Derision of the president on his program is nothing new, but Rush Limbaugh’s tone today may have struck the ears of regular listeners as particularly disdainful, taking his contempt of the president to a new level. The nation’s preeminent conservative talk radio host referred to Mr. Obama as a “jackass,” an “economic illiterate” and an “idiot, where capitalism is concerned.”
The rough stuff came during a monologue on the president’s position on extending the Bush tax cuts to all but the top two percent of wage earners. Obama, Limbaugh says, is an “economic ignoramus” for not understanding how a “tax increase” on the wealthy won’t stimulate growth.
Quoting an AP article from yesterday, Limbaugh pointed out Obama’s remarks at a meeting of his Economic Recovery Advisory Board that the wealthy would “take our ball and go home” if their tax cuts aren’t extended. Limbaugh then addressed the following line to the president directly:
“Mr. Obama, our imam-child, they have already taken their trillion dollar ball home, and they’re sitting on it, you jackass.”
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Nope that tiny little 250% spike in federal spending for the Second World War had nothing to do with the ending of the great depression and the 3 decades of prosperity that followed it.
Hey, if you think drafting half the country into the military is the solution, just say so. Where do you suppose that 250% increase in spending went? Did it go to patching holes in the highways or repairing bridges? No. It went to the defense and war time related industries. So, are you suggesting that we increase Defense spending 250% (cause you know, it isn’t high enough)? Again, it took a global war to get us out of the depression not spending on repairing a few highways.
#140–Thomas==what in months of blogging here leads you to think I’m not totally pissed at the incompetency and profligate ways of our government?
Unlike YOU, and most of the Republitards posting here and taking their bribes in Congress, I do not have the hubris to translate my anger into so called knowledge based positions.
SILLY, do you understand what the word/concept of silly means, SILLY to think “the track record and consequences” of history tell us what should have been done then or what should be done now in similar but still different circumstance.
That AMBIGUITY is so uncomfortable for you and your ilk is I hope one of those attitudinal dividing lines between libs and cons, the thinking and the unthinking, the rational and the dopes voting against their own self interests. You are simpl mindedly conflating your emotions with the knowable facts of the world. The birth of LIEbetTARDism and all other emotionally based political systems, ideologies, = inability to deal with ambiguity.
Sad really, “to know something that isn’t true.” Even fits on a bumper sticker.
Yea, verily.
Its elementary, the Democratic party logo is a jackass, President Obama has proven he is the titular head of the Democratic party, therefore he is the head jackass.
We can go at this another way. He lives as 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC. -1+6+0+0 = 5 which is jkl on telephone keypad, the consonantal Tibetian word for Jackass, which is confirmed by the “ash” in Washington, phonetic for ass in higher elevations.
This reasoning is just as sound as increasing regulations, taxes, changing the business environment so they don’t know what’s next, and then expecting job creation.
Or as sound as spending oneself into bankruptcy, to get out of debt.
Or insuring 30 million undocumented Democrats, and paying less for heathcare.
Like a beached whale, Rush definitely draws a crowd!
#142
I do not have the hubris to translate my anger into so called knowledge based positions.
No, your MO seems to be to throw up your arms can claim that if you don’t know, no one does and then proceed to lambaste anyone that suggests otherwise. There are some fundamentals here that are known but you don’t want to worry about those. The equivalent of your position on government spending would be to say, “Well, spending billions abstinence-only programs might be beneficial and there were experts that said just that so there is no reason to question it.” Ridiculous.
If the government spends money poorly, we are obligated as the people whose money they are spending to stand up and say something both in the ballot box and via our currently elected officials. Uncertainty (which is different than ambiguity) about a particular solution is fine and dandy when the amounts are small and it’s not our money. When the amounts are in the trillions and it is our money, the uncertainty better be close to zero that the solution will work *especially* when said solution has a track record of not working. So, yes, I have a serious problem with solutions that have dubious results when the amounts in question trillions of dollars. If you are OK with that, then I think that sending me all your money might help make your life better. I hear there are experts that have said just that but there is some ambiguity in the results.
Well Thomas==you are simply wrong.
You don’t characterize my repeated arguments to you and you repeatedly refuse to fairly consider the possible impact of not spending the stimulus dollar. You may be right, you may be wrong – no one knows.
“Your refusal to widen your perspective troubles me.”
Right is right jackasses!
#146
This “the stimulus might help, it might not” is simply fatalistic nonsense. “Blowing trillions at the roulette wheel might help, it might not”. You might as well endorse Yogi Berra for President. If you don’t know whether the stimulus spending made any significant difference find out for yourself. Do your own research. What is troubling is that you apparently are content to let people gamble with your money. Like I said, given that this is your attitude, send me all your money. It might help or it might not but that doesn’t matter does it?
“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”
Thus ends the two minute hate. So what’s the next one ordered by your masters in the White House- Glenn Beck?
That’s funny, a fat man with a highschool degree calling a harvard graduate an idiot.
“”I’m a newbie and your accomplishment is quite a lot an inspiration for me”"