DISQUS

stefanzo · 8 months ago

This is just delicious. Rush, who is one of the most despicable people imaginable and the de facto leader of the Right, is doing everything he can to help the Democrats and destroy the Republicans. While I don't condone his nastiness, it sure comes with a massive silver lining!

akonuche · 8 months ago

It must suck to have reasonable Republicans within your party. Hell, how about people like Meghan McCain (I'm not too keen on her daddy), actually lead the charge and take the Republican party back? At least she's not afraid to say how she feels, damn the consequences.

It would be about damned time that the moderates stick up for themselves instead of all flocking to the Democratic side (not that I completely mind). People like Rush and Fox News should be put out of existence. They are the ones who should be purged. They are a cancerous lot that hurt all of us.

JustAnOldLady · 8 months ago

Is Rush a "closet" Democrat?

ndtovent · 8 months ago

LOl! Funny you should say that.. When he first started in radio many years ago (in my hometown), he was a centrist....maybe not a dem, but much more liberal than he is now. He morphed into this reichwing wacko in the last 15 years or so... I think he could change his stripes on a dime if it would net him a larger listening audience. Just my 2 cents.

KerrynowCampau · 8 months ago

Rush is too far gone to turn back

Tysalpha · 8 months ago

Good! We'll take Meghan--we already have like 99.9% of her age demographic, anyway!

I'd even consider taking McCain -- at least the pre-2008 version.

Butch1 · 8 months ago

McCain lies and flip-flops too much for my taste. One would never know what his real thoughts were. His stand on gay rights is terrible and the republicans can keep him, in my opinion. We do not need another Blue-dog DINO.

KerrynowCampau · 8 months ago

and anyone so desperate to be President that he would allow Palin to be foisted on the US should he pass away is too dangerous for public office

Butch1 · 8 months ago

Amen!

Steve_in_CNJ · 8 months ago

rush and his gop minions are not just immoderate, they're blindly partisan. they oppose policies just because a democrat proposed them. that's part of what is shrinking the party. people can see the tribalism is not working.

larkohio · 8 months ago

Rush must want to send his party into a permanent minority.
Only 21% of people identify themselves as Republicans. You cannot win elections with those kind of numbers. Despite what they say, our nation is not a far right nation. Meghan McCain is correct, and Rush is not.

Butch1 · 8 months ago

That is one percent more than Cheney's popularity poling and much less that Bush got at around 29%
"You're doin' a great job Brownie, I mean Rushie!"

Dave of the Jungle · 8 months ago

I call on the Republican Party to disband, immediately.

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 8 months ago

We must give Rush a pay raise for his good work destroying the Republican Party for once and for all.

And we must give Sarah Palin her own TV show so she can ensure that Republicans remain the laughing stock of the nation for the foreseeable future.

PattyP · 8 months ago

I'll take Meghan McCain. She's babelicious and even seems reasonably intelligent. Rowrrr.

CarolAll · 8 months ago

Sometimes, I wonder why we pay any attention at all to bombastic buffoon, Rush Limbaugh's hate spew. But he seems to be doing a pretty good job of reducing the size of the "big tent of freedom" party (now down to 21%). The values party has become the party of unAmerican seccessionists, narrow minded, fundamentalist Christian, torture apologists, hate defenders, racists, and fear mongering gun-toters. Why go to the trouble of destroying the opposition when they can do it for you?

ndtovent · 8 months ago

Like I said in a previous thread... I wonder if/when a new 3rd conservative party will emerge...one for the moderates, scrapping the hard right fundies and wackos.

jurassicpork · 8 months ago

These are my thoughts on the Democrats getting a shot in the arm from Senator Magic Bullet.

To put it succinctly, I am not impressed. With either Specter or Obama/Biden.

okojo · 8 months ago

I think the Obama Administration is doing some horse trading for Specter's vote on cloiture, because they need his vote on certain legislation and nominations.

Personally Specter should retire. His reasoning for switching to the Dems was really lame, it was more Bob Dole than Daniel Webster. Talk about his record and not having those mean Norquist-istas kicking his ass in the primary. If he really want to help, switch over to the Dems and announce his retirement.

I think the Dems should be leery of Specter as much as they should be really leery of Lieberman, but Senate Democrats have to be political realist and pragmatic. They shouldn't refuse someone like Specter, and as long as he acts semi-rationally, he should be fine.

I think Specter's worse enemy in a Dem primary would be an female criminal defense attorney, who could open up his performance at the Clarence Thomas Hearing, ran by his friend Joe Biden.

i420 · 8 months ago

While the GOP continues to erode...it is in the nation's best interest that voters begin shopping other political parties.

