Rushing to Conclusions

As a political science guy, I've always been really interested as to if any one party is more rational than the other.  Both parties claim to be superior, but could that all be a hoax.  Unfortunately, we have no real quantitative data to make the argument one way or the other.  Sure, there are fringe groups out there that aren't rational (hello Tea Party, Westboro Baptist Church, etc.) but those two examples don't prove that Republicans are, by nature irrational.  With the Republican Party shrinking, however, and most traditional Republicans being booted from office by angry voters, there is no real party leadership.  Consequently, the man most Republicans are taking marching orders from now is Rush "El Rushbo" Limbaugh.  Unfortunately (<

"I don't know. I'll just tell you this, if this passes and it's five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented, I am leaving the country. I'll go to Costa Rica."

Good for you, Rush.  You see something you don't like and you jump ship.  Granted, if a liberal would've said, for example, that they would move to Canada if George W. Bush got reelected, as several did in 2004, you'd call them "unpatriotic" and say that they "hate their country."  No, good for you.  Stand up for what you believe.  Move to the Costa Rican paradise where they run their entire infrastructure with internal combustion diesel engines, all the citizens are white and Protestant, and you have to work hard to earn your healthcare! 

Holds finger to ear... getting something over my earpiece.

I'm sorry, we are just now receiving word that Costa Rica is actually one of the best nations in the world at sustainability.  They are consistently one of the greenest places on earth.  They do not have a military, they support gay rights, they consistently elect social democrats to their presidency... and wait, one more thing... They have universal health care.

WHAT?!?!

So to escape the "liberal hell hole" that Limbaugh thinks America has become, he's going to the liberal capital of the world?  Why?  So he can scare 25% of their population to vehemently opposing their administration as well?  That's like a New Yorker saying "I hate the conservative bias here, I'm going to move to Texas!"  or an alter boy leaving a church saying "there are a lot of rapes that go on there, I should go to Carmel!"

I wish I could make a joke here, but I can't, because it's impossible to mock something this ridiculous.  I don't understand what the hell Limbaugh is talking about, but he just gave Democrats a definite reason to pass healthcare legislation.  My greatest hope and prayer is that he DOES move to Costa Rica, hates it, and tries to come back, just to find out how extremely impossible the immigration process actually is in this nation.  Then, when his visa runs out, I'll be the first one to call border patrol, because we need to keep those lazy illegal immigrants out of our country, right Rush?

God Bless Irony.