Democrats launch Government petition against Limbaugh for "hoping Obama fails" statement

by Kal El on January 28, 2009 · View Comments

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I am sure that by now, many of our readers are aware of Rush Limbaugh’s hope. As he put it himself, and I am all to happy to repeat, “I hope he fails.” Now they are launching a petition, I guess attacking him for saying what he wants (an attack on freedom of speech, anyone?).

Democrats Launch Petition Against Rush Limbaugh After Firing Back at Obama

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has launched an online petition to express outrage at conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh for saying he wanted President Obama to “fail.”

“Jobs, health care, our place in the world — the stakes for our nation are high and every American needs President Obama to succeed,” the petition reads. “Stand strong against Rush Limbaugh’s Attacks — sign our petition, telling Rush what you think of his attacks on President Obama.”

The petition comes after Obama warned Republicans on Capitol Hill Friday that they need to quit listening to Limbaugh if they want to get along with Democrats and the new administration.

“You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done,” he told top GOP leaders, whom he had invited to the White House to discuss his nearly $1 trillion stimulus package.

One White House official confirmed the comment but said he was simply trying to make a larger point about bipartisan efforts.

On Monday, Limbaugh shot back at Obama, opening his show by saying, “I’m the man you should not be listening, according to President Obama.”

“I think [Obama] wants me to fail,” Limbaugh said. “He’s more frightened of me than he is of John Boehner, which doesn’t say much for our party.”

The remarks came after Limbaugh said last week on his radio show: “If I wanted Obama to succeed, I’d be happy the Republicans have laid down. I don’t want this to work. So I’m thinking of replying to this guy, say ‘okay, I’ll send you a response, but I don’t need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails’.”

The committee’s online petition includes a YouTube video featuring audio clips of the radio host’s recent remarks.

What happened to the audacity of hope? Is it now a crime to hope bad people fail? To those dhimwits who sign the stupid petition I say “STOP BEING SUCH A PUSSY!”.

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Edit: (Infidelesto) When have we ever seen a government entity like the DCCC use their positions of political power to stifle a private citizens free speech in the media.  This is unprecedented.  The Dems haven’t wasted any time going after the most prominent conservative in the country.  If they want a fight, they will get one.

Another note: I completely agree with Rush saying her hopes Obama fails.  Why? Because Socialism has NEVER worked.  So why would we “hope that socialism works”? It doesn’t make any sense.  Of course if Obama were to institute the policies of less government, of course we would hope that he succeeds in doing so, but the direction that Obama already seems to be taking our country is not something that I want to see succeed.  I want the BEST for this country and the best path for the country is NOT bigger, more controlling government involved in every aspect of our lives.  I sure as hell hope Obama fails becuase I do NOT want to see socialism take a firm grip on this country for the foreseeable future.

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  • Ted

    With the mounting job casualties, here's hoping SCOTUS either finds someone, somewhere, has standing to require BHO's birth certificate or fixes attention on a criminal indictment before he wins his War on Prosperity.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/JEWHAWK JEWHAWK

    I don't want to see president Hussein failing.It's bad for everyone.Rush Limbaugh said he opposed LEFTIST actions taken by Obama,fearing that they could lead to a SOCIALIST AMERICA. Between president Hussein and Mr.Limbaugh,I'll take the latter's side,for believing in a FREE SPEECH society,something those democrats only support if a lefty loon is on the ropes.

  • http://www.traveLightgame.com carolyne

    IMO BO has failed. His first interview is with the enemy? Hell-O lets face it folks. This Kenyan born usurper is America's worst enemy. Sooner everyone gets it the better, and we can have him impeached. The malicious media should be boycott forever in our country. I already have, plus the Muslims can get out, along with anyone else that marches to kill the Jews and burns our flag. Anyone that wants live abortions, bails out Fannie and Freddie, cheats, lies and steals from all hard working tax paying America's has no business being the so called leader of our country. Then Obama has the audacity to say he will fix the economy, he broke it, he should fix it.
    When ever I go into a store and break something, I fix it or pay for it. Either way, it's my responsibility, so he better hurry, time is wasting, Hussein Obama, or whoever you are???
    I hope he fails too, and he will. Vain is the help of man. Obama is a vain man.

