Limbaugh's party of 'No:" Democatic ad: The Swamp
The Swamp
Chicago Tribune
Posted February 27, 2009 8:00 AM

The Swamp

by Mark Silva and updated with reaction

Rush Limbaugh, with the face made for radio, will be the voice of the Republican Party, if Democrats have anything to say about it in their campaign against Republicans balking at President Barack Obama's economic strategy. But the Democrats appear to be doing anything they can to take the focus of their "spending binge,'' the GOP says.

The GOP is the party of "no'' -- that's the message of the chorus of "nos'' from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Minority Leader John Boehner and others featured in a new union-backed cable TV ad suggesting that the director of the choir is Limbaugh, the conservative radio commentator.

Obama himself hoisted Limbaugh's profile by acknowledging the loyal opposition. Now Democratic strategists James Carville and Paul Begala are behind a public relations bid to make Limbaugh the face of a GOP aligned almost unanimously against Obama's economic agenda.

With a cable TV ad entitled "No,'' the Democrats are airing Limbaugh on national cable networks and in Washington, D.C. "Rush Limbaugh is the leader of the Republican Party - he says jump and they say how high," says Brad Woodhouse, tincoming communications director of the Democratic National Committee.

"The vast majority of Americans want Obama to succeed and they know that if he fails, America fails," Woodhouse says. "Republicans have adopted this strategy, and this ad and a bunch of other stuff our side is planning is going to make them own it, and Limbaugh."

"The Democrats are running a permanent campaign rather than doing the bipartisan work of governing,'' Alex Conant, spokesman for the Republican National Committee, tells the Swamp. "These ads are part of the Democrats' larger strategy to do something, anything, to try to take the focus of their massive spending binge."

The ad touts the highlights of the president's stimulus: Rebuilding roads, bridges and schools, 3.5 million jobs and tax cuts for 95 percent of working Americans -- a measure which all the House's Republicans and all but three of the GOP's senators opposed.

"Who are Republican leaders listening to?" the ad's narrator asks, picturing Limbaugh at the end stating, "I want him (Obama) to fail."

"Tell them America won't take no for an answer anymore," the ad financed by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and Americans United For Change states.

"If you look at the polls which came out earlier this week - Rush Limbaugh led Republicans off a political cliff on the recovery package - and now they are - at his instruction - lining up to oppose the Obama budget and the rest of his agenda hoping - as Limbaugh does - that Obama fails,'' the DNC's Woodhouse contends..

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All Hail the "bloated one". The "messiah" of hate. The "one" for division. The "guru" of garbage.


DittoheadsACTIVATE!!!!!!!!!!


This type of ad will fail.

Everybody realizes it is the democratic party trying to prolong the election.

Carville is a negative to Obama. His heyday as a Clinton supporter and in the front lines is finished. Too unattractive to fill the tv screen.

Think the tide is turning when it comes to the economy.
No trust,
too much waste,
too quick movement with spending and even the democrats don't know what's going on.

$13 extra in your pocket from the stimulus and increased taxes due to the CAP AND TRADE CARBON.

More cost for consumers with gasoline for your vehicles,

more cost for consumers with electricity,

and more cost for consumers on products due to increase squeeze on businesses due to the CAPS.

It's a natural evolution.

Vote in 2010 local state and federal elections.

NO to Obama in 2012, only one term.

And Social Security and Medicare are on Obama's agenda.

Obama's cool style is not going to cut it.

Serious, serious questions are arising and the uncontrolled spending is out of control.

Just won't work, come up with a better plan.


Rush is irrelevant. The 22% Bush-lovers best flavor tastes putrid to the independants of this country.

Seriously, Rush has no positive impact for the Republicans. Remember his vote for Hillary campaing - nothing works for this guy.


Bloated Limpbaugh is a slobbering moron who barfs up lies and falsehoods and makes no sense. All the drugs he takes seem to have made him toxic and delusional. His listeners are little people who exist in little worlds and who possess no independent thoughts or objectivity.


