Rush Limbaugh: "I Think Obama Wants Me To Fail"

"You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done," President Obama told House Republicans during stimulus negotiations on Friday. Limbaugh has encouraged Republicans to oppose the stimulus plan because it would give Democrats an electoral advantage by creating new jobs. He's also said he wants President Obama to fail.

On the radio Monday, Limbaugh said Obama wished the same for him.

"He's obviously more frightened of me than he is Mitch McConnell. He's more frightened of me, then he is of say, John Boehner, which doesn't say much about our party," Limbaugh said.

Limbaugh today planned to unveil his own bipartisan plan to "resolve the fight over the stimulus package."

"I think Obama wants me to fail," Limbaugh said. "President Obama, by telling you and the elected Republicans in Washington to not listen to me because I am not how things get done in Washington, he has said that he wants me to fail.

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Comments

[Otiselevator]

Limbaugh needs to take an extended leave of absence, simple as that.
what type of people listen to AM radio anyway?

Please see : http://alice.bigbig.com/

[elsa12]

I too want Obama to fail. Obama failing to turn my country into a socialist state is what I pray for.

[research]

Fascism is so much better.....

[elsa12]

Your comment was inane.

[ceasespin]

Rush Limbaugh is a public relations juggernaut for the most ruthless of the top 10% of the wealthy who need to keep normal working people fighting amongst each other. His magic media formula: us vs them programming dupes people into voting against their own interests and making excuses when their republican political leaders fail them. There are countless millions of Rush followers who will not hold Bush responsible for the last 8 years of failed policies bringing our country to the brink of ruin. Rachel Maddow recently pointed out that many of the 100s of thousands freezing and without power, live in republican majority districts in the south, that didn't manage their infrastructure properly. As many of these citizens of the "self reliance" persuasion accept help from government, NGOs and anyone else who will lend a hand, I wonder how many still believe that government is the problem and not the answer.

[janice4335]

Everyone with a brain and a little humanity want you to fail, Rush. You know what you are!

[gaelfire]

LOL, well, I want you to fail, too, Rush.

I think it would be just peachy to wake up one day and hear that even your "Dodoheads" are sick of you. :-D

[Fiddlerman]

In re the storm about Rush Limbaugh: Why should anybody, leastwise the president of the United States, pay any attention to some loud-mouthed news commentator? For someone of his stature to say that he wishes the president of the country would fail is unpatriotic and totally senseless. We should all be supporting our president in every way possible even though we pay not agree 100% to his plans. These extremely critical times require men of real substance to step forward and take charge, and there is no room for small-minded sour grape comments from the news media. much of the blame for the cindition of the country can be placed directly on their doorsteps.

[jturbayne]

It's scary the way limblob has had so much influence on so many of the ignorant from the right wing!

[fuelrod]

and presidents clinton included...millions of liberals listen to him..

[staticnoise]

In the event Rush wants to create policy, why doesn't he run for office. I think he's scared he would be elected and would have to do real work for a change.

[ncmom54]

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[mssmith48]

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Consider writing or phoning them in protest, or else simply boycott their products if you choose.

[digvideo]

FLUSH RUSH

[ffny]

Rush Limpaugh the man who said drug dealers and USERS should be in prison!!!
Unless it's him Mr. Oxycotin.

If B.S. was dynamite Limpaugh would be broadcasting from an open air studio.

Our debt came under this past Rep. admin now they Conservatives want to stop the Progressives like they did for the past 8 count them 8 years.

Now that the Democrats are in office the Regressives seem to be afraid that they will see a rebuilding of our failing and falling infrastructure a chance to become what we once were a true leader in the world, and a chance to bring home our troops.

[SwissChocolate1]

Let's call theis "stimulus" package what it really is...a spending package, with no holds barred. From the beginning, the conservatives have said that Obama is a liberal spending machine, and from the looks of it, they are right~

[gaelfire]

So Bush gives a stimulus and what, it's a holy sacrament?

Bush's "stimulus," only stimulated the bankers to cut and run with the money.

[Thomas Kobyluk]

Well said SwissChoc!

@ gaelfire:

The "stimulus" was hurried through the vast democratic majority in Congress. They were so busy loading the bill with pork that they forgot to put safeguards in to ensure that those evil capitalist bankers couldn't cut and run with the money.

Why put a bunch of idiots who have no formal economics education in charge of our legislative branch? (do a little research, less than 20% of the elected legislators have any formal economics education! WOW!)

Throw these clowns out of office during the next election!

[Joel Ford]

Wow. This exchange really shows how truly and utterly despicable Rush Limbaugh is. He wants the president of the US to fail for the sake of his and his party's reputation - meaning that we ALL lose because of failed policies - and then whines that the president wants HIM to fail, which would result in loss for 1 single man, Rush Limbaugh. Wow. Just wow. Way to go Rush, way to show what a truly horrible person you are, void of compassion, void of reason...you really do deserve to fail, for the sake of your own immortal soul.

[melissamsouza]

Why is everyone trying to muzzle the GOP's mutts? Let them bark--bring on Rush and Sarah and Hannity..doesn't everyone realize that these freaks are actually GOOD for Democrats??--the more they spout, the more the Reps froth and fizzle, until they will virtually be no more...Alas...

[prosediva]

Maybe Rush will fail, and then he can bail some of us out with that freakin gold plated mic of his.