Why does this man drive so many Dems crazy?
Can you say listeners? Can you say the # 1 radio host in the country?
Why don't Dems just listen to Air America? You don't hear any of us complaining about Air America hosts. In fact, I couldn't tell you the name of a host over there.
Pres BO decided to get into a fight with Limbaugh. He told Republicans to stop listening to Limbaugh.
Moral of the story: Presidents don't get into fights with radio hosts, specially one with 20 million listeners.
Why did Obama do it?
I like Limbaugh's response:
"To make the argument about me instead of his plan makes sense from his perspective.
Obama's plan would buy votes for the Democrat Party, in the same way FDR's New Deal established majority power for 50 years of Democrat rule, and it would also simultaneously seriously damage any hope of future tax cuts.
It would allow a majority of American voters to guarantee no taxes for themselves going forward.
It would burden the private sector and put the public sector in permanent and firm control of the economy.
Put simply, I believe his stimulus is aimed at re-establishing "eternal" power for the Democrat Party rather than stimulating the economy because anyone with a brain knows this is NOT how you stimulate the economy.
If I can be made to serve as a distraction, then there is that much less time debating the merits of this TRILLION dollar debacle."
Pres BO knows that Limbaugh will pound him daily and turn public opinion against the so called stimulus program.
Pres BO, and the Dems, do not want this plan debated openly and honestly.
On this fight, my money is on Limbaugh.
Limbaugh is not the only with serious doubts about this Obama plan.
The WSJ has a great editorial today:
"The stimulus bill currently steaming through Congress looks like a legislative freight train, but given last week's analysis by the Congressional Budget Office, it is more accurate to think of it as a time machine.
That may be the only way to explain how spending on public works in 2011 and beyond will help the economy today.
According to Congressional Budget Office estimates, a mere $26 billion of the House stimulus bill's $355 billion in new spending would actually be spent in the current fiscal year, and just $110 billion would be spent by the end of 2010.
This is highly embarrassing given that Congress's justification for passing this bill so urgently is to help the economy right now, if not sooner.
And the red Congressional faces must be very red indeed, because CBO's analysis has since vanished into thin air after having been posted early last week on the Appropriations Committee Web site.
Officially, the committee says this is because the estimates have been superseded as the legislation has moved through committee.
No doubt."
Sen McCain is not going to support it either! McCain correctly stated that there is too much "spending"!
Limbaugh is right. Pres BO wants a distraction from this monster which will create trillion deficits for years!
Again, my money is on Limbaugh!
P.S. Rick Moran nailed this one:
