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G
March 2nd, 2009
9:53 pm
I don’t even want to try to imagine Pillboy dressed like that. EWWWWW!!!!!!
rcs
March 2nd, 2009
10:06 pm
G, I guess no Democrats have used pills or cocaine or smoked weed?
Wait now, there is one who comes to mind…. President Obama.
Taxpayer
March 2nd, 2009
10:19 pm
You are on a roll today, Jay.
Midori
March 2nd, 2009
10:30 pm
plenty of dems have used pills and/or smoked weed, but do you see them openly calling out others who do it? demanding they be jailed, etc?
Huh, RCS?
HUH?
It’s the hypocrisy, stupid.
rcs
March 2nd, 2009
10:30 pm
yep, call him butter cause he’s on a roll.
3 of 5 blog topics dedicated to Rush.
@@
March 2nd, 2009
10:31 pm
So what would you call this, jay?
The Obama Stomp!
Wishful thinking on your part vs reality.
Midori
March 2nd, 2009
10:31 pm
and a delicious roll at that…..
rcs
March 2nd, 2009
10:35 pm
I don’t know who is calling out anyone else on drug use besides the name calling I see on this blog.
I also have not called anyone here a name, so keep your stupid comments for the other people who stoop to that level.
gttim
March 2nd, 2009
10:39 pm
I figured Steele’s backbone would fold pretty quick. And did it ever. He was real defiant on TV and then reality smacked him in the face. So he prostrate himself before Rush quicker than Larry Craig could. Rahm Emanuel is playing this thing out to perfection. The GOP will have Rush tied around its neck like a ball and chain!
TnGelding
March 2nd, 2009
10:39 pm
Jay, you’d better hire a bodyguard.
Looks like the WH is determined to bury Rush. He’d rather O! fail than have to admit he was wrong.
AIG, the rest of the story:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a11QFJcR8HSI&refer=worldwide
gttim
March 2nd, 2009
10:44 pm
The best comment on the Steele folding from TPM: “Dems gloat after Rush awards himself sole custody of Steele’s testicles.”
Perhaps Steele will get visitation?
getalife
March 2nd, 2009
10:46 pm
Wonder who will play him on SNL?
Very entertaining day at the RW blogs.
TnGelding
March 2nd, 2009
11:04 pm
Cry me a river!
http://www.ajc.com/business/content/shared-gen/ap/Finance_General/AIG_Greenberg.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab
Mmm, seems to indicate the problem wasn’t there when he left in 2005.
Swami Dave
March 2nd, 2009
11:34 pm
Wow…..this is near laughable.
Democrats inferring some hero-worship behavior and demands for “grovelling” at the footsteps within the conservative movement. This from the party whose candidate built a complete made-for-television event & stage on which he accepted their nomination among Greek columns. This from the party whose elected President functionally uses the “mainstream media” as a de facto PR agengy investing more effort managing and directing the daily news cycle more so than actually governing. This from the party whose elected President deigns to assume that -his- administration can somehow successfully implement a tax-and-spend, deficit-to-debt, spend-to-prosperity philosophy that has been an abject failure at every time that it is tried. This from the party who responds with impunity to those who simply highlight the dismal consequences of their chosen direction and show how it has served to hinder achievement and all-together destroy the lives of those whom they claim to “help”.
Accusing others of some holier-than-thou self-righteousness, now that is chutzpah!
-Swami Dave
TnGelding
March 2nd, 2009
11:53 pm
Swami Dave
March 2nd, 2009
11:34 pm
You’re missing the point of the stimulus package.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/video-search/m/21338500/second-stimulus-needed.htm
TnGelding
March 3rd, 2009
12:00 am
Crush Rush:
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/white-house-fires-back-at-rush-limbaugh-2009-03-02.html
GodHatesTrash, Superstar
March 3rd, 2009
12:03 am
Steele just wants to show everyone what a good GOPer he is – so he gets on his knees. Not to pray, either.
Just one of the good ol’ GOP boys…
Joel
March 3rd, 2009
4:59 am
Why are you Libs so afraid of Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, etc. With Obamas massive takeover and crashing stock market you should be afraid of the American voters in 2010.
I Report/ You Whine
March 3rd, 2009
5:32 am
Geez, every time Limbaugh booms into the microphone the one term White House and it’s entire sycophant propaganda media hop around on cue like………………… toadies.
I sure hope the Russians don’t get into radio commentary.
TnGelding
March 3rd, 2009
5:32 am
El Rusho will be off the air and in the hospital by the end of June.
