Well, Of Course They Dedicated It Behind Closed Doors. I Don’t Think Snickering Is Allowed At The Missouri House
So, along side Harry S Truman and Stan Musial, the Missouri House of Representative decided to put a bust of Rush Limbaugh.
Bust is a funny word to use for this, being as how Rush is always pulling at his shirt, like his bra is too tight. However, they couldn’t have put a full statue because there’s not enough copper and tin the world to make a statue of Rush.
The induction ceremony was closed-door. I do not want to know what they did behind that closed door because I’m sure it involved drugs, hookers, and guns. Face it, Rush is Hunter Thompson minus the self-effacing sense of humor about it all.
Anyway, now we find out that Missouri taxpayers are footing the bill for a $1,000 security camera for Rush’s bust.
Hell, Dolly Parton doesn’t need a $1,100 security camera for her bust.
You’ll be happy to know that woman gets the last word.
Assistant House Minority Leader Tishaura Jones told the AP she thought the taxpayer money had better places to go.
“If they thought that the bust might be defaced or vandalized and they have to guard it with a camera, it’s another indication that maybe they shouldn’t have put it there,” said Jones, D-St. Louis. “It’s another chapter in this never-ending saga of this man who deserves no honor in the people’s house.”
You go, Girl!
So, right along side Stan The Man and Give ‘Em Hell Harry, there’s The Face That Lunched A Thousand Shrimps…nice.
Might as well add a bust of Jesse James and Anthony Brancato (a notorious Mafia hitman)…they’re famous Missourians, too.
1Why in the world would anybody think that there should be a “security camera” at taxpayer’s expense to “guard” a “bust” of Rush Limbaugh?
Maybe they could add Tony LaRussa????
2Good grief. Maybe y’all can go swipe the security camera. Maybe they all oughta start putting security cameras in all the classrooms since they are gonna get fuller and fuller of kids without any extra teachers. That would be an interesting money trail to follow if you got nuthin’ else to do. I myself am trying to write the Great American Novel for Ten to Twelve Years Old. Sigh. I need help. How can I top HUNGER GAMES and still be appropriate for eleven year olds?
3Behind closed doors? Ain’t they no security cameras in THAT room?
4I saw a close-up photo of the bust and it is very flattering to Limbaugh–makes him look like the ’30s-’40s movie star Pat O’Brien.
Somehow the art work that strikes me as appropriate to Rush is The Picture of Dorian Gray.
5When poor Rush passes MO can install a pay toilet over his
6grave and balance the state budget.
The real reason for the camera is not for protecting the bust, but for making sure Mr. Limbaugh is not using drugs in the Capitol. To clarify, that is drugs other than Viagra, whose use is fully supported by insurance and republicans in Missouri.
7Sam in Pearland, that the greatest idea I’ve heard yet!
8I have to agree with Sam, as well! Otherwise I am totally speechless over the moronic stuff going on in this country … and it’s all Republican crap … except maybe for that earthquake over in Italy and it wouldn’t suprise me to hear the Repubs had something to do with that! We need state cleansing today because Romney was here telling his lies … pursing his lips and shifting his shifty eyes back and forth … and he won the needed delegates he needed in Texas … now he’s on his way to Vegas to stick his head up The Donald’s behind for a few million! Well, guess I’m not all that speechless … LOL God help us all because of what these people are doing to OUR country or what they would LIKE to do!!
9At least Hunter Thomson had some talent.
10@Sam
A huge idea in one small sentence.
Texas could do that with Perry and Dubya.
11I wish I was a pigeon and got into the Missouri Statehouse for a long, satisfying poop all over Rushbo’s head.
12Sam: Soooo, for the future late Rush, Missouri would be the “Shower Me” state? Somehow, burying Rush in a septic tank is MORE than apropos, it oughta be a law!
13Look…if you have to install the thing in secret and then put a security camera on the dadgum thing after that, maybe…just maybe…this isn’t the best choice for Missouri. Don’t they have more important things like education and infrastructure to spend money on?
