He finally shows his true patriotism?

Hey, QM, you were saying something about "sore winners"? What do you call this?

Obama is gold for Limbaugh's business. Limbaugh probably voted for Obama.

In all fairness, I think these comments are taken out of context.

He's talking about certain initiatives which Obama is going to spearhead. He's not just generally saying that he wants Obama, and by proxy the US, to "fail."

Think of it this way, Bush policy aimed to intrude on privacy, civil liberties, and enact torture, did you want him to "fail" at those specific endeavors?

Don't get me wrong. Limbaugh is a total douche, but this is clearly words taken out of context.

You go, Rush! God forbid we reconsider any shred of privatization; I mean, if we did what'll happen to our ol' Mom & Pops like KBR who won't be able to put food on the table for the kids? Will they have to electrocute them to death in faulty showers in Iraq on an empty stomach?

Yeah, ponce, but I get the feeling Rush's worst nightmare would be a cheap, effective and successful national healthcare program. Ideology and 'being right' are more important to him than the well being of his country. Many Republicans fear that deep down in their hearts they are wrong.

This reminds me of an interesting conversation with a Republican friend about national healthcare. I asked her, 'Why don't we give it a try, and see if it works?' she said, "Because people would like it, and then we'd never be able to get rid of it". I had to fight the urge to facepalm.

Oh I definitely agree with you Dystopian, but the part I feel is being misrepresented is that this headline of "Limbaugh hopes Obama fails" makes it sound like Rush would spitefully prefer that America go further into economic/social recession rather than hope some good will come of the new administration.

It isn't so much Limbaugh that I'm defending, but rather the media that I am exposing at sensationalizing a sound-bite that doesn't mean what they imply it to.

Edit: it reminds me of the recent hoopla concerning Dennis Leary's new book which some of the media took a chapter on autism out of context and claimed that Dennis was saying that Autism doesn't exist and that the parents are just douchbags. In reality, the criticism was about parents who don't want to raise their children right and just self-diagnose them with autism to explain misbehavior and poor parenting. Leary's point was that parents who use the disease to cover those things up detract from the REAL cases of autism which he clearly states in the same chapter are not in any way "fake."

To me this is a similar situation where the media takes a small snippet out of context and blows it way out of proportions creating more discord. Mind you, I don't doubt that there are idiots out there who will read the headline and agree with the misinterpreted message.

>> ^StukaFox:
Hey, QM, you were saying something about "sore winners"? What do you call this?

I'm not QM but I'll say something about it. I call this a man that does not want the government to take control of everything. This is what he thinks Obama is going to do. Whether he's right about Obama's plans to do this, I dunno. I do agree with him about limited government control though.

Limbaugh - go home.

Hey, QM, you were saying something about "sore winners"? What do you call this?

Drive-by media distortion, typical of the Communist News Network.

Let Rush explain it in his own words:

I am hearing many Republicans say that — well, we want him to succeed and prominent Republicans. Yes, we wanted — they have laid down. They have totally — they're drinking the Kool- Aid, too. They have no guts to stand up for what their beliefs are because they're afraid of criticism, they're afraid of being called racists, they're afraid of not having gotten with the program.

Now success can be defined two ways. I said earlier I don't know about this guy. I really don't. I've got my — I've got my suspicions, and they're pretty close to convictions, but we're going to have to wait to see what he does. Now if he (Obama) turns out to be a Reagan, if he adds Reagan to his recipe of FDR and Lincoln, and if he does cut some taxes. If he does not eliminate the Bush tax cuts, I would call that success. So yes, I would hope he would succeed if he acts like Reagan, but if he's going to do FDR, if he's going to do the new, new deal all over which we will call here the raw deal, why would I want him to succeed?

Look, he's my president. The fact that he is historic is irrelevant to me now. It matters not at all. I — if he is going to implement a far left — look it. I think it's already decided. $2 trillion in stimulus? The growth of government. I think the intent here is to create as many dependant Americans as possible looking to government for their hope and salvation.

If he gets nationalized health care, I mean, it's over, Sean. We're never going to roll that back. That's the end of America as we have known it because that's then going to set the stage for everything being government owned, operated, or provided.

Why would I want that to succeed? I don't believe in that. I know that's not how this country is going to be great in the future, it's not what made this country great.

So I shamelessly say, no, I want him to fail, if his agenda is a far- left collectivism, some people say socialism, as a conservative heartfelt, deeply, why would I want socialism to succeed?

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I'll be more succint: F**K SOCIALISM.

Ponce is right that it was taken out of context, but I think the way that Limbaugh phrased it and especially the way he presented it on his radio show "I HOPE OBAMA FAILS!!!" he was begging for it to be presented in this fashion. I think he gets a little buzz anytime he stirs up controversy in the media. It just gives him another excuse to rail against the "drive bys."

>> ^quantumushroom:
If he gets nationalized health care, I mean, it's over, Sean. We're never going to roll that back. That's the end of America as we have known it because that's then going to set the stage for everything being government owned, operated, or provided.

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Well reasoned and supported argument...

"it's over, Sean" "That's the end of America as we have known it"

Fucking moron.

I'll be more succint: F K SOCIALISM.


Redux...

Well reasoned and supported argument...

Fucking moron. = )

^ I agree, this fixation with the "size" of government makes me think conservatives are all just trying to compensate for their own inadequacy.

the guy who speaks in the middle (Cornin?) is a total closet liberal. I mean, did no one notice that psychedelic tie? That shit was DOPE! I want one of those.

Insults a-plenty, zero intelligent responses.

Shit-throwing monkeys and Kool-Aid liberals = interchangeable.

I disagree QM,

The thing is tax cuts cannot work in the current economic climate. It's just counter productive for economic growth mostly because tax cuts are not effective when people don't have jobs and we live at a time when lending is being slashed. Consumers are also high in personal debt as a whole, so you have saving and debt repayment going on at the same time. This is a halt of all economic activity. You need an external factor to incite economy activity in economy as a whole. This is why there is a stimulus plan.

I agree that the stimulus plan is less then effective, I don't know that there isn't much overwatch in how exactly the money will be applied. I also think it would have been beneficial to start to defund or merge major governmental bodies that have little to no relevance now, specifically the department of education and energy. There needs to be a serious revaluation of DOD spending as a whole. There are far too many projects that are undertaken as matters of national security that are nothing more then R&D by the defense industry, that are then sold back to the government as private products.

However there is alot of ridiculous opposition to alot of things Obama is doing, and he is under pressure to impose a plan right now then later.

The republicans are effectively shooting themselves in the foot, instead of being involved in the process to reduce the government growth and try minimize cost they are fighting against a scheme to help the American people. It will not win them any favors when they talk of saving American jobs but did not help pass this stimulus. This will only further decline their relevancy to the fringe of the US voter public.

Listening to Rush Limbuagh, apologizing to him only makes Rush representative of the GOP as whole to the US. That is being rude, insulting and completely hypocritical without offering any solutions. Instead of actually regrouping and reforming the GOP they are further sliding into irrelevancy.

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