An Agenda Everyone Can Rally Around
Well, except maybe poor Jimmah.
Recently, I sent Limbaugh an e-mail message, his preferred means of long-distance communication, asking what his own presidential agenda would look like. His answer reflects his actual concerns. A Limbaugh administration would seek to:
1. Open the continental shelf to drilling. Ditto the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
2. Establish a 17 percent flat tax.
3. Privatize Social Security.
4. Give parents school vouchers to break the monopoly of public education.
5. Revoke Jimmy Carter’s passport while he is out of the country.
6. Abandon all government policies based on the hoax of man-made global warming.
Very interesting piece in the New York Times of all things about conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh. It’s surprisingly good and while the author Chafets may want to think that “No. 5 was a joke”, I have a sneaky suspicion that quite a number of Americans would agree with Rush on this. Frankly, I agree with the whole list here and the abandonment of most of these ideas is largely responsible for why the GOP finds itself in deep doo-doo this election cycle.
– John (Average Gay Joe)
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First, I agree with every item on the list. Second, Have you witnessed the deranged, foaming-at-the-mouth response from the left to Rush’s $500 Million contract deal? Note this one especially:
I forget, which side of the political aisle are the Fascists supposed to be on?
Comment by V the K — July 3, 2008 @ 11:53 am - July 3, 2008
Not only do I endorse #5, I would also seek to apply the same rules to Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Michael Moore, Cindy Sheehan and any other Hollyweird libtard who disparages the USA on foreign soil.
You want freedom of speech? Earn it first.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — July 3, 2008 @ 11:54 am - July 3, 2008
#1 - V, does that mean that those of us who are not snObama or Airhead America supporters will have to wear a golden EIB microphone on our clothing? Will we be herded into ghettos first before they send us to “Rush’s appearance?”
Yes, V - the fascists are the Dhimmicrats.
Save a seal, club a libtard.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — July 3, 2008 @ 11:56 am - July 3, 2008
Truly, I wish that Jimminy Carter would be made the ambassador to Haiti. And, I wish that PBS would have a Jimminy Carter hour every week that backs up to Bill Moyers. And I wish that Jimminy Carter be appointed official Ombudsman at the New York Times. And I wish the Jimminy Carter would be anointed Archbishop of Moral Relevancy. And I wish the Jimminy Carter be made Katie Couric’s replacement at CBS News.
He would be balm for the sores of those who cannot get enough Jimminy Carter.
Comment by heliotrope — July 3, 2008 @ 12:16 pm - July 3, 2008
Re lefty anger over Limbaugh’s compensation….I am waiting to haer fury at the huge salaries paid to Hollywood movie actors and “star” TV personalities like news anchors, etc. ……(Sound of crickets chirping in the night silence).
Comment by EssEm — July 4, 2008 @ 11:38 am - July 4, 2008
#5 - I agree, EssEm. Why is the perky li’l Katie Couric raking in big $$$ when her show is dead-last among the Big 3 MSM News?
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — July 4, 2008 @ 1:58 pm - July 4, 2008
Yes to #1
No to #2
I’d go half way on #3
Same thing for #4
Yes, yes and yes for #5
No on #6, there are enough scientists out there that accept man made global warming that it’s rational to consider the possibility that they’re right. Although we should let the left scare us into giving up our freedom using global warming as a pretext.
Comment by Andrew — July 4, 2008 @ 2:30 pm - July 4, 2008
hmmmmm……isn’t condoning violence against the rules of this site? But then again, Peter H. is an avid supporter of this site, so clubbing people with whom he doesn’t agree probably garners the blind eye of the folks running this site.
Comment by Kevin — July 4, 2008 @ 5:26 pm - July 4, 2008
And by the way….yes, let’s trade one group of people who are utterly contemptuous of the US government (ie, Bush and company), for a law-breaking pill-popper who has the same contempt.
Comment by Kevin — July 4, 2008 @ 5:28 pm - July 4, 2008
Kevin, you know who else was contemptuous of big federal government? The founding fathers. Happy Fourth of July ya big commie pinko!
Comment by American Elephant — July 5, 2008 @ 12:17 am - July 5, 2008
Didn’t stop you from threatening me, did it?
Maybe I missed it. Where did Pete advocated that?
You can, of course, back that up, right?
Even if true, I’d take him over a blow snorting, gay bashing, unfunny, tax dodging, Err America failure any day.
Other than that, your lack of contempt for the government is telling. I can tell you have a brown smudge on your nose. Might want to wipe that off.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — July 5, 2008 @ 4:48 am - July 5, 2008
What’s more, Rush has been on for 20 years now. Where’s Err Amerika? Rush gets 14-20 million listeners a week. How about Lionel? Ed Schultz? Alan Colmes or any of the others?
