Polling has found Limbaugh, a self-described prescription-drug addict who sees America from a private jet, to be nearly as unpopular as Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who damned America in the way that Limbaugh has now damned the nation’s newly elected leader. But Republicans just can’t quit him. So even poor Michael Steele, the nominal head of the Republican Party who dared to criticize him, had to grovel and crawl back to the feet of Limbaugh.
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For Democrats, this is all going to plan. It was James Carville and associates who first cooked up associating Limbaugh with the opposition, as Politico reported. Then on Sunday, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said Limbaugh was the “voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party.”
Limbaugh played his role, ever the fool. A brave Republican could have challenged him, could have had a “have you no shame” moment with him, giving the party some other identity, some spine. Instead, they caved — from Steele, to the leaders in the House, Eric Cantor and Mike Pence, to Gov. Bobby Jindal, who would be ridiculed by Limbaugh for his real first name, Piyush, were he a Democrat.
Thursday, March 05, 2009
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Fever swamp of Pepea -- a good label, that one. Is there a pic to go with it?
man, these damn labels are an obsession with you.
Here's a good one.
This is gonna blow up in the Dems' faces.
That would constitute just desserts. L'arroseur arrose.
How is it going to blow up in the dems' faces ? It's already blown up... in the republicans'.
Pepe, the Repubs, when in power, never went after people arguing against them. The Repubs argued against ideas, but not against the man.
The Dems have attacked Palin and Joe the Plumber, (and it was OK with Tecs because they weren't out of Yale) and now Limbaugh, and they've done it personally.
Bush never singled out douches like Colbert and Maher because it is just not right for a private citizen to bear the brunt of an attack from the government.
Obama has brought change here, for sure, and it's just the change you'd expect from a douche like him. It's disgraceful and only Drudge gets it right and in a super partes way: He calls it Obama's enemies list.
Well put, Mr Rot -- but it's all pearls before swine with Pepe. There is something in the pinko brain chemistry that just doesn't get that sort of argument.
BTW, it was very disturbing to me to see how the campaign apparatus (with the MSM as its propaganda arm) went after Joe Shmoe the Plumber. (BW, they still do -- such people never let go, once you get on their shit list.) With Palin it was less so, since she wasn't just a random private citizen, but a politico running for office -- it comes with the territory when you sign up, especially if you're not a pinko (not just especially, like clockwork, I should say.) Though I'd have to agree, even by today's debased standards, the attacks on her bordered on the insane, revealing more about the moral turpitude of the attackers than on her. (Full disclosure: I also put in some digs there, but it was almost consistently as a matter of principle, and nothing personal.)
Having said all that, I'm still surprised that you are surprised by all this. After all, you cheered on when this phenomenon first started in American politics, and basically became acceptable as a result. You probably can find some isolated antecedents, but in my book, in all started with Bubba, when he went after all sorts of private citizens (almost all women) who crossed him. I remember very well talking to you about that in the mid-to-late 1990s -- you were taking it all in stride,m and egging him on, railing instead at the evil Republicans who were trying to stem the tide. But, once the dike is broke, and age-old inhibitions(which I take as being part of what civilization means) fall by the wayside, it's all down the slippery slope. Ultimately, back to the free-for-all of the primordial savannah.
Pepe, the Repubs, when in power, never went after people arguing against them. The Repubs argued against ideas, but not against the man.
One word: Rumsfeld.
Tecs, those dim broads of Bubba's were going after him because he was a big shot. They ended up in Penthouse for the money there when Clinton wouldn't pay for them to keep quiet any longer. They were whores worse than the hooker than Spitzer hung out with.
She didn't try to squeeze him for money.
You're wrong. This is character assassination. At any rate, Bubba had no business using the power the State Government (in AK), and then the Feds put into his hands going after private citizens, for personal reasons. This is just plain wrong -- you just said it above, in another context, you should be able to see it here, too, unless you use Pepean Logic.
VCP for my Pepean logic?
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