Steele Apologizes to Limbaugh, Kaine Says: “See?!”

It’s too bad Steele recanted his honest initial statements on Limbaugh. It sounds like he’s sucking up too much to the GOP image makers and spinmeisters.

The media seems intent on saying that Rush Limbaugh is being “elevated”; but the fact is he DOES have the mic of the Republican party grassroots. The establishement elite in DC can’t cross him, they look like fools supporting his idiotic comments, he spouts more of them, the Democrats tie those real sentiments around their kneck.
This isn’t unfair.
And it’s a negative feedback loop Republicans created with their own extremism IMO.

Big mistake Mr. Steele. You just lost my respect.

Folks neglect to maintain the differentiation between conservatives and Republicans. The votes might be in the middle, Willem, but the money is and has always been on the “fringe”. I would have respected Mr. Steele more if he had stuck with his original asinine comment. To reverse and apologize only perpetuates that media spin about Rush and makes the RNC look more foolish than normal.

It is horrifying to think that one half of the two party system in America is being represented by an entertainer who sells propaganda, hatred and idiocy to make a living. How can so many Americans be so blind?!!!! Can’t they think for themselves at all?

Americans are not Socialists, Americans do not believe in huge deficits and Americans do not believe in government run medical care. They are much more aligned with conservative politics than the radical Marxist philosophy of Obama. Rush is right, Liberals are cruel enslavers.

Do you people here who condemn Limbaugh really listen to him or just assume he represents “hate speech” based on the biased news media you listen to?
Come on! Too often it is you liberals who essentially engage in “hate speech” with your name calling, political correctness and distortions of the truth. It is liberals who are calling for censorship through direct reinstatement of the “Fairness Doctrine” or, indirectly, via the Durbin Amendment, to promote “diversity”

Constantine, of course they don’t listen to them — you can tell that by their comments. Not one of them has ever actually listened to the show — they listen to the liberal comments ABOUT the show. They are too busy listening to Oprah or music, or some other mindless pursuit. They’ll SAY they listen, but it’s so obvious by their comments that they don’t.

Everybody I know has had it with Republicans who compromised their principles and spent money like Democrats. Republicans win when they align with the core beliefs of the American public. If they act like Democrats, why vote for them? Those core American beliefs are not the radical marxist philosophies of Obama or Pelosi.

Rush has everybody just where he wants them. Why doesn’t he run for office if he has all the answers? Because he’s a coward. Nobody dares stand up to him. LOL He’s gonna split the party in half.

Rush and Steele are not the problems.
Posted by: Constantine XIII
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And they are definitely not the solutions!

Limbergers just a hater. Anger and hate, thats all he’s got. You can tell he comes from a family of Lawyers. Welcome to the new voice of the GOP. Good luck with that.

No, Steele is not the head of Rushlimbaublican Party. Rush Limbaugh is the only head of Rushlimbaublican Party.

Constantine XIII–are you and I the only ones who listen to Rush and get what it is he is saying? One of the reasons I LOVE listening to Rush is because he is the voice of reason. There’s nothing hateful about his speech or his entire radio show. In fact, I think he is the most gracious of all the talk show hosts when speaking to callers who are in complete disagreement with him. He tries to be a voice of reason, asking them questions, and getting them to think for themselves. Sometimes they do, and sometimes they don’t. But he’s always gracious. I don’t agree with Rush on a couple of things, but most of the time he is merely articulating the idealogy that I subscribe to, that I have already figured out for myself. And I appreciate knowing, particularly during these times, that I’m not in my boat alone.
I’ve always been a pretty strong Republican . . . but the Republican Party and many of it’s representatives and Congress people have lost their way!

My God, what a weak, sad, pathetic party. Caving in to to a talk show host. Just sad. I’m so ashamed I was a republican. Thank God I’ve seen the light and moved on.

The GOP is in serious trouble if the fat boy Rush is your leader.GOP=RIP.

Willem van Oranje has it right. The extremists in the GOP are convincing their party that Republicans lost the election because they weren’t conservative enough and didn’t attack enough. I think the real reason the GOP lost this time is because the country saw through the folly of relying on trickle-down economics and de-regulation to solve everything, and got fed up with the right-wing’s politicsof personal destruction. And Republicans attacked Obama a great deal, personally and forcefully trying to link him to terrorism. So if Republicans think continuing to cling to a hard-right idealogy is the way to go, they are going the way of the Federalists and Whigs into the dustbin of U.S. history. Democrats can then look ahead to spirited political debates with the Greens on the left and the Libertarians on the right.

“I’ve listened to Rush, plenty of times. Amazing what you find when you factcheck him. Lies and more lies. Tons of lies. An out of context quote by one employee portrayed as the position of the company/school/political organization, flat out lies, etc. Not to mention, of course, the hate. It’s all about the hate, fear of the other, reasons to feel superior, etc.”
Give us some examples, Susan — documented examples.

Rush is the perfect right-wing poster-boy. He’s male. He’s white. He’s obese. Oh, and divorced three times. Great choice, folks.

hate speech ?? I hear more hate speech coming from democrats in the USA than any other group. they hate everyone who disagree with their view,they insult everyone who they dislike as bigots, racists , ignorants, backwoods and more. The democrats ran the KKK in the South and they know it but they point the finger the other way, however history does not lie. Now in power they don’t hesitate to say ” we won” like no one is allowed to disgree. ha ! Their excuse for the poor leadership shown by the Mesiah?? “We inherit this defict “” really ?? LMAO !! enjoy your short live victory because the change sure is coming but it will be a short lived!!

So why doesn’t Mr. Limbaugh run for political office? If he does not want the country to go in another direction, run for office, don’t be such a coward. Take the lumps like Obama did.

Rush “Periodontal Cyst” Limbaugh, leader of the republican party.

The Republican Party is a minority…and will continue that status if this guy keeps this up. (shrug) He is a proven addict in active addiction and his rants lean toward complete lunacy.

Rush Limbaugh is setting the stage for the Democrats of a COMPLETE take over of the Congress and Senate by 2010…..
I can see Emmanuel is smiling in the White house

Rush is the perfect right-wing poster-boy. He’s male. He’s white. He’s obese. Oh, and divorced three times. Great choice, folks.
Posted by: loganeagle | Mar 2, 2009 9:07:07 PM
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loganeagle, You make perfect sense, and we kat fully agree. That’s why we chose an affirmative action prez. who has zero experience and produced zero confidence on the Market, evidence by the downslide by 40% since his election to a level you haven’t seen since 1997.
Betya, you are not worrying about retirement yet, are you?
Ask your daddy if he will buy you a play station for christmas next year.

Gosh I sure hope Steele didn’t hurt the ole Oxy Moron’s feelings. Buck up Mr. Limburg.

The Republican party needs to look within itself so it may heal itself. For years they have lost touch and now focus on the hope Obama fails. They listen to Rush and Hannidy which are the very examples of what is wrong with the “Grand Ole Party.” Just look at its recent canpaine and past. The Republican Party shamelessly abandoned its values. Not only did Republicans disavow their leader (George W. Bush), they pressured presidential candidate John McCain into supporting far-right positions he had previously opposed, thereby destroying his political integrity. Meanwhile, the win-at-all-costs mentality of Republican strategists led to the adoption of an overridingly negative and cynical campaign strategy—one that attempted to demonize Barack Obama by portraying him as a terrorist and someone without a U.S. birth certificate. Even more shameful is that McCain and his campaign (with a handful of exceptions) tacitly endorsed calls for violence against Obama by failing to discourage rally goers who shouted “off with his head” and the like. However, the most irresponsible decision of the year was McCain’s choice of running mate, Sarah Palin, who was painfully unqualified and neither the reformer nor maverick she purported to be. From her very first public appearance it was clear the self-proclaimed “hockey mom” was in over her head, and although handlers bent over backwards to hide her intellectual shortcomings from the American people, she was ultimately exposed as being totally unprepared to be vice-president. Before pointing your fingers at Obama or anyone else, try looking at yourself and what you need to do.

