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Hannity declares recovery bill "a liberal hijacking of the American way of life"

February 17, 2009 9:46 pm ET

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    • Author by jjamele2880 (February 17, 2009 10:34 pm ET)
         

      He says this every day.  EVERY DAY.

      Every day it's "The Messiah" and "The Annointed One" with his "European Socialist Spending Bill of 2009" and "the end of Freedom as We Know it" blah blah blah I just hope he really IS furious and scared and angry and as close to bursting a blood vessel as he appears to be; however I suspect it's all just a BS act to continue to chuck red meat at his moron sheep audience.

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      • Author by mk3872 (February 17, 2009 11:23 pm ET)
           
        Because he and his other wing nut cohorts are PI--ED off that we have someone we can believe in and is not doing things the Reagan way. Their only opposition for the past 10 years has been Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Hannity, et. al, just figured they would always win these battles because their opposition was alway spineless and never fostered a movement like Obama did.
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    • Author by jlw7717595 (February 17, 2009 10:43 pm ET)
         
      I watched him the other night and he was still on Bill Ayers and Rev. Wright.  What a moron.
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    • Author by fawltylogic (February 17, 2009 10:43 pm ET)
         

      Damn straight.

      Except I'd call it a rescue operation.

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    • Author by Timmee (February 17, 2009 11:30 pm ET)
         
      I saw a mini-documentary on HBO the other night where they followed around McCain and interviewed people from the audiences.

      It shows that Rush and Hannity are beloved in some parts of the country.

      While it may comfort some to think of Hannity and Rush as baffoons, they are very dangerous.

      I know we have freedom of speech, but when you misrepresent the facts everyday for the purpose of keeping people hypnotized by this alternate reality, some penality should be dished out.

      Can't someone file a lawsuit requiring that whenever Hannity and Oreily are on TV they cannot display the word "news" and must have "opinion" on screen at all times? Rush should have to play an audio clip whenever he comes back from commercial that states, "The Rush Limbaugh show is Rush Limbaugh's opinion and is not required to be truthful or in any way related to reality...enjoy"
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      • Author by DAWUSS (February 17, 2009 11:38 pm ET)
           
        The only one who does it is Boortz, but that's on his website, not over the air.
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      • Author by MickD (February 18, 2009 10:29 am ET)
           
        T, I saw that same doc and what stunned me, absolutely stunned me was that the people they were interviewing would 100% MOST LIKELY reap benefits from so-called Democratic "socialism" (known in the real world as stimulus and growth programs). They literally shoot their own feet off with the fear and bigotry propagated by Rushbo and others, who are millionaires who wouldn't give them the time of day, much less a hand up in hard times. 
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    • Author by habodabi (February 17, 2009 11:35 pm ET)
         
      How much money does Sean Hannity get paid?
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    • Author by hurricaneyankee52983 (February 18, 2009 12:01 am ET)
         
      What about the NEO-CONSERVATIVE  hijacking  of the AMERICAN  way of life over the last  8 years? Does the "GREAT AMERICAN" HANNITY  have an answer for that?
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      • Author by alienofwar (February 18, 2009 12:30 am ET)
           
        Their version of the American way of life was most idealistic back in the 50's and 60's when income tax for the top bracket was 90% and Union membership was at it's highest level....yet they fail to realize that what they rail against is exactly what we need, in terms of economics of course. IN terms of their religious/moralistic ideology...that's a whole other ball game.
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    • Author by goodguy1 (February 18, 2009 3:16 am ET)
         
      ALL WAYS IMPOSING THIS SENSE OF URGENCY! HAVE YOU SEEN ANN COULTER LATELY? I THIINK SHAWN GAVE HER AIDS.......THERE IS NO CHOICE BECAUSE BIG BUSINESS ISN'T RESPONSIBLE ENOUGH
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    • Author by swift (February 18, 2009 4:08 am ET)
         
      Laughably horrible, as always. Of course, I felt somewhat the same way when the loony conservatives hijacked our way of life. Turnabout is fair play.
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    • Author by wookie (February 18, 2009 7:36 am ET)
         
      Yep, because the "American way of life" is definitely the deregulated winner take all capitalism that caused this mess. So Sean, did you happen to see how much the market dropped on Bush's watch and after his bailout of the bankers? Seeing as how half of the package is tax cuts when did it become Socialism? 
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    • Author by pros2pros2940 (February 18, 2009 8:40 am ET)
         

      Hacks like Hannity don't even know their Reagan history.

      Ever hear Hannity say that Reagan doubled the social security withholding tax ?

      Ever hear Hannity say that Reagan raised taxes 7 times ?

      In 1982 alone, he signed into law not one but two major tax increases. The Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act (TEFRA) raised taxes by $37.5 billion per year and the Highway Revenue Act raised the gasoline tax by another $3.3 billion.

      According to a recent Treasury Department study, TEFRA alone raised taxes by almost 1 percent of the gross domestic product, making it the largest peacetime tax increase in American history. An increase of similar magnitude today would raise more than $100 billion per year.

      In 1983, Reagan signed legislation raising the Social Security tax rate.

      This is a tax increase that lives with us still, since it initiated automatic increases in the taxable wage base. As a consequence, those with moderately high earnings see their payroll taxes rise every single year.

      In 1984, Reagan signed another big tax increase in the Deficit Reduction Act.

      This raised taxes by $18 billion per year or 0.4 percent of GDP. A similar-sized tax increase today would be about $44 billion.

      The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 raised taxes yet again.

      Even the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which was designed to be revenue-neutral, contained a net tax increase in its first 2 years.

      And the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 raised taxes still more.

      The year 1988 appears to be the only year of the Reagan presidency, other than the first, in which taxes were not raised legislatively. Of course, previous tax increases remained in effect. According to a table in the 1990 budget, the net effect of all these tax increases was to raise taxes by $164 billion in 1992, or 2.6 percent of GDP. This is equivalent to almost $300 billion in today's economy.

      http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_bartlett/bartlett200310290853.asp

      Bartlett was in the Reagan administration
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      • Author by MickD (February 18, 2009 10:32 am ET)
           
        I would love this to be read on Hannity's show, in a Howard Beale-like rant. It would be great to see "Fox Security" man handle the perpetrator. Any volunteers?
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