Rush Limbaugh smackdown
Published by Mike Stark May 25th, 2006 in Rush LimbaughEarlier in the show, he tried to drive a wedge between blacks and the Democratic party by bringing up the William Jefferson fiasco in the House. For the uninitiated, Pelosi has asked the corrupt congressman from Louisiana to give up his seat on the Ways and Means Committee. Jefferson has refused, calling the request “discriminatory”.
Jefferson was caught on tape - by the FBI - accepting a $100,000 bribe. They’ve got audio and video of him discussing the bribes in “code”.
He’s toast and nancy is doing the right thing.
Unfortunately, it’s opened up a can of worms with the CBC. They don’t like Pelosi asking one of their members to resign his committee post and they are making noise about destabilizing the Democratic party by asking their constituency to stay home.
That pisses me off… but…
The fact remains that out of nearly 300 Republican Congressional members (House and Senate), not a single one is black. I don’t even think there is a Hispanic in the bunch (could be wrong about that though). If ever there was a party of white people, it’s the Republicans.
Also - the fact is that Pelosi’s request was the riht thing to do and it took some courage to do it. She knew the CBC wasn’t going to be happy, but she stood up to that constituency to do what the situation requires.
Contrast that with how Hastert handled the Tom Delay and Duke Cunningham scandals.
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being against corruption is good politics? how devious. next those cynical bastards will be trying for effective leadership or something.
Nice call Mike! Rush really didn’t have much of a reply
There are some Hispanic Republicans in the house. Henry Bonilla -TX, Lincoln Diaz-Balart -FL, Mario Diaz-Balart -FL, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen -FL , may be some more, I’m not sure.
The GOP also has Mel Martinez as a Senator in FL, but I don’t think they really want to claim him…
Way to lay the smackdown on Rush’s roody-poo candy a$$…
I like that Rush criticizes integrity for being “politically expedient.” Shouldn’t it always be?
AWESOME job!
I had to play it four times just to get my brain to register that he admitted your basic point of courageousness. Luckily the worm hole that was about to suck me into the seventh demension was dismissed and the universe went back to normal as he tried to qualify it. Of course it was lame, thin and not very well thought out, which again was Rush’s true nature, so I have a calm ease now that all is alright in the cosmos.
Still, very very nicely done. I had no idea that this was even possible (wasn’t sure how they did it, but was getting pretty conspiratorial in my imagining how day after day only agreement and ‘dittos’ go out over the air waves) until I found your site via a post at MMFA.
Keep up the good work.
Yep, Rush was toasted nicely and smeared with jam. Sometimes you gotta submit. Rush is such a blowhard.
Soon, however, they will fill the void with Kenneth Blackwell types who will be token, as token as Democrats often appear in dealing withg the GOP “Culture of Corruption”, as Rush should admit he is a supporter of.
Howard Dean said the same thing to Tim Russert when asked if this Jefferson character should resign if indicted. “YES”
Mike your call was important in so many ways. You definitely won for starters. But more importantly, it took Rush a long time to spin that web of lies and in one phone call you interrupted 10,000 nodding heads and drove home a clear distinction between Democrats and Republicans.
If dissenting phone calls can cut through the illusion of wingnut radio’s omnipotence then I hope that winning one for the good guys can trigger critical thinking.
if pelossi had balls, she wouldve demanded that jefferson resign his seat in the house.
we came close to a watergate situation with jefferson, that almost had the ag and others resigning if the fbi was forced to return papers taken from his office.
is the congress above the law?
jefferson is a crook who put his own property above the lives of the people in nola, when he used guard troops to take him to his home to recover stuff.
he needs to be gone….
eff that, most of the congress (dems included) need to be gone…they have sold us all down the river.
There is a whole lot of back story to the conflict between Pelosi and the Black Caucus that you omit, my friend. To take just one instance, they are very steamed about being told by Nancy P. that none of them are permitted to speak on or co-sponsor the Voting Rights Amendment. Do explain to me when you get the chance how that is good leadership. It seems to me — and I am obviously and unavoidably black — that Pelosi has nothing but contempt for them, and that the Jefferson thing is only the last straw.
If they have lots of evidence against the man, why shouldn’t they just indict him and be done with it. It seems odd that scores of congressmen have been accused, indicted and jailed but it has notbeen necessary to raid the offices of any in this manner ever in the two century-plus history of the institution. Congressmen are also supposed to enjoy a kind of parliamentary immunity for things they say on the floor of the legislative body. But with this precedent established, if a congressman becomes too outspoken an opponent of a presidential policy, apparently the feds can break down his office door and seize his papers, computers and correspondnece — the part of it they don’t already have by listening in on his phone conversations and intercepting his email.
Sounds like a dangerous precedent, more easily enforced, dare I say because the foot in the door is used on a black guy. Hmmm.
Bruce,
I understand the concern about “Congressmen are also supposed to enjoy a kind of parliamentary immunity for things they say on the floor of the legislative body.” But at the same time, Rep. Jefferson had 90 days to comply with the supoena and did nothing, including challenge it, and this is an issue, that, to the best of my knowledge, has noting to do with what Jefferson said on the floor or even within correspondence between himself and constituents.
This administration is the last one I would ever trust with anything like that, but if the laws were followed, the search is good and needed to be done. I don’t think it’s a race issue, I think it is an issue of law.
maybe the reason congress has gotten upset over it is that they havent investigated the executive branch hardly at all, so they were expecting the favor to be returned. the corruption of congress is coming out, hopefully congress will repay the administration in kind with investigations into the nsa warrantless domestic wiretapping and phase 2 of the senate investigation into wmd in iraq (both have been stonewalled, the latter of which was supposed to be investigated over 2 years ago).
other than that, i really dont understand why its controversial (other than that its uncommon).