I can't dance until the Fat Guy shuts up!
Posted on 03/01/2009 10:44:47 AM PST by FocusNexus
President Obama's chief of staff said conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh is the de facto leader of the Republican Party, and suggested that Limbaugh's desire for the president's policies to fail is the uniform position of the GOP.
Chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said Limbaugh is the "intellectual force" of the GOP and Republicans now have to live with that choice.
"He is the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party. And he has been up front about what he views, and hasn't stepped back from that, which is he hopes for failure. He said it. And I compliment him for his honesty, but that's their philosophy that is enunciated by Rush Limbaugh. And I think that's the wrong philosophy for America," Emanuel said on CBS' "Face the Nation."
On Saturday, Limbaugh gave an hour-and-a-half speech to cap off the three-day Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. Limbaugh said it's fine for Republicans to criticize Obama's plans and Republicans must return to their core philosophies.
He added that Obama's plan won't restore prosperity and that's why he wants it to fail.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
That says it all doesn’t it?!
Rush Limbaugh is a private citizen and “just” a talk show host. Why does he have these knuckleheads shaking in their boots? Because he is right and he has the power to get the right message out to millions of people. Too bad Limbaugh wasn’t willing to take the pay cut and run in 2012.
Did you even WATCH Rush yesterday, Prima Ballerina? He is praying for FAILURE of plans to circumvent the Constitution of the United States!!
I am sure your kindergarten teacher would praise your "constructive creativity" at dodging the limits our Founding Fathers placed on our federal government.
And you are only reaching out in order to collar Republicans and guilt them into following your schemes. How can there be compromise with your socialist agenda?
Obama's mission would not be possible without a willing media. The print media is collapsing and now they must use television and internet blogs. AM radio is not theirs, but NPR isn't much fun.
Thank God for Rush. I only wish his health was stronger. The constant colds and his weight bother me.
Exactly. And though I didn't see it I suppose Scheiffer softballed right along with the distortion. It's time conservatives started studying and using Alinsky's methods too. At a minimum they'd understand the game and know when and how to call BS on t*rds like Emanuel.
The GOP should treat Emmanuel as the President then. Marginalize Obama like the salesman/mouthpiece he is.
This would have the effect of making Obama nothing but a spokesperson for the hard core leftist cabal that is really running this country now.
The Dems did it with Cheney, let the pubs do it with Emmanuel.
How about Rham the pedo-homo-retard is a barrier to super-progress and respect.
Here is a good article:
Is dissent still patriotic? by David Harsanyi, Jan, 21, 2009
http://www.denverpost.com/harsanyi/ci_11505879
Do all Americans truly have a yearning to fundamentally “remake” our nation? There must be a subversive minority out there that still believes the United States - even with its imperfections and sporadic recessions - is, in context, still a wildly prosperous and free country worth preserving.
Some of you must still believe that politicians are meant to serve rather than be worshiped. And there must be someone out there who considers partisanship a healthy, organic reflection of our differences rather than something to be surrendered in the name of so-called unity - which is, after all, untenable, subjective and utterly counterproductive.
How about those who praised dissent for the past eight years?
Is there anyone who still believes the Constitution was created to ensure each citizen liberty and the ability to pursue happiness rather than a guarantee of happiness - and a retirement fund, health care, a job, an education, a house ... ?
Caucus Chairman Emanuel on President Bush’s Priorities
September 23rd, 2007
EMANUEL STATEMENT ON PRESIDENT BUSH’S PRIORITIES
Washington, D.C. – House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel issued the following statement after reports indicated that President Bush will ask for $200 billion for the war in Iraq and threatened to veto a bipartisan plan to provide health care to 10 million children:
“This week, the President asked for $200 billion more for the war in Iraq. In the same week, the White House said the bipartisan plan to give 10 million children health care included ‘excessive spending’ and threatened to veto the plan. For this President who helped rack up three trillion dollars in new debt, it is not about the spending, it is about priorities and the President has made his clear.”
