"Why are you voting Republican?" - Rush Limbaugh has a sad

[underpants]

Caught a few minutes of his show just now.

He is having a bad bad day over the budget.
"Why are you voting Republican?" was the theme.
He said that DC doesn't care about "the will of the people" and have abandoned all of Trump's agenda.

He actually got a clue for a while blaming it all on MONEY. K Street lobbyists don't like Trump's agenda so it won't happen. then he reverted to his normal inanity failing to see how the stupid Trump's agenda is and how it was DOA because moderate Republicans know it's nonsense.

Commercial break

He comes back with "Why are you voting Republican?" Listing what's still in the budget.
Refugee placement
HB2 visas
The EPA was spared Trump's cuts
Planned Parenthood
Judicial funding increase "those mean judges "
California high speed rail
Green initiatives
Consumer Protection
National Institute of Health increased
Etc.

I wouldn't call it a meltdown but it was pretty close.
It was definitely hilarious to listen to.

[rurallib]

1. he'll be missed like a plague would be missed.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. please tell me I missed it - he's quitting?

[brush]

3. The corporate owner he's affiliated with is teetering on bankruptcy. It and him may be gone soon.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. And that's what Trump's next foray will be, right? Taking over the minds of the crazies

from Fox and Rush

[rurallib]

4. no but the whole house of cards that he works for is really creaky

IHeartradio, formerly Clear Channel, which has a division that actually contracts with the likes of Hannity & Limpy (Premiere Partnership?) seems to be creeping toward collapse.

Not sure what that would mean on the radio dial. Hopefully there would be shows shutting down and radio properties for sale.

Funny - this is about the only article I could find quickly:
http://www.grandforksherald.com/news/4257357-report-iheartradio-faces-potential-collapse

I am a radiophile and have been following CC's demise for a long time. Couldn't happen to a nicer business.
And the irony is that Bain Capital had a major hand in gutting them.

[underpants]

6. Yep. Article a few weeks ago - can't see it lasting another year

I believe that Romney's old operation bought it up but I could be wrong about that.

[rurallib]

12. yeah - I just added that info to my post

many years back I tried to line up partners to get some liberal radio presence in our area.
Hardly anyone cared. Eventually I gave up.

[workinclasszero]

17. Yes it was Bain

And they loaded it up with debt, their M.O.

[underpants]

18. Guitar Center too in 2007

they've lasted so far. Friend of ours used to work there but he bailed a year or so ago.

[workinclasszero]

19. Wow I didn't know that

Damn

[underpants]

21. As my friend who worked there said

There are two things that are recession proof - liquor stores and musical equipment stores. Musicians will spend rent money for their next upgrade.

[workinclasszero]

10. His brain dead listeners average age is 67!

They are dying off by the minute.

Can I get an amen!

[rurallib]

13. ouch! I am 67

[workinclasszero]

16. LOL sorry!

[underpants]

15. Funny

[gratuitous]

5. The will of the people?

Refresh my memory: Didn't the Democrat poll some 2.8 million more votes than the Republican? Didn't Democratic candidates in the House and Senate poll more votes than the Republicans? Republicans really should give that "will of the people" thing a rest right now. Their majorities are solely the creation of their own gerrymandering of districts, caging of Democratic voters, and wholesale disenfranchisement of likely Democratic voters. That's the stuff of a dictator's, not the vox populi.

[underpants]

9. Please ignore the seats picked up by Dems in the house and Senate

Everyone else in the media is.

[gratuitous]

14. That, too

And you're right; the popular media completely elides the shrinkage in those Republican majorities from the 2016 vote.

[TNLib]

7. I was reading the post article

sounds like the Dems are the real negotiators.

There was something in there about limiting border security to just repairing current fence.

Sounds like a bad day to be a Trump supporter.

[underpants]

11. When push came to shove

The Fox News nonsense talking points got pushed down the stairs.


They run on what their gerrymandered voters hear on the TV/radio fully knowing that it'll never happen.


Very bad day.

[nikibatts]

20. Will the deplorables throw Rush or Trump under the bus?