This is the Alinsky Playbook again.
Posted on 01/30/2009 8:38:37 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
As President Barack Obama pulls out the stops to ensure economic stimulus passage, Democrats seek a wedge between the GOP and Rush Limbaugh, officials say. Obama and top aides are reportedly be using all the trappings of the office, from phone calls and cocktail parties to a politically mixed Super Bowl party to push the stimulus package as the issue moves to the Senate. The House passed a $819 billion stimulus package this week with no Republican support.
Meanwhile, liberal groups are taking out after Limbaugh, the influential talk show host, Politico reported.
One group, Americans United for Change, plans to begin airing radio ads in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Nevada, three states Obama won, asking GOP senators bluntly, "Will you side with Obama or Rush Limbaugh?"
In the ads, after playing Limbaugh's declaration that he hopes Obama "fails," the narrator states, "Every Republican voted with Limbaugh -- and against creating 4 million new American jobs.
"We can understand why an extreme partisan like Rush Limbaugh wants President Obama's Jobs program to fail -- but the members of Congress elected to represent the citizens in their districts? That's another matter."
The radio buy comes on the heels of an eight-state TV campaign by Americans United for Change and other liberal groups to rally stimulus support.
Liberals attacking Rush....whatever :-)
I agree. Plus, having a Three Minute Hate every day will hurt productivity.
They can’t. But they will take credit for others who do if at all possible.
It won’t be possible so there will be nothing to argue about.
How pathetic, gov attacks on a private citizen.
It Can’t and that is why tey want to silence Rush!
the big O is empty and the dims are beginning to see it
Reinstate the Draft?? Obama's Brown Shirt Police Force???
Question to liberals who find Limbaugh so dangerous: Where is Bin Laden?
It can’t. Even if it could, $204,750 per job ($819 billion divided by 4 million) is too expensive, especially when they’re either borrowing the money from abroad or printing new money to finance it.
The GOP has never learned that in today's "sound bite", "short attention span" society a charge doesn't have to be true, it only has to sound good. The dim wits will take it from there.
$800 billion is nuts!
“Someone explain to me how government can create four million jobs?”
By bailing out every business who wants it and buying stakes in banks and insurance companies. Boom, more government administration jobs created.
Is this a trick question?
“Will you side with Obama or Rush Limbaugh?”
“Every Republican voted with Limbaugh — and against creating 4 million new American jobs”
Since when did Rush become a Representative?
Another reason to hate the government and all the liberal pansies who rule and ruin our lives!
Your question back = "How many jobs did my grandchildren pay for today?"
Holy crap! These people are committing political suicide.
I may start listening to Rush again just to see how he responds to these guys. He’s turning them into Nixon before our very ears.
Democrats miss GWB punching bag ping!
Sounds like a pretty lame strategy (attacking Rush-bo) , You KNOW they miss GWB now! They have no cover! It’s about time!
Meanwhile Rush’s ratings are boosted, everyday the next two years is Christmas for him , and these lame attacks are Christmas and his birthday.
Lies by omission.
Democrats begin waiting for George W. Bush to fail (The Seattle Times jan 9, 2001 E.J. Dionne Jr.)
Among Democrats, there are two views as to how to pull this off now. The popular view is the one that looks to Bush making mistakes and, perhaps, to an economic downturn that will make swing voters long for the days of Democratic prosperity under Clinton.
Damned Stalinist tactics.
Open response to the socialist authors of this ad:
“For starters, the premise that this “stimulus package” will “create” 4 million new jobs is a lie.”
“The only thing that the pork in this Trillion Dollar barrell is designed to stimulate is votes from those dependent on the Government trough.”
“The only source of money the Government has is that which is stolen from those in the private sector, who otherwise WOULD create jobs.”
“This bill is designed to buy votes, NOT “create jobs!”
Hussein vs. Rush? Choose Rush every time.
And Nine Percent Nancy Pelosi calls herself "NON-PARTISAN".
Don't believe socialists. They lie every time.
They took the statement out of context. Of course they left out the part where he named specifically which ones he hoped would fail. Namely the government takeover of the auto industry among others. They left that out.
What’s worse, these Democrat groups that attack Rush are doing so by direct order of the White House. They aren’t doing this in a vacuum.
So you’ve got White House and Congressional Democrats trying to destroy a private citizen.
Then there’s the fact that they are lying about what Rush actually said. They are making a concentrated effort to commit a fraud on the U.S. Citizens.
It’s more of their propaganda.
Someone explain to me how one party can run ads with taxpayer money to intimidate members of the Senate?
