{"id":32019,"date":"2009-03-25T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:35:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T02:35:27","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:35:27","slug":"gutsy_jindal_goes_to_bat_for_rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/03\/25\/gutsy_jindal_goes_to_bat_for_rush\/","title":{"rendered":"Gutsy Jindal Goes to Bat for Rush"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125111.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" class=\"alignright\"\/>RUSH: The headline at the Huffington Post website says it all: &#8216;Bobby Jindal Goes to Bat for Rush Limbaugh.\u2019 While President Obama was delivering a typically boring and professorial press conference last night, Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, was addressing the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee dinner in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p>JINDAL: The suggestion behind this question, &#8216;Do you want the president to fail?\u2019 is this: If you don\u2019t answer that question with a loud &#8216;no\u2019 immediately, if you don\u2019t express instant obedience to the question, then they\u2019re trying to suggest you\u2019re not really a patriot. They\u2019re essentially saying that you\u2019re trying to undermine America. Make no mistake. Anything other than an immediate, a compliant, &#8216;Why, no, sir, I don\u2019t want the president to fail\u2019 is treated as some act of treason, civil disobedience, or political obstructionism. Let\u2019s be clear. The very democratic leaders who are now asking this phony question are the ones who for so long wanted to see the last president fail, regardless of the issue, regardless of whether he was right or wrong.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Bobby Jindal. They\u2019re applauding. The people at the Republican congressional campaign dinner in Washington were actually applauding. This is something Republicans could learn. He\u2019s right. &#8216;Do you agree with Limbaugh, you want the president to fail?\u2019 &#8216;Oh, no, no, no, I want him to succeed, of course we want the president to succeed.\u2019 Jindal goes, &#8216;Come on, can we get real?\u2019 The question\u2019s a setup. They want to call you a traitor if you say you don\u2019t want the president to succeed. And what he goes on to say is, let\u2019s not forget who wanted Bush to fail and in the middle of a war, and they wanted the military to fail. And he continued.<\/p>\n<p>JINDAL: I\u2019ll not be browbeaten on this. I won\u2019t kowtow to their political correctness. We will be the loyal opposition. So my answer to this question is very simple. When they ask, &#8216;Do you want the president to fail?\u2019 It depends on what he is trying to do. There is something far more important to us than whether the president or any politician fails. Far more importantly we don\u2019t want America to fail. (applause) When the president wants to spend our country into debt, interminable debt, putting not only this generation but future generations into a position where the only way out will be massive tax increases, we oppose that policy, not because we want the president to fail, but because we want Americans to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Exactly what I said at CPAC, but we do want him to fail in this, and there are ways, there are instruments to make him fail. You know, failure is no different than defeat. I use the example of the Super Bowl. I\u2019m a Steelers fan. I wanted the Cardinals to fail. I wanted Kurt Warner to fail. I wanted the Cardinals to lose. I wanted the Steelers to beat \u2019em. This is politics. I want Obama to be defeated. I want his plans to be defeated. Bobby Jindal is saying the same thing. I think it\u2019s gutsy to take this on. You know why? Because this is a dead issue now. They\u2019ve moved on from it. They had moved on from it. They\u2019ve gotten what they thought was all the mileage they could get out of it, they attacked me for a week or two on this, and he\u2019s reviving now because I guess he\u2019s tired of getting the question. So it\u2019s time for him to answer it. Here\u2019s one final sound bite from Governor Jindal from last night at a Republican congressional campaign dinner in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>JINDAL: When he pursues policies that are akin to those of European socialism, policies that, taken too far, could cause America to fail, we will oppose, we will stand up and be counted, we\u2019ll do so proudly, not because we want the president to fail, but because we want America to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: It\u2019s the same thing. And, by the way, I make no apologies for any of these positions, and neither should you. The right question to ask is not, do we want the president to fail or succeed, but rather, we want America to succeed. Thank you for your time tonight. Thank you for what you do for America. May God bless you all. May the loyal opposition continue to speak out and stand up on principle. Thank you, and good night.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Bobby Jindal, the government of Louisiana as the Huffington Post headlined: &#8216;Going to Bat for Rush Limbaugh.\u2019 And this is a gutsy move. This is why I like the guy. He\u2019s being guided by principle there. The Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, this is the outfit that raises money to elect Republicans to the House of Representatives, and he\u2019s up there telling them what to do. He\u2019s giving them advice. Strong advice. 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