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		<title>By: jim</title>
		<link>http://www.balloon-juice.com/2009/03/02/the-2012-republican-frontrunners/#comment-1167008</link>
		<dc:creator>jim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>For the first time in his life, Limbaugh is doing something good for his country - simply by holding out his ring for Goopers to kiss. As long as he likes the way it tickles (&amp; even better, how well all this media face-time sets him up for yet another lucrative contract renegotiation), he couldn&#039;t care less how badly it hurts the Republicans. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Apres-moi, la merde frappe le ventilateur!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
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I keep thinking of Marat during the French Revolution, tearing his own party to pieces from the inside &quot;for its own good&quot; while his fanboys howled with joy - although his end is more likely to be from ODing on pills than getting caught in a tub by a crazy lady with a knife.
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Now I want to see &lt;em&gt;Palin&lt;/em&gt; take a shot at his fat ass ... she&#039;s every bit as sociopathic &amp; egomaniacal as he is, &amp; she doesn&#039;t strike me as prone to apologies - ever. 

Make It So.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For the first time in his life, Limbaugh is doing something good for his country &#8211; simply by holding out his ring for Goopers to kiss. As long as he likes the way it tickles (&#038; even better, how well all this media face-time sets him up for yet another lucrative contract renegotiation), he couldn&#8217;t care less how badly it hurts the Republicans. <strong><em>Apres-moi, la merde frappe le ventilateur!</em></strong><br />
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I keep thinking of Marat during the French Revolution, tearing his own party to pieces from the inside &quot;for its own good&quot; while his fanboys howled with joy &#8211; although his end is more likely to be from ODing on pills than getting caught in a tub by a crazy lady with a knife.<br />
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Now I want to see <em>Palin</em> take a shot at his fat ass &#8230; she&#8217;s every bit as sociopathic &#038; egomaniacal as he is, &#038; she doesn&#8217;t strike me as prone to apologies &#8211; ever.</p>
<p>Make It So.</p>
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		<title>By: priscianus jr</title>
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		<dc:creator>priscianus jr</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Aaron writes:
&quot;Is that psychopath still on armed forces radio? Doesnt someone think about how bad an idea it is when our gun carrying troops, such as in Iraq, listen to his xenophobic muslim hating rants?
How many innocent lives has this f—ker cost?&quot;
Come on Aaron, it&#039;s all in fun, he&#039;s just an entertainer.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Aaron writes:<br />
&quot;Is that psychopath still on armed forces radio? Doesnt someone think about how bad an idea it is when our gun carrying troops, such as in Iraq, listen to his xenophobic muslim hating rants?<br />
How many innocent lives has this f&#8212;ker cost?&quot;<br />
Come on Aaron, it&#8217;s all in fun, he&#8217;s just an entertainer.</p>
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		<title>By: JenJen</title>
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		<dc:creator>JenJen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I see Nicolle Wallace is now throwing all-in with Rush Limbaugh.

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-03-02/stop-lecturing-us-mr-president/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stop Lecturing Us, Mr. President!&lt;/a&gt;

You tell &#039;em, Nicolle!  Good gawd, the dramatics, the death pangs. Painful to watch.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I see Nicolle Wallace is now throwing all-in with Rush Limbaugh.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-03-02/stop-lecturing-us-mr-president/" rel="nofollow">Stop Lecturing Us, Mr. President!</a></p>
<p>You tell &#8216;em, Nicolle!  Good gawd, the dramatics, the death pangs. Painful to watch.</p>
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		<title>By: Mike in NC</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mike in NC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Palin’s just a girl. She’ll know how to make Rush’s coffee the way he likes it.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Black, with one tab of Viagra and one tab of Oxycontin.  Yum!</description>
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<blockquote>Palin&#8217;s just a girl. She&#8217;ll know how to make Rush&#8217;s coffee the way he likes it.</p></blockquote>
<p>Black, with one tab of Viagra and one tab of Oxycontin.  Yum!</p>
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		<title>By: ricky</title>
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		<dc:creator>ricky</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;I do think that right-wingers, generally speaking, are not particularly interested in slow, austere art-cinema made by Canadian eskimos.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

But their leader, Mr. Limbaugh, my inner Inuition tells me, would have no trouble slowly eating ample Eskimo pies.</description>
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<blockquote>I do think that right-wingers, generally speaking, are not particularly interested in slow, austere art-cinema made by Canadian eskimos.</p></blockquote>
<p>But their leader, Mr. Limbaugh, my inner Inuition tells me, would have no trouble slowly eating ample Eskimo pies.</p>
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		<title>By: Jay in Oregon</title>
		<link>http://www.balloon-juice.com/2009/03/02/the-2012-republican-frontrunners/#comment-1166619</link>
		<dc:creator>Jay in Oregon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1165875&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Atanarjuat&lt;/a&gt;: 

&lt;blockquote&gt;Perhaps the reason this is so incredibly confusing to you is because you lockstep leftists expect to have one strong leader—and only ONE.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Which party/political movement put up this billboard again?

