I'm really surprised that some of you really endorse Limbaugh's outrageous hope for President Obama, and by inference our country. I'm disappointed as well. I can tell you with absolute certainty that if John McCain had won the election and some left-wing nutcase expressed the same wish for him, I would be equally outraged.

It's exactly this type of venomous partisanship that has kept our government frozen for the last four Presidential administrations. Rather than using his platform to implore the inclusion of conservative objectives in legislation being created, or encourage conservative legislators to introduce new legislation which he feels important, instead he makes a disgusting personal attack on the new leader of our country. What's even more offensive is that he's taking this position even though the President seems to be making every effort to make his relationships with Congress inclusive of the desires of both parties.

The Republicans are not going to get everything they want in the legislation of the next couple of Congresses. They had a chance when they were in the majority for more than half of the last four Presidential administrations and did not make sufficient progress to satisfy the electorate. Different candidates were elected which shifted the majority to the Democrats. That's the way it was and that's the way it is. The real legislative leaders are those that can negotiate for what they feel is important legislation, even when in the minority.

Rush Limbaugh has elected not to use his position to stimulate the achievement of conservative objectives in the legislative process. Instead he mounted a venomous and outrageous personal attack.

I refuse to look backward, as some posters here seem wont to do. It does little good. If the members of one party or the other frustrated or even stopped the legislative process for personal or idealogical reasons, a pox on all their houses. I refuse to look backward in search of a justification for similar conduct in the future. Our county cannot afford more of the same. Besides a backward look might not provide a particularly satisfying picture of the party and idealogical principles which Limbaugh says he supports.

But why should I be surprised? Limbaugh himself says he's no longer a Republican. He seems to have established his own party, one based on the most extreme far-right ideaology and one which is totally unwilling to participate in the democratic process. For Rush, it seems to be I only want it my way and no variance from my personal beliefs will be acceptable. If I can't win then I'll torch the whole government and the political process.

Those of you who endorse Limbaugh, God bless you. The next four years -- maybe eight -- will be long and frustrating. I will not characterize Limbaugh's statement as anything other than disgusting and anti-democracy. I will support our new President until such time as he performs in a way to lose my support, just as George Bush did after I voted for him for his first term but the second.