  • tusentakk

    "Kenyan born usurper" -concise, and all of his birth-certificate stonewalling indicates that this is true.
    Get the Muslims out…this is a nutshell description of what the west needs to do. Throughout history the west has always had some heroes until now. Why is our age so backbone-challenged?
    We also need to stop letting the left revise the history taught in our schools, stop preaching hatred for America and Christianity.

  • http://www.traveLightgame.com carolyne

    Thanks, tusentakk
    You are so-ooooo right, Obama should have never been let on a college campus. Liberals are creating havoc among our young students teaching hatred, and division. America is a Christian nation, and time we stood for that. Wm. Ayers should be fired, how dare he be allowed to teach. I can't imagine ever voting for Obama for that reason alone. If I'm paying for my child's education, I don't want them thought by Muslims, or non believers who hate America. They better be an American citizen, plus dress and act accordingly. Hussein Obama needs to show our country some respect, all the people not just his race?
    What ever that happens to be? Lord only knows. He won the election by fraud, so no need to even try and set that man straight, impossible. He's heartless and hates America, just wants to be world leader.
    WE HAVE A VOICE, and I'd be happy to tell Obama that myself. I have grand children, and want this crap to stop. We need to have a Boston Tea Party. NOW! It's going to come to that, enough is enough!

  • Gil DeLiso

    I agree that Rush should have the right to say what he believes and Obama has the right to say that people need to stop taking ideological positions that prevent useful compromise from being achived. Liberals are not teaching hatred, but you are preaching it. America was founded on religious freedom. American citizens dress and act according to thier free choice. Are you saying that the we should deny those constitutional rights to to teachers? Some of the best are those from other countries who have come here because they embrace the American ideal.
    How is Obama showing disrespect for this country? Or showing it only for his "his race"?
    He is half white and half-black, or are you so racist yourself that you only see the part you don't like? By th eway, he can't make us a socialist country, only the legislature could approve changes like that. That's what the sepration of powers is about.

  • Ben

    I guess when the liberals hoped that Bush would die that was just hunky-dory.

    I voted against Obama in the hope that he would fail to be even elected. And I voted for Republicans in the House in the hope that the Democrats would fail to take the majority. That was my exercise of an honest to God Constitutional right, and that right is not subject to the approval of the left.

    48% of the voters in this country, more if you only count living, eligible voters by one person one vote, have therefore hoped he would fail. If you're a conservative and think you're obligated to support Obama, stop being an idiot! Everything we said during the campaign is still true! He really will do what he said, the Democrats are not our friends and if we want to retake the government we need to get back to our principles *now*.

    And the fact is that if the Republicans were to shut down the government and completely block all this nonsense, it would be better for the country. The media would go full tilt, but they'll do that to *any* principled opposition. If we're going to be the villains, we may as well do earn the title.

  • tusentakk

    So appointing Eric Holder as Attorney General shows respect for Americans? This guy got Clinton to pardon terrorists and release them from prison while advocating that law-abiding folks be imprisoned if their gun registration papers weren't in order. One doesn't have to be a 'racist' to approve of the Second Amendment and Constitution.
    And how about appointing a tax cheat as U.S. Treasury Secretary? This shows respect for tax-paying Americans? Obama is surrounded by corrupt politicians and the leftist press supports this because they're into his cult.

  • http://www.trommetter.com/log/archives/2009/01/29/todays-blogmarks-268/ Today’s Blogmarks | New Trommetter Times

    [...] Dhimmicrats launch petition against Limbaugh for hoping Obama fails I am sure that by now, many of our readers are aware of Rush Limbaugh’s hope. As he put it himself, and I am all to happy to repeat, “I hope he fails.” Now they are launching a petition, I guess attacking him for saying what he wants (an attack on freedom of speech, anyone?). This is what happens when liberals think they have absolute control. You can say whatever you like, as long as you agree with me. [...]

