I have undertaken the obscene task of listening to Rush Limbaugh to get to the bottom of what this drug addled delusional fool has been trying to say the last few days. And it is very clear: Rush Limbaugh hopes that the policies of President Obama fail.
Rachel Maddow had Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty on to discuss El Rushbo's recent and repeated statements that he hopes Obama's policies fail. Rachel kept saying that Rush was hoping Obama would fail, and wanted the Government to fail. The Governor rightly pointed out that Rush actually said that he hopes the policies fail, as if that was any better.
Rachel Held her ground, but she was wrong. And she then said something to the effect that it would be a bit more forgiveable if Rush was actually saying he only hoped the policies fail, and not the government. Instead, she should have torn the dig-dong Governor a new one.
The fact is what Rush wants is far worse than simply wanting Obama to fail! To want the polices to fail means that Rush hopes that millions of Americans will be severely hurt. Millions more would lose their jobs, insurance, and their homes. To hope Obama's policies fail is to hope that this country plunges into an irreversible depression.
To want Obama to fail to get his policies enacted would be one thing--to hope that Obama fails politically. But Rush isn't hoping that, he is hoping that the stimulus fails, thus hurting millions of Americans.
Democrats need to be very clear about this: Rush is not saying he hopes Obama fails, he hopes the country fails. Republicans are not the "Party of No," As Democrats have been saying lately, they are the Party of Failure, as clearly demonstrated by their head-honcho, El Rushbo.