Blowhard of the Week

During this weekend at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Rush Limbaugh delivered a speech which was televised nationally on both C-SPAN and FOX News. In typical Limbaugh fashion, he truly proved how arrogant and ignorant he actually is, all at the same time. The following list is only a small handful of inconceivable excerpts from his speech, as well as some of my comments:

Limbaugh: "Let me tell you who we conservatives are: We love people. When we look out over the United States of America, when we are anywhere, when we see a group of people, such as this or anywhere, we see Americans. We see human beings. We don't see groups. We don't see victims. We don't see people we want to exploit."
The Harrowdown Hill: Of course, this doesn't apply to the members of our military, victims of Hurricane Katrina, ailing individuals who could benefit from stem cell research, etc.

Limbaugh: "We don't want to tell anybody how to live. That's up to you."
The Harrowdown Hill: Unless you are, for example, a pregnant woman facing a tough decision regarding her unborn child.

Limbaugh: "[President Obama and the Democratic Party] don't have the right to take money that's not theirs, from the back pockets of producers, and give it to groups like ACORN."
The Harrowdown Hill: Yes, it's not like ACORN is an upstanding organization like Halliburton.

However, there is another quote from Limbaugh's speech which is definitely my favorite. And since numerous Republican politicians, including Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), have been whining non-stop about the lack of bipartisanship from President Obama and the Democratic Party, Limbaugh's comments are priceless: "Bipartisanship occurs only after one other result and that is victory. In other words, let's say, as conservatives, liberals demand that we be bipartisan with them in Congress. What they mean is: We check our core principles at the door, come in, let them run the show and agree with them. That's bipartisanship to them. To us, bipartisanship is them being forced to agree with us after we politically have cleaned their clocks and beaten them." It's too bad that those clocks won't need cleaning for at least another four years.