&lt;a href=&quot;http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blbushourleader.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;George W. Bush: Our Leader&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#comment-1165875" rel="nofollow">Atanarjuat</a>:</p>
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<blockquote>Perhaps the reason this is so incredibly confusing to you is because you lockstep leftists expect to have one strong leader&#8212;and only <span class="caps">ONE</span>.</p></blockquote>
<p>Which party/political movement put up this billboard again?</p>
<p><a href="http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blbushourleader.htm" rel="nofollow">George W. Bush: Our Leader</a></p>
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		<title>By: Shiva</title>
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		<dc:creator>Shiva</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve had many disagreements with Democrats over the years.  But now, the Republicans really worry me.  You have literally millions of Americans who openly want Obama to fail.  And all this is happening when the country is in a very fragile condition.  Obama has no choice but to continue to reach out to Republicans.  Obama now has a majority, if you will, of perhaps 60%.  If he can raise that to 65%, or 70%, so much the better.  Meanwhile, the &quot;fanatical opposition&quot; to Obama is perhaps at 30%.  If Obama can reduce that to 25%, great.  
I agree that the &quot;extreme&quot; Republicans are a sorry spectacle, but in these fragile economic times, these people can do a lot of damage.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve had many disagreements with Democrats over the years.  But now, the Republicans really worry me.  You have literally millions of Americans who openly want Obama to fail.  And all this is happening when the country is in a very fragile condition.  Obama has no choice but to continue to reach out to Republicans.  Obama now has a majority, if you will, of perhaps 60%.  If he can raise that to 65%, or 70%, so much the better.  Meanwhile, the &quot;fanatical opposition&quot; to Obama is perhaps at 30%.  If Obama can reduce that to 25%, great.<br />
I agree that the &quot;extreme&quot; Republicans are a sorry spectacle, but in these fragile economic times, these people can do a lot of damage.</p>
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		<title>By: JenJen</title>
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		<dc:creator>JenJen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I see Bobby Jindal has now reported to the Politburo, as well.

&lt;a href=&quot;http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/03/jindal-calls-limbaugh-a-great-leader-for-conservatives-is-glad-steele-apologized.php?ref=fp2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TPM - Jindal Calls Limbaugh A &quot;Great Leader&quot; For Conservatives, Is Glad Steele Apologized&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I see Bobby Jindal has now reported to the Politburo, as well.</p>
<p><a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/03/jindal-calls-limbaugh-a-great-leader-for-conservatives-is-glad-steele-apologized.php?ref=fp2" rel="nofollow"><span class="caps">TPM </span>- Jindal Calls Limbaugh A &quot;Great Leader&quot; For Conservatives, Is Glad Steele Apologized</a></p>
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		<title>By: jeff</title>
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		<dc:creator>jeff</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s more likely to be Limbaugh/ Palin 2012.

Palin&#039;s just a girl. She&#039;ll know how to make Rush&#039;s coffee the way he likes it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s more likely to be Limbaugh/ Palin 2012.</p>
<p>Palin&#8217;s just a girl. She&#8217;ll know how to make Rush&#8217;s coffee the way he likes it.</p>
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		<title>By: Uli Kunkel</title>
		<link>http://www.balloon-juice.com/2009/03/02/the-2012-republican-frontrunners/#comment-1166477</link>
		<dc:creator>Uli Kunkel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1165897&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TR&lt;/a&gt;:
&lt;blockquote&gt;(a) a brilliant spoof or (b) the stupidest person to visit this site since Birdzilla.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
I vote (a), but brilliance, not so much.

One thing I&#039;ll say for Atan&#039; is that he/she/it taps into a vast reservoir of humorless earnestness in liberal comment sections.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#comment-1165897" rel="nofollow">TR</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>(a) a brilliant spoof or (b) the stupidest person to visit this site since Birdzilla.</p></blockquote>
<p>
I vote (a), but brilliance, not so much.</p>
<p>One thing I&#8217;ll say for Atan&#8217; is that he/she/it taps into a vast reservoir of humorless earnestness in liberal comment sections.</p>
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		<title>By: zoe kentucky</title>
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		<dc:creator>zoe kentucky</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Also, pretending that the GOP/rightwing base doesn&#039;t love Sarah Palin is just plain silly. Remember her rallies last fall? She was a overnight sensation! It was one of the funnier moments of the campaign last year, McCain tries to paint Obama as an empty, worshipped &quot;celebrity&quot; and then he chooses a running mate that GOPers quickly worshipped and drew crowds of 10k or more. 

