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DCCC Chairman Chris Van Hollen Condemns Rush Limbaugh’s Comment Hoping President Obama Fails - Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
The tax plan that Obama is putting forward is getting even less popular with other Democrats in Congress than getting a payday loan is. Yesterday, he unveiled his American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan. Republicans agreed with it by and large, but disagreed about giving handouts to states to ...
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DCCC Chairman Chris Van Hollen Condemns Rush Limbaugh’s Comment Hoping President Obama Fails
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truthCondemnation is good, but a joint resolution of Congress admonishing him would be even better. "Rush Limbaugh's reprehensible remark that he ‘hopes' President Obama fails to meet the extraordinary economic challenges Americas face has no place in the public discourse. "Mr. Limbaugh's comments politicize the economic struggle of millions of hard working Americans. With the unemployment rate over seven percent, today's news that 62,000 more Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, and millions of Americans struggling to keep their health care and ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — ... it's not a demand that Republicans "quit listening" to Limbaugh -- it's an assertion that nothing's going to get done in a bipartisan way if Republicans adopt Limbaugh's stand-athwart-history-yelling-stop posture of resistance. And, of course, the other recent Obama statement that has right-wingers' knickers in a twist is also a plain statement of fact: he did win. Democrats won. The public wants the page turned. On the other hand, I'm uncomfortable with this, for a couple of reasons: DCCC Chairman Chris Van Hollen released the following ...

Outrage Continues To Build As Limbaugh's Hateful Remarks Repulse Most Americans But Seem To Inspire More GOP Members Of Congress
DownWithTyranny! — ... Earlier Maryland congressman and chair of the DCCC, Chris Van Hollen, actually released an official statement on the DCCC website about Limbaugh's remarks. ...

Howie Klein: Republicans In Congress Get Behind Limbaugh's Call For Obstructionism & Failure
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Earlier Maryland congressman and chair of the DCCC, Chris Van Hollen, actually released an official statement on the DCCC website about Limbaugh's remarks. ...

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