Rush Limbaugh and the Republican Party

CPAC, the stage which has featured previous Presidents including Ronald Regan as key speakers, hosted Rush Limbaugh as the keynote speaker this year.

In response to this speech, Tim Egan writes on his blog:

There is a war, all right. We are witnessing the worst debacle of unfettered capitalism in our lifetime brought on by — you got it, capitalism at its worst. It cannibalized itself. Government, sad to say, had nothing to do with it — except for criminal neglect of oversight.

Now that government has been forced to the rescue, just who is insisting on taxpayer bailouts? Who is in line for handouts? Who is saying that only government can save capitalism? The very leaders of unregulated markets who injected this poison into the economy, the very plutocrats that Limbaugh celebrates.

And, of course, let us never forget that the bailouts of banks and insurance companies were initiated by the Republican president Limbaugh defended for eight years.

Read the full post by Tim Egan at Fears of a Clown