When Success is Failure
In an interview that aired on Sean Hannity’s new show last night, Rush Limbaugh said he hoped President Obama would fail. He elaborated on this by explaining that while he certainly has good personal wishes and intentions for the President, when it comes to Mr. Obama’s political agenda, he hopes for abject failure, as this would ensure success for our republic.
Predictably, the Obamamania Drive-by Media had a conniption fit as exemplified by MSNBC’s Chris Matthews (video clip can be seen at NewsBusters):
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Up next, does Rush Limbaugh hate this country? Wait till you hear what he said about the new president. He wants him to fail. What an amazing-, I’ve never heard anybody say they wanted a new president to fail. Usually you want the new president to succeed and then later on you argue the politics of what he or she does. But to want them to fail at the outset? What’s that about?
Matthews claims he never heard anyone say they wanted a new president to fail at the outset. Oh really? Where were you after George W. Bush took office in 2001? All we ever heard was the BDS Tabernacle Choir screaming over and over again that Bush was not legitimately elected, that he was a moron and that the sooner he was out of office the sooner we would have a president the nation deserved.
The fact of the matter is that a successful Obama presidency will be a spectacular failure for the United States as a free-enterprise capitalist republic. In his blog, Dick Morris (whose previous syndicated column I mentioned here) calls the Obama agenda a Trojan Horse and for good reason:
The most pernicious of his proposals will be the massive Make Work Pay refundable tax credit. .. Unlike the Bush stimulus checks, this new program will be a permanent entitlement, a part of our budget that can only go up and never down. Politically, it will transform a majority of Americans from taxpayers, anxious to hold down government spending, into tax eaters, eager to reap new benefits.
The huge spending in his stimulus package will create a budget deficit topping one trillion dollars…As he funds every liberal dream - from alternative energy production to infrastructure renovation to more federal revenue sharing - he will force a massive expansion in the size of government for a decade to come.
And Obama will likely use the Trojan Horse of stimulus to make a down payment on health care reform, expanding public coverage of those now uninsured dramatically… He will ask the same pool of doctors and nurses and the same amount of medical equipment to take on the care of almost 50 million more people, necessitating rationing of medical services.
While he is making these major changes, Obama will permanently alter our politics by taking three steps designed to alter the political balance:
a) He will set illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship
b) He’ll pass the card check voting system for unionization, raising the unionized share of our economy
c) He will crack down on talk radio through requirements either for equal time or for local ownership and control - or both.
All present indicators point to an Obama administration whose policies would be far to the left of center and, if implemented, will accomplish for the Democrat Party precisely what FDR intended with the New Deal: absolute, unchecked and unchallenged political power in perpetuity.
To ensure the future success of this republic and secure the blessings of economic and political liberty for ourselves and our posterity, it is imperative that we support those Republicans who oppose the Obama agenda, throw the RINOs out of office and elect to Congress conservative Republicans who embrace the Reagan legacy.
A failed Obama presidency is the only hope for the success of our republic.
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Wow, I guess that means we’re getting popular if people are already cross-linking to us
This is to be expected from “Thrill This” Chris. I’m sure it will bounce rather reverberantly around the Echo Chamber for the next few weeks/months.
*eats*
Don’t know how I feel about that trackback…:) or
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When the trolls show up, you know you are having an impact.
The shamsters, jokesters and lame excuses for journalism in the media, constantly take their nemesis’s words out of context.
As a result I have been thinking of ways for the influential in real media, ie, truth tellers, truth detectors and conservative pundits to be more careful, when they phrase things that we all know can be taken out of context.
I know… I know that’s a tricky challenge since most of the time we are just talking our normal self, without having to worry about people taking things out of context…
…since they parse the words into infinity, hoping to generate news for themselves.
However, let me give an example…
If one were to say, “I hope that Barack Obama’s proposed policies utterly fail - at least the ones that he has proposed so far”.
How would somebody be able to parse those words?
No sound bite of that sentence would make any sense by itself, whatsoever.
So that’s all, just a different perspective and a tidbit of advice to chew on from ole’ Mad Dog here.
I hope he fails, too. For many years I have worked in the pro-life movement and now we have the most anti-life (yes I did say anti-life, not pro-choice because that word is a joke) president ever. Abortion was bad enough, then the horrific partial birth abortion, and now the born alive act. He wouldn’t even save a child born alive from an abortion. Even that visible proof to him of life does not qualify as human. Obama and his kind who believe these things are monsters.
Well, great post Glynn! I hate Abortion, Partial abortion and born alive act. It is obvious that he could care less about human life. I want him to fail also. Hate to say it, but I do. Rush has a great point.
