Rush Limbaugh: Gov't "Playing Games" With Heat Wave Warning

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With lives already claimed by the heat wave blanketing most of the central United States, right-wing radio propagandist Rush Limbaugh warned his listeners that the Government is just “playing games” by warning the public about the life threatening heat.

“They’re playing games with us on this heat wave, again. Even Drudge. Drudge getting sucked in here. Going to be 116 in Washington. No, it’s not. It’s gonna be like 100, maybe 99. A heat index, manufactured by the government to tell you what it feels like when you add the humidity in there.”

Glenn Becks Creepy Comments About Going Blind

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In the video clip below, Glenn Beck tells his audience about being diagnosed with macular dystrophy and how he my go blind within a year. The excerpt is a roller coaster ride between laughter and tears as Beck shares this potential tragedy with the audience, but there is something real creepy about the manner in which Beck goes from sobbing and being hardly able to speak, to delivering a comical punchline without any signs of sobbing in the same breath.

What is also creepy, but not all too surprising is Becks inability to rationalize this situation in a way that common logic would dictate. In a long drawn out moment of sobbing while attempted to regain his composure, Beck said (about his potential blindness) while still sobbing

"I know what my wife looks like, I know what my children look like, I have a great imagination, I know what color looks like, ( long pause of sobbing) but I love to read. (long pause) And I thought to myself in that time" Beck said emotionally, but then instantly turned off the sniffiling and finished with a comical punchline: "I'm too darn lazy to learn braille." He said.

I was still stuck on the part where Glenn had basically admitted that not being able to read books would be a greater loss to him than not seeing his wife or watching his children grow up. As if those things would be easier to come to terms with. At least I think that's what he was saying weather he meant it to come out that way or not. It just seems that Glenn Beck lacks the ability to see things in the way that most people would.

Actually, the whole scenario seems odd how Rush Limbaugh has already lost his hearing and now Glenn Beck my go blind. Maybe it's a sign from God! - But I'll tell you what...If Sean Hannity should suddenly lose his ability to speak, I would be convinced that divine intervention was at hand. These three hateful people punished by God and turned into a set of those three little monkeys that can see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil.






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California Close To Full Legalization of Marijuana

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California has estimated that legalizing marijuana for persons 21 and over could bring in $1.4 billion dollars annually in sales tax revenue alone.

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Marijuana is already legal in the state for medical use, but supporters of full legalization say they hope the federal government takes a close look at what they believe will be a winning issue this fall.

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They say the Obama administration has taken a look-the-other-way approach as more states legalize medicinal marijuana. The narrative behind the "War On Drugs" campaign is losing it's grip on Marijuana and along with it would go State and Federal funds for law enforcement to continue the fight. At least as far as marijuana is concerned.

If you take all of the drug related deaths due to illicit drugs such as cocain, methamphetimine, and heroin combined, they wouldn't come close to the number of drug related deaths attributed to pharmicutical drugs perscribed by a doctor. Either by accident or by design this staggering revelation only comes to light when some celebrity O.D's - Corey Haim and Heath Ledger are a couple examples of prescription addiction fatalaties.

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Talk Radio wing-nut Rush Limbaugh went def as a result of his addiction to Oxy-Codin and Hydro-Codone. So while wealty Rush Limbaugh was eating Oxy-Codin like candy from a fucking PEZ dispenser, a war on weed raged at the tax payers expense. It wasn't actually a war against marijuana as much as it was a media campaign to deamonize marijuana in the minds of America so that law enforcement could continue to reap the Sate and Federal dollars they have come to rely upon since the crack epidemic of mid 80s' - Not to mention the property seizures that are often irreversable regardless of the judicial outcome of a criminal trial.

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You see.....nobody really gave a shit until some doctor went and perscribed a leathal dose to the God Damn King of Pop. You kill Micheal Jackson and suddenly the whole frickin' world is glued to the T.V. set. You could get away with killing Rush Limbaugh's fat ass, but the King of Pop -- Oh no you didn't! -- So off to prison Dr. Conrad Murry will go.

If you take into consideration the cost to fund a war on marijuana, prosecute the offenders, and then house them in the county jail for 30 to 90 days, there is simply no return on investment and there never was. Now California is closer then ever before to putting this non-issue to rest once and for all.

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"It may be a signal they could broaden that policy," Ellen Komp, deputy director of California NORML said. -- "We're testing the water to see how this might go. State after state is coming on board with medical marijuana with tax dollars in their eyes." The initiative, which qualified last week with more than 694,000 signatures, would legalize for people over 21 possession of one ounce of marijuana. Californians also could grow a 5-foot x 5-foot plot of marijuana plants for their own use. It would leave to local jurisdictions how they would choose to tax and regulate any commerce around marijuana using a similar structure to California's medicinal law.

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The candidates who will share the ballot with the marijuana initiative haven't taken firm positions. A spokesman for Attorney General Jerry Brown (D), running for governor, has "no position" because in his job he's tasked with preparing the initiative for the statewide ballot. Brown in the past has said that as the state's top law enforcement officer he can't support anything that violates federal law. But at the same time as attorney general Brown worked on crafting guidelines for compliance with California's medicinal marijuana law.

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Recent polls show 56 percent of voters support taxing and regulating marijuana. State Sen. Tom Ammiano (D) has a bill proposed to tax and regulate marijuana that is similar to the ballot initiative. The difference is that voters are being asked to allow local counties to opt into legalization.

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"This isn't as much a culture war as it also is the long overdue rational conversation on public policy for how we're going to treat marijuana," said Ammiano spokesman Quintin Mecke.

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"We can try and pretend that people aren't using marijuana and that the war on drugs is working or we can acknowledge reality. This question is no longer a joke about 'What are you smoking' or 'How high are you,' and the economics of the situation in California and nationally have provided us a window to have this conversation."