Limbaugh has the GOP and Steele by the baxxs. Rush is a complete lunatic extremist nutjob, and the head of the GOP just cowtowed to him. THIS SHOWS YOU WHAT THE GOP IS REALLY ALL ABOUT. YES, THEY ARE ALL LIKE RUSH AND AS BAD AS RUSH, with a few exceptions. I AM GLAD THAT AMERICA IS FINALLY SEEING THEIR TRUE COLORS.

Limbaugh chickened out of Vietnam because he had a boil in his butt. Despite that, his flock treats him like he’s a great patriotic hero.

beebop |
Obama has been in office just over a month. This economy has been tanking for the last 8 years. When Obama warned that things would get worse before they’d get better he was right.
Bush had 8 years to screw up this country. I would think Obama would get at least 4 years to clean this fecial matter left over by the Republican tools!

shame, shame on Rush Limbaugh – and shame on the Republicans. I sad to say I am a registered Republican after those comments. “I hope he fails because he is doing something that is against American fundamentals – Capitolism” – well then I say lets go to true capitolism .. let the banks, car industry, AIG (which is where politicians have their investments and retirmement funds) fail because that is TRUE capitolism! Give the money that was spent on “bail outs” to the tax payers who would be happy to pay their mortgages, cars, bills – and afford to live.

Brian
Obama got 67 million votes. You folks like to throw aroud porky pigs 20 million listners but they couldn’t do a dam thing to stop the tidal wave brought on by Obama. Now, if it’s numbers you like, Oprah is someone who’s daily numbers crush Rush’s every day. I think she had more to do with this past election that that fat, sweaty, smelly, junkie! Got it?

MayBee:”CPAC is a political action committee. It is not the Republican party.”
Perhaps you missed that the ENTIRE point of this article is that Michael Steele, the Republican National Committee Chairman, the closest thing to a single person who is officially the Republican party, was forced to apologize for daring to say something critical of Rush Limbaugh. CPAC has nothing to do with that.

All of this with the Republican party is just too weird…it seems they can’t get it together…and if they cannot find a well spoken person of great character and use Rush Limbaugh..they are doomed.

Sadly, Rush Limbaugh is the spokesman for the Republican base which only proves how out of touch they are with reality and the facts which is pretty much the definition of insane. Steele needs to gather what is left of his integrity and sanity and get out of the Republican party. He will drown there.

That is a shame. I have lost all respect for Mr. Steel I mean Paper. Noboby in The Rushblican Party has any guts.After they talk the talk they dare not walk the walk. As an independent it pissed me off. Rush is the real leader of his party. At least he has strong convictions and does not back off.

wow rush really has the left scared thats all they talk about nowadays if they dont like him why do they talk about him every day maybe they are closet rush fans
Posted by: david reyes |
I’ll take this one:
Because by exposing the Republicans who are afraid to speak out against this lunatic, we expose just who the party is concerned with. Not the American people…but a fat, bloated, sweaty, smelly junkie. Got it?

How sad. Another African-American being put in his place by Limbo. Remember the “Magic Negro” reference by Limbo.

“Rush is not the new voice of the Republican party! He represents the minority of the Republican population.”
Tell that to the leaders of your party, who are apparently terrified of getting on Rush’s bad side.

Limbaugh – Hasselback 2012. The country’s biggest idiots join together to energize the base of the Republican Party. Can’t wait to watch Dumb and Dumber leading the blind.

LOL…just when you thought the GOP couldn’t sink any lower, a new bottom is reached. Keep on talking Rush…you’re the Democrats best chance to stay in power awhile…

It’s hard for me to figure out how an adult entertainer with only a high-school education has become the head of the Republican Party. Perhaps after George Bush they lowered their standards for leadership. But this is really scraping the bottom of the barrel. Hey, maybe Limbaugh and Coulter could lead the pack in 2012!

It’s obvious even to a blind man that Steele was given the RNC chairman ship because of his race. In reality he had no real power within the party. He’s nothing more than a figure head. He tries to throw around some clout, in this case trying to put Limbaugh in his place within the party and a power struggle ensues. No one in the RNC power elite came to his defense instead they, as someone put it, kowtow to Limbaugh. Forcing Steele to do the same. Steele is nothing more than a propped up puppet. If he were smart, he’d resign is chairmanship and jump this sinking ship.

Did anyone attend CPAC or even listen to any speech besides the one that was given by Rush? He is not a leader, he motivates Republicans to stand for what they believe in. He will never run for office, he is only a radio voice. The real leaders of the party are men like Newt Gingrich, who can see the new direction that the Republican party is taking and needs to continue to take. No on person at CPAC thought that Rush would be our new leader! This is all the media. The same media that has made Obama into some sort of a god and celebrity. He is our President, and that is it. No other President has ever gotten this much attention and it is sickening. They are putting on a show.

Limbaugh has a face and body for radio. Please don’t ever put this man on TV again. I have to get a larger TV screen just to see his whole body!
Obama has challenged Rush to settle their differences on the basketball court. ha ha ha ha he he he

WOW!!!…Just….WOW!!!

Young Republican. President Obama is the most powerful man on the planet. Sorry you hate that he gets attention. Rush gets attention for being an outspoken radio talk show host. He is no comparison to the President of the United States. Let’s make that clear!

I am in disbelief at the behavior of the Republicans party. HOw are they going to reach the moderatated votes like myself. I am for different parties, but not one that will continue to divide the American people with hateful words like hoping the President fail. I was no lover of Bush, but I didn’t want him to fail becasue that would hurt me as well. I have totally respect for any person that becomes our President and will hope him well. God said honor your leader and pray for them as well. God didn’t said any thing about a party leader, but pray for all leaders. God would not like where the American people have taken this country.

If you want to see how tolerant and mature liberals are just watch Tina Fey do Sarah Palin on SNL. Or how about Campbell Brown laughing at Sarah Palin when the news broke about her daoughter being pregnant. Spoiled rotten cry babies.

Rush has challenged obama to settle this in the food court :(

Hahahaha…. If you ride on the back of a tiger, you will soon get devoured.
Rush is a thug who spews hate daily and Steele has NO STEEL. Where are the men of character in the GOP?
This man hates and certainly has the platform. When he speaks, the GOP members tremble. Where is Mccain? Castrated?

Brett – rush has no arguments. He only has talking points and insults. No republicans have a solution. They are in seach of a leader to compete with Obama. They picked to “brown” people who have imploded – Jindal & Steele. The problem is that they don’t have a message, but they think looking for a messager is the problem.
If you are going to repeat the same talking points and continue along the same path that lost you the election – somehthing has to be said about the state of your party. They are in search of leadership when they should be in seach of a cohesive message!
Not only does Obama has a message he has an agenda and he is executing. You can’t fault him for that. At least he has a plan. If you don’t like the plan then let’s hear your plan. Your party doesn’t seem to have one.

Another four years of obama, YaHOO, we’ll all be on the govt. dole probably wearing a tracking device. If you like major control freaks running the show and you love social engineering than you’re going to LOVE the next four years.

Steele just turn to YELLOW, JELLO!!!
LOL

So Steele backs down to Rush.
I know he was elected under a tight and long voting process but seriously why is he sucking up to a radio talking head?
Thanks for making Rush the symbol of your party, Chairman Steele.

Dave – don’t you think that talking point is tired. It was tired when you guys used it during the campaign. Do you really think it is making any headway now?
Do you know the definition of insanity?
It repeating the same thing and expecting a differnt outcome. Your party is insane! (I mean that in the nicest way possible)

Rush,or pelosi, take your choice

How about the Republicans start thinking about something constructive to help get this country out of the hole it is in?
Who gives a crap about Rush Limbaugh? Steele said it correctly the 1st time, Limbaugh is nothing more than an entertainer who feeds off a bunch of cynical Republican followers.
It’s not just the Democrats that are laughing at all of this!

Rush,or pelosi, take your choice
Posted by: ap
I don’t get the comparison? One’s an educated speaker of the house and the other is a junkie with a radio show that appeals to toothless banjo players?

Let Limbaugh lead! More Democratic seats in the next election.

lol Gil lol

What a sad day for the Republican Party that their leader apologized for telling the truth about Limbaugh’s insane rantings.

