Rush Rooolz! GOP Congressmen Cower Before the Mighty Limbaugh
By David Neiwert Wednesday Jan 28, 2009 12:30pm
MSNBC's David Shuster had a segment this morning examining whether or Rush Limbaugh has become the de facto leader of the Republican Party. He and commentator Lawrence O'Donnell largely came to the conclusion that he had, despite the protests from such congressional Republicans as Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga.
Of course, Limbaugh has been the acknowledged leader of the Conservative movement for quite some time. And ever since Reagan, the GOP has been a wholly owned subsidiary of the same movement. So it seems like kind of a silly question, like asking whether Steve Jobs is the de facto leader of Apple.
Still, as O'Donnell adroitly observes, this is a huge gift for Democrats. Go, Rush, go!
If there were any lingering questions about this, only a little while later, Andrea Mitchell brought us the news that Gingrey had caved and even called up Limbaugh's show to abjectly apologize.
Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) apologized Wednesday to “my fellow conservatives” for comments critical of talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh – saying he sees “eye-to-eye” with Limbaugh and that his remarks defending House Republican leadership came across more harshly than intended.
He also took issue with a headline on a Politico story about his comments, saying he never told Limbaugh to “back off,” as the headline read.
“I regret and apologize for the fact that my comments have offended and upset my fellow conservatives—that was not my intent,” Gingrey said in a statement. “I am also sorry to see that my comments in defense of our Republican Leadership read much harsher than they actually were intended, but I recognize it is my responsibility to clarify my own comments.”
Gingrey said he issued the statement because of a high volume of calls and correspondence to his office after the Politico article and wanted to speak directly to “grassroots conservatives. Let me assure you, I am one of you. I believe I was sent to Washington to fight for and defend our traditional values of smaller government, lower taxes, a strong national defense, and the lives of the unborn.”
And if you want further evidence (as if it's needed) of how abjectly Republicans bow and scrape at Limbaugh's feet, watch Rep. Eric Cantor squirm and evade and refuse to answer Mitchell's questions about what he thinks of Limbaugh's remarks.
Wipe that toe jam off your lips, Congressman. You're already setting a fine example for the GOP troops as they march off into irrelevancy with Rush Limbaugh.
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as head of the GOP? Somebody who sends out a copy of "Barak the Magic Negro" and downplays it by saying he wasn't even thinking about it? Or the guy who made it famous by playing it on national airwaves for weeks on end knowing full well what he was thinking?
Four years in the Air Force, Top Secret Secret Clearance, Honorable Discharge, an Associate in Business, a Bachelor in Interdisciplinary Sciences Majoring in Political Science and International Relations, Minoring in the Arts and Sciences, a second associate as a Paralegal, Phi Theta Kappa, Golden key Honor society memberships, and Deans List, Graduated Cum Laude, and rash without all that has politicians groveling at his feet.
Oh well, my voice isn't suited for radio; it's been described as sounding like an English f*gg*t lawyer.
http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/comedians-a-...
Was that a Freudian slip?
dozens of years in radio with much in news and talk. I'm a liberal though and radio is going to corporate syndication so even if my voice is suited and I have the credentials I'm in the same boat...only poorer without a job thanks to our outstanding corporate economy.
Sounds to me like you are waaay over-qualified anyway-even in this day and age of rampant under employment.
Not Phi Beta Kappa?
BTW, that's not toe jam on the congressmen's lips; it's smegma. And a dingleberry.
My only problem is that as the GOP "marches off into irrelevancy" our spineless Democratic majority seems insistant on lumbering behind while carrying their water for them.
I used to live in Las Vegas, so Reid was my Senator ... now I live in San Francisco, so Pelosi is my Representative. I apologize for living in places that got both of those spineless Congresscritters elected.
Living in Vegas is more than enough punishment for any crime. :)
still live here. Can't wait for my son to graduate from high school so that we can leave. It's got to be the most low brow town in America.
Must be why Grissom finally left.
