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Item: Gov. Butch Otter breaks with Rush Limbaugh on Obama: He hopes the president’s stimulus plan works, though it conflicts with his free-market ideas/Dan Popkey, Idaho Statesman
More Info: Conservative icon Rush Limbaugh has said that he hopes President Barack Obama fails. “No, I don’t share that,” Gov. Butch Otter said. Otter said his “free-market tendencies may ruffle a little bit” at Obama’s strategy to pay for immediate economic stimulus by ballooning federal debt. But he said the country risks a worse recession if Obama doesn’t succeed. “I think it’d be deeper and lengthen and maybe even go into a depression if we failed,” Otter said.
Question: Are you surprised that Gov. Butch Otter would disagree with Rush Limbaugh, who has said that he hopes President Barack Obama fails? Do you want Obama to succeed?
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Arch_Druid on March 07 at 6:44 a.m.
Guv Butch Otter is his own man. I don’t always agree with the fellow but there are times when he can be absolutely right. Given the increased jobless rate in Idaho, Guv. Otter had better hope that Obama succeeds. Without those jobs, that free market is going to take a nose dive. Plus, its going to be a little harder to be a faithful follower of Rush if you don’t have a home to call your own.
danofthecommunity on March 07 at 9:05 a.m.
I was pleased to see that our Governor wants our President to succeed for all of us. He also went on put some context on his remarks by stressing how important it is to do anything we can to get some jobs flowing again.
Good for him!