Who is leading the Republican Party?

Well said !

I agree. Rush Limbaugh is ONLY AN ENTERTAINER and an ass at it. He is an embarrassment.

Rush is simply a politicized right-wing Howard Stern (no offense meant Howard).  His goals shock and the confort of hearing his own voice.  I am embarrassed to admit I am a conservative when he is the subject of conversation.

Limbaugh is what Steele noted, a talk show host that entertains a conservative base. problem is , Limbaugh represents the old base which is outdated, and out of touch of the new conservative ideas which are arising in the country. Rush is a pedant ho enjoys hearing his own voice, not able to objectively discourse new ideas and ideals. He should stay in his arena and definately exit the political scene as his ways have been slaughtered at the polls. Only a miority of Americans will follow him as we have been recently reminded in the last electorate.Move over Rush, and let the new Republicans rescue the party.

Perhaps only a minority of Americans will follow him, but it doesn't take a whole lot of people to get fired up to start a civil war, or to try to assassinate our new President. Rush's words are incendiary, and for someone who should be in jail for drug possession, he gets entirely too much attention for me. He is dangerous and he should be gagged immediately! He's a Republican leader, and he is leading the whole country down the wrong path. "I hope Obama fails"? is not what I need to hear with so many in our country suffering! Rush isn't suffering; he's still getting high, and he's making $100 million a year, something most of his listeners will NEVER see in their bank accounts-yet, they "support" Rush? I hate to ask but, how dumb can a person be?

You're a joke!

Translation of Rushs Limbo ...

OINK OINK OINK

Ahhh, I see that the brainwashing IS working .......................

The Limbaugh style is intended to attract an audience. It appears to have succeeded. However, in this sound bite society we should try to get more of the message.

"I hope he fails" is about the new administration trying to get Congress to spend trillions of dollars on bailout plans that aren't firmly established. I heard the same thing on NPR this morning. We are pumping money into institutions that are still run by the same people who got them there. Until the leadership is changed, I hope he fails too.

It's embarassing on both parts. We have a loud mouth and a token fool...

As an registered African American and registered Republican it's a complete embarassment...We are the party of "NO" with no solutions...Know of us are willing to say now that were staunch "Bush" supporter today...We allow him to mess it up so bad that it's time to allow something different (Democrats) to fix it

Mr. Obama is the one leading the GOP. Limbaugh is a mere double-standard entertainer...

Rush is a very good (and very rich) entertainer, no more and no less. Mr. Steele has made an absolute fool of himself by apologizing for saying the truth.

And, for those of you who say Rush is the leader of the GOP, that might be true, but aren't you absolutely humiliated by that? Do you know what you are saying about yourself and your party?

It's like saying Randy whats-her-name from Air America is the democrat leader!

Hey DittoHead - You are a Limbaugh apologist! What's with this parsed nuaunce about Limbaugh not wanting Pres. Obama "personally" to fail - just everything he was elected to do by the large majority of people in this country? Give me a break - you have been suckered, played, duped, fleeced, etc. Unfortunately the Republican party has been taken over by the extreme right-wing led by that drug addicted, unAmerican Rush Limbaugh who spews "I hope Obama fails" when America desperately needs our president to succeed for the sake of our country - if you WANT your President's efforts to rescue our country and its people from near Depression to fail then you want our country to fail and for what? - for the sake of your extreme right wing philosophy? Real Americans support their Commander-in-Chief when America is threatened and what we face now is an economic Pearl Harbor. Instead you back Fat Boy Limbaugh who hopes Obama "fails" to prevent another Great Depression? Limbaugh doesn't care because he has a $400 Million contract and this drug addicted elitist claims to represent the hard working little guy against the "lazy" poor people - he and the others like him are so self-serving by wielding distraction and division to keep their audience voting Republican so they can pay lower taxes on their exhorbitant income! The lemmings that listen to them don't see the hypocrisy and manipulation. Ignornace is such fertile ground for propaganda!!

AMEN!Well said.

KUDOS genxrulz! Mr. Steele is going to be used and abused by the Repubs, he needs to get out now. Limbaugh is a scary entity and won't go away, he is inciting hatred, violence, and intolerance, my parents and brother listen to him everyday, they used to be of a Christian mind but that has been erased as they get brainwashed each day by this man. This country needs to call a truce to the WAR BETWEEN THE DEMS & REPUBS. This must stop now. We are breeding hatred and intolerance and worst of all, an I'm RIGHT You're WRONG mentality and it's starting with kids. Who will stop this war and soften those extreme edges, which are no different from the extremists on the side of the other war we are fighting. Fanatics cause panic and Rush Limbaugh is half an inch from telling his followers to drink the kool-aid and kill anything that doesn't agree with his machine. We have many interest groups in this country, how do we come together to keep things rolling without all this in-fighting?! We are a beautiful people in the USA and we can do such good but when those who want to keep us in the dark ages so that their pockets remained lined in gold -- ON BOTH SIDES -- then we suffer, is this the nature of a capitalist civilization? Times are changing, once again, and we are all on different pages. Seems impossible to fix.

