Limbaugh really ripped into the Republican party last week!

“I was trying to think earlier today if ever in my life I could remember any major political party being so irrelevant,” the top-rated radio host said Wednesday on his national broadcast.

“I have never seen it. I have never seen a major political party simply occupy placeholders as the Republican Party is doing. There hasn’t been any opposition [to Democrats], not any serious opposition.”

Credit: Rush Limbaugh

http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/rush-explodes-on-irrelevant-republicans/#BYgAIj6fTtCekIi1.99

Wow... Worst of all, he was right...

where he's wrong is referring to them as the Tea Party like it's not the Republican Party, this is the Republican Party, they just split them up playing good cop bad cop but they're in allegiance

sure the "Tea Party" brand may die down, but it'll be replaced by another proxy that will serve it's purpose of acting like the psychotic pit bull of the American right

Yeah I've heard a lot of whining lately (conservative radio is funny stuff) because the "moderate" republicans did't stand with Ted Cruz during his hour of political grandstanding. Doesn't surprise me that Rush is currently railing against the moderates.

The Republicans' decision to pass a clean debt ceiling increase and clean funding for the government is far better for the country and for the party than if they continued to waste the American peoples' time by starting pointless fights they can't win.

“I can’t tell you what the Republicans think they’re going to achieve except this: I really do believe that some of this is oriented toward driving the conservatives out of the party. I really think some of this is oriented toward the Republicans actually seeking to get rid of their conservative base. And even if it takes 15 years in the wilderness to rebuild a new base of people who don’t embarrass them, and people who are of the right temperament, maybe that’s what they’re willing to do.”

If that's what they are doing, can't really blame them. If I was a Republican, I would totally want to get rid of the callous, extreme, and impractical far right wing of the party too.

Here's an idea, why don't you, and the republican party, move out of the 1800s?

Yeah not any serious opposition, like record number of filibusters, holding the country hostage TWICE with the debt ceiling.. The first time in which the Republicans spit in Obama's face in which he offered to cut numerous programs against the Democrat party wishes in exchange for a small tax increase I might add.. Limbaugh is a twat, and always will be.. It is scary that people even fvcking listen to this guy.

so much butthurt, so little care

Yeah, the party that's done absolutely nothing but stonewalling and fearmongering, with its record number of filibusters, and recent government shutdown, isn't doing anything to challenge the Democrats with serious opposition.

He might have a point about them being irrelevant and a waste of space, though.

considering this is a party that labels a center-right president as a socialist, it was only a matter of time before the extremists began to break it down. the unfortunate thing for the party is both the "moderates" and tea-party are massively unpopular.

Rush is a big time Vicodin drug addict...that how he loss his hearing, He's just another drug addict...why would anyone pay attention to what he says!

It's hilarious that he's criticising them for not being difficult and obnoxious enough, as if this whole time they've been laying down and letting the democratically-elected government do what it wants.

There is no serious opposition, but that's because Obama is basically just a Neoconservative. Taking him to task for the awful shit in his presidency would expose the GOP to criticism, because they all supported the same damn things during the Bush years.

And there is no "far right" in the Republican party in anything except rhetoric. Anyone who says otherwise has no idea what the far right really is. Radicalism doesn't exist in American politics, in any real way. People who accuse the GOP of being far right are every bit as ignorant as people who say Obama's government is socialist.

He was addicted to Oxycontin, and as someone who has experimented with opiates for years I don't think they cause hearing loss. Is there any evidence for that?

How dare you....don't you know you are not supposed to make any sense when talking politics.

I wish more people could see things the way they are instead of blindly following a political party just cause it's their party. I strongly feel the problem is us not them. We elect them and we let them get away with all their crap.

One of the more stupid post on here.

What do you call the anit-science, anti-poor, wing of the republican party?

I'd call them far right. I'd call you stupid.

you do realize that there are a ton of 'real' republicans who are furious with the tea party and the way they are ruining the republican party don't you?

Longtime Republicans really shouldn't have vilified Cruz the way they did. They saw a way to limit their own political damage and took it rather than stood firm against what they have continually said they were against. They deserve to get primaried for their weakness.

"You knew I was a snake when you picked me up"

Just wait until election time, he'll be telling you how great the Republican nominee is and how evil the Democrat is.

The Tea party hasn't done crap to change anything in the federal government. Why? because there is not a single truly honest person in all of the senate, and maybe only two in the entire house of representatives. Debt continues to accumulate, spending never goes down, economically fascist policies continue to be passed (Fascism = public planning with private profits, AKA the US Health and Banking industries), and there is an overall lack of integrity in all of the federal government.

Many in the Tea Party love big government. Calling them anarchists is ignorant beyond belief (and I've read it many times by high ranking politicians, like Elizabeth Warren and Harry Reid) when they promote big government creeping into your bed and your personal life, determining who you should marry and what you can smoke.

Until Rush, and the rest of talk radio for that matter, realize that the issue is not left vs right, but big government vs small government, then he has no hope of ever being honest with himself.

The tea party helped push the so called terrible sequester cuts through that hasn't harmed anyone in any meaningful way. They're the only one's who has pushed for real spending cuts and thus establishing themselves as true small government conservatives.

They are slightly better than the generic republicans and democrats regarding federal spending, but hardly. Their proposed cuts to the military are basically non-existent, and many advocate continuing to push the failed drug war which costs billions. Not to mention the social issues I already commented on. Ted Cruz, the supposed small government supporter, would be the first in line to ban gay marriage and keep marijuana illegal and heavily regulated.

The Tea Party cannot possibly be "true small government conservatives" if they push issues on the federal level, like Ted Cruz has, which directly affect individuals. Intrusive government is intrusive government, regardless of how it is used.

P.S. the sequester is nothing in comparison to what needs to be done. A drop in an ocean.

See, the topic title, I read it and it had me thinking, "Good on you, Rush: finally seeing the GOP for the troglodytes they are."

But then I opened the topic, and, like when the fire nation attacked, everything changed.

He's seeing the establishment republicans for the weak willed cowards that they are. The only good option is currently a minority within the party. Limbaugh has really always spoken honestly tbh.

@lamprey263:

That's where you are wrong the Tea Party is made up of Independents, Democrats, and Republicans. People who want a smaller government and to keep more of their money. You must understand that both major parties really don't care about you they just want to be in control so they can control the money in Washington. That is why the Tea Party is hated more by the DC Republicans than the Democrats.

Yeah almost throwing the country back into a recession... what cowards.

Real men would have made us default!

It would take some pretty serious balls, admittedly.