Don't Blow It GOP

This is dumb even by WaPo standards. And it's exactly the kind of headline that Obama wants. I hope more Republicans don't rise to the bait and get involved in the silly game this represents. Limbaugh may be the face of Conservative talk radio but he's that and not much more. I'm not suggesting he isn't often right or powerful with his Republican-voting audience, but entertainment and politics shouldn't mix to too large a degree.

Is Rush Limbaugh the New Face of the GOP?

Is Matt Damon, George Clooney or Barbara Streisand the face of the DNC? A pundit might make the case, but that question never gets asked by the media. And to the extent the GOP attempts to make that case around election time, it is as much a tactic then as Obama's on going attacks against Limbaugh are now.

Limbaugh himself was correct in pronouncing this a distraction meant to marginalize, divide and polarize. Unfortunately, some dumb Republicans felt it necessary to play the game.

Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga., did not take kindly to this assessment in an interview with Politico Tuesday.

“I think that our leadership, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, are taking the right approach,” Gingrey said. “I mean, it’s easy if you’re Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh or even sometimes Newt Gingrich to stand back and throw bricks. You don’t have to try to do what’s best for your people and your party. You know you’re just on these talk shows and you’re living well and plus you stir up a bit of controversy and gin the base and that sort of that thing. But when it comes to true leadership, not that these people couldn’t be or wouldn’t be good leaders, they’re not in that position of John Boehner or Mitch McConnell."

Wise up, GOP. Your business is in Washington right now, not meddling with or commenting upon the public airways and its personalities one way or the other. You either oppose Obama's intentions because you find them to be wrong on the merits, or you climb aboard the Obama bus. But do what you will based on your own judgment and take responsibility for it, as opposed to getting lost in distractions that aren't integral to your job.

If you experience the wrath of the conservative base it will be because they think you are being wrong-headed in your judgment, not because some guy with a microphone said so. Put the Oba-intentional Limbaugh distraction behind you quickly and get on with your job.

Comments

[Lala]

It's like high school all over again -

Democrats Launch Petition Against Rush Limbaugh Tuesday, January 27, 2009 By Melanie Hunter-Omar

(CNSNews.com) – The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has launched an online petition for readers to express their outrage at conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh for saying last week that he wanted President Barack Obama to fail.

The petition includes a 19-second sound byte of Limbaugh, saying, “If I wanted Obama to succeed, I’d be happy the Republicans have laid down. I don’t want this to work. So I’m thinking of replying to this guy, say ‘okay, I’ll send you a response, but I don’t need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails.’”

Meanwhile, Obama advised Republicans last Friday to stop listening to Limbaugh if they wanted to get along with Democrats and the administration.

“You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done,” Obama said to Republican leaders who met with the president to talk about the stimulus package.

The Republican National Committee did not return calls requesting comment.

[jharp]

"Is Rush Limbaugh the New Face of the GOP?:"

Not the new face. He has been the face for some time.

The three time divorced, drug addicted, racist, limp one. Republicans should be proud.

I must admit it worked for a long time but take a good hard look at where it got us. And what blows my mind is the idiotic dittoheads he convinced to vote against their own best interest. For 12 years.

And some still don't get it.

[Lala]

"I’m sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you’re not patriotic. We need to stand up and say we’re Americans, and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration.I’m sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you’re not patriotic. We need to stand up and say we’re Americans, and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration.”
HRC

[North Dallas Thirty]

The funny part is this: remember that the face of the Obama Party is Al Franken, the proven tax cheat who steals money from charities to pay his salary and whose "network" and "show" collapsed.

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/04/16/frankentaxes/

http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2006/01/did-al-frankens-outrageous-demands.html

And what does jharp say? He says this man is "excellent" and endorses all of his behaviors.

[Lala]

Will you miss his cartoons? Hope they replace him with Day By Day

The Cartoon Gap
January 27th, 2009

The cartoonists loved making fun of President Bush and any Republican, for that matter. But alas, they have no president to make fun of now. We'll have no cartoon riots here…

After poking fun at George W. Bush for eight years — often drawing him with big ears and a severe overbite, or as a gung-ho Joe College type, or simply as a clueless doofus — political cartoonists are finding Barack Obama a more elusive target.

"I had all my villains in place for eight years and they've been taken away," lamented Pulitzer Prize winner Pat Oliphant, one of the most widely syndicated cartoonists. "I don't know that I've ever had this experience before, of a president I maybe like. This is an antagonistic art. We're supposed to concentrate on finding things wrong. There's no point in drawing a cartoon that's favorable."

Oliphant had no trouble creating racist cartoons of Condoleezza Rice, but now he lacks inspiration?

We're in the midst of a recession. If he can't do the job, fire his ass and find someone who can, and will.
http://www.black-and-right.com/

[Lala]

I'm for this plan

Proud Member Of Blogs Who Support The Obama-Limbaugh Bipartisan Stimulus Plan

bipartisanstimulus

The JohnJacobH RKBA Blog is proud to join the Blogs Who Support The Obama-Limbaugh Bipartisan Stimulus Plan.

