RUSH: It was the very people these hippies are protesting that came in and saved them, and now these people have finally realized — the Clintons are part of this sixties hippie generation, they are — they’ve achieved power. They finally got there. You could say that they’re naive in their idealism, it’s a mistake to chalk up all this as an accident. This is not the result of good intentions. This economic disaster and the slush fund to fix it, the TARP fund, these are not accidents. These are purposeful steps, and I don’t believe that these people really do believe it’s going to revive an economy. That’s not what they’re trying to do. They’re trying to show their compassion, they’re trying to enlarge government. These are big statists. These are socialists, fascists, or whoever. They’re radicals. They’re on the fringe of American thought and belief. But because their beliefs were embodied in some great orator who was able to be a blank piece of canvas, people were allowed to paint whatever they wanted on that canvas and make Obama whatever they wanted him to be, he got elected because the Republicans didn’t have the guts and the chutzpah to campaign and run a real critical presidential campaign of who the guy was and they knew who he was but they refused to do it.
Unimaginable! In this rant, Rush outdoes himself. He starts with the Clintons are hippies. He then moves to the economic crisis and TARP are not accidents, but have something to do with hippies and the Clintons. TARP? Wasn’t that Bush’s thing? So these hippies [Clintons] aren’t trying to solve the crisis. They are trying to make government bigger. They used Obama’s rhetoric to do all of this. I haven’t heard paranoid logic this loose since my days in the State hospital a long time ago…
RUSH: I’ll tell you something else the Obama people want, all of these sixties hippies. Obama has written about this in The Audacity of Hope about how he wanted to reverse what Reagan and his "minions" did. Well, what that means is this: They wanted a new depression to get back and expand the safety net, restore things to the status before Reagan and the Reagan Revolution. Reagan trimmed the welfare rolls, slowed the growth of the welfare state, and they didn’t like that. These people are all about expanding the welfare state, getting as many people as possible on the welfare state. They need to give us a new depression, and they’re in the process of doing it. Don’t doubt me.
Sorry to get off the subject, but I’m having a hard time wrapping my brain with the thought that a Republican might (most of the polls say will win) win the late Senator Ted Kennedy’s senate seat. Here was a man with many flaws, but not when it came to the strong desire to provide health care for all. The irony is too much for me right now. I’ve tried to avoid the news about the senate race just to ease the stress I’m having about it.
Joy, I agree. It’s too awful to contemplate. Imagine what Obama must be feeling. They’ll get health care reform some way or other — the House will simply pass the Senate bill and that’s that. But they won’t be able to get anything else on the agenda through the senate without the fragile 60 vote margin.
As to Mickey’s post of Rush’s blathering — the gross shame of it all is that the huge number of American people who drink this KoolAid and turn around and spout this stuff for the truth. And not just the great uneducated masses — watch FoxNews and see how often they spout the same lines.
He is a brief step away from joining with his “conspiratorial” view of history compadres…people who believe that all modern presidents are mere puppets of the Rockefellers and Rothschilds…that the CIA has shape-changing reptilian aliens on their payroll, that many others live underground near Dulce, New Mexico, that there are 500.000 body bag things stockpiled near Atlanta and evil FEMA camps poised to spring into action when the Rockefellers decide it is time to begin mass reductions in the population of the USA, that there is bonafide evidence of the US Government having orchestrated 9/11 and on and on. Typical/acceptable standards of evidence to be brought to bear on understanding and discourse are suspended with such minds as is obvious in Fat Boy’s rants. If you attempt to challenge their views at any level, the arguments go immediately meta-physical with the answers to the truth being suppressed and molded to the whims of the puppet masters; therefore, all evidence is manufactured and the only truth is that which they believe to be true.