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    Rush, One More Time

    Posted Friday, March 06, 2009 3:31 PM | By Kerry Howley
    Abigail, is "the main problem" really that "Rush is preaching to the choir"? Isn't there something slightly lacking in the message itself? I think Obama's budget is problematic, relying as it does on implausible growth rates. I worry, as does Nobel Prize winning Macroeconomist Edmund Phelps, that the stimulus might prolong the recession by diverting resources from productive activity to rent-seeking. But I certainly don't expect anyone to listen to Rush Limbaugh when he starts talking about fiscal restraint or the limits of state power.

    This is a man who evidently believes our government so efficacious that it can transform the political culture of a foreign society, so beneficent that we ought to let it monitor our phone calls without even the flimsiest pretense of oversight. This is a man so inspired by his faith in the federal government that he was happy to invest $2 trillion on a war the moment Washington deemed it necessary. When Rush Limbaugh says the new guy is being irresponsible with taxpayer money, it just looks like rank obstructionism. Because, you know, it is. 

    Of course the White House wants to promote Rush as the kind of person who opposes its economic policy. The implication is that if you think spending billions of dollars on something vaguely defined as "green jobs" is kind of dubious, you're probably a sexist incoherent cigar-smoking overweight white dude with an overdeveloped taste for OxyContin. He's not helping.

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