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Rush Limbaugh made a wish today on his radio show, which if true, would completely rewrite American history. While discussing the Wisconsin recall elections, Limbaugh made an appeal to his listeners, saying "we should be able to role back the whole democratic agenda over the last 65 years, yes we can!" Limbaugh said this after calling the Republican Wisconsin state senators "heroic" and claiming that they successfully "turned back" the democratic attempt to recall lawmakers.
If Rush were to get his way, some of the greatest and most socially conscious legislation of the past century would have to be repealed. One such piece of legislation is the Voting Rights Act of 1965, giving equal voting rights to all Americans regardless of race. Democrat Mike Mansfield of Montana helped bring this piece of legislation to the Senate floor and President Lyndon B. Johnson, a Democrat, signed it into law. If Rush got his wish, the American voting process may still be racially segregated.
Rush's wish may also destroy one of the foundations of American life: the family. In 1993, President Bill Clinton signed the Family and Medical Leave Act which permitted employees to take up to 12 weeks of leave for family matters such as child-birth, illness, or adoption. The act requires that employees maintain their benefits while gone, and retain their job upon return from leave. Because this piece of legislation was passed within the past 65 years, and because it was passed by a democratic president and a democratic congress, Rush simply wants it gone.
Rush wants to repeal democratic legislation of the past 65 years because it was passed by a party with which he has fundamental differences. He doesn't seem to mind the much needed benefits and civil liberties will be repealed, too.
— By Peter Carril
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Rush Limpballs radio show needs to be recalled.Anyone that listens to this guy and believes his drivel should see a shrink.Take your oxy-contin Rush and shut up.
Conserve FDR. Repeal Rush.
i listen to rush limbaugh in my car because i find him very amusing. the sad thing is that i know republicans who take him seriously, and take him at his word, when he lies about things intentionally. when he gets on one of his rants, he just makes stuff up as he goes along.
i just do not understand the obsession that republicans have with their "christian" views while they spew such hatred. and if they aren't spewing it, they are listening to it from the likes of rush limbaugh, glenn beck, and the extreme right wing evangelical ministers
glenn beck talks out of both sides of his mouth all day long. one side is saying how crazy the democrats are in his snarky, mean spirited way, while the other side is talking about christianity and the end of the world.
its like republicans are on a different planet.
The likes of Limbaugh, Beck, Bachmann, Perry and the other right wing radical "christians" are more frightening than any terrorist could even be. The terrorists are not going to take over our country. The crazy "christians" are really trying and if the American people don't wake up they just may do it. And the thought of that scares the hell out of me!
The "T"-Party has put the word "Totalitarian" back into the American political vocabulary.
Rush can live in that world if he wants - it's called Texas. He and Perry can secede from the US and start their own "Christian" radical evangelical crazy world.
Rush, history has left you behind; rather, you are not even a footnote in history. It must be difficult looking at yourself in the mirror each morning and seeing 1928. What is most grotesque about you is the un-godly amount of money your boss pays you. They used to say that lies are cheap, but at $1 million a day, the lies are paying rather well, wouldn't you say? No wonder you can afford smoking those big cigars. You do look better now that you have lost some weight, but I wish they would not show you every time they want to quote you. Are you still on the pills, or did they set you straight in rehab that he who casts stones should not also be a junky? I do not dislike you because I disagree with you: I dislike you because I do not understand why anyone is listening to you.
Rush is an entertainer and nothing more, he is paid to entertain.
But wouldn't that require that he BE entertaining??
Oh Yeah, Richard! You are spot on, the old flush rush campaign should be rinsteted and pushed hard.
it is obvious rush is judas.....who betrayed our lord. he is on drugs and doesn't get it. his day will come so i believe we should completely leave his name off on anything that is good in our country...people of his sort do not understand and why take our energy for someone that is as low as he is
It is so sad that people even want to listen like Rush, Glenn and rest of likes. They need help and big help. I have suggestion. There is book called Holi Bible. Study the word.
Rolling back the past 65 years does have a certain appeal.....no, not legislation, roll back that special night when Mr & Mrs Limbaugh conceived this lard filled, disgusting excuse for a human being.
One way to get rid of this diahrea mouth liar is to boycott his sponsors.
Who are his sponsors?
I agree with all of you. But the one suggestion made by T.F.VICK is our best chance to rid the airwaves of this blubber of a man. He is so full of hate, and we are indirectly paying him to hate us. I SAY LET'S BOYCOTT THE SPONSORS
A Rush Limbaugh ditto head cornered me the other day and started ranting and raving about how socialists and communists like Obama are ruining this country. Two days later I saw that ditto head at the grocery store using Food Stamps. I know that his mother is on Medicare too. Where would he be without socialism? I wonder how many of Rush's ardent fans are that hypocritical.
All of this right wing and tea party rhetoric reminds me of Berlin 1933. Just before the rise of Hitler. Don't know who this demagogue will be since there are a few to choose from. Nevertheless, a dictator will rise from somewhere and it scares me to death.
Pundits trying to understand the antics of the Tea Party/Republican party are like politicians trying to understand Hitler in the 1930s without reading his book "Mein Kampf". Jeb Bush of all people, back in 1995, wrote a Mein Kampf essay that explains what the Tea Party are up to -- and it is far more radical and crazy than you would ever dream.
See http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=1995&month=06