On Friday, Rush Limbaugh was wishing for the recovery bill to fail:
"I want everything he's doing to fail... I want the stimulus package to fail.... I do not want this to succeed."
As I was reading this quote, I was thinking the exact same thing that Benen wrote here:
If a prominent progressive figure said, just as the president was sending troops into war in early 2003, "I want everything he's doing to fail. I want the war in Iraq to fail. I do not want the president's national security agenda to succeed," he or she would lose all advertising revenue and be fired.
Exactly. Public apology tours. Congressional resolutions rebuking the guilty. Accusations of emboldening the terrorists. The works.