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Opponents say privately they think this is the first salvo in a longer national discussion that may ultimately end up in legalization. But they don't think the U.S. is ready. Several other states besides California may have similar initiatives on their 2010 ballot. Advocates in other states have said they might wait until 2012 in hopes of higher turnout for a presidential election helping their cause. Secretary of State confirmed Wednesday that voters will decide in November whether to legalize and tax marijuana use for Californiana 21 and over. We shall see.

Rush Limbaugh: Health Care "It has to be defeated"

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Throughout the course of the show, Rush would repeatedly say that the vote reportedly scheduled for this weekend is really about getting the Senate bill to Obama, that Democrats aren't really that concerned about passing fixes to that bill through reconciliation, and that Obama won't be concerned about the reconciliation package after he signs the Senate bill.

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Rush brought up a provision in the reconciliation package that would have allowed the Bank of North Dakota to continue making student loans, even though North Dakota Sen. Kent Conrad already said he plans to kill it.

Rush noted that the Congressional Hispanic Caucus put out a press release declaring its support for the health care bill. Rush said this didn't matter because members of that caucus were never really going to vote against the bill anyway.

After a break, Limbaugh mentioned that Mark Levin's legal foundation is planning to challenge the health care legislation on the grounds that the "deem and pass" procedure is unconstitutional, even though some experts say that it clearly passes muster and has been used many times in the past by both parties.

Limbaugh then played a clip of Obama speaking at George Mason University and said that health care reform actually is about getting undocumented immigrants "amnesty" and health care, because Obama needs their votes to get re-elected.

After a break, Rush talked a bit more about the Bank of North Dakota, calling it a "socialist bank" because it's owned by the state of North Dakota. Limbaugh then noted that Conrad opposes the provision.

Rush moved on to a report that Caterpillar said that its health care costs would increase by $100 million in the first year alone if health care reform passes. He tied this to a report that Caterpillar was laying off 121 workers -- a move that had already been announced.
Limbaugh then launched into a series of sports metaphors to describe the whip count on the bill. Scintillating stuff.

Rush returned to insisting that the Senate bill will be signed into law on Sunday and that the changes to it in the reconciliation package likely wouldn't go through until Congress' Easter break, if they ever act on it at all. Rush described the health care legislation as getting "the big shaft" and told his listeners that "this is tyranny."

Before the end of the first hour, Rush read from a blog post by CNBC's Larry Kudlow and told a caller that the Obama administration has said that 10 percent unemployment is the new norm and that Americans should get used to it. Furthermore, he said, "That's exactly what they want, too."

Limbaugh On Health Care Bill: "It Has To Be Defeated. It Has To Be Stopped"

Newt Gingrich Falling Out Of Favor With The GOP

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I saw former Speaker Newt Gingrich making the rounds on the tee-vee political shows and having to respond to questions about the heat that he's been taking from Glenn Beck., Rush Limbaugh, etal. Still, Newt bit his tongue and even went so far as to say that both Beck and Limbaugh are both "decent people". However, he did add.

"If some people in the Republican Party want to go around the country purging everyone they disagree with, they’re going to rapidly make this a minority party for a generation and they’re going to guarantee the re-election of President Obama and they’re going to guarantee Nancy Pelosi stays as Speaker for the rest of her life."

They're all over this rift between Fox News and the White House while The Republican Party as a whole, or rather the factions it has splintered into is coming apart like a cheap sweater. They've spent the better part of a decade spoon feeding the missive of the day to people like Coulter and Limbaugh, Hannity and Oreilly, and now Beck fully content with the hateful spin that they'd apply before retransmitting it to the public.

One by one, they all took part in bringing these people into the inter sanctum of thier party and with a wink and a nod and stood ready to defend them when they took it too far. Some of them (Ahem- John McCain) literally brought them into the mix. I mean Sarah Palin didn't just show up with her fucking carry-on! - She was looking to sit and stay for a while.

You guys are like a bunch of school girls on a sleepover. You've been fucking around with the Ouija Board all God damn night, calling up the spirts and guess what? - They'rrrrrrrre Heeeeeeeeere...

You let Sarah Palin take it on the heels after the election with 1/3 of your base, if not more! - Now you got Newt Gingrich running around marginalizing Rush and Glenn. And speaking of Glenn Beck, he's gone so far over the top, the GOP now has to decide are they the party of hatefulness, denial of reality, racism and lies or are they going to come up with some ideas and principles.

Either they cut the Limbaughs, Coulters, Becks and Hannity's off at the knees and show they are reasoned adults or they embrace the horror. At this point I think they don't believe they can win without turning out these wingnuts.

GINGRICH: "I just find it fascinating that my many friends who claim to be against Washington having too much power, they claim to be in favor of the 10th Amendment giving states back their rights, they claim to favor local control and local authority, now they suddenly get local control and local authority in upstate New York, they don’t like the outcome. [...]"

"So I say to my many conservative friends who suddenly decided that whether they’re from Minnesota or Alaska or Texas, they know more than the upstate New York Republicans? I don’t think so. And I don’t think it’s a good precedent. [...]"

"And so this idea that we’re suddenly going to establish litmus tests, and all across the country, we’re going to purge the party of anybody who doesn’t agree with us 100 percent — that guarantees Obama’s reelection. That guarantees Pelosi is Speaker for life. I mean, I think that is a very destructive model for the Republican Party."

Newt seems to have forgotten that when he decided to get in bed with the rabid right wing to ’solidify’ the Republican base, this was the ultimate outcome that everyone in the Republican Party feared, that the rabid right wing would become the defacto drummer that set the beat and now he's concerned that Limpbaugh and Becky are exactly that. The seeds for this sad state of affairs was largely sown by Newt himself and his “Contract on America”. It was then that these rant-radio snake-oil salesmen first realized how gullible and foolish the right-wing base was and is.

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Conservative bloggers are now going after Gingrich for lashing out at his critics, with the Other McCain writing, “I was disgusted just now to see Newt Gingriche's appearance on Greta Van Susteren's Fox News Show tonight. - Newt Gingrich disappointed national conservatives again tonight." Gateweay Pundit added.

"WHAT A TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE, WHEN FIRST WE PRACTICE TO DECIEVE."

