Rush Or America?
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Plouffe Daddy, one of the architects of the Obama presidency issues something of a challenge to the Republican party and “minority leader Limbaugh”.
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I love how the Godtards like Tony Perkins defend Rush when he’s been divorced 3 times and goes on Dominican sex tours
Rush Limbaugh is a racist asshole. (And that’s bad.) (Really bad.)
Rush should just do what Rush does best: pop some more pills and call your doctor in the morning for a refill.
Witness the liberal hysteria over 1 guy on the radio.
Why the concern?
We have an administration that is adored by the masses. An administration that can do no wrong. An administration whose ego is unmatched.
Come on! Why are you so incredibly concerned with one guy?
Plouffe Daddy, O-dub? Really?
Witness the liberal hysteria over 1 guy on the radio.
Proving once again that Joaquin doesn’t really know what words mean.
ROFLMAO =/= hysteria.
Plouffe Daddy
As I understand from my sources on the campaign, that was his nickname. T-shirts were made.
Love it. New slogan for the GOP:
Failure is the Only Option!
“Incredibly concerned” with Rush? Not exactly.
It’s kind of like the Detroit Lions. Nobody really hates the Lions – they’re not worth hating – but almost everybody was following their season, because being the first 0-16 team is such a spectacular failure that it was impossible to turn away.
Watching the Republican Party the last few weeks has been like watching the Cowboys march toward 0-16. It’s interesting because it’s an historic failure, but it’s a lot more fun because watching the Cowboys/Republicans suck is just fun.
I’ll admit it: Rush is my favoraite Republican mouthpiece. If this liberal hysteria (you heard about it from joaquin!) about Limbaugh continues to make Rupubs think he is actually onto something — then keep that hysteria coming, moonbats!
Why the concern?
The de-facto leader of the Republican party is a racist asshole (and other shitty things). That’s why we’re concerned. That you aren’t concerned is also troubling. But we’re used to it.
Watching the Republican Party the last few weeks has been like watching the Cowboys march toward 0-16. –michael
Don’t jinx yourself, mikey. Last time the Cowboys did that three years later they won three Super Bowls in their next four seasons. That’s what Oliver keeps warning you guys about. Have fun now but don’t expect it to last. It never does. The Republican Party is not the Washington Redskins.
The de-facto leader of the Republican party is a racist asshole (and other shitty things). That’s why we’re concerned. –Mister ed
According to this blog, so’s your VP and SOS, Mister ed. That never seems to concern you. Since only 11% of Republicans and less than half of Democrats actually believe Limbaugh is the de facto Republican leader, it appears you are just acting concerned. I believe you guys like to call that being a concern troll.
Mister ed the concern troll.
Well, since Volcano Bobby Jindal turned out to be something less impressive than the Herschel Walker trade, I’m not just going to panic yet, Dennis; thanks for your concern, though.
So-called de facto Leader of the Republican Party Challenges So-called Leader of the Free World to Debate
Offers to pay all expenses.
Why would the President of the United States lower himself to debate a deranged circus sideshow act?
Oh goody! Fag jokes. Way to go , Rushie!
Why would the President of the United States lower himself to debate a deranged circus sideshow act? –Oliver Willis
Dunno, O Dubya. I still can’t figure out why the President of the United States would lower himself to even take on a radio host and make this a national phenomenon. This whole thing is exactly that, a deranged circus sideshow act. Even liberal journalists are saying as much.
Seems that since Obama went along with the Begala-Carville ploy, two CNN Clinton era flame-thrower rejects, and if he is truly concerned about his influence on the Republican Party, a party he so desperately wants to reach out to, he’d be doing everyone a great favor. Republicans would be impressed with this gesture. He could lay him out once and for all, both sides would be thankful and this country could move forward together like he says he wants.
Like you guys say you want.
Win-win, Oliver. I should think you’d be all for it.
Besides, you just told me last week he’s too afraid to debate anyone. Even his liberal callers to his show are scrubbed to the bone. Now he’s offering to debate the smartest and greatest man in the world. Someone who would wipe the floor with him. Obama would be solving so many problems with this one gesture, and it would be so easy to do. Might even bring in a ton of revenue for the economy if done right.
Way too many plusses for it to be dismissed so quickly by you.
Way too many plusses for Obama. And the country.
He could lay him out once and for all, both sides would be thankful and this country could move forward together like he says he wants.
Yeah, right. You folks aren’t interested in moving forward. You long for the good old days of 1861.
I don’t know for sure, but I think the President might be a little too busy.
Yeah, yeah, I know. “Then why bring him up in the first place?”
To illustrate the point that Republicans can chart a moderate course useful to the country, or they can throw in under his banner and obstruct, obstruct, obstruct. As a rhetorical device representative of the socialist! broken record, Rush is useful. The President has nothing to prove or gain from giving that clown the time of day.
Yeah, right. You folks aren’t interested in moving forward. You long for the good old days of 1861.
Not true, Duros, but even if it was, this would be a great gesture for Obama. What better way to show his love for the country than to debate the man he claims is the leader and the worst thing imaginable for the Republican Party.
