rush limbaugh

IN 1993, Rush Limbaugh was invited to address CPAC, but had to take a pass. "I wasn't able to broom my schedule and get down there," he told the audience of his short-lived television show on February 22nd, 1993. Mr Limbaugh did, however, send a reporter to ask attendees a question.

Rush Limbaugh has challenged the Democratic National Committee a million dollars that [President Bill] Clinton's economic plan will not work if it's implemented. Do you think that's a good bet?

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Mr Clinton presided over eight years of economic growth.

Funny thing, my entire family (mom's side, but my dad was joining them) were all talking this weekend about how bad Obama is handling the economy and how he was going to screw everything up. Oddly, no one could tell me how things got this bad.

Rush Limbaugh caused a bit of a stir about a month ago, when he told his audience, "I disagree fervently with the people on our [Republican] side of the aisle who have caved and who say, 'Well, I hope [President Obama] succeeds.' ... I hope Obama fails. Somebody's gotta say it."

The right-wing host went on a similar tirade yesterday when talking about the economic recovery package: "I want everything he's doing to fail... I want the stimulus package to fail.... I do not want this to succeed."

Limbaugh is, without ambiguity, rooting for failure. In the midst of an economic crisis, Limbaugh quite openly admitted that if Obama's economic policies are successful, it would undermine the talk-show host's worldview. As such, Limbaugh wants desperately to see more Americans suffer, more workers unemployed, more businesses close up shop.

You can disagree, you can urge your elected officials to do something better, but to hope that they fail at improving (a mutually agreed upon improvement at that) the country and fixing issues caused either in whole or in part by those whom you support, we'll lets call that treason. (And by treason, I mean terrorism.)

In addition, they have reformatted the bill -- they've made it a PDF file when they posted it. Now, for those of you that don't use computers, basically what that means is that it cannot be keyword searched. A PDF file is essentially a picture of a page. And, so, you can read every page, but you cannot keyword search it. It's not a text file as legislation normally is as posted on these public websites. They don't want anybody knowing what's in this; they want it happening as fast as possible so nobody can know what's in it.

Um, actually, you can search this PDF, it has been OCR'd.