Tom DeLay Channels Limbaugh: I Want Obama To Fail

[stevedeshazer]

Just days before the Inauguration, Rush Limbaugh famously declared, “I hope he (Obama) fails.” Since then, some conservatives have been hesitant to embrace this view. Pat Robertson said, “That was a terrible thing to say.” “Anybody who wants him to fail is an idiot,” said Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC). Responding to Sanford, Limbaugh reiterated his position yesterday, saying, the “hell we don’t” want Obama to fail.

One of those “idiots” adopting Limbaugh’s stance is former House Majority Leader Tom Delay (R-TX). In an interview with ThinkProgress at CPAC today, we asked DeLay whether he agrees with Limbaugh’s statements. DeLay said Limbaugh was “exactly” right to root for Obama’s failure:

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.

ThinkProgress also asked DeLay if the conservative movement feels “liberated” now that President Bush is out of office. DeLay responded that conservatives feel “liberated because they’ve got an enemy they can focus on,” referring to “the left.”

video at link:

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/27/delay-obama-fail/

[groundloop]

1. I don't get it...

Why do news organizations keep giving a stage to that criminal? If we'd all just turn out back on that idiot and ignore him he might go away (or at least confine himself to Faux News).

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. What exactly is DeLay's standing? Why do they keep dragging him out?

This guy is really pissing me off lately. He has the kind of face that begs to be punched.

[EstimatedProphet]

3. Of course he does. He's a criminal.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

4. I want Tom Delay to go to jail.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Isn't this the same man who said Democrats in the Congress were committing treason when they wanted

a withdrawal date from Iraq? Where are the 'liberal left-wing guests' to accuse CPAC of treason?

[marmar]

6. Why would ThinkProgress waste their time interviewing the moat monster?

A disgusting, worm-ridden, has-been criminal piece of hippo shit.

Good gawd I wish this creature would crawl back into his slimepit, never to surface again.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

10. Now that was a classic!

:applause: :rofl:

[City Lights]

7. What would life for conservatives be like without an enemy to focus on?

:eyes:

The "us versus them" mentality has got to go.

typo edit

[Chrisssy]

8. Rush Limbaugh denigrates himself to a laughing stock,....this video proves it .....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb82jM9zTmQ

[Ilsa]

9. Lobbyist Tom DeLay needs to fail and go to jail for hating America! nt