Rush is Insane...

[Anonymous]

Ok, is Rush just CRAZY or is this stuff true? Does he really think the White House is out to get him?

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_030409/content/01125106.guest.html

[Anonymous]

Rahm Emanuel is the power behind the throne -- and don't let his effeminate nature and his ballerina past mislead you on this. He may look effeminate (he was a ballerina at one time) but he has the feral instincts of a female rat defending its young. Well, take a look. When Emanuel and Carville and Begala are together (and I've seen pictures) it looks like a reunion of the Village People. (singing) Y! M! C! A!

Talk about odious and nasty, Rush! I'm glad I don't listen to this guy.

[Anonymous]

And to me the real question is, does he think there's a chance in hell the president would come on his show and "debate" him?

Please.

[Anonymous]

I think Rush is underestimating ballerinas!

[Anonymous]

He should just mate with Ann Coulter, get her pregnant (or would it be the other way around), spawn the antichrist, and bring on the Apocalypse. At least we wouldn't have to hear him speak anymore.

[Anonymous]

He's desperate to survive and the outlandish behavior is getting attention so he'll probably take it even farther. This is about clinging to his fame, ratings, and money not ideology in fact it doesn't play well for Republicans trying to recover and build back support.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He should just mate with Ann Coulter, get her pregnant (or would it be the other way around), spawn the antichrist, and bring on the Apocalypse. At least we wouldn't have to hear him speak anymore.

This is a great response!

[Anonymous]

Rising to Rush's bait a bit are we?

He is no different than Howard Stern - their whole purpose is to shock and get people talking about them.

[Anonymous]

Interesting POV from Time.com

http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/03/04/team-obamas-petty-limbaugh-strategy/

"But here's the rub: If you believed what Obama said during the campaign, then Carville is dead wrong. Republicans in Congress are not the only losers. The American people also lose. At a time of unprecedented threats to the United States, a time of financial collapse, bank failures and record layoffs, at a time when the credit crisis has not been solved, and the stock market is in free fall, at a time of stagnating wars, rising terrorism in Pakistan and growing nuclear potential in Iran, the White House has done the easy thing. It has asked the American people to focus their attention not on solving the problems, but on a big-mouthed entertainer in Florida. This may be smart politics. But it is also the same petty strategy that John McCain employed during the presidential campaign, the one that our new president promised to rise above."

[Anonymous]

I find it absolutely hysterical that the white house is so laser focused on Rush, this is just juvenile. Is Obama that desperate already for a distraction? Sheesh, it’s only been 6 weeks.

We have bigger problems than a big mouth shock jock-entertainer. Wasn't Obama supposed to rise above it all? All he is doing is giving Rush a bigger audience and for SURE a ratings push. I guess pigs will be pigs and roll in the mud together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find it absolutely hysterical that the white house is so laser focused on Rush, this is just juvenile. Is Obama that desperate already for a distraction? Sheesh, it’s only been 6 weeks.

We have bigger problems than a big mouth shock jock-entertainer. Wasn't Obama supposed to rise above it all? All he is doing is giving Rush a bigger audience and for SURE a ratings push. I guess pigs will be pigs and roll in the mud together.

I wonder if it is not calculated. Rush basically promotes the idea that he hopes Obama will fail. The fact that many people suspect Congressional Republicans feel the same way when they voted down the recovery plan has been damaging to the party, and giving Limbaugh air time makes the Republicans look bad. Plus, giving legitimacy to Limbaugh has made it hard for Republicans to get their own leadership in order. Rush will never be a party leader, only a loudmouth disruptor. But he can become a symbol of what is wrong with the Republicans in this term.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find it absolutely hysterical that the white house is so laser focused on Rush, this is just juvenile. Is Obama that desperate already for a distraction? Sheesh, it’s only been 6 weeks.

We have bigger problems than a big mouth shock jock-entertainer. Wasn't Obama supposed to rise above it all? All he is doing is giving Rush a bigger audience and for SURE a ratings push. I guess pigs will be pigs and roll in the mud together.

I wonder if it is not calculated. Rush basically promotes the idea that he hopes Obama will fail. The fact that many people suspect Congressional Republicans feel the same way when they voted down the recovery plan has been damaging to the party, and giving Limbaugh air time makes the Republicans look bad. Plus, giving legitimacy to Limbaugh has made it hard for Republicans to get their own leadership in order. Rush will never be a party leader, only a loudmouth disruptor. But he can become a symbol of what is wrong with the Republicans in this term.

Considering the white house is now in a spitting match with Jim Cramer, it seems to be a habit.

