Rush is a traitor. Really

On Friday, Rush Limbaugh was - again - wishing for the recovery bill to fail:

"I want everything he's doing to fail... I want the stimulus package to fail.... I do not want this to succeed."

Steve Benen of Washington Monthly points out that if, in 2003, a Democrat - or anyone - expressed a similar sentiment about the war on terror, they would lose all credibility, allies, advertising revenue or jobs they held. And rightly so.

But in the hypocritical world of GOP politics, they sit by while FatBoy hammers at America. Read what he said - he hopes the recovery fails. He's willing to see this nation go down the drain so Obama doesn't get credit, and votes, for savin our economy.

Rush Limbaugh is a big, fat traitor.

From Benen:

Limbaugh is, without ambiguity, rooting for failure. In the midst of an economic crisis, Limbaugh quite openly admitted that if Obama's economic policies are successful, it would undermine the talk-show host's worldview. As such, Limbaugh wants desperately to see more Americans suffer, more workers unemployed, more businesses close up shop. The key here is philosophy -- if government spending can stimulate the economy, as it always does, then the right is wrong. Limbaugh would much prefer a suffering nation than a reevaluation of conservative ideas.

Keep in mind, of course, that such talk under Bush's presidency would force someone from the airwaves. If a prominent progressive figure said, just as the president was sending troops into war in early 2003, "I want everything he's doing to fail. I want the war in Iraq to fail. I do not want the president's national security agenda to succeed," he or she would lose all advertising revenue and be fired. In the midst of a crisis, Americans rooting against America, based on nothing but ideological rigidity, are pariahs.