I teared up when the crowd started cheering: Obama! Obama!

Rush Limbaugh has weighed in on his hopes for the Obama presidency.

"If I wanted Obama to succeed, I'd be happy the Republicans have laid down. And I would be encouraging Republicans to lay down and support him. Look, what he's talking about is the absorption of as much of the private sector by the U.S. government as possible, from the banking business, to the mortgage industry, the automobile business, to health care. I do not want the government in charge of all of these things. I don't want this to work. So I'm thinking of replying to the guy, 'Okay, I'll send you a response, but I don't need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails.' (interruption) What are you laughing at? See, here's the point. Everybody thinks it's outrageous to say. Look, even my staff, 'Oh, you can't do that.' Why not? Why is it any different, what's new, what is unfair about my saying I hope liberalism fails? Liberalism is our problem. Liberalism is what's gotten us dangerously close to the precipice here. Why do I want more of it? I don't care what the drive-by story is. I would be honored if the drive-by media headlined me all day long: 'Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails.' Somebody's gotta say it."

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Awesome. As often as Rush is wrong, this bodes well for the new administration.

Why not? Why is it any different, what's new, what is unfair about my saying I hope liberalism fails?

Because it's saying I hope people stay out of work. I hope people keep losing money. I hope this continues to be a place where people find it increasingly harder to live.

That is hateful and wrong.

Disagreeing with policies is fine. Explaining why you don't think they will work is fine. Explaining how it might hurt people in other ways is fine.

Saying you hope a plan to fix things will fail is selfish and evil.

oh DJ, you and your crazy logic.

Liberalism is what's gotten us dangerously close to the precipice here.

Ha.

Ha.

Fucking Ha.

I didn't plan it this way, I've been meaning to make it for a number of days, but my dinner tonight is going to be Senate Bean Soup. I think I need to swing by the grocery store and see if I can find a red/white/blue themed dessert.

Look, what he's talking about is the absorption of as much of the private sector by the U.S. government as possible, from the banking business, to the mortgage industry, the automobile business, to health care.

What banking business? What mortgage industry? What automobile business? They've all gone tits up and healtcare's not far behind.

Liberalism is what's gotten us dangerously close to the precipice here.

Okay, so he's been living in a bizarro-AU version of the reality we've experienced for the past 8 years. That would explain a lot.

Big.

Fat.

Idiot.

Yeah. Where that speech goes wrong is that by using the word "Hope" he's making it clear that it might work and he's just too stuck in his own ways to acknowledge that would be good.

My understanding of the Conservative line would say "I don't believe this will work. In fact, I think it will make it worse." Not "I don't want this to work." Personally, if the world went crazy and elected Ron Paul, I would hope that he was right, that my 18-year-old self who loved Ayn Rand had a better sense of politics and economics than my 25-year-old self who gets a little queasy at remembering those days. I wouldn't have much faith, but I would still hope to be wrong.