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SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 02/05/2009 : 06:33:26
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"He is the most exalted Republican. He is the leader of their party. They have submitted to him in the Congress. They quake at mighty Rush. And he's the one that's setting the Republican agenda. They don't care what Michael Steele says. He can go do anything he wants. And we just have to acknowledge that kind of awesome political power within the Republican Party where it exists. And I was acknowledging power and hypocrisy which is, you know, two things that are in abundance in Washington.
"These Republicans are scared to death of Rush Limbaugh because he is the most powerful person in that party. Which is kind of odd that a political party has a radio talk show host as its intellectual power house, but that's today's Republican Party, and we Democrats have to acknowledge that."
It's pretty sad to see an American political party fall all over themselves to please someone like Rush Limbaugh. Then again, if they want to follow that clown over the proverbial cliff, by all means be my guest.
Full transcript below the fold:
It is a mystery to me as to how some bloated, draft-dodging, treasonous, pig-ignorant, serial-lying, drug-addicted, Viagra-sucking (and, evidently, Viagra-stealing) suspected pedophile & woman-hater has any credibility at all, with anybody at all, much less any authority. But this pustular boot-scraper on the doorstep of Gehenna has, which is an interesting comment on conservatism in general and the Republican Party in particular. Oh, and I'll include the Blue Dog Democrats and all too many Independants in that as well. In the spirit of bipartisanship, you understand. Never let it even once be said that I ain't bipartisan enuff.
So where might Rush lead his merry band of neo-Israelites? Out into the desert, no doubt. There, he will burn a bush (no, not that one – sorry), cast down tablets of stone, and whine about God sending no more manna because President Obama is shuting off the spigot.
Might be fun to watch, it might...
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2009 : 07:55:05 [Permalink]
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I have a soft spot for Carville... And I agree with his analysis, Rush Limbaugh is nothing but more of the desastrous policy of the past 8 years that put the country and the Republican party into so dire a situation. His recent remark about hoping Obama would fail is nothing short of 'anti-American' (I guess, it's not like the word means anything).
Why the heads of the GOP are waving their tails each time he speaks is beyond me. |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 02/05/2009 : 17:55:56 [Permalink]
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Rush Limbaugh has absolutely no office in the Republican Party. Carville is utterly right, though. The GOP bigwigs are afraid of Rush, not vice versa. Functionally, Limbaugh is the head of the GOP. Unless and until the official Republican leadership seizes the reins and firmly disowns him (and Hannity, Coulter, et al), their party will remain disorganized, radicalized, and marginalized.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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James Carville: Rush rules!
