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The White House on Wednesday fessed up to lowering the quality of public discourse and acknowledged that its sniping at radio show host Rush Limbaugh has been "counterproductive," even as Democratic political committees continued to use the issue in a political line of attack approved by the Obama administration itself.
I think the recent Democrat tactics are brilliant!
The Democrats haven't really done much of anything but direct a little more attention to what the GOP is doing to itself. But you're right about it being the politically smart path to take. The Republicans are continuing to marginalize themselves, and they're doing it in a noisy, obnoxious manner that's generating lots of negative publicity.
And all this time I thought they were supposed to be professionals.
We Democrats are on a run. I must cheer the tact of hanging the albbatross of Limbaugh around the neck of the Republicans. They cannot shake it off, if they dissavow they **** off his hard core supporters, if they do not dissavow they alleinate moderate Republicans and Indipendents. No matter what they do they are screwed.
The 10% either side of the middle decide elections and that group as a general rule have no use for Rush-Hannity-Beck-Coulter and so on. Could not happen to a more deserving political party.
What tactics? Trying to make a huge thing out of what Limbaugh said so people wouldn't focus on them robbing us blind...?
Yeah, that. They haven't realized yet, though, that the ones Obama and his admin are trying to distract with this side show circus act are the libs and Dems who voted for Obama but didn't think they were going to have to pay for his agenda with the loss of their savings, 401k's/pensions, and their standard of living.
You need to draw a line between Republicans and Conservatives. They used to be one in the same, but republicans have been drifting away of the conservative philosophy. Most conservatives agree with Rush.
We don't want the USA to fail. We LOVE the USA and everything that it is. What we want is Obama's policy to fail, because we truly see it destroying our country. I don't care how many ways you spin it, you cannot spend trillions of dollars to get us out of a recession. Economics 101 teaches you that in the first 5 minutes of class.
If they were taking ALL that stimulus and putting it ALL towards helping reform the mortgage, auto, and insurance industries (though I disagree with the bailouts), it MIGHT work. But 90% of this is going to programs that don't have anything to do with anything.
They said it would contain NO earmarks or pork, but most of it is just that. They lied to your faces and you don't care.
And before you go stating that Bush had incredible spending his last few years, you're right. And most conservatives were turned off of Bush near the end, because it seemed that once he won re-election, he changed dramatically and became fiscally liberal and started spending like a drunken sailor.
We just want a government that sets laws and enforces them. Period. They don't need to put their hands in every single industry. Stay out of baseball. Stay out of banking. Stay out of EVERYTHING.
The constitution grants us the ability to pursue life, liberty and the PURSUIT of happiness. That's it. That's what they should be governing. If you're not happy, you can pursue it, but the government isn't responsible for taking care of you and MAKING you happy. That's your job.
Liberals have this Utopian view that if the government steps in and controls everything, that everything will be perfect. But that's BY DEFINITION socialism, and there is no country in the history of the world that has every been successful or better off with socialism.
We don't want the USA to fail. We want socialist policies to fail.
But liberals will continue to try and spin it to look like we're un-patriotic. We're not. We just think the guy you chose to lead our country is fooling you all and that it'll be catastrophic should he be left to his own devices.
Sure, I love seeing high-ranking members of the administration playing name-calling games with a radio host while we're at war and in an economic crisis. Politics first - as McCain predicted.
What we need to do is up the presidential term to 6 years, and cap it at ONE term. That way, once elected, maybe they're working on making our country better instead of spewing their BS to worry about nothing but the next election.
It's sad that people are getting into government now-a-days with their only goal to get re-elected.
Do this for Congress too. They worry too much about their special interest groups. When it's one and done, you know you don't stand a chance to get re-elected, so maybe they'll try to do the right thing.
Sure, I love seeing high-ranking members of the administration playing name-calling games with a radio host while we're at war and in an economic crisis. Politics first - as McCain predicted.
That's pretty true, Obama has yet to articulate a clear solution for the banking and credit problems, nor provide any staff support for Geithner.
News flash back at ya'. Making his compensation, along with both the size of his audience and longevity, makes him pretty significant. He carries a lot of influence in the national discussion. Obama and his folks seem to think so too.
Disliking him and/or his positions is certainly your prerogative, but minimizing his influence in the national debate is foolish.
He has influence amongst the paranoids of this country, that is all. But hey, whatever gets you thru your day
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