Is Rush hitting the Vicodin again?

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Today on his radio program, Rush Limbaugh blamed Congressional pages for Mark Foley?s misconduct. He said that the communications reported by ABC were example of ?young kids? who like to ?make fun of gay people.? Rush?s evidence? As a child, he used to order refrigerators over the phone for adults he thought were ?odd or weird? as a prank. Here?s an excerpt:

Back in these days you could call Sears and order a refrigerator on the phone. I had a teacher living up the street and it was the biggest thrill in the world to just call and order a refrigerator and watch Sears deliver it to an unsuspecting teacher and his wife, and far stranger things than that. But we always picked out adults that we just thought were odd or weird, and it would be fun to make fun of them, and I don?t think kids today are any different?

But you know as well as I do that young kids make fun of gay people. They make fun of the way they talk; they make fun of the way some of them walk and so forth. Who knows what the word around town about fellow Foley was. Who knows? We all know that young people gay bash. Young people do a lot of stuff. They don?t have the maturity to understand this kind of stuff?

I tell you, folks, you?ve got this page out there; you probably have a bunch of pages laughing and making fun of Foley and the way he comes on to them, and he?s gay and so forth, so they egg him on and so forth?.

Matt Drudge is advancing the same incoherent story. At the same time, more pages are stepping forward with details of unsolicited advances from Foley. One page told ABC, ?this was no prank.?
 

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hopefully, this will hurt Rush's listening audience numbers. I'm a conservative, but I can't stand him.
 

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Typical Republican spin. The man is a disgrace.

I listened to Rush the first yr he was on. I stopped because he has nothing new to say. You don't have to listen to know were he comes down on a topic. He is like 95% of the people on tv or radio from the left or the right. He's just doing his job, the left has their spin, the right has their spin. The only thing missing is truth,logic, and reason. It's hard for me to comprehend how some people on the left and the right get offended or act like they are surprised by what comes out of both camps. Their reaction can't be genuine, unless they are stupid. I think most of these clowns say what they say to get a rise out of people and get ratings. The game goes on.
 

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I wouldn't discount anything druge puts up. He is probably one of most fear/respected persons by both parties--remember libs saying same shit when he broke Clintons "cum clean" scoop.;)

Somehow MC while you mentioned ABC you forgot to mention some credibilty issues on this matter they have been involved in.
Might be instant replay 60minutes/guard/gw --might be safer to wait till dust settles MC or face same music you did on 60 minutes.

However I do have some binifide facts just up on Drudge that may be ofinterest to you

Budget Deficit Drops to $250 Billion
Oct 06 1:08 PM US/Eastern

By ANDREW TAYLOR
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON

The federal budget estimate for the fiscal year just completed dropped to $250 billion, congressional estimators said Friday, as the economy continues to fuel impressive tax revenues.
The Congressional Budget Office's latest estimate is $10 billion below CBO predictions issued in August and well below a July White House prediction of $296 billion.

The improving deficit picture _ Bush predicted a $423 billion deficit in his February budget _ has been driven by better-than-expected tax receipts, especially from corporate profits, CBO said.
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--out of curiousity after reading report HOW MANY here read this with negative emotions--would venture it would be same lot if war was going well.
Think about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

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That's still a massive deficit, Dogs. The idea is to not be a deficit at all. But after 6 years of record deficits, I guess the best news to hope for is just a 'slightly less' deficit. Yeah, great news from the party known for fiscal responsibility.
 

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[ Budget Deficit Drops to $250 Billion
Oct 06 1:08 PM US/Eastern

tax receipts, especially from corporate profits, CBO said.
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This is good news you have to be kidding me. There was a two hundred billion dollar surplus when this so called conservative took office. That is a 450 billion dollar swing. Oh i see it could be 550 billion. got it.









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I wouldn't discount anything druge puts up. He is probably one of most fear/respected persons by both parties--remember libs saying same shit when he broke Clintons "cum clean" scoop.;)

Somehow MC while you mentioned ABC you forgot to mention some credibilty issues on this matter they have been involved in.
Might be instant replay 60minutes/guard/gw --might be safer to wait till dust settles MC or face same music you did on 60 minutes.