So true, New
Wed, 01/28/2009 - 12:47 — boocilla69
still live here. Can't wait for my son to graduate from high school so that we can leave. It's got to be the most low brow town in America.
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Sub-orbital ridges are de rigeur there?
snatched from Mexico, which snatched it from Spain, which snatched it from indigneous people or rocks of something? Huh?
I can only please one person a day. Today isn't your day. Tomorrow doesn't look good either.
for more than 6,000 years, max.
That's alot of snatch ricky.
and she brought back Viagra instead. What can I say to hide my shame? Guess I'll hop in a footed bathtub. If I haven't posted in 4 hours call a doctor.
Why don't you RECALL her? Isn't there a mechanism for that? I'd love to see Jabba the Hut and Queen facelift get recalled, so they could make way for some more useful leaders.
I don't believe it's possible to recall either a Senator or a Congressman. The Senate and the House themselves are the only places with the power to remove a current member, obviously except for an election.
But our choice last November was Pelosi, Sheehan, a Republican or a Libertarian. Sheehan got the 2nd most votes in the election and there was no way I would have voted for that crackpot. When she first hit the national scene, I had a lot of respect for her, but she went downhill fast. If the choice is between Pelosi or Sheehan, I'd vote for Pelosi, without a doubt.
What we need is a Democrat to beat Pelosi in the Primary, but I sadly don't see that happening anytime soon.
We're having a similar problem in Texas, but with state government. All we're hearing is that hutchison will probably run against perry for the republican nomination, and still no Democratic names being floated around.
Oh well, Jim Mattox was always so intent running for the office, he'll probably come back from the dead to do it again.
Considering the above mentioned resume, maybe you ought to throw your hat into the ring.
after he let Steven Colbert stroke his moustache?
One of these medial watchdog groups or BraveNewFilms, should make a long, and would it be long, film made up of just clips of Rush, Hannity, O'Reilly, Beck, Malkin & Coulter, plus congressional republicans, when they said anything about how it would be unamerican to not support a war president over the last 8 years. I'm guessing it would be several hours long.
Like Kill Bill, they'd need to break the movie into separate parts.
they could run it in a loop on cable like an infomercial and you know all the right-wingers would watch cause they'd stop, when channel surfing whenever they heard one of these idiot shitting out of their mouths.
They should run Kill Bill non-stop at the Guatanamo Cineplex.
Let's see
1. Drugs addiction? Check!
2. Love for little boys? Check!
3. Rank hypocrisy? Check!
He has all the qualifications and prerequisites for a politician.
4. Psychopath? Check
5. The only qualification remaining is for him to get busted while soliciting sex from a minor male in a school playground.
I thought he was just an entertainer? I mean, that's what those people, that like what he says, but are too chicken-shit to admit that they really eat it up with a spoon always say to justify his worthless existence.
So, what exactly is this fat, drug-addled, limp-dicked guy? Is he an entertainer or is he their leader?
Who has just managed to flick open the trap door for Gingrey, a former courageous Repub whose soul has just endured a torturous death from the jaws of the Rancor. Gingrey he has apologized and lost his soul in the process.
fond of women in captivity doesn't mean Rush deserves to be pout in the same league as a leading Star Wars action figure.
Yes, he is an entertainer and his listeners think the world is a 24/7 daytime soap opera with full on heros and villians and such. Yes, it's all a "based on a true story" to them. They enjoy the embellishments and saidly after a time and repetition percieve them as reality.
I see no problem with a daytime drama writer being the leader of the opposition. We win, they lose, unable to wrench themselves away from their fantasy world.
...racist child raping junkie tub of snot(with a deeply rooted inferiority complex) are the living dead who need the ignorant bigot vote...and any poor soul who has had the traumatizing misfortune to have seen Rush naked.
And you're surprised by his inferiority complex?
I'll bet Gingrey obediently wore Prepapation H on his lips before he puckered up to Limbaugh 4F ass.
These Congressional GOPers are pussies.
concludes Rush is de facto leader of the GOP, replacing the departed Karl Rove, when can we expect to see David Gregory of NBC get jiggity with the new head man at the Correspondent's ho down?