I Report/ You Whine
March 3rd, 2009
5:35 am
Out With A Shiver: Global Warming Protest Frozen Out by Massive Snowfall, It was snowing irony in Washington on Monday when global warming activists descended on the District like a storm — but got beaten to the punch by a blast of wintry weather that incapacitated the city.-FoxNews
And just think, these same people are in charge of national security.
I Report/ You Whine
March 3rd, 2009
5:37 am
TN- If so, have no worries, I’m sure the chickenhawks in the one term White House will find another boogeyman for their army of dunces to march against.
GodHatesTrash, Superstar
March 3rd, 2009
6:04 am
Cold up and down the east coast and Dixie.
Dogs everywhere poopin’ in their dog dishes?
Nope. Dogs, at least, are smarter than that.
Not so our Bookman RightWingnutterbutters.
GodHatesTrash, Superstar
March 3rd, 2009
6:07 am
Rush at CPAC – dressing like a fat Truman Capote. Looked like the Pillsbury Doughboy trying to do Johnny Cash.
No wonder the CPAC crowd loved him.
Bud Wiser
March 3rd, 2009
6:35 am
I never have read so many negative and derisive comments about one man who is not actually in the political arena in my life.
From Jay on down to this merry little troupe of trolls, you must fear Limbaugh beyond anyhting certainly I can well imagine, to lambaste him so.
I know Jay’s rationale, he is diverting you mindless fools away from the ever growing massive failure of The Messiah and his band of thieves (Democrats) to deal with the economy; talk about in over your head, Obama is at the bottom of the Mariana Trench with a shovel in his hands….now, doesn’t that evoke an image.
From the late Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931 – 2005
“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.
What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government
does not first take from somebody else.
When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.
You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”
Enjoy your little digs on Limbaugh, he is as much of a non-factor in his arena as you are here.
TnGelding
March 3rd, 2009
7:03 am
Bud Wiser
March 3rd, 2009
6:35 am
Rush is loving it.
Only a small part of the federal budget goes directly to the poor. Social Security, defense, interest on the national debt, Medicare, Medicaid and homeland security make up about 2/3 of it. But that welfare money spends just as well as that Lockheed check. Consumer spending makes up 2/3 OF GDP.
Rascal
March 3rd, 2009
7:09 am
The shining light of hope for America is that previous major socialist efforts have not had to deal with a populace that had open communication and easy access to information. Let’s hope that Jay and the rest of his information lieutenants in the Obama press fail in their efforts to misinform. Jay, haven’t read a lot of meaty articles about how bad the economy is getting and how it is the fault of the Obama masterful effort. You seem to be focusing on everything else instead of the harsh truths hitting you in the face. When the dust settles, your effort to create sameness amongst us all, equally failed and downtrodden, will only serve to flush out the system. Your socialist efforts will only lengthen the time and force more to suffer for longer. Way to go, I guess you are proud.
Pat
March 3rd, 2009
7:28 am
Libs fear Limbaugh? Every time that flatulent gasbag breaks wind on air, it’s pure comedy – though admittedly, leaving a displeasing stench. The only people who actually fear Limbaugh are the GOP toadies who keep genuflecting and grabbing their ankles every time he utters a peep of displeasure. Though it is entertaining to watch them grovel at the feet of the rotund god they’ve created for themselves.
Mrs. Godzilla
March 3rd, 2009
7:31 am
Jay that’s like saying, Jabba the Hut – The Musical!
I Report/ You Whine
March 3rd, 2009
7:32 am
The phrase that kept echoing through my mind all day was a comment made recently by Jesse Ausubel, director of the Center for the Human Environment at Rockefeller University: “Alternate energy is going to be the next subprime mortgage meltdown.” Four years from now we’re going to be looking at a landscape littered with useless 50-story windmills and wondering why anybody ever thought they were worth building.-AmSpec
We’ll have ready made monuments to liberal idiocy.
AmVet
March 3rd, 2009
7:39 am
Tn, I agree.
To me the Pillsbury Dough Boy in Black, is just like a chubby William Quantrill still trying to sack Lawrence on behalf of the pro-slavery Confederates.
And as a Jayhawker, I can assure you it did not turn out well for the opportunistic sociopath. Not his beloved cause…
But the garish spectacle and immense shadow of this Great Buffoon is nonetheless immensely entertaining. As is the two year neo-con humiliation which continues to roll on…
DB, Gwinnettian
March 3rd, 2009
7:41 am
Yesterday RW asked me for an example of Rush’s strawman rhetoric. As an exercise I clicked on the first transcript I saw linked from Rush’s website and worked with that.
But I probably should’ve gone instead for the low-hanging fruit of Rush’s infamous CPAC speech over the weekend; I’d not heard anything beyond a short clip of his “I hope he fails” = “I’m rooting for the Steelers” analogy. (which is disturbing on another level, but I’ll leave that for now.)
