Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons

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EDITOR’S UPDATE: Tom Watson says Limbaugh is a “gift” for Obama.

Leading gullible Republicans into the hills of guerrilla ideological resistance during the nation’s toughest economic crisis in 80 years constitutes a gift of incredible political proportions for the Obama Administration. Instead of principled point-by-point opposition by a chastened party of experienced professionals ready for tough dealings at the bargaining table, President Obama is blessed with clownish truculence and pure rejectionism – embodied in the Republican response to the President’s forceful Congressional address by Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, a moment of excruciatingly tone-deaf ideology rescued only by the attention lavished on its shockingly poor delivery.

President Obama, of course, is aware of this lumbering and clumsy gift from the right – so much so that he sent chief of staff Rahm Emanuel to Bob Schieffer’s CBS studio this morning to declare Limbaugh “the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party.”

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