politico.com - 3/1/2009
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Emanuel charges Sunday that conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh is the voice of the GOP.
huffingtonpost.com - 3/1/2009
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Not missing any opportunity to make Rush Limbaugh
the figurehead of the GOP, White House Chief of...
Staff Rahm Emanuel called the brash talk show host the "voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party" on Sunday. Appearing ...
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Emanuel: Rush Limbaugh Is The GOP’s Brain - With Video
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
Let’s see, Rahm … Limbaugh = GOP Brain Vs. Matthews/Olbermann = the DNC Brain.
Your point, Rahm?
Politico:
By MIKE ALLEN
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel charged Sunday that conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh is “the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party.”
Emanuel, speaking in deliberately soothing tones, told anchor Bob Schieffer on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that Limbaugh has been up front about “praying for failure” by President Obama.
“I think ...
CNN: Limbaugh’s angry, sinister speech “crossed a line”
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... on “This Week” this morning and Rahm Emanuel took full advantage by painting the GOP as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rush Inc . All part of the strategy to make the party’s approval rating among independents look ...
GOP Limbaugh label takes off
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
Over the past few weeks, there's been a slow-growing movement to label the Republican party as the party of Rush Limbaugh. It's been rather organic, not organized by anyone in particular, but you could tell it was bubbling out there. I think it now just exploded into a full-fledged problem for the Republican party. ...
Tom Watson: Limbaugh in the Lead: A Gift for Obama
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... President Obama, of course, is aware of this lumbering and clumsy gift from the right - so much so that he sent chief of staff Rahm Emanuel to Bob Schieffer's CBS studio this morning to declare Limbaugh "the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party." ...
Whither Rush
Sound Politics —
... ) and use his regular show to enunciate conservative ideas, regardless of whether not everyone in the GOP agrees (see McCain, John). That works. What doesn't work is Limbaugh = GOP. Democrats would l-o-v-e for that to be the case, with even people as senior as Rahm Emmanuel gleefully trying to make the case . What that does is attempt to paint the GOP as "conservatives only" in a world where neither party can survive without a broad coalition. Just as Democrats couldn't retake Congress without running socially conservative Democrats in key red districts, the GOP can't win ...
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Obama COS Rahm Emanuel: Rush is the GOP's brain Because Bush and Rove are gone
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