Here, RW, and anyone else who cares, is the strawman from that part of that speech which, again, is all I’ve actually heard so far–maybe there are better examples elsewhere in the CPAC speech…
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_030209/content/01125106.guest.html
This notion that I want the President to fail, folks, this shows you a sign of the problem we’ve got. That’s nothing more than common sense and to not be able to say it, why in the world do I want what we just described, rampant government growth indebtedness, wealth that’s not even being created yet that is being spent, what is in this? What possibly is in this that anybody of us wants to succeed? Did the Democrats want the war on Iraq to fail! They certainly did.
Forget for a moment that this assertion that “Democrats [wanted] the war on Iraq to fail” is utterly unsupported by any evidence whatsoever in this speech–I don’t expect a speech to contain footnotes and cites. It’s just willfully offensive. It’s the sort of bomb-throwing Rush has specialized in, which I’ve heard for literally over twenty years. and oh yeah, it’s a lie; Rush would not be able to find any prominent Democrat, let alone establish a halfway decent case that such things were said in the “fever swamps” among online progressives, that Democratic voters wanted the war in Iraq to fail.
But Rush said it, and will surely continue to say it, anyway. And it’s the sort of thing that his followers feel compelled all too often to support. In fact, I’m fairly certain someone will reply to this and try to take some horribly out of context statement (another Rush speciality) to “prove” that Democrats “wanted us to fail in Iraq.”
And yeah I realize there are some conservatives in here who, laudably, do not get Rush’s back when he’s criticized, but way too many feel that they must or else… what? The rhetorical house of cards falls? The witch melts?
TnGelding
March 3rd, 2009
7:44 am
Rascal
March 3rd, 2009
7:09 am
Rush says he wants Obama to fail, and then clarifies he wants Obama’s policies to fail. So he’s saying he wants America to fail. A true patriot. You seem to be saying the same thing. Why, because then you would have to admit you were wrong? These are unprecedented times and demand drastic action. For the sake of all of us, let’s hope Obama succeeds.
http://wichita.bizjournals.com/wichita/stories/2009/02/23/daily3.html
Sam
March 3rd, 2009
7:45 am
Yup, nothing like trotting out Rush out there to divert attention away from Obama’s sinking economy, Dow 6700 anybody??
Personally, Jay’s secret man-crush on Rush is kinda embarrassing, the super double secret ajc spy satellite has spotted Jay stalking Rush outside Rush’s mansion wearing Lederhosen.
Anywho, remember the liberal mantra: a penny saved is a penny taxed.
Pretty soon, if Cool Prez Barry has his way, everyone in America will be working for the government, liberals(leeches) on the payrolls and conservatives(earners) on the taxrolls.
I Report/ You Whine
March 3rd, 2009
7:51 am
The difference is that with Reagan, America got policies and initiatives that accurately matched his words. With Obama, his words in no way match his actions. His lips say moderation, his actions say spend, tax and expand government.
A polite way to call president One Term a liar.
BDAtlanta
March 3rd, 2009
7:57 am
I Report,
Reagan’s policies actually matched his words?
Like when he was talking about cutting taxes with his lips and signing into law one of the biggest tax increases in the nations history with his hands?
How about when he spoke of Govmint being the problem while at the same time he was expanding the size of Govmint?
Go back to sleep, you’re not awake yet.
TnGelding
March 3rd, 2009
7:57 am
Sam
March 3rd, 2009
7:45 am
AIG was the major influence on the stock markets yesterday. What did Obama have to do with them losing a record $61.7 billion in the 4th qtr? And he has no control over the Federal Reserve.
http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EARNS_AIG?SITE=GACAT&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
We independents and Democrats work just as hard and earn just as much as Republicans. We just have different priorities on how our tax dollars are spent.
AmVet
March 3rd, 2009
8:00 am
DB, I find it illustrative and amazing that our Reich-wing Sage of Norcross would make such an inane request.
My Gawd, what Ricky-rock has he been living under for the past twenty one years? Does he truly posit that this well-worn tactic, as well as endless red herrings, are not cornerstones of the EIB (Excessively Incoherent Babbling ) Network?
Or that they are not enormously satisfying to the Republiconned sheeple who feed daily at Rush’s enormous teats?
Sorry for the revolting image, or as Andy would say, ewww…
Taxpayer
March 3rd, 2009
8:01 am
It’s square root day
Brad Steal
March 3rd, 2009
8:03 am
The republican party has become genuiinely pitable. Most all of America appreciates a move away from the facist Cheny/Bush/Rove/Rumsfield polcies, but to see the republican party become the shivering wimp lead by a satorially-challenged angry fat guy and a token-black yes man is really sad.