GOP Concerned About Flamboyant Rhetoric Of Media Personalities

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Some top Republicans are voicing concern that the party’s chances for reversing its electoral routs of 2006 and 2008 are being wounded by the flamboyant rhetoric and angry tone of conservative activists and media personalities, according to interviews with GOP officials and operatives. Perhaps it might behoove the GOP to follow the White Houses suggestion that they stop treating Fox News as a legitimate source for news and information.

Perhaps it might behoove the GOP to distance themselves from commentators such as Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, which is a story in and of itself. Incase Mr. Hannity hasn't noticed, he's no longer as relevant as Glenn Beck. To everyone other then Hannity, that would be good news. To Hannity, it must be unimaginable.

Beck and Limbaugh are the top two commentators that are wildly popular with the conservative base but wildly controversial among other parts of the electorate, and who have proven records of making life miserable for senators and House members critical of their views or influence.

Some of the leading 2012 candidates are described by operatives as grappling with the same tension. The challenge is to tap into the richest source of energy in the party — the disgust of grass-roots conservative activists with President Barack Obama and their hunger for a full-throated attack on his agenda — without coming off to the broader public as cranky and extreme.

"The commentators are part of the coalition, not the whole coalition," Pawlenty said in a phone interview. "The party needs to be about addition, not subtraction — but not at the expense of watering down its principles."

At the same time, there are powerful incentives for Washington politicians to play to the crowd and bow to the influence of commentators like Beck, who at the moment is far more famous than any of the GOP’s congressional leaders.

In fact, as illustrated by Rep. Joe Wilson, elected Republicans are seeing the benefits — national media attention and fundraising — from embracing the trash-talking style of talk show hosts. Wilson went from being a little-known member of the House minority who had repeatedly failed to get on the A-list committees to a cause célèbre for the right wing because he shouted "You lie" at Obama during a joint session of Congress.

Rush Limbaugh's NFL Dream Killed By Hatred

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Poor Rush suddenly the victim of the type of petty vendictiveness for which he is the architect. As I listened to Rush enumerate the tactics used to bring about his ousting from the group bidding for the St. Louis Rams, it was as if he was reading from his own playbook. Rush said:



"What I am now going to be known as is the mirror. I am the man who showed the country what America is becoming. But those people who enabled this event (his ousting) for thier own racial reasons, their own ratings, thier own fundrasing, their own facetime, their own business reasons. They are going to be just as unhappy as they were before this happened. It's a collection of unhappy, angry, aggitated people and that's not going to change. But this kind of stuff, this misreporting, malreporting, lying, repeating the lies, repeating the made up quotes. The blind hatred, and belive me the hatred that exist in this is found in the sports writer community. It's found in the news business, it's found in the race hustler business. As I said yesterday and I don't know how many time on this program, I love the National Football League. I don't dislike anything about it. I'm a fan, but the hatred that I am able now to mirror for the country to see is all over the place. I tell you with absolute sencerity, I am more sad for the country then I am for myself......... I'll be right back after this."

Oh Rush, you have always been the mirror for hatred in America, for mis-reporting, mal-reporting, lying, repeating the lies, repeating the made up quotes, the blind hatred. Let me tell you with absolute sencerity Rush, that your sadness is not for the country, it's for you.

You can hear the self-pitty and disappointment in your voice. These people who enabled this event, this thwarting of your life long dream is not hatred Rush. It's called karma, it's called what comes around goes around, it's called paypack is a mother fucking bitch! - For all of your hundreds of millions of dollars, for all of your adoring fans, for all of your self-rightous pomposity, you can't fix this and it's eating you up inside. That'll learn ya.

You're not even close to being right about "those people" being just as unhappy as they were before this happened. Yes, they were unhappy before. Yes they saw a opportunity to kink you down a notch so they took it and it worked. - Are they happy now? - Of course not.....There fucking delirious! - That's what happens to self-rightous assholes like Rush. They get so caught up in thier own bullshit, that they're always looking the wrong way when karma shows up. - 'those people" didn't do anything to you that you haven't done to hundreds, maybe thousands over the years. So just deal with it fat ass, okay! - I'll just leave it at that before I go and say something rude or offensive.

Chico Brisbane

NOBEL PRIZE: Good Is The New Bad If Connected To Obama

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I was sitting up in bed at 3am when news came that President Barack Obama would be the 2009 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. I am always proud when an American is awarded this prize, but I just as much as the President was surprised by the announcement.

Obama was awakened early this morning with news of the prize in a call from his press secretary, Robert Gibbs. The president later said, "This is not how I expected to wake up this morning. Malia walked in and said, 'Daddy, you won the Nobel Peace Prize and it is [their dog] Bo's birthday, and then Sasha added, 'Plus we have a three-day weekend coming up.' It's good to have kids to keep things in perspective." The President said.

What I wasn't surprised about, was what the reaction would be from the left before any of them had a chance to tweet a single letter or to have their two cents quoted in the media or on the internetS.

Joe Scarborough was the first to basically laugh at the notion while Mika did what she does every morning, which is to deal with Scarborough like a mother deals with a misbehaving child. I have no doubt that The Fox News Channel will be scrubbing previously planned segments to lay waste to the importance of Barack Obama being selected for the honor.

Obama is only the third sitting U.S. president to win the Nobel Prize for Peace -- President Theodore Roosevelt won the award in 1906, President Woodrow Wilson in 1919.

"To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who have been honored by this prize," Obama said, suggesting that the prize has not always "been awarded just to honor specific achievements," but also to lend some momentum to the cause of peace.

"I will accept this award as a call to action, a call to all nations to confront the challenges of the 21st century," Obama said in a White House Rose Garden appearance.

"This award must be shared with everyone who strives for justice and dignity."Professing humility and surprise in the awarding of the prize, the president said, " I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments, but rather as a recognition of American leadership."

Just as I suspected, the first line of attack by Fox News was to set the narrative over President Obama's rose garden statement that even he didn't feel as he deserves to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who have been honored by this prize.