"Rogers always had a low opinion of Congress and the federal government, but it was never lower than in the years 1930-1933. He thought that elected officials were out of touch with the country; their attempts at economy were ridiculous. Their only actions were to appropriate pork barrel projects that would keep their home districts safe for them. They would do nothing that might disturb the support which they counted upon from special interests."
"One of Rogers's Daily Telegrams pretended to be the diary of a United States Senate trying to raise two billion dollars that it had appropriated but didn't have as revenue. The "diary" caricatures the Senate's contradictory and shallow thinking:
Monday—Soak the rich.
Tuesday—Begin hearing from the rich.
Tuesday afternoon—Decide to give the rich a chance to get richer.
Wednesday—Tax Wall Street sales.
Thursday—Get word from Wall Street. "Lay off us or you will get no campaign contributions."
So Thursday afternoon—Decide "We was wrong about Wall Street."
Friday—Soak the little fellow.
Saturday morning—Find out there is no little fellow. He has been soaked until he is drowned.
Sunday—Meditate.
Next Week—Same procedure, only more talk and less results. ( Vol. 3, 163)
"But Congress was not much worse than the rest of the country. Most everyone had lost contact with reality during the Coolidge years: "cuckoo land," Rogers called it. People thought they could have anything they wanted by buying on time. "The thought of money changing hands was considered rather vulgar" (WA, Vol. 4, 75). Coolidge had recommended economy when he was president, but in 1931 he was writing newspaper articles advising people to spend more. Rogers replied that this advice was very uncharacteristic of Coolidge and that his success had come from doing the exact opposite. Rogers's advice was to save. "Since when did saving become a national calamity?" (D T, Vol. 2, 239).
"Spending without resources was what created the Depression, Rogers claimed. He advised: "Don't make the first payment on anything" (DT, Vol. 2, 189).
"The solution to the problems seemed simple to Rogers: it was to create more jobs. The big men who were giving speeches about better times coming would do more if they gave jobs instead of speeches. There were plenty of schemes for relief but few that promised work. "We will just about have to save ourselves accidentally. That's the way we stumbled on prosperity" (DT, Vol. 3, 67).
"Rogers was generally sympathetic with the presidents, but he took the gloves off during the last two years of Hoover's administration. Hoover's attempts to hit upon a solution by creating commissions tried Rogers's patience, and he became especially impatient with some of the appointees. "He [Hoover] picked every bank president and corporation head who have handled their own affairs so ably in the last year and a half that it is their stockholders that constitute the present needy" (DT, Vol. 3, 68).
Comment: EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN, except Rush has a bulls eye on the Golden EIB Microphone, the sniper is the current President, and the ammunition loaded is the the Un-Fairness Doctrine and the willing, sycophant, monaural media.
Look, if you’re going to shamelessly promote yourself, at least give us a working link. You are a failure as a self-promoter. LOL
This stimulus porkulus is directed at the workforce sector that has the lowest unemployment figures. The government union workforce has the lowest unemployment. Now this sector will be expanded while the private sector becomes its cash cow.
Liberals will attack any Conservative who is articulate and backs his/her statements with fact. Period!
Obama is supposedly outraged with Wall Street while he is attempting to spend the largest ammount of tax payer’s money in US History?
its mind bending.
This is the Alinsky Playbook again.
Why are they trying to force Republicans to pass this bill when the Democrats already have enough votes? RINO’s better ask themselves why the Dem’s insist on getting their vote, and what they are being used for.
Something like this perhaps: http://www.jstor.org/pss/2124816
Or this: http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Economy-of-Nazi-Germany
The Rats have gotten so used to W, a target that didn’t fight back for eight years, they have no idea what to do with Rush.
They are going to go down in flames, and end up rejuvinating the currently feckless GOP in the process, if they do not call this one off.
The government needs to stop listening to Rush. Listen to the people that listen to him and voice their opinions. I’m amazed at how many liberals listen to Rush. If they don’t like what he says, don’t listen.
Watch for this as talking points throughout the liberal media - Stephanopoulos, Couric, Matthews, Madow, Olbermann - all hyping Limbaugh as their favorite whipping boy. It’s the main liberal meme in the Obama talking points now. You can bet Carville, Begala, and Stephanopoulos have discussed this strategy with Obama in their conference calls. In fact, it goes back to Clinton strategy when Slick Willy was president. They played the Rush card before.
I'd be happy if someone even ASKED them this question.
Me too, especailly that part about if they do create those jobs why does it cost in excess of $290,000 in this bill to create each one?
Oppps that number is wrong but it is $200,000 + each.
People keep saying that this “stimulus” bill “won’t work”.
Of course it will “work” for what it is intended to do (which is different from their stated goals).
Liberal ideology is logically indefensible.
That’s why they refuse to engage logically; they attempt to silence anyone arguing logically.
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