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[khaosworks]

Limbaugh greets Democrats as liberators

On the November 8 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh claimed to "feel liberated" by Democratic victories in the House and Senate on November 7 because he is "no longer going to have to carry the water for people who I don't think deserve having their water carried." Limbaugh added that the Republican Congress has produced "some of this legislation coming out of there that I have just cringed at, and it has been difficult coming in here, trying to make the case for it when the people who are supposedly in favor of it can't even make the case themselves -- and to have to come in here and try to do their jobs."

From the November 8 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

LIMBAUGH: Now, I mentioned to you at the conclusion of the previous hour that 
people have been asking me how I feel all night long. And I got, "Boy, Rush, I 
wouldn't want to be you tomorrow. Boy, I wouldn't want to have to do your show. Boy, 
I'm so glad I'm not you." Well, folks, I love being me. I can't be anybody else, so 
I'm stuck with it. But the way I feel is this: I feel liberated, and I'm just going 
to tell you as plainly as I can why. I no longer am going to have to carry the 
water for people who I don't think deserve having their water carried. Now, you 
might say, "Well, why have you been doing it?" Because the stakes are high. Even 
though the Republican Party let us down, to me they represent a far better future 
for my beliefs and therefore the country's than the Democrat [sic] Party does and 
liberalism.

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Opinions about the sincerity of this bullshitheart-felt admission I leave in your entirely capable hands.

Comments

[faxpaladin.livejournal.com]

Because his beliefs are the country's. They must be. He's Rush Limbaugh, doncha know...

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

I caught a bit of Neal Boortz last night on my way back from kicking a server, and he was positively giddy over the election results. To be fair, he was calling on people to vote against Republicans *before* the election, so he has a *little* more room to pretend he hasn't been a shill for the current administration the last six years. :)

[oxlahun.livejournal.com]

Rush isn't happy because he agrees with the incoming Congress; he's happy because he no longer has to pretend he agrees in order to maintain the party line.

This Congress, I'm sad to say, is the best thing that could have happened to the GOP's chances of holding the White House in 2008. As of Senator Allen's concession, the war is now the Democrats' problem as well, and all of the president's honest efforts to fix things will be thwarted by those evil liberals Reid and Pelosi. Or something like that.

I'm an optimist about national politics—I'm surprised when things get worse.