lefties can make “factually accurate statements” about what someone else is thinking.
What has happened to the troll quality around here lately? Is a new supper-duper conservative site commanding the attention of the best trolls or the public school system has deteriorated that much faster since Obama took over?
neuquenguy on March 5, 2009 at 8:49 AM
LOL I’m trying to drink coffee here!
flytier on March 5, 2009 at 9:48 AM
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