This is typical of the Democrats.
If you were to watch the entire
segment it tells a totally different story from what is shown here. Don't try to spoon feed your pablum to the thinking men and women of our country. If there is hate to be had, look at the likes of Pelosi and Reid. I am a independent voter and I would like to have my President and my country succeed. I just think in some individual instances he is going about it in the wrong way. For instance the President and his party are back at the game of wealth envy. I would ask the ordinary citizen to take a hard look at the wealthy, they more than likely have a degree or two, have worked hard to make their businesses or stock portfolio successful and also do most of the hiring of the middle and lower income people. So, let us not get caught up in this envy, put pull yourself up and emulate them.


Do we remember this quote?
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"I am sick and tired of people who call you unpatriotic if you debate this administration’s policies. We are Americans and have the right to participate and debate any administration."
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Or did that quote only apply during the Bush administarion?
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Conservatives, notice I didn't say Republicans, have a better answer that the throwing money at the problem and hope some of it works. A $1.7 TRILLION deficit for 2010 is not the answer. Nor $500 billion deficits for as far as the eye can see the answer.
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The dems are going to use Rush as their bogeyman, in order to deflect criticism from their Socialist agenda. The dems are not going to win on their ideas, so let's create a bogeyman to scare people.


Why is the Left so hate-filled?

And why do the Democrats bother spend money on ads? Why don't they just let their Swamp allies spread their message of hate?


bill r.

Mega Dittos. In general, elected Republicans just want to be loved and show u that they can $pend $ome $$$ too. Except for the $pending part, they are not much different than a good, faithful Retriver looking for some human interaction. Rush does not have much sway with the pols. We will get to see how a democrat ad campaign against Rush will play out. Dj would not think that he would be your best target, or your best use of spending $. Have a nice day.


It is fitting, I think, that Republicans are now being controlled by Limbaugh, the Frankenstein's monster that they created.


Well...that's settled. This ad will fail. May I ask each of you who you thought would win the presidency? May I also ask who thought the Obama is a muslim campaign would work? or Wright? or Ayers? or pallin around with terrorists?


bill r.

As Rush would surely say: "Elections have consequences." And as Django would say: " Your guy surely won", and that is why Dj is just some guy n Exile searching for more southernly refuge at this moment. The Wingnuts did not get together on this, but we apparently just don't see the political advantage, or co$t benefit, in attacking a Radio Guy, as smart and typically "right-on" as that radio guy may be. Rush does know democrats, though and he is probably happy to be the Go-To Demon for the Left. It surely would not be Arlen Spector. Have a nice day today.


Do we remember this quote?
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"I am sick and tired of people who call you unpatriotic if you debate this administration’s policies. We are Americans and have the right to participate and debate any administration."
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Or did that quote only apply during the Bush administarion?
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Conservatives, notice I didn't say Republicans, have a better answer that the throwing money at the problem and hope some of it works. A $1.7 TRILLION deficit for 2010 is not the answer. Nor $500 billion deficits for as far as the eye can see the answer.
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The dems are going to use Rush as their bogeyman, in order to deflect criticism from their Socialist agenda. The dems are not going to win on their ideas, so let's create a bogeyman to scare people.

Posted by: Terry | February 27, 2009 10:55 AM


Sure DO, Terr! And I agree with it. Then and now. It's not unpatriotic to debate this Administration's policies. Is "I hope the president fails" a debate?
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Now, as I recall, during the Bush administration, anyone who disagreed with The Decider was automatically at terrorist sympathizer or a traitor. Apparently THAT only applies when you're disagreeing with Republicans, huh?
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I'm not real thrilled with throwing money around, either. And I wasn't when Republicans were throwing money around like it was last week's garbage and they couldn't get rid of enough of it fast enough, either. If the Conservatives (notice I didn't say Republicans) ever disagreed with them, they sure kept their mouths real shut real good so as not to ire The Party. Don't recall much of a peep out of them during the whole 8 years. It's obvious, though, that leaving things alone won't work any better now than it did in 1929, under Hoover. If those Conservatives have a "better idea," they're not being real good at selling it. So far the only "better idea" they've put forth is "NO!!!!! We won't cooperate, and you can't make us!!"
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The Republicans used Dems to deflect THEIR neo-Nazi agenda, so if we're doing the same, I guess a bit of "what goes around comes around," applies. Maybe quoting your bud John D. would make the most sense to you: "I only give back what I get." Certainly, since THAT quote comes from one of your fellow Right-wing-bats, you'll appreciate its sagacity and agree it should apply the other way around, too.