However I do have some binifide facts just up on Drudge that may be ofinterest to you

Budget Deficit Drops to $250 Billion
Oct 06 1:08 PM US/Eastern

By ANDREW TAYLOR
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON

The federal budget estimate for the fiscal year just completed dropped to $250 billion, congressional estimators said Friday, as the economy continues to fuel impressive tax revenues.
The Congressional Budget Office's latest estimate is $10 billion below CBO predictions issued in August and well below a July White House prediction of $296 billion.

The improving deficit picture _ Bush predicted a $423 billion deficit in his February budget _ has been driven by better-than-expected tax receipts, especially from corporate profits, CBO said.
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--out of curiousity after reading report HOW MANY here read this with negative emotions--would venture it would be same lot if war was going well.
Think about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CLASSIC & CRAZY !!!! this is good news ? they predict 430 and come in at 250. they should have predicted 750 and come in at 250 and you would really be happy. You can't be that gullible, can you ?
 

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Ur reaching if you think that the whole incident is a prank, as reported by your hero Drudge and Drug Limbaugh. The guy sent emails to not one but numerous pages and the GOP in their greed for control tried to keep the wolves at bay until after the midterms. The american people seem to be catching onto this regime, as they have been lying since they took over power and the sad thing is that when they are exposed they try to attack the truth by stating it's unpatriotic. There's a fine line between the distinction of being a PATRIOT and being a COWARD and I would regard men like Murtha, North, Wesley Clark as true Patriots. The TRUTH sometimes is a bitter pill to swallow, but I think many Americans are beginning to digest the real truth and will not fall again for the lies and propaganda of this regime of clowns.
 

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Wonder why all that tax revenue is coming crom corporate america--I thought the Rebs were giving all these tax breaks to corps??

I sympathize with Murtha ,Smurph. Was indeed a true patriot and shouldn't be judged by one error in judgement.Even sadder you will see the Dem party abandom him like the plauge the closer we get to 08.

Clarke I don't care for but really don't know that much about him. He's on Foxes payroll but is quite picky on whose segment he joins in. Mostly with Hannity and Combs which I view very little.
---Which reminds--time for Brit hume--be back in an hour :)
 

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f-ck the vicodin.....but if this tiresome non-crisis continues to saturate every media source for another week, and another, and another, who among us will be strong enough not to cry uncle?......

forget waterboarding....congress should outlaw brian ross....

and since when does speaker of the house mean "babysitter of the house"?

"the house of representatives shall choose their sSpeaker and other officers; and shall have the sole power of impeachment".......

-u.s.constitution article 1 section 2...

that is all the constitution has to say about the post.....

nothing in there about the speaker being responsible for the actions of the other members of congress.....

how many speakers resigned during the democrtatic scandals?

how many did you say?....

ohhhhh..:nooo: ..that`s right...none..

still...i`ll say this...maybe the republicans deserve to lose congress...they once again haven`t learned the lesson....

the lesson of george "macaca" allen....macaca didn`t fold.....macaca`s don`t quit......he rode it out.....he didn`t cave.....and now he`s up in many polls by around 10 points.....

yet,the "rino`s" like george will etc still want to fold the tent.....

will likes baseball..he must be gay...

show some sac,dammit...
 

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f-ck the vicodin.....but if this tiresome non-crisis continues to saturate every media source for another week, and another, and another, who among us will be strong enough not to cry uncle?......

forget waterboarding....congress should outlaw brian ross....

and since when does speaker of the house mean "babysitter of the house"?

"the house of representatives shall choose their sSpeaker and other officers; and shall have the sole power of impeachment".......

-u.s.constitution article 1 section 2...

that is all the constitution has to say about the post.....

nothing in there about the speaker being responsible for the actions of the other members of congress.....

how many speakers resigned during the democrtatic scandals?

how many did you say?....

ohhhhh..:nooo: ..that`s right...none..

still...i`ll say this...maybe the republicans deserve to lose congress...they once again haven`t learned the lesson....

the lesson of george "macaca" allen....macaca didn`t fold.....macaca`s don`t quit......he rode it out.....he didn`t cave.....and now he`s up in many polls by around 10 points.....

yet,the "rino`s" like george will etc still want to fold the tent.....

will likes baseball..he must be gay...

show some sac,dammit...