"Well.....everyone has to say that." Chris Wallace, Bill Hemmer, and Steve Doosey have all asserted in various segments so far.

The Nobel committee had criticized Obama's predecessor, former President George W. Bush, for engaging in largely unilateral military action in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. With the backing of Congress, Bush quickly invaded Afghanistan and ousted the Taliban, and in spring of 2003 launched a U.S.-led invasion of Iraq intent on removing Saddam Hussein from power.

Engaging in a bit of explicit blog-baiting on his radio show today, Glenn Beck declared the naming of President Obama as this year’s Nobel Peace Prize recipient was "the last nail in the coffin" for the credibility of the Nobel committee. Beck conspiratorially claimed that the award revealed that "these progressives are extraordinarily powerful and this campaign of Barack Obama, this global campaign for Barack Obama is done by global interests that have extraordinary power. They’re very well-connected." Beck said that the prize should have instead been given "to the Tea Party goers" who have protested Obama:

GLENN BECK: "Of all things, the Nobel Peace Prize should be turned down by Barack Obama and given — you ready for this, oh this one’s going to make headlines — should be give to the Tea Party goers and the 9-12 Project. … Because of the arrogance of the progressives that thought no one would stand in their way. That he would be able to accomplish everything. Two weeks into his presidency, they nominated him for it and said, "oh this is going to be a slam dunk." Because of the Tea Party goers and the 9-12 Project people that stood in his way and stopped him from accomplishing the things that he thought, "please, I’m the Messiah, I’ll be able to accomplish that."

RUSH LIMBAUGH: was more caustic, telling Newsweek, "The Nobel gang just suicide bombed themselves. Gore, Carter, Obama, soon Bill Clinton. See a pattern here? They are all leftist sell-outs.

MICHELLE MALKIN: "Isn’t it so fitting? From community organizer to Illinois state senator (present!) to U.S. Senator for 143 days before moving into the White House…and now, the recipient of a Nobel Peace Prize — not for anything he’s actually done, but for the symbolism of what he might possibly accomplish sometime way off in the future."

MICHAEL STEEL: was quick to criticize the president's prize. "The real question Americans are asking is, 'What has President Obama actually accomplished?' " Steele said in a statement. "It is unfortunate that the president's star power has outshined tireless advocates who have made real achievements working towards peace and human rights."

Accolades flowed from the president's allies.

REP. HOWARD BERMAM (D-Valley Village) "I'm delighted at this recognition of President Obama's work to strengthen international cooperation. It validates the president's approach to tough transnational challenges such as global warming and the spread of nuclear arms. And it celebrates his steady efforts to improve America's standing around the world."

DESMOND TUTU: "It is wonderful," Tutu told reporters in Cape Town. "He has had a very significant impact. It has changed the temperature and almost everybody feels a little more hopeful about the world," he said. "What wonderful recognition of someone who has already made such an impact on our planet with regards to the Muslim world, nuclear disarmament, climate change and, to some extent, the Middle East. He has reached out to the Arab world, including Iran, and North Korea."

NELSON MANDELA: "We trust that this award will strengthen his commitment, as the leader of the most powerful nation in the world, to continue promoting peace and the eradication of poverty."

I ran down my list of favorite destionation out in the blogosphere and both left and right making sure to save the major leagues like HuffPo, TPM, Daily Kos, Politico, and The Daily Beast for last because I like to get a more personal view from individual bloggers first before reading something that has to undergo strick editioral guidelines.

Among my favorites of course are DownWithTyranny, TheJoshuaBlog, WriteChicPress, ProgressiveNation, and believe it or not MichelleMalkin. However, I've never commented on Malkin's blog and I suspect that is due to my mother teaching me very early on in life that if I can't say anything nice, I shouldn't say anything at all. DAMN IT MOM! BUT SHE'S A SKANK HO! (Chico's Mom: You get into that bathroom and wash your mouth out with soap. Get marching little mister and you just wait until your father get's home! - We did not raise you to go around calling crazy bitches "skank ho's! - My goodness garcious!) But I digress......

WriteChicPress: Waaaaah, Obama Won the Nobel Peace Prize… "So, what’s that foul wind on the air in America today? Why it’s no more than the hot, nasty breath of conservatives huffing and puffing over President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize."

TheJoshuaBlog: STUNNER: Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Obama for Diplomacy (UPDATED) "HOLY SHIT. This is going to drive the birthers, deathers, neo-cons, and white supremacists over at Fox News absolutely bonkers!

Michelles Malkin: Story of Obama’s life: "Rather than recognizing concrete achievement…" "Isn’t it so fitting? From community organizer to Illinois state senator (present!) to U.S. Senator for 143 days before moving into the White House…and now, the recipient of a Nobel Peace Prize — not for anything he’s actually done, but for the symbolism of what he might possibly accomplish sometime way off in the future."

In his 1895 will, Alfred Nobel required that the peace prize should go "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses."

Obama has certainly done that and I beleive that alone, in the privacy of our own minds, most Americans of all political persuasions realize that Obama has restored a civility to the Nation in spite of attempts by some to create a different perception for the eyes of the world.

It's not that they disagree with health care reform or that they wouldn't benefit from it themselves. It's that the political party that promotes their ideology can never regain power if Obama or anything that he does, thinks, or supports is successful.

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Has Glenn Beck Put Himself At Risk Like Dr. Tiller?

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You know, someone on YouTube posted a comment saying that this video was a murder threat. I'm not sure they understand the difference between a warning and a direct threat. I'm sure that the guy that murdered Dr. George Tiller felt that he was completely justified in shooting to death a man that he felt was a greater risk to the public at large.

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There is no doubt in my mind that Glenn Beck is a greater threat to the public at large and that there are sick people out there who will believe that the risk that Beck poses outweighs his right to earn a living doing what he is doing and saying the things that he says.


Glenn Beck himself has spoken about the level of personal security that he has to maintain just to walk down the street, or to walk into a Wendy's restraunt without running into someone that hates his fucking guts. He is now reaping the rewards of his hate speech and I'm simply sounding the alarm that I believe that he has now reached the point where he is putting himself and his family at risk just by standing near them in public.

