As GOP throws a tantrum in DC, Obama’s fortunes rise
The second major poll is as many days reports significant improvement in President Obama’s job-approval rating.
Here’s the first, released Monday by Washington Post/ABC News:
Source: Washington Post/ABC News
Here’s the second, showing quite similar movement, from CNN:
Source: CNN
And why the change? Some numbers from CNN explain:
Source: CNN
Meanwhile, congressional Republicans continue to throw childish tantrums in Washington over extending the tax break for working Americans, and GOP presidential candidates continue to pitch woo at their party’s more extreme elements.
They can’t hep it, they just cain’t hep it.
– Jay Bookman
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Real Scootter
December 20th, 2011
9:39 pm
Let’s see how Obama fares against a real flesh and blood candidate in the only polls that matter.
Let me know who that canidate would be and I will vote for him or her!
Recon 0311 2533
December 20th, 2011
9:41 pm
“The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.”
And the lazy get more so…time to wake up America and kick the left out of our country.
josef
December 20th, 2011
9:42 pm
DEL
Kick the left out of the country? Scr*w you, too!
getalife
December 20th, 2011
9:43 pm
Crushing the gop, huge cut ending the Iraqi occupation, defense funded, five points on on the polls.
He deserves the vacation.
What did the gop do? Fight against our recovery.
They deserve to lose.
AmVet - A Happy KwanzChristmakkuh to al!
December 20th, 2011
9:44 pm
Thanks, Scooter, happy holidays to you and yours!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjV-0DzPeCM&feature=related
phil
December 20th, 2011
9:45 pm
They can’t even implement this dumb idea tax break to begin with.But the party that does not have a clue about business, won’t let that little fact stand in the way of more class warfare rhetoric.
Jay
December 20th, 2011
9:46 pm
“… time to wake up America and kick the left out of our country.”
But Recon, you’d walk into the Yacht Club and the place would be empty. And then what?
Real Scootter
December 20th, 2011
9:47 pm
time to wake up America and kick the left out of our country.
It would be cheaper to make them slaves and not let them vote anymore Recon!
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 20th, 2011
9:48 pm
Congrats Sinkwich! Those are the most intelligent posts you have ever made and in a row too! Complete lack of reality and any semblence of comprehension but you did manage a few sentences in a row too. Did you see the Wizard about an operating system? Here’s something you can try…. first complain about a poll by making your guess and saying its just as valid, then follow up that whine with a post about a poll showing something.
Happy Holiday! Enjoy your newfounded stretch for intelligent.
Strawman
December 20th, 2011
9:49 pm
To resume my opposition to thoughts advanced in your last column (a far more important subject), Jay, here are a couple quotes from Jefferson regarding the Supreme Court:
“This member of the Government was at first the most harmless and helpless of all its organs. But it has proved that the power of declaring what the law is….can do what open force would not dare to attempt.”
“To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.”
The plain fact is that the role of the judicial branch was much debated before the Constitutional Convention and the original idea of it being a kind of arbiter of legislation was dismissed and the presidential veto was adopted instead. It was the SCOTUS that gave itself the power of which Jefferson was sagely afraid in the early 1800s in the Marbury ruling.
Robert Yates, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, was eerily prophetic when he wrote that the court will:
“…in their decisions not confine themselves to any fixed or established rules, but will determine, according to what appears to them, the reason and spirit of the constitution. The opinions of the supreme court, whatever they may be, will have the force of law; because there is no power provided in the constitution, that can correct their errors, or control their adjudications. From this court there is no appeal.”
Can you say Plessy v. Ferguson? How about the 2000 presidential election? I mention these because you likely will not care that the SCOTUS has made pornography an instance of free “speech.” NOW do you get where Gingrich’s comments come from? They are a visceral reaction to the abuses of the court. So take off your ideological blinders for a minute or two, dismount from your high horse and grasp what a number of Americans are justly peeved about.
tc
December 20th, 2011
9:50 pm
How can so many people on here be happy about another 4 years of Obama. Please share with me what I can look forward too. Or please name one thing that he has done that we are all better off for.
josef
December 20th, 2011
9:52 pm
getalife
Things ain’t looking too good for Iraq (and the current President’s “advisors”–how many thousand?)–
arrest warrent issued for the vice-President al-Hashemi whose in hiding in Kurdistan…and we’ve been gone how many days? Looks an awful lot like another Mission Accomplished to me….