English, mother fker! Do you speak it?!
 

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I don't recall but I do not believe that the Speaker of the House knew beforehand and tried to conceal Clinton's sex act. Hastert went out of his way to not bring down any heat before the midterms and it backfired on him
 

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f-ck the vicodin..... ".......

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the lesson of george "macaca" allen....macaca didn`t fold.....macaca`s don`t quit......he rode it out.....he didn`t cave.....and now he`s up in many polls by around 10 points.....

That just proves what i have been saying here for weeks but other guys have no balls to say. The south kills this country and you will see it live in Virgina when they vote this bum in. Just a complete disgrace. He pulls race and moves up in the polls. Somebody tell 55 percent of the South the civil war is over.
 

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f-ck the vicodin..... ".......

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the lesson of george "macaca" allen....macaca didn`t fold.....macaca`s don`t quit......he rode it out.....he didn`t cave.....and now he`s up in many polls by around 10 points.....

That just proves what i have been saying here for weeks but other guys have no balls to say. The south kills this country and you will see it live in Virgina when they vote this bum in. Just a complete disgrace. He pulls race and moves up in the polls. Somebody tell 55 percent of the South the civil war is over.

nevermind, why even post to a 'tard like you. At least you got the capitalization correct on South. I will say this; if you still think the Civil War happened because of slavery, you truly are more of a clown than I first suspected.
 

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Gw per your--"how many speakers resigned during the democrtatic scandals?"

I'll give them one easier--how many that involved in the scandals stepped down--??

I can somewhat understand it with conservatives being held to higher standards that they run on while with liberals its a way of life.

Be that what it may I think it is quite amusing liberals calling for anyones head--of course we haven't heard a peep from Kennedy or Franks--have we.Personally would like to see Hassert put both on investigative committee on Foley--would that not be justice :)

Thought the Post had good article

The Redder They Are, The Harder They Fall
Republicans More Damaged by Scandals

By Paul Farhi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 3, 2006; Page C01

Sex scandals involving politicians are as old as Thomas Jefferson, but the outcome seems to depend on which party you represent. In recent years, for the most part, Democrats have been able to survive their sordid escapades while Republicans have paid with their political lives.

The latest example: Mark Foley, a Republican congressman from Florida, who abruptly became an ex-congressman from Florida last week amid revelations that he had sent sexually explicit e-mails to teenage boys who were serving as House pages.


Foley's creepy behavior might have done him in even if he'd been the most liberal of Democrats. But that's not assured. With a Republican at the center of the seamy scandal, however, it was almost a slam-dunk that Foley would have to quit.

That's how it usually turns out for members of the conservative, traditional-family-values party. Just ask Bob Livingston, Jack Ryan, Bob Packwood, Dan Crane or others in the GOP who've watched their careers go pffft! with salacious disclosures. Or ask Bill Clinton, Gerry Studds, Barney Frank and other Democrats who've withstood embarrassing revelations to govern another day. Consider, for example:

? Packwood, from Oregon, resigned his Senate seat in 1995 amid repeated allegations that he had sexually harassed women. A few years earlier, Rep. Jim Bates, a Democrat from the San Diego area, faced similar allegations by two female staffers. Bates refused to resign and won reelection (he eventually lost his seat to Randy "Duke" Cunningham, who ran into his own ethics problems last year, and resigned after being convicted of bribery).

? In 1998, Livingston won the Republican Party's blessing to succeed Newt Gingrich as speaker of the House. But Livingston, of Louisiana, never served a day in the job. He was sunk by revelations that he'd had an extramarital affair, a disclosure that carried the additional baggage of hypocrisy since, at the time, Livingston was leading the Republican impeachment of President Clinton for his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Clinton, of course, ultimately survived impeachment.

? Rep. Thomas Evans (R-Del.) was voted out of office in 1982 after he publicly regretted his "association" with a lobbyist named Paula Parkinson, who later posed for Playboy; Evans and two other Republican House members (including one named Dan Quayle) had shared a Florida cottage with Parkinson on a junket. Contrast this to the reaction to allegations of an affair between Sen. Chuck Robb (D-Va.) and Tai Collins, a former Miss Virginia. Robb claimed that Collins had only given him a back rub in a hotel room. Robb won reelection three years later.

