Jun 11 2007
Laughable Limbaugh
I had to run a quick errand and decided to do a check in Rush today. I have been off talk radio for a while (and man, is it nice). Anyway, Rush was trying to pin the blame for the stalled immigration bill on Harry Reid and divert accusations that the loss of the bill was a GOP problem, specifically with Bush, Kyl and McConnell. Now that is a strange tact to take for an ultra-conservative? Bush, Kyl and McConnel are fighting to get the very bill passed the immigration hypochondriacs crowed about last week as THEIR greatest political success in some time. They were patting themselves on the back for stopping that crazed Jorge and his un-American allies on the immigration bill. I thought they were going dislocate their shoulders!
Yet this week Rush is defending Jorge, ….excuse me,… President George Bush and Kyl while trying to lay blame on Harry Reid! Not to mention there is no more taking credit for the bill’s demise at all. What changed? Why is Rush saying “hey, it wasn’t us or Bush, it was Dingey Harry”?
I can only think of one thing that would cause those who cheered themselves for stopping the bill one week to now try to pin the blame on Reid. Maybe all those moderate (un-American, quisling, traiterous, open border promoting, amnest loving, immigrant abusing) conservatives are turning the dial back to FM Rock (I know I am and just about everyone in may family is). What happened? Did Rush see some viewership numbers that told him the path to riches doesn’t come by bashing moderate conservatives?
I don’t know. I am just speculating. But I find it funny those who made it their mission to defeat the bill, and crowed out loud last week when they thought they killed it, are now trying to blame Reid and defend Bush. Very interesting…..
Yes, the right really does have to perform some mental gymnastics to pin the defeat of the immigration bill on Harry Reid. As majority leader he did pull the bill, duh… That does not mean he was responsible for it demise. The noise was empirically loder from the far right to include the “crowing” crowing afterward. Meanwhile, criminals here illegally continue to do whatever they want with no fear that this will be brought up at any deportation hearing. The door is open for more to come in. Thanks to the far right we still have nothing.
Hey Rush where is your plan? Where is the enforcement? Where is the fence? That is about as far as your though processes got is’nt it? Just complain.
The immigration bill = the Social Security fix. Make em legal, make em pay taxes, kick the SS can down the road for someone else to pick up.
I don’t like the class warfare talk about which Rush is instigating a bit. And I do love Rush. But he is wrong on this.
I really do believe there are those who despise corporate America or what they call “big business”. But they are again, shooting off their noses to spite their faces. A bit of an inferiority complex raising it’s head? There has to be something causing this as the emotional response to this issue is waaay too big. Too many people are being asked to raise up their “lower selves” and base emotions….and not asked to be their highest and best selves, imho.
Let the bill process proceed. We need a fix to our problem NOW.
I used to get excited and upset reading all the immigration posts but now I find it all quite amusing….twisting facts and polls for each agenda…all the extremely creative rantings…. my best chuckles are here – thanks to all!!!
My stepson is in Iraq – so keep it going – I can use the diversion.
I listened a little to Limbaugh and Hannity last week and it seemed to me that if any Hispanics were listening then these morons on talk radio were guaranteeing a vote for democrats.
It wasn’t just the hosts but the call-ins. Man, it was ugly.
Maybe the RNC got with them on taking points.
I think Harry Reid did try to kill the bill for fear that Kyl and McConnel would get enough amendments in it to gain votes from more conservative members.
But considering the amount raving and bellowing and the right did over this bill and considering the little victory dance they did when it was tabled and considering the mindless adoration they heaped on Democratic Senator and populist Dorgan for his poison pill, it is a little late to back off all that venom now.
Jaqui:
I hope he comes home ok. I remember when my cousin went over there and his Dad sent us all the pray for my boy emails, and then a couple of other cousins went as well. So far so good. I hope your step son comes home safe and sound.
Terrye again the rethoric is something else.Thank God Chavez had a good piece in the National Review that points this outs
I keep hearing Americans believe it or not talk about people working her as peasants!!!! Did I just wake up in 18 th Centruy Russia or something. Unbelievable
Limbaugh never strays far from carry water for the GOP hierarchy, period; Michael Savage is correct on this one .
The Rush melt down really hurts me personally. I had a 12 or 13 year affair going with him and it was hard to leave. But as I said last week, I had to turn Rush off so I wouldn’t end up despising him. That was around last spring, 2006 I think. I still read occasional transcripts and catch a few min. in the car here and there… and each time my decision is reinforced, sadly.
Last week I caught about 30 min. total of Hannity on the radio, in two pieces. Must have been Thursday. I was genuinely shocked and appalled to hear him openly and repeatedly calling for “Killing the bill…” He kept saying, come on people! We can do this! We’re almost there… keep up the pressure! Then, he kept talking about some unnamed “fundamental principle” that was at stake… maybe he eventually named the principle but I never heard it and then I arrived at my destination, mercifully.
