Posted on 02/03/2010 8:04:32 AM PST by IMissPresidentReagan
AND NOW . . . amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic first- and second-hand premium cigar smoke. . . it is time for . . . that harmless, lovable little fuzz ball, the highly-trained broadcast specialist, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, from behind the golden EIB microphone, firmly ensconced in the prestigious Attila-the-Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies, serving humanity simply by showing up, and he’s not retiring until every American agrees with him, do NOT doubt him, with shrieks of joy at the mere mention of his name (that’s Rush, for those in Rio Linda),the Mandarin of Talk Radio, with talent on loan from G-d, at the cutting-edge of societal evolution, with half his brain tied behind his back — just to make it fair, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, all-concerned Maha-Rushie! America’s anchorman, truth detector, and doctor of democracy. A Real Man, a living legend, a way of life. Commander in Chief of U.S. Operation Chaos. Chief Waga-Waga El Rushbo of the El Conservo Tribe. Chief of the Patriotism Police. Leader of the Conservative Movement. A Weapon of Mass Instruction. El Rushbo (a little Spanish lingo, there). He is the man who is running America (you know it and I know it). He knows the Democrats like every square inch of his glorious naked body. He is ready to do what he was born to do—that’s host. Get ready to what you were born to do—that’s listen (and post your comments on the Rush Limbaugh LIVE Radio Thread).
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Hump Day pings....
I’m so exhausted. Working on Day 3 of basketball games after work - 3 more days to go! :) I love my basketball, though. :)
Do you play, or watch?
I am merely a spectator. :) Most of the high school players are like younger brothers to me since they practically live at my parents’ house. lol.
Is this the one in Florida with 108 lobbyists?
Present
Well, spectating can be very grueling, I understand. ;-)
For anyone who cares, I did read where Sarah endorsed Rand Paul (Ron Paul’s son) here in Kentucky.
He’s at the Newseum in Washington, where the Senate Democratic Policy Committee Issues Conference is being held.
Update at 11:10 a.m. ET:
“China is not waiting, it is moving” on developing clean energy technology, the president warns, and “already, the anticipation is that they will lap us when it comes to clean energy. ... We are at risk ... of falling behind.”
“I continue to believe ... that the country that figures out most rapidly, new forms of energy and can commercialize new ideas is going to lead the 21st Century economy. ... That is our growth model.”
What’s needed, he adds, are “the right incentives” and openness to a variety of technologies — including “clean coal.”
Update at 11:05 a.m. ET:
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., wants to hear about the judicial nominations that have been held up because objections raised by Senate Republicans.
“We have to be highlighting that this is not the way we should be doing business,” Obama says. He also concedes, that Democrats did the same thing when a Republican was in the White House — though he claims “we were a little more selective in how we did it.”
Update at 10:50 a.m. ET:
Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., wonders if Democrats need to be willing to “push back in our own party (against) people who want extremes” — particularly on economic issues.
Obama says yes: “We’ve got to be non-ideological in our approach to these things. ... We’ve got to go with what works.”
By the way, CBS News’ Mark Knoller — hearing Obama say he wishes he had left Washington more often last year — just tweeted that the president made 48 domestic trips last year.
Update at 10:40 a.m. ET:
Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., says of the capital that “this place looks broken to the American people.”
“What are we going to do differently ... to fix this system?” Bennet asks.
Obama says he’s trying to challenge Republicans, especially in the Senate, by saying that “if you want to govern, then you can’t just say no.”
As for the Democrats, Obama says, “I do think that the more open we are, the more transparent we are ... the better off we are. And I think the health care bill is a perfect example. ... I think the ultimate package ... is better then where we started” because of the vigorous public debate over the past year.
It would also help, Obama says, if lawmakers would “turn off the TV”, stop reading blogs and “just go talk to folks out there instead of being in this echo chamber where the topic is constantly politics.”
He made a mistake last year, Obama says, by “not getting out of here” more often.
Update at 10:30 a.m. ET:
The first questions are from a veteran senator, but a relatively new Democrat — Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who used to be a Republican. Specter wants to know if the president will support tougher getting tougher with China, which the senator says has cost the U.S. more than 2 million jobs because of unfair trade practices.
“I would not be in favor of revoking the trade relationships we have with China,” Obama begins. “The approach we’re taking is to be much tougher in enforcing existing rules.”
“But what I don’t want to do ... is for us ... to shy away from international competition. ... If we are able to compete on an even playing field, nobody can beat us.”
Update at 10:23 a.m. ET: Perhaps in a bid to shore up morale a bit, the president says he and the other elected officials in the room didn’t go into politics “for the fame” but because of issues that were “so important that you were willing to stand up and be counted.”
Update at 10:18 a.m. ET: According to the president, when he and his fellow Democrats have extended a hand to Republicans, many times they’ve gotten “a fist in return.”
But, he says, “the American people are out of patience with business as usual ... they want us to worry less about keeping our jobs and more about keeping them in their jobs.”
Update at 10:12 a.m. ET: Without naming them, the president just took a shot at Republicans. He notes that last year, Senate Democrats cast more votes to cut off filibusters than were cast “in the entire 1950s and 60s combined.” That is “20 years of obstruction packed into just one,” he adds.
Update at 10:10 a.m. ET: The president is beginning with a bit of a review. “We always knew this was going to be a difficult year to govern — an extraordinarily difficult year,” he says.
NPR.org
".... I love the women's movement - - especially when walking behind it"
LOL ... classic Rush
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BTTT
This is one of the things I sent out to my email lists this morning:
Two of my posts in the thread below are here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2443433/posts?page=18#18
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2443433/posts?page=6#6
‘ClimateGate’ Inquiry Findings Due for Release
Bob McCarty Writes ^ | 2-03-10 | Bob McCarty
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2443433/posts
The Penn State University Collegian newspaper reported Monday that a panel of university faculty and staff had concluded its inquiry of Penn State meteorology professor Michael Mann (above) and would release its “ClimateGate” findings later in the week.
The “ClimateGate” e-mails scandal surfaced in early December and seemed to show evidence of fraud and conspiracy among the research scientists and others whose work formed much of the basis of calls for extreme climate change regulation. Smack dab in the middle of the scandal was Mann, the inventor of the famous “hockey stick” graph which, 10 years ago, claimed to show that, after 1,000 years of decline, global temperatures had shot up to their highest level in recorded history. It was made famous in Al Gore’s Academy Award®-winning documentary on global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth.”
Mann’s name graced the virtual pages of this blog for the first time in a Dec. 7, 2009, post in which I asked the question, Will EPA List of Most-Wanted Eco-Fugitives Soon Include Gore, Jones, Mann, Hansen and Others?
As soon as news breaks from State College, Pa., you can count on me to share it here.
Developing
Here’s even more for NPR to whine about:
We aren’t the Party of “NO!”.... we’re the Party of HELL NO!!”
Rush was great this morning on F&F. Part two of the interview tomorrow.
The DEFICIT is being laid in the Republicans lap...
BUT who was in control of Congress in 2007/2008.... Democrats and it was their deficit!! Why can’t the Republicans shout this to all every chance they get and educate the public.
Makes me so mad!!!!
Obama’s Las Vegas Digs
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