BTW, most folks would take Rush’s “pill popping” over Bernie Sanders’ kiddie porn any day.
Apologise for that, if you dare.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — July 5, 2008 @ 4:56 am - July 5, 2008
TGC—In #3 Peter H. wrote: “Save a seal, club a libtard.” That, apparently, it what got Kevin’s synapses sparking.
I am so underwhelmed by the left’s hatred of Limbaugh. All they have to do is define themselves and then launch somebody who can espouse their philosophy and show the manipulative double standards of the conservatives as well as Rush does his job. If that happened, the public would decide by listenship. (They can’t get it done, it seems with the NYT, the WaPo, Newsweek, Time, CBS, PBS, MS/NBC, CNN, etc.)
All the left attempts to do is try to shut Rush down and attack him personally. Harry Reid’s letter (with all those Democrat signatures) was addressed to Rush’s boss in an effort to muzzle him. What titanic fools they made of themselves. And then, when Rush raised millions for charity selling that stink bomb of a letter, Reid slithers onto the Senate floor and congratulates himself for raising so much for charity.
I would call them Keystone Kops, but these guys are serious and it would discredit the Keystone Kops.
I will refrain from commenting on a law-breaking, intern groping, lie to the public and get impeached President. Oops!
Comment by heliotrope — July 5, 2008 @ 11:56 am - July 5, 2008
12: Oh, so I get it. Rush can rail against anyone who takes illegal drugs for any reason, say they should be thrown in jail to rot, etc, but when he falls into that class, he gets a free pass? interesting.
10: If you actually read what I wrote, you’d notice I said people of contemptuous of US government, not “big government”. There’s a difference.
Comment by Kevin — July 5, 2008 @ 12:02 pm - July 5, 2008
The tabloids and the NYT had a field day for 30 months making all manner of charges against Rush. Even the ACLU sided with Rush. Finally, the Palm Beach prosecutor slimed in with an offer that allowed Rush to stroke a check and bring an end to the millions that Palm Beach and Rush spent on this whole sorry episode of political prosecution run amok. Rush was addicted to a prescription pain killer. He took the proper time and effort to get himself rehabilitated. He did not take illegal drugs as you assert. He did not get a free pass, as you assert.
Palm Beach held him up for $30,000 to help defray their investigation expenses. That was a small amount compared to millions Palm Beach County State Attorney’s office spent answering him in 30 months of court cases, all of which the state lost.
The Palm Beach State Attorney offered one count of “doctor shopping” to be dismissed after 18 months. Rush agreed to the deal and filed a “not guilty” plea with the court.
The Palm Beach State Attorney crawled away and the whole event came to an ignominious end.
Except, fools like you, are still quoting the tabloid hype.
What follows is the agreement:
Rush Limbaugh Prescription Drug Case Settled Friday, April 28, 2006 6:27 p.m. EDT
In response to media and other inquiries, Roy Black, Rush Limbaugh’s attorney, released the following statement Friday concerning a settlement agreement with the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office to end the investigation of Mr. Limbaugh:
“I am pleased to announce that the State Attorney’s Office and Mr. Limbaugh have reached an agreement whereby a single count charge of doctor shopping filed today by the State Attorney will be dismissed in 18 months. As a primary condition of the dismissal, Mr. Limbaugh must continue to seek treatment from the doctor he has seen for the past two and one half years. This is the same doctor under whose care Mr. Limbaugh has remained free of his addiction without relapse.
“Mr. Limbaugh and I have maintained from the start that there was no doctor shopping, and we continue to hold this position. Accordingly, we filed today with the Court a plea of ‘Not Guilty’ to the charge filed by the State.
“As part of this agreement, Mr. Limbaugh also has agreed to make a $30,000 payment to the State of Florida to defray the public cost of the investigation. The agreement also provides that he must refrain from violating the law during this 18 months, must pay $30 per month for the cost of “supervision” and comply with other similar provisions of the agreement.
“Mr. Limbaugh had intended to remain in treatment. Thus, we believe the outcome for him personally will be much as if he had fought the charge and won.”
Comment by heliotrope — July 5, 2008 @ 5:40 pm - July 5, 2008
Back to the list … Can we please have a Republican candidate that supports those five things? OK, maybe #5 isn’t politically feasible….
Comment by Rik — July 5, 2008 @ 5:59 pm - July 5, 2008
Unfortunately, helio, presenting facts and reality doesn’t work to well when dealing with the kind of people who fantasize that Republicans want to put them in concentration camps.
Comment by V the K — July 5, 2008 @ 10:07 pm - July 5, 2008
I read and comprehended what you wrote, Schlitze.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — July 6, 2008 @ 12:29 am - July 6, 2008
15: My apologies, maybe free pass wasn’t the word……once again, you get the justice you can afford in this country.