Just a matter of time before the Reslug party dies.
I've heard way too much of this blowhard. he has no ideas, he's just against anything that's democrat. maybe when more of his audience loses their job this year they'll start to see through his bs.
The GOP's aren't going anywhere. The Democrats pull them back to relevancy every time. Dems wouldn't know what to do with power if it was handed to them on a silver platter. Oh wait, it was.
They're governing as if they don't have a mandate by the people. And yet the nation still swoons. Seriously, how long to we have to "give them a chance?" Excuses, excuses, excuses.
Now that Obama knows that Rush is their man when is he going to have a private close door meeting with Rush as Obama did with the Republican senators and House members??
Transparency hell... Looks like the same old same old with a different person singing a slightly different tune.....
Where were the democrats when it came to censoring Rush..... They certainly jump on the republican band wagon to censor moveon.org and make any democrat senator or house member (except Kucinich) to apologize for speaking out against Bush and his criminals..
he met with the higher echelon repug talking heads...not the knee jerk racist trogs
he met with repug reps...something that bush refused to do with the dems
he is doing what he said he would during the campaign
check this out...obama aint clinton
to clinton, the whole thing was a joke....a game...which is why he is now buddy buddy with bush 1
obama knows that this is deadly serious
so let him do his job
What's the political upside for the President? Everything you stated regarding Obama and the child lover has zero truth. Why debate conjecture?
Lardass Limpballs and his moronic ditto-heads, I think Obama is playing this very well. He's causing division amongst the Repukes,causing them to choose sides. As O'Donnell said, outside of his base, The Drug Addled Pedophile is viewed with great suspicion and dislike by many. His recent comments reinforce that view. Obviously, Rush's Dittiots weren't enough to elect McCain, and the repubs are back in their richly deserved minority status.
One republican in the House of Representative and One republican in the Senate is one to many republicans for the democrats..
When they were passing out spines ,, democrats must have thought they said break-time they left..
Fear, greed, hate, militarism, inequality, government policy for the rich, demonization of all who disagree... the list goes on and on.
The man is a coward and a traitor.
It's time for real media to start doing the simplest of things,
play Limbaugh's own words in prime time, no editing or comments would be necessary.
how many listeners this idiot has in his radio audience. He isn't a politician and deserves absolutely zero attention from politicians. No more attention than any other voter, and they are all basically ignored, so, he should be too.
and rush, whether its a good or bad thing, controls the base
he does...its a fact
and all these guys care about is getting reelected
And they are pretty base.
range from 1.5-3 trillion dollars. Ex-pResident Bush (Damn! That sounds so good!)
inherited a surplus from Clinton and ran up another 4 trillion or so in debt. Between Ronnie Raygun and the Bush Crime Family, the so-called "conservatives" have accounted for almost 7 of our 10 trillion dollars in national debt since this country's inception. And suddenly Eric Cantor and the rest of the cons are worried about debt? They're a day late and a dollar short. Actually, we all are now.
never existed
they only worry about the budget when the dems are in control
the moment they gain power, they spend like drunken sailors
only they make sure that the money goes to their buddies
I ask a con for an example of fiscally conservative republicans who have governed successfully they usually stutter and then mention Reagan. After I point out Ronnie's fiscal legacy, they usually say that's because he had to single-handedly defeat the commies. I then ask for a real example. That's usually followed by more stuttering and then silence.
I've confused conservatives by saying ray gunn had nothing to do with the fall of communism. It was shortages, corruption, glasnost and perestroika. I would even admit that the conservatives had an argument available there against centralized government planning in the economy. They would just stare wordlessly.
and the fall of oil prices, but what the heck, they named the airport for him didn't they?
Afghanistan may've demoralized the military, but the news was so censored that average Russian probably thought they won the war.
