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To be fair, you can't take CNN too seriously, especially when they say:

"Limbaugh’s comments followed reports Obama warned GOP congressional leaders last week that they should stop listening to the conservative talker, who had said on air he wanted the new president to fail."

This is a complete misrepresentation of what he said, and one that they continue to make. His point about being afraid of him points out that Obama has, without provocation, singled out Limbaugh but not said anything about the actual GOP leadership. Given that, and Pelosi's "we won, get used to it" attitude, it seems that the bipartisan atmosphere has already started to wane.
Kevin
via BlogWorks :: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:38:45 GMT :: Permalink

To be fair, Pelosi's attitude has irritated me as well. She is showing me that things aren't going to be any different now than they were under the partisan Republican leadership with Bush. I guess my irritation stems more from Limbaugh's attitude of automatically dismissing any opposing viewpoint without consideration for coming to a compromise. While I realize that this makes for good TV/radio/whatever other form of entertainment, it is not the way a government should be run in my opinion.

For that reason, I don't believe Obama is afraid of him at all - from reading his books, it's pretty clear he just sees Limbaugh as nothing more than a talking head (which is all he is after all). I think it's much more likely that he's afraid of the GOP leadership not being willing to work with him and reach compromises. And if he is, he should be just as afraid of the Democratic leadership for the same reason in my opinion.
Steve
via BlogWorks :: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:54:37 GMT :: Permalink

Okay, maybe Rush is starting to see the light...

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/29/obama-limbaugh-stimulus-plan/

I can't believe I'm saying this, but in a way I agree with Limbaugh here. Though personally I would use the Electoral vote distribution (I mean you can't say the popular vote doesn't matter for the general election, but try to make it matter here). And I would say it should be more broad - make 67% of it based on what Democrats want, and 33% of it based on what Republicans want. After all, there are Democrats who support tax cuts, and there are Republicans that support more spending.
Steve
via BlogWorks :: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:38:30 GMT :: Permalink