Will Senate Republicans Rescue House GOP?
Politics Daily — ... As Obama reminded them last week, he won, precisely because the American people are fed up with partisan "Stop" signs. Nobody wants to hear Rush Limbaugh's noise anymore. The Republicans have too much baggage, yet not a lot of weight to throw around. ...

Limbaugh: We Need Stimulus, Not "Porkulus"
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... The talk show king-- and recent Obama sparring partner-- offers his own stimulus proposal in the WSJ. "I don't believe (Obama's) is a 'stimulus plan' at all -- I don't think it stimulates anything but the Democratic Party."       ...

Limbaugh’s bipartisan compromise
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... How badly have the Democrats bungled against Rush Limbaugh this past week?  They provided him an opening to look less partisan than themselves, and he’s taken it with both hands .  While Nancy Pelosi refused to negotiate with her Republican counterparts and stuffed the stimulus bill with Democratic power-building pork, Limbaugh offers a rather common-sense compromise that acknowledges Democratic gains and gives both tax-cutting and public-works approaches a chance to compete: Rasmussen finds that 59% fear that Congress and the president will increase government spending too ...

Quote of the Day (So Far!)
Weekly Standard Blog — Limbaugh: "Fifty-three percent of American voters voted for Barack Obama; 46% voted for John McCain, and 1% voted for wackos." Seriously, though, Limbaugh's stimulus compromise is a novel idea. (Though he ought to propose a payroll tax cut rather than cuts in the capital gains and corporate tax rates.)

Morning Skim: The Stimulus Vote . . . and a Holder Deal?
Opinionator — ... Yesterday, I was not optimistic about the politics of the stimulus bill. Now I think that it’s a Category Three Schiavo Political Event for Republicans. Wall Street Journal : Rush Limbaugh offers a stimulus proposal , based on the 2008 presidential vote: Let’s say the vote was 54% to 46%. As a way to bring the country together and at the same time determine the most effective way to deal with recessions, under the Obama-Limbaugh Stimulus Plan of 2009: 54% of the $900 billion — $486 billion — will be spent on infrastructure and pork as defined by Mr. Obama and the Democrats; ...

The GOP and Limbaugh
Balloon Juice — ... Apparently the GOP (or at least Rush), wants Rush Limbaugh to be the voice of the GOP, as he is proposing “his” stimulus package on the pages of the WSJ: ...

Limbaugh Wants Meeting With Obama
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... The talk radio king says Thursday he wants to personally present a stimulus proposal to the president. “I am ready to build a road, build a bridge ... to the White House.” Read Thursday's WSJ op-ed on plan here.       ...

How Will Media Cover Rush Limbaugh's Bipartisan Stimulus Plan?
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... economy going. As not one Republican voted for President Obama's economic package in the House Wednesday despite his campaign promises to usher in a new era of bipartisanship, given the media's focus on Limbaugh of late one would expect his now-published plan to get oodles of press attention. Will it, and if it does will Obama-loving media members seriously consider the details or quickly dismiss it because of its origin? As you ponder, here are some of Limbaugh's suggestions:  Fifty-three percent of American voters voted for Barack Obama; ...

Rush Limbaugh’s Bipartisan Stimulus Plan - With Video
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — WSJ: My Bipartisan Stimulus Let’s cut taxes, as I want, and spend more, as Obama would like. By RUSH LIMBAUGH There’s a serious debate in this country as to how best to end the recession. The average recession will last five to 11 months; the average recovery will last six years. Recessions will end on their own if they’re left alone. What can make the recession worse is the wrong kind of government intervention. I believe the wrong kind is precisely what President Barack Obama has proposed. I ...

Suddenly, the President Learns That Rush Is a Smart Man with Time on His Hands
The Sundries Shack — ... think about it. See, once you get that guy’s undivided attention, he’ll spend a good chunk of that thinking time figuring ways to make you look like an absolute idiot. It’s turning out that Rush Limbaugh is one of those guys. President Obama jumped into Rush’s stuff and he’s spent the past two days making the President look very foolish. Limbaugh’s latest volley is a stroke of genius, so far as I’m concerned. He’s has taken the President up on his offer of bipartisan cooperation and has offered a compromise stimulus bill . The nut of the suggestion is this: Fifty-three ...

How Arrogant and Stupid? This Arrogant and Stupid
Daily Pundit — Rush Limbaugh: My Bipartisan Stimulus - WSJ.com Fifty-three percent of American voters voted for Barack Obama; 46% voted for John McCain, and 1% voted for wackos. Give that 1% to President Obama. Let’s say the vote was 54% to 46%. As a way to bring the country together and at the same time determine the most effective way to deal with recessions, under the Obama-Limbaugh Stimulus Plan of 2009: 54% of the $900 billion — $486 billion — will be spent on infrastructure and pork as defined by Mr. Obama and the Democrats; 46% — $414 ...

"oh yeah? well, just for that, we're going to sh*t in our bed again!"
skippy the bush kangaroo — ... apparently the gop (or at least rush), wants rush limbaugh to be the voice of the gop, as he is proposing “his” stimulus package on the pages of the wsj: ...

