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"Socialism is great until you run out of someone elses money" Margaret Thatcher
"Troika / Footstool of Liberalism...Corruption, Nationalization & Propaganda" Rush Limbaugh
“Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P.J.O’Rourke
Posted on 01/24/2009 1:06:04 PM PST by JRochelle
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:
"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:
"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."
GOOD POST!
Bump!
The RNC should make it mandatory for all elected Republicans to wear an EIB lapel pin so we can tell who the traitors are.
Post #5....I got Aretha on the brain and it’s your fault :)
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No real substance in Obama’s claims that the GOP shouldn’t listen to Limbaugh. Just bumper sticker partisan rhetoric. Limbaugh’s response however contained actual substance ie. the democrat power grab disguised as a trillion dollar ‘stimulus’ bill. Excellent response Rush!
Aided by the backdoor deal offered to the turncoat Mccain.
Go Rush! The last man standing. And yes, you’re right. Bambi is afraid of Rush.
... Obama is in the process of playing Limbaugh for a ‘gag man’ to his Marxist initiatives, as a way to create deeper division in the nation to be exploited by the Rhambo style of politics. Limbaugh will serve Obammy’s purpose quite nicely since Rush is clueless to his own egomania. Within a year, Obamam will have Rush Limabugh on a nose ring to be yanked whenever Obammy needs a distraction.
But watch what happens. As Rush said, there will be some Republicans who are going to denounce Rush and cooperate with Obama in the spirit of bipartisanship. We can't let this happen.
Wonderful analysis by Rush. Thanks for posting, JR.
But, I thought Obama said it wasn't about him, it was about us. Did he not really mean that?
I just sent this message to my senator. I suggest you do the same.
“Obama’s recent attack on Rush Limbaugh is nothing more than an abuse of an elected official’s power to limit a private citizen’s free speech. I hope you do not listen to the anointed one. I would be very please if you obtained and wore an EIB lapel pin to show your support for free speech and to allow voters to know you are not a traitor to the people who elected you.”
Yeah, that tactic worked out real well for the impeached one.
The fact that Zero even brought up Rush’s name shows how stupid he is.
Exactly. Obama is a thinned skinned wimp worried more about his faux image than doing the job the brain dead idiots elected him to do.
I think Rush won this fight.
I can’t wait till Monday to hear what he really thinks.:)
If Obama is serious about marginalizing Limbaugh, he has at his disposal, sympathizers within the FBI, CIA, Homeland Security, eventually the Justice Dept., to set up Limbaugh in some legal strangle, black mail, or simply eliminate him...I hope Rush has the courage to see this and continue to ridicule Obama....I hope he has paid all of his taxes...
Creating division? Heck, Rush is not creating it; everybody knows it’s there, and that’s why Obama is trying to crush Rush, because Rush is the only prominent conservative left on our side of the division.
Obama is dumb as the day is long, and his irritability and fragile mental state will probably get him into trouble before long. But that still doesn’t get at the people behind him - Axelrod, Ayers and Rahm - unless he has a complete breakdown and has to be carried out of the WH tied to a stretcher. But I think they’ll give him drugs before he gets that far.
However, the good thing about Rush is that he’s actually smart and informed. He knows who these people are, he has read Alinsky, and he is going to be standing for a long time, unless they silence him.
Bambi and the people behind him know how dangerous Rush is. They couldn’t buy him with a dinner and a pat on the back, as they did with the rest of the “conservative press,” so watch for the pressure tactics to start. Well, maybe they already have.
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