Email to Rush's guest host

I'm on a tear today. Because Congress's email servers are so slow today, I checked in to Rush's show for a minute to find out if looming health care vote has prompted the people to flood Congress with email. But when I turned it on, I heard the guest host give the most bogus rationalization for why conservatives didn't complain about Republican spending I've ever heard. He blamed it on 9/11. Here's the email I wrote Rush in response:"

To the 11/05 guest host:

Your claim that conservatives allowed Bush to spend irresponsibly because of 9/11 is a convenient fiction.

How come conservatives weren't up in arms about Bush's spending plans when he campaigned? He campaigned on no child left behind, and conservative nominated him anyway. He campaigned on Medicare Part D and conservatives nominated him anyway. He campaigned as a big-government Republican, a so-called compassionate conservative, and conservatives nominated him anyway.

Conservatives happily nominated and elected big government George W. Bush (over big-government John McCain - their second choice) to the presidency knowing full well he was going to drive us into tremendous debt. 9/11 happened later. You don't get to rewrite history and pretend that 9/11 made conservatives complacent to Bush's spending.

And you don't get to claim talk radio was hard on Bush for spending. If transcripts existed, you could search them and see such criticism was rare, weak and apologetic in stark contrast to the constant attacks on Obama's spending. Don't pretend conservatives have small government principles. History proves otherwise. This is nothing but partisan posturing by Republican sycophants."

I'm making lots of friends today. I should have mentioned that conservatives then nominated big government John McCain over big government Mitt Romney in 2008. Conservatives don't support small government. Claiming they support small government is like a not-so-secret code word they say to each other to prove they're in the conservative club. They never complain about Republicans expanding the size and scope of government. They only drag out that tired complaint when Democrats are in power. It's only the Democrat version of big government they don't like, and even that they like after a couple years - they never repeal it when Republicans get back in power.

If conservatives really cared about fiscal responsibility and reducing the size and scope of government, Republicans would care about fiscal responsibility and reducing the size and scope of government. Neither do.

Self-serving liars, and all politicians and pundits seem to fit the bill, make me angry.