Stimulus Porkulus: What the Hell HaveWe Got Ourselves Intous?
PT 15: RUSH VS. OBAMA #5
Over the couple of weeks leading to Tax Day (April 15), I'm going to be dissecting the economy and the stimulus, budget and the various other issues that have unfolded between banks to AIG to tea parties all over the country! I had bookmarked a lot of articles since the end of January and it's interesting to read them with perspective and "read between the lines."
The Limbaugh Distraction Unravels Even More!
When Limbaugh hit the news big time last month, it was a water cooler moment--everyone was talking about it! And now, not so much...The stimulus passed so maybe they didn't need the "distraction" anymore. And maybe they realized it just fired up the conservative base and they can't have that! So they backed off. At any rate, there were quite a few articles and pundits who threw in their 2 cents of CHANGE on the matter:
Peter Roff at the FOX Forum noted of Limbaugh "He, like few others who occupy positions of intellectual leadership on the right, can move large numbers of people to action. Hence the efforts of the Obama White House to exploit the divisions among its opponents, seizing the opportunity to divide and conquer and to distract from their agenda to tax, spend, borrow and regulate the American people into submission"
In response to Jonathan Martin at the Politico who revealed that "an unidentified 'senior White House aide' has been given the responsibility of 'helping to guide the Limbaugh strategy,' " Roff declares that something is Rotten in Washington DC: "A political operative, based inside the White House, employed by the president of the United States and receiving a salary from the American taxpayer, goes to work every day to help direct a strategy against a broadcaster whose opinions are supposed to be covered by every protection the First Amendment can provide."
"Rush Limbaugh has the right to speak his mind. Millions of people tune in to his program to hear him do it every day. And we should all acknowledge that he should be able to do what he does free from fear, fear the White House may manipulate the vast resources at its disposal to make his life, in a word, difficult."
Aside from the jackass twins Carville and Begala and a bevy of other White House dogs, liberal "think tank" groups and ads run amok, the Washington Post actually ran a piece by David Plouffe referring to Limbaugh as the Republican Party's "Minority Leader."
I'm not sure what he was smoking or if he actually had a straight face when he wrote this goofball gem: "When Limbaugh reiterated the sentiment this weekend, hundreds of Republican conservatives cheered him on. But instead of rebuking the radio personality or charting their own course, Republican leaders in Washington are paralyzed with fear of crossing their leader. Less than 24 hours after committing the unforgivable sin of criticizing Limbaugh, RNC Chairman Michael Steele felt compelled to publicly apologize. He was not the first and will certainly not be the last." Yeah we're so scared that this is now a non-issue now that the stimulus is passed. Lame.
Does Robert McFibbs know the art of war? Or is he just a whiney bore? Discuss...
Writing for The Hill, Sam Youngman notes that besides reading Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, Gibbs finds the Limbaugh Disctraction: "Fun!" It's funner than all this fun stuff that really matters to our fun country. Fun that!
McFibbs wants you to know that, no matter how much FUN he's having, it's just a total coincidence and has nothing to do with all the stuff Carville has been ADMITTING to. No siree, it's “not part of a larger strategy.” Wink Wink.
Karl Rove believed the White House totally misfired on Limbaugh and broke it all down in this Wall Street Journal piece:
"Team Obama -- aided by Clintonistas Paul Begala, James Carville and Stanley Greenberg -- decided to attack Rush Limbaugh after poring over opinion research. White House senior adviser David Axelrod explicitly authorized the assault. Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel assigned a White House official to coordinate the push. And Press Secretary Robert Gibbs gleefully punched the launch button at his podium, suckering the White House press corps into dropping what they were doing to get Mr. Limbaugh."
"Such talk also shortens the president's honeymoon by making him look like a street-fighting Chicago pol instead of an inspirational, unifying figure. The upward spike in ratings for Rush and other conservative radio commentators shows how the White House's attempt at a smackdown instead energized the opposition."
He believes it was a diversionary tactic: The War on Rush. And why not, there doesn't seem to be a War on Terror anymore...
