Haha... conservative blowhards sputter

In a recent address to reactionary yuppies, the new de facto head of the Republican party, Rush Limbaugh, huffed and puffed through a catalog of tired and discredited conservative nostrums, actually bringing the crowd to its feet several times as he enmerated the inalienable rights listed in the preamble to the Constitution, "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

Limbaugh carefully pointed out an error the press made in taking something he said out of context, while deftly side-stepping the same practices made by the conservative press.

And Limbaugh, like many conservatives, is holding up support of the Iraq war as a litmus test of national loyalty, as if that war has not already, for years, been discredited and shown to be a shameful, useless and utterly failed enterprise brought on by former president Bush's tentative grasp of history, geography, and international relations. Hey Rush-- it was a bad idea, justified by paranoia and lies, carried out in an atmosphere of clueless myopia, whose results will be decades of crushing debt, mistrust from former allies, loss of international status, and a Constitutional system seriously injured.

Then there's the $750 billion bailout package that recently passed Congress, which has every conservative hyperventilating and grasping their chest. Have they forgotten the $750 billion bailout package that passed less than six months earlier that was earmarked solely to the banks and brokerages and insurance companies on Wall Street? The one that didn't work except to give some end-of-life respite to the likes of the executives at AIG and Merrill Lynch and CitiCorp? If the current administration aims a bit lower with the dollars to relieve the distress, it should not be a surprise.

Finally, and this is not likely to be heard by this high-decibel wheezing gas bag, but it needs to be repeated for all the Bushists who love their mantra of what makes America great-- Freedom and Democracy. Listen up! The majority have spoken. If Rush wants to shove through the failed conservative agenda of unbridled greed coupled with pious disregard for the "less fortunate," he needs to convince a majority of citizens that his course is right. But that won't happen-- unfortunately perhaps-- because after 30 years of Reaganomics, and eight years of slash and burn Cheney/Bush fiscal policy, the overwhelming majority of Americans consider themselves among the less fortunate, and will vote that way. And that's the definition of democracy. Sorry Rush, but that's he way it is.