1% vs 19.4%, hmmmmm. Corporate welfare is okay, helping the needy is not. What a country....

[/sarcasm tag] Please, I love my country.

He explained why he wants President Obama to fail, and says that he speaks for all Republicans in that regard.

He actually said he speaks for all Republicans?

What. An. Unmitigated. Jackass.

I'd like for one prominent Republican to stand up to that blowhard, and say, "No, we don't hope he fails. We may think he will fail, we may have grave doubts about his plans, but we must hope we are wrong and that he succeeds, because if he fails, America fails, and if he succeeds, America succeeds."

Oh, wait, the Republicans who have stood up to him have ended having to grovel before him seeking penance for daring to speak ill of el Rushbo. And they accuse us of treating Obama as if he were a messiah.

Congratulations, Republicans, your intellectual leader is a college dropout talk show host. Aren't you proud?

Voting is like driving. If you want to go backwards, select R. If you want to go forward, select D.

Maybe pretty pictures are easier to grok. Now, is failure red or blue? Think carefully children. The Crazy People Are Congregating circle jerk might be able to read this, you think? More blue coming, just takes a little longer than 2 weeks.

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."

Dr. Frankenstein (Newt Gingrich, Karl Rove, and the big time GOP donors they direct) are now being slowly suffocated by the monster (Rush and the vast right wing media echo-chamber) that they created.

-Sugarfatpie (AKA Alex Pulsipher)

"X-Rays are a hoax."-Lord Kelvin

The best part of Rush's appearance at CPAC, for me anyway, was mistaking the Declaration of Independence for the Constitution, and misquoting it as well. This while receiving CPAC's "Defender of the Constitution Award."

Steele's no the only elected GOP official who has made the penitential pilgrimage to the EIB microphone to say, I'm sorry Rush. There was always an unpleasantness about the relationship between the GOP and Rusho- but at least from a political ground game perspective it seemed apparent that the GOP was using the Limbaughs of the world as part of the grand Southern Strategy that made people as, "What's the matter with Kansas?" It's kinda fun to see yet another element of that dirty business collapsing in on itself.

The more the Republican party listens to Rush's "advice," the better. Comedian Limbaugh doesn't seem to get that the world is changing; this isn't 1998 anymore.

It's funny watching (almost) all the GOP elected officials and party leaders kiss up to him. Actually, funny and pathetic.

Brian A.
I'd rather be cycling.

At this point, I would only be slightly surprised to see the Republican Party present Rush with one of these:

Mind you, the only thing that would surprise me about it would be to learn that they were willing to offend conservative Catholics....

Voting is like driving. If you want to go backwards, select R. If you want to go forward, select D.

...with one of these...

Where would that go, exactly?

Oh, wait, the Republicans who have stood up to him have ended having to grovel before him seeking penance for daring to speak ill of el Rushbo.

The bigger point is why it's happening. The Republican party is like a human body suffering from hypothermia. The skin, the extremites, everything else is abandoned, because the body focuses its remaining energy on keeping the "core" organs alive. If the core organs fail, it's over.

The Republicans are rushing to Rush, because they are afraid of losing the core. If the core of the Republicans dies, the party as they know it dies.

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Yep. And there goes the GOP's symbol of change and outreach. If Steele had any credibility as a vehicle of change, he's lost it now.