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Rush Limbaugh Continues Warning GOP Not To Compromise, Asks Why Obama Never Has To

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During today’s show, Rush Limbaugh pretended to have a conversation with his call screener James “Snerdley” Golden in which he was informed for the first time that his “winners never compromise” comments were getting a lot of play. Limbaugh claimed that, were the media to call him “the architect of no compromise,” well, then he’d “wear that hat proudly.” He certainly doubled down today, explaining that that was no such thing as a “moral victory” and asking why Democrats never have to compromise.

Limbaugh repeated his oft-used description of President Obama as “the least qualified in any room he walks into” and pegged the whole situation as being entirely based around Obama’s reelection. He asked why Republicans would want to help that in any way when the President was the one “on the ropes.” Saying the best thing they’d done so far was when they didn’t return Obama’s phone call and said the GOP should continue along those lines and just stop going to meet with him. Instead, he worried, the Republican establishment might cave in, afraid that they’d be “blamed for anything that happens.”

He continued, asking why Democrats never seemed to have to compromise. He claimed that there was no compromise in “Obamacare” and that the Right is “the mainstream. “The Tea Party is not made up of kooks,” Limbaugh said. “Obama is president of the kooks.”

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  • Stoogedudes

    Sorry, but from what I’ve been seeing and hearing, Obama has been making many concessions. His base doesn’t like it, but he’s at least being an adult. It’s ironic that Rush calls Obama a “man-child”. It fits Limbaugh to a T.

  • Valerie

    Well the big fat Buddah of conservatism has spoken-a mouth full of lies of course. See Obama compromised by not letting the Bush tax cuts expire.

    Oops Did I just spill some truth in fatso echo chamber?

    Nevermind ditto heads are the worst when it comes to groupthink.

    I will be delighted to see their sad puffy drippy faces when Obama wins again.

    Better get “El Rushbo” some extra oxycotin for the pain.

    LOSERS.

  • Anonymous

    This distorted reality he spews is dangerous. It’ll have negative real-life consequences for millions if not billions of people if it comes to fruition. Ultimately, people will die as a result.

    Clearly this fantasyworld isn’t solely the creation of Rush, but he’s one of, if not the, leading purveyor.

    America and the world would be a far better place if he were dead, thereby rendering him unable to continue to spew his insidious destructive web of horseshit and falsehoods. Please God, if you do exist, do the right thing. Bring Rush home today.

  • Anonymous

    please seek help, not kidding or being mean

  • Anonymous

    Why do you hate America with such intensity and commitment?

  • Stoogedudes

    I share a common distaste for Limbaugh as you do, but I honestly and respectfully think you are wrong for wishing him dead. Yes, he is as poisonous to the public discourse as anyone else. His childishness makes for good entertainment, but poor debate. I would say this country would be better off with him off the air, but as much as I love free speech, I would not want to censor him. I think his days of popularity are wearing thin. As weary as the American public are of bickering and mindlessness these days, I don’t see Rush being as much a part of the conversation as he has been unless he tones his stuff down (and I don’t see that  happening anytime soon).

    Rush is sounding like a broken record these days. My faith in this country would dictate me to believe that people are going to get tired of it. Then again, he’s been popular for over 20 years. So it’s hard to say. But I sincerely do not wish him death, nor do I wish the death of anyone who hold opposites points of view.

  • Anonymous

    i love america and americans, that why i would like you to seek help for your mental condition

  • Anonymous

    exactly, i dont listen to rush, but wishing people dead, he needs help

  • HowardNY

    Good lord, does anyone actually take this cretin seriously?

    Has El Rushbo ever said anything in the last two decades that wasn’t entirely designed to advance his career? Is a single utterance from this man’s pie hole intended to raise the level of debate or bring something meaningful to the national conversation? Has his drug-addled brain ever advanced a single idea that was conciliatory, kind, pleasant, earnest, well-intentioned or positive?