Where that influence may've been felt, if at all, was when hard-liners tried to take over the Dumas, while they kept Gorbachev prisoner in his own vacation home. Crowds of Russians surrounded the Dumas, but then the soldiers were marched out. But then they did something unheard of. Instead of fighting or dispersing the populace as they would've at one time, they turned and pointed their weapons at the Dumas. That's when the Hard-Liners realized their game was up. Then followed pictures of Boris Yeltsin clambering around the tanks.
Of course more important than Afghanistan demoralizing the troops was the government was so delinquent in paying them. They were like six weeks or more behind in receiving their money.
economic problems the USSR had, but when the price of oil collapsed the Soviet government went with it for the reasons you mention. But I'm not trying to debate the fall of coummunism or the evil empire.
Suffice it to say Ronnie got his monument despite doing jack.
Oh, there was more than shirts and skins/ You got your SR's, Left SR's, Mensheviks, Bolsheviks, and Whites. You really needed a program to watch that revolution.
that the reason Harry Truman's approval rating was so low was because of the Korean War, they usually ask why that's relevant. When you reply that it was the first and probably most important battle against communism that usually produces more stuttering.
Hahhahahahaa..that's like a war on terror. Fear, fear, fear.
that many of our fears are exploited, Stalin's communism was very empirical and a threat, albeit somewhat exaggerated. Churchill's "sup with the devil statement" about allying with Stalin had serious implications. By the '70s, even Richard Nixon's CIA acknowledged that communism would fail, but in the 50's, it was still a danger with someone as sociopathic as Joseph Stalin.
the communism boogeyman was always just that. Stalin wasn't communist. He was a dictator. There is a big difference. Just as China is now always referred to as communist. It isn't. It is a military dictatorship. There has never really been a communist country. If there was, it would succeed.
The fear of communism was as bad as the fear is now of terror. A ways for supposed democratic nations to bomb and kill poor people. Nothing more.
But wasn't Stalin a dangerous dictator? And while I agree about the bombing part, what was there to gain in Korea or even Vietnam? Neither had significant enough resources for our corporate masters to steal.
Actually immediately after the Russian Revolution, the so called White Russians did install something closer to the lines of Marx, and it failed within months, paving the way for the Reds led by Lenin.
I have no word which were the skins and which the t-shirts.
that the "accepted" definitions of communism, socialism, and capitalism have been distorted by the MSM.
That is so
But you forgot fascism. You have the uneducated like jonah snotbooger confusing and conflating terms like fascism with authoritarianism and totalitarianism.
someone unfamiliar with The Doughy Pantload's writing gave me his book, "Liberal Fascism" to read. It's dreadful. It sounds like it was written by a pissed-off junior high school student. I couldn't get past the first few pages. And as bad as that one is, Bernie Goldberg's "100 People Who Are Screwing Up America" makes the former Goldberg sound intelligent.
I looked up jonah snotbooger online before to see what his background beyond being the son of uberbitch lucianne goldberg is. They mentioned he was among the first males in a school of women, Goucher college. But I can never find a mention if he earned a degree or not or in what major.
And on top of that he claims evil liberals wont recognize his Jewishness, I suppose making them anti-Semites. When actually it's Jewish Law. When you're the off-spring of a Jewish-gentile couple, you're only considered born Jewish if your mother is, which lucianne decidedly is not.
I'll say it again - we need to know who is sponsoring his show. Who is partnering with Rush to bring us this stuff? The public should be reminded who they are, as they are just as responsible for his words.
I am nauseated that every news channel is pushing the corporate fascist agenda by showing the whiny lying republicans 24/7. Man do we need a Fairness Doctrine to stop the propaganda.
And there is nobody worse than drugy fat-ass. This blithering idiot lowers the collective national I.Q. everytime he opens his blow-fish mouth.
And the chutzpah of these fuckers is unbelievable. After letting their corporate fascist goon bosses rape the country for trillions, giving us nothing in return but unemployment and a bill for our children, these bastards are now worried about he bills now that the American people are going to get some money for the good of the country.
These assholes are so clueless, I can't believe they haven't been guillotined yet.
