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January 30, 2009
Rushing To Get A BiPartisan Stimulus
Rush Limbaugh seems to be on a roll. At least he has rolled Obama (and by the end of his term I think you will have a hard time finding some one who hasn't rolled Obama. 3 years 11 months 2 weeks and 6 days to go.) You can read the whole thing here. But let me quote this choice excerpt. Fifty-three percent of American voters voted for Barack Obama; 46% voted for John McCain, and 1% voted for wackos. Give that 1% to President Obama. Let's say the vote was 54% to 46%. As a way to bring the country together and at the same time determine the most effective way to deal with recessions, under the Obama-Limbaugh Stimulus Plan of 2009: 54% of the $900 billion -- $486 billion -- will be spent on infrastructure and pork as defined by Mr. Obama and the Democrats; 46% -- $414 billion -- will be directed toward tax cuts, as determined by me.If you lower taxes on business the greatest amount of money goes to those with the most profits. Rewarding those who are doing well. Funding directed by Congress rewards the politically connected. I can see why President Present might want to back away from this one as much as he can. Why does this seem so much like Chicago politics? H/T Instapundit who sent me to Roger Kimball who has some interesting thoughts. Why hasn't Polywell Fusion been funded by the Obama administration? IEC Fusion Technology blog Cross Posted at Power and Control posted by Simon on 01.30.09 at 03:23 PM
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Frank, Glad to have pissed you off. Now the question is: "is it a good idea?" M. Simon · January 31, 2009 03:24 AM "Not one single word of even minor criticism could he utter against the Republican excesses of the last 8 years." I don't like Limbaugh much either (mostly because of his inability to admit he was wrong about the Michael J. Fox situation, his hypocrisy on the Drug War, and his warmongering), but I'm pretty sure that statement is demonstrably false. I don't have access to his archives, but I believe I recall complaints about the Dept. of Education and No Child Left Behind, as well as the expansion of Medicare, Campaign Finance Reform, and steel tariffs, to name a few. You seem to think that Limbaugh is never correct, yet Limbaugh is the partisan? Even I think James Carville is occasionally correct. Or Limbaugh for that matter. And just how many interviews has Limbaugh had on the show in the past 8 years? I'm guessing no more than a few a year. He rarely did them when I used to listen. I think you're exactly backwards about the orgy of self-serving lust. Politicians bend over backwards to get on Limbaugh's show, not the other way around. Joe R. · January 31, 2009 03:34 AM Frank - How about you unplug the computer for a few months, and actually, y'know LISTEN to Rush every day. Then maybe you won't shoot your mouth off spouting some other idiot's lies about what the show, and Rush, actually represent. Who the hell am I kidding? Why should you do that when its so much easier to spew venom. After all, you won, right? brian · January 31, 2009 08:05 AM To answer your question, Simon - It's a great idea to cut business taxes. Which is precisely why it won't happen. It's not about money, it's about power. Pelosi, Reid, Obama, and their sycophants in the media want to control the lives of the little people. You can't do that if you let them alone to be prosperous. brian · January 31, 2009 08:07 AM I hate to admit that I've listened to Rush almost every day. That doesn't mean he is isn't a cracker with a cigar and an ego. Frank · January 31, 2009 09:36 AM You know Frank, for someone who says he listens to Rush, you really haven't heard He was critical on every one of those points like the prescription drugs bill, and other narciso · February 1, 2009 09:52 PM narciso: I've listened to Rush for years, waay back when he was a regional fixture in Sacramento making fun of those hicks in Rio Linda. Of course his real downfall was the total hypocrisy of his years and years of tying drugs to leftists and Democrats, his years of mocking the Clinton's and their camp followers, while all the time getting himself hooked on prescription drugs. As to his plan to cause problems in the Democrat primary by having Republicans vote for Hillary, it was a joke. It only served to actually get Republican women who are pro-choice to register Democrat. How many of them ended up voting for Obama we'll never know. But I suspect a lot. As to his babe Sarah Palin, I actually like her. But she is so not presidential material. Frank · February 2, 2009 10:44 PM As to his babe Sarah Palin, I actually like her. But she is so not presidential material. I think that 3 more years of Obama will have lowered the bar sufficiently. In any case in 3 years it will be a clean the bums out election. Something she has had experience with. M. Simon · February 2, 2009 11:49 PM "...3 more year of Obama will have lowered the bar sufficiently." Frank · February 3, 2009 02:48 AM So based on conjecture, no hard facts, or even more than a cursory examination of his long record of conservative policies, you ask us to give up because he's not perfect enough. I'd like to see what candidate meets your exacting narciso · February 4, 2009 09:54 PM Ron Paul is a nice man who would make a good Sec. of the Treasury, once the gold standard is reestablished. He is naive about foreign policy and our enemies, and has had some unsavory connections to anti-semites. I wouldn't vote for him for president. What I'd like to see is someone with the intelligence & speaking ability of Rudy Giuliani, but without his baggage, get nominated by the Republicans. They need someone who can redefine & effectively articulate their core principle: the maximum extension of freedom within the framework of limited government. That means they can't rail against the nanny state and at the same time expand it, AND embrace social nanny-ism by passing coercive laws and regulations to implement the desires of Christian preachers. And it means that they must go back to pushing limited government without huge deficits, since THOSE deficits are only depriving future generations of their freedom. So, if giving up because the party of Limbaugh isn't "perfect enough" is what you think, you're wrong. The Republican Party has turned upside down from what it once gave lip service to, and has abandoned those of us who value freedom over servitude.
Frank · February 5, 2009 09:59 PM Alright, well good luck finding a candidate like that. In a great many ways, the babe is closer to what you seek, but let perfection be the enemy of the good; that has worked out so well recently. What was Guiliani's big hangup again, that he cheated on his wife, he was pro choice, pro gay rights, pro immigration; but oh yes, he wasn't a fan of Colombia's favorite export. Your complaint about preachers rings a little hollow, the whole culture war, began when the government began mandating and undermining the belief of the parishioners narciso · February 6, 2009 12:16 AM narciso, If government can undermine faith, I'd say the real problem was lack of faith not an excess of government (although that has its problems too). Government has always been godless. When it pretends to be otherwise go for your guns. Because it won't be long. There was a time when Christians faced lions to keep their faith and a little (or a lot) of government indoctrination has you down? Your problems are much bigger than government. M. Simon · February 6, 2009 01:02 AM Post a comment
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Praising Limbaugh are we now?
He is such a puffed up bag of wind, so full of his own self-importance, the epitome of Enid Goldstein's moniker for him - "El Porko Grande".
That he can somehow woo Libertarian Leftists like Camile Paglia is bizarre.
Et tu, Simon?
Anything coming out of this man's mouth relating to fiscal conservatism is bogus. Not one single word of even minor criticism could he utter against the Republican excesses of the last 8 years. Always a mouthpiece for partisanship, he abandoned his principles years before oxycodone.
So now, having found his righteous babe in the governor of Alaska, and his nemesis in the black President (but note that he dares not mimic him like he did Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton), he takes up the mantle of conservative values. You know, those values he threw away for the past 8 years in an orgy of self-serving lust for the interviews that propped up his banal 3 hours of hokum and hype.
You want to turn off your readers?
Then praise or quote a piece of ship like Rush.