Didn't Sanford's affair start prior to the Obama presidency?

umm... except that this affair has been going on for years, so it would have started under the Bush administration. Unless someone has a time machine...

I think Rush should get away for a while too. Why fight the Obama machine? It's like quicksand anyway.

haha. It started in June 2008! At least.

Sort of around the time when Sanford was dreaming of being Sarah Palin.

So what explains Rush's previous sexual tourism?

Obviously og hasn't studied up on Obama's powers of reverse causality. Every schoolchild knows that Obama is responsible for things that happened before he became president. Remember the bailout? That one was Time Traveling Obama too.

LOVING watching this bloated boob LOSE HIS FRIGGING MIND!!! Poor fat old rich guy!!! Could there be a chance that the old DITTOHEADS will finally wake up and retool their brains...NAH, fraid not...

Steve, you wrote:

What's especially funny about this is the way in which Limbaugh's attempts to pass the buck and shift the blame -- Mark Sanford isn't responsible for his own behavior, Barack Obama is responsible for Sanford's behavior -- is that it can be applied to practically any situation. Any time anyone does anything wrong, following Limbaugh's logic, he/she could simply chalk it up to Obama-driven despair.

"It's all Obama's fault" not an incidental feature of Limbaugh's argument. It's the purpose of the argument.

Wait, there's a conservative out there who isn't logically consistent? How can this be?

Is this the new reason why Rush can neither exercise nor eat healthy? His bloated gut is due to high government spending?

Rush Limbaugh, the best friend a Democrat could wish for.

Seriously, how melted does your brain have to be to listen to this guy and think, "you know what, he has a point"?

[...] ush Limbaugh, without a hint of humor, argued that South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) cheated on his wife, betrayed his family, and abandoned his professional responsibilities to fly off to Argentina ... and it's President Obama's fault. -- Steve Benen

Well, of course it is, though for a different reason than that told by Limpballs. In the spring and summer of '08, Sanford began to see a lot of Michelle Obama, as she was campaigning for her husband. And he was seized by most powerful envy attack: "I want me some brown-skinned hottie too!" The rest is history, known as Maria.

But you have to see that, had Barack not married Michelle and then public;y displayed his love and obvious satisfaction, Sanford would never have got that idea.

Remember the bailout? That one was Time Traveling Obama too.

Posted by: G C on June 25, 2009 at 3:42 PM

And don't forget the Great Chicago Fire. Mrs. O'Leary's cow didn't tip over that lantern, Obama kicked it! He probably had a hand in the Irish Potato Famine, too. Time Traveling Obama gets around!

I beat many Republicans would be heepy if Rush has an affair with a woman. For someone who defends hetrosexuality so much, he is certainly not in the game. Perhaps the lack of exercise and rich food have turned off his sex drive.

Hey Steve:

13 posts up today and not one dealing with Obama's big medical reform infommerial on ABC.

Not only here, but no liberal website that I visit daily, including Kevin at MoJo, TCM Cafe, the New Republic and Daily Kos, has any commentary about it.

The rating showed that it was dead last in its time zone. It must have really sucked for all of you guys to avoid commenting on it.

Good luck getting a single payer or a public option now. LOL

Og asked:

> Didn't Sanford's affair start prior to the Obama presidency?

Yes, but so did the recession, and that's also Obama's fault. Haven't you been paying attention?

Well, it's true, Obama is responsible for Sanford's affair, just like Clinton was responsible for Limpball's drug addiction.

No info yet on who's responsible for Rusty's obsession for little boys.

Good luck getting a single payer or a public option now. LOL

Oh yeah, because a mere 72% of Americans support it. LOL!

Dipshit.

Seriously, how melted does your brain have to be to listen to this guy and think, "you know what, he has a point"?

True. Even one of his brain-addled listeners wondered if he was joking. A no-irony zone.

Well I, for one, am glad to hear it's Obama's fault -- I had just assumed that gays and lesbians had destroyed yet another hetero marriage.

Seriously, how melted does your brain have to be to listen to this guy... -about time

See Chicounsel.

I think Rush should get away for a while too. -glutz

He was actually on vacation at the same time Sanford was missing. I had $5.00 on them being in the Dominican together.

It's hard to believe, but there was a time when Rush was capable of making intelligent arguments. Even when he was being offensive or provocative, there was usually some design or purpose to what he said. Now, he's just thoughtlessly venting and whenever he spills a little too much of his id across the airwaves, he has to go back and retrofit a justification onto it.

I don't know if it's because he's been living in a cocoon of wealth and celebrity too long or if a black guy getting elected President has just unhinged him, but he's become measurably more reactionary than even he used to be.

Mike

It's hard to believe, but there was a time when Rush was capable of making intelligent arguments.

That must have been a very long time ago.

I try to have fun with this. We've been having an unusually wet year in central Illinois, and every time it rains I shake my head and say, "that damned Obama . . ."

Let's just take Dr. Leary's advice: "Turn on, tune in and drop out."

Um, if things are so bad for them, wouldn't this be the ideal time for them to turn to their religion for solace rather than T & A?

MBunge: I don't know if it's because he's been living in a cocoon of wealth and celebrity too long or if a black guy getting elected President has just unhinged him, but he's become measurably more reactionary than even he used to be.

Rush is just giving his audience, which grows ever more pissed off and batshit insane by the hour, the red meat they demand.

There's worse, far worse, to come.

Limbaugh added, "The point is, there are a lot of people whose spirit is just -- they're fed up, saying, 'To hell with it, I don't even want to fight this anymore, I just want to get away from it.'"

You know that old saw, ask someone what people are like and they start telling you about
themselves?
I think whomever's handling Rush better start a 24 hour watch, take away the car keys, load his guns with blanks and take away the sharp objects. And tell the help to check with them before they run any late night errands for Rush.
He's ready to blow, and we're due for a #3 after today.

I beat many Republicans would be heepy if Rush has an affair with a woman.

But would any woman take the job?

-Z

Steve Paradis: This was exactly my thought when I first heard this rant. Projection. Pure and simple.

Rush's greatest challenge for the next 8 years will be keeping his sanity.

Chicounsel is another example of a right-winger whose gone through a total meltdown, basically reduced to screaming about why liberal blogs aren't obsessed with whatever the the right-wing-echo-chamber-outrage-of-the-moment is and drooling about how Obama is to blame for the fact that the Republicans are losers and screwups. Sad, really, but the Republicans are going through a necessary process: alienating themselves so that they'll be unelectable until their lunatics are retired or dead and a new generation of people comes up with something that makes the Republicans worth voting for and not dominated by crazies who know nothing about policy.

The Tories in the UK were kept out of power for more than a decade and a half because they couldn't shed the image of being 'the nasty party'.

Limbaugh, Barnes, Bachmann and friends are feverishly working to make sure that the GOP will acquire the repuation of the 'the crazy party'. They are succeeding and it will keep the Repubs out for a long time.

Of course, for Limbaugh's primary business that's just pure gold. And there are quite a number of more seats on the gravy train of daily rightwing outrage.