Here’s Carville on CNN’s The Situation Room, 2/25/2009:
BLITZER: We should know, James, sooner rather than later, if all this money being spent will work or not work, because the folks’ bottom lines, their pocketbooks, will be directly affected.
CARVILLE: Well, I don’t know about soon. It will take a while for it to work. As I point out, the most influential Republican in the United States today, Mr. Rush Limbaugh, said he did not want President Obama to succeed. So at the very top of the Republican Party, he’s not being wished well here.
Here’s Carville on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001:
Just minutes before learning of the terrorist attacks on America, Democratic strategist James Carville was hoping for President Bush to fail, telling a group of Washington reporters: “I certainly hope he doesn’t succeed.”
Carville was joined by Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg, who seemed encouraged by a survey he had just completed that revealed public misgivings about the newly minted president.
“We rush into these focus groups with these doubts that people have about him, and I’m wanting them to turn against him,” Greenberg admitted.
The pollster added with a chuckle of disbelief: “They don’t want him to fail. I mean, they think it matters if the president of the United States fails.”
How silly!
Update: Carville attempts to rescind “No Takebacks” rule.
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Carville has always been a Liberal Scumbag. This is the man that defended Clinton even after he admitted he cheated on his wife.
I can’t believe this man get paid. I have decided I am going to start my own party. It will be called the smart party. You can have your beliefs, but if even once you are caught being a hypocrite or lying..your are out of the party and hence out of a job.
As always, Simon, you da man.
oh big effen deal, I guess this is a site designed to feed petty little tidbits to right wing morons to keep them permanently outraged.
Hi! So your position is that it’s no big deal that Carville, a guy who’s generating a national scandal out of a radio host’s opinion about the president, once expressed the exact same opinion about the previous president. That’s what you’re going with.
The list of double standards this Administration has benefited from would be enormous. And only seven weeks in!
My favorite is the “crisis should not be wasted” meme. What would Carville have said if Andrew Card said the same thing on 9/12? That’s exactly what Bush was accused of for eight years and now Emanuel brags about it.
Simon, I think his position is to nibble at your site in order to discredit your viewpoint, right or wrong.
*robotic voice* Thank you, Simon, for feeding me my daily tidbit to keep me p-p-p-permanently outraged. Grr… I’m off to rage on one of those other well known right-wing hate sites… that I can’t name… unlike the Daily Kos or Moveon.org.
I’ll never understand how Mary Matalin stays married to him, for a variety of reasons. Let me guess that CNN won’t re-report on thier own quotes.
Morrisminor FAIL
Rush is not a political operative working hand in hand with the Republican party. Carville is an operative working hand in hand with the Democratic Party. Carville’s strategies get implemented within the Democratic Party.
“I guess this is a site designed to feed petty little tidbits to right wing morons to keep them permanently outraged”
Yeah, there’s NOTHING like that on the LEFT (coughKOScough).
I don’t know why Mary hasn’t stabbed Gollum to death in his sleep. OK, OK, I know good conservatives don’t do that. Just sayin’.
Morrisminor is your typical Dumbocrat fascist.
Morrisminor wrote:
oh big effen deal, I guess this is a site designed to feed petty little tidbits to right wing morons to keep them permanently outraged.
Isn’t the outrage coming from the left though over Limbaugh supposedly wanting the president to fail? Thus this little tidbit only shows that the outrage exhibited by Carville and others, is in fact designed to feed petty little tidbits to left wing morons to keep them permanently outraged. In other words, its all part of their meme to try to discredit Rush Limbaugh to change the story from Obama not handling the economy all that well. How does it feel to be one of those left wing morons morrisminor?
HEY LOOK! JAMES CARVILLE IS BALD! WHAT A DOPE!
For those wondering why an intelligent, rational, reasonably attractive woman stays married to an ethics devoid left wing scumbag – it’s always about the salami.
So, the ugliest, most repugnant biped in the history of our planet is also a hypocrite? Well, isn’t he just the total package. And mikey, that’s a thought I never wanted to have.
Its pretty clear that the Dems think they need someone to demonize in order to distract people from their own extreme agenda and complete incompetence.
People like him are the reason most Americans are disgusted with politics. Looks like a creep, acts like a creep, talks like a creep.
Morris,
No. Left wingers are not automatically good people. Right winters are not automatically bad people. I don’t want people like him trying to speak for people like me. A lying hypocrite is a lying hypocrite, no matter what.
Corporal Cue Ball strikes again! By the way, that’s not MY name for him: that’s what Mary Matalin–his wife–calls him.
