Limbaugh's GOP: Winning is losing

[babylonsister]

Limbaugh's GOP: Winning is losing
Posted May 12, 2009 6:30 AM
The Swamp

by Mark Silva


The problem with the politics of failure is that winning is losing.

Radio's Rush Limbaugh gave voice to a dangerous political gambit in which the Republican Party's success depends on the Democratic Party's failure, when he first declared: "I want Obama to fail.''

Since then, the coalescence of Republican votes against the Democratic president's economic initiatives has hardened that line: In the failure of one's strategy lies the success of the other's, the way some in the party see it.

The only problem with that equation is that a lot of Americans stand a lot to lose in the bargain. Should Obama's strategies for economic revival fail, a lot of people are in for lot more hardship - which may partly explain why the president's job-approval ratings have held steady at close to two-thirds through nearly four tumultuous months: 66 percent in daily Gallup tracking so far in May.

"People are invested in Obama,'' said Andrew Kohut, president of the Washington-based Pew Research Center, whose polling placed Obama's job-approval at 63 percent in April. "They want him to succeed,'' Kohut explained. "The basic question is, how long people will think this guy has the answers. Right now, a lot of people think he has the answers.''

Which is what makes the latest suggestion of Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas so peculiar. Sessions, the Republican charged with running his party's midterm congressional campaigns next year, has suggested that Obama is purposefully driving up the rate of unemployment and dampening stock prices as a means of consolidating his power.

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[Vinnie From Indy]

1. The GOP message is being crafted by Rush Limbaugh

Fatboy Boss Limbaugh constantly bellows that "Liberals" work to make things worse so people will have to rely on the government.

[liberal N proud]

2. Democratic failure is all the GOP has

They do not offer any real solutions for American prosperity and can no longer fool the voter with fear and fascism.

[depakid]

3. ""The basic question is, how long people will think this guy has the answers."

My late Dad would phrase that another way:

Memo to Andrew Kohut: the basic qustion is- after all of this, how many people think the "other guys" have the answers?