I think the only reason Sarah Palin didn&#039;t win the CPAC straw poll is because many at the conference aren&#039;t comfortable with a woman leading the country.  They are social conservatives after all, many of them believe in &quot;traditional values&quot; and &quot;traditional gender roles.&quot; Not to mention that the attendees at CPAC are almost all white, middle aged men. (I&#039;ve been to CPAC 3 times, 99, 00 and 02.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Also, pretending that the <span class="caps">GOP</span>/rightwing base doesn&#8217;t love Sarah Palin is just plain silly. Remember her rallies last fall? She was a overnight sensation! It was one of the funnier moments of the campaign last year, McCain tries to paint Obama as an empty, worshipped &quot;celebrity&quot; and then he chooses a running mate that GOPers quickly worshipped and drew crowds of 10k or more.</p>
<p>I think the only reason Sarah Palin didn&#8217;t win the <span class="caps">CPAC</span> straw poll is because many at the conference aren&#8217;t comfortable with a woman leading the country.  They are social conservatives after all, many of them believe in &quot;traditional values&quot; and &quot;traditional gender roles.&quot; Not to mention that the attendees at <span class="caps">CPAC</span> are almost all white, middle aged men. (I&#8217;ve been to <span class="caps">CPAC 3</span> times, 99, 00 and 02.)</p>
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		<title>By: zoe kentucky</title>
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		<dc:creator>zoe kentucky</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Atanarjuat-

Um, have you turned on CNN in the past 2 or 3 days? THE MSM LOVES covering conflict. Ever since Obama became president they&#039;ve been giddy about the GOP v. Obama. That all changed last weekend, now they have the interparty feuding of the GOP v. the rushwingnuts to talk about. First Rush&#039;s address at CPAC (which CNN showed uninterruped), then Steele&#039;s comments, Rush&#039;s response and then Steele&#039;s apology. The thing about Rush is that he talks for 3 hours a day and his entire schtick IS being outrageous and hyperbolic while pretending to care about conservative values. There is a very deep well for them to go back to every day. 

I&#039;ve seen more coverage of Rush Limabugh on MSM teevee news than I&#039;ve seen in YEARS. No one, not even the most powerful members of the GOP, dares to deny his power in the party. For pete&#039;s sake, even Pat Buchanan this morning talked about how important and valuable Rush is as a conservative voice. Steele dared to criticize him in pretty clear language-- &quot;ugly&quot; and &quot;divisive&quot;-- and then offered one of the worst backtracking, most embarassing apologies I&#039;ve ever seen.  The GOP is screwed-- if Rush isn&#039;t their de facto leader they&#039;re certainly acting like he is. 

The most amusing part is that Rush is laughing all the way to the bank.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Atanarjuat-</p>
<p>Um, have you turned on <span class="caps">CNN</span> in the past 2 or 3 days? <span class="caps">THE MSM LOVES</span> covering conflict. Ever since Obama became president they&#8217;ve been giddy about the <span class="caps">GOP</span> v. Obama. That all changed last weekend, now they have the interparty feuding of the <span class="caps">GOP</span> v. the rushwingnuts to talk about. First Rush&#8217;s address at <span class="caps">CPAC </span>(which <span class="caps">CNN</span> showed uninterruped), then Steele&#8217;s comments, Rush&#8217;s response and then Steele&#8217;s apology. The thing about Rush is that he talks for 3 hours a day and his entire schtick IS being outrageous and hyperbolic while pretending to care about conservative values. There is a very deep well for them to go back to every day.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve seen more coverage of Rush Limabugh on <span class="caps">MSM</span> teevee news than I&#8217;ve seen in <span class="caps">YEARS</span>. No one, not even the most powerful members of the <span class="caps">GOP</span>, dares to deny his power in the party. For pete&#8217;s sake, even Pat Buchanan this morning talked about how important and valuable Rush is as a conservative voice. Steele dared to criticize him in pretty clear language&#8212;&quot;ugly&quot; and &quot;divisive&quot;&#8212;and then offered one of the worst backtracking, most embarassing apologies I&#8217;ve ever seen.  The <span class="caps">GOP</span> is screwed&#8212;if Rush isn&#8217;t their de facto leader they&#8217;re certainly acting like he is.</p>
<p>The most amusing part is that Rush is laughing all the way to the bank.</p>
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		<title>By: Porkulus fka Media Browski</title>
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		<dc:creator>Porkulus fka Media Browski</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1166282&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Atanarjuat&lt;/a&gt;: Your every post indicates how much this troubles you.  Thanks for adding seasoning to my tasty schadenfreude!  It&#039;s like salt for my soup!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#comment-1166282" rel="nofollow">Atanarjuat</a>: Your every post indicates how much this troubles you.  Thanks for adding seasoning to my tasty schadenfreude!  It&#8217;s like salt for my soup!</p>
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		<title>By: Atanarjuat</title>
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		<dc:creator>Atanarjuat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-1166272&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;media browski&lt;/a&gt;: 

Thanks for the reminder, mb.  The people who are mostly obsessed with Governor Sarah Palin are you Obama Juicers, so the laser beam focus on Limbaugh should not be surprising, either.

-A</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a href="#comment-1166272" rel="nofollow">media browski</a>:</p>
<p>Thanks for the reminder, mb.  The people who are mostly obsessed with Governor Sarah Palin are you Obama Juicers, so the laser beam focus on Limbaugh should not be surprising, either.</p>
<p>-A</p>
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		<title>By: media browski</title>
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		<dc:creator>media browski</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Atty-boy condensed: the factionaliZation of the GOP is a win for -McCain- palin 2012.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Atty-boy condensed: the factionaliZation of the <span class="caps">GOP</span> is a win for <del>McCain</del> palin 2012.</p>
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