Poor Rush carries a very heavy burden
by digby
Anyway, one of Marco Rubio’s points, folks, essentially is that Obama’s already given us de facto amnesty anyway. He did it with the children of illegal immigrants via the executive order back last year. It was prior to the election. I mean, thanks to Obama you have amnesty unless you get convicted of a major felony. So I don’t know that there’s any stopping this. It’s up to me and Fox News, and I don’t think Fox News is that invested in this. I don’t think there’s any Republican opposition to this of any majority consequence or size. We’ll have to wait and see and find out. But this is one of those, just keep plugging away, plugging away, plugging away until you finally beat down the opposition.
After Obama’s first election you’ll recall that Rush was out there all by himself as well, saying that he wanted Obama to fail. The Villagers gasped, the conservative politicians got nervous.
RUSH AT CPAC: This notion that I want the president to fail, folks, this shows you a sign of the problem we’ve got. That’s nothing more than common sense, and to not be able to say it? Why in the world do I want what we’ve just described, rampant government growth, indebtedness that has — wealth that’s not even been created yet is being spent. What is in this? What possibly is in this that any of us want to succeed? Did the Democrats want the war in Iraq to fail? Well, they certainly did. And they not only wanted the war in Iraq to fail, they proclaimed it a failure. There’s Dingy Harry Reid waving the white flag, “This war is lost.”
CROWD: (cheers and applause)
RUSH AT CPAC: They called General Petraeus a liar before he even testified.
CROWD: (booing)
RUSH AT CPAC: Mrs. Clinton —
CROWD: (crowd booing)
RUSH AT CPAC: — said she had to suspend, willingly suspend disbelief or whatever to listen to Petraeus. We’re in the process of winning the war. The last thing they wanted was to win. They hoped George Bush failed. So where is it, what is so strange about being honest and saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to restructure and reform this country so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? Why would I want that to succeed?
CROWD: (Cheers and applause.)
There are a lot of things that fueled the Tea Party, from Ron Paul to Rick Santelli to Fox News. But this CPAC cris de coeur from Limbaugh had a galvanizing effect on the hardcore right. They stopped being defensive that very day.
This little whine from this morning is a pathetic sequel to that performance, I’m afraid. If you read the whole transcript you’ll see that he thinks everybody in the party is being stupid because nobody ever said anything about deportation and that it’s all a big poopyhead Democratic plot. Also too, poor Sarah Palin.
I suppose it’s possible that he’ll make a big comeback or the legislation will fail and he’ll take credit for doing it. But at this moment he just sounds like a big old bawling baby.
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