The GOP: Tripling Down on the Shrinking Base
Firedoglake — ... Republicans have concluded that they lost because they let their base down and weren’t conservative enough. Even though Obama received a higher percentage of the popular vote than Reagan did in 1980, the GOP’s response to this palpable shift in the electorate has been to obsess about the Fairness Doctrine and FOCA, repeat “center-right nation” like a mantra, publicly grovel before Rush Limbaugh while letting the drug-addicted college dropout set ecomonic policy, and unanimously reject the extremely-popular new president's first ...

Kudlow: Shelve the Stimulus
Articles on National Review Online — ... the Democrat package in Wednesday morning s Wall Street Journal , describing it as heavily weighted toward direct government spending, transfers to state and local governments, and tax changes that have virtually no effect on marginal tax rates. Instead, Lindsey proposes a big payroll tax cut that would slice three points off the rate for both employer and employee. Rush Limbaugh also made an appearance in the Journal . He has a clever idea to give Obama 54 percent of the $900 billion package — equating that amount to the new president s electoral majority — while 46 ...

Links for 2009-01-29 [del.icio.us]
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... Federal authorities are investigating the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles to see whether top church officials tried to cover up the sexual abuse of minors by priests, said a person familiar with the matter. A federal grand jury has issued subpoenas and begun calling witnesses in the probe, which began late last year, said this person. The investigation is still in its early, fact-gathering stage, and it isn't known whether any criminal charges will result. Rush Limbaugh: My Bipartisan Stimulus - HR 1 = PORKULUS There's a serious debate in this ...

links for 2009-01-30
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... (tags: barack_obama) Rush Limbaugh: My Bipartisan Stimulus - HR 1 = PORKULUS There's a serious debate in this country as to how best to end the recession. The average recession will last five to 11 months; the average recovery will ...

Rushing To Get A BiPartisan Stimulus
Classical Values — ... to go.) You can read the whole thing here . But let me quote this choice excerpt. Fifty-three percent of American voters voted for Barack Obama; 46% voted for John McCain, and 1% voted for wackos. Give that 1% to President Obama. Let's say the vote was 54% to 46%. As a way to bring the country together and at the same time determine the most effective way to deal with recessions, under the Obama-Limbaugh Stimulus Plan of 2009: 54% of the $900 billion -- $486 billion -- will be spent on infrastructure and pork as defined by Mr. Obama and the Democrats; 46% -- $414 billion -- ...

Republicans for Fiscal Irresponsibility?
The Next Right — ... Also at the Wall Street Journal, Rush Limbaugh proposes his stimulus plan, which allows Obama to spend $486 billion as he sees fit and for Limbaugh to be able to direct $414 billion toward tax cuts as he sees fit.  To be sure, Limbaugh's suggestion is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but it is also lacking the same words as Noonan's article: deficit, balanced budget, and debt. ...

Economy shrinks at 3.8: It'll be interesting to see the Press Corps get laid off
Crooks and Liars — ... "If the Republican Party's goal is to cheer Rush Limbaugh, they're welcome to," Greenberg told a group of reporters, alluding to the radio talk-show host who's referred to the economic package as a "porkulus" bill. ...

Larwyn's Link Kerplosion: "Billions on welfare, not a cent for defense"
Doug Ross @ Journal — [image] 200 Top Economists: "Stimulus" Won't Work : Gateway Pundit Teetering on Complete Collapse : Organized Exploitation Aboard Air Force One : The Anchoress My bi-bartisan stimulus : WSJ (Rush Limbaugh) New anti-Limbaugh attack ad to air : Radio Equalizer Olbermann bloviates his way to ratings oblivion : Age of Pericles Nationalized Health Care arrives via "Stimulus" Porkfest : Hot Air Britain awakens : Ace o' Spades Change! Obama sends $20 Million to Hamas : JWF Voter Identification Laws Were a ...

Conservatives' Profoundest Fear: What if Obama succeeds?
Crooks and Liars — ... So Rush Limbaugh can pen all the worthless split-the-baby-in-two proposals for economic stimulus he likes, and House Republicans can toss out all the tax-cut-heavy alternatives they like. And no one will take them seriously, because we've heard these proposals before -- for the past eight years, in fact. They've been nothing but a recipe for failure and disaster. Why would anyone want to take that course now? ...

Weekend Opinionator: Barack Obama, Culture Warrior?
Opinionator — ... Americans want a recess from ugliness, but that’s not how history works. The winning of wars brings clarity and direction. And the West could use heavy doses of both at the moment. O.K., even if you don’t think the culture wars haven’t reached this sort of epochal level, it’s hard to make the claim they’re in abeyance, given NBC’s rejection of an anti-abortion group’s ad during the Super Bowl; the Obama administration’s dismissal of AIDS relief czar Mark Dybul ; Rush Limbaugh’s emergence as the torch-bearer for Republican opposition to the stimulus package; ...