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Why I am concerned with Glenn Back's welfair, I have no idea, but if his employers at Fox News can't take a few minutes to tell Beck that it might be a good idea to kick down his rhetoric a few thousand notches, then someone should do it. His sponsers are distancing themselves from his show and they are not going to do that if it's not in their best interest to do so.

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The colorofchange.org didn't single handedly do this on their own, it took thousands of people to call, write, and email a complaint to the advertiser. All I'm saying is that it is my opinion and that Beck has now crossed the line where he is taking away the shock value should some whackjob out there among the other 300 million do to him what was done to Dr. George Tiller.

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I think that there are more people, should that happen, would say "Oh, well he had to see that coming." then there are those who would be surprised that something like that would happen to Glenn Beck.

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Not even Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh has gone as far into the abyss as Beck has and maybe that's whats really going on here. Beck is in a pissing contest with Hannity and Limbaugh for ratings, but more importantly, the all mighty dollar.

Fox News Stirring The Pot Towards Civil Unrest

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Reports that some of the protests have been coordinated by FreedomWorks, the Washington lobbying group of Dick Armey, are not easily dismissed and perticularly with the trail of evidence that is being left behind. I have no doubt that some of these people are legitimately protesting to their elected officials within thier district, it's the bussing in of people and "protesters" on tour to create a public outcry that's I take issue with.



If shutting down public debate was the goal, then the organizers of these staged protest have been widely sucessful. However, if they are under the impression that no town hall mettings equals no public option when it comes to healfcare reform, then they are widely mistaken. In the end, it will have to come down to the emails, phone calls, and letters from verified constituents that lawmakers will have to rely on that will make or brake health the care reform issue.

Whenever I write to my representatives, I always adress the letter or email with my informal first name and no middle initial. When I get a response, it's always addressed with my formal name as listed in the voter registration rolls, so I know someone is checking to verify that I live in the district and what party I belong to. The question is is this: will those same people who stood in line to vote for Obama, take 10 minutes to contact thier representative in congress? - If they don't, then heath care reform is dead.

Giving the appearance of this circus being a "grassroots" will eventually be exposed as a fraud the same way that the Tea Party movement came apart at the seems. Many of the protestors catch phrases can easily be tracked back the the Fox News commentator that spewed it. It might be catchy and effective the first time it's said, but once it's played back against it's original source, it really exposes that protestor as a political parrot delivering a message, rather then speaking their mind.

The one about "If they can't run Cash for Clunkers" or "How can you reform healthcare in 4 weeks when it took Obama 6 months to pick out a dog" I thought these where cleaver comments myself the first time that I heard the "protestors" say them, but a quick reviewed my Fox News Tivo proved otherwise. It was life following a trail of bread crumbs from these protestors mouths, right back to the Fox News Room and directly to the mouths of Steve Doocey, Glenn Beck, and Sean Hannity.

Also, a Connecticut fellow named Bob MacGuffie and four friends who formed a political action committee last year have been distributing a memo instructing people how to infiltrate town hall gatherings and harass Democratic members of Congress. Just another trail of evidence to follow by unsophistocated wannabe activists.



– Artificially Inflate Your Numbers: “Spread out in the hall and try to be in the front half. The objective is to put the Rep on the defensive with your questions and follow-up. The Rep should be made to feel that a majority, and if not, a significant portion of at least the audience, opposes the socialist agenda of Washington.”
– Be Disruptive Early And Often: “You need to rock-the-boat early in the Rep’s presentation, Watch for an opportunity to yell out and challenge the Rep’s statements early.”

– Try To “Rattle Him,” Not Have An Intelligent Debate: “The goal is to rattle him, get him off his prepared script and agenda. If he says something outrageous, stand up and shout out and sit right back down. Look for these opportunities before he even takes questions.”

The goal — recently outlined by an influential lobbyist as "delay" then "kill" — is apparent: Having successfully delayed a vote until after the August recess, lobbyists are seizing on town halls to ambush lawmakers in an attempt to fool them and the greater public into thinking there is wide opposition to health care reform.


However, I think the 2008 election has changed the rules forever and if you want to force change, you're going to have to do it the way that Barack Obama did. With a real grass-movements, and real outraged people in real numbers to effect the ellectorate. The days of make beleive narratives and wagging the dog for theatrical effect are alive and well at Fox News, but Fox News has lost it's ability to master the number of puppets needed to achieve it's purpose.

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CHICO - Invited To A Tea Party ? - Gets An Ear Full

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From day one of the Obama Administration, Glenn Beck has been creating an alternate reality for the fans of his tee-vee and radio programs. One that necessitates a revolution "to take our country back", from what?, well, that's where Beck get's creative.

It only stands to reason that if any of his rhetoric thus far, had worked as intended, Beck wouldn't be at the point where he's had to resort to calling Barack Obama a racist. It's a bit early in the game, I would say, if I where playing Beck's game.

Nevertheless, it doesn't mean that he's not good at it because he is. But, like Sarah Palin, the message is so inciteful that it only draws in a large, but insignificant percentage of the electorate.

"We need to take our country back, so we can return it to the way our founding fathers intended it to be." Beck recently said from his pulpit at Fox News.

What does he mean by that? - "The way our founding fathers intended it to be." - A virtually all-white nation of rich slave owners, and then everyone else? That's what the far left of my party might believe, but I think what Beck means is a spiritual nation based on religious values. A nation where everyone is equal, but just as long as everyone understands that they're only equal whitin your own ecomic and racial station in life.

Being a resident of California and particularly the L.A. area, I'm reminded of the sujbect of imigration, illegal or otherwise, more often then most. While my position leans mostly to the right on the subject, it's difficult for me to say that because my reasoning is nowhere near the narrative of the likes of Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs, O'Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, or any of the other rightwing pipe-dreamers force feed to their fans and new recruits.