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
9:52 pm
“And the lazy get more so…”
Dull: WTF do you do all day except wait for your DoD pension check at the end of the month?
Atlanta Allen
December 20th, 2011
9:52 pm
If I don’t do my job and do it well, I feel ashamed. Harry Reid clearly has no capacity to feel shame. He blames others after failing to pass or even propose a budget for THREE YEARS. This is the single most important job of the Senate Majority (yes liberals Democrats have a MAJORITY in the senate so quit blaming the “Republican Congress” ) and no senate has failed to handle this responsibility in the history of our republic. A competent Chief Executive would be on his a$$ about meeting the responsibilities of his office but our President is too busy getting re-elected and protecting his party to actually lead.
F. Sinkwich
December 20th, 2011
9:52 pm
Keep:
“Congrats Sinkwich! Those are the most intelligent posts you have ever made and in a row too! ”
THANKS!
Recon 0311 2533
December 20th, 2011
9:53 pm
Jay, I didn’t think the left was into boating or things like that. Thought you guy’s felt it would mess up the environment and kill off the Snail Darters or whatever.
Fast and Furious Spending
December 20th, 2011
9:53 pm
What’s amazing is that the Republican House actually passes something, Obama and Reid say no, and suddenly the GOP is throwing a tantrum? The President still has not passed a budget as chief executive of anything, and the Republican field is weak? You guys are fully in the intellectual weeds, not knowing fact from fiction. What you know is only the “stories” that hurt your crazy nitwit cause and those that help.
Just reading the first page of your responses Jay from your readers makes me realize how narrow your message is and how incoherent they are while following you. Your followers are so far left and so deranged about the right, they are insane. Witness Mr. Wanker if you doubt.
Looks like you and your adherents are the ones throwing the tantrum–and unlike the Republicans, Tea Party and conservatives you don’t have any other message than “LOOKIE! The GOP is ________” on any given day.
Who really needs honest discussion about deficits, debt, budget crises and fiscal responsibility when you can’t pass a budget anyway?
Good luck in 2012, dimwits. Your success then would truly be a fulfillment of a total and complete critique on reason, heck on common sense.
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
9:53 pm
“Please share with me what I can look forward too.”
You can look forward to 4 more years without a dumbass Republican in office. See 2001 – 2008.
josef
December 20th, 2011
9:53 pm
Is it just me, or has anybody else noticed that the Imam and Strawman have a marked tendency to show up at the same time?
AmVet - A Happy KwanzChristmakkuh to al!
December 20th, 2011
9:54 pm
tc, I voted against him but really? You’ve paid that little attention?
Obama signs in his first law: equal pay rights in workplace
Barack Obama yesterday drew a clear line between his presidency and that of George Bush in his support for women’s rights, when he signed an equal pay law as his first piece of legislation yesterday.
In a celebration at the White House for women and labor activists, Obama paid tribute to a former supervisor at an Alabama tire factory who fought for the legislation which bears her name.
The Lilly Ledbetter law, which allows workers greater latitude to sue their employers for unequal pay, had been blocked by Bush and opposed by Republican members of Congress, including presidential candidate John McCain.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/30/obama-lilly-ledbetter-equal-pay
Lots of bad mojo tonight, but my lights are burning bright…
This guy was probably under-appreciated by us most of us white boys, but hell he sang back up for Todd and Utopia for their first UK concert at the Hammersmith Odeon in London in 1975. How cool is that?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl3OM9UuWuw&feature=fvwrel
Strawman
December 20th, 2011
9:55 pm
“You guys are fully in the intellectual weeds…”
That exactly describes the like of Pelosi and Biden, huh? They would feel so complimented.
Fast and Furious Spending
December 20th, 2011
9:55 pm
You might as well have said, “when Obama shuts his mouth, goes on vacation and refrains from making policy his fortunes rise.”
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 20th, 2011
9:56 pm
Or please name one thing that he has done that we are all better off for
Not this again…
ending DADT
ACA
OBL
I am sure you can read about the others if you truly want.
Recon 0311 2533
December 20th, 2011
9:58 pm
“Dull: WTF do you do all day except wait for your DoD pension check at the end of the month?”
