Sweet Jesus you HAVE to see Limbaugh's latest rant

It seems the fat junkie wants the stimulus to fail so "conservatives" will have a better chance during the next election.

Obama’s plan would buy votes for the Democrat Party, in the same way FDR’s New Deal established majority power for 50 years of Democrat rule, and it would also simultaneously seriously damage any hope of future tax cuts. It would allow a majority of American voters to guarantee no taxes for themselves going forward. It would burden the private sector and put the public sector in permanent and firm control of the economy. Put simply, I believe his stimulus is aimed at re-establishing “eternal” power for the Democrat Party rather than stimulating the economy because anyone with a brain knows this is NOT how you stimulate the economy.

So basically what the fat junkie is saying is that buying votes with tax cuts (which mostly went to the rich) is OK, even though that policy put the US in the toilet economically, but a plan like the New Deal or Obama's plan is bad because it will work.

You would think Limbaugh would have learned his lesson with drugs when he went deaf.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/25/limbaugh-obama-stimulus/

I haven't.

They repeat the shit and hate he spews and proudly call themselves ditto-heads.

They usually are very ill-informed individuals but bold enough to regurgitate his filth

Lazy minds. They would prefer to let someone else do it for them.

And believed all the right wing economic stuff.

So I guess you can still be smart enough to pass the bar exam while simultaneously being dumb enough to think Rash Limpbo is right.

he'd be rich if it weren't for all that darn government regulation.

Lawyers are generally liberal - even those who work for the big corporations defending them know they wouldn't have a job if they couldn't be sued as often, so are tacitly against things like tort reform.

Joe the non-Plumber is an excellent example. They think they will be rich someday so they want the deck to be stacked in their favor when they get there. The thing they are not smart enough to realize is the stacked deck is what is preventing them from getting there in the first place.

one a certified ditto head...

The second a History prof who called him the most dangerous man in America since Father Coughlin... hell I used to listen to the man as an exercise in propaganda and how you spread it. Rush is a master of populism in the same vein as Coughlin was, and just as dangerous

but only as enemy research.

And I have a politically liberal aunt who used to have a crazy commute between Toledo OH to Northern MI every Friday / Sunday night and she's listen to Rush to keep her awake.

Said it was hard to fall asleep behind the wheel while simultaneously cursing at the top of her voice.

Never met someone who agreed with Rush who I'd consider anything other than an incurious, below average intellect.

They may be very smart in different ways, but they have a common dislike; minorities. Whether they are Hispanic or black. His followers buy into the rest of his rhetoric because he can get away with saying things they wish they could say. Who else in the entire world could get away with airing "Barack the Magic Negro"? He also plays into the well established RW position that the left does not support our troops and are weak on defense. But he avoided any military service because of a boil on his ass. He will on occasion, just to keep the base close, espouse some idiotic remark implying the left is Godless. This from a man who probably hasn't set foot in a church in his adult life.

I know people who have been seriously hurt financially by the last 8 years of the Bush policies. And yet they continue to believe that if the rich and the big corporations are taken care of, the wealth will trickle down to them. None of my attempts to show them the holes in that argument will change their minds. Limbaugh has them brainwashed and right where he wants them.

Thanks, Rush!

it's bad for the troop's morale

Can't have a successful gummint program 'cause that would wreck the theory that we have to trust the vastly rich to take care of things as democratic government (small d) is incapable of regulating our affairs. Woe is them. Unlike last time (92-4) they can't just obstruct recovery programs as they did healthcare reform or else they risk another congressional wipeout in 2010.

They really are bankrupt when it comes to ideas AND dirty tricks these days.

People are finally starting to figure out that the GOP is only about making the rich richer at the expense of everyone else. It's sad that both foreign and domestic policy in the US had to take a header before everyone finally woke up. I truly hope that the GOP can be crushed to the 3rd party level in the next few years. If you think about it, they really haven't enjoyed any real degree of power in this century for any length of time. Their 6 year run from 2001 to 2007 is actually the longest period they have had full control of the executive and legislative branches since before WWII. I'd love to see them stay irrelevant for at least another 50 years.

the New Deal kept the GOP out of the WH for forty years

If ( and I hope this works) this plan passes and works as advertised... the GOP can kiss the WH goodbye for at least a generation, if not two... that is fifty years.

He gets it... and from his POV this is an absolute disaster.

That would only be 30 years.

Republican in Name only

Remember Eisenhower?

Republican in Name only

Remember the interstate program? I mean the gall of that socialist

(Yes I remember Rush saying that about the Interstate program back in the day)

Just when they were getting started, McCarthy fucked it up for them.

Both Bush and McCarthy will go down in history as the two that drove the GOP bandwagon off a cliff.

for a man whose loyalty is to his party and not his country.

"One thing GWB proved beyond a shadow of a doubt, giving huge tax breaks to corporations and tax cuts to the wealthiest 1 percent absolutely DOES NOT CREATE JOBS." They have no answer, no evidence that I'm wrong. Most end up lowering their heads and agreeing. I still see LTTEs that claim "all the evidence shows" or "it's been proven time and time again" that repug ideas work. Ya just wanna slap them.

