Citing Mein Kampf, Limbaugh calls Obama's comments on the stimulus "the big lie"
February 17, 2010 12:41 pm ET
From the February 17 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
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Average unemployment is 9.5%
Funny that Seahag keeps harping on the unemployment rate for countries with socialized medicine, yet several of them have lower rates than ours.
Seahag.....FAIL.
Ours was 4.5% after recovering from 9/11. Then the Dems took oveer congress and we've started going to hell in a handbasket ever since.
As for the rest of your uninformed rant, you are wrong.
The "Dems" never took over Congress. They did not have veto proof majorities and the Republicans in the Senate filibustered just about every single bill presented. They set a record. The "Dems" had a 1 vote majority in the Senate and that 1 vote was Joe Liebermann. If a bill did not suit Mr. Bush, all he had to do was veto it and it was dead. The only time Bush ever exercised his power of veto prior to what you call "Dem" control was in 2006 on the stem cell legislature. All of his other vetoes were done AFTER the "Dems" took "control." No legislation went through Congress and was passed unless there was some Republican participation and unless Mr. Bush agreed with it.
You really don't understand how our government works, do you?
You CAN live in a utopia where that mindset is prevalent among the community.
Unions are put into place for this reason.
More "evil corporation" and "evil profits" rhetoric.
How about the big lie that capitalism is the answer?
Three words:
Enron
Savings and Loan
Madoff
The US constitution, in 1787, established that the entire nation was a unified, or common market, with no internal tariffs or taxes on interstate commerce.
Late 1800's England. Bob Cratchets everywhere.
BTW, Rush's lie has been exposed. Every major economic research firm has said that the stimulus plan has worked Are they lying, too, big bird? Only LIE I'm seeing here is Rush's, as usual.
$650 million for digital converter box coupons program.
$248 milliion for furniture at the new Homeland Security headquarters which will be built at a cost of $448 million.
$600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees.
$150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities.
$75 million for "smoking cessation activities."
$6 billion to turn federal buildings into "green' buildings.
$200 million in funding for the lease of alternative energy vehicles for use on military installations.
$1 billion to minimize undercounting of minority groups in the 2010 census.
As more transparency emerges about how the trillions of American taxpayers money is being used for special interests in the stimulus package, how long will support for it continue? The polls are already showing slippage as Americans begin to become more skeptical about how the economic burden that will be carried by generations being legislated under the direction of President Obama and the Democrat Congress.
http://www.examiner.com/x-2547-Watchdog-Politics-Examiner~y2009m2d4-Republicans-list-of-waste-in-economic-stimulus-plan
When you post links for something like this, big bird, it's usually better to get actual government figures as opposed to those of a partisan political club trying to win over uninformed folks like you.
Oh, and the official, registered name of the political club with the (D) is the Democratic Party. To use Rush's pet name for the club makes one look childish, uninformed and very small. I mean, would you call the (R) club, the "Republi" Party or the (I) club, the "Independ" Party?
find a more accurate GOVERNMENT list which includes the Republican pet projects. There are many. The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Times ran pretty good stories on the hypocritical Republicans who dissed the stimulus plan in public, then wrote letters BEGGING for money for their states from it.
The digital converter box program was implemented way before Obama became the President.
Building federal buildings, purchasing furniture, buying and leasing vehicles for govt. use that will save money in fuel consumption is a waist and a special interest? The same with renovating buildings to save energy and cost? The census has its own budget and I doubt the last one of these claims.
1 Trillion for 2 wars
1 Trillion for Medicare part D
$6B for Federal Greening - The Federal Government is the nation's largest energy user and has more office space than any other category of building in the country (and they have facilities across the world that are included here). This also includes military facilities. I don't see this as "Special Interest" since the government is already saving hundreds of millions a year due to the retrofits/new technologies being installed and revamped. And these programs are not even through yet.
You'd be clamoring even louder if you realized how much money the govt. used to waste every year before taking these steps.
I work for DOE so I know what I'm talking about. Look up the Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) if you want to know exactly what's going on. Yes, the numbers seem large when compared to your/my net worth, but the numbers don't tell the whole story.
But think of how many sexually gratifying "24" episodes that is!
So, does this mean you wingnuts will now shut up about the supposed lack of transparency in the government?
Yeah, didn't think so.
Morons. You refute one of your talking points by trying to prove another of your talking points, then trying to defend that talking point, you refute another talking point. Jeebus, you wingnuts don't really go for the whole "consistency" thing, do ya?
Stupidity and ignorance is all they're peddling.
Hey, Rush? Good thing for you that Cheney isn't still in office. What with the Patriot Act and all, you'd be in a black bag on your way to your own private rendition. It'd be for the good of the country, so you'd still support your own torture, right?
Sorry folks, but we are screwed!
I just might make a stop at a certain type of store on my way home this evening. My Fox News viewing and AM radio listening neighbors in the rural conservative area I live in are really starting to scare me. You see, I don't quite "fit" in here.
Sounds like Rush, and Beck to me.
Also, here is the psychological profile of Hitler by the OSS
Nothing describes the crap coming out of the wingnuts mouths on a daily basis.
BTW... the reference for this can be found here.
Every time I hear the propaganda spewing forth from Fox/hate talk radio, I'm reminded of the movie "Cabaret." If you've ever seen it, you notice that there is always a radio in the background. At the beginning of the film, you hear mostly music, then music with speech, then less music, more speech, then just speech . . . the speech gets more and more strident as the movie continues. It coincides with the takeover by the Nazis. One of Hitler's strengths was his use of the airwaves to control the attitudes and opinions of the German people.
Well, they declared it a failure before any of it was spent.
Hell, as of the first of the year, only 50% of the stimulus has been appropriated which means fewer than 50% of it was spent in 2009.
The goal is to have 70% appropriated by November 2010...
Yet, Think Progress reports that 110 Republicans who voted against the stimulus, have all touted its successes.
Even Gov. Sanford who refused stimulus money had to eat his words and went to Washington this week to ask for $200 million for S. Carolina education...a good demonstration of an idealogue who let's his own people suffer to try to prove a point.
Even the American Enterprise Institute reportst that without the stimulus, the GDP would have contracted 1% in the second half of 2009 instead of the 3% growth... that 4% difference.
btw... AEI is a Conservative Think Tank with Senior Fellows that read like the index of President Bush's presidency, Newt Gingrich, Paul Wolfowitz, David Frum, Irving Kristol..
Thanks Rush for showing your ignorance, YET AGAIN.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/30/science/30profile.html?_r=1&ex=1125547200&en=631977063d726261&ei=5070