Rush *officially* weighs in on the UAE deal

[underpants]

I just ran out to get lunch. I got a sandwich.

A caller from Cleveland said that he had not heard Rush Limbaugh say definitively if he was for or against the UAE port deal.


Rush said he had no problem with it.

The caller said that he was now on record and should something happen at a port that Rush had chosen economics over national security. Rush said that no no no he chose economics as a means of national security.

Citing Sun Tzu Rush stated that the best way to defeat an enemy is to make him your friend, if you can't do that shoot him.

Rush then explained how we won the Cold War. The Cold War lasted 70 years (if Reagan had been in charge from the beginning it would have only taken 10 or 20 years), we won it by getting TV shows and jeans and such. The power of capitalism brought down the Soviet Union.

Rush then said that we are doing the same by infiltrating China. The Chinese are now involved and invested in the markets so they are less likely to blow us up with nuclear weapons.

I am going to eat my sandwich now.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. What bull...

[electropop]

2. The Chinese don't have to blow us up.

If they call in their loans, it will have the same effect.

[rockymountaindem]

5. That's not exactly the situation, as I understand it

Once they buy the bonds, the Chinese are locked in to the bonds for whatever term the bond states. They cannot try to cash their bonds before they expire. However, what they can do is stop buying new bonds from us in the future after the bonds they currently hold expire. That would dry up a source of funding, but as long as we find someone else to buy the bonds, or find some way to pay for it ourselves, then China can't cause the collapse of our country.

[electropop]

10. Where are they getting the huge piles of cash to buy our debt?

From us. Nobody else has as much money as that which is flowing in a circle between China and the US (though it's really a spiral of mounting debt). If we don't deal with our debt, they will effectively own us.

[underpants]

13. China is holding dollars

Not really based on bonds

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/09/AR2006010901042_pf.html

[cantstandbush]

23. Actually, nobody thinks about blowing anyone up except Bush and

Al-qaeda. Rush is a big fat idiot on oxycotin. I hope his fans see exactly where he stands. He would sell his mother for a $$$$$. He already sold his soul. All you have to do is ask him if Clinton had made this deal post 9/11 what would he be saying?

[Submariner]

3. If the Dubai deal was proposed by President Clinton

I'd bet a years salary that Rush would be screaming for Bill's impeachment.

[electropop]

12. Rush wouldn't have called for Bill's impeachment.

He'd have called for a hanging.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. my lord lard butt hasn't even read

The Art of War.. there is NO SUCH QUOTE in the whole book

[Canuckistanian]

15. Here's a SunTzu quote for the Pigboy

"What is essential in war is victory, not prolonged operations."

[Botany]

6. Oxy by the Shipload

[Tin Man]

14. BAHAWAHAHA !!! The real reason Rush supports BP deal - cheaper Oxy !!

[BlueEyedSon]

7. What a PANTLOAD about the cold war. I don't recall befriending anyone....

[lapfog_1]

8. He presumes, as many in the capitalistic ruling class here

presume, that the "other side" worships the almighty dollar (or euro or rupee, etc) as much as they do. They cannot imagine an entity spending billions of dollars to buy something which has the potential to make billions more, and then providing the means to others to destroy said money making investment (along with hurting an infidel country).

This is why they do not understand Osama and his followers, many of whom are highly placed people in the royal families of many Arab countries.

[BlueEyedSon]

11. After the first couple billion that you can't possibly spend, the rest

doesn't much matter.....

[CJCRANE]

17. ....they don't need to destroy the investment...

Bushco's cronies can give the nod to bring a container in: "hey boys this is one of ours, no need to look at it", move the contents inland, then BLAMMO, set off a nuke or whatever. Bushco, declares state of emergency, institutes martial law, and gallops off to war with Iran.

[BR_Parkway]

9. So, we need a drug addict telling an incompetent and corrupt President

how we should be running things?

After telling everyone else for 5 years that 1) all Arabs were bad and killers 2) if they voted for Dem's, Arabs would blow them up and 3) the Prez needs to stomp all over the Constitution to keep you safe from said terrible Arabs.

Ok, while I don't agree - I can at least see how so many Americans suspended every rational thought in the wake of the fear mongering. I think those Re-pubs who aren't rebelling against this latest move to pull a 180 and go with "Muslims are good, trust us" meme of the (mis)Administration should be put into a psycho ward for further evaluation. I can't see how anything beyond loyalty to the Cult of Bush could make them stop all the fear and hate from 5 years ago to suddenly thinking this is a good idea.

[Joey Liberal]

16. Rush must be stoned again n.t

[CoffeeCat]

18. Earlier this week, Rush was singing a different tune....

He said that this was a bad decision, politically--and that Bush would have to change his mind. Rush said, "I just don't see any way around this. However, it depends on how stubborn they want to be."

So, somewhere between Monday and today--Rush got a call from the WH--explaining how lovely this idea is. They obviously gave him some talking points too (ie Cold War).

We get angry because the Rushbots can't think for themselves...well Rush can't either.

It doesn't matter if the water is brimming with mold and rat feces--Rush will always carry it for the Bush misAdministration.

[underpants]

19. He did did he?

I haven't heard-is the Cold War part of their talking points now? I haven't seen a TV in several hours so it is hard telling what spin they are putting on this this afternoon.

They obviously need more monkeys to fling the feces....sooner or later SOMETHING has to stick

[Tom Rinaldo]

20. Uhuh. Heaven forbid we should talk to Iran though. n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

21. Or continue to give foreign aid to the duly elected government of

Palestine.

[iconoclastNYC]

22. Cheap cost of oil + economic mismanagement ended the cold war

Rush is a paid liar.

[LittleClarkie]

24. That sounds like what he was saying a couple days ago too

He said today that people couldn't tell him why it was bad, that they were reacting emotionally. I felt like saying "Well, that's how you've trained them to react, Rush."

[OzarkDem]

25. Gee, why didn't they do that with Iraq?

We could have made friends with Saddam instead of invading his country. Same with Osama. Gee why didn't Rush think of it then?