    People who follow this man are sad little trolls who mistake pomposity for wisdom and certitude for intelligence. He has done more to poison the water than any single person in the country and isn’t worthy of three pixels of space on this website.

    Rush is where brain cells go to die.

  • Anonymous

    Is that some kind of Swiss polo shirt Rush is wearing? He just needs one of those panther golf hats and he will be all set. Surely the destruction of the republican party must be the last thing on his list before retiring.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=516530429 Ryan McFarland

    Rush continues to impress, I cant recall a presedent who has compromised more, and a group of Republicans who have given up less.  I will never get over the fact that anyone takes this man remotely seriously.  It’s like he is living on a different planet than the rest of us.

  • Anonymous

    Bless this man, if not just for telling the truth when nobody else will, at least for the way he drives the blood pressure of a liberal through the roof.

  • Anonymous

    How do you know that?  He’s got no budget.

  • Anonymous

    You are a sick human being so are Greg and the other two idiots that agreed with your post.

  • Anonymous

    When a party controls one house of the congress, only, it is not honest to try to push an agenda through by threatening to blow up our national credit.

  • Anonymous

    I suspect you had that opinion even before Obama was elected.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VZ6ZEMR7OJKTOCICKUVD2SCCZI Mark

    “for the way he drives the blood pressure of a liberal through the roof.”

    Do you have any convictions other than “if it [Palin, Rush, Bachmann] drives liberals crazy, I’m all for it!”? 

    Just so you know, these aren’t positions that you hold – they are emotional reactions based on resentment of “them/the other.”  They may feel like actual positions, but that’s just because you’re so emotionally invested (ie, angry, crazed, resentful, etc.) in them, that you fail to realize you don’t have any true beliefs. 

  • Anonymous

    No, that brain cell stuff happens right afterwards at the Tavern on the Green. Rush is Chuck Yeager.

  • Resident of 0bomberVille

    0ilbammie is, willfully, gleefully, happily taking every step he possibly can to DESTROY THIS COUNTRY.

    Once you understand that, ALL of his ACTIONS become clear.

    -0bama – Worst-

  • Anonymous

    I’m not talking about censoring him. I’d love for him to have an epiphany tomorrow and use his microphone to explain complex facts and realities to his minions, as he’s one of the few people they’d listen to. I just happen to think him dying of a heart attack is far more likely. So hence I hope within the realm of reality.

  • John

    All the liberals hate Limbaugh because he speaks the truth about Obummer and his administration. Nothing hurts more than the truth, so democRats start eating those peas you like so much. The tea party represents the majority of Americans point of view. Cut spending cut spending, cut spending NOW. So long overBloated gov.

  • Anonymous

    Aug 2nd means nothing…….I hope the Republicans will not give in to Reid and Obama.

    On Aug 3rd, they will find nothing substantually happened.

  • Carol

    To claim that the president has not been willing to compromise is a complete falsehood.  It would be interesting to see Mr. Limbaugh attempt to base his criticisms of the president on facts instead of his usual bombastic rants which only serve to discredit him on a daily basis.

  • Jerry Baustian

    From what I’ve read, Rush never has an imaginary conversation with Snerdley (James Golden) – there is a constant 3-way conversation between Rush, Snerdley, and the audience for the full three hours. Snerdley talks to Rush, Rush talks to the audience, Rush talks to Snerdley, and sometimes someone from the audience talks with Rush.

    Snerdley is not just the call screener, he is also the producer. And he has considerable equity in the company.

  • Jerry Baustian

    You could not be more wrong. Rush is a rational voice from the right — not the only one, but the most prominent. But if he was not on the scene, then there would be other voices, not nearly so rational: populists, isolationists, protectionists, racists, or boring people with a fixation on UFOs or birth certificates.

  • Stoogedudes

    Hasn’t he been coming up with plans to cut Social Security and Medicare? Hasn’t he proposed billions, if not trillions in cuts?

