Time out, I say!


This is the official Democratic response to Rush Limbaugh's assertion that he wanted President Obama to fail. A billboard with some snarky comment on it.

But let me just make a quick point here.

I don't always rush (hahah) to Rush's defense...in fact, I cannot think of a single time I have ever done such a thing. But in this instance, I feel as though I should because I heard Limbaugh further explain his comment. And damned if it doesn't make sense.

Limbaugh explained at CPAC that what the President is doing is in every conceivable way fundamentally against every bit of ideology that the Republican Party stands for, and is his and a lot of other people's minds drives this country closer to socialism than we've been to since FDR.

So his counter was "Why would I want that to succeed?" And he has a point.

To make this more clear, let us look at the past eight years. How many of you more liberally minded folk wanted President Bush to crash and burn? To fail at everything he did to the point of shame and hoping for his non-reelection? It's okay, I was with you on that.

Why, then, is it all of a sudden a terrible thing if some conservative talk show host hopes the President fails at what he and many others consider a dangerous and destructive path for this country? That's all I'm asking.

Double standards are for suckas.