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Rush Limbaugh got all outraged with school lunches today, and suggested that hungry kids go go "dumpster dive."  Rush's solution for all those hungry kids? The Dollar Menu at McDonald's and dumpster diving. Seriously.

Cynthia Davis would be proud.

It must be a slow day for the folks at the Star, who decided to reprint content from Gawker.com about family values champion Rush Limbaugh getting married for the fourth time this weekend.

The headline for the story at Gawker is Help Us Congratulate Rush Limbaugh on His Wedding Day.

But when Bill Dalton decided to post the info on the Star's Prime Buzz, he chose the headline, Rush Limbaugh's getting married (maybe he isn't gay after all, not that there's anything wrong with that)

Rush Limbaugh is a poisonous scumbag, and I wish he'd go away forever.  But what in the world is The Star doing with headlines like this? 

Media Matters for America has an powerful video out this morning asking the question: "How did so many Republicans end up believing falsehoods about Obama?"  Drawing from the recent Harris poll showing that a majority of Republicans think Barack Obama is a socialist and a Muslim, and 45% of GOPers think that Obama was not born in the United States, the Media Matters crew connects the dots between these radical ideas and the radical personalities who spread them on the airways.  The focus of Media Matters' piece is on the media (shocking), but there are of course a disturbing number of Republican officials promoting this ideas to discredit the President as well.

Politico:

Many top Republicans are growing worried that the party’s chances for reversing its electoral routs of 2006 and 2008 are being wounded by the flamboyant rhetoric and angry tone of conservative activists and media personalities, according to interviews with GOP officials and operatives.

Congressional leaders talk in private of being boxed in by commentators such as Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh— figures who are wildly popular with the conservative base but wildly controversial among other parts of the electorate, and who have proven records of making life miserable for senators and House members critical of their views or influence.

Daniel Fishman of Washington University's Student Life newspaper has a good column today about Republicans' obstruction in Congress, their dishonest attacks and refusal to present alternatives on the big issues of the day. An excerpt:

[Rush] Limbaugh’s principle of opposing Obama even at America’s expense may be acceptable for a radio personality, but Republicans in charge of national policy should care more about America’s success. Republican House leadership put the year’s most important piece of legislation, health care, into the hands of House Minority Whip and 2010 Senate candidate Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and waited for him to unveil the Republican plan. The man who wants to be your senator guaranteed in June that he would provide a bill that "costs less and provides better care for the American people" than Democratic proposals. Representative Blunt’s plan still has not been released.

Has Peter Kinder weighed in on the bid from Rush Limbaugh, a fellow Cape Girardeauan, to own a piece of the Rams? 

Rumors or third-hand reports?

As I watch more and more coverage from media outlets of interviews with “average Americans” giving “their opinions” I become less believing of the common political and media mantra of the intelligence of the average American. While there are many Americans who are politically, financially, and socially savvy, there is also a large number who are not. My question is, “Are all opinions of equal value?”

An example would be a major medical operation, is my opinion as layman of the same value as that of say a neurosurgeon? Is an uninformed, illogical opinion of equal worth as someone who has spent years studying, reading, and researching an issue? I believe there are three categories of thought in this country and most of us fit into some combination of the three.

"We ought to be damn proud to say we're the 'Party of No.'"

          - Rush Limbaugh

A new Gallup poll published today shows that most Americans -- and most Republicans -- have no idea who speaks for the Republican Party. And worse, those that do are most likely to name Rush Limbaugh, Dick Cheney and Newt Gingrich as the men who best speak for the GOP.  

Almost half of those who identify with or lean toward the GOP cannot think of a single political or other figure when asked to name the main person who speaks for their party.

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The Sterling, IL Daily Gazette reported this weekend that Lt. Governor Peter Kinder is working with David Limbaugh (Rush's brother) to pull together financing for an upcoming Ronald Reagan movie.  According to the paper, Kinder "took the bait" from executive producer Donna Johnson to help recruit investors:

In fact, she said, Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder called her. One of the lieutenant governor’s goals while in office is to bring in more feature films to the state, Johnson said.

“Kinder was very interested and very enthusiastic,” she said. “The call lasted quite a while and he asked a lot of questions ... and didn’t guarantee anything.”

But he told her he had “a few names” and “some people” he wanted to approach about funding the film, Johnson said, including radio personality Rush Limbaugh.

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Last week, we noted that Roy Blunt is a key member of the national GOP's re-branding campaign, the National Council for a New America. The new committee, spearheaded by Rep. Eric Cantor (Blunt's replacement as Minority Whip) and launched this weekend outside inside the Capitol Beltway, is intended to be "another way of getting [GOP] ideas out there.” 

But rather than calling it a re-branding campaign, Blunt & Co. want us to think of it as a "listening tour." And by "listening tour," they mean that Republicans will tour the country so supporters can listen to their leaders recycle failed ideas.

Well, Rush Limbaugh isn't buying the "listening tour" idea either. Listen:

On the way to FDR's inauguration in 1932, outgoing President Hoover never spoke to his Democratic replacement. Fortunately, other Republicans were more helpful in reaching out to help the new president during the harsh economic times they all shared.

This week when D­ick Cheney was asked about the Bush administration's handling of the economy, ­he responded, “We worried about it . . . to some extent.” I was expecting him to continue with, “What did you expect of us? We wiretapped, we tortured, we chased imaginary WMDs. Hell, we couldn’t do every little thing.

Thank heavens, the economy is finally at the top of the White House to-do-list. Now that House Republicans are having to face up to their party’s mistakes, they are channeling their idol of laissez-faire government, Herbert Hoover. During the midst of the Great Depression, he clung to his belief that the economy would eventually right itself; it was not the purpose of government to intervene. Besides, Hoover declared, government assistance harms one’s character and encourages idleness. (Let’s hope tha­t’s not the case today when big corporations are the recipients of federal bailouts, else they may need moral assistance as well­ as monetary aid.)