While not exactly “government governs best governs least” it offers an interesting test between two schools of economic thought.

Tantalizing Excerpt:

http://johnjacobh.wordpress.com/2009/01/26/proud-member-of-blogs-who-support-the-obama-limbaugh-bipartisan-stimulus-plan/

[mark l.]

to borrow from the urban dictionary:

"the {gop} could f*ck up a one car funeral procession." maybe not all of them, but Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga better not be driving the hearse. I liked him when he was in the dukes of Hazzard(a joke, sorry ben jones).

[WBestPresidentEver]

And some still don't get it.
Posted by: jharp | Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 09:45 PM
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It is quite Obvious you don't get it jerkoff.

[mark l.]

hmmm... al franken v. limbaugh...

not even close.

20 million listeners or a failed radio show. Tell me jharp, was it a lack of audience, or a lack of material?

[George S]

I am of the limited, I am sure, opinion yhat we are now in the thros of the assention of the man who would be king!!!

[dean yorgey]

I hope the dittoheads stand behind RUSH/Hannity forever. This is nice having the DEMS back in control. If RUSH/Hannity meant so much to the AMERICAN people, why did Obama win by over 9.5 million votes and more than double the amount of electoral votes? Must be that RUSH/Hanitty are as irrevelant as the Republican Party. The GOPER gig is up and hopefully I will never have to put up with another Republican controlled Congress again in my lifetime, and I am age 62. The country can not afford it.

[mark l.]

http://news.google.com/archivesearch?hl=en&q=rush+limbaugh&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tab=wn&resnum=0&cd=1&sa=N&sugg=d&as_ldate=1994&as_hdate=1994&lnav=d3&ldrange=1993,1993&hdrange=1995,2008

a link to limbaugh in the news 1994.

"Frustrated Clinton Assails Falwell and Limbaugh Interview: Mix of...
Pay-Per-View - Los Angeles Times - ProQuest Archiver - Jun 25, 1994
Jerry Falwell and popular radio personality Rush Limbaugh by name, saying that their brand of politics and religion feed a spreading intolerance and ..."

"The Wicked Late Night Ways And Bad Advice of Rush Limbaugh
Subscription - Washington Post - HighBeam Research - Oct 30, 1994"

"Limbaugh's Brand of Vitriol Fouls the Air"

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

The consensus in 94 was that Limbaugh was full of bad advice for the gop...

until November 1994.

[John]

Riehl you clearly haven't caught up with Gingrey's subsequent grovelling obeisances to El Rushbo. What the GOP doesn't get is the extent to which it has made itself a prisoner of folks like Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter and co who are basically in it for the money. They've identified a demographic, just like all those evangelical churches identify a demographic of givers, and are feeding off it. There's clearly a market for this stuff, just read some of the postings here, but it's ultimately the route to marginalization as you point out. The problem is the conservative movement in the widest sense doesn't get it. Whether it's Rushbo publicly hoping for failure or Boehner appearing obstructionist, this is the path to annihilation at a time when hundreds of thousands are losing their jobs and Obama appears the model of seriousness and bipartisanship.

[bfp]

Lefties are all the same. You don't realize that you are driving down the socialist road at 300 mph headed for a brick wall called inflation and you don't realize it. "Social justice"(whatever that is) and the down trodden(aka lazy) are what you are concerned about. Get a real job read some econ and quit standing there with your hand out before conservatives(80% of the US population, they just don't know it becasue you lefties tell them they are not) get tired of supporting you and slap your hand away. What you neglect to see is your wonderful governement is erroding you freedoms every day. I guess you don't care as long as your pansy azz is comfortable, as for me give me freedom or give me death.(Yep it would be helpful if some people understood history and how we are repeating history again.)

[William R. Barker]

Yesterday, Riehl cautioned the GOP, "If you experience the wrath of the conservative base..."

"IF...?!?!"

"IF...?!?!"

Hmm... perhaps you missed November 2006 and November 2008.

The RINO leadership of the GOP has DEVASTATED the GOP over the past few years. That's not conjecture - it's fact.

Riehl continued, "Limbaugh may be the face of Conservative talk radio but he's that and not much more."

(*SNORT*) Sure. You just keep on telling yourself that.

Riehl volunteered, "I'm not suggesting he isn't often right..."

(*GUFFAW*) Seriously... Riehl... the point is not that Rush is often right; the point is that Rush isn't often wrong! The problem is... Boehner, McConnell, and the GOP establishment often ARE wrong; wrong far more often than Limbaugh is.

Agreed: Gingrey is a moron. But back to Limbaugh vs. Boehner and McConnell... the fact is that Rush Limbaugh represents MY views far more closely than either Boehner nor McConnell.

BILL