  • Greg

    Isn't it weird how 'bama wants America to be united and to go forward..? None of the democrats wanted that when President Bush was leading us. There was absolutely no talk of a united country from the democrats before.. now they think that conservatives should go along with their lame, anti-2nd amendment, welfare bloated agenda. I hope b.hussein obama and his agenda fails too. especially since he started out groveling to the middle-east muslims. I see it now….President dhimmi obama……

  • GB

    Oooh, oooh, while we're at it, let's bring slavery back, and forget women suffrage, right? If you haven't noticed the sarcasm, too bad. If the democrats weren't around to keep this country together, blacks, women, and the likes would not be voting today. Go ahead, tell them that and see what they'd say back. Also, it's inconceivable how a corrupt vice president of the free world profits off Haliburton with an unjust war and you don't say anything to correct him?

    You want to talk about names? Hussein is nothing but a name. Let's look at Dick and Bush when they were in the White House. Let's look at Cheney's accident of shooting a friend in the face. Let's look at Bush choking on a pretzel. How soon we forget the bafoons that have just left.

    More facts? Bush initiated the Stimulus Plan. How can the republicans be so much in favor of it then, and pretty much force the democrats to follow suite, and now that Obama's in a position of leadership, fairly elected, you become a hypocrite and turn your back on your country. How patriotic are you?

  • GB

    Have you forgotten that the republicans did nothing to stop a failing economy? Really? Forgot that quick? Wow…….

  • http://infidelsarecool.com Infidelesto

    seriously? enough with the history lessons for you liberal morons.

    NEWS ALERT: It was REPUBLICANS who helped push through the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. You see, it's Democrats who's history is laced with racism, and only the mainstream media and our leftist education system who has distorted this lie and led you down the indoctrinated path to radical leftist ideology.

    Republicans fought to free blacks from slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom (13th Amendment), citizenship (14th Amendment) and the right to vote (15th Amendment). Republicans also passed the civil rights laws of the 1860's, including the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Reconstruction Act of 1867 that was designed to establish a new government system in the Democrat-controlled South, one that was fair to blacks.

    Shamefully, the same guys who you think are “looking out for you” fought AGAINST anti-lynching laws, and when the Democrats regained control of Congress in 1892, they passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Republicans.

    REPUBLICANS STARTED THE NAACP. HELLO?????

    They started it to counter the racist practices of the Democrats. It took Republicans six decades to finally enact civil rights laws in the 1950’s and 1960’s, over the objection of Democrats.

    It defies logic for Democrats today to claim that the racist Democrats suddenly joined the Republican Party after Republicans—including Republican Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.—finally won the civil rights battle against the racist Democrats. In fact, the racist Democrats declared that they would rather vote for a “yellow dog” than vote for a Republican, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.

    I'm sorry, truth hurts, doesn't it?

  • http://infidelsarecool.com Infidelesto

    have you forgotten that the Repubs tried multiple times to reign in Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac but were continually shunned by Democrats like Dodd, Frank and Waters? Or did you miss that one too?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs

    Or how about the Community re-investment act from the Carter era, put on steroids by the Clinton admin that pressured banks to give bad loans, cause ya know, owning a house is “a right” now didn't you know?

  • Beejj

    Slavery? Gosh, it just goes to show how ignorant I am of US politics! Silly me, I thought Lincoln was a Republican, and he was a Democrat the whole time.

  • Kal_El

    If islam takes over, slavery will certainly make a comeback. It is still practiced in the muslim world. I know from personal experience, having lived here and seen the deplorable conditions the maids and day laborers are forced to endure (14 hour workdays, 7 days a week for 70 dollars for the laborers, some maids work 18 hour days, and their arab/muslim owners love to not pay them their monthly salary.)

    Speaking of BUFFOONS, try spellcheck, bub. As for names, how about William Ayers (convicted terrorist), Rashid Khalidi (terrorist supporter), and Jeremiah Wright (anti-American, anti-semitic pastor to B Hussein Obama for 20 years)? Those are Obama's associates.