Posted by: dimbatoo | Mar 2, 2009 10:13:17 PM
How about the Republicans start thinking about something constructive to help get this country out of the hole it is in?
Who gives a crap about Rush Limbaugh? Steele said it correctly the 1st time, Limbaugh is nothing more than an entertainer who feeds off a bunch of cynical Republican followers.
It’s not just the Democrats that are laughing at all of this!!!!!!!!!!!WE WOULD BUT YOU ELECTED A IDIOT

How sad that the party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower has descended to this: an ignorant, raving, lying fat man like Limbaugh.

Gopers are spineless mush. If they can’t stand up to a dopeheaded draft dodging liar like Rush, they don’t deserve to be allowed to run evena dime store.

Rush Limbaugh is a nut job along with the few wacko’s that listen to him.Rush wants Obama to fail and I want Rush to go prison for the felonies he committed. He could be somebody’s big fat girl friend.

I work on Wall Street – let me school you youngsters as to why the market is falling. The market is falling because the companies that compose the DOw are losing money. They are not worth what they used to be worth.
The news today that AIG lost 61 billion last quarter does not inspire confidence in the market. Every week the numbers get worse: unemployment, quarterly forcasts are lower than expected, The CPI is lower, GDP is shrinking.
THAT IS WHY THE MARKET IS TANKING – IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH OBAMA. This is the catastrophy both Obama and Paulson told you guys about, but you keep whining about bailouts. We have been in a recession for 15 months. None of this happened in the last month. It was September when Lehman failed, Merrill Lynch was sold, Citibank needed bailing out and John mcCain said “the fundamentals of the economy are sound”.
Newsflash – Obama has not been president for the last 15 months. He was not the President on September 15th when the market went down 700 points – who do you blame that on? The market doesn’t react to the “who”, it reacts to the “what”. The What is a sinking economy that has been sinking for a year and a half!

Bush’s approval rating at the end around 25%.
Rush’s approval rating among all Americans around 25%.
Percentage of Americans that trust Reps in Congress to fix the economy around 25%.
Surely even a Con can see the pattern here…. or can they?

Actually a fat, white, pill-popping windbag like Rush is about the best poster boy todays Republican party could ask for. It has been reduced to cowtowing to a “base” of extreme religious right and corrupt business leaders. Rush is like an emblem of todays Republicans, why shouldn’t he be considered their leader. It doesn’t really matter who they think their leader is, they are out of power and won’t have it back in thier current form at least, ever again.

bawlknee -
If you like that story then surely you like the story of Judd Gregg who lied about why he “just couldn’t be the commerece sec’t because he couldn’t support Obama”. Yea Right – they told him they had the goods on him – He steered money (earmarks)to a developement project on a closed Air Force Base. Of course he and his brother had real estate dealings on that very property. Hummmm – where is all the outrage. Gregg is a liar and a cheat – good riddance. Now you know why he announced he is not seeking another term – he was BUSTED!

“Today I saw a slave become more powerful than the Emperor of Rome.” (from the Gladiator.)
Today I saw a talk radio host become more powerful than the president of the United States.
Keep up those childish ad hominem attacks on Rush Limbaugh. Maybe that will silence him. Or make him more powerful.
Perhaps the president of the United States will challenge Rush Limbaugh to a debate, the way the emperor of Rome challenged the gladiator. Surely the president with his teleprompter will tear Limbaugh apart.
Didn’t the president threaten to tear apart Sean Hannity?

I’m so happy to see all the liberal hacks in one place speaking so much crab seems most see you forget that the conservative republicans are the ones that paid off bill Clinton deficit, restructured most government programs to make them more affordable track bill Clinton to the signing table kicking and screaming to sign welfare reform under George Bush allowed the democrats in Congress to spend like crazy with no regard to the American people now chairman Obama Princess Palose and chancellor reed are going to break this country. We need the real conservative republicans back to fix this mess like they always do.

Lisa
No, I am not that young, at all. Did you ever have a cardboard cut-out of a President? His logo of “change” has been adopted by everyone. It is all media. He needs to be looked at as our President, not as a celebrity or a god (as some have painted him). I don’t like Obama, but I hope he manages to help our country. However, I can not stand all of the hype that surrounds him. Also, yes Bush messed things up, but the economy is not all his fault, congress did not act either. I just hope things can be turned around. I don’t want to see Obama stay in the White House for 8 years, but I do not want him to fail the country for the 4 years (and it will only be 4 years) that he is in office.

Michael Steele looks incredibly weak kissing up to Rush. He is worthless at this point. Did he send Rush some bling bling and ask Rush to reach out to the one-armed midgets? lol lol
Did Bobby Jindal make up any more stories lately. I can’t believe that idiot made up that story about the sheriff becuase the sheriff is not alive to dispute him. what a scumbag.
Jindal should try out for the new Mr. Rogers – he won’t ever be the President of this Country. He is a liar and he can’t speak. We are getting real spoiled since we have a President with unmatched oratory skills.

oh too funny, watching the right wingers bash then apologize… of course we all know they are good at bashing, but now they are starting to learn how to apologize (to each other only, of course)… while the overwhelming majority of americans watch in disbelief, astonishment, and amusement (now that the right wingers are so ticked off that they have lost their power)

Looks like the beginning of the end for the Repubs……

What silliness. Limbaugh is a brilliant communicator. Limbaugh clearly expresses the conservative point of view.
Limbaugh contrasts and analyzes philosophy and most importantly lack of results, and in fact the damage the democrats have repeated wrought throughout history.
It is no wonder Obama is so afraid of him that the entire democrat party is on a mission to destroy Rush in particular and any dissenting speech by republicans in general.
I am sure dems would bow and claim we must understand and respect radical muslims and terrorists.
I am equally sure that dems seek to distort the views of republicans, not respect them. The usual lying canard of “racist, sexist, homophobe” is democrat lying stock and trade.
Free speech for terrorists but please eradicate republicans.
Two thumbs up for Saul Alinsky, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, but please eradicate republicans.
Democrats are very goal oriented. Eradicate threats to the democrat party power. Threats to the US can be dealt with some other time.

fred | Mar 2, 2009 10:35:22 PM
Your party is dead. Need more then the white base to get elected. No minoirty would ever want to join your racist party which used people like Sara Palin, Bobby Jindal, and Steel to try to fool people.

obama has his act together so much it is amazing… no wonder the rich are so upset… having the white house call rush limbaugh the voice of the republican party draws all the attention to rush limbaugh, which he loves, but which only serves to keep the republican party connected to the party of bullies, haters, and loudmouthed old white fat guys… the democrats and progressives need to keep enouraging rush limbaugh and ann coulter (another old white bully hater) so that the middle will see the correctness of obamas plan and not get so scared of real change… for if obama was not about REAL change, the right wingers wouldn’t be in such an uproar! dispite the hard times we are going through, we can pull through and we finally have a REAL leader who needs each and every one of us to become active members of our government… after all, that’s what ‘the government’ is… representation of PEOPLE, not corporations

Sorry, but Michael Steele is beginning to look like the protagonist in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s classic about the cabin.

So Sick Of BO BS: I am equally sure that dems seek to distort the views of republicans… Two thumbs up for Saul Alinsky, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, but please eradicate republicans.
This is too good. So you’re the one who accuses OTHER PEOPLE of distortion. Boy, talk about a textbook case of projection. You’d be funny if you weren’t so sad.

gl:So Sick Of BO BS – Then leave this country becasue Obama will be President for 8 years!
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Just like a dem to suggest cut and run. Republicans don’t cut and run. We are the ones that stand up and fight. We will try to save the country that Obama is trying to collapse.
Perhaps if you have a few facts to debate, or something besides the usual democrat intelligent retort of …nah nah nah nah nah nah…. we could have a real conversation.
Rush would have an issue based conversation. You are a clear example of what dems have to offer.

I’m disappointed in the GOP, not only did they lose my republican vote, they will continue to lose it in future votes, they are nothing but a mess and cannot get their act together. Come on, Palin, was a joke, and Rush is a lunatic, what kind of leaders are these? The Republican Party will no longer be in power, I bet that the next elections will all be democratic, not because of voters choice, but because the GOP dug their own grave, jumped in it, and now are burying themselves.