  • Stoogedudes

    Hasn’t he been coming up with plans to cut Social Security and Medicare? Hasn’t he proposed billions, if not trillions in cuts?

  • Stoogedudes

    Hasn’t he been coming up with plans to cut Social Security and Medicare? Hasn’t he proposed billions, if not trillions in cuts?

  • Anonymous

    That’s why you want the US credit rating downgraded and to hurt the entire world economy? Assuming you agree with Rush re: debt limit, that is. That’s a funny kind of patriotism in my book. I actually think treason is the proper word.

  • Jerry Baustian

    What will hurt the economy more than raising the debt limit, is raising the debt. It is absurd to increase the borrowing limit without fixing the problem that leads to so much borrowing.

    Our country has more government than we can afford. Authorizing more debt does nothing to solve that problem. It will require shrinking the government — either gradually like the Republicans want to do, or suddenly if the rest of the world decides that we will soon be unable to service that debt. 

    Note that there is a difference between declining to raise the debt limit until it is coupled with spending cuts, and being unable to service the debt. The bond rating agencies understand the distinction, even if you do not.

  • Anonymous

    keep following this guy off the cliff, conservatives.  while he lives in a $50million palace on the florida coast and dines on lobster and you’re scraping by in your parents basement, he’s laughing all the way to the bank on you fools.  when the economy collapses, it’ll be you in the breadlines, not him.  ask yourselves, has anything rush limbaugh said actually benefited this country? nope.

    keep blaming everyone else and keep following the snake oil salesmen.  once the revolution occurs, real patriots will remember your treason and we won’t be very kind to you for it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/bruce.kennedy3 Bruce Kennedy

    That is one crazy kook drug addict. He claims his minority of crazies are “mainstream” America.  Face it “Oxycotin” Rush is an Egoist.

  • troy L Bowen

    congress is the one that by law appropriates the money, you moron

  • troy L Bowen

    you are the idiot

  • expatpatriot

    “Democrats never compromise.” That’s not even bizarro world. That’s just Limbaugh lying his ass off, per usual.

  • Self Relient

    Libs always resort to name calling or attempt to shut down anyone who disagrees with them, that is sad and a bit facist. Look at the facts, Bush spent too much money, 1.4 billion a day, Obama spends morem 4.7 billion a day… where will this money come from and go to? I work hard for my money and have not taken a cent from the govt.. I am responsible to pay for my own healthcare insurance and retirement.. who invented this mentality of take from me and give to thee? How can govt employees get away with working for  25 years and then get to suck out the tax coffers to get paid for 40-60 years in “retirerment” ?  Americans work and take care of themselves and thier familys, they do not fee entitled to anything! Americans understand that the freedom to go forth and be productive is enough… It is disheartning to see this country going the way of Greece, the problem with socialism is that eventually run out of other peoples money,,

  • Anonymous

    As for name calling, Rush is king. (Though, most of the time, like Stewart, he does it for laughs.)

    You say you get nothing from the government. So the roads, military protection, courts, and all the other Constitutionally mandated services that the government provides its citizens constitutes *nothing*? And a billionaire who makes his billions *because* of the protection, services, and full faith and credit of the US government has no greater obligation to pay taxes than someone who has nothing? Why? That makes no sense.

  • Self Relient

    I would think its obvious that I pay my taxes to fund roads,military and boarder protection, some EPA, FDA etc.. for public health …I said” I have not taken a cent” from the govt meaning I take no unemployment, food stamps or federal assistance of any kind, yet I pay into it for others to consume

    … I am able bodied to take care of myself, i will mow grass, clean gutters or scrub toilets if need be to take care of my obligations, i sacrific to live within my means, I don’t seed the world with children i cannot afford to feed, I don’t blow off work and expect to get paid… although i approve of care for seniors, disabled and anyone otherwise not capable of taking care of themselves, that does not include our tax dollars funding peoples rehab who abuse drugs/alchohol.. I am no billionaire, far from it, I owe several hundred thousand dollars in housing and business debt.. I will make the best attempt to pay for it all before I die..I have no govt pension coming to me but i know my tax dollars will fund many other pensions….and I’m just suppose to accept that?!

