Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), who is the third-highest member of the House GOP in his role as conference chairman, appeared yesterday on CNN and quite loudly agreed with Rush Limbaugh — he wants President Obama to fail:
Rick Sanchez: Do you want Barack Obama to fail?
Pence: Oh, come on, Rick. Nice try. I know what Rush Limbaugh meant. I actually listened to him about a month ago when he made this point on the air. I heard much of his speech on Saturday.
Look, everybody wants America to succeed. But everyone like me, like Rush Limbaugh and others who believes in limited government, who believes in conservative values, wants the policies that this administration is bringing forward — higher taxes, a massive increase in government spending, a huge increase in the role of government in our daily lives, a departure from traditional values — you bet, we want those policies to fail.
Because, Rick, we know big government, increases in debt, the micromanagement of the economy out of Washington, D.C. is a policy that will fail. It has failed throughout the last century, across the globe…
(Transcript via Nexis.)
Now let’s think about this for a minute. When the stimulus bill was just on the verge of final passage, Rush Limbaugh said the following, still posted on his Web site: “And after this stimulus bill package passes, I want it to fail.”
And Pence says here that he’s a Rush-listener. So please, tell us what Rush really means when he says he wants Obama and his policies to fail.
