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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Rush Limbaugh's Morning Update: War on Prosperity


From Rush Limbaugh: Casualties are mounting. Home Depot announced they were killing off 7,000. Sprint: killing 8,000. Pfizer: 8,000 more. Other companies, including Caterpillar, brought the total to 40,000 jobs killed, in just one day.

Sadly, casualties are expected to rise, with no end in sight. Economists warn that we're just witnessing the tip of the iceberg. By the end of the year, 10 percent of America's workforce could be unemployed. Even if President Obama's trillion-dollar spending program is enacted, we're told to expect a net loss of at least 2 million jobs by the end of the year.

Despite this dire forecast, and a rapidly deteriorating labor market, our new president and his Democrat Congress are planning to kill even more jobs by demanding automakers build "green cars" nobody wants, and adopting draconian fuel standards to appease radical environmentalists. Liberal state governments from California to New York are introducing new taxes as they refuse to reign in their budgets.

I wonder if the Drive-By Media will keep a monthly tally of the Obama casualties as they did war casualties under George W. Bush. Or whether protesters will plant crosses on mock graves for every job killed under the Obama Administration.

For those of you who think it's an unfair question, let me remind you: We're talking about people's lives here. Their identities, their dreams, their hopes, and their jobs: casualties in American liberals' war on prosperity.

Read the Background Material on the Morning Update...
AP: Job-Killing Recession Racks up More Layoff Victims

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