Frank Rich: Limbaugh sez he's "hijacked the Obama honeymoon." Frank sez, "In his dreams."

[Faygo Kid]

They say, Get Back. We say, Fight Back. And so we will:

". . . These pratfalls commenced after Obama casually told some Republican congressmen (correctly) that they won’t “get things done” if they take their orders from Limbaugh. That’s all the stimulus the big man needed to go on a new bender of self-aggrandizement. He boasted that Obama is “more frightened” of him than he is of the Republican leaders in the House or Senate. He said of the new president, “I hope he fails.”

Obama no doubt finds Limbaugh’s grandiosity more amusing than frightening, but G.O.P. politicians are shaking like Jell-O. When asked by Andrea Mitchell of NBC News on Wednesday if he shared Limbaugh’s hope that Obama fails, Eric Cantor spun like a top before running off, as it happened, to appear on Limbaugh’s radio show. Mike Pence of Indiana, No. 3 in the Republican House leadership, similarly squirmed when asked if he agreed with Limbaugh. Though the Republicans’ official, poll-driven line is that they want Obama to succeed, they’d rather abandon that disingenuous nicety than cross Rush.

Most pathetic of all was Phil Gingrey, a right-wing Republican congressman from Georgia, who mildly criticized both Limbaugh and Sean Hannity to Politico because they “stand back and throw bricks” while lawmakers labor in the trenches. So many called Gingrey’s office to complain that the poor congressman begged Limbaugh to bring him on air to publicly recant on Wednesday. As Gingrey abjectly apologized to talk radio’s commandant for his “stupid comments” and “foot-in-mouth disease,” he sounded like the inmate in a B-prison-movie cowering before the warden after a failed jailbreak.

“It’s up to me to hijack the Obama honeymoon,” Limbaugh soon gloated, “and I’ve done it.” In his dreams. He has hijacked what’s left of the Republican Party; the Obama honeymoon remains intact. The nightmare is that we have so irrelevant, clownish and childish an opposition party at a moment when America is in an all-hands-on-deck emergency that’s as trying as war. To paraphrase a dictum that has been variously attributed to two of our most storied leaders in times of great challenge, Thomas Paine and George Patton, the Republicans should either lead, follow or get out of the grown-ups’ way."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/opinion/01rich.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

[YanquiUXO]

1. Great article. nt.

[Why Syzygy]

2. Dead weight.

Rush is the anchor which will finally sink the entire GOP ark.

[YvonneCa]

4. With Glen Beck sitting on his shoulders. n/t

[mwb970]

14. Rush leads a veritable army of similar hate-radio gasbags around the country.

Remember "It's appeasement, Chris! It's the same thing!" on Hardball from some numbnuts right-wing radio blowhard in New York somewhere? There are literally hundreds of far-out wingnut radio hosts just like that wacko, with Rush standing in front of them all like that Verizon guy who stands in front of an army of support staff.

You're right. With the party turned over to Limbaugh and Palin the only way they can go is straight down. Thank God!

[Olney Blue]

3. The GOP created this hell, and now they won't even help to fix it.

[zbdent]

5. When Rush makes a statement like that, and then the House ReRushicans

vote in lockstep AGAINST the sitting President ...

the American people should notice ...

[The River]

6. He is a Demagogue

pure and simple.

dem-a-gogue or <dem-a-gog>(dem'uh gog , -gôg ) n., v. <

1. a person, esp. an orator or political
leader, who gains power by arousing
people's emotions and prejudices.

Rush is the man in the crowd who urges them to become a lynch-mob
and sells them a rope.

[pacalo]

7. I like this part, too...

But even if tax cuts alone could jump-start a recovery, they couldn’t do the heavy lifting that Obama has promised and the country desperately needs: a down payment on a new economy to replace our dilapidated 20th-century model and bring back long-term growth. The Republicans don’t acknowledge the need for this transformation, or debate it in good conscience, preferring instead to hyperventilate over the contraceptives in a small family-planning program since removed from the stimulus bill. All it takes is the specter of condoms for the party of Vitter, Foley and Craig to go gaga.

It gives me a thrill to see DiaperBoy, my (& I use that term loosely) senator, grouped with Foley & Craig & the word "condoms".

:rofl:

[pnorman]

8. the four food groups of the apocalypse.

"What are Americans still buying? Big Macs, Campbell’s soup, Hershey’s chocolate and Spam — the four food groups of the apocalypse."

pnorman

[tomg]

18. Rich is really great and in that

one killer line ( I was going to mention it, but you did first), he sums up a lot about what has happened to the country after 8 years of Republican policies. Rich is great.

