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Rush Limbaugh went on the air and told his millions of listeners what his policy toward the new man in the White House was going to be. He had been asked, he said, by major American publication The Wall Street Journal. It later turned out to write 400 words about his hopes for the new administration. Limbaugh told his audience that he didn't need 400 words. Four would suffice. I hope he fails. Limbaugh said that he fervently disagreed with Republican moderates who were calling on the party to cooperate with Obama or even give him a chance. This was a reference to a meeting between Obama and a group of conservative pundits that had taken place a few days earlier at the home of columnist George Will. The guest list had been unpublished but was immediately leaked, and it included some of the brainiest right of center commentators in Washington. They had ideological differences with Obama, but they had a lot in common too, including a common language. They, like the president elect, were products of elite liberal educational institutions. Obama's goal was to flatter and charm the guests, and by all accounts he succeeded. He's making good on his promise to reach out to Republicans and conservatives with this post partisan stuff, whatever that means, Larry Kudlow, a conservative economic commentator, later told a reporter. I was very impressed. He's a nice guy, terribly smart, well informed, great smile. He's just really engaged. He said he likes to know the arguments on all sides. Obama had no illusions about converting anyone that nights. Although he evidently made some inroads with the New York Times columnist David Brooks, he simply wanted these critics to recall his smiling face and reasonable demeanor when they wrote about him. He had another purpose as well, to divide his opponents into good and bad conservatives. The Obama message is a crafty one, blogged Vanity Fair media columnist Michael Wolff. The next day he's choosing these fretting, parsing, neurotic, limp wristed, desperate to be liked, print guys over the crafts, spitting scary, voluble guys on television and radio the ails Rove Limbaugh wing of the Republican Party. By coincidence, Rush Limbaugh was in Washington on the day of Will's gathering. In fact, he was at the White House or President George W. Bush threw him an intimate 58th birthday luncheon when word of the Obama dinner got out, the media began buzzing with rumors that limbo had been there the following day. Limbo laughed at the very idea. He wasn't looking to get along with Obama. He wanted to thwart him. That was the meaning of I hope he fails. The president was a liberal Democrats, and as far as Limbaugh was concerned, the Republican Party was not in business to expedite or assist liberals.