Well I don’t blog all day as you seem to posting reams of left wing garbage. If I collect a DOD check you must be sucking on welfare handouts but blog on if it keeps you out of the way of productive citizens.
Jeffy
December 20th, 2011
9:58 pm
Yes, God forbid someone would want some fiscal responsibility. Look, as far as constituents go, Republicans pay the bills in this country. The majority of Democrats are sucking the lifeblood of this land through SNAP, free school lunches, earned income tax credit, and any other government program that makes them a ward of the state. WHEN, and that’s a rhetorical when, the parasites who only vote Democrat for the simple reason that it promises the free ride will continue, stand on equal footing with taxpaying citizens of this nation…..maybe we can begin to have a conversation as equals. Until then it will be a parent child relationship with those who remain dependent on others for their survival.
Strawman
December 20th, 2011
9:59 pm
“Is it just me, or has anybody else noticed that the Imam and Strawman have a marked tendency to show up at the same time?”
It is you. Why don’t you spend an hour or two going through past column responses (you know, click Show All and then do a find on our handles in the browser) to disprove your silly speculation (which wasn’t really a speculation in the first place but a kind of slight, eh?).
Real Scootter
December 20th, 2011
9:59 pm
Thanks AmVet,same to ya!
josef
December 20th, 2011
10:01 pm
“Please share with me what I can look forward too”
More of the same and nothing to cheer about that…but a helluva sight better than anybody from that crew of spectacular lunatic fringists being put up by the not so loyal opposition…
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
10:02 pm
Dull: how about this deal? I get a “job” in the Army, Marines, whatever. I “work” there 20 years. Henceforth, I can draw a generous pension and enjoy free healthcare until I croak.
Please tell me where on Earth I can find a “job” like that. Heck, the only one I can think of is one of them “evil” union jobs secured by one of them “evil” union “thugs.”
F. Sinkwich
December 20th, 2011
10:03 pm
In honor of Bob and Bob Jr., martyrs in the struggle against liberty and freedom, I’ve established a website where weep-easys and do-gooder lib ilks like Jay and his acolytes here can contribute freely so they can feel good but actually make things worse, like the Great Society:
http://Www.loserlibilk.com.
Thanks!
St Simons - we're on Island time
December 20th, 2011
10:06 pm
“But Recon, you’d walk into the Yacht Club and… ”
Biff & Muffy asked me to write. (They were too flabbergasted and had
the vapors) They said thank you for your support and all, walmart
republicans, but you will NOT be entering the Yacht Club, unless
its the service entrance, and don’t touch anything. But vote for us
anyway. Toodles. That’s what they said.
josef
December 20th, 2011
10:07 pm
Strawman…
Oh, please…get over your cheap imported self…I was merely making comment since you are one of those that the Imam takes on with a special vengence! And what was the slight? And what part of the words “marked tendency” are you missing? The last blog…I’m referring to days and weeks!
Real Scootter
December 20th, 2011
10:07 pm
Dang,this is a “Battle Royale” tonight. Whew!
Strawman
December 20th, 2011
10:08 pm
“They were too flabbergasted and had the vapors”
Oh oh…someone has been reading Victorian novels again. Has to be a female as well.
Fast and Furious Spending
December 20th, 2011
10:08 pm
What’s really amazing is that not a word was said in the jb column about the real tantrum of 2011…. OWS.
captguitarman
December 20th, 2011
10:09 pm
This is somewhat of a head scratcher because the Pub/Cons want to put this reduction into place for a full year – worth about $1,000 + for the average family. The Dems want it in place for only two months – worth about $170 for the average family. But, it is the Pubs are being demonized by the government has got to take care of us crowd. Two reasons for this, I think. First, Boehner sent mixed signals to the Senate about supporting a reasonable agreement. He should have learned by now in this highly polarized environment where mixed and unclear signals lead – sometimes even crystal clear communication – so he handled it badly, even though the plan he supports is of greater benefit, he is risking major blame on the Pub/Cons if the reduction expires. Calling the Senate back now is a non-starter. Plus the medicare fix for the docs will not take place The Pub/Cons need to cave on this one, and hopefully learn a lesson. And Boehner needs to remember, the Tea Party (like African Americans with the Dem/Libs) have no place else to go, so he does not have to do everything they tell him to do.
