Talk about too clever by half.
According to today's Politico story
by Jonathan Martin, the entire decision to go after Rush Limbaugh
was cooked up by supposedly clever White House aides and outside
advisors. Says Martin in his story:
David Plouffe, Obama’s campaign manager last year and a member
of his inner circle still, will publish an op-ed in Wednesday's
Washington Post chiding Republicans for being "paralyzed with
fear of crossing their leader.”
A senior White House aide has been tasked with helping to guide
the Limbaugh strategy.
With the certainty that only a political idiot could not see,
Rush has just taken these bozos up and called them out.
He has challenged Obama to a one-on-one debate on his radio show,
no teleprompters please.
With an ineptness that leaves one breathless, the Obama team has
now effectively labeled Obama himself as "paralyzed with fear" if
in fact the President doesn't have the guts to accept Limbaugh's
challenge. After all, if they claim that GOP chair Michael Steele
and "Republicans" are cowards for not taking on Rush, Obama
himself will surely have the guts to do what they claim Steele
and Republicans do not: take on Rush Limbaugh one-on-one.
Not since 1981 when the striking Air Traffic Controllers Union
dared Ronald Reagan to fire them has such a potentially momentous
challenge occurred. In that showdown, union leaders smugly
assumed Reagan would not have the guts to fire them as he
promised. They guessed wrong. The resulting mass firings of
thousands not only wrecked the union, historians later realized
that it sent a sharp and chilling message to the leaders of the
Soviet Union that Reagan was not to be fooled with. The event
raised the stakes in the Cold War and famously resulted in
sending the entire USSR to the ash heap of history.
Learning nothing from history, the Obama crowd has now set up a
breathtakingly stupid proposition: either Obama debates Rush
one-on-one or he is, in the words of his own staff,
paralyzed with fear. Now there's a message to send to al
Qaeda. The President of the United States has no guts.
Amazing.
