Letter to the Editor and to Rush Limbaugh, conservative blowhard

February 22, 2006 

To: Rush Limbaugh

Just wanted to send you this letter that I have addressed to our local newspaper. I have just listened to your Wednesday afternoon program on February 22, 2006. Your comparisons, regarding the Longshoreman Union contributions to Democrats is pretty laughable. Big business and their friends contribute millions to GOP lawmakers. The amount of money that Abramoff spread around makes the Union contributions look like “chump change.” Your rationalization regarding the Dubai situation is also laughable. It is one thing to have diplomatic and trade relationships, but to have, at this period of time, the UAE owning and controlling six key American ports is ridiculous. Your brain-dead President threatens a veto yesterday, and today he admits that he is clueless about the whole deal. But his handlers want the deal and he is the good soldier doing his duty. It will be pretty funny that when your President is facing a 98-2 vote in the Senate and a 425-10 vote in the House, he will exercise his first veto. This so-called compassionate conservative hasn’t met a pork-barrel bill from this spendthrift give-away Congress that he didn’t adore. He loves inheritance tax giveaways to the super rich. But the record shows that not one family farm or small business was lost to inheritance taxes. But Georgy Boy wants to make sure that his well-healed friends will walk away with trillions while our soldiers are under-armed and under-protected.

But your boy was really cool this week when he sauntered into Golden, Colorado and found out that he was at odds with his home budgeters, who in their brilliance slashed his host’s budget by millions and caused the lay-offs of 32 key people. But, lo and behold, when he found out that he was heading out to do his scripted alternate fuel speech, he found $5 million. Nice pay-off? What principle, what typical hypocrisy?

Now even the usual knee-jerk GOP sycophants, in and out of Congress, are starting to abandon his ship of state. When honest Congressmen and women start to probe the connections between Bush cabinet people and their friends with Dubai and this company the “fur will fly.” Bush and his clique of greed merchant friends have compromised the security of the United States at home and abroad. We are financially threatened by reckless spending, porous borders threaten us, and we are threatened by a trade deficit that is out of hand and trillions of bonded debt in the hands of the Japanese and Chinese. We are threatened by a social disaster in New Orleans. We are threatened by an ongoing black hole swallowing up our men and money in Iraq. We are threatened by dependence on foreign oil. We are threatened by a widening disparity between rich and poor. We are threatened by mandates that are not sensibly funded and tax cuts to the most well off.

In other words it is not a real problem of philosophy or politics, it is a problem of mismanagement, and this pretender from Crawford is the king of mismanagement. If the Democrats take one House in November, their hearings will blow the top off Washington. If they take two Houses, he’ll be impeached.

(See letter below)

This letter will be in the Journal News-

February 22, 2005

To Rush Limbaugh:

The ABCD’s of the Bush Administration!

Today we are facing the ABCD’s of the Bush Administration: Arrogance, Bankruptcy, Corruption and Dubai. The arrogance of the Bush Administration has led us deeper into the morass and “money pit” of Iraq, with our “go it alone” foreign policy, the hypocrisy regarding the “outing” of Valerie Plame, and our disregard of the Bill of Rights. We are drifting towards bankruptcy with our record budget and trade deficits and the administration’s tax giveaways to the super rich. The corruption regarding key contracts in Iraq, the squandering of billions by FEMA, along with the Jack Abramoff and the Indian Casino scandals will probably expose “dirty money” connections right up to the White House. The latest piece of this alphabet soup acronym is Dubai and Bush’s foolish and dangerous support regarding the United Arab Emirates’s effort to take control of the running of six of our key ports. This Administration’s record of cronyism, its failures in New Orleans and the Gulf regarding preparation and recovery, and our crisis with energy and its supply, add up to an ongoing managerial and governmental record of blunder and disaster. We are currently stuck with three more years of the Bush Administration and its long era of mismanagement and abuse of power. Only a change in Washington, coming with the elections this fall, can bring about the proper oversight, investigation and “checks and balances” to help right our ship of state.

Richard J. Garfunkel

Tarrytown, NY 10591