The other reason is also pretty clear. The Dem/Libs will constantly pass stop-gaps, interim, and kick the can down the road solutions and resolutions because they have been doing that for decades (which as someone noted is really why we are where we are now), and for reasons not as clear, it always plays to their advantage. The Dems did not pass a budget for two years when they were in full control of the Congress. If the Pubs had not come into power in the House last year, there would still not be one. They are the crown princes of continuing resolutions which help their near term political prospects immensely (Americans, especially Dem/Libs, love instant fixes and instant gratification), but which never solve the ongoing enormous problem that this nation spends far more than it collects in revenues. For blatant political purposes and advantage, the Dem/Libs will create, set up, and orchestrate these battles that risk any number of benefits to voters, military veterans, old folks, or whomever, by following their DNA and creating measures that deal only with the present, and which provide them with the benefit of letting things pile up in a very bad way for future generations. In the near term, every fight or delay that Reid and Pelosi can create which will allow them to continue the argument of increasing taxes in a recession, they will create. And it is clear that they want this issue front and center again in February so it will look like, once again, those mean old Pub/Cons who wanted to fix it for at least a year are taking government bennies away from the people.
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
10:09 pm
“Yes, God forbid someone would want some fiscal responsibility. Look, as far as constituents go, Republicans pay the bills in this country. The majority of Democrats are sucking the lifeblood of this land through SNAP, free school lunches, earned income tax credit, and any other government program that makes them a ward of the state. WHEN, and that’s a rhetorical when, the parasites who only vote Democrat for the simple reason that it promises the free ride will continue, stand on equal footing with taxpaying citizens of this nation…..maybe we can begin to have a conversation as equals. Until then it will be a parent child relationship with those who remain dependent on others for their survival.”
Man, how many bumper stickers do we have here?
“Republicans pay the bills in this country.”
“Democrats are sucking the lifeblood of this land”
“SNAP, free school lunches, earned income tax credit, and any other government program that makes them a ward of the state”
“Parasites only vote Democrat”
“The free ride will continue”
Please limit posts to one bumper sticker per post.
Recon 0311 2533
December 20th, 2011
10:10 pm
“Please tell me where on Earth I can find a “job” like that. Heck, the only one I can think of is one of them “evil” union jobs secured by one of them “evil” union “thugs.”
Toothlayer, go for one of those jobs but then you would have to roll your butt out of bed in the morning. Guess on second thought you’re more comfortable with taxpayer funded government handouts. Right? Blog on!
Strawman
December 20th, 2011
10:10 pm
Oh, please…get over your cheap imported self…I was merely making comment …blah, blah, blah..
The [poster] doth protest too much, methinks
guy
December 20th, 2011
10:10 pm
So pathetic that obama is commander-in-chief.Never thought that voters could have fallen for such a phoney!
Fast and Furious Spending
December 20th, 2011
10:11 pm
Jeffy,
Having a real conversation with these liberal chatroom-guys is the same provider-dependent relationship actually. You frame the subject in common sense. They dance around making fun.
It’s a perfect analogy of the real world, just as you said.
SNAP, indeed! Got to have another name, so leechcraft is seen as something else.
Might as well demand free college! Hey, we’ve got nothing else to do, right?
josef
December 20th, 2011
10:13 pm
STRAWMAN
“The [poster] doth protest too much, methinks”
You have firm grasp of the obvious…
Fast and Furious Spending
December 20th, 2011
10:14 pm
Sooth,
Stop cackling like a little girl.
If you want a job where you can work for 20 years and get a fat pension, the pay is FAR better in the um “civil service” (read bloated bureaucracy) sector. To get the government equivalent pension of a colonel, you’ll only need to be the droning wastoid you are. The motto is, “screw up, move up.”
Strawman
December 20th, 2011
10:15 pm
“You have firm grasp of the obvious…”
Yes, thanks to Perceiving the Obvious for Dummies. You should get a copy.
Recon 0311 2533
December 20th, 2011
10:16 pm
Where’s Chuck? His was still the classic uber-lib a$$ kicking post I’ve seen in awhile.
St Simons - we're on Island time
December 20th, 2011
10:18 pm
“as far as constituents go, Republicans pay the bills in this country…”
It is MUCH more likely that I pay your bills, and that’s after a
a manifest destiny-sized head start for you.
