Rush Limbaugh Said These Words Today: ‘Thank God for President Obama’

A sign that the post-Osama haze of unity has taken hold of American society (if only fleetingly): Rush Limbaugh opened his radio show today with effusive praise for President Obama. True, much of the praise was directed at Obama merely for continuing some of the anti-terror policies of George W. Bush. But Limbaugh also went out of his way to laud the prescience of Obama's decision to go with a surgical special-ops strike that could recover proof of Bin Laden's death, as opposed to bombing the hell out of the place and hoping the world takes our word for it. "Thank God for president Obama," Limbaugh said. "If he had not been there, who knows what would have happened. It was only Obama who understood the need to get DNA, to prove that was Bin laden that we had assassinated." Cherish this moment.**** After viewing the video a second time (thanks, commenter hicountryho), we think he might actually just be using a ton of sarcasm here. But if Limbaugh is mocking the idea that Obama alone, against the wishes of all his military and intelligence advisers, came up with the plan that killed Bin Laden, he's attacking a straw man. Nobody has suggested that Obama alone is responsible for killing Bin Laden. Far from demonstrating that post-Osama unity has arrived, Limbaugh's opening remarks — assuming they are, in fact, sarcastic — prove the exact opposite: Some people will always be too small and bitter to give the opposition credit for anything.

GOP confident of chances in Florida Senate race

The National Republican Senatorial Committee says a newspaper story that the GOP is trying to recruit MSNBC's Joe Scarborough for a Senate bid in Florida is incorrect.
Brian Walsh, communications director of the community, said NRSC chairman John Cornyn had a "casual conversation" during the 2010 election cycle with Scarborough about the ex-congressman possibly running for a Senate seat -- but in New York.
This morning, we linked to a story in The Hill, a newspaper that covers Congress, that said Cornyn had talked to Scarborough about being a candidate in the Florida Senate race.
Florida will be a factor in the 2012 election cycle, as the GOP targets Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson, who is running for a third term. Republicans need a net gain of four seats to win majority control in the Senate.
"We already have plenty of great candidates looking at the Florida Senate race and we're confident any one of them can beat Bill Nelson in 2012," Walsh said
Scarborough, who served in the U.S. House from 1995 to 2001, has been talked about as a potential candidate and recently told PARADE magazine that he "may feel the need to run for office again" at some point