Rush Limbaugh: Who's really calling the shots?

Since your head is apparently up your butt that you can't read straight, let me spell it out for you. 177 already deeply conservative Republican House members don't need to think about Rush when deciding whether or not to vote against a huge democratic spending bill!  And there's no proof they did get marching orders from Rush, even if losers like Phil Gingrey consider him a leader of the conservative movement.  (Saying so is a bit like saying/assuming the 244 House dems voting yes on the stimulus bill took marching orders from top liberal-leaning talk radio hosts like Rachel Maddow or talking heads like Keith Olbermann).

The House leadership was the deciding factor for those 177 Republican sheep, not Rush Limbaugh. From the AP 1/27/08: "[A]ccording to officials who were present at a GOP meeting, none of the Republicans in attendance spoke up in disagreement when urged to oppose the legislation by their leaders. Rep. John Boehner of Ohio, the party's leader, and Eric Cantor of Virginia, the second in command, said they wanted "100 percent" opposition to the measure, which they argue includes billions in wasteful spending, these officials said."

Again, unless you can prove Rush influenced Cantor and Boehner to get 100% opposition against the Recovery bill, you're wrong.  None of the 177 said, "Gee Rush, I'm up in the air on this. What should we do, vote for the democrats' $800 billion spending bill or against?"  They are already loyal partisans in that part of the House. And they proved it with their 100% opposition vote.  Rush is probably thrilled but in no way is taking credit, nor should he.

Rush will always be against what he sees as liberal policies and hope they fail and then hope that Republican/free market principles get a chance again to solve our problems. That's his logic, folks, as delusional as it sounds given that the dems are in charge and that the stimulus bill the Republicans voted against had some Republican input and Reagan-like provisions (ie. the Earned Income Tax Credit). This is how Rush and his ilk think and will always think, no matter what the economic circumstances and truth of legislations are.

Rush is so delusional right now that he doesn't think the current economy is as bad as it was in 1982! So naturally he thinks that in a year or two, Obama's supposed liberal policies will fail - which is what he meant by saying "I hope he fails" - so badly that the midterm elections will punish congressional democrats enough to force Obama to govern to the center or right (like Clinton after 1994's midterms), meaning more Bush/Reagan-ish policies. Again, that's not logical thinking, it's just Rush Limbaugh logic.   Deal with it (with logic and accuracy) and move on. Let him howl into the wind all he wants. Him and his delusional BS won't matter in the end.

Right, Limbaugh wants Obama to fail for philosophical, not personal reasons. If Obama were to govern as a far right loon, the way we’ve been governed for the last several years with disastrous results, the way that voters have thoroughly rejected, Limbaugh wouldn’t have a problem.

That’s quite a distinction you’ve made there, Chucko.