Are you with Obama or Rush?
Politico
President Obama and a key outside ally are stepping up efforts to ensure passage of the massive economic stimulus package, reaching out to Congress with both carrots and sticks.
While the president and his top aides are using all the trappings of the office, courting members through phone calls, cocktail parties, West Wing sit-downs and even a politically mixed Super Bowl party, liberal groups are dispensing with the niceties and seeking to drive a wedge between Republicans and one of the right’s most influential leaders.
Politico has learned that tomorrow Americans United for Change, a liberal group, will begin airing radio ads in three states Obama won — Ohio, Pennsylvania and Nevada — with a tough question aimed at the GOP senators there: Will you side with Obama or Rush Limbaugh?
“Every Republican member of the House chose to take Rush Limbaugh’s advice,” says the narrator after playing the conservative talk radio giant’s declaration that he hopes Obama “fails.”
“Every Republican voted with Limbaugh — and against creating 4 million new American jobs. We can understand why a extreme partisan like Rush Limbaugh wants President Obama’s Jobs program to fail — but the members of Congress elected to represent the citizens in their districts? That’s another matter. Now the Obama plan goes to the Senate, and the question is: Will our Senator”—here the ad is tailored by state to name George Voinovich in Ohio, Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania, and John Ensign in Nevada—”side with Rush Limbaugh too?”
Asked to respond, Limbaugh had a message for his party.
“Senate Republicans need to understand this is not about me,” he wrote in an email. “It is about them, about intimidating them, especially after the show of unity in House. It is about the 2010 and 2012 elections. This is an opportunity for Republicans to redefine themselves after a few years of wandering aimlessly looking for a ‘brand’ and identity.”
Brad Woodhouse, the Democratic strategist who is overseeing the ad campaign, said: “The House Republicans put their Senate colleagues in the crosshairs because they decided to play politics rather than do the right thing.”
The radio buy comes on the heels of TV campaign by Americans United for Change and other liberal groups that began Thursday and targets GOP senators in Maine, New Hampshire, Alaska and Iowa, and another by the Laborers Union aimed at Senators in Iowa, Kentucky, Nevada and Tennessee; both designed to rally support for the stimulus package.
As their allies take to the airwaves, Obama and his top aides are conducting their own internal inside-outside lobbying effort.
A few chosen members of Congress of both parties will receive the ultimate in White House wooing this weekend when they join Obama Sunday night in the residence to watch the Super Bowl. The list is an ideologically diverse one. Politico has learned it will include, among other opposites, conservative Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) and liberal Amy Klobuchar (D-MN).
More publicly, Obama is making his case for the bill through a series of events that this week included a high-profile White House meeting and speech before a group of the nation’s top CEOs. Friday, Obama along with Vice President Joe Biden will deliver remarks sure to touch on the economy at an East Room event focused on middle class and working families.
Senate Republicans acknowledge that they’ll lose some of their members on the first vote.
“We’re in a little different spot than the House in that we have a handful of Republicans who have all but committed to supporting the package,” said a Senate GOP aide
.
The aide declined to say who, but speculation on both sides of the aisle is centered on a group of northeasterners — Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, Sen. Judd Gregg (NH) and Specter.
Wild Thing’s comment……….
So Obama’s owner, Soros, has gone into action to try and help his investment of destroying America. This is just one of many groups that Soros has money paid into. MoveOn.Org’s website is even adking for more funds for this BS ad.
http://moveon.org/
“liberal groups are dispensing with the niceties and seeking to drive a wedge between Republicans and one of the right’s most influential leaders”
They will never stop trying to do this. And at least for right now it is not working. But get ready for more radical Alinsky rules modus operandi (”target it, isololate it, polarize it”) and the stain of far leftists on our White House and our way of life.
You have to love the fact that liberals can’t help being stupid, are they not aware that all they’re doing is driving more people to listen to Rush to see what he has to say? They don’t understand that Rush has been explaining the pork in the stimulus package, and that many more people now are aware of this because they’re listening to Rush? As well as some of the other talk show hosts.
ANY member of the GOP that votes for this generational theft act of socialism needs to be voted out. Banished! The dems want the Republicnas in on this so when it fails and it will be horrible for America in every way, they want to be able to say the Republilcans were part of it too. WISE UP Republican Senators and don’t be stupid and fooled by this BS kissing up to get your vote!
America-hating Marxists are the ones pushing this and Obama ( Soros $$$$) leads the way.
….Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
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I am with Rush. What Soros and the commie lefties don’t tell you is we had a plan too. One that cost less than half of what the lefties wanted and created more jobs. They refused to hear it. So when this all blows up in the dummys faces, we can sit back, point our fingers at them and do the turnabout is fair play–We told you so. (don’t they love to do that to us?)
Rush is a Patriotic American–he is fun loving, jovial and down right good guy. He seeks out and speaks the truth and for that, they want him off the air. Rush is very dangerous man to them. He’s no more dangerous than those who were on Air America. I can’t help it if there weren’t enough people listening to people blast us for being the bad guys and went bankrupt. Maybe they should have been more fair and had shows from both sides since it was labeled Air America? Hmmm?
They keep talking about fixing the economy and creating jobs. There main concern. But where are the jobs ? Its like Fred said, half the country will be digging holes and the other half will be filling thme back in.
We all have looked at the “Stimulus” bill and there is nothing in that bill that could possibly create a new job. It is all about Political payback to, Big Labor, ACORN, and every other leftist group who blatantly defrauded they system for obama. 4 billion for ACRON alone and the list goes on and on.
Millons for contraception. How is that creating jobs. Why don’t these Republican experts ever ask questions. Like how is passing out condoms creating a job or stimulating the economy.
I am on Rush’s side.
This stimulus is nothing more than a payoff to Obama supporters and the buying of their present and future loyalty. The rest is nothing more than a huge power grab to enslave all of us under Communism, you can bet your bottom that I’m on Rush’s side.
President Obama’s and the Democrat’s false stimulus but actually pork laden budget Ponzi Scheme is worthy of the Bernie Madoff Screw the Investor Award for 2009.
We should all follow the words of Hillary Clinton when she said,
“I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you’re not patriotic.”
“And we should stand up and say we are Americans, and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!”
http://www.liberty-news.com/cartoons/
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You mean the Hollyweirdos http://www.moveover.orgy?
Lynn, exactly, we… our side had a plan too and the dems would not listen to it.
Mark, those things you pointed out just scream out at a person how this is packed full of pork and handouts. I agree Mark none of that creates jobs.
Jack yes paying back the donations to their party.
Nick said what on earth, how much does it cost anyway to put sod down along the Mall in D.C. and then what whoever has that job how many will be illegals.
Les, yes Hillary has said many wrong even horrible things but that quote of hers is perfect for all this we do when what we see is so wrong for our country.
Darth, LOL yes that horrible political “orgy” good one!!!!