Conservatives' Profoundest Fear: What if Obama succeeds?
Orcinus — ... So Rush Limbaugh can pen all the worthless split-the-baby-in-two proposals for economic stimulus he likes, and House Republicans can toss out all the tax-cut-heavy alternatives they like. And no one will take them seriously, because we've heard these proposals before -- for the past eight years, in fact. They've been nothing but a recipe for failure and disaster. Why would anyone want to take that course now? ...

Newsflash: Ronald Reagan Raised Taxes (You Idiots)
Firedoglake — ... DeMint is part of a high pyramid of historical revisionists who are in denial about Reagan's legacy of taxation.   But he's sitting on the fat heads of conservative pundits, neocon fantasists and professional gasbags like Rush Limbaugh: ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — "CENTRIST" PLAN, LIMBAUGH PLAN: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? A couple of percentage points at most, that's what the difference is. Remember Rush Limbaugh's plan, as explained in a arrogant January 29 Wall Street Journal op-ed? ... Fifty-three percent of American voters voted for Barack Obama; 46% voted for John McCain, and 1% voted for wackos. Give that 1% to President Obama. Let's say the vote was 54% to 46%. As a way to bring the country together and at the same time determine the most effective way to deal with recessions, under the ...

GOP Leaders Embrace Rush Limbaugh As Their ‘Unofficial Leader’
Think Progress — ... in the Wall Street Journal, “This ‘porkulus’ bill is designed to repair the Democratic Party’s power losses from the 1990s forward, and to cement the party’s majority power for decades.” ...

Right-Wing Senators Praised ?Humane? Conditions At Gitmo During 50-Detainee ?Mass Hunger Strike?
The Hollywood Liberal — ... in the Wall Street Journal, “This ‘porkulus’ bill is designed to repair the Democratic Party’s power losses from the 1990s forward, and to cement the party’s majority power for decades.” Eventually, Limbaugh’s phrase trickled down to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), who embraced the term. Watch it: Bloomberg’s Hans Nichols wrote recently, “Every superhero ...

The Unseen Hand Of Arlen Specter?
The American Spectator — ... on 2.11.09 @ 1:42PM Questions. * Will Arlen Specter press his colleagues to allow C-SPAN cameras in the House-Senate conference on the trillion dollar stimulus bill? * Has the controversial left-wing activist group ACORN had its ability to get millions in federal pork stripped out of the Senate version of the stimulus bill? * And does the percentage of spending versus tax cuts in the Senate bill resemble a proposal put forward recently on the pages of the Wall Street Journal by the nation's number one conservative radio talk show host -- Rush Limbaugh? These are but ...

Eric Williams: Nattering Nabobs of Negativism '09
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Under the premise of taking a slightly more cooperative tack, Limbaugh put forth the "Obama-Limbaugh Stimulus Plan of 2009," in which 54% (Obama's share of the popular vote, plus the 1% who voted for "wackos") of the stimulus money would be "spent on infrastructure and pork as defined by Mr. Obama and the Democrats," while 46% (equivalent to Senator McCain's slice of the electorate) would go to Limbaugh-approved tax cuts. "Then we compare," said Limbaugh. "We see which stimulus actually works. This is bipartisanship!" ...

The audacious lack of bipartisanship
Betsy's Page — ... Pelosi and Reid to steamroll over the minority and get somewhere between 90 and 100% of what they wanted with the help of those individual senators who got those "certain political rewards" by going along with the majority. The funny thing is that if Obama had wanted to be truly bipartisan, he could have done that so easily. With almost $800 billion dollars at play, he could have given on some of the tax proposals that conservatives wanted. He didn't have to go all the way over to Rush Limbaugh's proposed bipartisan plan that gave the Republicans 46% of the stimulus in tax ...

Larwyn's Linx: Prez outside law in IG firing
Doug Ross @ Journal — ... isn't feeling the love : SIGIS US spending hundreds of millions to arm, train Palestinians : JPost Sham Elections Expose Non-Policy : Foundry Economy GE Capital Is Back In The Game To Win It : ZeroHedge Geithner blames CEOs for financial crisis : S We're going to spend $3 trillion to 'reduce costs' : EIB Obama Federal Blueprint Creates More Bureaucracy : WaPo 11% minimum wage increase will lead to 300K lost jobs : EnvEcon Flashback: My Bipartisan Stimulus : Limbaugh Media Why Palin should appear on Letterman : ...

Palin wrote an op-ed? Right and I can see Alaska from my house...
At-Largely — Adding another glue-sniffer to their ever expanding list of birthers , criminals , torture apologists , commie-fearing extremists , the Wall Street Murdoch published a fairy tale today , ghost written - my guess - by a lobbyist. The by-line, however, attributes this "death panel" propaganda to Sarah Palin - a permanent resident of Glennbeckistan - busy fearing a socialist uprising while promoting a right-wing uprising. I just don't buy it. Look at all the big words in this one paragraph alone:Tell the truth Sarah, who actually wrote this op-ed? ...