Sounds kind of silly, but I think more of us should vocalize the fact that we want the Obama policies/agenda to fail. What a bunch of sheep we are as a nation!!
Juan Williams recent article (sorry, I’m not techno-savvy enough to link it)made a great point. William’s concern is that people are going to be too afraid of criticizing THE ONE b-cuz they’re afraid of being accused of being racist.
OMG!!!!! I can not believe we are living the story of “The Emperor’s New Clothes!”
I, too hope Obama’s policies fail, and fail miserably. By that, I mean I hope the House and Senate get [some how] a dose of common sense and give them the boot. I pray that the sheeple get a flippin’ clue and fight become very vocal in fighting these policies, and that our naked emperor is, if not exposed, at least rendored somewhat impotent in his attempts (sorry for mixing metaphor: and an ugly one at that). But I know that is probably a futile hope.
I for one would like to join Rush in saying, “Look the S-O-B is naked as a jaybird!”
And, BTW, don’t you dare, dare, call me a racist. This guy is scary, scary, scary and I don’t give a rat’s rearend about his lineage.
So, Mad Dog,
since you admit that you hold journalists in low regard how can we expect and unbiased, objective analysis of a profession you hold contemptible?
What credentials can you present to authenticate your analysis? What background do you have that supports your claim of skilled observation and analysis?
Do you hold any advanced degrees in any field of study? If so, how do those degrees apply to the field of journalism?
Well rockhauler, we could start with the journalists that you hold in high regard and the ones that you respect (they are hard to find, but not impossible).
Then my response is going to be, prove their reputation by example.
But before you start, note that I didn’t say that ALL of the journalists ARE shamsters, jokesters and lame excuses for journalism………..
… I said (requoted here with emphasis added) THE shamsters, jokesters and lame excuses for journalism in the media, THAT constantly take their *nemesis’s words out of context.
*The definition of nemesis (nem⋅e⋅sis) from http://www.dictionary.com with the relevant meaning in my quoted context:2. an opponent or rival whom a person cannot best or overcome.
In other words, an opponent like Rush Limbaugh that Chriss Matthews can never overcome, because Chriss doesn’t have the better argument.
Does that make sense rockhauler?
Journalism like anything else, requires that one be honest and have skills of comprehension/communication and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist - after a reporter has proven themselves to be biased and inaccurate - to figure out who the frauds are.
Am I making myself clear?
So you are not going to answer the questions? You have no credentials, skills, authority?
I make no claim to authority, nor do I point to any journalists as authorities. I was asking you what your authority is, and you seem unable to answer the question.
So you remember you original post? Claiming your remarks could not be taken out of context?
Gettin hot yet? This is just for practice, ya know?
And I’m not even very good at this.
“Arguing with a truck driver is like mud wrestling with a pig. After a while you begin to suspect the pig is enjoying it.”
rockhauler,
“Arguing with the truth within the context of my quote and analysis, and trying to start a different debate is like staying in the path of a rolling boulder”.
*touche … !!!!!!
2. (an expression used for acknowledging a telling remark or rejoinder.)I’m sorry … what was the question?
Mad Dog,
I started hanging out on HotAir because I wanted to read conservative opinion, wanted to express my opinions and attempt reasoned debate with liberals.
What I discovered is attempting reasoned debate with a democrat party loyalist, a committed progressive was very much like being a Catholic Nun somewhere, in time and space, trying to convert the heathen rapist/murder to Christianity while being raped/murdered by said heathen.
any resemblance between C. Matthews and a journalist is only in the mind of the leftoid beholder.
Journalists can be respected, but too many are merely shills or PR extensions of DPUSA.
Well yes rockhauler, according to what I have heard about HotAir (and read some myself) it’s a pretty wild place, or better put, open hunting season on common sense, from what I have heard.
And in response to either orr @11:52 pm:
I can only respect them as much as I can trust them, based on their past performances and don’t even get me started on Bill O’ Reilly, the attention seeking whore.
If I hear him hear him suggest one more time, that the price of gas has to do with greed by the oil companies, upon which he then goes after them and even attempts professional interviews of “experts” on this stupid premise of his …. well then a brick will surely go through my television set!!
There are so many more productive things to do in my life, then have my intelligence insulted on a daily basis.
Mad Dog,
every where you go you have to sift a lot of sand to find a few flecks of gold dust.
True that….
But we don’t have to give the “sand” legitimacy.. we simply throw it aside and use it for roadbase, if you catch my drift.