Posted on 03/24/2010 8:27:41 AM PDT 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).
DIRTBIN is the biggest POS.
Thank me!
Another great product of the Illinois machine.
I’m welcome!
Morning, Comrade. Did you just hear Dickhead Durbin? Can we ever get rid of this guy, for Chrissakes?
Not when he gets 75% of the vote.
Any chance you can get rid of him?
Californians are working on Boxer...anything is possible.
He just got reelected in 2008.
A look back to Dingell’s dad. Time magazine, Sept. 2009
John Dingell Sr.: A Legacy
As Michael notes, the President’s speech begins with a tribute to John Dingell Sr., a New Deal Congressman who was fighting for universal coverage 65 years ago, and whose son carries on the fight. Here’s a story I wrote on the father and the son, all the way back in the pre-internet-link days of 1993:
Snip:
But a different Dingell emerges as he begins to talk about his father. Awe finds its way into his voice as he begins: “Pop was not an ideologue; he was a philosopher. He did a lot of thinking on things where you could make this country better, fairer.”
John Dingell Sr. survived that bout of tuberculosis, defying a doctor’s prediction that he would live six months, and went on to serve 12 terms in Congress, where he was an architect of New Deal programs. When Dingell was a 16-year-old House page in 1943, his father introduced what was perhaps his most radical measure — the first national health insurance bill.
At the start of every two-year congressional session since 1955, when he won the seat left vacant by his father’s death, John Jr., now 66, has introduced virtually the same legislation, putting it in the hopper again and again. It is H.R. 16, which is the number of the Detroit-area district that has been represented by father and son since 1932.
Snip:
But when Dingell Sr. argued that basic health care was something the government owed its poorest and weakest citizens, he — along with Sens. Robert F. Wagner (D-N.Y.) and James E. Murray (D-Mont.), who joined in his national health-insurance proposal in 1943 — was called a socialist and communist.
His son takes a hard-nosed tack aimed at a different constituency.
“I quit talking about the humanitarian concern, because nobody much seems to give a damn about that,” Dingell says. “I talk now about the economic consequences. General Motors spends $1,086 per car (to provide health benefits to its workers). The auto companies are going broke on health care, and every other industry is having similar problems.”
Not surprisingly, Dingell has strong ideas as to what types of health-care reform will actually work. He believes, for example, that only a single-payer system — in essence, a government-funded plan — has much chance to stemming rising costs. Scores of lawmakers are on record as favoring a similar system.
“I’m not going to deceive myself and I’m not going to deceive anybody else to think that any other system than single-payer is ultimately going to resolve the nation’s problems,” Dingell says. “Every country’s tried it, and they all keep coming to the same conclusion — single payer.”
Okay, last snip:
Dingell’s father made his reputation on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, where he rose to second-ranking Democrat and where he drafted more than 100 amendments to the Social Security Act. He also wrote major portions of the Wagner Act that created the legal foundation for the modern labor union and many of the laws that still govern banking regulation.
His colleague, John McCormack, who would later become Speaker of the House, recalled on the elder Dingell’s death: “He was always looking years ahead, and a leader in charting the course for a better life for his fellow men.”
He wrote the 1943 health insurance act without a means of funding so that it would fall within the jurisdiction of what is now the Energy and Commerce Committee, where he thought it had its best chance of passage. When Dingell succeeded his father in a special election, that legislation was one of the reasons he asked for an assignment on the committee he now chairs.
As if it weren’t bad enough, the asshole is dissing President Reagan now? The whole lot of the losers together aren’t fit to wipe the sweat from ... Nevermind. EFF YOU, BHO! that’s what I have to say.
LOL! Not doing tenure for teachers is COMMUNISM?
Well, that sucks
Full text of Demint’s bill:
“To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. REPEAL. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and the amendments made by that Act, are repealed.”
Love it! The American people will love it. No double speak, no confusing language, no equivication.
They think they’ve “won,” so all the anti-Reagan, anti-American socialist scum is coming out of the woodwork now.
I’m in NY ... we’ve Schumer and Schumer Lite ... we’re truly screwed.
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For a group driven by “polls”, they really don’t pay attention to polls not involving themselves do they? President Reagan always ranks high in favorability and “best President”’s polls.
Health Care Law Signals US Empire Decline?
http://www.cnbc.com/id/36013573
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