To not do it would be highly incongruent with what he and his advisors have been saying recently. Not to mention his loyal bloggers. I don’t get the hesitancy here.
I still can’t figure out why the President of the United States would lower himself to even take on a radio host and make this a national phenomenon.
Yeah Obama made CPAC invite Rush, and Obama made Limbaugh’s comments about wanting Obama to fail become fodder for the 24/7 news stations. He’s the new Soros, apparently, pulling all the strings…
I don’t get the hesitancy here.
Because it’s in the same category as the whole birth certificate issue.
It’s bullshit and not worthy of serious debate. Same with Rushie. He’s a small, petty man.
The President has nothing to prove or gain from giving that clown the time of day. Parthy
That’s just it, Parth. He HAS been giving him the time of the day. I’m assuming you read the Politico article today?
Rush Job: Inside Dems’ Limbaugh Plan
Nothing you guys don’t already know, but this has been a well-constructed ploy from the beginning. Limbaugh gave it the lighter fluid to ignite when made the comment about Obama’s socialist agenda failing.
Sure, Dems are winning the game, but like we all know, last time they tangled with him, they got embarrassed. And a worthy cause received $4.2mm from Limbaugh. So we’ll see where this goes.
At the very least, O-Dubya can’t say Limbaugh won’t ever debate anybody.
I hadn’t read it amigo, but thanks, it was a good read. You have to admit that, ideology aside, it’s intelligent political judo. Use the mouth’s mouth against him.
At the very least, O-Dubya can’t say Limbaugh won’t ever debate anybody.
But he hasn’t, has he? He made an offer to debate; an offer he’s pretty confident won’t get taken up.
Oliver’s point stands.
He’s the new Soros, apparently, pulling all the strings… –O Dubya
Well, I’m not going to go all Playboy conspiracy on you or anything, but you read the Politico article and you have to wonder why Obamateur had to tell the Republicans that they can’t keep listening to Limbaugh and expect to get things done. Then the whole Limbaugh media blitzkrieg with Emmanuel and Gibbs involved. Not saying this was Obama’s brainchild or if he was a willing accomplice of if his comment to Rep leaders was pure coincidence, but you have to wonder what he was thinking, and he surely didn’t put any kind of a halt to it.
Gibbs: Squabbling with Rush may, perhaps, be “counterproductive”
Finally, some honesty.
Michael Scherer at Time:
“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.”
It’s nice to be vindicated.
Yeah, Michael Scherer is an idiot. “Liberal media” my ass. Again.
According to this blog, so’s your VP and SOS, Mister ed. That never seems to concern you
Oh, but it does concern me, racist asshole defender Dennis. I called VP and SOS on it then, and accepted their apologies. But their transgressions don’t begin to scratch the tip of the iceberg of being in the same league as the unapologetic racist asshole Rush Limbaugh. False equilvalence strikes again
equivalence
Even a tool like dennis would win a debate with Mr. Limpballs. It’ll be fun watching a low-rent blowhard like him down Rush the Giant windbag.
Obviously the President of the United States can not and should not lower himself to “debate” a radio host. Of course Rushbo is looking for a way to boost his ratings and rake in more moola and knows damn well the idea is less than ridiculous.
May I suggest to Rush that he debate one of his peers, maybe Rachel Maddow or Keith Olberman to secure his bonefides as an intellectual heavyweight (no pun intended)before he goes on to bigger battles.
Of course he’ll refuse because he’s neither smart enough or quick enough to beat either of them. He is a big, fat idiot in case you haven’t heard.
And what, racist asshole defender Dennis, did VP or SOS say which was worse than:
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(and many, many more)
Please be specific. I’m sure the VP and SOS racist statements were at least as awful (Equivalence!). Which ones did the VP and SOS not apologize for, by the way? In the meantime, by all means, Dennis, please keep on defending these statements from racist asshole Rush Limbaugh, which your main man still apparently stands by. Classy!
It’s a shame that Team Obama is so focused on demonizing a fat, drug-using loudmouth from Florida that he can’t be bothered to make the leader of one of our closest allies feel welcome.
No Colgate Moment, Indeed
Silly Gordon. Doesn’t he know that it’s all about President “I Won”?
I think this story says it all:
“The Immature White House”
I called VP and SOS on it then, and accepted their apologies.
How magnanimous of you.
Dennis, Republicans could have put a halt to it by not falling all over themselves to get back in to Rush’s good graces and instead ignored him. It’s a shame that the Republicans are so dependent on a degenerate loudmouthed racist who used his platform to be an apologist for torture, but there it is. I don’t see what you’re so upset about, Dennis. If it weren’t for Rush, the Republicans wouldn’t be able to get their messge out.
The Camp David sleepover that Blair got on his first meeting with Bush? Sorry, chaps.
You’re kidding with that shit, right? What, did Brown forget his sleeping bag or something?
You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We miss you, James. Godspeed. Mister ed
Aqualung ed-
I just pulled one supposed quote from your list, none of which you have sourced, and tried to google it. Lots of references, no one I’ve ever heard of. I picked that one because it sounds like the kind of thing that if he had said it, it would be easily verified and would’ve been repeated thousands of times.
