Rush Limbaugh calls on conservatives to take back nation

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Bush was our majority disaster and he's big responsible to cause democrats to overtook congress in 2006, I wish that he wouldn't be our president at earlier time.
 
I wish George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush were never elected in the first place.
 
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I wish George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush were never elected in the first place.
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H. W. Bush isn't bad and he had served the job at federal level since his son isn't.

If Clinton don't run for 1992 presidential election then it would be possibly for H. W. Bush to be re-election, however Clinton is very fond in many southern states.

Persian Gulf War is good reason to save Kuwait from invasion by Iraq in 1990.
 
Foxrac,

You and I will have to agree to disagree where George H. W. Bush is concerned.
 
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Foxrac,

You and I will have to agree to disagree where George H. W. Bush is concerned.
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Nothing is news because you are leaning to democrat or liberal.

My post (#121) was refer to George W. Bush, not H. W. Bush.
 
If George W. Bush don't make invasion of Iraq at first place then he would be good president as Clinton does but anything went screw up and his approval rating was around 70% until invasion of Iraq occurred.

That's really sad for sure.
 
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Nothing is news because you are leaning to democrat or liberal.
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I'm middle of the road -- not strictly Democrat or liberal. :cool2: Just because I disapprove of the job former President George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush have done doesn't mean I'm a liberal. If it does, I guess that means Republicans who didn't approve of George W. Bush are liberals. :)
 
Foxrac said:
If George W. Bush don't make invasion of Iraq at first place then he would be good president as Clinton does but anything went screw up and his approval rating was around 70% until invasion of Iraq occurred.

That's really sad for sure.
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Lack of jobs/increased unemployment, more jobs being transferred overseas, unsafe borders, the failure of NCLB, the list goes on and on. Yep. George W. Bush was a good President. NOT. Apparently, alot of Americans agree with me because they didn't put another Republican in the White House.
 
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Lack of jobs/increased unemployment, more jobs being transferred overseas, unsafe borders, the failure of NCLB, the list goes on and on. Yep. George W. Bush was a good President. NOT. Apparently, alot of Americans agree with me because they didn't put another Republican in the White House.
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It has nothing with Bush about situation over job and unemployment, our economy was in good shape in mid 2000's after got out of recession in 2001 due dot-com bust and unemployment rate are under 5% in 2005-2007, it's equal to mid to late 90's, there's many speculation to cause economy goes down, congresses are partly to be blamed too and wall street as well, blame on president is minority.

NCLB is new law and we don't know if NCLB will be effective, it's more likely to test if it's really work for public school, however Obama admin will keep this law but will change in some part.

Mexican-US border has been issue since 80's and not much of presidents could fix it, however Bush is attempt to pass the law to secure but fail in congress and ICE (Immigration & Customs Enforcement) has became more effective to deport many of illegal immigrants, I had read on local news about over thousands of illegal immigrants are facing deport and numbers has been skyrocket in 2008.

I don't know if president have anything with jobs go to oversea and it has been started since 90's and continue into Bush presidency as well.
 
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Lack of jobs/increased unemployment
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hmmm... you're wondering where trillion of dollars went to in wars? jobs - manufacturing plants, defense contractors, private security firms, soldiers, border patrols, technological upgrades/advancement, etc.

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more jobs being transferred overseas
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tell that to CEOs, not Bush. Bush are not in charge of companies. It's the CEOs who are interested in profits.

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unsafe borders
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actually it's better than before due to I.C.E., Homeland Security, tighter security protocols for INS, and massive budget spent on technological upgrades/new toys such as Predator drones.

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the failure of NCLB
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pretty much every first version of major bills require lot of refining. Indeed that NCLB was an EPIC FAIL but after several refinements, it'll be good.
 
The Limbaugh Liability

Rush Limbaugh, the man who did more than anyone else to create the modern Republican brand in the 1990s, is now destroying it. Everyone knows he has "jumped the shark" culturally—become a black-shirted joke even as he dominates the headlines. But it's worse than that for Republicans. Limbaugh has taken the great GOP calling card—toughness—and shredded it. The party of Lincoln is in danger of becoming the party of Jell-O.