And thanks for the "not going to win on their ideas" line. Coming from somebody whose party lost because of how stale THEIR ideas are (and, for the looks of things, will continue to be for quite a while), it's a real hoot!


Liberalism is a mental disorder. It is both oppressive and regressive, not progressive. It cheats,
discriminates, extorts, gauges, kills, lies, rapes, and steals for profit. Those are the results!


Also, Republicans earn flack for being liberal, not for being
conservative. Members of both liberalism and RINOism can
shove it up their butts!


bill r, who gives a rats a**. With the massive spending plan of the day, bailout of the week, taxes for the ages, and continued mounting obscene debt, the Dems are going to wrap up and present the conservatives a landslide in the next election. Drink that kool aid for a while! Rush is the itch you keep scratching but just gets worse. If you would stop listening to him and stay off his web site you may feel better. Try it for a day or two. Cold turkey is tough, maybe Flo can help.


Gosh Bubba...I think I heard you say that right before the election.

ps...Kool-aid is so...."dated".


Christopher, You diminish your message by quoting Michael Savage. Savage is the most incoherent nut job on the Republican talk radio programs. He went so low as to ask his listeners for money to pay for his civil law suit. A civil law suit asking for money from a non-profit organization. Hope you didn't send in a check.


Members of both liberalism and RINOism can
shove it up their butts!

Posted by: Christopher | February 27, 2009 12:52 PM


Nice diagnosis Dr Buttocks. Maybe you could wipe the foam off your mouth long enough to explain why you come to that conclusion. My guess is....you can't.


It amazes me how the Republicans can denigrate the Democrats for doing those very things that the Republicans did themselves while they were in power during the Bush administration. The Republicans ran a permanent campaign and bragged about it. The Republicans adopted the rules in Congress that prevented the Democrats from proposing bills - rules they want overturned now that they are in the minority. It was the Republicans who squandered surpluses and spent us into this financial crisis. They are definitely the "do as I say, not as I do party".


OPie,
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"Is "I hope the president fails" a debate?" It sure is when you put the quote with the rest of his statement.
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You are quating conseravtives and Republicans. They are not the same. There were plenty of us that were disgusted with the spending of the Bush administration. But as BO's first month has demonstrated, you can't out democrat a democrat. The GOP spent money fast, the dems are spending it at hyperspeed.
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Anytime anyone use Nazi in an arguement, I know he doesn't have a point.
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"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on
the support of Paul." -- George Bernard Shaw
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Have a nice day Paul.


Sure Terry. Debate is great.
But did you ever hear Limbaugh debate? No. Limbaugh hates and dictates.
Saying "no" to everything the President says isn't debate.


There were plenty of us that were disgusted with the spending of the Bush administration.
Posted by: Terry | February 27, 2009 2:11 PM

The problem with this Terry is that I have gone back to early 2006 in the swamp history and only see you touting Bush economy. Should I post a few for you? I see no "outrage or disgust".


Posted by: Terry | February 27, 2009 2:11 PM

Thanks Ter -- I get the same feeling every time I read one of your rants and know that YOU have no point, except "Golly Gee I Sure Do Hate Libbruls!" That make YOU feel any different? You quaking in YOUR boots over my superiority to you? Didn't think so, don't really need you to. Just don't expect any change from the other side, either. After we sweated through 8 years of Bush and his spending, Bush and his trampling on constitutional rights, Bush and his incompetence, all we heard from you was "Shut up! We know best!" As Bill R. comments, there was NO outrage coming from your side, just comments about Republicans being superior. Get USED to feeling what we felt. And get used to a whole lot of "SHUT UP!"

