OBAMA'S AFRAID OF RUSH

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OBAMA'S AFRAID OF RUSH
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Mon, 01-26-2009 - 12:48pm

Obama: Quit Listening to Rush Limbaugh if You Want to Get Things Done

Obama warned Republicans to quit listening to Limbaugh if they want to get along with Democrats, during a White House discussion on his nearly $1 trillion stimulus package.

WASHINGTON -- President Obama warned Republicans on Capitol Hill today that they need to quit listening to radio king Rush Limbaugh if they want to get along with Democrats and the new administration.

"You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done," he told top GOP leaders, whom he had invited to the White House to discuss his nearly $1 trillion stimulus package.

One White House official confirmed the comment but said he was simply trying to make a larger point about bipartisan efforts.

"There are big things that unify Republicans and Democrats," the official said. "We shouldn't let partisan politics derail what are very important things that need to get done."

That wasn't Obama's only jab at Republicans today.

While discussing the stimulus package with top lawmakers in the White House's Roosevelt Room, President Obama shot down a critic with a simple message.

"I won," he said, according to aides who were briefed on the meeting. "I will trump you on that."

The response was to the objection by Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) to the president's proposal to increase benefits for low-income workers who don't owe federal income taxes.

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Registered: 12-16-2008
Tue, 01-27-2009 - 2:12pm
Firing attorneys is not criminal! LOL. But the Dems have always proven to be vindictive, haven't they? How long ago was this? Nobody cares about it now. They are looking pretty silly.

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Registered: 12-16-2008
Tue, 01-27-2009 - 2:19pm
We'll see if this is another of those predictions/opinions shot down by reality as they have been in just the past year.

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Registered: 11-23-2008
Tue, 01-27-2009 - 2:21pm

I think that when it comes to the stimulus package, they most certainly be looking at more than rhetoric passed out from Rush. These men and women are working on policy that is supposed to help the economy. I do not believe that they are sitting there without an educated thought in their brains waiting for Rush to tell them how to proceed.

The Dems of course like this picture that Obama has painted.

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"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings." --Eric Hoffer
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"The two parties have combined against us to nullify our power by a ‘gentleman's agreement' of non-recognition, no matter how we vote ... May God write us down as asses if ever again we are found putting our trust in either the Republican or the Democratic Parties." -- W.E.B. DuBois (1922)

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Registered: 11-23-2008
Tue, 01-27-2009 - 2:25pm

How would you like me to pull that quote out of my brain and source it to you? It was in interview on Hugh Hewitt. There is no transcript that I have seen. It was asking questions about the meeting with John Boehner (I think I have that spelling correct this time).

You don't have to believe me, but I don't lie nor do I intentionally misrepresent. You have the choice of accepting my interpretation of the interview or not. It's up to you.

Boehner was trying not to discuss this in any type of detail or point fingers at Obama for going somewhere he shouldn't have. Although, it was clear it bothered him that Obama would suggest that these congressmen and women couldn't think for themselves and had to go to Rush for instruction.

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"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings." --Eric Hoffer
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"The two parties have combined against us to nullify our power by a ‘gentleman's agreement' of non-recognition, no matter how we vote ... May God write us down as asses if ever again we are found putting our trust in either the Republican or the Democratic Parties." -- W.E.B. DuBois (1922)

**** **** **** **** **** **** "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." Gerald R. Ford
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Registered: 11-23-2008
Tue, 01-27-2009 - 2:27pm

I don't think I ever used the word lecture. If I did, or if that was the impression I left I apologize. I don't think or believe that Obama was lecturing anyone. What it appears he was doing was trying to marginalize Rush and his political ideology, which of course is going to look a lot like conservatives on capitol hill. That's pretty obvious.

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"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings." --Eric Hoffer
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"The two parties have combined against us to nullify our power by a ‘gentleman's agreement' of non-recognition, no matter how we vote ... May God write us down as asses if ever again we are found putting our trust in either the Republican or the Democratic Parties." -- W.E.B. DuBois (1922)

**** **** **** **** **** **** "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." Gerald R. Ford
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Registered: 01-21-2009
Tue, 01-27-2009 - 2:31pm

My reasoning for questioning your source was because I was unsure what quote you were referring to, not because I believed you were lying.


Chrissy
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Registered: 11-13-2008
Tue, 01-27-2009 - 2:41pm
Has Obama fired any Republican U.S. Attorneys yet? He will. They all do. Being vindictive about it is silly, but par for the course.
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Registered: 11-13-2008
Tue, 01-27-2009 - 2:43pm
Clinton fired ALL Republican U.S. attorneys upon taking office. Did we whine and cry about it. NO.
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Registered: 11-23-2008
Tue, 01-27-2009 - 2:45pm

I have to apologize again, I wasn't trying to say that you were calling me a liar. I was just letting you know, I don't make stuff up and post it. You really don't know me so I just wanted to share that.

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"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings." --Eric Hoffer
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"The two parties have combined against us to nullify our power by a ‘gentleman's agreement' of non-recognition, no matter how we vote ... May God write us down as asses if ever again we are found putting our trust in either the Republican or the Democratic Parties." -- W.E.B. DuBois (1922)

**** **** **** **** **** **** "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." Gerald R. Ford
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Registered: 11-23-2008
Tue, 01-27-2009 - 2:47pm

I pretty much tuned out on this a long time ago, but if I remember correctly that was part of the problem, if Bush would have just fired all Dem US attorney's from the start there wouldn't be an issue, but he didn't and then he fired some and the claim was that he did it because they wouldn't support him. Something to that effect anyway. I'm sure someone here can correct me to the specifics

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"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings." --Eric Hoffer
*****

"The two parties have combined against us to nullify our power by a ‘gentleman's agreement' of non-recognition, no matter how we vote ... May God write us down as asses if ever again we are found putting our trust in either the Republican or the Democratic Parties." -- W.E.B. DuBois (1922)

**** **** **** **** **** **** "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." Gerald R. Ford

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