I'm not sure when or how the word immigration became synonimous with the word Mexican, but I've never heard a single one of these people utter a word about the number of immigrants of other ethnicities. It's not as if the government isn't aware of how many people are in this country on expired visas, the question is why these immigrants aren't a focus of government concern since we have their fucking names and dates of birth on file! - But hey! - Ya know what? - Let's forget about all of these immigrants who are buying up our land, businesses, and industry street by street, block after block. Let's all be minute-men and run these fucking beaners back to Chihuahua Ville just incase my kid wants that dream job at the carwash, or selling oranges at the freeway offramp.

In fact, one day as I was getting off the Centrury Freeway at Crenshaw, I came across an orange vendor peddling his wares under the scorching mid-day sun. It wasn't as if this was anything new to me because I had seen it a million times before. What made this time different was the contrast between the man that came to this country under the cover of drakness, willing to do what he was doing at that moment, and do it for what certainly could not be very much. And then the man who had always been here, sitting in the shade provided by the shadow of the off-ramp sign, with a fucking sign asking for a hand out.

I bought 25 lbs of oranges in hopes of showing my lazy fellow American that people are more willing to help those who are actively trying to help themselves. What I really wanted to do was to tell him to "GET A FUCKING JOB!", but there's no benefit in that.

Well...unless you're Rush Limbaugh etal. They make it a duty to point out that the white anglo-saxon is superior to all others even if said in not so many words. It's why Obama is not a good president, it's why Sonya Sotomayor is not a suitable candidate for the Supreme Court.

I had no idea just how deep racism ran among those on the far right until I attended a meeting with a co-worker who mistook some of my right leaning ideologies as a sign that I was a raging righty. Here is the bottom line with these people when it comes to Obama and Sotomayor. "We can't have a bunch of Niggers and Mexicans calling the shots in the country!" - One man said with a sense of calmness that frightened me.

I thought that I was going to a prep meeting for a "Take Our Ballot Back" event, which is a spin-off of the Tea Party, but it felt more like a God Damn Ku Klux Klan Rally. Can you imagine a guy named Chico being invited to a Klan Rally? -

Just imagine Hannibal Lechter inviting you over for lunch. Yeah, it's like that.

That type of opinion was not the message spoken by anyone on behalf of the event, but it was running hot and heavy among some of those in attendance. Not all to the extream as that crazy comment, but over the course of two hours I heard the "N" word used 6 times. Four in refrence to President Obama and twice in reference to Attorney General Eric Holder.

These are the types of people that Fox News and particularly Glenn Back and Sean Hannity are driving to these Anti-Obama rallies and wether these are the type of people that these event organizers are trying to recruit, it does not seem to matter. They seem more interested in more bodies to hold more signs regardless of what their signs say.

These people didn't speak too kindly about Micheal Steel either, but they didn't use the "N" word against him. From what they did say about Steel, they have a belief that he's window dressing and a result of affirmative action.

They see Steel as the "well-spoken" type of "black guy" and as long as he just keeps "doing a little soft-shoe and hums a few bars of Baby Loves Shortenin' or whatever the RNC has him doing", they'll tolerate him. And I have to tell you, I don't think this would come as a surprise to Micheal Steel. Not becasuse he wouldn't expect it, but rather because it may not be news to him. The entire experience was surreal and an eye-opener to say the least. One man said that he tries to follow counter protesters (Lefty's) back to their cars to see if he can snap a picture of their license plate with his camera phone.

"I gotta friend at the DMV, so we can find out where these fuckers live." He said.
I was fairly certain that he was lying after talking to a high school friend who is now a CHP officer. There's been a real crack-down on just running license plate numbers through the database all willy-nilly. I guess running a license plate number is trackable to the person who did it and if there are an unusual amout of inquirys without a traffic citation or DVM fee or payment matching up with that inquiry, it does not go un-noticed. Nevertheless, hearing shit like that from this guy is the last thing that someone less stable then himself needs to hear. I couldn't imagine this guy having a friend that worked, muchless one that worked at the DMV, but I digress.

Somewhere deep down in the pea-brains of Glenn Back, Sean Hannity, and Bill O'Reilly, they think that by registering as Independants and Libitarians that it renders their rhetoric not in support of the Republican Party? -
And now we have Lou Dobbs going off the deep end,

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which is a good thing because I wish I had a nickle for every time someone thought to themselves "Jeeze! - Lou Dobbs is starting to sound like Glenn Back, or Hannity, or O'Reilly. If it's not Immigration and runnung these Mexicans back across the border, it's McCain or some other republic trying to disguise their racism.

Sometimes you have to wonder if John McCain possesses any stratigic skills whatsoever. He comes out today and announces that he will not be supporting Sonya Sotomayor, and sites reasons that her judicial history do not support.

Yet, he ends all of that by saying that he believes Sotomayor is an extreamly qualified candidate. However, when it came to Sarah Palin, he picked her sight-on-scene with what we now know to be little or no vetting whatsoever.

These are the types of choices that republicans make on a daily basis. John McCain chose a minimaly educated white woman to take the second highest office in the land, but couldn't bring himself to support a highly educated fedreal court judge who is a Latina and was already sitting on the bench when Sarah Palin was still taking bong rips in her dorm room. Yet, I'd be the one accused of being a racist for pointing out the obvious fact that John McCain beleive that a stipid white bitch beats a smart beaner any day of the week. I'm sure that there are many things that Sarah Palin is qualified to do, but becoming the Vice President or a Supreme Court Judge aren't among them.

Let me see if I can sum up Sarah Palin using the Glenn Beck method of summing shit up. "I'm not saying that Sarah Palin is a fucking idiot, I'm just saying that she's nuttier then a Chinese Chicken Salad and that she doesn't like darkies. Ya know, up there in Alaska where the real Americans live - That's all.

Your Friend Always,

Chico Brisbane.

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Proof Why Religion Has No Place In Politics

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The recent events in Iran are a perfect example why religion has no place in politics. While religious people founded this nation, they were smart enough to do so while clearly providing in our constitution for a separation between church and state.

