There were of course many possible explanations for Republican South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s affair with an Argentinian beauty. There is of course love, lust, or simply a mid-life crisis. However, it took Rush Limbaugh to isolate the true reason: President Obama. Limbaugh was heard yesterday explaining that Obama’s economic policies pushed poor Sanford into the arms of this mistress.
LIMBAUGH: This Sanford business! I’ll tell you, one of the first thoughts that crossed my mind, with Mark Sanford … this is the first thought: What he did defies logic. This is … more than being 180 degrees out of phase because of lust, or love. To split the scene for five days, and we know he’s been separated, and he knows, by the way, that the newspaper in his state has the emails between him and his concubine down there in Argentina, he knows this. He knows that somebody knows what’s going on. He knows his wife knows. So he ups and leaves for five days, doesn’t leave anybody in charge of the state, in case there’s an emergency.
Here comes the swing . . .
LIMBAUGH: This is almost like: I don’t give a damn! Country’s going to hell in a handbasket. I just want out of here!
LIMBAUGH: He had just tried to fight the stimulus money coming to South Carolina. He didn’t want any part of it. He lost the battle and said “What the hell? The Federal government is taking over! I want to enjoy life!”
Apparently, Republican marriages are undone by macro economic policy and the stimulus money. Indeed, his email about the “tan lines” of his mistress is simply code for runaway deficit funding:
“You have a particular grace and calm that I adore. You have a level of sophistication that so fitting with your beauty. I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificent gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curve of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of the night’s light – but hey, that would be going into sexual details … “
For Sanford’s email messages, click here.
The problem of over-stimulation under the Obama Administration remains a danger to all Republican governors. Fortunately, Dr. Russ Limbaugh is here to keep their marriages and budgets in line with monogamous free market values
For those interested in picking up an over-stimulated Republican Governor, the usual pick-up lines for economists are usually successful. Here are a few of the most successful at GOP parties and strip joints:
1. Do you work for the Fed, cause your raising my reserves.
2. My fiscal policy is all about contributing to your private sector.
3. You have a boyfriend? That’s ok. The wife and I are into credit-swapping.
4. Are you a Keynesian? Because you sure make my monetary policy inflate.
5. Pareto dominate me, baby!
For a tape and discussion of Limbaugh’s foray into marital conflict and macro-economic theory, click here.
to all progressive, liberal, populists:
it was a joke. you know humor. If you all think he was serious, you have the depth of a frog. Maybe some have been licking frogs or toads?
“let’s keep the recession pick up lines going”
Those are pickup lines? I thought those people were waiting for soup. Man, things sure have changed since the ’30’s.
lee – ease of on the Turlenator. I just got my best grade of law school on his final exam and it was filled with spelling errors. he forgives much and he is forgiven!!!
Relevant to this thread, speaking of Sanford, he mentioned his seeking comfort or aid at C St in DC. The address is 133 C St SE. It used to be secret, but it landed on the front page of the Washington Post today (be sure to log in and view the comments):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/25/AR2009062504480.html?hpid=topnews
The DC tax assessment files can be searched at: https://www.taxpayerservicecenter.com/RP_Search.jsp?search_type=Assessment
The property is Tax Type E1, Religious. It is tax exempt. No tax payments are shown. The Members live in a tax-free property. Most of those who live in the District have to pay property taxes, or pay rent to landlords who pay property taxes. These Senators and Representatives say some prayers in the dining room, claim their flophouse as a church, convent or monastery, and pay sub-market rent for their rooms. They are sponging off the taxpayers of the District, and will not even vote to give them representation in Congress.
This does not even sink to the level of hypocrisy. It is pure, simple, unadulterated, unmitigated gall.
Prof. Turley,
I think this is a marvelous and informative sight, but I have one suggestion for improving it. Spelling. Your articles and even headlines (for example on this post)often have numerous typos most of which could be corrected with spellcheck, but all of which should be corrected. It’s a minor thing, but when I noticed the headline for this post says “Russ” Limbaugh instead of Rush I thought it worthy of mention.
Thank you for the site, typos or no typos!
It just struck me–this is how the Republicans can gain back “members”. New slogan. Join our ranks for hot, hot sex! Whether it’s walking the beautiful Appalacian Trail or the ability to meet people through the cracks in the stalls of airport bathrooms, we offer it all. The New Republican Party–we take a wide stance on all the important issues.
let’s keep the recession pick up lines going:
“hey baby are you the dow jones? cuz I see you going down in the near future.”
“baby I’m going to screw you so bad, you’ll think my name was bernie madoff”
“I’m AIG and you’re the federal government, because you’re about to give a bonus to my bored member!”
Someone hiked the Trail and found Deliverance.
Mike A.,
That is one of my favorite movies. I think I know it by heart. I missed it at the theaters, but when I saw it on DVD the first time I watched twice in a row to make sure I didn’t miss anything from the first viewing. I was howling. The Coen Bros. had me at “any of you men smithies or otherwise knowledgeable in the metallurgical arts?” It has since gone on to become part of the multitude of highly quoted movies used as shorthand between my father and I. Considering it’s in the running with the likes of classics by Mel Brooks and the Marx Bros., I can’t recommend the comedy enough to anyone who has never seen it.
Yeah but Hiking the Appalachian Trail has new meaning, even Rush can’t deny. Well he can, but it will be attributed to Sanford’s staff.
Concubine? What century does Rush live in?
Is Rush do more drugs than usual? John Prine comes to mind.
“Ah but fortunately I have the key to escape reality
And you may see me tonight with an illegal smile
It don’t cost very much, but it lasts a long while
Won’t you please tell the man I didn’t kill anyone
No I’m just tryin’ to have me some fun
Well done, hot dog bun, my sister’s a nun”
>>>>>>>
I guess Obama is the blame for the bad economic policies that we have had for the last 8 years?
BIL, love the line. Loved the movie.
“It’s a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart.” – Ulysses Everett McGill
(as played by George Clooney in “O Brother Where Art Thou?”)
Gopher?
Yes, and Wilbur Mills’ tryst with his own “Argentine Firecracker” was brought on by continuing despair over his failure to secure the presidential nomination in 1972.
Mr. Limbaugh’s comments once again remind us of his remarkable lack of depth. Anyone purporting to have a rational explanation for the conduct of a lover is a liar. Anyone searching for a rational explanation for the conduct of a lover is on a fool’s errand.
Wouldn’t you just love to hear the legal nexus in detail?
http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2009/06/neocon-election-fantasies.html
In Re Rush
Horse hockey by any other name is but horse hockey. I think it was Shakespeare who first said that about Rush. Or maybe that was Don Rickles who said that.
Limbaugh is such a punk that he deserves to have his name misspelled. I don’t know why his crap is even put in the paper. 99% of what he states on the radio is either full lies or Republican talking points or both. This latest fable is just another example of the fiction that he spews every day. To attempt to link the economic policies to his horrible and stupid behavior is outrageous, even for “Russ”.
It’s RusH Limbaugh damnit….
What’s a guy have to do around here to read a headline without typos….
Sanford has put some new euphemisms into the language. Hiking the Appalachian trail now means meeting the mistress. Going on a trade Mission? Ditto. Sanford just admitted that he stopped off to visit Miss Tan Line 2008 while in BA, and agreed to reimburse the State.
BTW, he paid for the latest fling with frequent flyer miles.
Earned while flying on official state travel?