[Anonymous]

From Jim Cramer's response to the White House:

fter the White House briefing, Rush Limbaugh defended me as a wayward leftist who has seen the light. I am always glad to have any allies and defenders, but I do favor almost all of Obama's agenda, right down to having the rich pay more of their freight in this great country. It's just not the right time. We need to declare a war on unemployment and solve it before we let it get out of hand. We need to stop house-price depreciation. Neither the pork-laden stimulus plan nor the confusing mortgage proposal put forward by Obama will defeat either enemy. When Obama trounces both unemployment and house-price depreciation, he will have the power to enact anything he wants. But all the initiatives he wants to rush, like tax hikes, changes in health care, tinkering with the mortgage deduction -- good grief, right now in the midst of the worst housing downturn ever -- and the tough cap-and-trade rules, will derail any chance we have of turning this economy around. Instead, they put the Second Great Depression smack on the nation's table. The markets thought he could stop it; hence the giant relief rally when he was elected. But in fewer than 50 days of his ascendancy, the markets' hopes were totally dashed and the averages are now forecasting the worst decline since the Great Depression. As someone who listens to what the averages are screaming, I think they are accurately predicting the future.

I welcome any serious exchange with the administration on the issues that are not beyond my ken: fixing house price depreciation, stopping the destruction of wealth as demonstrated by the stock market's plunge, and solving the banking crisis before we nationalize every bank.

President Obama's team, unlike Bush's team, demonstrates a thinness of skin that shocks me. When I somewhat obviously and empirically judged that the populist Obama administration is exacerbating the crisis with its budget and policies, as evidenced by the incredible decline in the averages since his inauguration, I was met immediately with condescension and ridicule rather than constructive debate or even just benign dismissal. I said to myself, "What the heck? Are they really that blind to the Great Wealth Destruction they are causing with their decisions to demonize the bankers, raise taxes for the wealthy, advocate draconian cap-and-trade policies and upend the health care system? Do they really believe that only the rich own stocks? What do they think we have our retirement accounts in, CDs? Where did they think that the money saved for college went, our mattresses? Do they think the great middle class banks at the First National Bank of Sealy and only the wealthiest traffic in the Standard & Poor's 500?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find it absolutely hysterical that the white house is so laser focused on Rush, this is just juvenile. Is Obama that desperate already for a distraction? Sheesh, it’s only been 6 weeks.

We have bigger problems than a big mouth shock jock-entertainer. Wasn't Obama supposed to rise above it all? All he is doing is giving Rush a bigger audience and for SURE a ratings push. I guess pigs will be pigs and roll in the mud together.

I wonder if it is not calculated. Rush basically promotes the idea that he hopes Obama will fail. The fact that many people suspect Congressional Republicans feel the same way when they voted down the recovery plan has been damaging to the party, and giving Limbaugh air time makes the Republicans look bad. Plus, giving legitimacy to Limbaugh has made it hard for Republicans to get their own leadership in order. Rush will never be a party leader, only a loudmouth disruptor. But he can become a symbol of what is wrong with the Republicans in this term.

Considering the white house is now in a spitting match with Jim Cramer, it seems to be a habit.

It is calculated. I just got an email from Democrats.org taunting Rush: http://www.democrats.org/rushbillboard I don't think I would do it, but it fascinates me that this is a deliberate attempt to scramble the Republican Party.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find it absolutely hysterical that the white house is so laser focused on Rush, this is just juvenile. Is Obama that desperate already for a distraction? Sheesh, it’s only been 6 weeks.

We have bigger problems than a big mouth shock jock-entertainer. Wasn't Obama supposed to rise above it all? All he is doing is giving Rush a bigger audience and for SURE a ratings push. I guess pigs will be pigs and roll in the mud together.

I wonder if it is not calculated. Rush basically promotes the idea that he hopes Obama will fail. The fact that many people suspect Congressional Republicans feel the same way when they voted down the recovery plan has been damaging to the party, and giving Limbaugh air time makes the Republicans look bad. Plus, giving legitimacy to Limbaugh has made it hard for Republicans to get their own leadership in order. Rush will never be a party leader, only a loudmouth disruptor. But he can become a symbol of what is wrong with the Republicans in this term.

Considering the white house is now in a spitting match with Jim Cramer, it seems to be a habit.

It is calculated. I just got an email from Democrats.org taunting Rush: http://www.democrats.org/rushbillboard I don't think I would do it, but it fascinates me that this is a deliberate attempt to scramble the Republican Party.

Is it because the GOP is starting to get some traction on other issues - spending? earmarks? pork? The GOP is starting to "get religion" - no pun intended - and bringing some core groups back into the fold. They have a long way to go, and success is not assured, but it is plausible that the White House is trying to run them off the road early and often.