? The clearest illustration may be in the divergent outcomes of the cases against Crane (R) and Studds (D) in 1983. Both men were censured by the House for having sex with underage congressional pages -- Crane with a 17-year-old girl in 1980, Studds with a 17-year-old boy in 1973. Crane, of Illinois, apologized for his actions, while Studds, who declared he was gay, refused. Crane lost his reelection bid the next year; Studds, of Massachusetts, kept winning his seat until he retired in 1996.

A double standard? And if so, by whom?

"The reality is that Democrats seem to get away with more," says Chuck Todd, editor in chief of the Hotline, a daily political journal. "They can have an affair and bail [themselves] out. There's a lower threshold for Republicans. I guess it's more of a hypocrisy thing," he adds, because such scandals put Republicans at odds with the party's socially conservative image.

Todd thinks he knows who's to blame for this: "It's the media, to be honest. What is the standard 'gotcha' story in the media? It's hypocrisy. If we can prove hypocrisy, we have a story. . . . So in a sex scandal, the bar for Republicans is lower."

He cites the case of Jack Ryan, the Illinois Republican whose bid for the Senate was derailed in 2004 when his wife, actress Jeri Ryan, alleged in divorce papers that he had taken her to sex clubs and had asked her to engage in sexual activity in front of other patrons. "What's amazing is that his candidacy hit the wall not because he had sex, but because he was thinking about having sex," says Todd.

But it's tough to blame the media when it's the electorate that determines who stays and who goes.

In Studds's case, he happened to represent a liberal (and apparently quite forgiving) district, while Crane came from a conservative rural district. Ditto with Barney Frank, who was reelected in his liberal Massachusetts district after it was revealed that he hired a male prostitute in 1985 to work in his District apartment, and the young man used the apartment to run a prostitution service. Clinton, meanwhile, was elected president twice, which may have had something to do with his ability to survive the storm over alleged extramarital affairs.

"A scandal's a scandal and the media will jump on it, no matter what party," notes Michael Farquhar, author of "A Treasury of Great American Scandals." On the other hand, notes Farquhar, a reporter who is on leave from The Post, "there's probably that extra twinge of delight [in the media] when, say, a gay-bashing Republican gets caught soliciting sex in a men's room, or a pious espouser of family values sleeps with his secretary."

There are exceptions, of course. A few Democrats have lost their jobs as a result of scandals. Wayne Hays, a Democrat from Ohio, resigned his House seat in 1976 after the disclosure of his affair with Elizabeth Ray, the curvaceous blonde who "worked" in Hays's office despite no evident secretarial skills. Gary Hart, who famously dared reporters to follow him around to prove he was squeaky clean, blew up as a Democratic presidential candidate in 1984 after reporters found him leaving a Capitol Hill townhouse after spending the night with a woman not his wife. And Gary Condit, a conservative Democrat from Modesto, Calif., lost his seat in 2002 following saturation coverage of his relationship with murdered intern Chandra Levy.

It's also true that Wilbur Mills, the powerful Democratic chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee in the 1970s, lost his chairmanship after cavorting in the Tidal Basin with Fanne Foxe, "the Argentine Firecracker."

What's forgotten, however, is that Mills won reelection after his Tidal Basin romp; he was stripped of his chairmanship only after he appeared on a stage in Boston with Foxe, apparently drunk. House Democrats demanded his resignation, and got it.
 

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Rove and Bush Co hired a male prostitute to serve in the White House Press Corp and throw softball questions to the shrub. That doesn't seem to piss you off at all DTB yet you can't seem to get over something that happened 23 years ago.:mj07:
 

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Rove and Bush Co hired a male prostitute to serve in the White House Press Corp and throw softball questions to the shrub. That doesn't seem to piss you off at all DTB yet you can't seem to get over something that happened 23 years ago.:mj07:

Boy stevie i forgot about that one. Its one thing after another with this administration. It would be so tough to be a comedian now a days because thier material would change almost hourly with this administration involved.
 

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Are we sure Lush ever stopped taking his pills?
 
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