Editor 's Note : James Carville , a Democratic strategist who serves as a political contributor for CNN , was the Clinton-Gore campaign manager in 1992 and political adviser to President Clinton . He is active in Democratic politics and a party fundraiser . James Carville says Rush Limbaugh 's new bipartisan strategy could have served the country well in 2000 . WASHINGTON ( CNN ) -- On Thursday , Rush Limbaugh , the moral and intellectual leader and most influential person in the Republican Party in the United States , wrote in the august op-ed pages of The Wall Street Journal , the acknowledged epicenter of right-wing thought , that President Obama should adopt a bipartisan solution to address the president 's economic stimulus plan -- or as Limbaugh refers to it , `` porkulus . '' Limbaugh proposes that because the Democrats got roughly 54 percent of the votes to the Republicans ' 46 percent , the stimulus package should be allocated along his definition of ideological lines , i.e . 54 percent towards infrastructure improvement and 46 percent toward tax breaks for Limbaugh and his friends . He writes , `` Fifty-three percent of American voters voted for Barack Obama ; 46 % voted for John McCain , and 1 % voted for wackos . Give that 1 % to President Obama . Let 's say the vote was 54 % to 46 % . `` 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 : 54 % of the $ 900 billion -- $ 486 billion -- will be spent on infrastructure and pork as defined by Mr. Obama and the Democrats ; 46 % -- $ 414 billion -- will be directed toward tax cuts , as determined by me . '' And he is serious . However much one may disagree with the current `` daddy '' of all Republicans ( Beg to differ ? See Rep. Phil Gingrey , who apologized last week for doubting Rush ) , you have to admire El Rushbo 's principled stance and his well-known consistent ideology . Why surely it seems like just yesterday that Al Gore won the national popular vote in 2000 ( and arguably won the popular vote in Florida too ) . Limbaugh must have called for the incoming Bush administration to allocate ideas based on the proportion of election returns . I 'm sure President Bush and the Republicans in Congress graciously accepted their 49.5 percent share of everything . ( Note : We would be much better off right now had this actually happened . ) With 50 percent of the federal government during President Bush 's term , Democrats might have reduced the deficit ( a truly Clintonista idea ) . Wall Street might have been more heavily regulated and K Street 's lobbyists might not have been running the Capitol . Democrats might have invested money into infrastructure improvements so that bridges did n't collapse or entire cities flood . We would n't have spent $ 350 million per day in Iraq . Heck , had Democrats been able to control 50 percent of the government from 2000 to 2004 , we would n't have even gone into Iraq in the first place . There might have been more spending on education and a fully funded No Child Left Behind Act . It is a remarkable time in American politics when a respected ideologue like Limbaugh can take to a hyperpartisan place like the pages of The Wall Street Journal , and deliver such a consistent message . We Democrats should congratulate Rush on the purity , intellectual integrity , and consistency of his positions . The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of James Carville .
James Carville : Rush Limbaugh is now an advocate of bipartisan government . Limbaugh proposes a stimulus agreement between Democrats and GOP , Carville agrees . Carville : If that plan had been in effect in 2000 , Iraq War might have been avoided .