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
10:19 pm
Chuckies dead. The only asskicking you’re gonna see is come next November 6, 2012.
AmVet - A Happy KwanzChristmakkuh to al!
December 20th, 2011
10:20 pm
Let’s just put it this way, in the free market place of ideas, some of you are in the bargain basement.
This guy could sing a little…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2ibjLoDVbI&feature=related
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 20th, 2011
10:21 pm
According to new figures released today from Germany’s energy working group, AGEB, energy consumption in the country dropped 4.8% in 2011 from 2010.
German consumption of oil fell 3%, gas by 10.2%, lignite coal by 0.7% (although hard coal rose 3.7%), and nuclear by 22.9%. At the same time, use of renewable energy climbed by 4.1% and represented about 20% of the country’s energy consumption in 2011.
An increase in residential and industrial efficiency combined with milder temperatures in 2011 provided the conditions for the decrease in consumption.
So is that increase in renewable energy and efficiency killing the German economy? Analysts expect German GDP growth to be around 3% in 2011, about the same projected for the U.S.
Well we stole the highway idea and any number of other ideas….perhaps we should be following Germany’s lead.
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
10:21 pm
Um, Dull, I’m not aware of any government handouts that I get.
independent thinker
December 20th, 2011
10:21 pm
Repubs just made fools of themselves – the party of unlimited tax breaks for the rich cannot renew a tax break for the working poor and msddle class as a Christmas present – Go get em John Lewis
Boehner and the party of NO are the grinches who stole Christmas/
Strawman
December 20th, 2011
10:22 pm
“…and that’s after a manifest destiny-sized head start for you.”
So I take it the metaphorical race would not take place on the island. Nice adjectival phrase. Well, original in any case.
Joseph
December 20th, 2011
10:22 pm
Even a far left zeolot such as you Jay can find a silver lining in almost anything…. Rasmussen and Gallop still have the spread at -7 and -4 respectively… Can you spin that Jay???? Its simple really. Do Americans want the tax cut extension for one year or two months??? Obama is at a clear dissadvantage here…..
josef
December 20th, 2011
10:23 pm
Strawman
“Yes, thanks to Perceiving the Obvious for Dummies. You should get a copy.”
The irony of that statement, no doubt, beyond your ken. However, if you recommend it, I’ll take the advice from so esteemed a reader in the target audience…
Recon 0311 2533
December 20th, 2011
10:23 pm
“Chuckies dead. The only asskicking you’re gonna see is come next November 6, 2012.”
Oh boy, are you on your second or third joint maybe dropping acid. Geez
getalife
December 20th, 2011
10:24 pm
I feel ilky.
Yea, Iraq will be unstable for a while but since we are broke, Iraq is Iran’s problem.
getalife
December 20th, 2011
10:26 pm
The cons don’t like the new polls so they cray about a vacation.
President Obama 52.
willard romney 42.
Four more years.
Deal with it better this time cons.
Strawman
December 20th, 2011
10:27 pm
“The irony of that statement, no doubt, beyond your ken. However, if you recommend it, I’ll take the advice from so esteemed a reader in the target audience…”
The irony is affected. After my last post I thought to warn you that the learned tome in question would not likely be placed in an obvious location within the bookstore, thereby presenting you with a kind of Catch-22. Ask one of the clerks to assist you.
Soothsayer
December 20th, 2011
10:27 pm
Here you go, Del. One I’m sure you’ll like!
Goodnight everyone!
Recon 0311 2533
December 20th, 2011
10:29 pm
Okay it’s always fun to bash the libs but then again they’re such a pathetic lot and they make it far too easy. More important things to tend to and then Taps. Good evening y’all.
josef
December 20th, 2011
10:30 pm
Joseph
The Bruin is a “far left zealot?” L-rd, Mate, how far to the right ARE you to come up with that? A centrist Harvey Milktoast, maybe, but a far left zealot…? I think not.
getalife
True, that…but let’s not go giving the President any great cheers for success, either. If he inherited the mess it was, which he did, then the mess it will become will be his legacy…
OedipusTax
December 20th, 2011
10:30 pm
Jay Bookman Embarrasses Atlanta Again!