GO RUSH GO!!!!
Keep the GOP down in the dirt with your stupidity.
For a second there it looked like Steele might actually put your party back on a decent path.
It just goes to prove that stupidity wasn’t just a Bush trademark in the GOP.

How about those Daily Kos kids whose convention Obama went to? Wasn’t that sweet of the president to acknowledge those kooky kids?

Did Rush and company ever cite that they wanted Bush to fail?
He’s spent more than Obama and has little to none to speak for it.

So Sick Of BO BS: Perhaps if you have a few facts to debate…
I’ve looked over your posts and there are no facts in them, just libelious, bellicose rantings.

Can anybody say,”IMPLODE”…

shirleyA:”Obama started this crap with Limbaugh and why?”
I know you don’t much care for reality, but Limbaugh ‘started it’ by broadcasting to his millions of listeners that he hopes Obama fails, broadcase PRIOR to the inaguration. Obama called him out in the context of lobbying for the stimulus package, attempting to put pressure on Republicans in Congress to vote on the merits of the legislation rather than the volume of the loudest wing.

Way to go Rush! Its time for the republican party to clean house in 2010. If Rush is so irrelevant, stupid, and just a comic, how is it that he has become the most powerful political influence that the democrats fear without ever getting elected, graduating from college, or schmoozing with corrupt leaders in Washington?

I don’t think Steele should have made any comments for or against Limbaugh. He got caught in the Dim’s game and he’s the fool for it.

tcsieb: how is it that [Rush] has become the most powerful political influence that the democrats fear…
You haven’t figured it out yet? He works for us now. Think about it. Every time some Rep starts to take charge or actually lead the party Rush attacks him. He attacked Bush, he attacked McCain, he attacked Steele… He’s our boy on the inside and you all eat it up. ;)

So Sick of BO BS:”Perhaps if you have a few facts to debate”
You haven’t brought any, so I’ll throw a few out:
FACT: Republicans controlled the Executive Branch for the last 8 years.
FACT: Republicans controlled both or one house of Congress 6 of the last 8 years.
FACT: The two years Republicans were in the minority in the Senate, they launched a record number of filibusters – more than in the first century of our country’s existence in a single year.
FACT: In his first press conference in 2001, Bush promoted tax cuts to return to the people the SURPLUS he was projecting, “My budget also locks away $2.6 trillion of the $5.6 trillion surplus for Social Security over the next 10 years.”
FACT: After cutting taxes to deal with the surplus, he cut taxes to deal with a deficit. And fund a war.
FACT: After 8 years of Republican policies, the American people elected Obama by a margin only exceeded once – by the INCUMBENT Ronald Reagan in 1984.
Feel free to debate the facts, I’m actually calling it a night.

I came on here to make a comment about Limbaugh and find that I am just as disgusted by some of the liberal comments as I am by the conservatives. I actually don’t have a problem with Rush Limbaugh – I don’t agree with his opinions but I respect his right to state them. What I do not respect are the people that listen to his show daily and quote him as if they are making intelligent, independent observations. (The same COULD be true of the Democrats except they do not have anyone like Limbaugh with as broad of a listening base.) Limbaugh is an inflammatory radio personality. That is it – and he is very good at what he does. But to take his word as conservative doctrine is a sad reflection of how little time people will spend doing their own independent research to form their own positions.

Rush Rush- the reason he is so unpopular with libs is because he makes soo much sense… the reason that he is so popular with conservatives is because he enunciates what many many people have been thinking and there has been no outlet for that in the media. And Steele is a good man- maybe not so used to getting whacked around by the mainstream press and the attack demagogues. I’m glad he clarified his position and acknowledged Rush’s import.

The Republican Parties agenda is an endangered species headed for extinction…. now they are in a panic and don’t know what to do…. and now its “sooooo” entertaining to see them squirm !!!!

Now we know who leads the GOP, a big mouth, hate mongering, un-American fathead. I hope this puts the final nail into the republican coffin.

bob: Steele is a good man- maybe not so used to getting whacked around by the mainstream press and the attack demagogues.
Did you actually read the story we’re commenting on? Or did you listen to the Rush Follies today? The “attack demogogue” IS RUSH! He’s eating your leaders for lunch. Boy, you can lead a Con to information, but you can’t make them comprehend it.

Rush has challenged obama to settle this in the food court :(
I think Rush is great and vicious fat jokes are immature…..but that was funny.

Glen: Rush is engaging the President and his henchmen in direct debate.
You might want to check out the definition of direct and indirect. I think you’ll find that “direct” would mean that they were actually talking to each other face-to-face. While “indirect” is that they talk about each other.
Nice try though.

Good ol’Rush. For Democrats, he’s the gift that keeps on giving.

FACT: Republicans had 8 years in power, and got us into 2 wars and into the biggest economic crisis since the great depression.

As a Democratic supporter, I wholeheartedly support Rush Limbaugh being the de facto leader of the Republican party. It only ensures the we get Independents and Moderates voters to our side. So please, dear conservatives, keep it up guys.

Well, it’s been a blast grading all of your papers. But I’ve got to get some rest so I can be at work by 5:30am overthrowing Capitalism and promoting the philosophies of John Lennon and Groucho Marx.

Rush Limbaugh is now clearly running the Republican party. It’s a shame that he didn’t speak out against Bush for attacking a country (Iraq) that had nothing to do with 911. The trillions we spent in Iraq was the beginning of the down fall of America. Limbaugh said nothing when Bush gave the banks 700 hundred billion in stimulus last year. That was money that no one can now seem to account for. So now Obama has no choice but to spend to try to save the economy from going belly up. We need to stop criticizing what he is doing and pray that he is successful.

Join me in the chant you Obamanomics demoncrats…NoMoreYears…NoMoreYears…NoMoreYears

It would seem that the GOP has talked itself into a corner……….

Even my die hard conservative family is embarrassed by Rush.

Steele is just an Uncle Tom, I’m black so I can call him one. This just shows the trouble the republican party is in. It would be like Farrakhan being the voice of the Democratic party. Can anyone take the GOP seriously now

Uhhhh stop saying “Fact” before all of your OPINIONS.
And stop using a bunch of different names for your posts in an effort to make it look like a bunch of people agree with you.

Rush – keep firing up the GOP because the defacto result is that you fire up the Democrats. Fired Up – Ready to Go!
Go Obama!

…”So now Obama has no choice but to spend to try to save the economy from going belly up. We need to stop criticizing what he is doing and pray that he is successful”….johnnylee
johnnylee…no choice but to spend? No choice but to spend? You misguided sole! Where were you when Barney and Chris Dodd were spending the FNMA and Freddie Mac contribution money to their campaigns so they would not restrict them from buying more bad mortgages? Where were you when Chris Dodd gladly accepted a VP loan from Countrywide at lower interest rates than you and I got?
These guys were HEADS of the oversight committes to prevent all this from happening! NoMoreObama…his new motto…Kill the babies/free the killers!

Th th th th th th That’s All Folks

This is so funny that I can’t stop laughing. Steele mouthing off about Rush one day then coming back on his knees begging for forgiveness the next. And Steele claims that HE is the head of the Republican Party??? HAHAHAHAH! I guess Rush showed him. When they gave Steele that position as an “answer to Obama” I think they cut his (Bleeps) off when he took the job because now he needs to grow a new pair!

Rush is a multi-millionaire. He cares nothing for the poor, nothing for people down on their luck, nothing for drug addicts (even though he is one), nothing for veterans ( has he ever visited Walter Reed??). He wants this country to stay the same because it suits him and his pocketbook well. Most of his supporters are like moths to a flame – they blindly follow him even though most of them are getting burned by this economy right now.
I’ll bet he’s never willingly given to any charity in his life (except for the mandatory ones his accountant makes him give to)
What dunces you ditto heads are!!

The Dictatorship of Rush ushering in a new era.

