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Rush Limbaugh: 'Thank you, Mr. President!'

Grateful to Obama 'for arousing the sleeping, silent majority'

Posted: April 16, 2010

Playing off of President Obama's remark to Democrat donors yesterday that tea-party protesters should be thanking him instead of protesting his policies, talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh on his show today ran off a string of reasons he's grateful to Obama, culminating with "arousing the sleeping, silent majority" who are prepared to give his party an unprecedented thrashing at the polls in November.

Obama was speaking in Miami at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser.

"Since today happens to be tax day, I should just point out that one-third of the recovery act went to tax cuts. Tax cuts that strengthen the cornerstone of the American dream," Obama began.

Lowering his tone of voice in an apparent aside, he then shared with the Democrat donors that he had been "a little amused over the last couple of days where people have been having these rallies, about taxes."

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"You would think they would be saying thank you," Obama said to laughter from the audience. "That's what you'd think."

After playing the clip on his show today, Limbaugh commented: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is a classic illustration of authoritarian mocking control. He hasn't cut anybody's taxes. The recovery act stimulus bill – it's more like loaves and fishes. There are no tax cuts in that. There were some tax credits. It's all bogus.

"But he wants to be thanked," Limbaugh continued. "OK, I will oblige."

Limbaugh thanked Obama for more than a dozen moves, including seizing General Motors and Chrysler, appointing a "pervert" as safe-schools czar, the "generational theft" of American wealth through massive borrowing and spending, insulting and endangering Israel, driving up the unemployment rate to double digits and "exploding the annual deficit" to a level at which it can never be repaid.

Limbaugh concluded: "But most of all, Mr. President, thank you for arousing the sleeping, silent majority, because we have been asleep too long.

"November is coming, Mr. President," Limbaugh warned. "That is when we will really thank you."

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