History always repeats itself when people don't learn from it.

By the time Bush got in office Leisure suit Laffer had already been discredited by all serious economists, and still Bush revived the old failed supply side ideas.

Economy was already expanding. Repugs greatly overstated the impact. Why is it that at the end of 8 or 12 years of repug WH, the economy is always "bottomong out"?

so long as you are on the right side of the curve.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Laffer-Curve.svg

We went into a deep recession right after Raygun cut taxes also. Raygun tripled the federal debt, so it was obvious that supply-side DIDN'T work even back then.

After stagflation was whipped, Volcker(appointed by Carter) reduced the interest rates which actually caused the economic upturn in the 80's. This had nothing to do with supply-side economics. It was demand-side Keynesian economics at work.

So the wingnuts took false credit for Volcker's successes, just like they took false credit for bringing down the Soviet Union. That's what Repugs do. They blame all their failures on others and take credit for the success of others. What else can you do when you have no ideas of your own that work?

Come on. You get one guy who makes shit up and publishes it. 300 repukes reference the original lie. 3000 repukes reference the referenced original lie. And on and on. Eventually you've got a perfectly sound academic paper trail, marred only slightly by the fact the original statement was a lie.

You can eventually get down to the original piece and prove it's a lie, but by then you've got people so invested in it they won't accept it's always been wrong.

Leisure suit Laffer wrote out his asinine curve on a paper napkin and handed it to Cheney and Rumsfeld during a lunch they were having together back in 1974.

For wingnuts it was a dream come true. They could finally justify cutting taxes on the rich WITHOUT cutting government spending and somehow magically tax revenues would actually increase. The wingnuts finally had a "legitimate" economist who was telling them exactly what they wanted to hear. The only problem was Leisure suit Laffer was a joke to all of his peers and was widely regarded as an idiot. At the time, competent economists were all saying it wouldn't work but the wingnuts didn't want to hear it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve#Context_in_U.S._history

As a sterile academic exercise the Laffer Curve works fine. In the real world, it doesn't work for shit. And since Laffer is an ivory-tower economist who probably can't balance his checkbook...

Contrary to Republican belief, "tax and spend liberalism" is what works. I've written here a number of times the basic truth of economics: asphalt creates wealth. The government pays for the asphalt. The oil company that makes the bitumen profits. The asphalt company that mixes it with sand and gravel profits. The construction company that spreads it on the roadbed profits. Their employees take the money they're paid for doing all these things and spend it on cars, houses, washing machines, T-bone steaks or whatever else they might want. The retailers' employees put gas in their cars so they can drive on the new road, which also increases sales at tire salons, car washes, oil change places and stores that sell plastic Jesuses.

This also makes the rich more wealthy, because they own the asphalt companies, tire salons and T-bone steak restaurants.

If you just cut taxes on the rich, stockbrokers profit because rich people tend to invest small (to them) amounts of money like tax cut revenues. They already have a big house, a yacht and two Mercedes-Benz automobiles.

It was never based on any sound economic principles to begin with. It makes assumptions that are ridiculous. For instance, Laffer claims the higher you tax someone, the less incentive they have to work. He makes no effort to prove that assumption (which isn't true), then he builds the rest of his argument around that false assumption. It's nothing more than strawman rhetoric and bullshit disguised with pseudo-scientific irrelevant information.

These idiots who listen to Rush need to be unemployed before they'll believe anything. That's the rub. What jobs do they do that they feel so secure, even now, is the question.

If a Limbaugh listener loses his job in the next year, it will be Obama's fault. (And not, y'know, because they were caught betting the petty cash on the horses or coming to work drunk.) If he lost it any time in the last eight years, it was because of Clinton's policies that are just now coming to fruition, or the Nancy and Harry Show in Congress.

Remember: EVERYTHING is the Democrats' fault in Limbaugh's perverted worldview.

It's all they know how to do. They just want to be the bosses of everything (so they don't have to work for a living).

They screwed up and are paying the price - marginalization and repudiation of not just their policies, but their entire reason for being.

See how that works Rush?

Doesn't Rush Limbaugh like to take Viagra and travel to the Dominican Republic and have sex with children?
If Rush Limbaugh is a pedophile shouldn't he be prosecuted? Just asking.
:dem:

records, just to show that this isn't true. We need to know exactly where he was, who he was with, and what he was on, or this question will not go away.

Come on Rush. This question of you being a PEDOPHILE can easily go away when you release your arrest records, submit to drug testing for any toxins, and an anal examination just in case you bottomed for any of these children.

You don't want your name tarnished, do you?

there are investigative agencies - on the internet that can pull up the
arrest records on people.

Its a small fee.

No. his REAL records are still sealed and under wraps from public view. Why? What on Earth does Rush have to hide? That he is a junkie pedophile?

If he only releases ALL his records, and not those obvious fakes already out (is that why he went to Haiti? Was The Dominican Republic just a red herring?) all this would just go away!

The world wants to know.

--imm

If someone accused me of being a junkie pedophile like Rush Limbaugh, I would be concerned enough to state publicly that I was definitely not a junkie pedophile like Rush Limbaugh.