What a load of LIBERAL CRAP !!

Another load of Liberal CRAP !!

Talk about greed. All of those that want something for nothing. You are the real greedy people. Having a driver's license is a privilege, going to a good school is a privilege, being able to afford good doctors is a privilege. Living in your own home is a privilege. As a whole we are a privileged nation because so many before us have worked so hard that they themselves might live better and in doing so make it that the society’s standard of living goes up. My cousin has free health care, free schooling, free condoms and free just about everything else and spends her days wandering aimlessly on the beaches in brazil. If we are going to demonize success in this country then I might as well move to some other utopia where global warming is actually a problem and as such I'll be sure to see 90 degree weather everyday as I wander aimlessly about the coastline comforted by the thought that I have the all benevolent Brazilian government to support me. I swear if half of Obama supporters took 5 years to live in other parts of the world they would not want to “change” America so drastically.

Liberal:Conservative- Your both 'Extremists' trying to push your ideologies on everyone. Extremism has messed up the world and America. Extremists are the idiots of the world. And Rush Limbaugh is the leader of then Conservative Extremists, the de facto Head Idiot.

Extremists have taken over both parties and have put this country on a ever more erratic seesaw.

liberals spewing at the mouth all over MSN!

To DB-934151 - You're a perfect example of what EAA-934078 was talking about! All you want is to kill and to maim those who don't see things they way YOU do. There is nothing in the Constitution or elsewhere that gives you the right to harm someone just because he/she does not look like you, or you don't like their politics. How dare you call treating another human being right, CRAP? Do you call yourself a follower of Jesus Christ? Hurting and killing others was not in Jesus' teachings-where do you get your attitude from? Are you illiterate? Are you uneducated?

It's people like you who listen to people like Rush, and then go out and do something to hurt someone-you'd better hope you pick the right one, or you'll find yourself in the condition you hoped to put someone else in!

Michael Steele RNC Chairman-HA what a joke. He should change his name to Michael Steeless. Michael Steeless is not the first Repub to knucle under to the oxycontin, viagara rants of Rush. Michael Steeless should be ashamed to look at himself in the mirror, but then again when you have sold your soul for political gain, it is probably not hard to do.

DB and T9932...articulated like true RebubliCAN'Ts.

It's time for everyone to own a part of the blame. It was great spending money on stuff we didn't need and/or couldn't afford.

Autos are just a convenient target because they are big and expensive.

When was the last time you looked at a clothing label to see where the garment was made? Is a pair of pants really worth $100, especially when a third world worker made them?

Is a burger really worth Six Dollars?

It's time to pay up.

Problem there Tom is that most are quickly able to point the figure at someone else that caused the problem, not realizing that when you point at someone else, three other fingers are pointing right back at you (learned from my 6 year old, what can i say).

Until we are all able to accept some level of responsiblity to where we are as a nation, we will not be able to take the deep breath and move forward. We're so hell bent on determining which animal's fault it is (elephant or ass), that we're losing time and ability with every single day to put on the brakes and start the train moving the other way.

i love how these discussions work. a few people make good points that arn't along either political line...........then someone with nothing more to say than "typical liberal" comes along.

i suppose it's no surprise though, the republican agenda to dumb down america using the school system is working brilliantly........comments like "What a load of LIBERAL CRAP"............notice the emphasis on both liberal and crap....you should be more angry about your inability to articulate yourself than with "liberals"

I sense that Mr. Steele's appointment is NOT appreciated by the rank-and-file ultra conservative Republicans who understand that his appointment was in response to the Democrats' black president.

Limbaugh is not the picture of what one would want to lead. He IS a drug addict....something one wonders about....why? He IS an entertainer.

The Repubs "put Steele in there to pacify the dems." Please explain how and why?

They put Steele in there to appeal to people of color.  He is a wimp to back down from Rush.  But then again, he is "da man" according to Michelle Bachman, how lame was that attempt to appeal to the "hip hop" crowd.  It get's funnier by the minute.

Hey the truth hurts, doesn't it? I hope BO's efforts to socialize our country fail. Trust me, if he succeeds we are all DOOMED!!!!!!! The libs hate hearing the truth and no one tells it better that Rush!

You're right Bernie! And to you Libs... why is it that when you expressed all the extremely negative / hateful comments about President Bush over the years ,,, that's all OK. But if a conservative expresses an opinion or doesn't agree with you - that's HATE or VILE !! Excuse me?? Guess what it goes both ways - difference is conservatives handle criticism with grace and professionalism - liberals simply attack and make comments that cannot be backed up. ---> and by the way Barack will fail, it's already begginning...... like it or not.