Seriously, somebody is backing Rush by saying the Dem’s are using a statement of his ‘out of context’? Rush has made millions doing that exact same thing.
Rush is the leader of the GOP and he hides behind a facade of Reagan that he has created and made his followers believe. If Reagan was around today, he wouldn’t put up with Rush.
You ‘true-believers’ are doing nothing but splitting the Republican party and dooming them to minority status. You can complain all you want about RINO’s and ‘getting back to core values’, but if you’re not in the majority, you’re powerless. Does he really want a civil war in the Rep Party? That’s the greatest gift the Dem’s will ever receive.
Rush wants Obama’s plan to fail to help the Republicans, just like Dem’s wanted Bush’s plan to fail in Iraq to help their side. Same argument, different subject. Both sides are hypocritical.

James Danley, you are dellusional. Your hallowed “Reagan principles” are proven rubbish. “Trickle Down” does NOT work and leads to massive deficits. Don’t you realize that this is exactly what Americans rejected in November? The hateful monstrosity that is Limbaugh wants to take us back there. I was proud that Steele stood up to him, only to discover that Mike needs to grow a set! What a shame! Keep this up and Dems will be in power for the foreseeable future.

NoMore.. guess what? This Obama supporter owns 3,and has a $300K+ income. All this while my wingnut sibling lived in mama’s basement, and is only beginning to supporting himself at the age of 42.

NoMoreYears – I own 2 homes – but what does that have to do with anything? You believe that crap that Progressives are poor or on welfare?? God you people are pathetic.

YesWeCan, so what was all that “We support the troops, but not the policy!” by the Liberals? Many Liberals demanded that the Democrats immediately cut the funding of the war in Iraq–leaving our troops cut and dry-when they took control of both Houses of Congress in 2007. How was that not wanting and not advocating that we fail in Iraq?

WASHINGTON — Ron Kirk, nominated as U.S. Trade Representative in the Obama administration, owes an estimated $10,000 in back taxes from earlier in the decade and has agreed to make his payments, the Senate Finance Committee said Monday
OBAMA FAILS AGAIN
Posted by: david reyes | Mar 2, 2009 10:18:49 PM
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Where do I even begin … Sarah Palin; remember her? The “…, also” lady? Well, she just paid back $17,000 US on taxes! Feel better now? I.D.I.O.T!

umiboo – you don’t have an understanding of the Economy to you.
You guys are so jealous of the brilliant Obama your whole party is turning a wicked shade of green. Obama has been in office less that 40 days and you clowns are rushing to pin this Bush disaster on him
Let’s see, 9 months after Bush was in office 911 happened. What did you GOP boobs say? It was Clinton’s fault. Now Obama is in 4 weeks and all this hell is his fault.
No only are you guys unintelligent you are hypocritical as well. How can you ever expect to lead this country again. Come on.
Posted by: Julescator | Mar 2, 2009 10:21:27 PM
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AMEN brother! AMEN!

JamesD – the republicans specifically Bush, Cheney and Rumsfield are the ones that sent our troops to war with inadequate equipment, shoddy body armor and poorly constructed plans. How is that supporting our troops?
Those men and women who so courageously fought for this country went to settle a score for George W. Is that honoring our troops?

Obama sure did promise all his voters Change! Pocket Change that is! LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!

Obama sure did promise his voters Change! Pocket change that is! ROFLMAO!!!

Liberal policy truly is cruel. No respect for life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness.

Bush’s approval rating at the end around 25%.
Rush’s approval rating among all Americans around 25%.
Percentage of Americans that trust Reps in Congress to fix the economy around 25%.
Surely even a Con can see the pattern here…. or can they?
Posted by: OB-Wan222 | Mar 2, 2009 10:28:56 PM
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LOL … Best comment ever … On that note, goodnight:)

What a shame ABC editors. Who has freedom of speech anymore?

NoMoreTears- with all the write-offs for owning homes, I’m sure I’ll be able to keep most of what I make – just as I do now. What concerns me more is seeing property values depreciate because of the number of foreclosures. For every home on your block that forecloses your property depreciates by 9%. Seeing charities suffer – that bothers me more that having to pay a little more in taxes. Seeing emergency rooms over-flowing with non-emergencies because people can’t afford a primary care provider – that’s what bothers me. So you see, we either pay up front or we pay later, when your child or mother or brother can’t be seen in a timely fashion in the emergency room for a real emergency and suffers and dies – THAT’s what bothers me.
But see that’s something someone like Rush Limbaugh would never have to worry about, because he has Gold Plated Medical Insurance. Something most poor red states don’t have.

Let’s see. It took the former republican president and the democratic congress four years to over spend 4 trillion dollars in debt. Now it’s taken the new democratic president and his congress 42 days to spend 1.35 trillion… or about 30 Billion dollars a day… That will be 34 Trillion dollars during his tenure. I guess there’s a reason why they refer to the two political factions as PARTIES! Wake up American’s! Neither side would stand for this kind of reckless spending.

SKIP – LOL. Chicken little!!What a great line.

This isn’t about Rush’s right to free speech. It’s about the hypocrisy of the republican party. Rush would be screaming treason if the parties and comments were reversed. It’s about the embarassing fact that an entertainer can have this much power and control over your party leaders. Even those he never voted for. I hope Rush keeps on talking. It’s entertaining watching the party implode. BTW.. where is his flag pin?

Dear Beth White (see 12.26am)
While you are entitled to your opinion, you are not entitled to your own set of facts. Here are some corrections of yours.
1. By spending all of the 2000 campaign claiming “our military is not ready” Bush emboldened the terrorists. By doing nothing to increase our military readiness in 2001, Bush failed America, broke his campaign promise, and made us vulnerable. By ignoring written warnings about the jet attack, Bush helped the terrorists carry it out.
2. Bush ran up the deficit BEFORE the attack by spending $2.5 trillion to give a tax cut to wealthy Americans – and no one else – of on average $700,000 to each of those who received it.
3. After eight years of Clinton shrinking the size of government, Bush created a massive new branch of government, further exploding the deficit, when America already had a National Security Agency, which the other existing agencies could have been folded into.
4. Bush was the ONLY international leader to insist Iraq had WMDs – he even tricked Colin Powell into parroting the lies before the United Nations, in a speech that would have been unnecessary had ANY other major power believed Bush’s WMD lies. You don’t have to send a guy with more credibility than yourself to SELL an idea that others already believe in.
5. Despite that he had the receipts from where his Dad, the elder Bush along with Reagan and Rumsfeld, SOLD Saddam the WMDs, there were NONE found there. I’m just surprised the lying Bushies didn’t PLANT some and say they found them. That’s how devoid of WMDs Iraq was – Bush couldn’t even manage to plant some.
6. IF America cared a whit about Saddam’s alleged use of gas on Iraqi people in the 1980′s, we would have invaded THEN, or at least fully completed our invasion in 1990. Our government GAVE those biological weapons to Saddam with the expectation he’d use them against Iranian people in that long war, which he allegedly did, so the LIE about this invasion being about that is completely ridiculous.
7. Bush LOVED the blame game and played it from the beginning of his presidency, blaming EVERYTHING on Clinton, even last year trying to blame Clinton for the economic collapse. Now that we all know Bush is to blame for every bad thing we are suffering, Republicans say we shouldn’t worry who started the fire. Further, the GOP is trying to stop us from putting the fire out.
8. Bush spent eight years crippling the financial regulatory agencies by cutting their budgets and menacing employees who tried to do their job. He made certain the Bernie Madoffs were left alone. Clinton DID push through the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, so he is not at all blameless for this mess. He gave Bush the live hand grenade, but it was Bush who pulled the pin, then dropped it an ran before it blew the rest of us to bits.

johnnylee wrote: “Where were you when Bush spent billions destroying a small nation (Iraq) that did nothing to us??”
I guess you don’t recall that Iraq launched rockets at our planes over the no-fly zone. Or even at least one occasion when one of our planes was in Kuwait airspace?

If the Republicans want to follow Limbaugh and abandon any claim to the high ground, then that is the way it will have to be. As for me, I find Limbaugh disgusting, insulting, and vicious. I wish he would go away, but the mindset of the Republican keeps him on the radio so that all the world can hear his poison and be sullied by it.

I would much rather have Rush Limbaugh running the GOP than someone without a spine.
Question for Mr. Kaine: What did the Democrats do to President Bush if it wasn’t obstructionist???