Oh, and one last thing Mr. President, F**K bipartisanship! I want to see the modern day republican party destroyed! They are pure evil, they need to go!
Awesome! I love it! Let's pop some popcorn, sit back, and watch as this anal-cyst of a man corrals that little rump of simpering Republican chickensh!ts into the far, FAR right corner of American politics, and KEEPS them there. The only Republican representatives that are left in the House are from those areas where Limbaugh's show is most popular. So, he's going to have those poor clowns wrapped around his finger for the next few years, as he drives them further and further into the wilderness.
What's the listenership of Rush's show? About 13 million rednecks? So, by the time Limbaugh is done wagging that dog of a party, it will have about 13 million supporters. Still more than they deserve.
As for all you "moderate" Republicans, you may as well start up a new party. You can call it the "TRUE Conservative" party, or "Conservative CLASSIC," or "The Barry Goldwater Fan Club," or something like that.
From reading on this and other leftist blogs, I can see there are many many people not represented by either party. Corruption doesn't seem to be partisan. The Dems seem to represent a little group of pro-business, throw the taxpayers a bone once in awhile club. The Reps seem to represent Mr. Corporation and Mr. War. Where does that leave a vast majority?
No, corruption isn't partisan, and it's ubiquitous in government. But the two parties have very different philosophies for controling it. Being anti-government, anti-legislation by nature, the Republicans believe you can eliminate corruption by electing people with character, or (better yet) people with religion. (How's that goin' for ya?) The Democrats believe you have to control it with laws and regulations. Neither will be 100% effective, but I have a pretty good idea which is more realistic.
As for the part about neither party representing the vast majority of people, I agree, and the solution is either to have a lot MORE parties, or none at all. Either would solve the problem.
this is what rush came up with to survive. he's the asshole behind the curtain. he's entertainment for the haters. he will try to keep the culture club bullshit alive with half truths/lies/snippets...propaganda.
the (r) congress/senate not in a position to stir the pot so let asshole do it.
"Wipe that toe jam off your lips, Congressman."
Toe jam? I was thinking more in terms of if he puckered up any harder he'd single handedly mend Rush's anal cyst problem.
As for this endless nonsense about "less government spending" why is military spending never part of the equation?God forbid they take 1/10th of that bloated budget and reinvest in schools,healthcare,roads and bridges.
It's OK to be a member of the 60's San Francisco Group 'The Cockettes'! I see no difference; Entertainer, Drug Addict, Sexually Different. And Politicians are giving him Rim jobs? OMG
Does anyone know the story about how he got out of service to this country during the viet nam war?
Anal Cyst?
but it was on his head
Two brains in two places, like a Brotosaurus.
Is that what he means by ditto heads? Sounds contagious.
I'd be surprised if there was anybody who DOESN'T.
Just keep kissing that ample rear of his. But watch out for the boils. They could be contageous. Also while you're down there we have a request from a couple of Thai ladyboys asking if you'll keep an eye out for their bracelets.
Is just simply pathetic. That Congressman proves it.
Disgraceful too.
to actually see a conservative politician. Is this a new species? The closest I ever saw was wrapped in a Liberal Party slogan, and was fiscally responsible for surpluses because of over taxation and not from cutting government spending.
God, imagine being so pathetic that you actually kowtow to Rush Limbaugh.
Almost as bad as having stephen covey as your idol.
https://www.stephencovey.com/
Grand Oxycontin Party
Palin/Limbaugh 2012!
They are giving Limbaugh far too much credit. If these Repubs had half a brain between them they'd kick Limbaugh to the curb but no. They think they need his support to win elections. Wake up. McCain won when Rush was against him and lost when Rush was for him. On second thought don't wake up. Just keep on letting Limpy pull your puppet strings.
...we are held in thrall to The One, but Republicans just happen to agree with every little thing Rush says. We're the robots, they're free-thinking iconoclasts who just so happen to enjoy calling each other dittoheads.
