Really, nothing to add here. Rush Limbaugh spells it out perfectly.
Why Rush is no longer a Republican, reasons #247 and 248 (emphasis added):
Here is reason 247 why I am not a Republican: "Republican governors, battling climate change in their states and fed up with the GOP's inability to organize in Washington, are urging their congressional colleagues to start the new Congress with unprecedented dedication to addressing global warming." Ladies and gentlemen, have you seen the headlines out there today? ... Chicago is the coldest it's been in a decade. Flint, Michigan, breaks its 95-year-old record for cold ... If you're planning on flying today, the whole air traffic control system from the Midwest to the east is going to be backed up because of these delays in New York City. GOP governors urge action on global warming in the midst of a deep freeze! It's just a huge disconnect. In fact, what do they want to do? They want to make it colder? That's what the objective of global warming is, is to make it colder, is it not? If we had a genuine ice age descend upon us, would they then tell us to increase our carbon emissions?
Reason number 248 why I am no longer a Republican: Headline: "'McCain Ally Graham Becomes Obama Foreign Policy Player' -- To look at President-elect Barack Obama and Sen. Lindsey Graham sitting side by side Wednesday and to hear them passing out praise, you wouldn't know that scarcely 10 weeks ago they were at political war." Well, the premise of that is wrong. They were not at political war. Had Lindsey Grahamnesty and McCain been at political war, they might have won. As you know, Graham is the bootlicker, friend of Senator McCain, crisscrossed the country with him during his losing presidential bid. Lindsey Grahamnesty said, "I think this is a good way to get started. The campaign is over. I'm disappointed in the outcome, but like every American I'm excited about what awaits our country in the future." Hey Lindsey, most of the people in your party are not. They are scared to death about what the future holds, and they see people like you caving on them left and right, illustrating there is zero Republican leadership in Washington, DC. And here's what's going to happen in 2010. Mark my words on this.
Lindsey Graham and all the others in the House and Senate, the Republicans that are guilty of this, of caving to the whole notion, "We want Obama to succeed," they are going to face more trouble from their own party voters in the next election than they will ever face from the Democrats and the American left. Mark my words. If this stuff keeps up, if there is no opposition, if there's no attempt to derail this headlong move into FDR 2, if there is no effort whatsoever to stop the plunge we have into the government absorbing the US economy in gulp after gulp after gulp, the people who did not stand up and fight this are going to pay for it. They are not going to be thought of as wonderful; they're not going to be thought of as bipartisan; they're not going to be thought of as open-minded. They're going to be thrown out. They do not understand this, and they do not believe it.
" ... '(Obama's) popularity and the respect he has earned throughout the world give America a chance to re-engage not only in the region, but in a way that in the long run makes his job easier and takes the pressure off our troops,' he said. Graham turned to Obama and added: 'That's a compliment to you and the way you have campaigned, and the goodwill you have generated.'" I stopped reading this piece at that point. I didn't want to read any more of this. It's sickening. It is a repudiation of his own party, and I'm going to tell you what's going to happen with Afghanistan, folks, and I want you to listen to me very closely. Mark this down, January 15th, 2009: The Bush administration, within the past six months or so, has implemented a new strategy in Afghanistan ...
Now, ladies and gentlemen, what's going to happen here in Afghanistan is that shortly after Obama is inaugurated, he's going to announce a brand-new Afghanistan policy, and we're going to go in there and kick butt, and the fact of the matter is it's already in place. Grahamnesty and these guys are falling right into Obama's trap here. Why do Republicans need to be running around talking about how the world loves us more now because Obama's there, we're going to have newfound respect? Last I looked, in a lot of places around the world they're burning pictures of Obama. And how about this? How about all of a sudden now, Obama says that capturing Osama doesn't matter now, it has nothing to do with victory whatsoever. Isn't that convenient? One of the major benchmarks that the left and the Drive-By Media used the past six years to anoint the Bush policy failure is we didn't capture Bin Laden, and now it doesn't matter. If I'm a worldwide terrorist, and I'm watching all this, there are certain things that I have to realize here, that my task has just been made easier. My task has just been made much easier.