"In the face of our enormous economic challenges, top White House aides decided to pee on Mr. Limbaugh's leg. This is a political luxury the country cannot afford, and which Mr. Obama would be wise to forbid. Or did he not mean it when he ran promising to 'turn the page' on the 'old' politics?"
Once again, seriously, when he said change, he was referring to our "pocket change..."
Politico Chick
Peter Roff at the FOX Forum noted of Limbaugh "He, like few others who occupy positions of intellectual leadership on the right, can move large numbers of people to action. Hence the efforts of the Obama White House to exploit the divisions among its opponents, seizing the opportunity to divide and conquer and to distract from their agenda to tax, spend, borrow and regulate the American people into submission"
In response to Jonathan Martin at the Politico who revealed that "an unidentified 'senior White House aide' has been given the responsibility of 'helping to guide the Limbaugh strategy,' " Roff declares that something is Rotten in Washington DC: "A political operative, based inside the White House, employed by the president of the United States and receiving a salary from the American taxpayer, goes to work every day to help direct a strategy against a broadcaster whose opinions are supposed to be covered by every protection the First Amendment can provide."
"Rush Limbaugh has the right to speak his mind. Millions of people tune in to his program to hear him do it every day. And we should all acknowledge that he should be able to do what he does free from fear, fear the White House may manipulate the vast resources at its disposal to make his life, in a word, difficult."
Aside from the jackass twins Carville and Begala and a bevy of other White House dogs, liberal "think tank" groups and ads run amok, the Washington Post actually ran a piece by David Plouffe referring to Limbaugh as the Republican Party's "Minority Leader."
I'm not sure what he was smoking or if he actually had a straight face when he wrote this goofball gem: "When Limbaugh reiterated the sentiment this weekend, hundreds of Republican conservatives cheered him on. But instead of rebuking the radio personality or charting their own course, Republican leaders in Washington are paralyzed with fear of crossing their leader. Less than 24 hours after committing the unforgivable sin of criticizing Limbaugh, RNC Chairman Michael Steele felt compelled to publicly apologize. He was not the first and will certainly not be the last." Yeah we're so scared that this is now a non-issue now that the stimulus is passed. Lame.
Does Robert McFibbs know the art of war? Or is he just a whiney bore? Discuss...
Writing for The Hill, Sam Youngman notes that besides reading Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, Gibbs finds the Limbaugh Disctraction: "Fun!" It's funner than all this fun stuff that really matters to our fun country. Fun that!
McFibbs wants you to know that, no matter how much FUN he's having, it's just a total coincidence and has nothing to do with all the stuff Carville has been ADMITTING to. No siree, it's “not part of a larger strategy.” Wink Wink.
Karl Rove believed the White House totally misfired on Limbaugh and broke it all down in this Wall Street Journal piece:
"Team Obama -- aided by Clintonistas Paul Begala, James Carville and Stanley Greenberg -- decided to attack Rush Limbaugh after poring over opinion research. White House senior adviser David Axelrod explicitly authorized the assault. Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel assigned a White House official to coordinate the push. And Press Secretary Robert Gibbs gleefully punched the launch button at his podium, suckering the White House press corps into dropping what they were doing to get Mr. Limbaugh."
"Such talk also shortens the president's honeymoon by making him look like a street-fighting Chicago pol instead of an inspirational, unifying figure. The upward spike in ratings for Rush and other conservative radio commentators shows how the White House's attempt at a smackdown instead energized the opposition."
He believes it was a diversionary tactic: The War on Rush. And why not, there doesn't seem to be a War on Terror anymore...
"In the face of our enormous economic challenges, top White House aides decided to pee on Mr. Limbaugh's leg. This is a political luxury the country cannot afford, and which Mr. Obama would be wise to forbid. Or did he not mean it when he ran promising to 'turn the page' on the 'old' politics?"
Once again, seriously, when he said change, he was referring to our "pocket change..."
Politico Chick
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