Labor Ad Ties Limbaugh to the ‘Party of No’

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http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/labor-ad-ties-limbaugh-to-the-party-of-no/?hp

February 27, 2009, 10:01 am
Labor Ad Ties Limbaugh to the ‘Party of No’
By Kate Phillips

The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, one of the nation’s largest and most politically active labor unions, and Americans United for Change, a labor advocacy group, have joined together to produce a TV ad that mashes clips of Republican congressional leaders’ reactions against the $787 billion stimulus package with Rush Limbaugh’s opposition to the White House initiative.

The commercial, which a group spokesman said would be broadcast on some cable networks and possibly the Sunday news shows early next week, attempts to paint Mr. Limbaugh, the talk radio show host, as the titular head of the Republican party.

It intersperses clips of American workers, teachers and foreclosure signs with the leaders using the word “no.” And the ad ends with Mr. Limbaugh’s declaration toward President Obama from a few weeks ago: “I want him to fail,” and then a narrator concludes: “Tell them America won’t take no for an answer.”

Alex Conant, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee, offered this response to the ad: “The Democrats are running a permanent campaign rather than doing the bipartisan work of governing. These ads are part of the Democrats’ larger strategy to do something, anything to try to take the focus of their massive spending binge.”

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Brad Woodhouse, a spokesman for Americans United who is soon to rejoin the Democratic National Committee as its communications director said: “Rush Limbaugh is the leader of the Republican Party. He says jump and Eric Cantor and other Republican leaders say how high. Limbaugh is better known among Republicans than any of the Republicans leaders in Congress and when he speaks they listen and follow just as they did in opposing en masse President Obama’s recovery package.”

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K & R

The Oxy-Contin poppin',bloviatin' hate monger is still preaching "I hope he fails".

It still escapes me how ANYONE is taken in by this, or any other of the RW blowhard shills. I think George Carlin nailed it:

"....I'll tell you what they don't want . . . they don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that . . . that doesn't help them. That's against their interests. That's right. They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they're getting fv@*ed by a system that threw them overboard 30 fv@*ckin' years ago. They don't want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers . . . Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly sh*!!ier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it....

BTW Steve, LOVE the EFCA NOW banner!!!