I would like to hear about Limbaugh's credentials, he flunked the draft physical, he flunked out of college. Had a half-a..ed job in baseball.

Seems that all he has is a big mouth and a bunch of blind followers (Lemmings?)

Tony Renier

we are all DOOMED!!! Give me a break. What is this truth you speak of? Rush and hard core conservatives constantly chage the facts so they point to the answer they want. Very unscientific. Rush himself and Hannity as well say it's just their "opinion". And now I'm supposed to trust you Bernie... why. Do you know why we had a housing bubble, do you know why we had a credit crunch, do you know why are economy is contracting, do you know why we have extremely high debt after a surplus just 8 years ago, do you know why the American standard of living is down. If you do some research you will find that a lot of it has to do with conservative ideals. Whether you believe the facts you will find IS the problem, it's sad to say.

You whiney-ass conservatives and your delusions. You've had 30 years to improve the USA and look where we are. We fail in every social statistic when campared to other western nations. Our country is in shambles because of conservative values and policies. Conservatism has systematically destroyed what once had the potential to be the greatest of nations...

I always hoped the President's ridiculous plan in Iraq would succeed. As an American I support the President and hope he knows better than I do but also as an American I voiced my displeasure in his decisions. But I did NOT hope he would fail so my party could get into power. Republicans (conservatives) continue to show that they are more interested in running the country than have the country succeed. God Blessed America when the republicans lost power.

Well said Anthony-934314.The GOP extremists have lost all common sense and their views have become "hateful and vile" DB-934151. Rush has proven he puts himself before his country by wishing failure on us. The GOP created him and now its becoming obvious he has become a monster whose destroying their party.

Thank you Anthony for being a true American. No one should WANT for the President to fail. I didn't like Bush at all. But that didn't mean I didn't want this country to do well. What true American wants this country to fail simply to get your people back in office??? That makes absolutely no sense. And it shows a complete lack of patriotism and a lack of respect for the Office of the President. Regardless of whether you like who's in office or not, you should be respectful and do your part to make the country better. It's like you cut off your nose to spite your face when you wish failure on those running the country (be they democrat or republican). You might argue that the policy won't work but you should never wish for failure.

DB934151. There is a vast difference between criticising the POLICIES of a President who LIED to the American people, took us into a war that has caused way more harm than good, a war that has caused more Iraqi deaths than Saddam ever did. You and your ilk are hoping for the failure of this Administration. That failure would mean the failure of the United States. We would not come out of that disaster in your lifetime, if ever. If you can seriously put your political ideology ahead of your loyalty to this Country, then I call you a traitor. GROW UP!

I couldnt have said it better. They run their whole platform on negativity. I think everyone in the country has had enough negativity. We all need Obama's positive energy. But maybe the Republicans have been that way for so long, they cant even see what he is trying to do for everyone - even THEM!

because he does not know the meaning of, and is incapable of, real worki

He might not pass the drug test.

He flunked out of college his mother said he got all F's only lasted 2 semesters. His three wives all left him and drug abuse played a large part. But only the third wife had the facts, abusive nasty attitude and controlling ways of Rush backed by drugs he admitted taking but he did it for 5 years even before he married her, longer than they were married. He was and is a paranoid weak jack ass only performs well in his glass radio room and even transmitted from his home for awhile so he didn't have to be seen in public. That is your Republican leader nice huh.

Money, honey!

Maybe we should also drug test Obama as he flushes away our free market and our free country in favor of communism. He has a history you know.

@jarmo, Dude, "communism"??? Are you still living in the 1950's? Even Russia and China don't practice communism any more. Do you know the definition of communism.

I get the picture of a person who doesn't even know what Communism and Socialism are when I read your statement... The USA will never be Communist and one can only pray we adapt Western Europes form of Democratic Socialism and Capitalism to keep the USA in the top tier of civilized nations...

"a completely selfish jerk and will say anything to make our president and country look bad. "

Hmmmmm.... don't know for sure Michael J. but your comments describe exactly what all you liberals were doing the last 8 years !! Admit it, what you guys don't like about Rush is that he tells the truth, is knowledgable and is right on target when he discusses a subject.

DB...Rush wouldn't know the truth if it hit him square in the middle of his big, fat, @ss!!! Instead of hyping this guy up, why don't yal conservatives get someone with some real brains who isn't walking around in a drug induced haze all the time.

DB-934151 Rush is not knowledgeable and does not tell the truth. He's an un-American extremist radical working for Rupert Murdoch, who is not even American. He puts his own ego before the good of America.

jarmo-547986 Your're kidding right? the freemarket fell under conservitive leadership with out regulation. I agree both parties are to blame, but give me a break. If the government lets the free market fail, no one will have anything except bill gates and warren buffet. something has to be done.

