As a professional monitor of wacked-out-right-wing radio I can tell you that 'El Rushbo' (as he affectionately calls himself) started singing a strange tune around the first of this year..."More and more I'm less interested in Obama" he opined one cold January morning and my ears perked up...What new devious ruse is the selfish corporatist up to now I thought (setting my 'Grinch detector' to on). But I was never able to figure the scam.
Day after day, week after week Rush Limbaugh rejoined his lament...'I'm bored with Obama he would say.' His explanation was that since the president is 'always seen campaigning' the public doesn't hold him accountable for the 'terrible state of the nation' Rush said....
Then came the latest wave of juicy issues. Rightly or not, 'Benghazi-IRS-Tea Party-AP-GATE' were bubbling along quite well in the Tea Party kitchen and El Rushbo was back on the 'Get Obama Bandwagon'. But something funny happened on the way to the forum where the president was to be served with articles of impeachment. A long series of polls came out showing that while the public took umbrage with parts of the various issues, they did not see President Obama as directly responsible and the majority of those polled still trust him to fix any problems facing the country.
That's when the RED ALERT sign went off in Limbaugh's mind..."2014...2014...we forgot about 2014!" Yes, as Rush had mentioned many times, the point of today's Republican politics had to be to stop this administration in 2014. And behind his voice you can hear the wheels turning 'We've over-reached, we have the Democrats ensnared in some unpopular issues, but if we threaten a popular president with impeachment when there's no there there...we could lose the house'. Yes you could Talk-Show-Pro, yes you could.
So today Mr. Limbaugh tried in vain to explain this reality to his audience and caller after caller lined up to slap some sense into their leader. Finally at the end of his show, sounding almost in tears...Rush bellowed "WE CAN'T IMPEACH OBAMA" and ended the show.
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