Strawman
December 20th, 2011
10:33 pm
I think that was last call. GN all.
getalife
December 20th, 2011
10:33 pm
Josef,
Yes and he is cleaning up the mess with the gop fighting him every step of the way.
1811/0311
December 20th, 2011
10:34 pm
Want to “throw up” ? :
Headline: “Coburn Releases ‘Wastebook’ Detailing More Than $6.5 Billion in ‘Unnecessary’ Spending”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/20/coburn-releases-wastebook-detailing-more-than-65-billion-in-unnecessary/
josef
December 20th, 2011
10:35 pm
Strawman
“Ask one of the clerks to assist you.”
I generally do, being on a first name basis with several in the bookstores I frequent, and finding their recommendations to be of value.
josef
December 20th, 2011
10:38 pm
Strawman…
Shoot, and thar I wuz, thankin’ I wuz gonna have an exchange of witticisms with one of them erudite innulecchuals I herd so much about…
Keep Up the Good Fight!
December 20th, 2011
10:39 pm
Okay it’s always fun to bash the libs but then again they’re such a pathetic lot and they make it far too easy
Wow, were have I heard this kind of Sheenism before……. It’s no wonder so many of the right wingnuts here appear doomed for trollish and ignorant posts.
josef
December 20th, 2011
10:40 pm
getalife
Oh, I won’t argue with that, but I was referring to Iraq…and I’m not entirely sure that he’s leaving the mess any better than he found it…
AmVet - A Happy KwanzChristmakkuh to al!
December 20th, 2011
10:42 pm
josef, he must be the new, pro war, anti-habeus corpus, far left zealot, that is funded by Wall Street.
Stevie ray mentioned these guys earlier…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU3QCu5E27U
Ahem
December 20th, 2011
10:50 pm
Charts, smarts:
Gallup has Odumbarse at 43 approve and 50 disapprove. He will not win unless he runs unopposed.
Fast and Furious Spending
December 20th, 2011
10:52 pm
i think @ 1021,
OK, GOP passes a bill. Dems sit on it, declare no fun and leave town.
Republicans get blamed. Is it accurate? No, not at all. In fact, it’s happened before. Bill Clinton refused to sign a bill, and republicans got blamed in the media then too.
Remember the 90’s? Gingrich, our future President does.
George W. Bush won 2 times after GOP received the blame.
What’s happening now is even less newsworthy because no one’s paying attention to politics. They’re out shopping and trimming trees.
The trouble for you libs is that fewer and fewer regular Americans could give a crap about what the NT Times and CNN says anymore–not to mention pipsqueak, Jay Bookman.
Fast and Furious Spending
December 20th, 2011
10:53 pm
Ahem,
He might have a chance if he floods all polling places with New Black Panther observers.
rahvi
December 20th, 2011
10:58 pm
Sorry to all you Birthers, Bigots, Klanners, Tea Baggers and other assorted White Trash- President Obama in a landslide…
pirate
December 20th, 2011
11:03 pm
Thank you, thank you Republicans for continuing to ignore the only candidate with actual presidential credentials……John Huntsman. He’s smart, he knows politics and foreign policy and he seems to be a pretty reasonable guy. All the ingredients you need to poll at about 2% in the wonderful Republican party. ‘preciate it!
St Simons - we're on Island time
December 20th, 2011
11:39 pm
josef, are you an editor? a writer? lots of high end wordsmithing here
tonight, out of my league
What 'Chu Say
December 21st, 2011
12:01 am
Not a Neal Boortz Redneck – December 20th, 2011 9:11 pm
Don’t worry GOP Bushpigs.
Fat Rush will tell you what to think on Wednesday.
Now while I do not agree with calling names; some of the posters on this blog should include a footnote for quoting Rush.
I listen to Rush’s show from time to time and the one thing that I notice is that Rush never has anyone with a differing opinion on his show. Say what you will about Sharpton; but Sharpton will go toe to toe in a debate. Sharpton has appeared on many a political shows to defend his position. I’ve not seen Rush go toe to toe with anyone of a differing opinion.
