Five years ago this week, Rush Limbaugh promised that if the Affordable Care Act was implemented, and still in effect five years hence (today) – he would leave this country, and inflict himself upon Costa Rica. Reverend Al Sharpton reminds Limbaugh, “Well Rush, it’s time to make good on that promise!” Limbaugh is accustomed to blowing hot air with no ramifications, but this is one promise that we remember well! Somehow catching a liar out, has no sting, when stretching the truth beyond the breaking point is what rewards him financially if not spiritually.. .
Limbaugh made the promise while speaking to an excitable caller who was wound tight due to dire predictions made by Limbaugh and others on the right, about how Obamacare would adversely affect the U.S. Healthcare system. To assure the caller, Limbaugh made a vow.
“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.”
Warming to the rant, Limbaugh spread the fertilizer generously, as is often the case: “The government’s making a decision who lives or dies, that’s what Obamacare is. It’s just a glaring illustration that there are indeed Death Panels in Obamacare.” That was a whopper, but Limbaugh had hit his stride: ” Individual mandate is an onerous thing, it is a sign of an oppressive statest pure socialist government. The law of the land right? Let’s see what else at one time was the law of the land? Slavery!” So lied the fat man who has always enjoyed superior private insurance, without the spine tingling bouts of uninsured poverty and uncertainty.
The five years are up. There is nary a sign of a ‘death panel’ and plenty of good news about Obamacare to celebrate. Just today, the CBO put out a new projection that says it will cost $142 billion, or 11 percent less to implement Obamacare over the next ten years than previously estimated! Ahead of last month’s deadline, an additional 11.4 million people enrolled through the exchanges.
Reverend Al bids a hopeful farewell to Limbaugh, as do we. Al suggests that Limbaugh do some traveling in his spare time. Perhaps he would find France, Japan or Australia more to his liking. They are but three major countries in which the citizens enjoy universal health care – and they usually rate higher than our country in physical and mental health. Get to steppin’ Rush, and take Rev. Al’s advice, ‘Dance like there’s no one watching’ because they won’t be! That’s how we know he’ll never leave. It’s such a pity he’s not a man of his word, it would be such a gift to us all, but especially women, during this, Woman’s History Month. Do I hear an ‘amen’ from Sandra Fluke?!