Rush Limbaugh Thinks American Voters Are Fools When He Attacks the Obama Plan
By Robert Schlesinger, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
Rush Limbaugh thinks the American voters are shortsighted, blindly selfish fools.
Here's what the radio talk show host recently told NRO's Byron York:
Obama's plan would buy votes for the Democrat Party, in the same way FDR's New Deal established majority power for 50 years of Democrat rule, and it would also simultaneously seriously damage any hope of future tax cuts. It would allow a majority of American voters to guarantee no taxes for themselves going forward. It would burden the private sector and put the public sector in permanent and firm control of the economy. Put simply, I believe his stimulus is aimed at re-establishing "eternal" power for the Democrat Party rather than stimulating the economy because anyone with a brain knows this is NOT how you stimulate the economy.
So the way Limbaugh sees the world, FDR used the New Deal to buy off the dullard voters for a half century; and now Obama is trying to replicate that feat. Apparently all it takes to win voter loyalty is boatloads of dough. If you've got the bucks, you can foist whatever sort of horrible policies you want on the electorate because they can't see far enough past their pocketbook to evaluate a political agenda. (This also explains the GOP obsession with tax cuts as a policy cure-all.)
Limbaugh's argument doesn't even have internal coherence. He is, for example, one of those arguing that Republicans got their collective behinds stomped because they spent too much and lost their conservative way. But given the way the GOP Congress and GOP president, presented with a budget surplus at the decade's start, spent, should they have bought some love from the money-grubbing voters? And more broadly, if the simpleton electorate can be so easily bought off, wouldn't a return to conservative principles of low spending be a losing formula?
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Republicans need to get a grip!
Rush is just one of many sore losers in the republican party. This is not about eithor party or their selfish needs. Get over it, the majority of this democracy has spoken and continue to do so. It is time for a change. We no longer need the republican party helping the rich get richer. A stimulas package like the one the Bush administration created was not a long term fix. They cut big business taxes and gave us checks. I personally spent mine on furniture for my living room and a new tv which I have already replaced. The jobs those purchases created no longer exist. Its time to let go of the paranoid fear that has gripped the republican party and its traditional values followers since the fifties. I am fort five and I have watched this country go down the tubes for eight years. Why do they think that the system is not broke. Look Rush, if you flush the turd and it clogs the toilet do you keep flushing or look for a new way to do it. I would be willing to bet your bathroom floor is covered with turds and toilet paper. You have to walk through it every day to get to your illegally obtained prescription drugs. That is how we feel each day we walk through this great country your party has so eliquently rearranged for us, you and all your god fearing tradtional value cold war BULL @#$!. The time has come for a new future Rush. I don't want you to shut your mouth you Unamerican anti freedom blow hard. I want you to keep being an idiot and bury that useless out dated party like the gold fish you had to bury in your back yard because your still trying to flush that turd!
Rush Limbaugh
Ego maniac. Completely in love with your own voice, if you are the spokesman for the Republican party, they are in BIG trouble. Perhaps Mr. Limbaugh, you should run for president! I can just imagine you trying to bring peace to the middle east! What a caricature of a man you are! You are pathetic. If you truly were concerned with the well being of your fellow human beings, you would quit the acidic criticism , and preach peace, dialogue and harmonious discourse. Use your position to help, and leave the world a BETTER place for your coming.
FDR, Welfare and the Black Vote
It is historically factual that the FDR gave brought us the mess of a program generally known as Welfare, and that he used it to bribe the black population for votes -- who had previously been Republicans (Abolitionists) since the 15th Amendment, so I don't see why you'd criticize Rush Limbaugh for pointing this out or for noting the obvious similarity between that strategy and Barack Obama's ACORN activism, and promises of more money spent on services, etc. Now, you are a journalist, so I do have expectations that you'd do even basic research on something before writing about it -- but I guess those are high expectations these days. I got this text from Wikipedia (but certainly you can find more in depth information if you choose to research further):
Many leading New Dealers, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Harold Ickes, Aubrey Williams and Harry Hopkins worked to ensure blacks received at least 10% of welfare assistance payments. Roosevelt and Hopkins worked with several big city mayors to encourage the transition of black political organizations from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party from 1934-36, most notably in Chicago. The black community responded favorably, so that by 1936 the majority who voted (usually in the North) were voting Democratic. This was a sharp realignment from 1932, when most African Americans voted the Republican ticket. The WPA, NYA, and CCC relief programs allocated 10% of their budgets to blacks.
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