James Danley – And be sure and remind AngieJ that in 1993 the Democratic congress and Pres Clinton passed the North American Free Trade Agreement. In 1995, the US became a Charter member of the World Trade Organization after Pres Clinton signed on, and then in 1999 Pres Clinton by Exective Order, gave China permanent Most Favored Nation Trade Status. Thus opening the doors to Export MILLIONS of jobs to China, Mexico, India, and other countries (Brazil, Vietnam, Thailand, etc).
Be sure and let her know that Pres. Obama voted as a Senator to expand NAFTA and on Feb. 20th annouced that NAFTA reform can wait, “I need to focus more intensely on killing the unborn”.

This war is lost.
Harry Reid
04/20/2007

Nomoreyears: You do think a little bit like Bush. So we should attack every country that is ruled by a two bit dictator that abuse his people. If that is the case, why dont we attack the Russians, Chinese, North Korea and a host of other countries with dictators that abuse their people. If America attacked countries to liberate their population from killer dictators, we would not be a super power very long. This Iraq war has destroyed our economy. We may have liberated Iraq but we have pretty much enslaved ourselves…

Curtis, when the government starts giving you “guidance” on what types of treatment your patients can receive based on a formula that factors in age, you might begin to see the error of your ways.
I am really interested in the opinion of the 40 million aborted lives on this topic, but unfortunately none are available for comment.

Oh this is rich! I will be paying more taxes under Obama’s plan because I’ve been fortunate enough to have a higher income. It’s okay NoMore. It’s not that big of an impact on my lifestyle. We’ll be fine. Someone has to get us out of Bush’s and the Republican’s 10 trillion dollar mess.

dmjakers, you are wrong!
2. The Bush 2001 tax cuts gave EVERYONE who paid taxes a tax cut. He lowered the bottom two tax brackets from 15% and 27.5% to 10% and 15%, respectively. An individual who made $25,000 saw a tax cut of about $310 in 2002. And individual who made $1,000,000 saw a tax cut of $5,911 in 2002. And individual who made $10,000,000 saw a tax cut of about $51,571 in 2002.
4. President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, many Democrats in both the House and Senate claimed that Saddam Hussein had WMDs. Some even claimed that the threat was imminent. Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) said that Iraq would have a nuclear bomb in 5 years. AND THAT WAS ALL IN 1998. And if you do the math, 5 years after 1998 was 2003. If Sen. Rockefeller HAD NOT BEEN LYING, then Iraq would have had a nuclear bomb by 2003.
6. Now then the fact that there were no WMDs in Iraq was irrelevant. We invaded Iraq because Saddam Hussein failed to comply with the conditions of the 1991 cease fire. After 12 years of trying to diplomatically convince Saddam Hussein to comply, the UN Security Council issued a final ultimatum. When it became clear that the UN Security Council would not follow through on its threat, President Bush issued his own final ultimatum. Saddam Hussein still failed to comply so President Bush kept his word.

Wakeup.. how many special needs children have you adopted and provided foster care for in your home? You know.. the ones with massive head bleeds on ventilators and feeding tubes? The ones that even the Catholic Adoption Agencies won’t accept. When people like you start taking responsibilty for these lives when they are out of the uterus, then your opinion on them in-utero will matter.

so because I have not been a foster parent to a child with a massive head bleed, I should not have an opinion on the liberal culture of death? Is that really your stance?

And does that ‘liberal culture of death’ apply to your beloved Bush and the lives he’s destroyed in the Middle East?

Angie, are you saying we should dispose of kids who do not have healthcare or clean clothes? Am I missing something?

Wakeup – yes you are missing something? Compassion for the children who are living here are on earth right now.

What an absurd idea those republicans have,to think that people should actually keep the money they have earned.All smart liberals know it is much better and fairer to send all your earnings to Washington to let our dear leader,the blessed Obama, decide who gets what and how much.

Wake-up-America writes: Angie, are you saying we should dispose of kids who do not have healthcare or clean clothes? Am I missing something?
AngieJ replies: Wakeup – yes you are missing something? Compassion for the children who are living here are on earth right now.
AngieJ, good thing your mom wasn’t only just compassionate for the children who were living on earth when you were born.

dmjakers – wow, lots of text but little truth!!!
1) Bush was Inaugurated into office on Jan 20, 2001. The terroist attack was on Sept. 11th, 2001. They were still putting the ‘w’s on the keyboards that the Clinton’s staff removed them. Not much tranfer of intelligence between the two.
2) Bush gave a tax cut because Clinton left him in the middle of a recession… or have you forgotten the “Dot Bust”?
3) After 6 years OF the REPUBLICAN controlled congress shrinking the size of social programs under Clinton. (Congress debates, modifies and passes the budget after submitted by the president).
4) In 1997, President Clinton Appear on the cover of Time magazine with Saddam and the title “showdown”. Pres Clinton said “You have used weapons of mass destruction before. We are determined to deny you the capacity to use them again.” He played the WMD card numerous times during his impeachment procedings.
5) Whatever, Saddam gassed numerous Kurdish villages killing over 100,000 in one campaign alone. I suppose gassing is not a weapon of mass destruction.
6) It was gassing, not biological weapons. Try and get the story straight. The gases used may have included mustard gas, nerve agents sarin, tabun and VX.
7) Let’s see; Clinton signed NAFTA, Joined WTO, gave China Permanent Most Favored Nation Trade Status, throwing open the doors to Millions of jobs relocation offshore to China, Mexico, Latin America, India… I can see your point. And don’t forget, the Democratic congress of 2006-2007 (Congress debates, modifies and passes the budget after submitted by the president) sat idlely by while the largest deficits in history were rung up.
8) Clinton handed him the grenade with the pin pulled and the handle gone…
Please get your facts right before correcting others.

AngieJ, after 9/11 President Bush decided to no longer respond reactively–after the fact. But rather proactively–not to allow a potential threat to become an imminent threat before responding. After several years of the Democrats LYING about WMDs in Iraq; and the Clinton Administration’s LYING about WMDs in their briefings that they gave to Bush during the very short transition; and believing those lies, President Bush decided to implement the regime change that Congress gave President Clinton in 1998.
Yes the UN was begging for us to wait. Well we had waited 12 years for Saddam Hussein to comply with the conditions of the 1991 Cease Fire. As I just mentioned in my last comment, the UN Security Council issued its final ultimatum. When they refused to act on it, President Bush issued his last ultimatum. Saddam Hussein called his “bluff” (as he believed it to be, thanks to Germany, France and Russia convincing him that we would not invade) and lost.
Now then, just hours before the invasion was to begin, Turkey denied us the use of their airspace to send in troops into northern Iraq. Instead of delaying the invasion until the heat of the summer, President Bush decided to go ahead with the invasion without the northern flank. This was a costly decision because it allowed Saddam Hussein and his Republican Guard to escape out of Baghdad; and it also meant leaving the Syria-Iraq border to be wide open. That allowed the foreign fighters to enter Iraq in droves.
Even with the so-called “inferior” equipment Saddam Hussein’s Republican Guard was no match. Most of the military lives lost during the war have been due to IEDs and suicide bombings. Sec. Rumsfeld is right. You do fight with the army that you have. But you also adapt as the war goes on.
Finally, had we not invaded Iraq and it turned out the Iraq did have WMDS and actually used a nuclear weapon on one of its neighbors or worse yet, Israel, you would all be blasting Bush for not heeding the warnings. We did not prove that Iraq no longer had WMDs until we actually invaded Iraq.

the GOP is unhinged and unravelling…which considering their leaders are:
Limbaugh
Rove
Hannity
Joe the Plumber
Glenn Beck
not a single one of them has college degree, and their current leader of leaders is a drug addled felon…
add to that Palin and Jindal and you have a complete mess…they are on their way to complete oblivion, which is very concerning, as democracy has to have an effective opposition.