    Barney Frank and Chris Dodd are mainly responsible for the housing crisis thru Fannie May that has cut all of our property values by a third… Reagan is responsible for the flood of illegal immagants, no one cares to shut the boarders and assess who is in this country getting free education, health care, food stamps etc. further draining our coffers

    48% of the people in this country pay 0 taxes and consume the fed. programs that we who pay taxes fund…It is now painfully obvious we cannot afford this means of governance.

    All people above the poverty level need to pay their fair share..flat tax… Government employees need to pay for their own healthcare ins. and retirement same as the rest of us.. Open up the healthcare ins. market nationally so the competion will bring down premiums.. check out dirtyspendingsecrets.com to see where our money is spent… it is beyond the pale..

  • Howard

    Dream on, John.

    First off, most Americans (not just liberals) hate Limbaugh because he’s a nasty little tyrant who offers nothing positive.

    Secondly, the tea party viewpoint you’re so in love with is a minority position. The overwhelming number of Americans — in poll after poll — have supported the president’s balanced position on the debt talks. They want a mix of spending cuts and tax hikes on the very wealthiest Americans (whose tax rates are at historic lows), which, of course, is the sensible approach.

    Finally, you don’t seem to understand — but most teabillies can’t seem to grasp this — that the budget cuts have NOTHING to do with raising the debt ceiling. The debt is about the past, the budget is about the future. They are separate issues.

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

    So, are you saying a president never submits a budget, genius? The poster did not say that Obama needed to appropriate any money.

  • Anonymous

    The fat, oily, drug-addicted GOP peasant speaks again!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_F5UFSNSUDYJNWW5G66HD7VJPUI Tootie

    I agree, Rush Limbaugh has been spewing venomous lies about Democrats for years and years. He doesn’t care at all about the country, it’s all about hating the other party. If he were to die today it would be one of the most celebrated deaths in the USA, this hatemonger is a danger to our country and he needs to go. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_F5UFSNSUDYJNWW5G66HD7VJPUI Tootie

    You’re the sick SOB that agrees with this fat drug addicted POS.  He wants I country to fail???  I want his heart to fail !!!   Let him keel over and die, good riddance.   All that Limbaugh does day in and day out is spew hate …  AND LIES !

  • The Painful Truth

    I still do not understand why anyone takes Rush seriously.  clown and a 3rd rate comic @ best. He is laughting @ his own audeince (calling them ditto heads:an out- copying process that smells bad). But he is laughting himselfall the way to the bank — How could he really speak for the “mainstream — true working American?  he does not have a real job –How many Working folks get paid 6 figtiures for working 3 (39 mintubue) hours a day –4 days a week — with breaks inbetween.  His ideas and words show he is only interested in taking advantage of people and get rich (and why would he want t pay taxes?)  he has no qulaifiaction — and his real free is that people might wise up and get educated. A misinformed public is his best costumer — got get rich before they figure out what i am doing to them.

  • The Painful Truth

    I still do not understand why anyone takes Rush seriously.  clown and a 3rd rate comic @ best. He is laughting @ his own audeince (calling them ditto heads:an out- copying process that smells bad). But he is laughting himselfall the way to the bank — How could he really speak for the “mainstream — true working American?  he does not have a real job –How many Working folks get paid 6 figtiures for working 3 (39 mintubue) hours a day –4 days a week — with breaks inbetween.  His ideas and words show he is only interested in taking advantage of people and get rich (and why would he want t pay taxes?)  he has no qulaifiaction — and his real free is that people might wise up and get educated. A misinformed public is his best costumer — got get rich before they figure out what i am doing to them.

  • Do the right thing for USA

    Strong words — but i appreciate what you are saying.  Why does anyone think this guy care about anyone buthimself.  He is afat, self-glorifying bufoon.  He has no educatioj, has never served i country in uniform and is the enbodyment of greed and slought. 

