A Friend Stopped By | 02/26/2009 10:30 am
Margo Howard Calls Rush Limbaugh a Fat Fool

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Well, that didn’t take long. Obama’s been in office little more than a month and I am once more in banshee mode, alternately known as high dudgeon, about the Republicans (exempting a very few, like Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins). Republican leaders are calling it “irresponsible” to increase some taxes, along with the federal debt. Well, there is no choice! Why can’t these party hacks connect the dots and own up to the fact that these measures are necessary because George Bush, with Cheney pulling the strings, got us into this mess … mostly to help their big business buddies? Obama inherited this financial chaos. I assure you he did not choose to begin his term by rescuing financial institutions and printing money.
The putative golden boy of the Republicans, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, in a lame response to Obama’s address, beat the drum for tax cuts. Helloooooo. We had tax cuts, remember? And … the Republicans’ own George W. Bush, during eight years, ran up quite an eye-popping deficit himself.
I find it Kafkaesque that many Republicans embrace the wish voiced by that fat fool Rush Limbaugh that Obama fail. It is hard to imagine an American even saying that. Do these people not live here, too? Who in their right mind would wish failure on a leader just because their guy lost? This is partisanship on steroids, with a big dose of obstructionism thrown in.
But I have a wish, too, Rush: that when the Republican legislators battling Obama come up for reelection, they are booted out, in big numbers, with their constituents letting them know that singing the same old song is no longer acceptable. Not to mention that they were way off-key in the first place.
The putative golden boy of the Republicans, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, in a lame response to Obama’s address, beat the drum for tax cuts. Helloooooo. We had tax cuts, remember? And … the Republicans’ own George W. Bush, during eight years, ran up quite an eye-popping deficit himself.
I find it Kafkaesque that many Republicans embrace the wish voiced by that fat fool Rush Limbaugh that Obama fail. It is hard to imagine an American even saying that. Do these people not live here, too? Who in their right mind would wish failure on a leader just because their guy lost? This is partisanship on steroids, with a big dose of obstructionism thrown in.
But I have a wish, too, Rush: that when the Republican legislators battling Obama come up for reelection, they are booted out, in big numbers, with their constituents letting them know that singing the same old song is no longer acceptable. Not to mention that they were way off-key in the first place.
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Rush Limbaugh is a big fat fool! I find it inconceivable that anyone listens to that idiot. Margo, your comments ‘hit the nail on the head’.
Mary, I have lost cofidence in almost all our elected officials. It seems that good men come into office and turn into something else entirely.
Term limits, term limits, term limits is all that I support!
He has spent more money than any other human being on the face of the earth.
It is equivalent to spending one MILLION dollars a day from the birth of Christ.
Staggering. Absolutely staggering.
nevermind rush—we have more important issues to discuss—such as
Everyone knows the world economy is on fire and all the leaders are trying to come up with something big to fix it.
But here’s the one thing: The problem is the solution.
This morning, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown met with President Obama to propose a global "New Deal," suggesting that a comprehensive solution is needed to save the world from deep and prolonged recession.
That’s bull crap.
This isn’t about stopping a recession. It’s about (in the immortal words of Rahm Emanuel) never letting a serious crisis go to waste.
Those who dream of us all living in peace and harmony in one sunshine and lollipop global community see this economic crisis as their opening. And gang, I can no longer look you in the eye and say it will never happen.
Think about it like this: Every day, Obama is out there talking about just how bad the economy is. Remember, they told us that if we didn’t give the government hundreds of billions right away, the whole thing could collapse overnight.
But if that’s true, then let me ask you a question: Why is an issue like global warming so high on the president’s agenda?
The new budget contains a cap-and-trade program that is supposed to limit carbon-dioxide emissions. But if it performs anywhere near as well as the one in Europe has, it will likely limit nothing except corporate profits and economic growth. The Marshall Institute estimates this program will result in GDP losses from 0.3 percent up to 3 percent below business as usual projections in 2015.
Didn’t everyone freak out at just how bad our last quarter was? Well, guess what? That was a loss of just 1.5 percent — half of what this idiotic cap-and-trade program could cost us.
So, why is it there? Well, remember the one thing: the solution is the problem.
The answer to why we’re talking about global warming now is contained right there in its name: global warming.
Global warming fits perfectly with a global New Deal because they’re both focused on solving everyone’s problems all at once, while also ensuring that America takes on a majority of the world’s burden.
But what they don’t tell you is that "global" solutions are never the answer. Our problems will never be fixed from the top down, they can only be solved from the bottom up.
Umm…I noticed…so many women acting like angry little school girls. I was just hoping that more grew out of that stage…
I love the Alfred E pic! My favorite mag way back when.