Catholic and Enjoying It!
The Evolution of Rush Limbaugh:
“Now, you stop and think about this: 183 times, six times a day, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was waterboarded. His lawyers never complained. He didn’t complain to whatever civil rights organizations there were. And I’ll tell you, the bottom — if somebody can be water-tortured six times a day, then it isn’t torture,” – April 20, 2009.
“I just slapped myself! *SLAP* *SLAP* *SLAP* I’m torturing myself, right now! That’s torture! *SLAP* According to these people,” – April 17, 2009.
“For the longest time McCain said torture doesn’t work then he admitted in his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention last summer that he was broken by North Vietnamese. So what are we to think here?” – April 17, 2009.
“[Abu Ghraib] is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation and we’re going to ruin people’s lives over it and we’re going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good time. You know, these people are being fired at every day. I’m talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release? You ever heard of need to blow some steam off?” – May 4, 2004.
“And there are people in this country, who are Americans, and have the same view of totalitarianism that all the worst regimes in the world have had. They just are a minority — or have been a minority. And they have to be stealth to get anywhere, because who’s gonna vote for torture, who’s gonna vote for tyranny, who’s gonna vote for dictatorship? But we did. We did, and you see it slowly encroaching. And if they could move faster on this, they would.” – July 26, 2009.
Sooooooo… the people who voted against the first Administration in history to make torture the policy of these United States, an Administration responsible for the murder of prisoners and the shielding of murderers from prosecution: it is *they* who “voted for torture” and would “move faster on this” if they could, while staunch defenders of human dignity like Limbaugh are heroic champions of American values.
These people deserve to remain in the wilderness for a very long time. What a bunch of repellent jackasses. The problem is, as a reader points out:
Any talk about “fundamental differences” between Republicans and Democrats is bullshit. If you think it’s real, you’re just part of the base each party has to fool in order to go on ensuring that all talk about fundamental differences between the parties is bullshit.
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