I'd bet even money that before the summer Rush will say on the air that someone needs to "take care" of Obama. He will be able to B.S. his way out of it - "All I meant was that someone needs to talk to Obama about what real Americans are supposed to be like and should act as President, so don't put threatening words in my mouth" - but it'll be obvious dog-whistle racism. Rush will be saying, nationwide, what all his lickspittles are thinking: Someone needs to "take care" of the man who was elected President by a bigger majority that the monogloid they worshipped until it was politically expedient to stop doing so.
rush, being a better complainer/whiner than a cheerleader, went thru his dark days during the bush junta... but now he is back baby! and his brand of insult comedy is, again, on the top of the neofascist charts.
and, like many have said, this is good for the dems. gimme palin, joe the unlicensed plumer, limbaugh, savage, drudge, coulter, malkin, the whole lot of 'em. when they open their mouths they only serve to further regionalize the rightwing.
El Meatbaugh.
I would throw away a drumstick that had that much fat to lean ratio.
The Lard-Ass, Limp-Dick is a known sexual pervert that loves to chase little boys, so he absolutely does represent the Reslug party.
and disgusting to see/hear repugs grovelling before this arrogant, hateful pig limpballs. How anyone could like or respect him is something I will never undertstand, and it tells you why this country is so screwed up.
have alot in common with him.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXfHLUlZf4
And man....do they get excited...heehee
That's hilarious! Thought I recognized that one girl in that video....Jamie Lynn Sigler.
Yep, unfortunately, some repubes sure get excited over limpballs!
Snopes.com-Claim: Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh was disqualified from the Vietnam-era draft due to a pilonidal cyst. Status: True. Pilonidal Cyst: a cyst near the natal cleft of the buttocks that often contains hair and skin debris. Excessive sitting is thought to predispose people to the condition because they increase pressure on the coccyx region.
I worked in a hospital for 20 years and that grossed me out. Rush Limbaugh is a hair and skin debris cyst? I'm sorry.... HAS a hair and skin debris cyst.
:>)
This explains all of the corruption, greed, projection, cowardice, selfishness, hubris, flip flopping, and so many other negative traits that comes from this party. Probably why Obama called him out.
For a malted?
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Hmmm...I wonder what Freud woulda thunk of this scenario?
is a wimp.
I just looked up his web site, http://gingrey.house.gov/. The guy's an "MD," like Frist. What's with these southern doctors turned politicians?
I also saw this on his web site:
http://gingrey.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle....
"And on so many of these things, I see eye-to-eye with Rush Limbaugh."
And this...
" Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Newt Gingrich, and other conservative giants are the voices of the conservative movement’s conscience. Everyday, millions and millions of Americans—myself included—turn on their radios and televisions to listen to what they have to say, and we are inspired by their words and by their determination."
I sent Gingrey a scathing email, telling him how disgusting it is that people grovel before limpballs. This just blows my mind.
Limbaugh= President Scroob
Boehner (or whoever is second in command at the time)= Dark Helmet
This is a deadly combo, evil and stupid, also hilarious in their ineptitude.
A few factoids on Limbaugh:
- Flunked out of college after 1 year
- Divorced 3 times
- Drug addict
- Jerk off extraordinaire
What a guy. And to think this guy is the The Republican's Oracle. No wonder they're in such bad shape.
Perfect for the PATHETIC STUPID MORONIC CHILDISH IGNORANT GREEDY Rethuglicans...
Who was that A-Hole, republican, scumbag, weasel at the end complaining about the new budget adding billions to the deficit? Hypocrite republican scum. We would NOT be in this mess if Bush and the republicans didn't piss away trillions or dollars on wars that were NOT needed and on No-Bid contracts to friends of the republican family and lets not forget the mother of all, the initial 800 Billion boondogle to the same people that got us into this financial mess, George W Bush made that call a republican!
Im pissed!
- like the rest of the GOPers who unthinkingly criticize Limbaugh - are afraid after speaking their mind, that Limbaugh will threaten to actually sit on them......
just saying
An elected official grovelling before a radio talk-show host?
Is there any more question who REALLY runs things in this country?
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