    No one here is turning their back on Our Country. Quite the opposite. I (along with many like me) opposed the initial spendulus bill that Dubya passed. Just as we opposed his wetback amnesty in 2007. If anyone has turned their backs on the USA, it is Pelosi, Reid, Obama, Biden and their ilk, who want to keep giving our money to greedy businesses, after the handout from Dubya did not work. Them, and the people who continue to vote those communist pigs into office, in hopes of a handout from the government, instead of doing it the old fashioned way, like my parents, and now me, busting their asses to get ahead, not whining about how they screwed their lives up and now want the government to fix the mess for them. That is the antithesis of what the Founding Fathers intended for the Republic.

  • Tonto

    The dems are going after Limbaugh to keep eyes off what they are doing with the stimulus package and all the pork barrel crap in it. The White House (actually, 'Bama's Crib) is under lots of fire from talk radio and are really feeling the heat. Remember, they went after Limbaugh before with the oxicodone thing, and even tried to put him in jail. Limbaugh, and others like him scare the crap out of the dems. The One's approval rating is already falling, and he's only been in there 50 days. I got the feeling that at House and Senate re election time, in 2 years, the dems are going to have an eye-opener.

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    Being given the fact that Obama is USA president at the moment, if he fails, than USA fails as a country. I doubt people want that to happen. Everything in this world happen for a reason so i think if Obama is president now, i`m sure there`s a good reason for that, high above.

  • http://infidelsarecool.com Infidelesto

    you're vastly misinformred. I hear so many clueless folks out there just like yourself. “Oh, get over he's President now, just support him, we don't want the country to fail!”

    nonsense…

    listen closely…I want any policies, gov't programs that restrict people's ability to achieve and be successful TO FAIL. Obama is a socialist trying to transform the foundations of this country through oppressive taxation. If the country fails at becoming a socialist country, which I believe it will, it couldn't happen soon enough. I want socialism to fail. Obama will not last past 1 term. The people are already starting to wake up.

  • SirWilhelm

    The TARP bill of 2008 was passed while Bush was still president. He and the Republicans have been rightly criticized for it, but it shows they were trying.

  • SirWilhelm

    Here's why Obama should not be pres:http://www.obamacrimes.info/

    Most people agree that Jimmy Carter was a failure as a president, and the country survived him.

    Gil DeLiso: He went around Europe apologizing for America, embarassing us to the world. He's the one that played the race card to get elected, making it seem racist to vote against him, while 90% of the blacks voted for him just because he was black. With Spector's defection and Franken likely to win the senate seat he ran for, the Dems will have the 60 vote bullet proof majority in the Senate that will enable the Dems to put through any legislation they want. Considering the partisan voting record in this Congress so far, it looks bad.

  • Michael F

    This is beyond simple socialism suppressing free speech is just another example of Obama's fanciest agenda such as: taking control over the Auto industry, taking control over Wall Street, taking control over most of the money by not willing to accept the TARP money back from the 3 largest bank, attempting to control American Healthcare, now an attempt to control energy through the ridiculous 'cap-and-trade'; not to mention the record # of “Czars” who operate completely outside the constitution and answer only to the president. To the Democrats whoever votes for a government health care plan or cap and trade will be voted out in the mid-term election and Obama will not have the luxury of a Democratic congress including his lap dog Pelosi; after the midterm elections Obama will be nothing more than a lame duck excuse for a president! Anyone who actually cares about America and the future of their children hopes for Obama’s failure.

  • Michael F

    This is beyond simple socialism suppressing free speech is just another example of Obama's fanciest agenda such as: taking control over the Auto industry, taking control over Wall Street, taking control over most of the money by not willing to accept the TARP money back from the 3 largest bank, attempting to control American Healthcare, now an attempt to control energy through the ridiculous 'cap-and-trade'; not to mention the record # of “Czars” who operate completely outside the constitution and answer only to the president. To the Democrats whoever votes for a government health care plan or cap and trade will be voted out in the mid-term election and Obama will not have the luxury of a Democratic congress including his lap dog Pelosi; after the midterm elections Obama will be nothing more than a lame duck excuse for a president! Anyone who actually cares about America and the future of their children hopes for Obama’s failure.

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