This Is the 'Vision' Republicans Want for Americans
If comments like these are called loving your country and patriotic -- We're totally doomed.
For my part, I'm praying Americans will shun this type of cheer leading and instead help the current administration to make their vision work.
No matter how you 'get there', every politician claims to want the same thing in the end. They all want a booming economy, a safe and secure nation, peace on earth, energy independence and a environmentally safe earth.
For those reasons alone, we should 'all' want our leadership to succeed.
Rush Limbaugh:
Today at CPAC, Rush Limbaugh was supposed to deliver a 20-minute speech. It ended up lasting for 1 1/2 hours, before a right-wing audience that greeted him like a hero. Rush again defended his controversial comments that he hopes President Obama fails, saying they were "common sense."
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Rick Santorum:
In an interview with ThinkProgress today, radio host Mark Levin and former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) added their voices to the chorus of conservatives hoping for Obama's failure:
TP: What do you think about what Rush said about, I mean, do you hope, should we hope that President Obama fails?
LEVIN: Yes.
TP: Yes?
SANTORUM: If...absolutely we hope that his policies fail.
"I believe his policies will fail, I don't know, but I hope they fail," added Santorum.
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Michelle Malkin:
Today on C-SPAN Washington Journal, a caller asked right-wing blogger Michelle Malkin if she agrees with Rush Limbaugh's statement that he hopes President Obama fails. Malkin explained why she does:
MALKIN: When the President proposes things like trillion dollar budgets that have earmarks that he claims do not exist, yes, I hope that fails. When he proposes the same kind of wealth re-distributionist policies that had appalled me under the Bush administration, yes, I hope they fail.
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Ann Coulter:
"Barack's really been kind of coasting on his record, since his first big accomplishment of being born half-black. ... He wouldn't be running for president if he weren't half-black."
"His strongest selling point is that he is one of the least dangerous people I know named Hussein."***************************************************
Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily:
That's why I do not hesitate today in calling on godly Americans to pray that Barack Hussein Obama fails in his efforts to change our country
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Selwyn Duke of RenewAmerica
I actually agree with Limbaugh wholeheartedly. I also want Obama (PBUH) to fail -- abjectly, miserably, completely -- and visibly. I may even pray for it.
Still citing the exceptions as the rule. There isn't a single republican I know in real life who uses this sort of language or has this sort of ideas. Most of the republicans that stumble in here aren't so incendiary.
I think the best thing for liberals to do right now is play their hand, sell their solutions and look at the republican idiots such as the ones quoted in this blog as the dumb drunk uncle in the corner, babbling incoherently about the good old days.
The grassroots always changes before the idiots at the top.
March 1, 2009 5:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
The numbers don't show the worst problem the GOP faces: Denial. I debate politics and policy at great length with a conservative friend of mine -- I have for years. But I just stopped. I can't take it any more. Not that we disagree on policy so much, as he refuses to accept that it is a terrible problem for the GOP that at least one-third of his party is made up of the Rushites, Coulterans, Palinistas, and other assorted "neocultists" who will doom his party long before they get a chance to doom America. And there's absolutely no hope for the GOP as a national party in the future. Based on the CPAC straw poll, we're looking down the road at Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, and Mike Huckabee, none of whom could beat John McCain who couldn’t beat an inexperienced Obama; Newt Gingrich, who already refused to take on this weak field; Sarah Palin and Bobby Jindal, proven liars, objects of national ridicule already and governors of small population states that go Republican anyway; Mark Sanford, arch-conservative from a small population state that likewise goes Republican anyway; Ron Paul, unelectable; Charlie Crist, a moderate who is hated by the extreme right, and ... Tim Pawlenty (crickets chirping). “Someone else” finished in the high-middle, but who??? There will be whispers about Jeb Bush, who would be a formidable candidate but only to the extent of putting up the best fight and securing the closest loss – the U.S.A. has had its fill of the Bush family. Until my friend is ready to admit that his party is on the precipice of national irrelevance, it's too painful for me to talk to him anymore. He might as well be arguing for the existence of the Easter Bunny.
March 1, 2009 5:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
I just wish an 'Obama Failure' meant these assholes would lose THEIR jobs, health insurance, and homes.
Don't underestimate the ability of this hate to mobilize frustrated Americans, especially since most are to poorly educated to know what real socialism is or how they are being soaked to benefit the better off.
March 1, 2009 8:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not Vision...Hallucination.
C
March 1, 2009 9:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
I left one out:
TOM DELAY:
TP: Do you agree with Rush Limbaugh that we shouldn’t hope for President Obama to succeed?
DELAY: Well, exactly right. I don’t want this for our nation. That’s for sure.
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/27/delay-obama-fail/
March 1, 2009 9:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree. We can not let him fail. I am retired. I need my mortgage paid off, some extra social security, no taxes and I want to go back to school but don't have the money. Also, with global warming coming my air conditioning costs are going up here in Florida. Failure is not an option for BHO - URGENT his success is our well being - get out the vote.
March 2, 2009 2:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
You can count the most whacked of these Republicans on one hand. (They can't of course, on account of their missing opposable thumbs.)
March 2, 2009 6:06 AM | Reply | Permalink
I don't mind if they're transported near one of those Taliban villages for the weekend.
I will suspend my opinions for a weekend, and turn blind-eye to the torture that Taliban will experience.
March 2, 2009 7:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
They may be FEW but the REST are listening and playing copycat. They seem to be doing exactly what they are TOLD to do.
I thought perhaps after following Bush around like puppy dogs, they'd learn their lesson.
March 2, 2009 8:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
The repubs are simply giving us a new mantra for 2010:
When all appeared to be lost, when we needed the country to come together in a common aim, what did the republicans do? They pushed for failure. They asked for failure. They hoped for failure.
There are leaders. And then there are selfish whiners. We are succeeding IN SPITE OF THE WHINERS.
March 2, 2009 9:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
I have moved many of my acquaintances ,who used to be friends to junk mail. I've become sick of the constant barrage of anti-Obama hate. I never would have characterized them as racist before but with the election of Barack it has spilled out. The aforementioned public figures who have decided that they would rather see our country fail than Obama succeed fuels the hatred of the racists. It condones their feelings making it alright to spread this filth
March 2, 2009 9:35 AM | Reply | Permalink