As grand a day as the last republican in federal and state office will be...there's no trusting a super majority. That and...the democrat party is just as colluded and unaccountable as the GOP.

Butch1 · 8 months ago

I do think we should all start looking at other parties as well. The democrats need to realize many of us are not assured votes in the future if they don't start representing their progressive base, even just a little. Many think we are in the bag because they think there are no other places for us to go and that they are the only ones for which we could possibly vote. If our issues are not even addressed in the next four years, the democrats are going to be in for a huge surprise when they find many in their base looking for a more progressive party that will respond to their issues. The democratic party should not continue to ignore what may eventually become their Achilles' Heel. Presently, it is being invaded by RINOs who still think like republicans and do not have a liberal bone in their bodies and the DINOs who continue their insurgency attacks at any bill that appears liberal leaning to them. They claim they want a bipartisan approach but follow the republicans more than the democrats. Both RINOs and DINOs hurt the democratic party when trying to put for an agenda the people voted the democrats in to accomplish. Finally, the need a strong leader with a spine to threaten them if they don't start falling in line with the caucus. Unfortunately, we have Sen. Reid, who continues to be an invertebrate when leading his majority party in the Senate. It wouldn't hurt Rep. Pelosy to grow a spine either and start going after the loose cannons in the House as well. One can only wish . . .

Butch1 · 8 months ago

I note his spineless "strawman" analogy of "some people say" rather than just admitting it is he who is saying it.

HelenRainier · 8 months ago

And the Republicon GOOPers continue to deny that Rush is not the de facto leader of the Republicon GOOPer party.

No wonder they're in deep doo-doo.

KerrynowCampau · 8 months ago

and Rush keeps shoveling more doo-doo on top of them

it will be a glorious day when that blow hard get his comeuppance

Jophus · 8 months ago

So much for that christian redemption. You know I'll greet any republican with open arms with the caveat that they will be equally scrutinized by the left too, but we base our criticism on facts rather than hate and propaganda. Beware, because I don't know which is more harsh for these guys, specifically.

whomod · 8 months ago

So todays talking point is that we're in danger because there are no more checks and balances?

Um.... what about from 2003-2007 when the entire Government was led by Republicans? Were they alarmed then?

Oh right, they spent that period ramming thru everything the Administration wanted and stifling any oversight and investigations to everything from environmental issues, to Iraq war profiteers, to investigations into prisoner abuse. And they went as far as shutting off lights and microphones when Democrats would meet informally to discuss these things.

Oh no, we wearn't in danger then, were we?

Fucking assholes.

Here's a blast from the past with James Senenbrenner.

<<<"....The GOP's "take that, bitch" approach to governing has been taken to the greatest heights by the House Judiciary Committee. The committee is chaired by the legendary Republican monster James Sensenbrenner Jr., an ever-sweating, fat-fingered beast who wields his gavel in a way that makes you think he might have used one before in some other arena, perhaps to beat prostitutes to death. Last year, Sensenbrenner became apoplectic when Democrats who wanted to hold a hearing on the Patriot Act invoked a little-known rule that required him to let them have one.
"Naturally, he scheduled it for something like 9 a.m. on a Friday when Congress wasn't in session, hoping that no one would show," recalls a Democratic staffer who attended the hearing. "But we got a pretty good turnout anyway."

Sensenbrenner kept trying to gavel the hearing to a close, but Democrats again pointed to the rules, which said they had a certain amount of time to examine their witnesses. When they refused to stop the proceedings, the chairman did something unprecedented: He simply picked up his gavel and walked out.

"He was like a kid at the playground," the staffer says. And just in case anyone missed the point, Sensenbrenner shut off the lights and cut the microphones on his way out of the room....

The Worst Congress Ever

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/wor...

If you never saw this article, it is worth the read. Mr. Sensenbrenner not only gets this mention, he is highlighted, along with said Rep. Jefferson, as one of the 10 worst members of the 109th Congress>>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY_OPcGBSrI

Here's a detailed accounting of the incident and it's reaction:

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=1453

It's funny how "tyranny" only applies for republicans when rich people get their taxes bumped up slightly. Thank god the fuckign dark ages are over. And the Republicans? To quote Dick Cheney, they can go fuck themselves

tlsintx · 8 months ago

yeah, hey, thanks a lot Rush.
you are single-handedly...almost...destroying what was once the GOP.

keep up the good work.

cole3244 · 8 months ago

rush bingbang is at it again, a new order of drugs must have arrived just in time for the large ones show.