Making it More Important than Ever to Get Health Care Reform Passed . . .

Rush Limbaugh sez he’s leavin’ the country if it happens. Listen for yourself. (via Think Progress.)

I guess all I have to say to that is: “ohpleeeezohpleeeezohpleeeeze!!!”

The real punchline is that he’s planning to move to Costa Rica - home of one of the best soshulized medicine health care systems in Latin America. Hey, they even provide coverage to non-citizens. Like, umm, Rush would be.

Posted by marindenver on 03/09/10 at 08:15 PM • Permalink

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Ha! “Please do” was the first thing that came to my mind, too. And don’t take a microphone, telephone, or computer with you, you stupid old gasbag.

Comment by donnah on 03/09/10 at 07:59 PM

I now expect everyone who mocked Alec Baldwin for threatening to leave if Bush got re-elected to do the same to Limbaugh. Yeah I know—I crack myself up. But White-Trash Gary Glitter can get the fuck out of my country any time he wants.

Comment by Oblomova on 03/09/10 at 09:11 PM

The real punchline is that he’s planning to move to Costa Rica - home of one of the best soshulized medicine health care systems in Latin America.

Oh, it gets better! Costa Rica also—has no standing military. In many ways, the place is a liberal’s wet dream.

Comment by John Ball on 03/09/10 at 11:39 PM

My first thought was “Is that a promise?”

Comment by Glix on 03/10/10 at 01:00 AM

Flush subsequently clarified his original remarks, claiming that liberals took direct quotes from his broadcast out of context. What he clearly meant was not what he clearly said—when he said, “I am leaving the country,” he meant he was just going to take advantage of socialist paradise Costa Rica’s socialized health care system, not move there permanently.

Maybe today he’ll explain how Costa Rica managed to create a socialist health care scheme good enough for the likes of Flush at a fraction of the cost of the “best health care system in the world” that leaves nearly 50 million people in the cold. Or maybe he won’t.