Rush orders Republicans: "This is no time for bipartisanship" on health care reform
February 08, 2010 1:01 pm ET
From the January 8 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
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and so they won't. they do what they are told by the de facto leader.
And Blimpy said, "It is good."
Keep in mind, a lot of Limbaugh's listeners are actually pretty good people who I think are sadly misled and misinformed - many of them are parents of my childhood friends, and not overtly racist (though unfortunately the emphasis there is "overtly"). Comparing them to radical white supremacists is exactly the same level of irresponsibility as those who compare the President to Hitler, or those who call liberals anti-American radicals. Be aware that the partisan divide, though arguably exacerbated more by right-wing media, is the fault of both sides of the aisle.
(Incidentally, this isn't a defense of Limbaugh, whom I view as a dishonest sleazebag who surely realizes the damage he does every day to the nation and doesn't even pretend to care. I just think the MM community would be better off if we focused more on actively working against deliberate right-wing misinformation than demonizing those who adhere to it.)
Guess what, the president has never put forth any type of detailed plan. When he does, then respond to THAT plan.
Speaking truth to/about progressives with a shout out to Punxatawney Phil, who has far surpassed algore skills as a prognosticator of climate phenomenon.
So nice to hear from you again! I guess your right, man made climate change is just like the mail service...you know....whether rain, snow, sleet, hail...It's all climate change!!
Ye-haw, here's hoping my homestead in Nebraska becomes oceanfront real soon!
Speaking truth to/about progressives with a shout out to all those itty-bitty binkies pacifying those little Tebows out there that speak to the value of life!
on what planet do you hail from?
Earthlings are saying otherwise....
"the president has never put forth any type of detailed plan."
You're as transparent as glass. You're against it because Obama is for it. Doesn't matter what the details are.
He meant the racist white guys and gals who listen to his program. Minorities aren't real Americans in Rush's world -- unless they support his regressive "white man first" agenda.
The greedy GOP is gutless. Just as we suspected.
word....to your progressive movement 'flat-lining' or in kinda rap terms...'getting shizzeled wit da mizzel'.
Speaking smack to/about progressives and keeping it real with a shout out to tu-pak, who after being shot in the groin became, one-pak and because of a cia conspiracy is now no-pak fursure. :<
Could we have a wingnut-to-English translation, please?
Actually, he did. The PLAN, however, will NOT become LAW -- the BILLS in Congress will.
Speaking truth to neoKKKons who STILL can't tell the difference between weather and climate, and think an urban myth about a groundhog constitutes acceptable scientific theory . . .
By the way, congress is where the minority input was ignored and where this new debate, done in the open, should go forward.
proudconservative, it would probably behoove you to research that statement, which is flat out false, on your own rather than reciting what you may have heard. For instance, in the Obama Q&A session with Republicans, our President said:
"...I sought out and supported ideas from Republicans. I even talked about an issue that has been a holy grail for a lot of you, which was tort reform, and said that I'd be willing to work together as part of a comprehensive package to deal with it. I just didn't get a lot of nibbles."
"Creating a high-risk pool for uninsured folks with preexisting conditions, that wasn't my idea, it was Senator McCain's. And I supported it, and it got incorporated into our approach."
"Allowing insurance companies to sell coverage across state lines to add choice and competition and bring down costs for businesses and consumers -- that's an idea that some of [the Republicans] I suspect included in this better solutions; that's an idea that was incorporated into our package. And I support it..."
"A number of [Republicans] have suggested creating pools where self-employed and small businesses could buy insurance. That was a good idea. I embraced it."
"Some [Republicans] supported efforts to provide insurance to children and let kids remain covered on their parents' insurance until they're 25 or 26. I supported that. That's part of our package."
"I supported a number of other ideas, from incentivizing wellness to creating an affordable catastrophic insurance option for young people that came from Republicans like Mike Enzi and Olympia Snowe in the Senate, and I'm sure from some of you as well. So when you say I ought to be willing to accept Republican ideas on health care, let's be clear: I have."
Please read for yourself and then form your own opinions rather than simply repeat false talking points. Your approach does nothing to foster honest discussion.
And if you are going to foster our own ideas, please attribute the source for your own, non-talking, points.
As for my "own, non-talking, points," I have scrolled up and down my post and don't see any talking points. I simply pointed out that minority input was not "ignored" as you originally stated.
For Limpballs' Dittoheads like CattleProdNeoKKKon here, such a thing is not necessary; they need only listen to their master . . .
If you hang arround a bit you'll be exposed the various ways neocons avoid reality. I'd advise not leaping into a debate with RightArm till you see a few of his rhetorical pretzels in real time.
2. ANY bill involving a complicated issue is usually pretty lengthy. This is done to cover all of the bases and emiminate as many loopholes as possible.
3. When the font and spacing is changed to a default 12pt font and single spaced, it comes in at a few hundred pages. This is significantly less than 2000 and is about the average size of any book of substance at any bookstore.
4. It's not bribery. It's called obtaining state Aid. Bribery infers that the person who secured the funds puts the money into their pocket. These are state funds. It should be noted that Louisiana is still rebuilding from the hurricanes a few years ago. That money is definitely needed. Also, the money for Nebraska is being used for hospitals. This hardly sounds like greedy politics here.
Even if the bill was the full 2000 pages, as someone {I think} on this blog said, if the paid legislators in Congress' justification for not wanting to study a bill is "it's too long", they should find another line of work . . .
The point is to get the republicans on record on national teevee to show that:
1--they've been lying to the people about the HCR bill and not
having opportunities to work on it. CSPAN videos already show
that they've been lying.
2--they have no willingness to work with him on anything
3--they have no understanding of the current HCR at all and haven't
been doing their job, only obstructing anything he comes up with.
They are the true welfare mavens, collecting their pay and
doing nothing to earn it, except hosting tea parties and
meeting with lobbyists
4--they take the side of big business against the American
people
5--they have no substantive plans of their own to solve any of the
problems this country faces
Senator Cornyn is already on the record stating that he doesn't want a televised meeting of republicans, democrats, the president, and HCR experts. In order to cover up the failure of his party to work on HCR, he's back to the photo-op meme. Hmmm, I wonder why. Just kidding. I know exactly why. The president cleaned their clocks at their own retreat.
You heard the Master's voice, Repubs . . .
They already was the party of NO Rush.
SMH!