Witness the specter of party leaders from Georgia Rep. Phil Gingrey to South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford to Republican Party chairman Michael Steele all issuing craven apologies to Limbaugh after uttering the truth, which is that Rush's rhetoric is "ugly" and that he was wrong to say he hoped President Obama would fail. The monster the GOP collectively created—Rush's "dittohead" army of conservative listeners—makes life miserable for anyone who dares criticize the Great Bloviator. By enforcing right-wing political correctness, the dittoheads are making their party leaders look weak.

Strength, of course, has been the great, well, strength of the GOP. Starting with reactionary vitriol directed at the New Deal (echoed today) and extending through the Cold War, Republicans have long had the advantage of looking and sounding more muscular than Democrats. For most of the last century, conservatives have been depicted as "rock-ribbed" and liberals as "whiny."

The problem became especially acute in the 1970s, when former U.S. Navy Lieutenant Jimmy Carter was turned into a girlie man. An editor jokingly entitled a Boston Globe editorial about Carter “More Mush From the Wimp” and it accidentally ran in the paper. This symbolized public attitudes toward liberals, and the caricature paved the way for Ronald Reagan's 1980 victory and the 1994 GOP takeover of the House of Representatives.

Limbaugh was a key player in that takeover. For two decades, he has provided a daily three-hour national advertisement for the GOP specifically and the conservative movement in general. Because most mainstream media types in Washington and New York don't listen, they never fully understood how big Rush had become.

But nothing lasts forever. Rush's audience remains huge, with a weekly audience of more than 20 million, and will stay large for as long as he broadcasts. If his listeners can forgive him sending his poor housekeeper into a parking lot to score drugs for him, they will forgive anything. But these folks no long represent the American mainstream. In fact, while 28 percent of Americans still identify themselves as Republicans, 29 percent call themselves independents. Plenty of the indies might still be listening to Rush, but they don't take their marching orders from him anymore. To them, he's just another entertainer.

When Obama first mentioned Limbaugh in a meeting with Republicans during his second week in office, he was chastised for elevating him in a way that didn't befit a president. But it quickly became clear that any contest between Barack and Rush was not really a contest at all—and that this is a fight the president is happy to have. The president's popularity is in the 60s, and the entertainer's, according to internal Democratic polling, is in the 20s. So Rahm Emanuel and Robert Gibbs are now piling on, describing Limbaugh as the "intellectual force" and "de facto chairman" of the party.

It works. And it will keep on working until enough Republicans grow a spine. When they show enough guts to ignore the thousands of calls and e-mails from dittoheads, maybe they'll get their party—and their self-respect—back.
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ouch
 
Jiro,

If trillions of dollars went into manufacturing jobs and jobs in general, why is our current unemployment rate higher than it has been in years and why are auto sales lower than they have been for the past several years?
 
Former President Bush has everything to do with unemployment as well as the failure of NCLB. Thanks to Bush, Obama has a huge mess to clean up which could take 8 years or more.
 
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Jiro,

If trillions of dollars went into manufacturing jobs and jobs in general, why is our current unemployment rate higher than it has been in years and why are auto sales lower than they have been for the past several years?
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auto sales and jobs in general? no. Blame it on corporations and CEOs' greed. After all - this is capitalism. About trillion dollars - I specifically stated the specific jobs profited and gained from war spending.
 
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Former President Bush has everything to do with unemployment as well as the failure of NCLB. Thanks to Bush, Obama has a huge mess to clean up which could take 8 years or more.
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yes but not largely. Blame it on greedy & corrupted CEOs, Board of Directors, investors, Congress, lobbyists, etc.
 
Jiro said:
yes but not largely. Blame it on greedy & corrupted CEOs, Board of Directors, investors, Congress, lobbyists, etc.
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Bush didn't do anything to improve our economy, so again, he is 99.9% to blame.
 
Jiro said:
auto sales and jobs in general? no. Blame it on corporations and CEOs' greed. After all - this is capitalism. About trillion dollars - I specifically stated the specific jobs profited and gained from war spending.
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Why does everyone throw around the word capitalism like it's an old shoe? Republicans sure love that word, don't they? :)
 
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Bush didn't do anything to improve our economy, so again, he is 99.9% to blame.
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yes he did but no President or any powerful man can even determine the mood of economy anyway. It just happens and you just have to deal with it. that's all.
 
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