And for your information, I'm well acquainted with the difference between "Republican" and "Conservative." Conservatives are Republicans who now realize it's pointless to continue to support Bush and want everybody to forget they ever did.


Bull,
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You better keep looking becuase I have said the GOP spending was what lost Congress for the GOP for years. I also have said the Bush should have vetoed some of those spending bills.
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As far as 73 months of economic growth from Nov, 2001 thru Nov 2007, I will tout this as a great accomplishment caused by President Bush applying supply-side economics.
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Opie,
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Name one constitutional right of YOURS that was infringed upon.
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"all we heard from you was 'Shut up! We know best!' " Please show where I made this statement.
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Nice to see an honest loon flatliner "And get used to a whole lot of "SHUT UP!"". None of thsi post-partianship.
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Conservatives are those for smaller gov't and indidvidual freedom. Not the big spending of the federal gov't.
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"A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man,
which debt he proposes to pay off with your money."


I don't know that I would waste any money on an ad that mentioned the Replicans or Limboff.

Positive ads only.

Ads showing Barack explaining his initiatives.

Only positive, sunlit images of Obama and his program.

Is the kind of ad I wd. run.


Hey Repimplicans;
Remember at the end of the Clinton admin. we just started to pay down the Reagan debt?

Yep, the kids of the 80's had just started to pay that debt off, then GWB stepped in and put a stop to it.

Think 'trifecta'.


CM,
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Does BO's plan sound like soemthing that is going to pay the debt off?
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/22/budget-deficits-likely-to-mount/
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At that is with the bogus assumption of 4% GDP growth per year - every year for 10 years - no recessions. I guess Barry is back on the blow.


Hmm. I must have ticked Terry off BIG time! Good. I'm glad.

So, Ter.

Name one Constitutional right that Bush has infringed on for me? Well -- there's knowing my phones haven't been wiretapped without a warrant, for one. Oh, yeah, I know. Prove they've been tapped? The point is -- PROVE TO ME THEY HAVEN'T BEEN TAPPED. And why the specific limitations on ONLY MY rights? Do other peoples' rights not count? Is that more of your Republican "I got mine -- who CARES what your problem is?" crap?

Please tell you where you specifically told people to shut up? I was, of course, generalizing. As you do. Tell me where I said that I wanted our tax dollars to go toward the kind of spending you described. Tell me where I said I wanted more money out of the government for myself.

I absolutely have no argument with you on the only point you've actually made, ever: you hate liberals. It's your opinion and I don't argue it at all. You DO hate them. It's pointless to try to change that and quite frankly I don't care enough to make the effort. Hate me and all the other liberals all you want. It costs me nothing.

And since you get to define not only yourself but me, I claim the same right. A "Conservative" is EXACTLY a Republican who now wants to run away from having to claim responsibility for what their party did. Republicans use the same definition of their party as you do, so to claim distinction based on using exactly that same definition is ludicrous.

I'm claiming that Liberals are in favor of individual rights and the common good. Apparently, by hating liberals, you then would be in favor of taking away people's rights and denying the common good in favor of the benefit of those who think as you do. Oh, well -- no surprise there.

And let me make just one more distinction. The "Get used to it" and the "Shut up" are meant for you and the OTHER neo-Nazis who sabotaged our country (if you get to call me a Socialist, I get to call you a Nazi -- I've gotten over it and suggest you do the same), not for those who have something to say other than "Oh, I hate you I hate you I hate you I hate you!"
You can feel free to say the same back to me if it makes you feel better. I'll disregard it just like you would.

I get the feeling you're not as upset about robbing Peter to pay Paul, or even as much that you now regard me as Paul, as you are about realizing that you're NO LONGER Paul. It sure was fine with you when you guys were the ones paying yourselves.


