Chuck Hagel Sandblasts Limbaugh & Other Bloviators »
Posted By Radiofreeeuropa 1 year ago in Political News
(CNN) As his Senate career nears its end, Republican Chuck Hagel isn't holding back when it comes to criticizing members of his own party ; including conservative talk radio hosts.
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year ago
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If more Republicans listened to Hagel or Luger instead of anti-intellectual sanctimonious religion-perverting nutjobs like Palin, Gingrich,or Oxyrush Limpbaugh, there would be more republicans and they would have a shred of legitimacy.
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Aside from calling out angry talk radio airwave polluters,
Hagel also faulted Washington lawmakers for "raw, partisan, political paralysis."
"The American people don't like what is going on… they want us to start doing what leaders are expected to do, address the problems, find some consensus to governing. Get along. There will be disagreements, sure… but in the end we can't hold ourselves captives to this raw, partisan, political paralysis."
Both Hagel and Luger are republicans that questioned Bush's war. Hagel said of the Bush administration "I have to say this is one of the most arrogant, incompetent administrations I've ever seen or ever read about".
It's too bad Hagel is leaving the Senate, he has been a genuine maverick (really) and admirable public servant...I would like to see him in Obama's administration.-
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Charlson1 year ago
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Spadecaller1 year ago
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The best of the GOP has had enough of the sick extremism that has characterized the Republican party since Bush took office. Chuck Hagel is a fine man. The party has forsaken its best leaders.
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The GOP has become a dangerous institution that thrives on hatred and divisiveness to achieve goals that only support a small segment of our nation.-
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4thchance1 year ago
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Perhaps you should keep in mind, Obama won by 2 points! 50% to 52%. The only reason Obama won is because every media outlet in the USA were in the tank for Obama. They put Obama up on a pedestal and trashed the living daylights out of McCain and Palin. But yet even with all that publicity, Obama just barley won! So I say, don't get to big of a head their pal. Mid term elections are not that far off. If Obama doesn't make good on some of his pie in the sky promises, then the mid term elections will hurt the Dem party big time!
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I think many Americans feel they took a chance on voting for Obama, they will hold him to his promises!
Obama better do something good and soon!
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Goppy1 year ago
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This is great news.
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As one who often voted for Republicans, I'm all too aware how Entertainers like Rush Limbaugh have coalesced the Rabid Right into a mis-informed, ignorant voting block.
I love Hagel's idea of having Rush run for office. Then he would be the laughing stock of the nation.
We could make fun of him for his Draft Dodging, his Pilonidal cyst excuse to avoid military service, his blatant hypocrisy - everything from his drug addictions to his own closeted personal behaviors.
Research could begin here.
http://pssht.com/biography/rush_limbaugh.html
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Lurch1 year ago
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> We could make fun of him for his Draft Dodging, his Pilonidal cyst excuse to avoid military service, his blatant hypocrisy - everything from his drug addictions to his own closeted personal behaviors.
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I am afraid that is wishful thinking. The Republicans would never admit being duped or making a mistake. They would just follow SROP and move the goal posts again. But it still would be hilarious to see the bloviator in chief run for office.
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smithichie1 year ago
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Yep, Rush challanged Hagel to try being a talkshow host, that and Rush said the reason he wouldn't run for politcal office is because of the pay cut.
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The real reason of course is because Rush is coward. If Rush held an office he would be expected to perform instead of just complain. Politics is about compromise and Rush is far too spoiled for that, he would fail as a politician faster than he failed as a football commentator. -
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jovial1 year ago
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A little jovial-ity.
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"A tourist walks into a curio shop in San Francisco. Looking around at the exotica, he notices a very lifelike life-sized bronze statue of a rat. It has no price tag, but is so striking he decides he must have it. He takes it to the owner: "How much for the bronze rat?" "$12 for the rat, $100 for the story," says the owner. The tourist gives the man $12. "I'll just take the rat, you can keep the story." As he walks down the street carrying his bronze rat, he notices that a few real rats have crawled out of the alleys and sewers and begun following him down the street. This is disconcerting, and he begins walking faster. But within a couple of blocks, the herd of rats behind him has grown to hundreds, and they begin squealing. He begins to trot toward the Bay, looking around to see that the rats now number in the MILLIONS, and are squealing and coming toward him faster and faster. Concerned, even scared, he runs to the edge of the Bay, and throws the bronze rat as far out into the water as he can. Amazingly, the millions of rats all jump into the Bay after it, and are all drowned. The man walks back to the curio shop. "Ah ha," says the owner, "you have come back for the story?" "No," says the man, "I came back to see if you have a bronze Republican."-
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miklkit1 year ago
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It's always good to have a sense of humor. Here's an oldie but a moldie.
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The Democrat Fisherman
A woman in a hot air balloon realizes she is lost. She lowers her altitude and spots a man fishing from a boat below. She shouts to him, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."
The man consults his portable GPS and replies, "You're in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.
She rolls her eyes and says, "You must be a Democrat!"
"I am," replies the man. "How did you know?"
