Attacking Rush, Democrat Decries “Attack Politics”
Running with the mantra that Rush Limbaugh wants President Obama to fail, Democrats have been misrepresenting and demonizing the talk show host in an attempt to prevent people from actually considering Rush’s argument, the how and the why of his wanting the President to fail.
Simply put, he wants Obama to fail to implement his statist agenda, believing it would mire us in cultural malaise and economic stagnation.
Jonah Goldberg unpacks it for us:
Well, given what Obama wants to do, I hope he fails too. Of course I want the financial crisis to end — who doesn’t? But Obama’s agenda is much more audacious. Pretty much every major news outlet in the country has said as a matter of objective analysis that Obama wants to repeal the legacy of Ronald Reagan and remake the country as a European welfare state. And yet people are shocked that conservatives, Limbaugh included, want Obama to fail in this effort?
As Rush himself puts it:
We’re talking about my country, the United States of America, my nieces, my nephews, your kids, your grandkids. Why in the world do we want to saddle them with more liberalism and socialism? Why would I want to do that? So I can answer it, four words, “I hope he fails.”
Rush, like most people who have studied history, knows that liberal and socialistic programs similar to those Obama has propsed, failed to accomplish their intended economic ends.
And Democrats continue to peddle the notion the Rush wants Obama to fail without explaining what he means. Michelle reports that Jen O’Malley Dillon, the new Executive Director of the Democratic National Committee, is trying to turn the latest Democratic mantra into an ad campaign.
Ms. Dillon claims “Americans voted in November for the very kind of change the President is bringing to Washington.” Did they? Will she please provide evidence that Obama campaigned on increasing federal spending to the heights he has proposed? His remarks in the presidential debates suggest otherwise.
Perhaps the most amusing line in Dillon’s e-mail soliciting funds to trash an Administration critic is this: “To get America back on a path to prosperity, we’ll need to leave behind the failed partisan attack politics of the past.”
Yup, at the same moment she is participating in a White House-coordinated attack on an Administration critic, she decries those very attacks.
Well, maybe she’s not such a hypocrite. Perhaps, the operative clause in her sentence above is “of the past.” Obama’s Democrats want to leave behind the partisan attack politics of the past by adopting a new approach to partisan warfare. I guess that’s the change they were hoping for.
Let’s hope that strategy fails too.
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They are framing things in this way because they know that an at least slim majority has no patience for anything other than a soundbite and wants to be just left alone to be with their playstation. So what will it take to wake people the hell up? Is the “going Galt” movement part of the answer?
Comment by 23eagle — March 5, 2009 @ 3:00 pm - March 5, 2009
“Americans voted in November for the very kind of change the President is bringing to Washington.â€
I love how liberals think 55% is an overwhelming majority. I drives me nuts everytime Obama gets up and says “Americans overwhelming voted for Change(tm) in November.”
Comment by OutliciousTV — March 5, 2009 @ 3:35 pm - March 5, 2009
lil bHo will fail. this is the United States of America and the backbone of the country- though outnumbered- is the entrepreneur and the rugged individualist.
the welfare rolls are docile and desparate. they didn’t carry the election. ACORN did.
for now, the ball is rolling down the mountain for lil bHo. But he fails to realize that his faux Greek temple on the “hill” doesn’t a mountainside make.
the markets will run their course against him and leave him without foreign investors in US paper— which has propped up this economic house of cards for so long. say bye bye. and with it the all powerful Dhimmicratic party.
the Marines are pissed. how would you like them pissed at you as you tried to sleep at nite?
Bear1909 out
Comment by bear1909 — March 5, 2009 @ 4:37 pm - March 5, 2009
Oh… Not only Democrats. In the linked thread, one alleged Republican commentor on this blog seriously tried to claim that Limbaugh is homophobic.
The silver lining is that nobody can claim that Obama is changing (or ever seriously wanted to change) the partisan tone of the nation’s politics.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — March 7, 2009 @ 11:00 am - March 7, 2009
Dillon’s ‘leaving behind the failed partisan attack politics of the past’, means republicans attacking democraps as tax and spend socialists (republicans are always PARTISAN, democraps are NEVER partisan because democraps are the one true way, nonideological because the TRUTH is NEVER ideological), but democraps attacking republicans as rethuglicans, partisans, hitlerites, neocons, racists, sexists, homophobes, bushitlerhalliburtons, Gen. Betrayus’, etc. are pure good vs evil and thus exempted from having to be given up in the name of unity and good government.
Comment by eaglewingz08 — March 7, 2009 @ 12:59 pm - March 7, 2009
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