The evangelical right would love to have us forever debating the difference between Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays as if it were some sort of mandate to the retail sector, but the fact of the matter is that this is not the issue. This was not a mandate from the government to the retail industry, but rather the retail industry making an attempt to be respectful of all religions by having sales people use the Happy Holidays in lieu of Merry Christmas.

It doesn’t restrict any customer from saying Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, or whatever holiday they happen to celebrate. Yet the religious right would have you believe that this is the beginning of the end of christainity on the face of the earth and the only way to prevent it is to have one universal language, one religion, one political party, one nation under God, their God and no other God, so help us God.

What a wet dream it would be for neo-cons if that could actually happen. Could you imagine an elected president, republican of course, but with Rush Limbaugh forever as the Supreme Leader? – What a fucking nightmare! – If America did establish Christainity as it’s universal religion, how long would it be before the first American was sent to jail for dissenting or even worse, shot dead in the street by The National Guard at the order of the American Christian Council that oversees the President? –

I surely believe this is what George W. Bush tried to do during his 8 years in office, but to a much lesser extent, of course. Nevertheless, any extent to where religion is allowed to play a role in politics, is the starting point for the next republican whack job to carry it to the next level.

The way that Ahmadineajad and the Council of Clerics are responding to the election protestors is eerily similar to how the American evangelical right responds to crisis when their own sheep stray from the flock. Take the Mark Foley scandal for instance. They blamed Foleygate on the internet. Then they blamed the gays and political correctness.

Of course these two targets we now know were nothing more than way to divert attention away for the GOP cover-up by demanding an investigation of the “outside help” that was responsible for the October surprise.

"The media and homosexual networks, also owe a public account because they have helped turn what could have been one mans tragedy last year, into this years politics-laden “October Surprise.” Congress should authorize it’s own internal investigation, make it fully independent, and empower it to look at everything, including the role of outside groups. If we’ve learned anything about members of congress gone wild, they’ve usually had plenty of “outside help.”

Of course it didn’t take much digging before the GOP cover-up was discovered and that many, if not every republican leader on the hill already knew or had heard that Mark Foley had a fondness for teenage boys serving as congressional pages.

Even on the democratic side, the moment that I hear any candidate mention God or Praying related to their campaign or their own political ambitions, they have lost any chance of my vote now and forever.

If you want to pary for the safety of our soldiers fighting for democracy around the world, I’ll pray with you. If you want to pary for our country to rebound quickly from these troubled times, I’ll pray with you, but if you publically state that your candidacy is in the hands of God, then you’ve just fucked up in ways that can never be undone as far as my vote is concerned.

YA GOT IT? – GOOD! – NOW GET TO WORK ON SOME GOD DAMN HEALTH CARE REFORM! - Go on! - You don't have time to sit around reading my bullshit!

Chico Brisbane.

Rush Limbaugh's Anal Fixation Out Of Control

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Rush Limbaugh not only has a fondness for talking out of his ass, he also has an insatiable appetite for anal refrences. Rush cannot stop from using terms like “bend over” - “grab your ankles.” - “Butt-Boy” – and “Being Probed” The pill popping oxy-cotin addict has had this anal fixation for years. Below are some examples of some of Rush’s greatest anal orations.
Most notoriously, the talk radio king complained in January:

"We are being told that we have to hope [Obama] succeeds, that we have to bend over, grab the ankles, bend over forward, backward, whichever, because his father was black, because this is the first black president."

Limbaugh's tuchis talk is so constant, it doesn't seem to be just the joking around of a clown. (Is it mere coincidence that he got out of serving in Vietnam because of an anal cyst?) When he talks so vividly about being, well, taken by the president, there has to be a little psychosexual stuff going on. Anal rape jokes, in particular, are a running theme for Limbaugh. In fact, they're one of his favorite ways of describing acquiescence or obedience. Note the recurring racial theme.

When gay activists called for a boycott of Colorado in the early 1990s, Denver Mayor Wellington Webb came to New York to seek the support of his fellow African-American city chief, Mayor David Dinkins. Limbaugh saw Dinkins being pulled in two directions: "And the question is should he bend over forward and grab the ankles for this narrow special interest group or should he remain in solidarity with his black bro?"

In the run-up to New Jersey's 1993 gubernatorial election, Limbaugh said that the only people who'd vote for Democrat Jim Florio were those willing to "bend over, grab their ankles" and accept new taxes.

The Clinton administration's proposal for healthcare reform was a command, as Limbaugh wrote, to "Bend over, America." When Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman sought to court African-American votes by apologizing for his party's past, Limbaugh grumbled, "Republicans are going to go bend over and grab the ankles."

Three years later, he accused Democrats of being submissive to black and gay voters. "Democrats will bend over, grab the ankles, and say, 'Have your way with me,' for 10 percent and 2 percent of the population?"

When Sarah Palin refused to cooperate with investigations of Troopergate, Rush glowed approvingly: "She didn't bend over and let them have their way."

And those who do willingly submit get nothing but contempt from Limbaugh. A favored term of abuse for these is "butt boy."

CNN's Ed Henry is Obama's "butt boy," but ABC's Jake Tapper, to his credit, is not.
NBC's Andrea Mitchell, somewhat confusingly, is the "butt boy" to Rep. Barney Frank.
Of course, bending over has its risks. As we saw last week with his reference to Obama sycophants, Limbaugh has a very specific formulation for what you can catch from too much of it.

Democratic honcho Terry McAuliffe, Limbaugh warned, "will die of anal poisoning because he is so close to drilling Hillary [Clinton]."

Key John McCain ally Sen. Lindsey Graham "is certainly close enough to [McCain] to die of anal poisoning."

And if British Prime Minister Gordon Brown continues "slobbering" over Obama, he'll "come down with anal poisoning and die from it."

That's probably why Limbaugh is so wary of bending over himself. He's told us so many times:
"I have a very sensitive rear end because I am a sensitive guy."
"I never bend over forward in public, especially in these times."
"I dropped something, is what the confusion is here and I -- in -- in New York City I never bend over forward. And -- so -- in public. So I needed somebody to come pick it up for me."
"I seldom bend over forward in public, for obvious reasons."


