Here's a bad move by our new President, within his first week in office President Barack Obama has picked a political fight with Rush Limbaugh. On Friday, Obama told Republican leaders, "You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done."
In typical Rush fashion, the radio host extraordinaire immediately responded with a statement on National Review Online with this blog post.
Here is a brief section of Rush's comments:
There are two things going on here. One prong of the Great Unifier's plan is to isolate elected Republicans from their voters and supporters by making the argument about me and not about his plan. He is hoping that these Republicans will also publicly denounce me and thus marginalize me. And who knows? Are ideological and philosophical ties enough to keep the GOP loyal to their voters? Meanwhile, the effort to foist all blame for this mess on the private sector continues unabated when most of the blame for this current debacle can be laid at the feet of the Congress and a couple of former presidents. And there is a strategic reason for this.
Secondly, here is a combo quote from the meeting:
More on this topic in a little while........"If we don't get this done we (the Democrats) could lose seats and I could lose re-election. But we can't let people like Rush Limbaugh stall this. That's how things don't get done in this town."
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