Oh, and conservatives? Thanks for giving Obama the power to tap your phones! bwahahaha
Which actually segues into a more serious thought here (hat tip: JN):
During the Bush era, conservatism was reduced to nothing more than a set of rationales for the centralization of unlimited power in the executive branch. I had long wondered how conservatives would react when that power was transferred to someone who is not of their tribe: Would they cynically re-discover the dangers of executive tyranny, or would they simply entrench themselves and wait until they were restored to power, confident that they could use it to avenge themselves on their enemies?
In a protracted rant delivered to his audience yesterday (February 11), Limbaugh made it clear that he was choosing the latter option.
“We lost the election,” eructated the self-worshiping* radio blatherskite who now serves as the de facto head of the Republican Party. “But they’re going to lose down the road. They will not control government forever, and when our turn comes, we are going to turn the power of government against the left…. We’re going to build and use the big government that they have built and turn it right against them. We are gonna turn the power of government agains the left, and against Democrats in ways they cannot imagine…. We are going to use the power that the left is centralizing in the federal government to punish them, to break ‘em up, and to make them pay for this…. It’s time they got a taste of their own medicine, and it’s going to happen folks, because they’re not going to hold power forever.”
Unlike his lemur-browed, synapse-deprived imitator Sean Hannity, Limbaugh is intelligent enough to know that the Democrats inherited a central government that had been gorged on power during the eight years of Bush the Dimmer’s reign. The fact that the final consequential act of the Bush Regime was to create an economic dictatorship headed by the Treasury Secretary has not evaded Limbaugh’s notice. The creation of a huge apparatus of regimentation, surveillance, and detention under Bush took place with the active support of Limbaugh and his ilk. So he is lying when he imputes sole responsibility for all of this to the Democrats.
But rather than urging that this edifice of tyranny be demolished, Limbaugh counsels his followers to be patient in the expectation that they will soon occupy its commanding heights, from which they can proceed with the extermination of their political enemies.
