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Democrats Promoting Rush?

By Ed Furey
Thursday, Mar 5 2009, 08:51 AM

While the housing industry collapse has been dragging our economy down the mountain, the Democrats financial policies and sometimes their lack of details are shoving us right off the cliff.  President Obama, showing his economic genius, says that the markets are just tracking polls with day-to-day shifts.  Somebody needs to smack him upside the head – this is a plunge not a shift.  We know he knows jack about economics or the markets, he’s told us that.  So why does he have to continue to prove it with intelligent comments on “profit earnings ratio”.  It’s price earnings ratio.  Every time they come out with some policy or detail, the economy shows its confidence by taking a nosedive.  Down over 30% now since Obama won election. 

 

Now the Democrats are looking for scapegoats, people they can try to demonize as the true evil in the world.  They’ve tried with Bush and some of the Executive Orders and privilege of power that the President in entrusted with.  Saying how wrong it is that Bush could have sent troops into our own streets at anytime.  Guess what?  Clinton talked about having this very power while he was in office.  This is nothing new.  It’s been done many times during our history.  President Wilson even used it to send out troops to disarm civilians and state and local police at one time.  Talk about destroying the constitution.  William Jefferson Clinton is still the all-time champ at legislating from the oval office by executive orders. 

 

So whom do the Democrats go after as the number one target on their “enemies list”?  Rush Limbaugh.  Rush is already the leading conservative radio talker.  He doesn’t really need the additional publicity, but he will gladly accept it.  In fact he is able to use this to his advantage.  This is exactly what he wants.  His numbers and popularity can’t do anything but go through the roof.   

 

This new strategy comes from the pathetic minds of a Rahm Emanuel and his attack dog James Carville.  Carville does this out of jealousy, since his own dream of talking-head popularity crashed.  No one wants to listen to whiny liberal talkers.  Emanuel has that Chicago politics engrained in him that says you always need to be attacking those that speak out against you, even if it is a private citizen like Joe the Plumber or Rush Limbaugh. 

 

Here’s an idea.  President Obama should stop campaigning for just a minute and listen to some of the Senators from his own party that have realized that this current budget package is loaded with all the wrong kinds of pork.  Better idea, listen to Congressman Ryan’s plan and start putting this country back on the right path to recovery. 

Comments

The Shoe Guy   

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!

March 5, 2009 10:16 AM

Jim Hayett   

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.

March 5, 2009 10:53 AM

jmark   

March 5, 2009 3:39 PM

Amy L. Geiger-Hemmer   

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.

March 5, 2009 5:12 PM

Ed Furey   

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.

March 6, 2009 5:54 AM

Ed Furey   

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.    

March 6, 2009 7:40 AM

Ed Furey   

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.

March 6, 2009 7:45 AM

referee33   

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.

March 6, 2009 9:43 AM

Ed Furey   

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.

March 6, 2009 10:39 AM

jmark   

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.  

March 6, 2009 12:21 PM

Ed Furey   

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.

March 6, 2009 4:24 PM

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My name is Ed Furey.  I am a married, father of two boys that lives in the Town of Eagle and the Mukwonago Area School District.  I am very involved with youth sports.  I design and sell wireless systems that allow companies to communicate voice, data and video wirelessly. I will be writing about national and local items that irritate, interest or excite me. I am opinionated and not always politically correct, but I don't take everything too seriously either.

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