the house. the republican party or what we re hear something. the house republican caucus is much more conservative than it was ten years ago, or 20 years ago. part of that is all their moderates lost. exactly. all their moderates lost, and there s a strain of thought that is it s not quite libertarian, but it s fundamentalist in terms of constitutional rights and, you know, founders intent and anti-government. and i think this is and that sort of thing just comes out, i think. richard, take a listen to rush limbaugh today and his reaction. they must, my friends, be hounded out of office. every single democrat who voted for this needs to know, safe district or not, they are going to be exposed and hassled and chased from office. we need to defeat these bastards. we need to wipe them out. how does a republican member of congress, they can t if they sort of go against and say, you know what? he was out of line, he was too much, they would risk offending the base. y
years ago. part of that is all their moderates lost. exactly. all their moderates lost, and there s a strain of thought that is it s not quite libertarian, but it s fundamentalist in terms of constitutional rights and, you know, founders intent and anti-government. and i think this is and that sort of thing just comes out, i think. richard, take a listen to rush limbaugh today and his reaction. they must, my friends, be hounded out of office. every single democrat who voted for this needs to know, safe district or not, they are going to be exposed and hassled and chased from office. we need to defeat these bastards. we need to wipe them out. how does a republican member of congress, they can t if they sort of go against and say,
doesn t an interesting aside from robert gibbs saying president obama, that last night the action in the congress, the passage of health care reform, meant more to president obama than any election night and gibbs says that what the what all of this has shown is that president obama is willing to make the tough decisions and, again, the democrats certainly trying to underscore he had to make several tough decisions over the last couple weeks about how to get this through. we ve been talking a lot today about the reaction to what happened last night. many conservatives today reacted harshly to the action in congress, but nobody on the right produced as much controversial venom this afternoon as rush limbaugh. every single democrat who voted for this needs to know, safe district or not, they are going to be exposed and hassled and chased from office. limbaugh then turned to the politics of race. here s what he s going to say.
velocity of information is just hammering at people in ways that it didn t in previous decades, but let s listen to a bit of rush limbaugh from today s show. they must, my friends, be hounded out of office. every single democrat who voted for this needs to know, safe district or not, they are going to be exposed and hassled and chased from office. we need to defeat these b ar bastards. we need to wipe them out. there s a new level of invective that we haven t heard before. we ve heard some similar things from rush limbaugh, but i m fascinated by asking what s the source of the anger? where does this come from? i think a few things. one, people are generally confused about the bill. there s a new cbs poll that says
executive order over abortion. let me ask you, first of all, unlike bart stupak who is a pretty safe district, you do not. you have a target on your back. voting yes for this, this could force you to lose your job. oh, you know, i voted yes on the house version of the bill, and i come from a very competitive district. every race i run in is conne competitive. i staked out a position saying i will not vote for a bill that has public funding for abortion. this was a great effort on the part of the pro-life democrats to really secure the support of the president and to ensure that the hyde language stays in place across the board. and that the status quo is preserved. what we were doing here is preserving the status quo. reporter: let me ask you about that. the republicans are already sending e-mails around showing the very last part of the executive order on this. specifically saying that this basically affirms what it says