In the political poker game that The One started, this afternoon, Limbaugh flipped the next card:

Rush raises the stakes on Obama_

I have a serious proposal to make: the Obama-Limbaugh Stimulus Plan 2009.  There is a serious debate in this country as to how best to end the recession.  Recessions will end on their own if they’re left alone.  The average recession will last five months to 11 months.  The average recovery from each recession will last six years.  What can make the recession worse is the wrong kind of government intervention.  The wrong kind of government intervention is precisely what President Obama has proposed.  I don’t believe that his stimulus plan is a stimulus plan at all.  I don’t think it’s designed to stimulate anything but the Democrat Party.  It’s designed to repair the power losses from the nineties forward of the Democrat Party and to entrench this party for, quote, unquote, eternal power like Franklin Delano Roosevelt did with his New Deal.

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Mine is a genuine compromise.  So let’s look at how the vote came out, shall we?  Fifty-three percent of voters in this country — we’ll say, for the sake of this proposal, 53% of Americans — voted for Obama.  Forty-six percent voted for Senator McCain, and 1% voted for wackos.  Let’s give the remaining 1% to President Obama, so let’s say that 54% voted for President Obama and 46% voted for Senator McCain.  As a way to bring the country together and at the same time determine the most effective way to deal with recessions, under the Obama-Limbaugh Stimulus Plan of 2009, $540 billion of the one trillion will be spent on infrastructure as defined by President Obama and the Democrats.  The remaining $460 billion, or 46% that voted for Senator McCain, will be directed towards tax cuts, as determined by me.

These tax cuts will consist primarily of capital gains tax cuts and corporate tax rate cuts.  So Obama gets $540 billion to spend his way.  The other people of this country who did not vote for his way get $460 billion spent the way they would like it spent.  This is bipartisanship! This is how bipartisanship really works.  Okay, Obama wins by a 54-46 majority, so he gets 54% of the trillion bucks.  Spend it his way.  We get 46% of the trillion bucks to spend our way, and then we compare. Then we see which stimulus actually works and works the fastest, and I will guarantee you that if this plan is adopted, just the announcement that $460 billion will go toward paying for tax cuts, capital gains, and corporate tax rates — we could throw in some personal income tax rate reduction in order to make sure that the voters don’t think it’s all about helping the big guys.  But we need jobs, do we not?

Now does Obama respond to Limbaugh? Laugh at him?

Can he afford to ignore him?

What if other ‘serious’ people pick this up? What if it comes to the floor of Congress?

What if this thing gets ‘traction’ with some people?

Your bet Obama… call, raise, or fold?