Jaqui:
Please PLEASE send Carolyn Blashek the name/address of your step son. Carolyn is the founder of Operation Gratitude and she will be delighted to make sure your son’s company gets lots of care packages. I just did a collection last weekend of about 14 boxes full of stuff for Op Gratitude, and it is the most wonderful way to spend time and a few bucks. And you wouldn’t believe the response from people — most Americans dearly want to do something for the troops, but they just don’t know how.
Carolyn has built a tremendous and huge organization from a very small start up. Last year she was invited to the WH by GWB for a special dinner and honors.
Check out the org here:
http://www.opgratitude.com/
Send email to:
cblashek@aol.com
(this addy is public, and posted on the website)
P.S. If you send items to Op Gratitude, be sure to put a Beanie Baby in every box. Beanie Babies save lives — literally! Our soldiers use them to barter with Iraqi kids for information on bad guy and IED locations. Plus the toys help establish good will all around.
LOL. It wasn’t so very long ago he was carrying water for Bush, according to Michael Savage.
Great news! The Michael Medved interview with Sen. John Kyl last Friday has been made publicly available at the link below — should be the first item in the list here:
http://michaelmedved.townhall.com/TalkRadio/Show.aspx?ContentGuid=d945e7dd-7c8a-42b5-8852-e35c4ecc8138&RadioShowId=4
Terrye, remember to listen for the mention of Romney’s recent remarks.
That’s what I said, Sue.
That’s what I said, Sue.
That’s what I said, Sue.
BigLsu
You read Big Lizards analysis that put the ball in Reids court since you commented there under a variation of your name here.
As he said, Reid dumped the bill into limbo when he was loosing control of the agenda on the bill.
Even Kennedy was slipping away from him because he has been the lead charger on the immigration reform since almost before there was immigration.
Man since AJ has pegged any one who points out issues with this bill as whatever the term today of choice is, I guess I will have to quit listening to those damn liberal talk shows like Limbaugh since I am so far to the right I need the Hubble telescope to see Pat Buchanan’s a$$.
The dems looked at the data and realized they were aborting their young in such numbers that they were going to be marginalized just purely by demographic self imposed quasi genocide.
They seized on the illegals as another victim class group they could adopt as replacements to the “lost generation” without having to do all the dirty work of taking responsibility and having to change all those diapers of their own offspring and crimping their style.
Down the road they are going to have to balance the brown agenda and the black agenda which is really going to be a trick.
Even the Governator had to move prisoners around among jails recently with a waiver from the courts due to the emergency situation of racial unrest between those two groups in the prison system.
He had to do the unPC thing of invoking segregation to stop the bleeding and is only now slowly reversing the trend.
AJ
I Rush is such a problem for you, why didn’t you email him to say take me off your must read list of daily prep sites or at least give him the fickle finger of fate much earlier than now?
I can probably search back and find times you blushed and gushed about the Rush avalanche of traffic you benefited from.
Now tell me how Rush has jumped the shark on this issue and you are the steady as you go consistent with all your past pronunciations.
I think an impartial review would find otherwise.
MerlinOS2
The problems are both. Republicans were getting increasing upset at Republicans that were just trying to filibister through amendment. Trent Lott was quite vocal on this.
Merlin, have you not noticed that just about everything is up for grabs in this debate? I told you above the same thing A.J. is talking about — I rode on the Rush bus for 13 years, but had to get off when he lost his senses over immigration — well over a year ago. Now, I find myself cheering for John McCain, who I’ve never really liked in the past. Ditto that for Lindsey Graham. I am also able to say without wretching: Ted Kennedy is on the right side of this issue, minus a few of the really liberal amendments of course. (Which I am counting on Pubbies to fix along the way in the process.)
Another disappointing development to me is the grossly irresponsible role of FoxNews. With the exception of Brit Hume’s hour, and the WSJ Roundtable show (which Fox nearly disowns and refuses to promote), the rest of Fox’s news programming has been extremely disproportionately anti-immigration and anti-Bush for many many months now. They promoted the hell out of the despicable scam artists The Minutemen and slimy Chris Simcox, for example. O’Reilly routinely turns over his program to two of the most obnoxiously self-righteous and shrill anti-immigration chicks on the planet. John Gibson started competing with Lou Dobbs for nutcase of the year at one point — even giving the “North Am Union” conspiracy theory a ton of coverage.
The biggest shock to me was the banter around National Review’s Corner blog. Oy. That is why I was very surprised and pleased to see today’s Linda Chavez article — published by Nat’l Review itself. Maybe a few people are realizing how off-the-rails this “debate” has become, and maybe we are approaching a point where agreement and intelligent horse trading can begin. Hey, I can dream…