Hoofman writes:If I can afford the higher taxes because the economy improves and I don’t have to pay as much for medicine, then I don’t give a flying flugle if they go up.
Hoofman likes the higher home taxes! That makes two so far! Who else embraces God Obama’s higher home tax proposal? Come on and step up with your spin of the night! Last Call,Obama lovers..tell me how much you will enjoy the lower deductions and the higher taxes on your home. Tell me what a brilliant decision God Obama is making when the home prices are falling and the foreclosures are increasing! Step up and tell me the spin and win!

Johnnylee, our economy was booming from Sep 2003-Dec 2007 in spite of the two battlefronts on the War on Terror. Having said that, of course the economy would have been even so much better without the War. And it would have been even better yet without 9/11. Without the War causing Bush’s poll numbers to tank, the Democrats wouldn’t have taken back the Congress in 2006. And the Republicans may have had a large enough majority in the Senate to actually headoff the financial crisis that the Bush Administration warned about in 2005 and 2006.
Finally, the missile attack on our plane in Kuwaiti airspace, alone, was enough to invade Iraq.

Wow, Steele, you’re supposed to be the republican party leader. Way to delegitimize yourself! You might as well quit!

AngieJ, you are correct that history will tell. However, I believe that history will be very kind to President Bush. Afterall he did liberate 50,000,000 oppressed Afghanis and Iraqis. And if Afghanistan and Iraq become thriving democracies and roll models for their neighbors, maybe some of their neighbors will follow suit and become democracies as well. And that would be a very positive influence on the peace process in the Middle East. Time will tell.

Rush put himself in the news with an hour and a half long spiel of hate on cspan the other day. It’s not surprising he now feels picked on, of coarse he does, he’s a narcissist! Nothing is his own doing!

But if I wasn’t involved in any charities you’d still beat your breast and say “we kill the innocent with reason and enlightenment that the world will be a better place for the rest of us”.

Don’t like RUSH LIMBAUGH- GO TO YOU TUBE search for the video- “RUSH LIMBAUGH IN THE TOILET” ,, have fun !!!!

If the poster down below wants to talk about drug users, one has to look no farther than the White House.
Also, look at the Democratic Ship of Fools that have managed to run this country straight into an iceberg. Their solution? Wire ashore for money and raise taxes on the life preservers.
All within two years. Amazing. And with all the tax cheats coming out of the woodwork the Dems want to focus on Rush and Steele.
It is not beyond the realm of possibility that Americans realize that neither Rush nor Steele have anything to do with the current economic situation, but always seems to come back to the Democrats they’ve elected to power. But, given that their minds are molded by the MSM, Hollyweird and Liberal educators for (at least) the first 13 years of their lives, it is no wonder.
Oh, and as far as college degrees, I believe Biden is college edumacated…and that should be scary to any American.

Most of this discussion is just calling names, which only elevates the animosity and agreement which already exists. It is totally unproductive. I value my time, so I’m not looking to pick fights and call names. If I am to take the time, I hope that perhaps I can say something in a way that might make someone think, and not cause them to kneejerk in anger and shout back. Calling one another names and jerks — that’s for 5 year olds. Perhaps there is a little wisdom in both the conservatives and the liberals? Isn’t that possible?
And to think that this world is static and that what worked 100 or 200 years ago should work now is not realistic either. Whole countries and isms have come and gone in 200 years. Feudalism – gone. City states — gone. The world is no longer flat — people used to be imprisoned or burned for saying that. So calm down a bit – be humble.
Now – as to politics — I don’t like paying taxes like many of you. And like many of my middle class compatriots, I’m not a high enough wage earner to be able to take advantage of all the tax loopholes — writing off a car for business, or lunch meals, or for a second house (much less a 1st one), and I don’t have enought money to have to worry about tax shelters or deferred income, and I don’t have a CPA to “structure” my income, etc. Like one of my past bosses, I have never been able to write off parties at my second home in Hawaii, or suntan lotion and sun glasses I bought while in Hawaii. By the time that boss was done, he paid less in taxes than I did on my crummy little $45,000 a year job.
Now, does that really seem fair to anyone??
And does it seem fair that someone who makes $45,000 a year simply can’t afford to get sick because health insurance is so outrageously expensive these days (try $850 a month to COBRA when I left my last job — and I haven’t had any medical problems in over 10 years). . . . does that seem fair ??
Do I want to keep up competition on the job market? Yes. Definitely. Do I want to reward initiative? Yes. Definitely. Do I want to see our corporations encouraged not to ship jobs overseas, but to invest in their citizens here at home? Yes, I do.
So, now I’ve managed to get through a whole post without throwing insults — that wasn’t so hard.
How about trying that???

It’s really sad. I think it might be that Americans have gotten more wise more quickly recently, and the politicians and political players throughout the nation simply haven’t had time to re-learn. So now we get to watch them all banter and wobble around like teenage school girls in a gossip fight while our soldiers are out bleeding on the battle field. Next generation, how about making truth and integrity part of your character, instead of part of your act? We need to rebuild again.

Rush(the comedian) Limbaugh is the captain of the RIP/GOP ship and he is sailing it right into oblivion..for that I say “Thank you Jesus”. The Republicans have damaged our country’s economy and is responsible for the deaths of more than 4000 of our wonderful men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan..also the more than 25,000 of our soldiers who are incapacitated and would never enjoy normal life..in addition the thousands that will return home with post traumatic syndrome and most would never be the same again..some have committed suicide..some who were before wonderful husbands are now beating and threatening the wives and family…the results of a baseless war which in addition to the forementioned, also contributed to the weakening of our economy..anyone who thinks there is no connect between spending more than 10 billions dollars a month to keep the troop in Irag and the current economic situation..need to pull your head out of the mud. Rush Limbaugh is not as popular as he once was and most people view him as a joke..as a matter of fact..most people the Republican party as a joke…Can someone out there tell me of one Republican president that balanced the budget and left us with a surplus? I can answer for you…NONE! I can name three Democratic presidents that left us with a balanced budget and a surplus(Bill Clinton being one of them) and if the RIP/GOP people leave Obama alone..I am sure he will do the same as the other three. Obama is too smart for those unschooled GOP leaders..Rush,Hannity and the other leader do not even have a college degree…there you go..with these pooh pooh head people running the RIP/GOP. I am having a good time watching the RIP/GOP self destruct.

Why people cannot understand that Rush Limbaugh is a political comedian is beyond me..now this clown is the leader of the RIP/GOP.

Obama is probably the smartest president that we have ever had and he knows just how to handle those dumb RIP/GOP people..he’s got their number..Obama knows how to play the game and will be popular with the American public for all of his first term..much to the chagrin of the RIP/GOP and he will receive a second term and leave office as one of if not the most popular president we ever have..The is just too smart for Rush,Hannity and the other RIP/GOP leaders who don’t have a college degree..I read that a lot of these right wing radio commentators who are now the leaders of the RIP/GOP don’t even have a college degree? Check it out for yourself if you don’t believe me. These are the guys who are trying to compete with Barack(the brain)Obama.

“Never mind the fact that the economic plan is so well received that the markets are still tanking.” From the party that’s focusing on Michelle Obama’s arms, this is irony indeed.

I think Steele did the right thing to apologize to the leader of the Republican party (Rush the comedian Limbaugh)

Hurray! Finally the GOP found a true leader, Mr. Rush Limbaugh who is by the way a drug addict, goes to South America with a bag of viagra, 3 times divorcee and finally, wants Pres. Obama to fail.
The Republican party should nominate him to be their next presidential candidate in 2012. Rush will be a terrific leader for their party. He’s absolutely a true winner! Good luck and way to go.

This is becoming scary!
The Chairman of RNC eating the humble pie and proclaiming Rush Limbaugh as a National Conservativative Leader?
It makes me remember the Biblical story of Esau selling his birthright for a plate of porridge. Its so pathetic.
It reminds of how Hitler, an enlisted Soldier from the back waters of Vienna, through his power of oratory, took over a German Party.
The consequence of good men keeping quiet while evil men make the loudest noise lead to the carnage of the second world war.
We are on the march again!
We talk of Country first. But some evil People would rather the Country becomes a failed State than for them to remain in opposition.
If you want President Obama to succeed, send an e-mail to the Sponsors of Mr Limbaugh to prevent the hate messages from gaining further traction.

