Democrats Promoting Rush?

B to the I to the T to the T to the E to the R. But I do like what Ryan said about giving Obama more power to cut the pork!

Ed...for 29 years I've been working with wall Street. The markets have and will continue to tell us something. As 2009 opened, three weeks before Barack Obama took office, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 9034 on January 2, its highest level since the autumn panic. On March 2nd the Dow fell another 4.24% to 6763, for an overall decline of 25% in two months and to its lowest level since 1997. The dismaying message here is that President Obama's policies have become part of the economy's problem. From IBD March 3rd, 2009:


Americans have welcomed the Obama era in the same spirit of hope the President campaigned on. But after five weeks in office, it's become clear that Mr. Obama's policies are slowing, if not stopping, what would otherwise be the normal process of economic recovery. From punishing business to squandering scarce national public resources, Team Obama is creating more uncertainty and less confidence -- and thus a longer period of recession or subpar growth. Most of his "stimulus" spending was devoted to social programs, rather than public works, and nearly all of the tax cuts were devoted to income maintenance rather than to improving incentives to work or invest.

Jon Stewart gets it.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=220253&title=the-dow-knows-all

D*ck Morris was on Fox the other night talking about how Obama, Raul Emanuel, and others in the White House are targeting Rush. They want to make him appear as the leader of the Republican party, then they are going to rip him to shreds. Why in the world are they spending time on something as petty as this, when all around them the United States is in dire straits? Well, I think it is simple. Rush scares them. Too many people listen to him. He speaks well on conservative positions and is getting the truth out about Obama's many socialist endeavors. Things that the so-called "transparent" (ha! ha! - good one!) White House are refusing to let the American people know. Obama has told numerous whoppers to get to where he is - and no one - especially the media - calls him out on them. No one, except for Rush and other conservative outlets (that Dems want to silence, of course.)

Morris also said the Dems have a pattern of trying to destroy the other party by presenting to the public who they think the leaders are, then viillifying them. Witness how they tried to make it appear like Karl Rove called the shots during Bush's years. Or D*ck Cheney. They continued to bring up both men's names frequently, and tear them down. After a while, those in the public who are ignorant and don't follow politics, begin to agree. Rove is evil! Cheney is evil! They buy into what the Dems are selling.

Now the Dems want the public to think Rush is leading the Republican Party. I think their plan is going to back-fire. In the long run, maybe more people will even tune in to Rush and learn something. Rush may turn more people on to the Republican party. Although, I think more people are opening their eyes to what Obama is really about and are just waiting to get Democrats out of office in 2010.

TSG: It sure is a bitter pill to have to swallow. It's got to be getting harder for Obama, knowing that the members in congress who do get this, on both sides are starting to work together on some things, when the administration clearly does not want that.

Amy: Maybe the Republicans should go after Sean Penn or someone like him as retaliation. Just kidding. At least when the Dems went after Rove or Cheney it was someone in a leadership role.

Jmark: Your right to the extent that Stewart gets it more than any Democratic leaders do. Stewart also gets it when he said last night that in his job he is making fun of the same suits just different faces when it comes to the Presidents that he has poked fun at.

Ed: That is an interesting comment -"all the wrong kinds of pork". Who determines what is the right kind of pork? Pork appears to be the other face of the two-faced "NIMBY" crowd. Until we, the electorate, stop judging our Congressional reps on their ability to return federal dollars to the places we live instead of what is best for the whole country, "pork" will continue to be congressional currency, the cost of getting business done in Congress.

Ref: Good comment and I agree that this has been the way "business" seems to get done in Congress. The problem now is that this is the wrong time and place for these things. Increasing spending with the current economic climate, when we don't have the money to cover the costs and when some of the pet pork projects are seen as pure waste to begin with, is not the answer. We need to find ways to cut costs, reduce the size of government - including government layoffs (what are those?) not find more ways to spend what we don't have.

You seem to suggest that there is a right time and place for waste in government. Do you think there was any pork in the bills that passed during the Bush years, pork that contributed to an estimated 1 trillion dollar deficit? I'll bet there was plenty.

Jmark: Not suggesting that waste should ever be allowed, I'm saying that these pork spending pieces need to go through the proper channels by themselves, not buried in more important legislation. If they can't stand on their own, they should not be allowed anywhere. Certainly there was pork during the Bush years. I wasn't in favor of that either. Just because somebody did something wrong before doesn't make it right now. The difference is that we know just how big a mess we have now and we are spending money like drunken sailors. This has to stop now. While we're at it, we should go back and cancel as much of the TARP, Bailouts and other wasteful spending packages written in the last year.

Sad thing is ...Drunken sailors gome home when their pockets are empty..this is like drunken sailors with a bunch of platinum cards...and I don't mean just this serving of pork ,Washinton has been sloppin itself and it's finacial supporters for decades...

Where did everone go?

Aren't we going to shift the focus to how the criminal Bush regime brought the DOW from 15000 down to Obama's inauguration day level of 8000? Since the DOW is now above the level it was on Obama's first day, and since Bush caused the DOW to drop by nearly 50%, shouldn't we get rid of the neocon party?

I don't trust any pain pill addicts. That stuff is pretty close to heroin and I'm certainly not getting any political advice from a heroin addict. Rush isn't any better than some dude hanging on the corner of 29th and Cherry, shooting up.

Kind of scary that republicans would still back this druggie.

lcp and cc . You guys do not know anything ! First of all he has been clean for years
!! Yet guys like you are willing to allow those real druggies back on the streets even
after they have caused others bodily harm . Rush only effected himself !! As for Bush
the Economy started to slide because of the Dem controlled Congress !! Do you not
understand who controls the money in this Country ? LCP Where is the Dow now ?
You so-called educated people need to get smart not just educated . Have a good
day .

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