[Contrary1]

9. The only "honeymoon" Limpballs could possibly know anything about...

Is the one he has every time he "vacations" in the Dominican Republic with yet another child "bride".

[BrklynLiberal]

10. I wish that pigboy would get so full of his own hot air that he would just explode..

all over the walls of his studio.

[blogslut]

11. Once again, leave it to Frank Rich.

He paints the GOP with a palette of crumbling edifice and fast-fading relevance, tinged by collective arrogance and inflexibility. I question if the Republican party will exist in ten years time.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

12. Aren't hijackers terrists?

Is Limpo admitting he's on their side?

Can we leave ONE cell at Gitmo open?

[Hubert Flottz]

13. The Kool-Aid Kid's, Kool Aid Kid!

[SpiralHawk]

15. Republicons are AWOL in America's financial disaster

As ususal.

Republicons = AWOL

[DailyGrind51]

16. At least Obama can keep a wife, three-time loser drug-addicted college drop-out Fat Boy!

[Avalux]

17. Obama really put Repuke leaders in a tough spot. It's wonderful.

Limbaugh's ego is huge enough he actually BELIEVES he commands the attention of a majority of Americans, causing him to say such inane things. His audience isn't a majority of Americans but a majority of pukes.

So what do the pukes do?? Play bipartisan with Obama and shift to the center, running the risk of losing Limbaugh's audience - their base? Or defend and pledge loyalty to Limbaugh to retain that base, further alienating the rest of Americans?

Whichever they choose, they lose. Very well played Mr. President. :applause:

[Vektor]

19. Limbaugh has gone from being laughable and irrelevant to delusional.

He's actually having delusions of grandeur, and has no grip on reality if he believes this.

[Faygo Kid]

20. Then the whole GOP is delusional, as well, because they have turned their party over to him.

I don't disagree with you at all. I'm just saying that they have all gone batshit crazy.

The GOP: The party of cowards. They quake in their boots with fear that Rush may criticize them, so they "rush" to kiss his ring.

Or that part of his anatomy where his pilodinal cyst (and family connections) kept him out of Vietnam.

[Vektor]

22. Oh yes...

I've long suspected they are all bat shit crazy, and have no idea why anyone (by "anyone" I mean the most radical and psychotic of the right wing) would give this fat, drug-addled, anal cyst bearing, pedophilic pill-popper the time of day.

I do know a few moderate, traditional fiscal conservative types that are not sexist, bigoted, homophobic hate-mongers (they are a dying breed, but there's a few left) and they all think Rush is a whack-job and want nothing to do with him.

How embarrassing for the rest of the party to have this joke of a "man" speaking for them.

[Faygo Kid]

23. They either have to leave the party or embrace what it has become.

I too know a couple GOP "moderates." Their spouses, though, are dittoheads.

The dirty little secret? The "rest of the party" is miniscule, almost completely extinct now. They either line up with Limbaugh, or they are out. Will be interesting to see where people like Grassley, Snowe, Specter end up.

I expect them to cave, too, or retire. For the next four years, or until he overreaches, it's Rush's party, and he's the boss. Eventually, they will have to purge him, or go the way of the Whigs.

[Vektor]

24. I'll be interested to see how it all pans out.

It's going to be ugly and sordid, for certain.

[Cairycat]

29. Grassley is no moderate

He talks a good game, but when it comes down to votes, he puts party over the people.

[Faygo Kid]

31. Agreed. Grassley is a nasty guy, but I don't think he'll kiss Rush's ring.

Somebody like Saxby Chambliss will kiss Rush's ass in an instant. Grassley probably would be hesitant, not out of concern for people, but he is used to having HIS butt kissed.

He better get with the New Program. It's all Rush, all the time, in your party, Chuck. Deal with it.

[BlooInBloo]

21. Oh no!

[B Calm]

25. We are witnessing the end of the republican party.

[alfredo]

26. Limbaugh Victorious!

[B Calm]

27. I had to copy that cartoon and e-mail it to all my right wing contacts..

[alfredo]

34. I hope they think it is a recognition of his power over the RNC.

[Faygo Kid]

32. Please post that one as its own thread. Perfect.

That's it in a nutshell. Thanks!

[alfredo]

33. Will do.

[ThoughtCriminal]

28. No honeymoon?

Work to do. Things to fix.

[DearAbby]

30. Obama was BRILLIANT

I can't stop laughing about this. He put them in the position to either denounce or defend Rush.

They dipped their toe in the water to denounce Rush and Hannity and heard the squeal of the 23% Morans. They fell all over themselves to plead for forgiveness.

The GOP are afraid of the very vocal 23% the looney tunes of their party. And I can't stop laughing. :rofl: