Limbaugh draws more partisan fire

Keep talking Rush....
Every utterance from him and every sychophantic apology to him from the republicans is further proof of how out of touch they are with mood and tone of the country. The mid terms should be interesting.

The man is a talk show host..duh? All of these talking heads say outrageous things. And let's be truly frank about Ted Kennedy. He is a murderer of a young lady who once lived in Massachussets. A lady that had a right to live like everyone else in this world, unmolested. He is a drunkard, and a partying animal at "au bar" that led to the rape of another young woman by -- you guessed it -- a Kennedy. His name, his money, and his politics have taken him beyond places anyone with his background has a right to go. He has fought for things, and so have Republicans, and others. So the wild left liberal leaning folks ram down everyone else's throats the never ending BS about Camelot, and the never ending BS about how much good this guy has done. I'm tired of it, and I guess it will just be another centerury or three before any of this has any hope of fading into the sunset.

Rush Limbaugh represents the Republican Party perfectly. Too bad conservatives don't know how to channel their righteous anger into something positive.

Kennedy suffers from something for which the survival statistics aren't great. Congress is typically very slow in implementing major legislation. Even though I think he's a big, fat idiot, it appears that Limbaugh is just connecting the dots. Getting all hysterical about this is a waste of time. The dems ought to show that they understand that America's biggest problem right now is the economy. And that would involve getting to work on seriously addressing the problem, not creating more pork-laden legislation.

Stop giving Limbaugh all this free publicity and start fixing America's problems!.

Disgusted in Boston

He is just trying to stay in the spotlight and will say anything that draws attention. It is all a show.....just like Howard Stern...only LESS entertaining !!!!

Ted Kennedy Memorial Healthcare Bill.... So what's wrong with Rush saying this - since that is probably what Obama will name the Bill???

Let me sum up the article. "We don't like Rush, so we're offended by everything he says."

Next thing you know, people will be demanding an apology when he tells someone to have a nice day.

Nice day? Does he know how many people died today? Or lost jobs? Or that it's raining and/or cold in some places? How DARE he suggest it's a nice day.

I don't know of a single Democrat who wished that the United States would fail in Iraq, or to protect the country from terrorism, or even wished that Bush's economic policies would fail. Being patriotic includes disagreeing about what will work, but when push comes to shove, hoping that the government fails only shows that Rush cares more about his Party than about the nation. It's disgraceful, really.

Rush has too long tried to have his cake and eat it too. He claims he is just an entertainer and his views shouldn't be taken as party line Republican Gospel, though he clearly believes they should. Now the party is in such a mess that he is their de facto leader. What a buffoon he is - they deserve him.

This is the beginning of the end of free speech.
Voltaire's words are becoming very relevant these days. He said: "I might not agree with what you are saying, but I will defend with my life your right to say it"
If we deviate from this, next thing we know, People will be storming the studio to lynch Rush.
We as a society must be careful not to go down that path. Listen to Voltaire.

Rush is a sick and disgusting man. What an embarrassment. I hope is runs for office.

what is wrong with republicans? 8 years we all suffered because 43 seemed the lesser of the two evils when it came to the voting booth. Now we have a good president and every American should stand beside him and trust his judgement because he is OUR PRESIDENT, the same way we all did for Bush until it was clear that he was doing his best to help the rich become more rich. Obama has it right...invest in the American people...spend our tax dollars on us, not on tearing down countries and building them back up...help us to make our country energy independent...spend our money on science and technology so we can again be the best nation in the world. it's not rocket science people...im also in the party of "no" just say "no" to the republicans until they can get thier heads out of you know where...

Rush is a hater. All his extreme rantings just get him more media attention and publicity. That's what he wants. Why keep listening to him?

This is to America United For Change......instead of focusing so much on what people say, whether you be Republican or Democrate, why not save all that energy and put the focus on what is happening in our country and getting down on your knees and asking God to heal it, because that is the only way it will right itself. If you take God out of the picture, there's nothing left.
Jh

I'm really starting to like this guy Limbaugh. He calls a spade a spade!

While Senator Kennedy is a poor choice for Rush to use to make his point, it is a powerful "2X4". While it's apparent that Rush has to get the attention of the American people, his mission is clear. The population needs to be educated about what is happening, and the longer the people are apathetic to their crisis,
the stronger the presidents fool hardy decisions will affect not only the economy, but the way of life we have come to take advantage of. Silencing Rush will only keep more and more uneducated will we become.

Limbaugh, the Pill Head Doughboy, and his fans need to be held accountable. If he doesn't speak for the majority of Republicans, let the GOP say so.

Why should the Republican Party have any say in what a media personality says in a supposedly free country? Are the Democrats responsible for everything (or anything) Michael Moore says? Or Keith Olbermann? This focus on Limbaugh "as leader" is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen in politics, and for the marching orders to be coming straight from the Administration is absurd and embarrassing.

Imagine if in 2004, when Farenheit 911 was all the rage and the Democrats were the party seen as "leaderless" and "rudderless," if Bush or his official spokesman had stepped up to a microphone and attempted to cast Moore as the "leader of the Democratic Party". The media would have correctly called out such a comment for the nonsense that it is.

Limbaugh is what he is...a loudmouth radio personality. For the party in power to obsess over him while the country is in shambles is a crime. Limbaugh means nothing to everyone except people who listen to Limbaugh...WHO CARES!

I would not call Rush the leader of the Republican party--not by a long shot. he is another extremeist nut with an agenda. Not my leader!

Limburger only has the power people give him. Just ignore him and study for yourself what is going on daily. Don't let any pundit think for you.

Rush and Palin are the best things to ever happen to the Democratic party.

Until the neocons get a clue, that will always be the case.

Any you know how long it takes neocons to get a clue.
We, our children, our children's children, etc will all be long dead before that happens, let alone dear Mr. Kennedy.

Rush is no worse than some of the comments I've heard from the far left over the years. I'am sick of the lies from both the left and the right while most of us are wanting the REAL change that was promised. The White House is wasteing time and money sicking their far left spin doctors on anyone that dares to talk bad about them. Has anyone ever heard the story about sticks and stones ?.

Seeing as how most republicans leaders depend on contributions from those who listen to Rush Limbaugh, saying he is their leader is entirely accurate. We've seen what happens when a republican dares to offend Rush. They have to come groveling to him for his forgiveness.

Why won't they just own up to his being their leader? The only difference between him and them is that Limbaugh says aloud what they themselves are afraid to.

Rather than what you wanted him to say, what Rush said was that the health care bill would likely be called the Kennedy memorial healthcare plan. Ted Kennedy is over 77 years old in poor health. No one is hoping that he will die! As a proponent of public health care for much of his career, it's no stretch to say the bill would be tied to him, much like Parkensen's research is tied to Michael J Fox or stem cell research was tied to Chris Reeve. Public sympathies play a big part in getting a bill passed, that's all that was said. Trying to read more into the statement is twisting the meaning to further attempt to demonize. Despite the democrats tender feelings, I don't see why anyone should apologize.

Will someone help this person. I've never heard such a "cry for help"! He's drowning in his own excretia as the opiates eat his guts and brain. He requires medical evaluation and a withdrawl program with counseling for at least 2-3 years. Maybe longer, maybe forever. He is a sick man.

I an certainly not a Rush L. fan by any strech of the imagination but I sincerely believe that the Dem Party and all ultra-libs are construing what Limbaugh said completely out of context.

I believe his intention was to illustrate that it will be a considerable period of time that any lasting and concrete health care system will be established simply becuase Congress never gets ANYTHING accomplished in a reasonalbe period of time.

For those of you too young to remember, Harry Truman(a Dem), presented Congress with a "proposal" for national health care in 1947. It took until 1965 to get what is now known as Medicare passed - a period of 18 years and that occurred because Lyndon Johnson promised the nation "a pie in the sky plan" that would not escalate in cost to any great degree. Barry Goldwater said it would break the nation and it has and it is only becoming worse.

Also, for those of you who don't and won't realize it, the federal government has not run ANY program with any degree of success nor within the constraints of their proposed costs structure as it was presented to the public. The government cannot "give" you anything unless they take it from someone who has worked and created the wealth. Government is not an income making enterprise - they are simply a tax, spend and regulate industry that is incompetent to the greatest possible degree.

It was their initial regulatory action in the House and Senate finance committes that created the mortgage chaos that we have just witnessed and neither Barney Franks or Chris Dodd have ever admitted that they were part of the problem. That is what politicians have come to. They are all nothing but pathological liars and we continue to not only believe these nincompoops but we continue to send them back to Washington to repeat their same stupid errors over and over again.

We now have a world financial crisis simply because these "government regulatory bodies" did not do their jobs - we now have one Ponzi scheme after another coming to the surface because "government" didn't do their job. Government has become nothing more than layer upon layer of inefficient bureaucracies managed by people appointed by our elected representatives who will ultimately continue to line their pockets once they leave office.

We presently are creating one of the most socialistic/welfare nations in the world. That is the "unstated agenda" of the present liberal Dems in office - I have observed this since 1932 with the election of FDR, an aristocratic Dem who would never have to endure the results of the legislation he hurridly forced down the nation in the same manner as Obama is forcing his present agenda. Instill panic, desperation, gloom and doom.

As a result we have proposed spending 800 billion dollars on programs that have no basis for their very existence. We have a president who has no concept of what is in the 1500 page bill that he signed and neither do any of the congress people. I would wager my life's savings that there was not one elected representative that read the bill cover to cover that could digest what was in it, much less the financial numbers.

We, the people, have failed ourselves. As one who is very close to 80 years of age I suggest that you young people take hold of your government and if you don't you may very well become citizens of China, Russia, Iran or Saudia Arabia for that is where Congress is borrowing all of the money for this "stimulus." Our enemy nations are revelling in our self-destructing ways and loaning us the money to do it. They will not have to fire a shot to take us over within the next 25 years.

Good luck to all of you that will have to live under their regimes.

Yes, that's it, you loopy lefties. Go after Rush Limbaugh, go git im, sic im. That'll help us restart the economy.

Let's see ... Rush is the leader of the Republican Party, so I guess we can also assume that Bill Ayers is the leader of the Democrats, right?

Sounds like AUC and the rest of the Dems and Liberals are a little threatened by Limbaugh. If everything he says is so wrong and off the wall why don't you all just ignore him and quit whining about it? Just dismiss him as a lunatic and move on with your lives. Too many Americans waste their time demanding justice for every little misdeed in their lives. Rush may be one of them, but you don't make yourself any better by fighting back. It's time liberals turned their cheek.

I love Rush. I love to hear him make a fool of himself.

I just love how this inept administration will try to do anything but focus on what is important in America, JOBS! No, lets raise a big stink about what a private citizen says on the radio. Let's throw more money down the drain with Stem Cell research - isn't this what private companies should be doing? Other than saying it does not violate the constitution, what on earth does the Gov't have to do with this issue?

No, let's do anything but recognize that it is the businesses in America that pay the salaries. Let's do anything but help these businesses to grow and create more jobs.

If you want a socialist government, then move out of the USA and have fun. I prefer to stay here and help our Republic to thrive!

You should listen to Rush before judging him. Ted Kennedy is a danger to our free society (and single women). It's funny that he demands social "justice" through healthcare...but is he willing to pay for it? Has he been donating his fortune? Are you donating yours?

Is Rush a little rough sometimes? Sure. But he's nothing in comparison with the remarks and trash talking coming from liberals.

#107 is right on. Liberals always want everything, but want me and others that take responsibility for our lives to pay for it. What did Rush say? His remark only states that the likelihood of reform occurring in the near future is glim. But, they will use Kennedy as a martyr for the cause..

Know what the difference is between Rush Limbaugh and the stock market? We know how low Rush will go. On second thought, maybe he hasn't hit bottom yet, either.

You democrats have it so right. It is a purely evil thought to this day in age have success, have wealth and have integrity. Why when you can share it with those who don't give a damn about their life, or the lives of their children they had that they couldn't afford. It is the successful man's responsibility to carry their burden.
Death happens, whether or not Ted Kennedy dies of a brain tumor, car accident, or asleep in his bed, its inevitable. How is that offensive?

Seems true to me. Health care refom will take years and years with wahington trying to do anything. We will all be dead before anything happens.

Lol. The democrats are always looking for a scapegoat to divert attention from their incompetence.

Attacking Rush just empowers him and makes Obama look weak. Keep it up dems your self destruction is happening at a record pace. The sad thing is that you are dragging the country down with you.

Rush knows better than most of the people posting here that it's all about the ratings for his show. It's the old addage I paraphrase here: "I don't care if you love me or hate me, just listen to my show." He will continue to grow and prosper so long as you listen to his show. Change channels, talk about something meaningful and he can become one of the unemployed. Keep listening to him and talking about him and you are promoting him. As far as I am concerned, I am done with him. I suggest oyu do the same.

Rush's job is to poop out of his mouth.

Rush, is right, about the fact that Democrats just wanted Bush to fail. If you say something similiar to what the democrats have said hundreds of times, the liberal media jumps all over you. You would think that they are the only ones who are ever right. Democratic liberals have nothing else to do but pick on Rush, because he carries the banner of truth. Democrats don't want the truth, they will believe any lie that is part of the Presidential position.

Rush has been making a killing off the ratings he gets from the ditto heads (which are generally poor, white, mentally unstable, racist southern people with little education). They are so vicious in their defense of their conservative leader, it reminds me of Islamic radical extremism.

You libs are sooo typical. Rush can barely open his mouth before you people are spouting off the same, tired "comebacks" about his past drug addiction, disability, etc. Get some new material or get going, people.

When will all of you DEMS start doing a little real research before you rant??
STOP listening to the mainstream media and start doing a little research and you will soon see that what Rush says is, or will probably come true. You poor wasted souls will soon be crying even louder when you figure out that the government does not, can not, and will not be able to live up to all of your expectations and you will still find yourselves penny less because you believe that everything is just simply an entitlement.

As a Democrat, I am THRILLED to see the GOP headed by such a ignorant big mouth loser!!!

People get your head out of your butts. Rush's comment that he hopes Obama fails simply states that Obamas recipe for recovery is a disaster. Period.!!! Why would anyone want to see the bad situation in our nation now get worse? His road to recovery is all wrong. He is listening to the wrong people who think they know it all.
I hope he does do it right and I will be all for him when he uses his head but he needs to listen to others and not the idiots in congress who don't get it.

Rush is a classic megalomaniac – comparing himself to GOD in his address to the RNC was proof of that. No doubt the conservative right holds Rush in such high regard, since the majority of them are also megalomaniacs who believe themselves to be a walking and unfortunately for the rest of us, talking deity.

I’m glad Rush is spouting off to a wider and more diverse crowd these days. I’m glad those of us who loathe the overblown gasbag can sit and watch the Republican party shred itself to pieces trying to distance itself from the man who is their de facto icon - singularly responsible for the momentum of the 90s conservative movement and the re-emergence of the Republicans as the party with the power.

I saw right through him years ago; a man with the gift of gab capitalizing by mocking Parkinson’s patients, showing video of Robert Reich from the nose up, and now pontificating our president fails in is quest to provide hope and a little positive spin on this woefully sordid economy left to us by one of his own.

Let’s all push for Rush to head the RNC!! He’s exactly what they need.

C.W. Hixson, Tn.

"Before it's all over, it'll be called the Ted Kennedy Memorial Healthcare Bill"

To those who have defended this remark. Would you do the same in a public forum?
You are just cowards hiding behind anonymity & Limbaugh. One thing I can say for Limbaugh - as bad as he is - he knows his audience, and he's got them where he wants them.

Rush ("How low can you go?") Limbo has a history or attacking others regardless of their state of physical health. Remember how he mocked Michael J Fox and basically accused him of faking his disease? This is just another low blow from Limbo. He owes Kennedy an on-air apology.

What difference does it make what health he's in? Call it what it is!
Metaphysically speaking, the body manifests what you really are anyway.
If I had let a person drown to death I wouldn't want to remember & what better way than have your brain eaten away.....

In case you Rush fans don't understand, let me explain the Democratic party's strategy in calling attention to Limbaugh's comments and pointing out that Rush is the leader of the conservative wing and of the larger Republican party. There is a core group of Limbaugh supporters that listen to his show and love Rush. There is a much larger group of people that sometimes listens to Rush, and they dislike him. There is a still larger group of people...Republicans, independents and Democrats who rarely if ever listen to fat Rush. The Democratic strategists hope that these folks will tune in to Rush's show, listen to him for a while, and hate what they hear. Hearing him will increase opposition to Repub philosophies.
that's fine. If he

george bush jr. ...patron saint of the republican party !

dobson and pat robertson.... spiritual leaders of the republican party !

rush limbaugh....philosohical leader and intellectual force of the republican party.

ha,ha,ha.

all southern republican snakes...oh well, that's the south for you, folks !

Maybe you Democrats can comment on the earmark pork in the spending bill for nearly 6 million dollars that goes to memoralizing Ted Kennedy's papers. I guess that was ok because again Liberals shaft all the American people to pay for your idolizing.
Also, have never gone along with sanitizing a person just because they are ill or dying. Kennedy is not a man to admire...a man who contributed to the death of another.....who defends a family member accused of rape....a legendary womaizer and drinker.....and who has used the Treasury as his own checking account to forward what he personally doesn't put his own money into.
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WHO CARES??!!

Seriously...Rush is NOT the head of the GOP. Even if he was--again, WHO CARES?!

I agree. Limbaugh DOES have the right to speak his mind. Unfortunately, the nature of one's mind determines the quality of what's said. The disgusting things that come out of his mouth lead me to believe it's an unimaginable mess inside that head of his. It's also unfortunate that he has such a prominent forum from which to spew his garbage, whereas so many reasonable minds are in their homes shaking their heads but unable to respond.

IN ANSWER TO POST 231, I THINK YOU ARE POPPING PILLS NOT RUSH, AMERICAS GREATEST FAMILY SURELY YOU JEST,JOE KENNEDY A BOOTLEGGER IN PROHIBITION, JOHN F KENNEDY A WOMANIZER WITH MONROE AND OTHERS WHILE BEING MARRIED, ROBERT KENNEDY IN BED WITH THE MOB TO GET HIS BROTHER ELECTED AND SLEEPING WITH MARILIN MONROE WHILE MARRIED, TED KENNEDY MURDERED MARY JO AND GOT AWAY WITH IT BECAUSE OF HIS FATHERS ILLEGALLY GAINED MONEY, THE TWO NEPHEWS THAT RAPED THE GIRL AT THE KENNEDY COMPOUND IN FLORIDA AND UNCLE TEDDY GOT IT SQUASHED NEED I GO ON, 231 YOU NEED A REALITY CHECK MY FAMILY IS ONE OF AMERICAS GREATEST RAISING A GOOD CHRISTIAN CHILD GOING TO WORK EVERY DAY TO SUPPORT THEM THATS A GREAT FAMILY NOW GO GET HELP FOR YOUR ILLNESS.

Rush's recent bloviating, indeed that of his entire career, is an attempt to deflect attention from the fact that he has a small wee-wee.

Obama's failing to turn the economy around? I suppose a 10+ trillion-dollar economy is supposed to change direction overnight. Go away rush as you're nothing but a loser.

The only people who think Rush is leader of the GOP are the Democrats. The Republicans haven't decided yet and in the meantime are just enjoying themselves listening to Rush and watching the Dems run around like a bunch of ants whose hill has been kicked. The fact that they just don't know what to do and are only making things worse would be funny if it didn't affect the rest of us. . .

Poor Rush, he is digging a grave that the Republican party will not be able to emerge from. Where are the sensible Republicans, who know that when you are in a hole, STOP DIGGING!!! Is this what it's become: Republicans vs. Democrats, with only the innocent getting mauled? Rush, STOP THIS INSANITY NOW!!!

For all of you who keep bringing up Rush's past drug use, don't forget that Obama has readily admitted to past COKE and MARIJAUNA use. Rush was injured and ended up adicted. What is Obama's excuse?

Screw republicans, screw pseudo-conservatives, screw neocons, screw the religious right. These four entities have been screwing over public progressive interest for there own agendas FOREVER! I'm just glad the Internets here to expose there usual media black-outed horrible wrong doings.

Also a new young generation that is fed up with its authoritative idea-log driven overlords has helped stoping the status-quo of the extremists in our government.
Embrace the future go go socialism instead of a class-ism divide to belittle racial, monetary limitations. What do people think mdeicare and socialsecurity are?

I agree. Limbaugh DOES have the right to speak his mind. Unfortunately, the nature of one's mind determines the quality of what's said. The disgusting things that come out of his mouth lead me to believe it's an unimaginable mess inside that head of his. It's also unfortunate that he has such a prominent forum from which to spew his garbage, whereas so many reasonable minds are in their homes shaking their heads but unable to respond.

Limbaugh's comments show the true feelings of a conversative -- none to speak of.... first he wants Obama to fail -- which means America fails -- now he says this about a member of the Senate...

This is what is wrong with the extreme right -- all mouth and no brains.... and definitely no compassion

Rush is a drug addict who runs to the Dominion Republic for sex with minors. What does one expect, although I do expect more from the Republican Party who screams family morals and values. Treason by Bush and his cohorts is acceptable, but Obama trying to wrong all the wrongs of the past 8 years is not.

I don't know why anyone listens to Rush. Just thinking about that obscenely fat ugly creature brings me to the brink of vomiting, listening to him would actually cause me to projectile vomit.

You should be tried and hanged for Treason! You are the most dispectable person in the U.S.A. You have nothing good to say about any person, but yourself.
You must hate the world and yourself included! I never known you say anything nice about a single democrat; you only thing about Republican Warmongragles, you and THE BUSHES belong together in HELL!!!

what amazes me is that there isn't enough americans to stand side by side and revolt against all these political maniacs (the house and senate) who THINK they know what is good for the american people. Not one of them and that includes Mr. Limbaugh know what it is like to live the middle class life! It no longer is "FOR THE PEOPLE" its for "THOSE PEOPLE". And it truly is a shame that "they" can't get it together and try and come up with some kind of solution for the better of "The People" Get rid of the "WE THE PEOPLE"

Rather than what you wanted him to say, what Rush said was that the health care bill would likely be called the Kennedy memorial healthcare plan. Ted Kennedy is over 77 years old in poor health. No one is hoping that he will die! As a proponent of public health care for much of his career, it's no stretch to say the bill would be tied to him, much like Parkensen's research is tied to Michael J Fox or stem cell research was tied to Chris Reeve. Public sympathies play a big part in getting a bill passed, that's all that was said. Trying to read more into the statement is twisting the meaning to further attempt to demonize. Despite the democrats tender feelings, I don't see why anyone should apologize.

In response to 333. How come you don't mention the 700 Billion to the banks. Is that cause McCain "suspended" his campaign for it. You say you don't like Limbaugh yet you use all the catch phrases he does. Just cause you have been around since 32 does not mean your conclusions are correct. If the republicans can show the people of this country a better option I believe we would be interested. So far the two I have seen from them are; Hope the president fails so they can say I told you so and Give more money to the rich..they'll be able to buy more expensive cars and keep the rest of us working........No sale here boss. Limbaugh can keep up the hate speech it worked great for us in the last election.

Limbaugh's words are ugly, ugly, ugly.

Ugly and incendiary.

Steele spoke the truth.

Just turn him off...................

Thats funny because Rush had a poll on this show today (3/9/09) from 2006 saying 50% of democrats in 2006 hoped G.W. Bush failed in Iraq and the war on terrorism.

Calm down, America. Wait until the midterm elections and then we can ask each republican candidate nationwide how much he or she loves limbaugh -- their opportunity to clarify who their leader is cometh.

All bow down to my because i have an opinion on something. Everyone needs to get a life and not get caught up in media's hoot 'n' nanny. Oh so and so said something that hurt my feelings, boo hoo. Every one is led to believe that were all special and unique, but were not. unless your a part of that small unique click of social elites who want nothing to do with us and will suck us dry.

Flashback: 2006 Poll Showed Most Democrats Wanted Bush to Fail

They just like to whine like their new chief Putz.

Have any of these bubblehead Bush/Limbaugh bashers EVER listened to a vitriolic hate-filled Keith Olbermann broadcast. Yes ... Rush hopes "The One's" policies fail ... but has he ever said he is "the worst person in the woooorrllldddd"

"...another socialist calling himself an American?" I don't know about you, but the last time I checked, the voters in America can vote socialist policies in if they want to and guess what? They are STILL AMERICANS! Whether I agree with someone or not, you won't find me calling someone anti-American because of it. And as for the "communist health care reform" - oh please. England and Canada have socialized medicine and they are not Communist Russia. I may not agree with it either, but you people have GOT to stop being knee-jerk reactionists and pay attention to what is actually being proposed and actually happening in this country.

If Obama was to name the new burger from McDonald's " The Greasy Rush" every GOP freak would call for impeachment. Except, Rush can take Senator Ted Kennedy and President Obama and role them up into an inapporiate and overall offensive joke about our Nations Health Care. Well done Rush! If you can get away with this remark, then your one step closer in being able to legally shoot someone in the face . Keep pushing Rush! You are well on your way to be the next Dick Cheney.

Rush, you think 100 times before you speak because your words can come back to you. Stop talking negative and keep up prayers for the success of our country rather than looking for follies provide a solution or just zip it up................

We heard the same thing from Dems about GW 2 and no one ever called them on that. The reason is that liberal talk radio fails time and time again, Air America anyone?
Truth be it that Obama is turning the country closer to socailism and if nationalizing banks, insurance companies, and oil isn't proof enough then I don't know what is.
As the saying goes, careful what you wish for......

let's keep in mind the fact that Rush is a hate-monger who needs to be silenced while Move-On.Org and Keith Olbermann are all above criticism regardless of the hateful tripe they spew.
The simple truth is that Rush Limbaugh's crime is keeping records and audio-tapes of assinine statements by liberal politicians and then playing those tapes back to the public when the truth needs to be known. For example, Rush played the tapes of lispy Al Gore advising the U.S. Senate...before Bush was elected... that Iraq had WMD's and military action might be necessary. (Oh yeah, "Bush lied.") The fact is that the left does not believe in freedom of speech or freedom of expression, and must target "straw-men" to divert the public's attention from the latest power-grab. Obama and his naziis have Limbaugh just like Hitler had "jewish bankers". Filth is filth, and in both cases the ignorant mob has supported the leftist while ignoring the first amendment.

LIMBALONEY IS MORE LIKE IT---SMART PEOPLE KNOW WHEN TO KEEP QUIET--HE IS JUST ANOTHER BLOWHARD BULLY WITH MORE COMING OUT OF HIS HUMUNGOUS MOUTH THAN OUT OF HIS BRAIN---I DON'T THINK HE IS STUPID---JUST IGNORANT AND WE SHOULD JUST IGNORE HIM--THE ONLY PLAY HE GETS IS FROM PEOPLE'S REACTION TO HIS BS--THIS IS WHAT THIS DRUG ADDICTED EGOMANIAC THRIVES ON---BESIDES PIZZA--CANDY--AND WHATEVER ELSE HE CAN STUFF INTO THAT PIE HOLE OF HIS!!

I think this whole discussion is hilarious. The Republicans are reaching for anything - even this Limmbaugh creature - in an attempt to regain power.
They really *really* want that power back. They just really WANT to tell people what o believe and think and do, and without the power to enforce it, they simply just get frustrated.

While the Dems are doing the typical Dem thing- trying to be fair, reasonable, and to listen to both sides.

(*sigh*)

God save us all....

Since 2006, the Republicans have been politically passing away. Like all elephants before them they are hunting for a burial ground. It might be suggested to them that the last of them could parade to the estate of their largest remaining pachyderm and join Rush in their final act.

Personally I tire of all the two party bickering. The Republicans and the Democrats both have their own agenda and neither has helped the country. Maybe it is time for a change, a change to a third party. After all, what a choice we have, the Republicans in power and watch them steal away monies in the name of "Capitalism" or have the Democrats in power and watch them steal all middle class Americans money in the name of taxes. WAKE UP AMERICA!

Yes, no Democratic leader has ever uttered an offensive word towards a Republican. But it seems the party of "tolerance" seems to get all in a snit when the shoe is on the other foot. Yes we have to be able to clothe and feed our families, but not off of the backs of those who work hard to make that possible for their own families. Liberals think somebody else should pay for their homes, food and healthcare. Healthcare will never be free. Everyone loves to hold Canada up as an example of "free health care", but having lived there it is by no means free. They have very high taxes, and not just income taxes. They have PST and GST, which are a provincial tax and a federal tax which add up to 14% on most purchases, and
you have to wait, sometimes up to six months for critical procedures. Well, maybe you libs should go live in Canada and leave the rest of us with our freedom, and money. You can keep the "change" .

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awfully hard not to read something into the kennedy reference after said regarding michael fox. frankly i do not think he has a shred of decency based on the record he has established over the years. to say otherwise totally ignores the facts. roger

A wonderful, and wonderfully accurate remark from Frank Shaeffer on D.L. Hughly's show last night:
"Rush Limbaugh and the Neo-Cons are NOT in the majority. They are the two or three loud, obnoxious drunks at the front of the train, disturbing the rest of the passengers."

In other words, they're not the biggest, they're not the strongest, they're not the most numerous - they're simply the loudest and the most obnoxious. And they're annoying as hell!

Limbaugh is only so grossly popular because in America, outrageous, blustering belicosity sells, as does stupidity. Just like silly comedys and violent horror flicks.

Rush's comments make me think that he is a Republican first and an American second...

If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen!
Limbaugh's words are not as ugly as Kennedy's life.
But Limbaugh's words are just closer to the truth than what the president and the politicins of both parties are uttering.

Hey Obamatons... Your candidate WON. The DemocRATS CONTROL the White House, and BOTH the Senate and House of Representatives.
Aren't the Republicans disgraced, defeated, neutered, IRRELEVANT?????? You can pass ANY laws you want, short of a Supreme Court challenge, so.......
Why so much fuss about windbag Limbaugh? Why are you so AFRAID of what he is saying? Why are you so AFRAID of a party that is powerless and on the downslide? Is it because when people finally see your National Socialist (NAZI) agenda they will turn on you and your pipe dreams of government bailout for everyone but the middle class? This is your best shot at setting up your totalitarian
cradle-to-grave authoritarian state where everyone must say and believe all the same things and everyone works 12 hour days for the state and only the state (also known as The Messiah, your tin god Obama)

what do you expect from the republican party. its been run by the liar and crook george bush, drug addict rush limbough, and dried up old hag ann coulter who offends everybody. just let them go and hope the next election is as good as this one was.

It is hoped that Jaynum was jesting when he referred to the socialist left as "progressive" and cheered for a socialist future. jaynum needs to live under these "progressives" before braying his nonsense. Perhaps Jaynum would like to visit our former home in Hungary, where I could show him where the "progressives" seized private property, silenced opposition speech, allowed massive pollution by heavy industry and then silenced environmentalists, and rationed health care while allowing "non-useful" citizens to simply die. Then I will take jaynum to the border with Austria and show him where the "progressives" machine-gunned members of my family when they tried to emigrate to the evil capitalist west and its reactionary neo-con policies. I am sick of the ignorant people who bray for a system of "progressive" government they do not understand.

You nitwits! The fact you pay attention to this nonsense "spin and politics", regardless of what side of the fence it somes from, is exactly why the politicians do it instead of concentrating on achieving something meaningful.

Got something to complain about your leaders? Look in the mirror -- WE elected them, and then we encourage them with our penchant for gossip.

I honestly have a few questions. First, what part of Obama's plans don't make sense? And second, even if Obama's ideas were difficult or overly optimistic, wouldn't it be more helpful to just go with the current instead of bitterly criticizing and shutting down what seems to be our only course of action? The Republicans can be overruled on anything now, so can't they just support what they know makes sense? I do understand that when the Dems rolled over in the Bush administration, it didn't work out so well, but still...Anyone who has anything to say about Ted Kennedy, let me explain to you that every politician uses some dishonest or immoral tactic...Both Bushes certainly did, and Obama probably will.

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Anything that can send the left into such a tizzy can't be all bad. Now that GW is gone and they can no longer blame him, the need a scapegoat and there's no one better than Rush Limbaugh. And for you who keep harping on his former drug addiction? Just remember, he was injured and became addicted to prescribed pain killers. Obama has admitted to ILLEGAL use of cocaine and marijuana and YOU voted to make him PRESIDENT! Nice try:)

I have listened to Rush since 1989.At 73 I have seen the good and the bad of politics and its participants.Without the input from Rush,Hannity Caulder and their ilk,the reports we the citizens receive form the leftest press would be as lop sided as the Andrea Doria. I enjoy the humor that LImbaugh diplays as apposed to the humorless libs. I dont need Rush to show me how this administration personifies the "peter principle"That is rising to your own level of incompetancy for you Obama voters. After reading most of the blogs here in I am convinces we need Rush more than ever.

hes getting listeners that all he cares about in fact were all supporting him by giving him all this attention

It's clear from reading most the the comments on here that you Rush bashers are not listeners. Rush is not any of the things you accuse him of. He's really not even pompus. He tries to teach you people by being as absurd as you are. He mostly talks with his tongue in his cheek. You guys are just too constipated to realize it.

All that being said, it's time for Sen. Kennedy to resign so that the citizens of Massachusetts can be better served. Why does he not have the sense to do so himself? Perhaps he already lacks capacity, and the retinue that profit from his staying in office, including his sycophant staff, fear the near future and prop him up like others did for Franco, or ... Bobby Byrd. Let's move on, folks. We have too many real crises to obsess about this. We do need leadership with the capacity to understand our problems and propose solutions.

I am a republican; Rush does not speak for me. But every idiot that has down played Rush and says Dems are great are the jokers who voted for the ma state pols that caused the mess that we are in today. Tax and spend the people to death. The revolt is coming and the idiots that lives in the state of MA and think DEM spending is great should move to RUSSIA. We live in the communist state of MA. HELLO COMMRADE. VOTE OUT THE SPEND AND TAX POLS NOW!!!!!