I thought I would humbly share the letter I wrote this morning, to the Chariman of the GOP. Perhatps not all that eloquent, but I thought I should write rather than sit on my duff and bitch. Im not certain it will do any good, but at least I am making myself heard....(one small flicker can be known to light a damned big fire ;-) LOL
Mr Steele,
If it is indeed true that you felt Rush Limbaughs remarks were “over the top” then I would kindly ask you to re-think your position as head of the GOP. We are a CONSERVATIVE party, not a RINO party, and Mr Limbaugh spoke to all of those conservative ideals that we hold dear. Thank GOD Mr Limbaugh has the decency and honesty to say aloud what MUST be said, without cheeking his words out of some ill found “politically correct” garbage about a risk of offending some RINO or Liberal in the process!
I implore you to reflect on both Mr Limbaughs comments as well as your own, and remind yourself whom you are serving and why. I find your comments to demonstrate, at least for me, that you simply do not understand Conservatism nor what Conservatives want and expect in their leaders. I thought you were different.I thought you understood Conservatives and would make conservative changes in the party. I was wrong. I am greatly disappointed in both you and your comments regarding Mr. Limbaugh’s brilliant address to the CPAC.
Unless and until you and your fellow “leaders” in the party come to grips with the fact that we conservatives do NOT want business as usual with the GOP, you can kiss any hope of regaining the White House, or Congress good-bye, as well as any monetary support from those of us that are proud conservatives.!
The time for political correctness and self-promotion is long gone, Sir.!
Signed....
A PROUD CONSERVATIVE
I couldn't have put it better myself!!
Fanks*, RetroK.
* my son’s pronunciation
Tough guy, ballerina, Rahm Emanuel.
The Fairness Doctrine is too broad (e.g., Chavez shutting down all the TV stations) to be a cover for an otherwise Bill of Attainder to silence Limbaugh, so it will have to be on some legal or criminal matter.
Perhaps sedition charges, maybe hate charges, possily some kind of tax evasion charge (tit-for-tat is the Democrats' favorite game).
They know that Limbaugh is "too big to fail" via other regulatory means, because it would take down Hannity, Savage, and the rest, with him, and the public wouldn't stand for messing with their radio.
-PJ
Rush. Tell your listeners to contact their “representatives” to dump the “fairness doctrine” (not fair, and not a doctrine) once and for all.
I too was enthused by Limbaugh’s speech. His speech was the first really up-building oratory I’ve heard since our country elected the half-black commie bastard (literal use of the adjectives) from Kenya, or wherever he’s from. Even my wife, who’s rarely interested in politics, was attentive to Limbaugh’s speech.
Rahm Emmanual is attacking Limbaugh for his "I hope he fails" remark because it has multiple upsides and virtually no downside.
They have contrived to make Rush Limbaugh a figure for the whole Republican Party and conservative movement:
President Barack Obama's chief of staff cast radio talk show personality Rush Limbaugh as the top figure in the Republican Party on Sunday, suggesting that his desire for the president's economic policies to fail is a position held by the GOP.
They then took this figure and called him unpatriotic on several talk shows thus in a stroke making the whole Republican Party unpatriotic.
And I think that's the wrong philosophy for America,
Even worse, much worse, they have succeeded in identifying Limbaugh and Republicans as being threats to a plan of recovery for people who are becoming increasingly frightened.
Now the landscape has been groomed for the Democrats to lay back and monitor three hours of off-the-cuff remarks every day calling out whatever they want from the context and distorting it to demonstrate how mean-spirited Rush Limbaugh (read the Republican Party) wants to frustrate Democrats plans to save your family.
Not incidentally, paining Limbaugh to be unpatriotic and obstructionist isolates him from any sympathy when it comes time to fight the battle over the censorship planned for talk radio.
Limbaugh is most effective on offense and this tends to throw him back on his heels. They intend to attack nit pics for Rushe's three-hour broadcast compelling Limbaugh to defend himself and stay off offense.
Focusing the attention on Limbaugh as the voice of the our elected Republican officials makes our elected officials unworthy of attention and so it makes it more difficult for strong personalities to emerge as leaders. By the same token, the efforts of Republicans in the House, for example, to submit alternative proposals to the porkulus bill will never receive general attention and libel that the Republicans are obstructionists lives on uncorrected.
It matters not that Rush is right and the Democrats are committing spin because there is no judge or jury to call them to account so long as the drive-by media remains intent, like Samson, to bring the temple of American down with them in mutual destruction.
Tot to watch that little piko
as a parent. In everything else, I want him to fail miserably.
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