Limbaugh criticizes Schwarzenegger for supporting Obama's emissions proposal
From the May 19 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
LIMBAUGH: Now I want to play for you a sound bite. There's a big argument going on in the Republican Party over what we must be. We have to be a big-tent party. We have to allow all kinds of people and various divergent points of view. We must let the moderates run the party -- they do now, by the way. The moderates run the Republican Party -- make no mistake about it. We must become more moderate if we are to engage in electoral victory. And so here you have a radical liberal Democrat president -- the most radical liberal in the nation's history -- proposing every day programs that will destroy the essence of America.
Here we have the governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, agreeing with this. And Arnold is what's being called a moderate Republican, somebody that we must -- we need more people like Arnold Schwarzenegger in our party if we are to grow the party.
Now, I ask you: How are we going to grow the party if more and more moderate Republicans are going to suck up to Barack Obama, show up at his public appearances, endorse him, and campaign for him? How in the hell does that expand the Republican Party. You tell me how this is a recipe for expanding the Republican Party.
SCHWARZENEGGER [audio clip]: We brought everyone together, and now we created one standard which is going to help everybody. I want to congratulate the president, because other administrations previously have tried to do that and were not successful. There was a lot of dialogue about reducing greenhouse gasses and making the cars more efficient, but no action. This president, after 120 days in office, has created the action and brought everyone together.
LIMBAUGH: They've had no choice, Arnold. They've had no choice. It's this or jail. It's this or bankruptcy. It's this or get fired. Join him or get fired. So, anyway, this is what we must do, ladies and gentlemen. We need more Arnold Schwarzeneggers. This is the future. Well, this is what our moderates are telling us. We don't need to do battle with Obama; we need to go after the American people the same way he does. There's the future of the Republican Party right there: Arnold Schwarzenegger. That's what the moderates are telling us.
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Putting aside that this will SAVE the US Auto industry by effectively taking away one of Toyota and Honda's big competetive advatages: better fuel economy. And it will stabalize gas prices.
Moron.
LMAO
Don't the Limbaugh-naughts and Republi-dunces get the irony that if auto companies had been a _little bit_ proactive in the last __Thirty-Eight Years__ we would not be in the position of needing this round of government intervention (as it were) in setting fuel standards and the like.... it is the failed Market Economy that has produced remediating government policy formation.
I wish I could have been a fly on the wall at the Auto Company Board meetings where-in the policy was stated: Oh, the public will never go in for fuel efficient vehicles, Doh!
too short sighted...(not to mention too often blind-sided by un-fettered greed)
so, government _has_ to step in... and it is not like the current wave of energy crisis issues ( for want of better terminology) wasn't clearly, obviously, looming on the horizon for half a century.
How well is the gas guzzling Hummer doing these days? You think the emphasis on the guzzling SUV led to some of the problems the auto industry is experiencing today? No way, it is the UAW and the liberals who represent Michigan and Detroit right?
Mark people move out of every state daily. L.A. has a high gasoline price because everywhere has a high gasoline price. Not to mention LA has one the weakest public transportation systems of any major city. We the people must form ourselves around saving the planet. If you break your arm you don't just pretend its not there... you fix it (like a cast), and your other arm accommodates until its healed.