"Well," answers the balloonist, "everything you tell me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to do with your information, and I'm still lost. Frankly, you're not much help to me."
The man smiles and responds, "You must be a Republican."
"I am," replies the balloonist. "How did you know?"
"Well," says the man, "You don't know where you are or where you're going. You've risen to where you are, due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise that you have no idea how to keep, and now you expect me to solve your problem. You're in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but, somehow, now it's my fault."
Dream like you will live forever; live like you will die today.
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moxxxxxxxxxx1 year ago
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I think we have all been a victim of a fast talking, rhetoric spewing idiot at some point in our life. But you have to give the Limbaughs, Hannitys and Oreillys of the world some credit. They were able to use their gift of gab to virtually destroy the republican party and divide the American people. Even Hitler needed an army to destroy the Germans. These b-s ers are doing it with words.
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slate1 year ago
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I have a question for the Dems on this site. When you voted for Obama, did you realize the 'change' he talked about meant that he was just going to put the Clinton Administration as his own?
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Did you guys really want real change and does this bother you seeing where Obama is getting all the people he will fill the high positions with? Just and observation and a question, but I'd like to know if you're ok with what's going on?-
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lfergie8121 year ago
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Change we can believe in.
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I for one am very glad Obama is getting the best people for the job regardless of who or where they worked before. Even Homer Simpson would have been better than any of that group of fruitcakes that has been in office for the last 8 years.
Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz
Rumsfeld
Rice
Gonzales
Ashcroft
Chavez
Paulson
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Beau78901 year ago
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Since you asked, I'll tell you--the many appointees from the Clinton administration doesn't thrill me as much as it might, though I know that to many, the only real problem with the Clinton aministration were that stupid, entirely separate from governing the nation thing for which he was impeached.
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At the same time, I have to say that Clinton and his people did much for us. He *did* balance the budget, after all--the first president in decades to do so--and many more nations ended Clinton's term viewing us in favorable terms (affecting diplomatic efforts and trade policy) than are under Bush's.
Obama certainly represents change from the Bush years, and with hope, change from the rampant partisanship--to the extent that it gets away from governing the nation and dealing with essential matters--that pervades our politics.
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sinophil491 year ago
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Slate -
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Clinton and his administration:
- balanced the budget
- created a surplus from 1998 to 2001 (2001's budget was passed in 2000)
- increased the child tax credit from $400 to $500
- made 90% of family farms and small businesses eligible for tax cuts
- created 22.5 million new jobs
- dropped the poverty rate from 15.1% (from GWH Bush) to 11.8%
- increased home ownership rate to 67.7%, a record up to that time
- increased minimum wage
- decreased welfare recipients from 7.5 million to 6.6 million
- initiated a continuous, 10-year economic expansion that exceeds any other 10 year period in the ENTIRE history of our Republic (It ran into the first 2 years of Bush's term)
- thru NAFTA and numerous bilateral trade agreements (approx 300), negotiated the largest collective decrease in tariffs on US goods exported abroad and on foreign goods imported here. It has been called the largest international tax cut in the history of the world
So, I am absolutely ok with getting some of Clinton's officials and bureaucrats to help our country now.
What can you say about Bush's record?
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year ago
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Hello Slate, very good question. I doubt I speak for democrats per se, but I certainly did support Obama from pretty early in the campaign. It raises an eyebrow, though he said all along he would not surround himself with yes men but would look for people who didn't think like him for his cabinet. I am placing trust in his judgment regarding this until actual policy is made. If bad policy is made I think his original supporters will be quite vocal in reprimanding him. I want to see some more bold choices to offset the "experienced" crowd who allegedly know how to navigate the super top secret ways of DC.
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Some are expected, Tom Daschle was one of the earliest supporters of Barack and many of the original campaign staff were former Daschle staffers. The rest? hmmm...we have to see. -
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Tcaros1 year ago
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Rush Limberger looks pretty bad now... balding grey hair, overweight, and probably bad breath from all the cigars.
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His furor is on the way out of DC, squeaking out of town just as the poles fall down around him. Oh, what mischief Rush caused for a fat man spattling on the microphono. -
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year ago
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Slate, remember poison ivy is the toughest vine to kill.
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Though you've never come across as a "Rush" fan (your comments are usually reasonable... I always thought you were more a Goldwater kind of conservative than say Rush or Palin fan). Am I wrong?-
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slate1 year ago
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I used to losten to the golfer back in the day because he was entertaining but i now listen to others that are mostly more moderate then Rush. I don't like the Beatles that much, but I give them their due for being the first. The same holds true for Rush.
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frctm51 year ago
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I think many Republicans are sick of the tyranny within their own party. They could see this train wreck coming. There are a surprising number left who think they lost because they weren't fanatical enough. Their constituents kept trying to tell them something but they ignored the message to their own peril. They still don't get it. The economy of the last eight years has not done much for the middle class. Only the rising equity of the housing bubble insulated most Americans from their economic stagnation. Once that bubble burst, the illusion collapsed.
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