People Conservatives Listen To-Rush Limbaugh

It will never cease to amaze who conservative reactionaries listen to in order to "understand" politics and world affairs.

We'll profile them periodically. Today's subject is Rush Limbaugh. Like the federal deficit, he's big, fat, and out of control.

Rush's qualification to be an expert in all things conservative is attendance for one year at Southeast Missouri State, not exactly the Harvard of the midwest, or any province in Serbia for that matter.

He flunked out and has no college degree. Yet conservative reactionaries with college degrees raptly listen as though he was better educated than they.

He dodged the draft after a doctor concluded that he had an open cyst at the base of spine. The deferment was undoubtedly due, however, because the draft board was surprised that Rush actually had a spine.

As a family values man, Rush like all other family values men has been married twice. He never quite got it right. He now evidently only patronizes prostitutes in Central America. Whether male or female is unknown.

Someone you want to listen to really closely, huh?

"Stay the Course" is Still Alive after All

I see that President Bush has reported by telephone to radio talk show big, fat, liar, Rush Limbaugh, that he wants Cheney and Rummy to stay with him for the next two years until he leaves office. Rush (the "Tokyo Rose" of the Bush administration) must have approved because he didn't mimic any of Bush's intellectual disabilities (other than his stupidity) on the tape I saw. No arm waving, circling his finger around his head, or rolling eyes.

Does anyone really think that we will be out of Iraq with Boy George retaining Rummy at Defense? Rummy, the very man, who like Bush, cannot admit that he put too few troops into Iraq initially, and continues to refuse to enhance the force, or to draw it down? Rummy, the very man even Republicans want to fire, if only to save their own cushy seats in Congress.

Asked today, Bush said "I don't know" if troops will still be in Iraq by the time he leaves office. Gimme a break. The only way he wouldn't know is if he had a plan top get us out of Iraq. We all know, however, that planning is something George and company don't like to do.

By going out of his way to call Limbaugh to tell him that he wanted the two biggest chickenhawks to stay was code for "I will stay the course, I just won't say it anymore," to the remaining right-wing nuts who remain his political base. Just yesterday, I opined that no politician would use the "stay the course" mantra again. George didn't say it directly, but most people knew what he meant.

He's obviously going to dump this mess on whomever succeeds him. Then he'll retreat to his new multimillion dollar presidential library and try to finish reading "My Pet Goat," without any further interruptions, like terrorists attacks or American and Iraqi death tolls in Iraq.