He has money which allowed him to covertly get multiple prescriptions at the same time and got him his expensive lawyer to work the system, that’s he’s different from other people who end up going to jail. That and his social/political/ethnic standing all combined to get him this sweetheart deal. $30,000 plus $30/month for 18 months? Pretty much a pittance for someone who is a multi-millionaire.
If he didn’t have all that to get him out of this mess, then there’s not much difference between himself and the drug addicts he rails against. Of course, it’s always easy to rail against people like that (ie unwed mothers, drug addicts in jail, etc) because these people don’t have any of the standing to defend themselves the way that Rush has. Of course making fun of Michael J. Fox for his Parkinson’s was a pretty nice touch too.
Comment by Kevin — July 6, 2008 @ 9:49 am - July 6, 2008
Kevvie, not that I take you seriously (which I don’t), but if you can’t distinguish between satire (”save a seal, club a libtard”) and actual hate-speech, then you shouldn’t even be able to vote, let alone hold a job.
But then again, I doubt that you even have a job and are probably just living off of the rest of us taxpayer’s money.
It must be awful being you.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — July 6, 2008 @ 11:40 am - July 6, 2008
#19: “Of course making fun of Michael J. Fox for his Parkinson’s was a pretty nice touch too.”
Kevin, Rush did not make fun of Michael J. Fox’s affliction. He commented on how Democrats use “victims” to sell their horrible ideas because they think the messenger will be impervious to criticism on the issue. Democrats exploit the victims of tragic circumstances and then if there is any criticism, they call people like Rush heartless and evil for, i.e., “making fun of” the spokesperson. You have just proved yourself to be the Left’s pawn in this endeavor. We saw the same thing when the Left put Cindy Sheehan into the spotlight (Coulter called her the “Commander In Grief”) and the “Jersey Girls” (Coulter: “The Witches of East Brunswick”). The thing that keeps Rush and Coulter so hugely popular is the fact that they are 100% right and the liberals play right into their hands. They (including you) immediately express feigned shock and outrage and parrot lies like “Rush made fun of Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s.” It just exposes the fact that liberals’ ideas are so wrong and unsupportable that they have to resort to these exploitation tactics to conceal the substance of their pacifist and socialist plans for this country. The liberals know that they can’t prevent conservatives from commenting on the issue (at least not until they bring back the “Fairness” Doctrine), so they just take steps to ensure that any response can be characterized as mean-spirited, heartless and evil. And naturally, you fell for it.
Tell me, does it hurt when the Left jerks on those strings attached to your arms and legs and makes you dance? With your limbs flopping about every time the Left wants to sell another morally bankrupt idea, do you find that people think you have Parkinson’s?
Comment by Sean A — July 6, 2008 @ 11:41 pm - July 6, 2008
#19
There is a liberal judge down in South Florida. I forget his name, but he got in trouble for an addiction to Oxy as well. He did what Rush did and put himself through rehab and didn’t go to jail. Of course the liberal douchebags proclaimed him a hero for admitting his weakness and working to correct it.
Would you say the same of him???
Comment by ThatGayConservative — July 7, 2008 @ 1:06 am - July 7, 2008
Yep that’s their favorite tactic.
As you alluded to Coulter, she called it best:
http://www.americanvision.org/articlearchive/06-12-06.asp
I picked this link at random from Google.. I have no idea what else the site/group may represent
Comment by Vince P — July 7, 2008 @ 4:17 am - July 7, 2008
I love when Leftards like Kevin reveal their intellectual bankruptcy. What he’s calling for a no-tolerance Lock-them-all-up drug policy from coast to coast.
Comment by Vince P — July 7, 2008 @ 4:31 am - July 7, 2008
Rush had admitted he had a problem with a prescription pain-killer. He got treatment and admitted he was wrong.
Barack Obama, on the other hands, flaunts his youthful use of marijuana and cocaine unapologetically, as a way to show how hip he is, how connected he is with the cool people.
Note whom Kevin condemns and whom Kevin gives a pass to.
Comment by V the K — July 7, 2008 @ 5:20 am - July 7, 2008
Kevin, consider yourself “frisked.” You should read the profile on Rush in the Sunday New York Times. If the Flagship of Liberalism can publish it, certainly a rubber ducky in the bathtub of its receding readership can read it.
Comment by heliotrope — July 7, 2008 @ 8:54 am - July 7, 2008
#26 - Does that make Kevvie the new “Bathtub Boy” a la Keith Olbermann?
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — July 7, 2008 @ 10:48 am - July 7, 2008
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Pingback by Vodkapundit » An Agenda Everyone Can Agree On — October 14, 2008 @ 3:33 pm - October 14, 2008
I dont think I have ever heard Rush expouse a policy on drugs/drug users/U.S. drug policy. Can anybody dispute that?
Comment by John — October 15, 2008 @ 1:54 am - October 15, 2008