By Capt. Fogg
Remember when anyone like the Dixie Chicks, for instance, or you and I
expressed any sense of shame for any actions our country may have taken
or not taken: any shame for having elected Caligula Jr. the
Warpresident? Well certainly the great weight of Limbaugh and the
fire-farting far right came down on such unfortunates back in the day
when expressing pessimism about the Stock Market was evidence of being
an "America Hater." Even peripheral actions like perhaps wanting to
publish the names of soldiers killed in the early days of our Shokinaw
war in Iraq was disgraceful and shameful because there was the chance
someone might use it to express regret for or disapproval of any action
of a Republican president, illegal or otherwise.
So shocked I was to hear than ol' rant 'n rage Rush declare yesterday that
he was ashamed -- that's right,
ashamed
of the United States of America. It's hard to reconcile that with all
the loud Limbaughian flatulation when Michelle Obama said that for the
first time in her life she was
really proud of our country, which
allowed speculation that she might ever have thought less of it than
she thought of God Almighty or perhaps Allah to some dittoheads.
There's usually no worse offense, nothing closer to treason than not to
gibber in epiphanic ecstasy at any description of our New Jerusalem,
our greatest of all Christian Nations under God and all it ever has
done.
But not this time.
“To
be watching all of this, to have my intelligence – all of us – to
have our common sense and intelligence insulted the way it is….it just
makes me ashamed,” the fat man sang on his afternoon radio program.
“Seriously man, here we get worked up over 44 billion dollars — that’s
the total amount of money that will not be spent that was scheduled to
be spent this year.”
Only $44 billion he said
as though we would hardly have a problem if we hadn't and still didn't
have the most expensive and protracted war in our history and one which
not only didn't pay for itself as promised, but didn't solve any of the
problems it was supposed to do. How many trillions did George spend
and refuse to pay for? Isn't nearly all of that "spending" he wants to
cut
service on the Commander Guy's extravagance? Well of course
it is, but all that sound and fury could never be as offensive to Rush
as making sure that other people don't have to die of things like
infected anal cysts or that some kid doesn't have to go to bed as hungry
as Rush gets after 10 minutes of not stuffing his fat face. It's
shameful that the less than wealthy should presume to do more than ditto
him.
“We just keep spending more money. We create more
dependency, we get more and more irresponsible one crisis to the next,
all of them manufactured. Except for the real crisis that nobody ever addresses — and that is we can't afford it.”
Nobody
Rush? Perhaps not so you could hear over your own sound and fury, but
your party hasn't shut up long enough for anyone to pause and ask who
decided we could afford the most expensive war we ever had because the
magic Tax Fairy would pay for it. Wasn't that a manufactured
crisis that created a real crisis -- the WMD that weren't, the
yellowcake hoax? We couldn't afford it and you told us we could because
tax cuts for you would create magic money instead of the predictable
debt and crisis that in fact created all that dependence.
So,
I'm sorry to insult your intelligence with the truth and sorry to
mention that your followers tend to be on the two digit side of the bell
curve, but your self serving, self contradictory logorrheic slurry
of never-ending shit is an embarrassment to God and country -- and to me.
“I've said the same things over and over for 25 years”
said
Rush, but of course he said it during the most prosperous period in our
history as well and while the debt shrank and the surplus grew. "I just
hate slick Willie" he said. "I mean he just makes me sick." While
employment and wages grew and debt shrank and Lord Rushbaugh and
millions of us got rich: while the economy bloomed and peace prevailed;
while he screamed about the greatest tax increases in world history.
"Both parties are spreading fear and panic," said Rush who may be afraid
that he'll not get this year's Oscar for fear and panic mongering. What else has he ever done?
But
hey, I wouldn't want to live in a country Limbaugh approved of so I
can't say that I'm sorry for his simpering claim to shame. He's not
ashamed of backing Joseph Koney while claiming that Obama was not a
Christian, he's not ashamed that none of his prophecies, his apocalyptic
warnings have shown merit. He's not really ashamed at all. It's just
another gambit, another lachrymose plea for attention, another
distraction, another smokescreen to hide his irrelevance, his dependency, his shameful life.
Labels: Rush Limbaugh, shame