I was listening to Rush yesterday (on Monday afternoon 12/19 – don’t think it was a best of Rush) and one guy called in to tell Rush that his girlfriend, whom was suffering from non-Hodgkins lympoma, had been informed by the facility at which she was being treated, that she was basically cut off due to the balance owed to the facility. Now he went on to state that she had fallen behind on payments because she was unable to keep up with the payments. I am not sure if he meant her medical premiums or payments to the treating facility directly. Well he stated that he suggested she call the Lymphoma/Leukemia society to state her case. According to the caller, she did and the society sent her a check for $5000.00. Well after a few minutes of praising the society, Rush then asked the caller “What do you think would have happened under Obamacare?”. The caller didn’t give an answer, so Rush stated “You don’t even want to think about it HUH?”.
Well, I wanted to know. I wanted either Rush or the caller to explain what would have happened to his girlfriend under Obamacare. Would the Leukemia/Lymphoma society not have donated, would the girlfriend have been able to afford the care? I mean what would have happened?
I am so sick of people throwing shyte out with nothing to back up their statement, but I’m even more tired of the sheep accepting it.
Then another guy called in and almost sounded like he was choked up because according to the caller, he started listening to Rush with his dad, and now he listens along with his 10 and 12 year old daughters. The listener went on to state that he was so thankful for what Rush had done for America and that now his daughters question what they are being taught in school? Well what the heck are 10 and 12 year olds being taught that it has to be questioned and what is it that Rush has done for America?
Someone please tell me what I am missing. What has Rush contributed to America?
I am not envious of Rush, heck I think he and his promoters are business smart as heck. They gave the angry white-American a justification for being angry all while Rush just clicks off and hangs out with some of the very people he pretends to hold in comtempt.
Nice gig if you can get and maintain it.
ls1z28chris
December 21st, 2011
12:02 am
No matter who you vote for, a politician still get in.
Remember when Obama promised to end the war in 2009? Remember when Obama promised to close GITMO in 2009?
He’s just now ended the Iraq war because his diplomats failed to negotiate an extended deadline. And he’s just signed a bill that allows American citizens, taken captive on American soil, to be spirited to GITMO without charge and without hearing because his administration insists that American is a “terrorist.”
Time to drop this fraud, despite what Bookman says.
josef
December 21st, 2011
12:20 am
Simons
If you’re still here…
I’ve done and still do a lot of different things in a checkered career…if I have to put a single word on it, it’s linguist.
ragnar danneskjold
December 21st, 2011
5:42 am
Relative oversampling of democrats also explains why the polls do not reflect domestic economic conditions nor US management of international issues.
USinUK
December 21st, 2011
6:16 am
“Remember the 90’s? Gingrich, our future President does. ”
ohsweetjeebus … that’s funny on SO many levels …
do I remember the 90s – when the GOP shut down the government? oh, hell yes, I do.
do I remember the 90s – when the GOP impeached the president for a BJ? oh, hell yes, I do.
do I remember who was at the root of both of those actions? hell to the yes – and so does everyone else.
“future president”, indeed.
ragnar danneskjold
December 21st, 2011
6:17 am
The good news, however, is that the Taliban is not our enemy per se – seemingly our community organizer in chief is on good terms with them. The bad news, however, is that even Hugo Chavez now identifies the head of the Occupy Oval Office movement as a “clown” who as destroyed his own country.
USinUK
December 21st, 2011
6:17 am
“US management of international issues.”
US “management” of international issues???
okay, I’ll bite … what in the name of Aunt Edna’s fruitcake are you talking about
ragnar danneskjold
December 21st, 2011
6:20 am
Good morning USinUK. “do I remember the 90s – when the GOP impeached the president for a BJ?” I suppose we can agree that the horndog in chief was not impeached for perjury (despite subsequent sanctions levied for same by a district court), as no leftist knows the difference between truth and fiction.
Normal
December 21st, 2011
6:22 am
Wow Ragnar…gotta love your source…especially since what he has done to his country…
USinUK
December 21st, 2011
6:23 am
“The bad news, however, is that even Hugo Chavez now identifies the head of the Occupy Oval Office movement as a “clown” who as destroyed his own country.”
OHNOES!!!!! Hugo Chavez – a man who ended term limits so that he could be preskident for life and who pals around with a certain M Ahmadinajad – doesn’t like our president!!!
OH DEARYDEAR!!! whatever shall we do???
USinUK
December 21st, 2011
6:28 am
ragnar – right. the whole Monica thing had nothing to do with it.
you want to ignore the facts? fine – they tried to indict him for WhiteWater for years – they couldn’t get him for that, so they went for something easier – sex
USinUK
December 21st, 2011
6:28 am
oh, and HI NORMAL!!!
