Drug-addled Gasbag Rush Limbaugh and the GOP Nervous Breakdown

[Ian David]

Rush Limbaugh and the GOP Nervous Breakdown
March 16, 2009, 7:08PM

It seems that the Republicans are suffering from a nervous breakdown.

It's cause is deep insecurity, which manifests itself in denial, as exhibited for example, by the attempt to obstruct the American Rescue and Recovery Act, and congratulating themselves for being irrelevant regarding it's passage. A symptom is confusion, loss of self identity. What direction do they go in? Who is the leader? Do they go in a direction that puts them more in touch with the majority of people? Or do they retreat inward and hold on for dear life to the one core constituency they have left, and risk consigning themselves to a doctrinaire niche? Do they follow the lead of a chairman who wants to reorganize the party, and show some backbone, or do they turn into little lemmings and follow a pompous overinflated blowhard "with talent on loan from God," over the narrow cliff of their doctrines? Well, the Republicans chose the latter of each set of choices.

Instead of choosing to at least not commit to a policy, they have no choice but to shore up their base of their ultraconservative hard right core.

And the hard right core is now one twitching ball of nerves! Anyway you poke them they give a galvanic response. Obama's election, let alone the union of a Democratic Presidency with a Democratic Congress at a time of dire economic crisis is the Republican 9/11. And now they are given to all sorts wild imaginings when we are finally addressing all of the wrongs of a flawed system that still works, but needs to be made responsive to the people. And so, the Right is drawing up all kinds of paranoid barricades, pulling wagons in a circle, waiting for some imaginary version of the Left to impose it's dark ideology on these United States. So scared are they that they aren't just on full vigil for any large movements in general, but they perceive the "real" treachery, and "true liberal agenda" in the smallest most insignificant anecdotes ever. On March 3, on Larry King, radio talk show host Stephanie Miller was simply stating that when Rush Limbaugh said about the President: "I hope he fails," he was behaving with incendiary irresponsibility, and all to get himself more attention. Miller then gave this analogy:

If I could say something tonight that gets me that kind of attention, like maybe Rush Limbaugh should be executed for treason. How about that?

But the Right Wing blogoshere, eager to pounce on anything that proves their point, misread the quote, and then missed the point. CNlN, the Right Wing blogsite came out with this on March 6:

This is the real face of the left and it is one that they rarely expose in public. This is the LIBERAL FASCISM that I always speak about Rush Limbaugh should be executed? Because he does not want socialism in America? NOW you know why Socialism always leads to revolution. Communism has killed 120 million people and NOW you know why. Just imagine if Rush Limbaugh said that Keith Olbermann or Christiane Amanpour should be executed for their treasonous reporting of the Iraq War.

On March 6, World Net Daily said this about Miller:

Radio talker Stephanie Miller, outraged that Rush Limbaugh wants Barack Obama's policies to fail, has called for the nation's top talk host to be charged with treason and executed.
"To me that seems treasonous," Miller said. "If I could say something tonight that ge
ts me that kind of attention, like maybe Rush Limbaugh should be executed for treason. How about that?" She made the call, not on her rather obscure radio program but on CNN's "Larry King Live" show Tuesday. King seemed unfazed by the suggestion, neither following it up with a challenge or a question.

Red State perpetuates the self-delusion:

More:
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/gwojtowy/2009/03/rush-limbaugh-and-the-gop-nerv-5.php?ref=reccafe



See also:

The Limbaugh Lie Of The Day

http://www.conceptualguerilla.com/?q=view/audio/limbaughlie

[Ian David]

1. I've heard some people say that Rush Limbaugh is a pedophile. n/t

[sharp_stick]

2. and drug addicted

some say he's an addicted pedophile.

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