We need some leadership from the republicans. This is the world and country that we are running. It is not the outcome of a the cretinous UGA/Auburn game. Quit crying and get in the game losers. At least give the helm back to McCain.
B. Steal
TnGelding
March 3rd, 2009
8:03 am
BDAtlanta
March 3rd, 2009
7:57 am
Thanks! You beat me to it.
I would only add that O! has a two-pronged approach, which for some reason conservatives want to ignore. First address the recession and banking crisis, then work on fiscal responsibility.
You Lie / You Welch
March 3rd, 2009
8:07 am
Have you retired your insipid Commie handle? Wow! The new one is really thoughtful and crafty. It is almost as compelling as another cut-and-paste. Get and education and job, comment genius.
DB, Gwinnettian
March 3rd, 2009
8:08 am
“plenty of dems have used pills and/or smoked weed, but do you see them openly calling out others who do it? demanding they be jailed, etc?”
Midori, unless/until it’s decriminalized, effectively, our elected democrats are demanding that recreational drug users should be jailed, or at least criminally prosecuted. Boo!
I would like to see decriminalization moved up on the agenda, since it’s indisputably a drain on resources. Outright legalization would likely have a stimulative effect, although it’d be unrealistic to imagine that such a thing would happen during the first term.
Although maybe beefed-up treatment programs could have a stimulative effect, since they’d put people to work…
(Is this where I include the bit about how I wouldn’t mess up my lungs by smoking the stuff even if it were legal and taxed appropriately?)
AmVet
March 3rd, 2009
8:10 am
Tn, don’t bother with correlations and cogent explanations to the flat-earth gang.
These reactionaries still live firmly in the days of LBJ and colored restrooms.
Woefully undereducated on most matters of import, they refuse to see that this economic meltdown is unlike anything in our history. They don’t fathom the causes nor the incredible depth of the underlying corruption and it’s effects.
They still desperately cling to a model which says, oh it’s been a few weeks, it’s time for the market to go right back up! They think confidence in Wall Street is just gonna return no matter that the same crooks and swindlers who took the bailout money (OUR money) are still in place.
Clueless and intentionally ignorant, they will never admit that their hero of the Texas ANG and his co-conspirators left the nation a cesspool as big as Crawford and it ain’t gonna smell like roses anytime soon…
I Report/ You Whine
March 3rd, 2009
8:10 am
Lying comes so easy for a liberal, it’s almost as though they think that since it emerged from their mouths it must be true-
BDAtlanta March 3rd, 2009 7:57 am Reagan’s policies actually matched his words? Like when he was talking about cutting taxes with his lips and signing into law one of the biggest tax increases in the nations history with his hands?
In 1980, the last year of Dhimmy Carter, the highest marginal tax rate was 70%.
In 1988, the last year of Ronald Reagan, the highest marginal tax rate was 28%.
What in the hell are you goofy liberals talking about?
DB, Gwinnettian
March 3rd, 2009
8:10 am
“Reich-wing Sage of Norcross would make such an inane request. ”
Erm, AmVet, I know you have your issues with the guy, but two things:
1) I actually brought up the “rush makes strawman arguments.” RW politely asked for examples. I’m fine with that.
2) I’m really, really trying to cut back on the namecalling. I know that RW indulges this practice himself, but after working with the guy I managed to get him to address me more often than not by my actual screen name. Baby steps.
Not to make too big a deal about this, but I think at a minimum we ought to try to all do that. Just sayin’.
Copyleft
March 3rd, 2009
8:11 am
“The difference is that with Reagan, America got policies and initiatives that accurately matched his words.”
Laughably wrong, of course. See Jay’s earlier column on “Reagan the Socialist” for a review of Ronnie’s ACTUAL performance in office… then compared it to the mythology the radical right has built up around their savior.
I Report/ You Whine
March 3rd, 2009
8:12 am
http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html
I Report/ You Whine
March 3rd, 2009
8:14 am
So who do you believe, a goony, mindless liberal or the Wall Street Journal?
Americans have welcomed the Obama era in the same spirit of hope the President campaigned on. But after five weeks in office, it’s become clear that Mr. Obama’s policies are slowing, if not stopping, what would otherwise be the normal process of economic recovery. From punishing business to squandering scarce national public resources, Team Obama is creating more uncertainty and less confidence — and thus a longer period of recession or subpar growth.
duh
AmVet
March 3rd, 2009
8:15 am
You Lie / You Welch,
Yeah he’s a clever one alright.
I often think of some of these “contributors” as some cruel caricatures of the failed right-wing ideology. But ones they, themselves, created.
And they lament and wonder why they keep getting destroyed every other November…