When Adm. Bobby Ray Inman didn't want to take an administration job, Limbaugh sympathized. "He -- he decided not to undergo the congressional and media rectal exam that being nominated for a Cabinet post -- that's what this is, folks. Somebody's got something somewhere that he just doesn't want probed."
The 1996 Republican nominee was bound to get "the biggest ... rectal exam."

Rush Limbaugh Fed Up With Keith Olbermann

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The Oxy-Cotin addicted, Viagra smuggling Rush “Lumpy” Limbaugh has reached his limit with MSNBC and it’s top rated personality, Keith Olbermann. Last night Lumpy challenged Mr. Olbermann and MSNBC to go 30 days without mentioning or showing any video of him.

The morbidly obese radio talk show host claimed That Olbermann and MSNBC where using him to boost their own ratings. The claim was laughable on it’s face and additionally, Limbaugh is in no position to challenge anyone to a test of will power. Particularly for a man who eats Oxy-Cotin from a Ronald Regan shaped Pez Dispenser like it was fucking candy.

Limbaugh’s radio show, which is said to originate from a 50-Watt AM radio signal transmitting from the roof top of a White Castle drive-thru in Anoka, Minnesota, is hardly a venue in danger of being used for it’s abundance of ratings. In spite of the hysterical implications of Lumpy Limbaugh’s claim, Mr. Olbermann managed to remain seated in his chair throughout the segment on last night’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann. I on the other hand, was on my living room floor, laughing my fucking ass off. I think that I will just leave it at that before I say anything rude or offensive.

Chico Brisbane

Right Wing Claims Stock Market Declined Because Obama Was Nominated For President

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Since the presidential election last November, the right wing has seized nearly every opportunity to link any sharp decline in the stock market (without any basis in fact) to Barack Obama. Yesterday, losses on Wall Street forced the Dow Jones industrial average to close "below 7,000 for the first time since 1997" and like clockwork, the right (and some on Wall Street) jumped to blame Obama. The Wall Street Journal claimed today that "Obama’s policies have become part of the economy’s problem."


Laura Ingraham said today that Obama’s policies "are not giving us the confidence we need to get back into the market." Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity touted the line as well, but added that the market’s problems started when Obama was nominated to be the Democratic Party’s candidate for president in the middle of last year:


LIMBAUGH: To say that Obama has been in office only one month is not accurate from an effect on the world and an effect on the country standpoint. Barack Obama has been the controlling political authority on the economy for six months.


HANNITY: Now if we go back to May 6th when it was apparent that he was going to probably be the Democratic nominee the stock market was over 13000, and if we go to October just before the election…the stock market was, what, around the 11000 plus mark.


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Of course, the Limbaugh-Hannity theory carries little weight as the market decline started well before Obama’s nomination. The market peaked in October 2007 and "came tumbling down last spring, when the bursting of the housing bubble started to add up to massive losses for Wall Street banks and other financial services firms tied to bad mortgages."

In fact, yesterday’s decline came as "investors reacted to reports that construction and industrial activity had continued to decline and to a $61.7 billion loss posted by the insurance giant, the American International Group." Moreover, the main issue surrounding the market’s fall is decreased company profits as a result of a weak economy, not Obama’s policies. As USA Today noted this morning, "[p]rofits are down sharply" which is "driving stock prices down sharply."

President Obama noted earlier today that "the banking system has been dealt a heavy blow" to the market. "We dug deep hole for ourselves, he said. "There was a lot of bad decisions that were made. We’re cleaning up that mess. … But its going to get cleaned up."

Pence: ‘You Bet’ We Want Obama’s Policies To Fail

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In recent days, increasing numbers of conservative activists and commentators have followed Rush Limbaugh’s lead in rooting for President Obama to fail. Now, it seems the House Republican leadership is getting on the bandwagon.

On CNN this afternoon, Rick Sanchez asked Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) — the Chairman of the House Republican Caucus — if he agreed with Rush Limbaugh’s claim that "all Republicans want Barack Obama to fail." Pence at first demurred, calling Sanchez’s question a "nice try." "I know what Rush Limbaugh meant," he said. But after listing off several caricatured aspects of Obama’s economic recovery plan, Pence said, "[Y]ou bet, we want those policies to fail":

SANCHEZ: Did you hear what Rush Limbaugh said, "the dirty little secret is all Republicans want Barack Obama to fail?" Very direct question to you, Sir. Do you want Barack Obama to fail?

PENCE: Come on, Rick. Nice try. I know what Rush Limbaugh meant. … Everyone like me, Rush Limbaugh and others who believe in limited government, who believes in conservative values, wants the policies that this administration is bringing forward, higher taxes, massive increase in government spending, a huge increase in the role of government, in our daily lives, departure from traditional values. You bet, we want those policies to fail. Because, Rick, we know big government, increases in debt, the micromanagement of the economy out of Washington, DC is a policy that will fail.

Later, Sanchez asked Pence, "But if [Limbaugh] said something you disagreed with, would you call him out?" "I call them like I see them. Rush Limbaugh knows that."

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Pence’s admission that he — and anyone "who believes in conservative values" — would like to see Obama’s policies fail is a direct contradiction to what House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) said on Sunday. "I don’t think anyone wants anything to fail right now," Cantor told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.


Cantor’s suggestion that Limbaugh was wrong, however, does not appear to have been heartfelt. When contacted today by Greg Sargent, Cantor’s office refused to comment on whether or not the congressman did, in fact, disagree with Limbaugh in hoping for Obama to fail.


Finally, it’s troubling that Pence claims to know what Limbaugh really "meant" when he said "I hope Obama fails." After all, Limbaugh refused to tell Sargent whether or not it would be "a good thing for the country" if Obama’s economic recovery plan were to be a success. It seems that if Senate Republicans haven’t decided they want Obama to fail, House Republicans sure have.