Limbaugh's comments were, apparently, so abhorrent that the host is accused now of being the de facto voice of conservatism and the Republican Party.
That, as we all know, is technically impossible, considering someone actually is listening to Rush Limbaugh. Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, went so far as to call the radio host the "voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party."
That is a neat trick. If Limbaugh is the voice of conservatism, conservatism must want Obama and, thus, America to fail. After eight years of seething hatred-plenty of it deserved-for George W. Bush, this brand of contrived indignation touches a new level of creative dishonesty.
After eight years of passionate, frothing-at-the-mouth, head-turning, projectile-vomiting vitriol directed at Bush as some sort of post-modern attempt at an eloquent critique of the Bush Administration, it is pathetically hypocritical to get outraged over Limbaugh's mild criticism. Many lefists hoped, prayed for the complete failure of everything that Bush touched, a number of them going so far as to damn near achieve orgasm everytime a suicide bomber successfully carried out an attack in Iraq just to stick it to Bush. They wonder where all of the critics from the right were, but the average person can be forgiven for not noticing us because we were drowned out by the raucous cacophony of the Eight Year Hate that the left breathlessly carried out for Bush.
Even more sensible democrats like Bill Clinton know that Obama is headed for a collosal failure. We've most past hope into change, only it's a change from leadership that pretended to be fiscally responsible, to one that has no idea what fiscal responsibility actually is in practice.
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