Rolling Blunder? DNC's Rush Limbaugh billboard makes debut / DNC photo.
by Mark Silva
Let's give him something to talk about, in the memorable words of Bonnie Raitt:
Radio's Rush Limbaugh never seems short of subject matter with his afternoon show, but his friends at the Democratic National Committee - the ones who insist on elevating him to spokesman for the Republican Party -- are giving the commentator fresh fodder for commentary today.
The DNC says it is rolling a billboard into the hometown of the "golden microphone'' broadcaster who has broadcast his wishes for the failure of President Barack Obama's agenda.
"Americans didn't vote for a rush to failure,'' it reads.
The party says the traveling billboard will makes its debut in West Palm today. The message apparently is the winner of a DNC-sponsored contest that called on the party's supporters to submit a slogan answering Limbaugh's calls for Obama's failure. Limbaugh isn't alone among Republicans wishing failure on the Obama agenda.
Lois Frankel, mayor of West Palm Beach and one partisan Democratic trial lawyer who once ran for governor of Florida, will accompany the billboard at its kickoff, the party says.
One billboard, one radio show: Limbaugh only gets about three hours of response time this afternoon with an estimated national audience of 12 million. And Limbaugh's offer to Obama for a debate still stands, last we heard.
Comments
The Dems are in the White House and their running scared!. We have an administration that is flying by the seat of their pants. The job in Washington is a little larger than that of a community organizer, I really want the USA to be successful. But changing the war on terror, and the name on the site where the towers in New York and now our homeland security wants to put up a similar fence on the Canadian border. This seems to me to be a ship without a rudder.
Posted by: Paul | March 31, 2009 9:19 AM
I find it hysterically ironic that that billboard is echoing exactly what is emerging as most of the populist's attitude about Obama's policies. His rush to solve these problems are reckless. The solutions are complex and there should be more discussion/debate on what needs to be done. Yes, we need to do something, but doing the 'wrongthing' will makes things much worse.
Posted by: Its Obvious | March 31, 2009 9:47 AM
It amazes me. Where do these people get their news? As if we didn't know. Yes indeedy.....dems are running scared. Good call there. Another quotes "populist" anger as the problem. Yes indeedy again....ask Ron Paul about the republican party. The insight by these dinosaurs is deep indeed.
Posted by: bill r. | March 31, 2009 10:56 AM
Oh, the carbon footprint of that thing!
Posted by: UnfrozenCavegirlBlogger | March 31, 2009 11:02 AM
"I find it hysterically ironic that that billboard is echoing exactly what is emerging as most of the populist's attitude about Obama's policies." ???? Where did you get this bogus bit of info, from Rush? Most of the populist attitude is one of support. The only people who enjoy articles like this and support Rush are the shrinking radical right wing, which comprises less than 15% of the population of America. The radical right wing is becoming less American by the day.
Posted by: Judi M. | March 31, 2009 11:22 AM
All the right wingers can do is critisize, which is just hilarious after the job they did running the country. For the the Dems to ask the repubs advice would be like asking someone who just failed algebra to tutor you in it. You guys blew it. Where do you get off critisizing the president when your policies didn't work at all, you rail against big goverment yet under Bush you vastly expanded it, you rail against spending yet under Bush you spent like drunken sailors (Bush's last budget was 3.1 trillion, Obama's is 3.6 trillion with a bunch of stimulus money). You are all outraged at Obama's budget yet you had no outrage for Bush's lol Give me a break. You are all bitterely bipartisan and would never approve of anything the new administration does. With your track record I see that as a very very very good thing!!!!
Posted by: Dan | March 31, 2009 11:53 AM
Einstein once said "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
It is the disadvantaged who habitually elect Democrats - yet are still disadvantaged... hmmm...
Posted by: Old Mo | March 31, 2009 12:05 PM
Old Mo -- your quote actually fits the Republicans better. The cry for tax cuts, tax cuts and more tax cuts is one of the big reasons the U.S. is in the tank financially. Bush & Co.'s only answer to, everything, basically, was to cut taxes. Not raise them. Raising taxes give the government money to do the things it needs to do -- like fund wars, Bush's favorite past-time.
Posted by: Milw-Town | March 31, 2009 12:48 PM
bill r and Judi M. - look up the definition of a populist.
Milw-Town - Tax cuts weren't the problem - it was asinine spending on 'feel good' programs.
Politicians (including Presidents) need to have a better understanding of our Constitution and its amendments.
Actually I've always felt it should be a necessity for anybody before allowing them the priviledge to vote.
Posted by: A Craw | March 31, 2009 3:04 PM
A Craw -- the asinine spending was on the two wars that Bush started and never -- I repeat, never -- put into the budget. Bush started with a surplus, cut taxes to the wealthiest, gave out refund checks "because the money belongs to the people not the government," never disclosed the true financial costs of the two wars, never put that info in his budgets, continued to cut taxes, not raise them and wound up with a deficit. That is the very definition of asinine. Not "feel good" programs, as you call them, that help take care of the American citizens that need help.
Posted by: Milw-Town | March 31, 2009 5:03 PM
A Craw.....1: a member of a political party claiming to represent the common people ; especially often capitalized : a member of a United States political party formed in 1891 primarily to represent agrarian interests and to advocate the free coinage of silver and government control of monopolies
2: a believer in the rights, wisdom, or virtues of the common people
Common people? Doesn't sound like a republican talking point.
Posted by: bill r. | March 31, 2009 5:50 PM