Stupid question I know, but do you have any sourcing on these whatsoever? All his radio shows are recorded and have transcripts, it should be easy.
Wow. It’s amazing to see a troll like Dennis defend Viagrabaugh. And amusing.
I hope Obama gives Rahm a few weeks extra vacation for engineering one of the most incredible acts of political pwnage in the past 50 years.
Dennis: “Dunno, O Dubya. I still can’t figure out why the President of the United States would lower himself to even take on a radio host and make this a national phenomenon.”
It’s not that hard to figure out.
Rush Limbaugh is one of the most hated members of the media. The hardcore Republicans love him, but he is hated by Democrats, and more importantly, Independents.
By making Limbaugh the face of the Republican party, Obama is bringing down the popularity rating of the Republicans, which will benefit him politically.
Sure, Rush gains as well, but he’s just one clown.
Dennis: “Sure, Dems are winning the game, but like we all know, last time they tangled with him, they got embarrassed.”
Really? I bet if you ask 100 random people on the street, less than 10 of them would know what the hell you are talking about.
Strictly inside baseball.
On the other hand, the Democrats have already created ads showing Rush saying he wants Obama to fail and Republicans praising him.
If anything, it’s like Rush winning a Pre-Season game, while Obama took game one of the finals.
“President Barack Obama just plain rude to Britain. Don’t call us in future.”
Heck of a job, Barack!
At the end of the day, Rush is still a small man, wandering alone around his mansion like Charles Foster Kane.
More UK press.
The Telegraph: Barack Obama is running scared of tough questions
The Spectator: Obama to World: Drop Dead!
What happened? I thought President Hopenchange was going to heal all those relationships with our allies that the cowboy Chimperor Bushitler had destroyed.
Is it telling at all that Dave doesn’t quote anything Obama said but rather what others have said about him?
“But Obama’s merely warmish words (one of our closest allies, said with little sincerity or passion) left a bitter taste with this Atlanticist.”
What? His words weren’t “warm” enough? Y’know, I’ve seen kindergartners have exactly that same reaction.
Is it telling at all that Dave doesn’t quote anything Obama said but rather what others have said about him?
Yes, quite.
Not even people of great importance, either. Editorials.
My, my, the Brits seem to be a sensitive bunch, don’t they?
Check out the gifts exchanged between the Obamas and the Browns.
For Barack: Gifts included an ornamental desk pen holder made from the oak timbers of Victorian anti-slaver HMS Gannet, once named HMS President (and sister ship to the HMS Resolute, from whose timbers the Oval Office ‘Resolute’ desk was carved)
For Gordon: a DVD boxset of 25 classic American films
For the Obama daughters: Top Shop dresses (with matching necklaces) and a selection of books by British authors
For the Brown sons: Toy models of Marine One, the Presidential helicopter (were they the $15 plastic ones from the White House gift shop?)
Because nothing says you treasure your “special partnership” more than having one of your staffers make a quick purchase on Amazon.com (and possibly a quick trip downstairs to the WH gift shop).
Links:
Obama’s blockbuster gift for Brown to reaffirm the ‘special relationship’: 25 DVDs
First Lady Michelle Obama shows even she has a gift for the gaffe
Molehill? Dave.
Dave? Molehill.
What? His words weren’t “warm” enough? Y’know, I’ve seen kindergartners have exactly that same reaction.
My, my, the Brits seem to be a sensitive bunch, don’t they?
So is this that awesome diplomacy that were promised by President Hopenchange? That was going to undo all the damage of the Bush years?
“Man up you f***ing sissies!”
The Britons are unarguably our BEST and CLOSEST allies. And with just one official visit the Obama Gaffe Machine manages to give them the cold shoulder.
Can’t wait to see how President “OJT” fares with countries that don’t even like us.
Oh, and Duros, I just love the condescension that went into this statement:
“Not even people of great importance, either. Editorials.”
So should we let you know when it’s people of “great importance” who are doing the complaining so you can be bothered to start noticing?
Settle down, Beavis.
You’re focusing way too much attention on the fluff, and doing it by proxy and hearsay.
Do you want to start impeachment proceedings now due to this heinous breach of protocol, or do you wanna wait until May?
What do you get for someone with extremely poor eyesight (i.e. blind in one eye, failing sight in the other)?
Why a boxset of DVD’s, of course.
I wonder if they even bothered to get Region 2 (UK) discs? I suspect Obama was merely regifting a Christmas present from the Bidens.
Do you want to start impeachment proceedings now due to this heinous breach of protocol, or do you wanna wait until May?
Who said impeachment was needed? Just pointing out the level of cluelessness or classlessness (take your pick) of Team Obama.
Dave in SoCal: Check out the gifts exchanged between the Obamas and the Browns.
And if Obama had given anything more expensive, I suppose folks would be decrying his waste of taxpayer dollars. (Because it’s, y’know, Obama. And everything he does is to be criticized. A fact so ably demonstrated by Dave posting about this originally and then following up with more with baseless speculation.)
And I thought taking offense on behalf of other people was supposed to be a liberal trait.
I can only imagine the disdain that would flow from Dave if Obama had given Brown an expensive leather jacket that Brown ended up giving away.