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   From: Gooper@Bushies.net   
      
   Rush does not have a right to buy any team he wants; he doesn't even have a   
   right to buy a team. He has a right to try and buy a team. The people   
   involved with selling that team - and in the NFL you have to have the   
   approval of the majority of owners - cannot sell it to you if they choose.   
      
   And that's what happened here - the commissioner, the players and the owners   
   clearly wanted nothing to do with Limbaugh. My guess is Checkett's got word   
   that if Limbaugh was part of the deal, there were enough owners to kill it.   
      
   I guess that's what happens when you suggest that their product is like   
   watching the Crips and the Bloods without the guns.   
      
   This is a guy who agreed with disparaging comments directed at the President   
   of the United States from the Taliban. You know, the guys who gave haven to   
   the people who murdered 3,000 Americans?   
      
   This is a guy who celebrated the United States losing out on a bid to host   
   the Olympics and tried to turn winning an award into a bad thing. This a guy   
   who "orchestrated" Operation Chaos to disrupt the Democratic Party's primary   
   process.   
      
   The Teabaggers are people who showed up to scream at town halls with no   
   regard for the people who had showed up to listen and also speak out but   
   couldn't because of the histrionics.   
      
   And now the whole EIB gang is going to play the victim, roll out one   
   gigantic Pity Party for themselves and their suffering at the hands of the   
   big, bad bleeding heart liberals.   
      
   Finally, if I may point out, the reason folks on the right claim to not use   
   "vulgar sexual terms" is because they are good, religious people who don't   
   do such things and don't need to justify doing such things by saying, "But   
   they do it, too."   
      
   Isn't it supposed to be wrong whether the other guy does it or not?   
      
   What conservatives do not realize is that they are slowly destroying   
   themselves. A movement that up until very recently supported cutting   
   entitlement spending, is opposed to cutting $500 billion from such   
   entitlement spending. You have goofy governors running around all Spring   
   criticizing the ARRA and now? Jindal can't have enough photos taking handing   
   out stimulus checks. After Perry rejected funds for unemployment and   
   realized later he needed it, he went crawling to the federal government for   
   a loan. And nearly all of them saw Republican legislatures either overturn   
   or at least threaten to overturn their vetoes. Propping yourselves up as the   
   "true" Americans, you now openly cheer when your country loses the Olympics   
   and nod along in agreement with Mid-Eastern dictators and thugs as they   
   trash the President of the United States.   
      
   What have the teabaggers accomplished?   
      
   The President's approval is where you'd expect - about what he won with a   
   year ago. Democrats, on average, lead the generic Congressional ballot by   
   about the same margin they did a year ago. The President and the Democrats   
   are not only liked more than the Republicans but trusted to lead on the   
   issues more than the Republicans. And despite all the ranting about the   
   public option, it still enjoys about 2/3 support from the American people.   
      
   The conservative strategy is the same Palinesque drivel that consumed and   
   doomed McCain's campaign entirely (though to be honest, the emergence of the   
   loonies shouting "terrorist" and "socialist" were the death throes). Why   
   conservatives think this nonsense will work now is a mystery.   
      
   Then again, with deference to them and their apparent ignorance regarding   
   the definition of insanity, perhaps it is safe to conclude, "Case closed."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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