  • The Painful Truth

    Don’y you see; GOP (and Rush) see the down-turn in Americn as a win/win.  Short-term — interest rates on their cash account will go up (and thatcash is tax free –right?) Corptation will cut workers, increse profits and pay off the GOP for “fixing” it for them — meanwhile, they can balme the Preosent for not fixing in two years what it took them a decade to distory (cashing in along the way0.  Rush know that his days could be numbered if the public figure out his gane – and needs t make one more score befor retiring withall that tax-free money.

  • clearthinker

    Warning! The White House has orchestrated this whole fiasco. Obama will come riding in on his white horse on Sunday with “his” plan which will have minimal cuts, no tax increases and a ceiling raise through 2012. The Senate will embrace it and the house will have no choice but to accept it. The only other alterantive is the 14th amendment which also is a win for Obama. Don’t be fooled – this was Obama’s “plan” the whole time – to be the messiah and be reelected.

  • The Painful Truth

    @Stoggedudes:  Yes, i agree with you.  Rush has enjoyed a certain amount of fame (and made a fortune in the process).  Taking advantage of and playing to a certain audeince.  While still popular with that group — his “act’ is wearing thin. But he know, dispute his total lack of knowlwdge or inregrity that he has to “doubl-down” playing to that audeince and get as much money out of the deal as he can before it goes away.

  • RUSHBO

    Interesting; Educated and thoughtful people –BAD. Uneducated and ignorants =GOOD.  TEA PARTY __the majority! (Interesting math) 1 +1 – 1 = 56?  You gitta get you head out of Rush’s fat ass and get a brain.

  • RFE226

    @Ho@329d49ffdef8b8659f8c351bb3ae9c31:disqus 
    very well said. based on fact, research and the truth.  Unfortunately that will be totally lost on someone like “john” here — or any of these other “ditto-heads” or TEA Baggers.  RUSH is a clown andis laughting @ his own “audience” and they are just too dumb to see it. Which is the saddest part of this whole thing.
    @yahoo-VZ6ZEMR7OJKTOCICKUVD2SCCZI:disqus 
    Let’s cut to the chase: We tried the GOP way (cut taxes on the rcih and major corproation for a decade) — result — greater untax wealth for tio 2 % — more job lost in this country aand more outsourced.  Econmy tanks.. New Present elected. GOP fights him on doing anything good –then blame him for allowing them to contiue their way of doing thingd.  The way to stop the boat from leak?  Shot more holes in it! –as long has you get paid off well to do it!

  • The Painful Truth

    So there are two clowns @ this circus? Great — Does RUSHBO share his cigar and super-sized fries with him???

  • The Painful Truth

    Yes.  I ask everyone to goggle Rush.  Check out his work history.  He has never held down a real job and has alwys moved on to enrich himself. he is a clown  who too many have taken seriouly and allowd him to actually be a “national figure’ who GOP leaders feel they need to check in with.
     That is the scary part. He just continues to get fat and rich (and feed his drug habit) off the spreading flasehoods and feeding off the unedcuated. He care little for what is best for this country –only want his best to enrich himself.

  • The Painful Truth

    I understand where you are coming from,and i appreciate that you admit that Bush had a lot to do with getting us to this point.  But the plicy being put forth by people like Rush are not in the best interest of a true working American like you –they are only to enrich peole like himself –and the act as acorporate shill. I can only assume you do NOT make over $500 K a year (and if you do –godd foryou) Evetthing must be on the table to get this current situation under controol.  Not just cut all programs as long as they do NOT hurt big business or mmake them have to pay taxes (and where are the jobs?) THis is not a lib/Conserve thing this is beingeducated about the facts — Something RUsh does not want to happen.

  • RFE226

    Obama whole goal is to “destroy this county”… why would that be? What would be gained fro such a thing?  O the other hand, Rush is getting fat and rich off his BS!

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