I wonder if Rush Limbaugh will ever come out and address the issue of his alleged pedophilia. We already know that he is a junkie, which he vociferously denied, even though it turned out later to be true.

Unless one knows there is evidence that Rush Limbaugh is a junkie pedophile.

But if there is evidence that Rush Limbaugh is a junkie pedophile, such accusation could be discussed and contribute greatly to the determination of whether or not Rush Limbaugh is a junkie, a pedophile, or both.

The pusbag really does hate Americans so much that he'd rather see us all dead than to have his radical group not have ALL the political and social power. Actually, that said, I do believe he'd rather see everyone but the bazillionaires dead anyway.

SSDD.

WHY DO THEY HATE AMERICA?


l Opposes New Jobs Because It May Help Democrats
Submitted by dpotts on Sat, 01/17/2009 - 10:08pm.

We all already knew that Ken Blackwell was an idiot, but it may be worse than we thought. As ThinkProgress points out, Blackwell used his most recent TownHall column to preach against the proposed economic stimulus package. But get this, he actually went beyond the typical conservative "big government" BS.

While only a few details are known, one overlooked issue is that it could create a major electoral advantage for Democrats at taxpayer expense. That would be unacceptable for what is being touted as a nonpartisan measure, and gives Republicans yet another reason to oppose it if not restructured. <…>
But most federal employees, that are not political appointees, vote Democrat. Since Washington, DC is the seat of government, whenever new federal bureaucrats are created many live in Maryland and Virginia. In 2008, Virginia went Democrat for the first time since 1964, and Mr. Obama won it by 130,000 votes. Creating 600,000 new jobs might help cement Virginia in the Democrat column, making it harder for Republicans to retake the White House.

Creating new jobs is a bad thing, because it might make Virginia lean Democratic. Uh, okay. Sure. Damn, I really thought it would take them longer to catch on to our plans to win votes by actually solving problems.

You keep on watching that belt buckle Ken. We'll all still be cheering you on as you run the RNC into the ground.

http://buckeyestateblog.com/ken_blackwell_opposes_new_jobs_because_it_may_help_democrats

Blackwell: GOP Must Defeat Job-Creating Stimulus Because It Will Ruin GOP’s Election Chances»
In an article published on Townhall today, RNC Chairman candidate and former Ohio governor Secretary of State Ken Blackwell urges congressional conservatives to oppose thereinvestment and recovery stimulus plan promoted by President-elect Obama. Though he offers standard conservative arguments against the plan — including a screed against the growth of “big government” — Blackwell seemed most concerned about the political benefit Democrats might see from successfully boosting the economy.

He warned that the bill, which calls for 80 percent job creation in the private sector, could create 600,000 new federal jobs — a problem because it would make it that much harder for for Republicans to win back Virginia:

While only a few details are known, one overlooked issue is that it could create a major electoral advantage for Democrats at taxpayer expense. That would be unacceptable for what is being touted as a nonpartisan measure, and gives Republicans yet another reason to oppose it if not restructured. <…>

But most federal employees, that are not political appointees, vote Democrat. Since Washington, DC is the seat of government, whenever new federal bureaucrats are created many live in Maryland and Virginia. In 2008, Virginia went Democrat for the first time since 1964, and Mr. Obama won it by 130,000 votes. Creating 600,000 new jobs might help cement Virginia in the Democrat column, making it harder for Republicans to retake the White House.

Blackwell cites House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) as his source for the 600,000 “bureaucrats” figure. In fact, Obama’s council of economic advisers predicts that the plan would create about 240,000 government jobs, compared to, for example, 700,000 in mining and construction. And of course, there’s no reason to assume the bulk of government jobs would be created in the D.C. area, though the District — which has the 6th highest unemployment rate in the nation — could use the new jobs.

-snip

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/16/blackwell-blocks-jobs/

If wealth ever was found to be trickling down and away from the wealthy, the wealthy would hire a team of experts to put a stop to it. In fact this is true, because when this occurs in the real world, it is exactly what they do. There is an entire industry devoted to "wealth management" and the entire goal of the profession is to see to it that wealth continues to trickle up.

Virtually no one starts a business because they just so happen to have a larger than usual tax refund or a few extra bucks in the bank. They do not start businesses as a service to the community or to enrich their workers. People start businesses because they believe that they can make themselves far richer by making and/or selling things for a profit. It is simple common sense that when the potential customers have more money, everyone does better.

There is no rocket science here.

dumb.

He went deaf because he was addicted to drugs, which was caused by his stupidity.

However, rampant consumerism is what got us into this mess in the first place. Encouraging more rampant consumerism is not going to get us out and in the circumstances we are now faced with, had no effect.

If we were in a recession caused by money hoarding and lack of consumer confidence, then such methods might work.

I remember when the stimulus was being handed out last time everyone here was either pondering putting it into savings or spending it on gas. Is that really how an economic stimulus works?

For that gasbag, it's party before country, to the point that he would rather see a damn depression than give a democrat credit for successfully handling the economic crisis.

Glad he spelled out his priorities so clearly for all of us, although I always knew that jerk was as anti-American as they come.

Let's just hope he talks his listeners into failing just to spite the Dems.