The price of having 20million uneducated, high school drop-outs and ignorant Conservatives tunning in to Rush Limbaugh’s radio show.
These set of People are easy to brainwash. And Mr Limbaugh is making a success of the brainwashing.
When a hen perches on a rope, neither the rope nor the hen will be at rest.
Let them continue to wish that Obama fails and see how they plan to succeed.

This forum is too funny to take serious. I hate to admit this but the Democratic Party is the party of Intellects, Thinkers, Socially Aware, & Conservationists. Republicans are simply the party of Haters & Sheeple. Who ever screams the loudest, cracks the whip, and points you in the direction, they follow along.
Sorry to be so blunt but it is honesty at its best.
Peace!

Anyone ever read Saul Alinsky? The tactic is to divide the political parties.

Dare Nigeria,
“These set of People are easy to brainwash. And Mr Limbaugh is making a success of the brainwashing.”
Rush is Jim Jones on steroids (or whatever it is he gets off on). I fully expect Limbaugh to find an island for his sheeple to inhabit any day now.

Socialist policies are viewed favorable by 57% or Americans, versus 30% unfavorable. Socialism here we go! We won’t even need a stock market 5 years from now.

The comments about Rush’s education are too funny when the majority taking the swings seem to be aspiring Government dependents.
None of us know our President yet most of us like him or at least give him the benefit of the doubt in these times. However, one can like a person and absolutely disagree with his positions.
Government not enforcing the rules already on the books has led us down a slippery slope that will be difficult to climb up. So far all the hurried and rushed solutions has failed to bring the banks back, yet we see a government hurrying on to other things that could wait for awhile while the economy keeps tanking.

Rush is the best thing that has ever happened for the Democrats. Following him pretty much assures the Republican’s of not winning any majority or high office for the next twenty-or-so years. The Democrats love it and keep bringing him up for that reason. It was really disheartening to see the RNC Chairman “cave in” to him.
I had hoped for more.

For those who support/follow/agree with Rush – During the Terri Sciavo fiasco, Rush declared her to be “concious”, in an attempt (I guess) to rile folks up to go down to Florida. To demonstrate, in front of her hospital, to force her medical personnel who later determined that she had less than half a brain left, to keep her alive by artificial means.
Against her will, against her husbands wishes, in defiance of the courts, in defiance of the opinions of the medical people who were actually treating her, Rush sided with Jeb Bush, who tried to send the State Police into the hospital room to enforce HIS wishes.
Just after this extreme example of an invasion of privacy, Rush went on a tirade. He said the one thing I’ve ever agreed with him on. He said the government had no rights prying into an individuals personal business. The reason? A prosecutor was trying to get access to Rush’s medical records as a part of the investigation into Rush Limbaugh’s illegal purchase and use of oxycontin.
For those of you who support Rush, and wish him to be the ACTUAL leader of the Republican Party, remember one thing: Rush Limbaugh has one priority, and exactly one overriding interest, and that interest is Rush Limbaugh.

“This forum is too funny to take serious. I hate to admit this but the Democratic Party is the party of…”
Intellects – Because if you don’t agree with us, you must be stupid.
Thinkers – Just because it’s been tried and failed before, think about it and try again.
Socially Aware – Because those people that can’t get ahead in life, it’s not their fault. Let government step in and help them better themselves. Those that did get ahead in life can pay for it.
Conservationists – Or in other words, give the government power to regulate your private property for the “good of the environment”.

Syndicated Columnist, Star Parker, has written an excellent column entitled “Back on Uncle Sam’s Plantation.”
Read it and make your own decision as to whether you want to “accept Barack Obama’s invitation to move onto the plantation.” Or you “can choose personal responsibility and freedom.”

How low can they go? Stooping to pimple butt oxy boy to lead them is a great way to join the trash heap of failed political parties. I love it.

“Isn’t Michael Moore the head of the Democrats if Limbaugh is the leader of Republicans?”
Democrats need a new chew toy now that Bush is gone. Limbaugh is a classic favorite that is always in the toy bin to pick from when they need it.
To be honest however, Steele wasn’t a great pick for the RNC. They could have done better.
The fact that the President is paying any attention at all to a radio host is a little puzzling. They must be trying to drum up support for a bill to shut down talk radio is the only thing I can think of.

OK, let me get this straight… the chief spokesperson for the Republican party is a pill-popping, sex-addicted, narcissistic, ego-maniacal RADIO TALK SHOW HOST, who primary interest is spreading a niche ultra-conservatism through vicious personal attacks and general hatred? I guess Republicans truly did not or will not learn the lessons from the past two elections. Well, then… RUSH 2012!!!

Mr. Danley – as long as Republicans refuse to work in a bipartisan manner set themselves in the role of obstructionists, Mr. Obama will do what he has to to fix the legacy problems that were thrust on him. Republicans are isolating themselves and allowing themselves to be painted with a particularly unflattering brush ala Limbaugh. I seem to remember a great many campaign promises made by your president Bush which were not only broken but stepped upon and crushed.

“as long as Republicans refuse to work in a bipartisan manner set themselves in the role of obstructionists”
Both parties are guilty of this, it’s called politics. I find it extraordinary how people will conveniently package their view of reality differently depending on if their party is power or not.
The fact is the “obstructionism” was intentionally put into our government. How often has the Democrats touted the tyranny of the majority? Yet here is a minority party, employing the same tactics that Democrats used when they were the minority party and popularized as the struggle to protect the minority, and suddenly the labels change. It’s fascinating isn’t it?

I don’t envy President Obama. The GOP messed up the Economy in eight unbroken years.
He’s being the President for less than three months, he has taken bold steps at revamping the comatose economy.
Despite all his effort, some miscreants, I said SOME Miscreants (bcos some of them are reasonable People) in the oppostion are getting so impatient.
They stupidly in the name of partisanship sat through President Bush’s bastardization of the Economy without a whimper. But now that President Obama is working frantically as if he is on steroids, in order to clear the mess they left in the Country, they would rather throw spannner in the works to thwart his effort.
These People are sick and they care only for power and not the responsibility that goes with the authority.
They keep shouting Tax Cut as if that in itself will clear the mess they pooped on the Country in the last eight years.
Give President Obama a chance. Give him four years to clear the eight years mess.
If he fails to revamp the economy in four years, vote him out.
But for now, he needs the cooperation of all and sundry to take us to eldorado.
Bickering and senseless partisanship will kee dragging the Country to the abyss.

Limbaugh is put forward as a distraction from economic policy.

wow!!!
The GOP is now lead from a Radio talkshow.
I guess we understand why the GOP call investing in American schools wasteful spending and investing 1$ trillion in Iraq ‘liberation’.
What a confusion.
Hope the GOP stays in this EXIL forever.

The Republican Party apparently has a death wish…………when its best and brightest are Limbaugh, Jindal, Palin, Steele and the other graduates of the Clown College…..I suspect the Republican Party will be in the wilderness for 40 years…………Oh, Moses, where are you when the Republicans need you?

Has Rush’s EGO gotten as BIG as his ASS over all this… or what? Poor, poor pitiful Republicans… I’d worry more about Boehner than I’d worry about RuBaugh.

NeitherParty Writes : ” I’m actually directly involved in 4; and none are related to the Right to Life. One is a community based program for disadvantaged youth. I’m working with about 20 kids now. The second is an international aviation rescue organization. The third …
Sure you are. I’ll bet you found those on the internet. Oh and you still didn’t tell me which charity Rush is involved in.
That fat blow hard is only involved in the charity of Rush.
I guess he’s Steele’s Kryptonite. ROTFLMAO
He made Steele look like an A**!

AngieJ – And as I said “But if I wasn’t involved in any charities you’d still beat your breast and say “we kill the innocent with reason and enlightenment that the world will be a better place for the rest of us”…
In 2007, Limbaugh donated $2.1 million dollars to The Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation benefiting children of Marines and law enforcement personnel killed in the line of duty. He also donated a letter from Senator Reid’s, that was auctioned off on ebay for the same amount. Intoto $4.2 million for that charity.
You probably already knew that didn’t you? You just wanted to see if I knew it too. Keep beating yourself… someday your IQ will catch up with your age.