Limbaugh says Founders "rose up against a tyranny that is nothing compared to" health bill, liberalism is "un-American"
December 21, 2009 3:01 pm ET
From the December 21 edition of Premiere radio Netowrk's The Rush Limbaugh Show:
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Oh, and you should love the bill, tough guy; it has all kinds of (stupid) breaks for your corporate buddies who supposedly know more about what's better for ordinary Americans than dastardly liberal lawmakers.
On second thought, Rush, seeing your doctor can wait...like until next August. And keep getting worked up over liberals, Rush...it's good for your heart.
Have a blessed holiday, Rush...eat and drink a lot. You deserve it...
You heard it here first, folks. Following the tyranny of the armed services, social security, medicaid and welfare - the type Rush was on in the 1980s.
Not to mention that Michael Savage/Weiner still wouldn't understand it...
Sorry tubby, you're no judge of anything.
If Rushie knew his history he would notice that most of the founding fathers were liberal.
Boy would that steam his pot!
I also find it ironic that right wingers loathe lawyers given the fact that most of the Founding Fathers were <gasp> lawyers!
Quotes like "we are endowed by our Creator with certain inanlienable rights" (Declaration of Independence 1776), and "We The People in order form a more perfect union" (Preamble to the Constitution, 1789) proved them to be more liberal for their age than any other existing nation, ever. The were classic liberals.
It must be said, although Adam Smith wrote his tome, "The Wealth of Nations" in 1776 capitalism was not a verb at that time. Although, the practice was around for sometime, it was the first time it was articulated as a theory.
The American colonists wanted to be freed from Great Britain, importantly to some (John Adams) assert their ancient rights as British citizens (English Bill of Rights 1689), but also to free the colonies from the mercantile system.The colonies were only allowed to trade with other countries (like France) thru England. Hence, the tax. Further, under the mercantile system they were only allowed to manufacture what Great Britain allowed us to do.
We wanted to be an independent player on the global economy without the hindrance paying a tax and having our ecomomy set by what the British currency held.
In contrast to the Congress of Vienna (1815) after the French Revolution, and the defeat of Napoleon, they wish to defeat and destroy the Rights of Man, written by Lafyette with the help of Thomas Jefferson.They fought for the old rights (blessed by God, and the rights of the King and the aristocracy) back The Rights of Man was very similar to our liberal ideas given credence and a nation in the U.S. It had nothing to do with economics
I am asking a question, I guess, more than an answer, who are we as a nation. Are we a people who want freedom (which I heard ad nausem from Limabugh) to let go of the poverty strichen. Or are we a nation who have progress to allow, the maybe, the best what what we don't know is possible.
Wanna see something REALLY unamerican?
Look in the mirror.