Limbaugh issues health care reform warning: "You Blue Dogs are about to see your last days if you vote for this bill"
August 05, 2009 1:15 pm ET
From the August 5 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
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In the current watered down form that the health care bill is in now...
Rush is right (just not for the reasons he thinks)... if this bill ends up being the one passed... the so-called 'blue dogs' will not be voted back in.
Unless of course Rush's use of 'their last days" is code for one of less than mentally healthy listeners to go out and do something stupid??
The true essence of HR676 is the only option today and if not that, then a full fledged single payer universal system! I'll take either one, but I won't be happy with this watered down version that gives, yet again, way to damn much to the corporate whores!
Blue Dogs are Dems, so I presume the GOP and Rush Faithful didn't vote for them in the first place and certainly weren't going to vote for them in the next election...
If they don't vote the Health Care reforms, it will be a betrayal to their party and to those who did vote for them... so, more likely, they will get voted out if they block the vote
Dial down the Oxycotin today Rush... you're getting more confused than normal.
Huh? What the hell are you talking about?
I sure as hell hope that your not trying to compare Rush Limbaugh's sickness to Keith Olbermann's ranting?
Good god man... remember, drugs are bad!
My conclusion? Yes, some Democrats have to be very careful and not be seen as casting a liberal vote. But the're a comparatively small number. A very clear majority of these people have won by large enough margins that it sure seems to me they could survive one controversial vote ...
But many of these folks manage to sell this story line to Washington reporters who've never been to these exurban and rural districts and can be made to believe the worst caricatures. [Emphasis added.]
Perhaps he has in mind someone like CNN's John King? Please see King's recent CNN.com piece, "Blue Dogs on constituents' short leash over health care," which focuses on one unquestionably vulnerable Blue Dog. King may have visited a few of these places, but I found his piece misleading in light of Tomasky's reporting. (Sorry, I don't have the link.)