Tickle-me-terri,

I have yet to see any proof of a recent pug even try to make an attempt of being fiscally responsible you fool. If you are for fiscal responsibility, you are really in the wrong party or else in candyland.

Aparently you did not historical research on your drivel, as you would find the decade of 1950 produced an average GDP growth of 4.47%, which is very relevent, as that was coming out of the last great depression. We are currently heading into the Great Bush Depression, so it would only make sense that at some point we will have an economy come roaring back after this mess. BO's numbers might be a little optimistic as far as a time line goes, but a 10 year stretch of 4% GDP growth has already been proven to exist in our history books. http://www.data360.org/dsg.aspx?Data_Set_Group_Id=274

Also the Clinton era nearly produced 10 consecutive years of growth.


Limbaugh should be run out of town!
the USA as well.
See link posted for more info.


Thanks,
Otis G.


Opie,
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Ticked me off? More like gave me a good laugh at your stupidity.
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I'm glad to know your phones HAVEN'T been wiretapped. Neither has mine.
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All you loon flatliners wine about your constitutional rights, but none of you can show where they were.
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I don't hate liberals. I just think that their ideas are stupid.
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Just so you know Nazi stands for National Socialist German Workers' Party. Sounds leftist to me. Based upon large gov't values.
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I'll leave with a quote to mull over while you are in mom and dad's basement (or did they put in the dorms to get you out of the house?)- "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the
blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of
misery."
-- Winston Churchill
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Horrible Form,
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You are correct, the GOP was not fiscally responsible during the past eight years. But as you mother probably taught you, "do two wrongs make a right"?
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As you forgot your history, the economic growth of the 50's (which included two recession totalling 18 months). What caused this great growth of the 50's - how about pent-up consumer demand from the FDR depresssion of the 30's and WW2? Do you forsee a ten-year depression and World War?
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How can the Clinton years produce 10 years of growth when he was only in office for 8? It could be that he inherited an economy that was 21 months removed from the end of the 1990-91 recession and when he left office, the economy was sliiping towards recession as the tech bubble burst.
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You are much better than Opie though.


Posted by: Terry | February 28, 2009 12:39 PM

"I'm glad to know your phones HAVEN'T been wiretapped. Neither has mine."

Read. I SHOULD have a right to not having my phones tapped without a warrant. Prove to me that right hasn't been infringed. Note also my question as to why it has to be MY RIGHTS ONLY.

"Just so you know Nazi stands for National Socialist German Workers' Party. Sounds leftist to me. Based upon large gov't values."

Nice that you can spew Party talking points so well. The Nazi Party used the word "Socialist" as a derogation of their opponents, the Social Democratic Party. And they bitterly opposed anything liberal, whether economic or social liberalism. They were a RIGHT, not a Left-wing Party, despite whatever semantics you might want to throw around. I'm not impressed.

"I'll leave with a quote to mull over while you are in mom and dad's basement (or did they put in the dorms to get you out of the house?)"

Well, as to the quote -- it's too bad that for all your ability to quote Churchill you've absorbed so little of his wisdom.

And as for the housing? Not that it's any of your business, but I own my own home, thank you very much, and I'm quite pleased with it. While I do have to thank Mom and Dad for their assistance through college, I paid them AND my college loans back. Before they died, my parents lived in MY home, and I most certainly did not have THEM housed in any basement.



The Nazis were a command-and-control large gov't - very much similar to today's left-wing flatliners.
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Gov't controlled economy - sound like a country that wants to provide for their citizens instead of one that let's its citizen determine their fate based upon that individual's achievment.
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Their social policies were also that of a large command-and-control, similar to that of today's left where the gov't knows best. Gun Control? Abortions? Politically correct speech
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Resembles more of today's American liberal than that of today's American conservative.


Terry, no matter how much you try to massage it, that line's a buncha crap and I'm not impressed. Nobody but Right-Wing Revisionists and propoganda spinners believe that the Nazi Party was left-wing.


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