I accidentally hit the scan button on my car radio this afternoon, and darned if it wasn't Rush Limbaugh, who seemed on the verge of a meltdown about the Health Care bill. Hilarity, after the visual speed bump, ensues...
"It's un-Constitutional, it's a give-away to illegal immigrants, it has death panels, it's going to kill grandma, it's obscene arrogance, it's illegal..." OK, I'm pretty much paraphrasing but I know I've got the gist of his rant.
But as I'm listening, I start to giggle because he's simpply beside himself. AS far as I know, he was literally frothing at the mouth, and then I thought of THAT and I started laughing... Then I started laughing harder. And harder. If he ever had wheels on his little white, short bus of imagined horrors, they'd come off at the top of the hill, because he was bouncing and rolling and spinning all the way down. I couldn't stop laughing.
I started thinking, "Why haven't I been listening to this before? He's f-ing HILARIOUS!!" I was laughing so hard at the utter futility of his rant that I started crying. I had to pull off into a parking lot so as not to be a bigger danger to others than usual.
I HOPE I'm not way over my skis on this and that the bill passes on Sunday.
With apologies to Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats, is this from me to Rush:
Rush's Lament ("I Don't Like Mondays")
The Oxycontin chip inside my head
Gets switched to overload
And nobody’s gonna listen today
I'm wishing I could stay at home
Glenn Beck doesn’t understand me
He always said I was getting old
And I can see no reason
To pass HCR this season
Why should logic and compassion be show-ow-ow-ow-own?
Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
I'm gonna cry
I don’t like Mondays
I'm gonna whine
I don’t like Mondays
I can't belie -- eee -- eee -- eeve the Democrats didn't lay down
The Fox noise machine is kept so clean
And it screams in a deafening hush
O'Reilly's so shocked
Roger Ailes’ world is rocked
And their thoughts turn to Clownasaurus Rush
The health care bill got passed now he looks like an ass
Now that ain’t so neat to admit defeat
They can see no reasons
'Cos there are no reasons
What reasons do you need?
Oh Oh Oh Oh
Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
I'm gonna cry
I don’t like Mondays
I'm gonna whine
I don’t like Mondays
I can't believe the Democrats didn't lay down, down, down, I'm such a clown
And all the listeners have shut their radios off
I'm losing all control for a while
And Obama's polls are surging and soon we'll be learning
And the lesson today is how to die
And then the public cackles
And Congress tackles
(With the problems of the how's and why's)
And I can see no reason
To pass HCR this season
It's sad to watch my dreams die, die?
Oh Oh Oh
The Oxycontin chip inside my head
Gets switched to overload
And nobody’s gonna listen today
I'm wishing I could stay at home
Glenn Beck doesn’t understand me
He always said I was getting old
And I can see no reason
To pass HCR this season
Why should logic and compassion be show-ow-ow-ow-own?
Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
Tell me why
I don’t like
I don’t like (Tell me why)
I don’t like Mondays
Tell me why
I don’t like
I don’t like (Tell me why)
I don’t like Mondays
Tell me why
I don't like Mondays
I can't belie -- eee -- eee -- eeve the Democrats didn't lay down