Leading House GOPer Agrees With Rush Limbaugh, Wants Obama To Fail

[babylonsister]

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Leading House GOPer Agrees With Rush Limbaugh, Wants Obama To Fail
By Eric Kleefeld - March 4, 2009, 9:17AM
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Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), who is the third-highest member of the House GOP in his role as conference chairman, appeared yesterday on CNN and quite loudly agreed with Rush Limbaugh -- he wants President Obama to fail:

Rick Sanchez: Do you want Barack Obama to fail?

Pence: Oh, come on, Rick. Nice try. I know what Rush Limbaugh meant. I actually listened to him about a month ago when he made this point on the air. I heard much of his speech on Saturday.

Look, everybody wants America to succeed. But everyone like me, like Rush Limbaugh and others who believes in limited government, who believes in conservative values, wants the policies that this administration is bringing forward -- higher taxes, a massive increase in government spending, a huge increase in the role of government in our daily lives, a departure from traditional values -- you bet, we want those policies to fail.

Because, Rick, we know big government, increases in debt, the micromanagement of the economy out of Washington, D.C. is a policy that will fail. It has failed throughout the last century, across the globe...

(Transcript via Nexis.)

Now let's think about this for a minute. When the stimulus bill was just on the verge of final passage, Rush Limbaugh said the following, still posted on his Web site: "And after this stimulus bill package passes, I want it to fail."

And Pence says here that he's a Rush-listener. So please, tell us what Rush really means when he says he wants Obama and his policies to fail.

[47of74]

1. I say when the stimulus money is doled out

His district should be pretty far down there when it comes to getting said money.

[babylonsister]

4. It's being doled out and used constructively already...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5181756&mesg_id=5181756

[BuyingThyme]

2. That's "POLer."

[bdamomma]

3. how sad to give such a jerk like Rush all this attention.

the repigs are just idiots.

[KharmaTrain]

5. Breaking News: Sun Rises In East

Mittens Romney is stupified. :rofl

If you look in the latest Webster's under the word asshat, Pence's picture is used for the definition.

:rofl:

[babylonsister]

8. He does seem to be pretty dimwitted, doesn't he. And he's the

#3 guy in the GOP? Yes, I'd say they have some problems. :D

[msongs]

6. so did the retarded Rick Sanchez call the guy on his lies? nt

[Postman]

7. Here's what he's really against.....

Higher taxes on those that can afford to pay them that haven't been paying them....

Massive increases in government spending that help Americans instead of wealthy corporate interests..

......just wtf is a huge increase in the role of government in our daily lives? Government regulation requiring safe food, toys and medicine's? Regulated financial dealings that prevent economic depressions?

......a departure from traditional values when those values have been to embrace greed over charity, war over peace, ignoring the suffering at home while giving billions to political cronies overseas....yeah, I welcome wholeheartedly a departure from those traditional values....

[indepat]

9. 'pukes give us massive increases in government spending while substantially lowering the tax burden

on the most affluent, including large corporations, a huge increase of government in our daily lives through spying/eavesdropping on citizens, and a departure from traditional values such has honesty and transparency. :P

[Rashel]

10. They believe in "limited gov't"? lol. I guess that's why G.W. contributed to

the biggest deficit since the last five presidents.