I love how the Democrats keep trying to tell the Republicans that Rush Limbaugh is the head of their party. I think the Republicans ought to tell the Democrats that Michael Moore is the head of theirs.
Anni, brilliant post. Seriously.
Wait, you mean the vast right wing conspiracy did not invent the concept of wanting the President to fail?! Goodness, don’t these Republicans and Conservatives have an original bone in their body? Do they have to steal everything from the liberals? Losers.
Like anyone else that is a talking head………..if a person says something often enough and with “authority”, they will be believed. Neither he nor Rush even knows where to begin to find where Joe and Jane Q. Public really stands. But, thanks to our illustrious media, if something is repeated often enough and by these very people, it becomes “fact”.
So the defense of the Limbaugh kerfluffle is that “they did it too!!!!”
I do not believe that Rush Limbaugh is the official spokesman of the Republican party, but I certainly understand why the Democrats would like Joe Six-Pack to believe it. Because despite Mr. Steele’s apology, his initial assessment of Rush’s show was accurate. He’s an arrogant blowhard whose idea of debate is to light a match and set it up against one of the dozens of straw men he constructs during every show.
As long as the Republicans (and conservatives generally) are tarred with the Rush brush, we are never going to retake political power.
Are you a Rush supporter? Do you think he *should* lead the party? Ask yourself this: why has he never run for office? He could certainly pull a Hillary, and move to a state that would elect him to Congress. Why hasn’t he done so? Because he thinks he can “do more good” with his radio show? Right. He’s not converting *anyone* who doesn’t already agree with him, and he’s certainly in no position to actually introduce legislation from behind the “golden microphone.”
Obama’s election, and the Democratic hold on Congress are Rush’s golden goose. Sure he’ll end up paying 42% of his income in taxes, and he’ll bitch about it. But at the end of the day, the ditto-heads will listen in their millions, and buy his books, and God help their pointy little heads if he ever directly solicits donations.
I’m not a huge fan of the way the Republicans have behaved for the last decade or so, and I’m not a member of the party, but I’d sure like *someone* in politics to work towards lowering taxes, reducing the deficit, and overall reducing the federal government’s role in our lives. That’s sure as hell not going to be the Democrats, is it?
Carville did the exact same thing he’s excoriating Limbaugh for doing. Is this your first visit here?
Every day somebody has to say “Where’s the hypocrisy in this story?” Except when the hypocrisy is glaring, and then they have to impugn our motives. I guess that’s just the way it goes.
Carville’s explanation…
Pretty interesting in light of the fact that…
omg. this is one of the creepiest looking men i have ever seen in my life.
I really, really can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic, which I suppose makes me a ditz.
Which would almost be an answer to my own question.
To whom are you referring?
“I guess that’s just the way it goes.”
You know, if you’re irritating everybody you’re doing exactly the right thing.
It takes a strong woman to put up with this one. My second greatest scene in “Old School?” When he had nothing to say after Will Ferrell was done talking. The First? When Piven was killed by a falling car.
Anni–if you were talking to me, I was not being sarcastic, honestly. I appreciated the wisdom in your post.
*weep* Deceiver Madness is fun, but it’s making me miss posts! Which means everyone steals all the good comments before I show up
Ah, well. At least I read it!
Rush and the Cajun Kojak aren’t the first people to ever wish failure, death, or worse on a sitting president.
It’s just the first time since Pontius Pilate that failure was wished upon a sitting messiah.
“… wish death or worse on a sitting president” Anyone here ever read a comment thread on Huffington Post?
I never understood the big deal. Are we not allowed to have opinions and voice them in this country anymore? Rush wants the President to fail? Who flippin’ cares? Can we focus on the $1.2 trillion in spending done in the last month? Does anyone know how exactly a country fighting two wars in the middle (or tail-end) of a recession with a large amount of debt and societal entitlements finds $1.2 trillion?
I was referring to Beige, Scowl.
Rocko–We “find” that $1.2 trillion by taxing the everloving hell out of everyone who works. We “find” it by penalizing small-business owners who have worked hard and sacrificed and done well. We “find” it by regulating the daylights out of every possible aspect of private life, and creating a bureaucracy to monitor and harass citizens, as minutely as possible, on their own dime.
That wasn’t how it was packaged, but that’s how it will have to be, unless they Janet-Reno a bunch of ATF guys into every little kid’s room to gank their piggybanks. (Which, BTW, I wouldn’t rule out.) The Chitown Messiah may have run on a platform of mauve unicorns that farted rose petals, but that kind of happy-ass fantasy isn’t going to feed the bulldog. So here we are.