Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

Oh how the Senate Republican leadership squirmed once again the other day.  The individual causing the squirming was none other than King Rush Limbaugh, the head of the realm of blatant hypocrisy which they serve as loyal members of a kingdom operating on duplicity and bombast.

When MoveOn.org in an ad against the Iraq War dared to use a play on words regarding General David Petraeus and used the term "betray us" the Republicans mobilized.  They promptly secured passage of a condemnatory resolution.  "This is an attack on the brave men and women of our armed forces!" was the loud lament.

It turned out that the very term that Republicans found so objectionable came from none other than the right's patron saint of the radio airwaves, blustery Rush Limbaugh.  This, however, was only the beginning as far as Limbaugh's participation in the continuing drama was concerned.

Limbaugh lashed out at members of the armed forces who had actually served in Iraq, some of whom were decorated with distinguished service citations.  Limbaugh, a noted Chicken Hawk who opted out of service in Vietnam with the same disqualifying "handicap" his father had when he served in World War Two, went to work and called these individuals who were exercising their rights of free speech "phony soldiers."