For most liberals, independents and sane conservatives, Sunday’s passage of the health care bill meant one thing: Rush Limbaugh is leaving the country.
A couple of weeks ago, Limbaugh said if the bill passed he would move to Costa Rica (apparently he missed the fact that Costa Rica has universal health care).
Now that the bill has been signed into law, it’s hard to push out of our heads the image of the bald loony, red-faced and irate, waddling around Costa Rica bitching about how flawed the country’s health care system is and trying to get his hands on a hamburger.
OK, so we didn’t actually expect the Republican Party’s resident nut case to pick up and leave, but we had our hopes, and we’re not the only ones.
Two Brooklyn men created the Web site aticketforrush.com, which accepts $1 PayPal donations to be put toward the cost of a one-way ticket to Costa Rica, a moving service for all his stuff and Spanish lessons to make Limbaugh’s transition as easy as possible.
As of Tuesday night they have raised $1,903.
At the end of April, if Limbaugh goes through with his original promise, the donations will help him get the hell out of our country. But if he refuses, the site says, all money raised will go to the Planned Parenthood Action Center.
This sounds good to us.
Best case, America loses its Supreme King of Douchebaggery. Worst case, a deserving organization gets a respectable donation.
That’s what we like to call a win-win.