Bud Wiser
December 21st, 2011
6:32 am
While your messiah’s fortunes allegedly ‘rise’, everyone else’s sink like a stone, financially.
News reports put the Obama upcoming planned family vacation in Hawaii at @ $17 million to the taxpayers….that’s 17 with six zeroes, which, even if you throw in the family dog, comes up one zero short.
Anyway, back to the point.
Based upon the social security checks drawn by my wife and myself, this vacation could pay my SS for the next 6230 months, or 519 years, more or less. Since I probably won’t live that long, in more practical terms, it essentially amounts to the SS payments for 52 people (26 couples) for the next 20 years.
Its not as if this idiot has been on vacation the last 3 years anyway, but his arrogant personal waste of taxpayer money spits in the faces of all Americans, including you drooling minions and media stooges.
And yet you take it and worship this ignorant sap still.
You people are pathetic.
USinUK
December 21st, 2011
6:34 am
oh, and one more thing I won’t forget …
the total cost of the White Water investigation that did nothing other than uncover a BJ???
$60 MILLION
(but I’m sure Gingrich would be happy to put that on his Tiffany’s bill)
Normal
December 21st, 2011
6:34 am
Hi, USinUK…
Happy Winter solstice!
Bud Wiser
December 21st, 2011
6:35 am
Oh, and Clinton on O’Reilly last night look physically ill.
Either Monica sucked the life out of him with their tawdry little affair, or the man better change his lifestyle quick and head over to Ruth’s Chris (Rush Limbaugh’s and my favorite steak house) for some really fine red meat.
USinUK
December 21st, 2011
6:38 am
Normal – 6:34 – and not a frickin moment too soon … these 4:00 sunsets are killing me.
Normal
December 21st, 2011
6:42 am
…another case of big government hassling small business’…
http://history.icanhascheezburger.com/2011/12/20/funny-pictures-history-flog-someplace-else/
Normal
December 21st, 2011
6:46 am
USinUK,
I sent this to you yesterday….
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USinUK,
Are you out there?
I wanted to tell you of a “Normal Rockwell” moment I had yesterday with my 3 year old Great Grand Daughter…
She was out with her Nana shopping and when she came home I was raking leaves from our pond area. She stayed out with me, and we talked about her “day”. Then I said I’d better get busy and finish this and I started working again. As I was working, I saw that she was picking up pine straw, one at a time, and putting them in a neat little stack. I asked her if she was making a straw house.
She said, “No Grandpa, I’m helping you.” We hugged and went inside for some cookies and milk.
Good vibes like that just had to be rewarded. Gotta love ‘em…
AmVet - Pa rum pum pum pum, cons are dumb
December 21st, 2011
6:48 am
Good winter’s morning, all.
USing, I remember those dark afternoons when I was stationed there! At one point I was working swing shift (4 to midnight) and it was dark when I went to work and if I was lucky I might see five or six hours of daylight on any given day. Those winter nights out on the flight line were cold, wet and miserable.
A really sweet one about the season from Steve Miller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nprfybQ7PO0&feature=related
USinUK
December 21st, 2011
6:49 am
Normal – STOP!!!! the cuteness is killing me!!!
that is the sweetest thing – I’m loving that you not only have grand-Normals, you have great grand Normals you get to hang with …
truly blessed, you are
USinUK
December 21st, 2011
6:51 am
AmVet – holy cow … I don’t think I’ve heard that in 20 years … (love me some Steve Miller – saw him play at Chastain back in 1993 or 94)
AmVet - Pa rum pum pum pum, cons are dumb
December 21st, 2011
7:02 am
Ex-pat, I’m here to serve. (grin)
Brother Normal, I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know of course, but you are one lucky grandpa!
All the best to you and yours.
From the parable in Matthew about the ten virgins, this standard is typically done in a very bluesy fashion (Hot Tuna did a killer rendition of it), but this Nashville chick puts a ballsy twist on it, with some almost backup Keith Richards-like guitar, to boot…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oJ06G_SqGI&feature=related
Normal
December 21st, 2011
7:12 am
USinUK, AmVet,
Truely Blessed? Lucky Grandpa? You betcha!