14Maybe the Musial statue will use its bat to knock the head off Limbaugh.
15Oh ladies and gentlemen, it is much, much, much worse than this. I am from Missouri, I started to send you this story Juanita, only I was so dad blamed embarrassed by it I just could not make myself hit send. Let’s face it that is pretty embarrassed!
The first day of the last week for the Missouri legislature’s 2012 session was highlighted by armed police guarding the House chamber where the delightful Rush was being enshrined in our hall of fame. You read that correctly, House Speaker Steve Tilley (R-Perryville) made the event by invitation-only, (Republican lawmakers were invited, Democrats were not), and just to make certain that there were no pesky citizens present in their own state capitol, he demanded that there be Missouri State Highway Patrol officers at every single entry point. That’s right, the tax payers footed the bill to see to it that they were kept out of the state house. Not content to just settle for locked doors, Tilley also made certain that Rush, and his bust were surrounded by more than one dozen ARMED police officers who blocked the doors and patrolled the halls to keep the riff raff out and Tilley and his hero safe.
If right now you are scratching your head and saying to yourself, “Let me get this straight, they used tax payer money to keep taxpayers out of the capitol?” You have hit the nail plumb on the head! What a pity it is not Rush’s pin head but he is far too well guarded, thanks to his newly installed closed circuit camera system.
House Speaker Steve Tilley (yep it is the Speaker of the Missouri House who has been calling the shots on this), defended the use of armed police to block access saying, “With the controversy involved surrounding, I thought it was acceptable to do an invitation-only event.”
So let me get this straight, a guy who broadcasts sexual epithets to describe a female college student who sought to testify before a congressional committee, who attacks Parkinson’s patients like Michael J Fox, who makes a living publicly attacking and humiliating whomever and whatever strikes his drug induced fancy needs to be protected from the public who paid for the bust and the security surrounding it? What were they afraid of, someone might fart in his general direction or take him on as the pompous wind bag that he is?
The best quote of the day came from House Assistant Democratic Leader Tishaura Jones, D-St. Louis who noted that “It is quite clear from their handling of the Limbaugh ceremony that Republicans were ashamed of what they were doing and wanted as few people as possible to witness it. When you take great steps to hide what you’re doing, it usually means that you know what you’re doing is wrong.”
But the bottom line is this, any event honoring a famous Missourian should be open to all Missourians. This event and the bust itself are not just partisan they are also embarrassing. And I am deeply disturbed that Tilley made his choice and didn’t even have the fortitude to subject Limbaugh to any type of demonstration. Not that one would have been likely given the fact that “The unveiling of Limbaugh’s bust was kept secret from all but invited guests until less than an hour before the ceremony.”
He’s a big boy (seriously go the article there is a picture). If the man and I use that term loosely here, can call a college girl a slut, surely he can take his chances with a disgruntled Missourian.
Or maybe the Republicans are afraid that they might get a dose of their own medicine.
You see in Missouri the Republican-controlled legislature talks tough and it enjoys picking on the weak. Bullying is A-OK in Jefferson City.
When it comes down to action, our brave GOP members are cutting money for preschools that serve financially challenged families. It’s gutting education and targeting any programs that they don’t like politically many of which are not just successful they are also relatively inexpensive like the Sue Shear Institute.
So tell me, just how damn proud can you be of your choice if you guard the doors from the people who paid for the bust?
16The quotes I am referencing came from:
http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2012/05/14/stealth-ceremony-for-rush-his-bust/
One might think ths a tad ironic for the “show me” state.
17In Springfield, Illinois there’s a bronze bust of Abraham Lincoln outside his tomb/memorial. Visitors like to rub the nose for luck, which keeps the nose polished and free from the patina covering the rest of the bust. It’s a nice, affectionate tribute to Lincoln, the man of the people.
With Limbaugh’s bust however, perhaps they should forget the security camera and just put it behind bars–where he belongs!
18Bust (slang): an event with a displeasing outcome.
19I’m going with Sam’s idea too. JJ, you are the best! I love your blog. You go gurl.
20V