DB:

I hate rush because he is a racist, sexist biggot who breeds and spreads hate in any way possible. remember when he was doing some work with the nfl until making a racist comment about the highest payed black player at the time(donovan mcnabb). I also hate that any decent point he has ever made has been made in a hateful manner.

but lets not be crazy and say it's just rush.......these political talk shows are almost entirely the same on both sides......had the misfortune of hearing a liberal talk show host refer to the governer of louisiana as "the governer of new orleans".........no mind that new orleans is a city rather than a state......and not even the states capital(baton rouge)

people really need to turn this garbage off and form a real political opinion.....one that actually represents them rather than what someone else has said......

....if you spend too much time agreeing with these people, you're proving just how empty your head is........left or right

Well said, Craig!! I couldn't agree more. Mindless partisan blather from either side of the political aisle is a waste of time.

I have to agree with Craig Face, too. I had the misfortune opportunity to listen to some talk radio on a crank radio when a windstorm knocked the power out for a week. The standard of evidence on talk radio is whatever the host pulls out of his butt. It's not a good way to get accurate information about anything.

You are so right. Limbaugh and Ann Coulter should get together.. Both in the snake pit.

Now that makes sense. As an independant who voted for Bush the 1st time but not the 2nd time - I never wished Bush to fail. I stood behind him when he took us to war. I did not nor do agree with his policies but I never wished him to fail. This is insane!! The economy, the state of the nation is in the shape it is because of both parties. But do not forget who was in charge when this really happened. Obama has only been president for 1.5 months.

Wake up - our system is failing. We can change it and it does not have to be socialist - but change is needed. Stop labeling and stop hating and start listening and giving up real ideas that will save this nation. And look in the mirror - Republicans placed the leaders that truly caused most of this to happen. Democrats need to do the same because Clinton had some issues that helped the down fall too.

The truth is that the "dittoheads" are a small faction of low information, low intelligence people who live in the paranoid, fear induced cowardace that is Rush"s world. The majority of the American people voted AGAINST that attitude. Rush may have a large audience, but that does not mean that all those people agree with him. In most areas, his is the only program that is on the radio for hours at a time. I used to listen to him just to keep up with what the crazies were up to, but we finally got another, good station, so I don't have to listen to his drivel any more. DB934... and Bernie are just remanants of the discarded GWB/Dick Vader hateful world. They are the children who got left behind.

sad, but true.

. . . fat . . . oh you're mature!

"Michael Steele, the only reason he was selected is because he is black and the Republicans thought that no one would be able to see through their transparent strategy of trying to increase black support by picking Steele as the GOP head. "

- - Indeed, that is the sad truth that even a fool can see through!

Yeah, Bernie - FAT! Or have you never seen him because your head is glued to your radio?

Kind of like when they picked Sarah Palin as the VP candidate to try and scoop all the women who supported Hillary. Who are they trying to fool??? You can't just substitute one woman for another and one black guy for another. Come one...if you are going to pull a con...at least make it a good con. Put some effort into it.

Bernie....Rush clearly has some appitite control issues. Yes, he is FAT. Yes, he could not control his need for drugs. Yes, he has to go on Viagara supported "vacations" to places where young women are available for sex with pathetic old men. That is the character of the person whom you choose to follow. Do not expect any respect from me.

please, for goodness sakes, stop insulting fat people by mentioning them in the same breath at "Limbaugh."

i think fat is too broad of a term..........lets narrow this to where it belongs.....morbidly obese.

and very well said T of VA, using steele as the answer to obama and palin as the anser to hilary just shows how little the republican party thinks of blacks and women. they've decided said groups are too stupid to know any better

...and the Repugs are one hot mess right about now! You betcha!!

Palin needs to stay in Alaska, and never be heard of again!

no way.........if palin runs in '12..............another free presidency for dems

You are probably right. From the misinformation coming from the Reich Wing posters, it is pretty clear that they do not really pay attention to events. They just parrot the talking points that Rush and Billo and Sean spew out.

Russ is not a Republican, but rather a Conservative. The discussion about who runs the Replublican Party might be better defined between Steele verses McCain/Romney; but certainly not Rush. Yes, the Republican Party needs a leader and one will naturally emerge

Correspondingly Obama is not a Democratic, but rather a socailist. Within two years this will become much clearer. We are already seeing issues in the Democratic Party over the Spending Bill.

Rush has his followers and his opinions; Obama has his followers and his opinions. Obama's crowd is much bigger; I'm not quite sure why anyone on the Democratic side is listening or even cares! Maybe Rush makes too many people feel just a little nervous.